man down man down

so like, after every battle there are few casualties , even during a battle some are lost and some simply cannot continue on the front lines and are sent back to the sick beds.

so had one the worst yet enjoyable weekend. had like 101 ~102 fever, upset stomach and a rising pain in the throat to boot. skipped office on Friday, traveled home on the same night as on Saturday there was an engagement ceremony at my home of my cousin. Saturday morning was spent in preparations and finishing HP7 ( sucked big time i think ) , and by the time the function was rolling and being broad casted to the cousins abroad live i was completely spent , and then the shouting and taunting and all and soon i found myself lying on the carpet in the lounge and holding my back which decided to ache on the extreme.
when i woke up the next morning sneezing had joined the race and yet i could feel the throat about to join the party.

Sunday night traveling back, reaching Lahore Monday morning and by the time i was in office joining directly in a customer meeting i was coughing like anything. and then the meeting decided it would go for 3 hours. and after finally saying goodbye at 2 found out that the next one will start at 4 at our office, didnt knew it would stretch till 8:30, neglected the cough and now have a choked throat.

and then we decided to go watch "Khuda Key liey" at the new DHA cinema , must say im impressed with the cinema , good effort on our part . the only drawback, Just one screen and yea the second drawback (or it should be drawback NO 1, priority 0, high level red alert), NO Nachos with cheese and salsa topped with jalapenos , sad sad sad


the movie itself borders close to a telly film rather than a silver screen item. Yet i believe its been done cleverly, its full of small messages thrown in here and there for you to find out and simultaneously nothing is said outright so as not to get banned.

the funny part is , iman ali says " shove it up your arse" and the thingy was not censored cause the board thinks that there is a difference between an arse and a , err what again ??

but over all there are plenty of small hints and taunts , but no outright bigger picture message, everything is left to the audiences own perception, like you choose which you want to follow or how you Interpret your own Islam, not shown good vs bad. yet pointed out misconceptions and confusion.

Shoaib Mansoors comment " the movie is for all those misguided Muslims like Junaid Jamshed "

dont know what JJ said to that.

Like in one scene , CIA guy opens up a "taveez" and found Arabic verses written on it, he goes and asks what is the meaning of this
"I can read it but i dont understand what it is"
" so why do you want to read something which you have no desire to understand "

similarly, there is another message which is on the line " What is the use of this Namaz when you do not stand up and help those who are in need or do the right thing"

Like in the beginning of the movie there was alot of laughs on going ppl joking in the cinema, and in the end when the court scene comes of Naseer Uddin Shah, and the main message of the movie is given, that is the time when the whole audience is gripped and paying complete attention, so i would say it was great work done on captivating and relating the main message in the right way.

on the downside, Iman Ali has such bad skin. can someone please pass on the fair an lovely to her, and like how do you kill those zits ? 40 feet of bad skin face , ouch.


so on another front , i just received a crate of mangos from customer relationship manager in warid, lets see how many zits can you get after finishing a whole crate.