My Life

1st November, a slow winter morning, the change of time thing made me wake up early as I’m confused as what time it really is. Is this the purana time now? Or what we had till yesterday shall now be considered as purana time? So confusing… Apparently for no reason I kinda look forward to this winter…

Life’s going pretty well… Started off with PakWheels.com dealers program last week and I’m enjoying that work, may be because its related to cars and cars have been a passion ever since… Even got the mood to write a few lines of my book too last week, so I’m happy about that too…

Oh! A funny dream I had last week, i.e. I’m getting married… not funny, right? Funny part is, I’m getting married forcefully… hehehe… Actually it’s so I’m sitting in front of Moulana for Nikkah and my bro & bro in law are sitting on both sides, every time I try to run away, they both grab me by arms. I woke up trying to run… so that was quite an effort. LOL

Comments of family when the dream was shared,

Mom “I also had a similar dream”
Bhena “Bakrey ki maa kub tak khair manaye gi?”
Sabah “Beta! Eventually this is what will happen to you”
Mona “See? That’s a warning, now either you agree or that’s going to happen”
Aisha “This is a signal that something is about to happen”

Anyways… That was for all of you to have a good laugh and I hope you enjoyed it as much as me & my family did.

What else? Oh yea, I’ve oneness core group meet-up in few hours and after that, err… I want to do something but confused if I should or shouldn’t :-s let’s see…

What else? Ummm… I guess that’s about it…

Puri Sahib... Living

Good Mood!

I'm playing the following track on repeat for over 2 hours now...

"You're just too good to be true.
Can't take my eyes off you.
You'd be like Heaven to touch.
I wanna hold you so much.
At long last love has arrived
And I thank God I'm alive.
You're just too good to be true.
Can't take my eyes off you.

Pardon the way that I stare.
There's nothing else to compare.
The sight of you leaves me weak.
There are no words left to speak,
But if you feel like I feel,
Please let me know that it's real.
You're just too good to be true.
Can't take my eyes off you.

I love you, baby,
And if it's quite alright,
I need you, baby,
To warm a lonely night.
I love you, baby.
Trust in me when I say:
Oh, pretty baby,
Don't bring me down, I pray.
Oh, pretty baby, now that I found you, stay
And let me love you, baby.
Let me love you.

You're just too good to be true.
Can't take my eyes off you.
You'd be like Heaven to touch.
I wanna hold you so much.
At long last love has arrived
And I thank God I'm alive.
You're just too good to be true.
Can't take my eyes off you.

I love you, baby,
And if it's quite alright,
I need you, baby,
To warm a lonely night.
I love you, baby.
Trust in me when I say:
Oh, pretty baby,
Don't bring me down, I pray.
Oh, pretty baby, now that I found you, stay..
And let me love you, baby.
Let me love you.

I need you, baby,
To warm a lonely night.
I love you, baby.
Trust in me when I say:
Oh, pretty baby,
Don't bring me down, I pray.
Oh, pretty baby, now that I found you, stay
And let me love you, baby.
Let me love you."

How often do you come across a situation when things that matter more to you are not going in the direction you want them to go but there are other less important things which are going in the direction which is beneficial for you and because of those less important things you’re able to over look the more important ones and feel happy about the ones which you’re getting?

I normally don’t feel this way… So yes I’m in an exceptionally good mood tonight… The week on the whole was good, oneness brunch tomorrow after a gap of few weeks, those small things, small gestures made by some random people to recognize your efforts are very motivational. So even if after those small things, something BIG and more important goes as you don’t want it to… You don’t get ticked off like you would normally… Okay now Mona (my elder sis in KSA) is bugging me on IM, so let me talk to her, I’ll be back in a bit…

Rumaisa (http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/album.php?aid=62363&id=504055961&op=12) is going to have her Tonsils removed on 6th Oct, so please pray for her health. Thanks!

So where was I? Yea so how would you feel if your big plans don’t go as you want them to go? Pissed? Exactly!!! But I’m not feeling ticked off… I’m no where near to that feeling… Infect I’m trying to understand the situation, after all everyone has problems and issues and preferences… So one has to give space… But hey! One thing for the records! “Plan ‘B’ Achey Hotey Hain” (Like Surf Excel slogan “Daag tou achey hotey hain”?)

So highlights of the week… I’ve finally started working on my book i.e. wrote a few lines, people have been extra generous, got 2 really cool gifts this week, got myself involved with 2 new projects and the Facebook page Mind Talk (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mind-Talk/146227751049) that I made also got 88 fans within first week… Apparently life is good (-:

Btw did I tell you that Aisha makes delicious “Bhindi”? I know its English is Lady Finger but “Bhindi” sounds more delicious, also I’m sure we all at least meet one person in life who gets annoyed when people call him / her “Bhindi”

Puri Sahib in Good Mood!

Dave - The 10 yr old boy

Name: Dave
Place: Uganda
Age: 10 yr old
Ambition: Doctor
Favorite Sports: Football
Favorite Hobby: Make others laugh
Cause of Death: Tortured to Death
Last words: To his mom who was also tortured... "Dont worry, UN is coming to help us"

I came to know about this while watching a video of Gordon Brown's Ted Talk at oneness breakfast... I don't have much to write here... The small profile says a lot... and makes us all think...


)-:

Khali Demagh Shaitan Ka Ghar!

I know the name of this blog is in URDU but "Ye mera blog hai aur meri merzi mai jo keroon"

Today at Oneness Breakfast I found something about myself...


There we did an exercise where we all were asked to write 20 things which makes us happy... and the worst part is, Taronish sitting next to me was not in the mood of "helping" hehe...

Now what amazed me was... it was very easy for everyone to write 20 things that make them happy... and on the other hand... I was all err... after 5... trust me, till the end, I was not able to complete the 20 things, 18 was max I could come up with...

So in the end everyone was asked to read 3 things off their list... People had stuff like sleep, chocolate, food, music etc etc... and then I was like DANG!!! I like all that too but I never noticed that that stuff makes me happy... May be I dont think too much... I just live in the moment... Dont know if its good or bad... BUT my list had stuff like Teasing others, Practical Jokes, Pranks (when played on others) etc etc etc... and thats when everyone wanted to hear whole of my list... Obviously I was not gonna share everything there (gota leave some stones unturned) so I told them that remaining stuff is more of Mother Theresaish...

So thats when the title of this blog comes in... you either start noticing small stuff or you better warn those around you... Now since I dont notice these small things thats why it always has to be something BIG to make me happy... stuff like an unexpected phone call from an old friend, When u walk into home after a long hectic day your mom bringing you a glass of cold water... that can also make you happy... In the world that we live in today... We've to find happiness in small things or we'll be sad forever...

Puri Sahib, Trying to be happy (-:

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