Are we raising Pussies or Men?
What is it about this everyday routine life that makes me get up in the morning? Has serendipity blessed me or has it stricken me with the virus? Not the virus that plagues me like a 24 hours HIV but the virus of honestly being addicted to a lifestyle and the idea that the everyday…
A letter to our allied cricket nations
Eight years and so ago, Pakistan was a relatively peaceful place to hold a cricket match. Yes there were always the odd security fears but they were over shadowed by the fact that the grounds were full of cricket mad fans and lets face it even though the night life was not all that kool…
Democracy on vacation
We all sang odes to it, we all thought it was gonna save this country but in fact the following is what democracy has given us in the last 100 days. Yeh sure some of these problems are world wide and some of them are not the direct result of democracy but hell they are…
Visit to the nerve centre
 The mood at the club is exceptionally upbeat: despite a poor start to the season, somehow we have managed to struggle through to the Twenty20 quarterfinals. Of course, there’s a long way to go, but the overall feeling of resignation has blossomed into real hope.  So it’s a good time to start on…
Repudiation
Just for the record, the Adebayor article was a post. The link for goal.com was provided with the picture of Adebayor on the article, if anyone cared to click on it. But so nice of you folks to jump the gun and cast judgment. cheers!
Cut for Arts
Three years ago there were only two countries in our region without an academy for the promotion of performing arts, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. In 2005 the National Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA) happily put an end to this misery in our neck of the woods at least. To put it simply, NAPA represents an…
It begins?
I was pretty much minding my business doing closing at my shop today when a bearded figure walked in greeted me and slapped the following down on the counter, he then nodded gave me the once over in a pretty stern manner and walked out. Needless to say upon reading the said pamphlet i was…
The Third Tower
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPTvkjAH8w4] Recently BBC did a short program in their conspiracy files section on the mystery of the third tower in the 9/11 disaster. For the last seven years experts have been racking their brains to find out the solution to the following mysteries of the third tower. 1) Why did the third tower of the…
Brain Fart Part I
Its been quite a strange week this last one. In between various weddings attended by me and my clan, i wonder why people get married in this heat? Its horrible weather to get a crowd of people together to have spicy food to say the least. I have also come to the realization that me…