Time in Karachi

Monday, June 29, 2009

Negativity

I was not able to write here for last couple of days only because its June and I was dealing with annual closing which means I was writing a lot of payment remainder letters and that's why I was not able to give much time to this blog. Like one of my most favorite blogs once said "And then life happened" (-: (http://maygandutp.blogspot.com/2009/05/and-then-life-happened.html)

For last couple of years I was living on the principle of "Do in Rome like the Romans do" and recently the urge to "connect with myself" was felt necessary... They say "when there's a will, there's a way" so when I decided to connect with myself, I found out oneness breakfast.


I personally feel that the session of yesterday was most fruitful and I learned something which I was trying to deal with for a long time. When things are going right everything seems to be pointing in the same direction... Recently I was having a discussion with someone on negativity and that person said that "negativity travels faster than the speed of light" so true...

Why do we as human beings take everything negatively? Someone opts for commerce then our first question is "why not science?" if that SAME person opts for pre-med science then we say "why not pre-engineering?" (-: why everything has to be negative?

Take my personal example of yesterday, I was asked by 3 different people the same question "So when do you plan to get married?" as if there's a following list in life & people cant wait for things to get checked out...

My list would go as follows

Birth... Check
Education... Check
Job... Check
Stability... Check
Marriage... ... ... Why is the check missing here?

People, I'm more than happy with the "cheques" that I get ;-)

Why do people doubt that if I'm not getting married then there must be "some secret behind it?" hehehe... I mean I'm just waiting for the right kind of a girl whom I can connect with because this is once in a lifetime decision and I dont need to rush, simple...

A conversation I had some years back with a friend of my dad. I strongly remember that it was 2001 and this gentleman moved back to Pakistan after spending a million years in Saudia Arabia with his family. One evening I came home after playing and he was sitting in our lawn with my dad thus I went to say Salaam (if I ever write top ten mistakes of my life, this is going to be in the list... Such Salaams have created a lot of trouble in my life)

Mr.X "So Omer! your abu was telling me that you seem to have a lot of information about cars, what do you think? shall I buy Corolla or Civic?"

Me "Definitely Civic"

Mr.X "And why is that?"

Me "Corolla is the same shape which was launched in 1992 and it was discontinued back in 1995 worldwide while Honda launched the latest shape of Civic this yr in Pakistan, the car has better drive, better options and more advanced than Corolla."

Mr.X "But don't you think Corolla has better resale?"

Me "In cities like Karachi, Lahore & Islamabad this is not the case since both the cars are equally in demand. The resale might be an issue in small areas. Even I've got the new civic so if you want I can give you a test drive."

Mr.X "But Corolla is more reliable, cheaper parts and then I love Toyota"

Me (smiling and realizing the situation) "Well then I guess you should go for corolla as that would probably suit you better."

Mr.X "I thought so"

hehehehe... this dialogue is a lifetime laughter for me...

Advice is the easiest thing to give, no loss & 100% profitability...

If it goes right they can say

"I told you so"

And if goes wrong, they can say

"So? why are you blaming it on me? dont you have any sense?"

Recently a friend of mine got this job at some place where she was dealing with direct sales. She left after 10 days, following is the conversation I had with her.

Me "So why did you leave such a good job?"

N "You know they dont pay if you're not able to sell"

Me s-: "Are you on commission only basis?"

N "No"

Me "Then? how come they wont pay you?"

N "They dont give salary if there's no performance"

Me "What bullshit!! how is that possible. Who told you this?"

N "My bla bla colleague did and you know what? she didnt get a sale in 4 months and they havent paid her for last 4 months"

Me "So did you confirm this with your management?"

N "No"

Me "You're such a fool! why didn't you ask that colleague of yours that if this is such a bad organization then why is she working without any pay for 4 months?"

On that, my friend realized what happened to her and I know such is not the case in that organization because I know her bosses.

I really dont know what people get out of such things...

Anyways... the reason for writing such a long blog was:-

1. This is what I brought home from Oneness Breakfast this week, Say NO to negativity and people who are trying to spread negativity. Just do what you feel is right and live your life happily (-:

2. I felt like writing... LOLZ



Puri Sahib... Minding his own business

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Starting My Day - Old Fashion Way

Like Junaid Jhamshed sang... I'll change the words "Aaj maine dekha wohi zamana, jis ka suna tou tha par dekha nahi"

Well... as most of you know that yesterday was a major power outage in the history of Karachi... To cut the long story short, I started my day with the battery of my cell phone completely finished...

I had to meet a few clients in the morning and by the time I reached office to charge my phone, it was noon already. The point of writing this blog is...

I did everything as per schedule... the way it was planned... because I was not getting any "urgent calls" messing up my whole schedule... I really liked this for a change... For a little while I thought that perhaps this is how I should start being... u know? phone free but then I heard a voice within me... "Omer stop being ridicules and get real"

Anyways, since I was not able to sleep well last night so I came home early hoping to sleep for a few hours BUT then my phone was charged... one after the other asses (read friends & yes Alta you're in the list) kept calling me & I kept cursing them...

Puri Sahib... Never Happy

Friday, June 12, 2009

Mother Fucker

I'm extremely pissed off today... When I came out of office this evening, I saw that some %&@%$^&@$%@($(@^&%$^&$%#^&$#&^$^&@$#^!%#@!^%#@*&^%$^&%$^&*%^&@#*&$^%@*&$%*@$%@^&*$%^&*@($@%$@*^$(@*%$@^&$(&(@%(&@%$^(@$%@($(@^&%$^&$%#^&$#&^$^&@$#^!%#@!^%#@(&^%$^&%$^&*%^&@#*&$^%@*&$%*@$%@^&*$%^&*@($@%$@*^$(@*%$@^&$(&(@%(&@%$^&@$%@($(@^&%$^&$%#^&$(^$^&@$#^!%#@!^%#@(&^%$^&%$^&*%^&@(&$^%@*&$%*@$%@^&*$%^&*@($@%$@*^$(@*%$@^&$(&@&@%$^&@$%@($(@^&%$^&$%#^&$#&^$^&@$#^!%#@!^%#@*(&^%$^&%$^&*%^&@(&$^%@(&$%*@$%@^&*$%^&*@($@%$@*^$(@*%$@^&$(&@(&@%$^(@$%@($(@^&%$^&$%#^&$(^$^&@$#^!%#@!^%#@(&^%$^&%$^&*%^&@(&$^%@(&$%*@$%@^&*$%^&*@($@%$@*^$(@*%$@^&$((@(&@%$^&(@$%@($(@^&%$^&$%#^&$(^$^&@$#^!%#@!^%#@(&^%$^&%$^&*%^&@(&$^%@(&$%*@$%@^&*$%^&*@($@%$@*^$(@*%$@^&$((@%(&@%$^(@$%@($(@^&%$^&$%#^&$(^$^&@$#^!%#@!^%#@(&^%$^&%$^&*%^&@(&$^%@(&$%*@$%@^&*$%^&*@($@%$@*^$(@*%$@^&$(&(@%(&@%$^(@$%@($(@^&%$^&$%#^&$(^$^&@$#^!%#@!^%#@(&^%$^&%$^&*%^&@(&$^%@(&$%*@$%@^&*$%^&*@($@%$@*^$%(@*%$@^&$(&(@%(&@%$^&(@$%@($(@^&%$^&$%#^&$#&(^$^&@$#^!%#@!^%#@(&^%$^&%$^&*%^&@(&$^%@*(&$%*@$%@^&*$%^&*@($@%$@*^$(@*%$@^&$((@(&@%$^(@$%@($(@^&%$^&$%#^&$(^$^&@$#^!%#@!^%#@(&^%$^&%$^&*%^&@#*(&$^%@(&$%*@$%@^&*$%^&*@($@%$@*^$(@*%$@^&$((@(&@%$^(@$%@($(@^&%$^&$%#^&$(^$^&@$#^!%#@!^%#@(&^%$^&%$^&*%^&@#*(&$^%@(&$%*@$%@^&*$%^&*@($@%$@*^$(@*%$@^&$((@(&@%$^(@$%@($(@^&%$^&$%#^&$#&^$^&@$#^!%#@!^%#@*(&^%$^&%$^&*%^&@(&$^%@(&$%*@$%@^&*$%^&*@($@%$@*^$(@*%$@^&$((@(&@%$^(@$%@($(@^&%$^&$%#^&$#&(^$^&@$#^!%#@!^%#@*(&^%$^&%$ decided that it would be very creative of him to write his name with some weird numbers on the hood of my car from a pointed thing (most probably a key)

I mean what the %&@%$^&@$%@($(@^&%$^&$%#^&$#&^$^&@$#^!%#@!^%#@*&^%$^&%$^&*%^&@#*&$^%@*&$%*@$%@^&*$%^&*@($@%$@*^$(@*%$@^&$(&(@%(&@%$^(@$%@($(@^&%$^&$%#^&$#&^$^&@$#^!%#@!^%#@(&^%$^&%$^&*%^&@#*&$^%@*&$%*@$%@^&*$%^&*@($@%$@*^$(@*%$@^&$(&(@%(&@%$^&@$%@($(@^&%$^&$%#^&$(^$^&@$#^!%#@!^%#@(&^%$^&%$^&*%^&@(&$^%@*&$%*@$%@^&*$%^&*@($@%$@*^$(@*%$@^&$(&@&@%$^&@$%@($(@^&%$^&$%#^&$#&^$^&@$#^!%#@!^%#@*(&^%$^&%$^&*%^&@(&$^%@(&$%*@$%@^&*$%^&*@($@%$@*^$(@*%$@^&$(&@(&@%$^(@$%@($(@^&%$^&$%#^&$(^$^&@$#^!%#@!^%#@(&^%$^&%$^&*%^&@(&$^%@(&$%*@$%@^&*$%^&*@($@%$@*^$(@*%$@^&$((@(&@%$^&(@$%@($(@^&%$^&$%#^&$(^$^&@$#^!%#@!^%#@(&^%$^&%$^&*%^&@(&$^%@(&$%*@$%@^&*$%^&*@($@%$@*^$(@*%$@^&$((@%&@%$^(@$%@($(@^&%$^&$%#^&$(^$^&@$#^!%#@!^%#@(&^%$^&%$^&*%^&@(&$^%@(&$%*@$%@^&*$%^&*@($@%$@*^$(@*%$@^&$(&(@%(&@%$^(@$%@($(@^&%$^&$%#^&$(^$^&@$#^!%#@!^%#@(&^%$^&%$^&*%^&@(&$^%@(&$%*@$%@^&*$%^&*@($@%$@*^$%(@*%$@^&$(&(@%(&@%$^&(@$%@($(@^&%$^&$%#^&$#&(^$^&@$#^!%#@!^%#@(&^%$^&%$^&*%^&@(&$^%@*(&$%*@$%@^&*$%^&*@($@%$@*^$(@*%$@^&$((@(&@%$^(@$%@($(@^&%$^&$%#^&$(^$^&@$#^!%#@!^%#@(&^%$^&%$^&*%^&@#*(&$^%@(&$%*@$%@^&*$%^&*@($@%$@*^$(@*%$@^&$((@(&@%$^(@$%@($(@^&%$^&$%#^&$(^$^&@$#^!%#@!^%#@(&^%$^&%$^&*%^&@#*(&$^%@(&$%*@$%@^&*$%^&*@($@%$@*^$(@*%$@^&$((@(&@%$^(@$%@($(@^&%$^&$%#^&$#&^$^&@$#^!%#@!^%#@*(&^%$^&%$^&*%^&@(&$^%@(&$%*@$%@^&*$%^&*@($@%$@*^$(@*%$@^&$((@(&@%$^(@$%@($(@^&%$^&$%#^&$#&(^$^&@$#^!%#@!^%#@*(&^%$^&%$ My car is the love of my life...

WHY THE FUCK???? do they do such stuff?

Annoyed Puri Sahib

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Good Deeds Never Go Unrewarded

Yesterday evening something happened which gave me one more reason to remember Allah & have faith in the preaching of Islam…

I went to this shop to buy something; I entered the shop and dropped my bluetooth headset, car keys & phone on the counter. My bill came out as Rs.500/- so I gave the shop keeper a note of Rs.1,000/- and he returned me a couple of Rs.100/- notes, I started walking out of the shop while counting the notes & after getting out of shop I realized that instead of giving me change of Rs.500/- he gave Rs.600/- to me. So I went back in the shop & returned the extra note I had.

After that I came to car & started driving, after a little while I needed to make a phone call & realized that my bluetooth headset was not in the console where I normally keep it. I looked at the screen of my phone to see if its still connected and the sign of connection was missing which made me realize that I’ve forgotten my bluetooth headset back at the shop.

First I thought that it would be pointless to go back since there were a couple more people in the shop & by now it should be gone since I still live in Pakistan. But then another thought came which was “I’m still 5 mins away from shop so there’s no harm in going back & checking.” So I turned around and went back.

When I entered the shop again… Well… I can’t describe the thing, but what I saw was that my bluetooth headset was lying at the same spot where I had forgotten it earlier…

Now I put it this way, returning the extra Rs.100/- actually saved me Rs.4,500/- for a new bluetooth headset.

Puri Sahib being thankful to the creator

Monday, June 8, 2009

What's going on?


World is sad
World is in pain
Its so dark everywhere
Everyone awaits dawn
Dawn is near
That I believe in
Dust of sorrow will shatter
That I believe in
I think its about time
This all should come to an end
Its about time
To see the power of divine
We reap what we sow
Reality negates that saying
Why a kid is killed when young?
Its not his fault to born in war
Why cant we do something right?
Are we good to just watch this site?
What is the fight all about?
Who is going to decide?
If I’m right or you're wrong
Is it just the lust of power?
Or is there more to reality?
In the fight of totality
There's no room for morality
I sit in my chair and think
How to put an end to this?
We've seen enough of all
Blood, bullet, bombs and all
Will I be able to see in my life?
A dream of which I’ve heard a lot
A world where all live with peace
A world where justice is right
A world which accepts the difference
A world which accepts everybody's right
Right to live and breath with freedom
Right to live a complete & happy life.

Puri Sahib The Poet in Process

Sunday, June 7, 2009

Age Factor

Well... I accidentally woke up early on this Sunday morning when I was expected to sleep... Gives me enough reason to blog... eh?

So the topic I'm going to hit today is kind of very sensitive topic and I am kinda iffy if I should be hitting such sensitive issues of our society.



Yes you got it right! Why do girls always hide their age... This is not something we only face in Pakistan, its everywhere... And this disease is not a disease, its a different lifestyle found in girls/women in all ages.

Take my 7 year old niece Marium for example... When I call her Aunty! she gets really pissed off... even complains my mother about it :-S. Yes I know she's not an Aunty but still, had someone called me Uncle at the age of 7, I would've been like "choor na, apney baap ka kia jata hai, bolney do"



Here's something I read somewhere which suits the situation.

yaad Aati hai mujh ko woh khatoon e dil nasheen
kam umerai e hayaat tou jasey sirf us ke bus mai thi
solaan baras ke baad bhi jo mulaqat hawi
solaan baras ke baad bhi solaan baras ki thi

So if anyone knows the answer to this question then please help me out (-:

Confused Puri Sahib

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Security Check

Well Well Well... This months seems like a month dedicated to our Banks and their Bloopers...

Today I made a mistake (uh ok smart ass! ANOTHER MISTAKE, happy now?). Neways, what I did this time was that I went to the head office of one of those Foreign Banks who have opened their branches in Pakistan.


Now in my opinion, they've hired the FINEST quality of asses to run their security department. (No I dont mean "Hot Ass", its literal ass i.e. donkey, yea Smart ass! I know its an ape's pic but I was unable to find a pic of an ass wearing this uniform, Now SHUT UP!)

So Ass No.1 stopped me at the gate from where I was entering saying its the exit gate (Yea I know its not all their fault but at least they should've placed a sign saying OUT) so I turned around and and went towards the entrance gate. There I was stopped by Ass No.2 & Ass No.3 and I was asked "Where to?"

{Now like JD of Scrubs, I went into a dream sequence...

Ass No.2 : Where to?
Me : What's the cost of 1 ticket?
Ass No.2 : Ticket? for what?
Me : I'm sorry, isn't it the amusement park?

Back to reality... }

Despite for the fact that I had a strong like STRONG urge of having the conversation above, I decided to go to the point so I said I came to drop some stuff for a friend who works in the bank to which I got a surprising reply, "Only cars with stickers are allowed inside"... huh! excuse me? like all the customers of the Bank are made to place your stupid sticker on their cars? can somebody here pinch me so I can wake up?

Anyways, keeping all my previous similar experiences in mind, I came to a conclusion that it would be pointless to talk to the Ass No.2 & Ass No.3 so I called my friend and explained her my dilemma. Probably she was in good mood so she decided to come down for my rescue, After she came I was allowed to go in the bank premises.

Then I was told that I was supposed to park my car in the parking lot and since I went 5 foot ahead of the turn, so I was not allowed to reverse but I had to use the exit gate to get out (that was nothing less than "GET OUT OF HERE!!!") and then go back in. Another surprise that I was blessed with there... the "sticker" which I didnt have was some sort of gate pass which is made on the gate... Last I checked in mirror I didnt but probably to them I looked like Bin Laden that's why they didnt give me one but my friend was able to get it.

To cut the long story short, I was able to do the thing I went there for and while going out, when I gave the gate pass back to the Ass No.1 standing on exit gate. He looked at it in a way as if it was the most alien thing he's seen in his entire life which forces me to ask my friend, "Was that whole drama a setup?"

Neways, I came out hoping never to go back again... or like Vin Diesel said in Fast & the Furious, "I'd prefer to die rather than going back there" I know he was referring to prison but I'll refer to the above mentioned bank...

The conclusion is... whenever I think I've seen it all, there's something new round the corner...

p.s. I more thing I realized today... I just love to use brackets ()[]{} and they're so many of them... hehehe...


Puri Sahib - and the learning continues...

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Danda 2.0

For those who dont know about the Danda series can check
http://omerarshad.blogspot.com/2009/03/danda.html

Well... this time it so happened that on 27th of March this year I lost my beloved ATM of Bank Al-Habib to the ATM Booth of MCB @ Karsaz. Something new for me which I'd like to share with others as well is that if you dont take your ATM out as soon as it pops out, the machine sucks it.

Anyways right when it happened I called the helpline of MCB, number of which was written there, the Gentleman there told me to call my respective bank and report about the matter. I did that and also deactivated my card. I was told that the ATM will be available in my branch in 2 working days. Fair enough!

There starts a painful chapter of my life... "Quest to the ATM" or whatever, I really dont care... day after day, week after week, month after month, year aft... oh wait, I'm exaggerating it a bit no? hehehe... To cut it short, whenever I used to inquire about my ATM from my bank they used to say that its still not available at branch and I should remind about it at their call center and the call center people always had a scripted reply ready for me, "hum ne aap ki complain note ker li hai aur jald hi aap ka card aap ki branch mai deliver ho jeye ga" I've heard it so many times in last 2 months that I've learned it by heart... The worst part is, that was card of my personal account and I HATE TO USE CHEQUE BOOK... (believe it or not, I have this account for 3 yrs now, and was still using the first cheque book I got with the account but in last two months they made me get another cheque book issued, Ah! I hate them)

So the scenario was that I was MADE to take part in a game of tennis which I was not even playing... Well... things changed... they had to change... *Evil Laughter*... Last Tuesday I walked into my branch hoping to get the expected reply and they came up to my expectations... But I had some other plans in my mind... *Another Evil Laughter*, I (as if I just came from Timbuktu and dont know shit thus taking advice from them) stated, "its been 2 months now, what do u suggest? shall I send an email to State Bank & complain?" *Evil Laughter The Third*

Like we say in urdu "Hawa ukhar jana" or "Phat ke haath mai aa jana", do I need to explain their reaction anymore? hehehe... All of a sudden all their system came in "Action", the manager came out of his office to "Request" me to wait for another week and promised me to get me my card back within a week... The result is, I saw a miss call from my bank's number on my phone this Saturday when I left my phone somewhere, yes I got my ATM card back today... And I live happily ever after (till now, cuz I also happen to be an expert of bloopers so you never know)

Puri Sahib The Bharambaz...

p.s. one more huge major task still remaining... I've to call the bank to get the card reactivated... did I tell u I happen to be lazy as well? (yea I've got all the qualities)