ouch

So on constant insistence of my wife i finally caved in and agreed to go to the dentist for teeth cleaning.

So this was my first ever visit to the dentist, like in adult life, even as a child i dont recall ever going to the dentist and sitting in the chair , though i have some vampiric teeth, pointy and some uneven, health wise they are fine. Well granted there could be a small need for having them cleaned after 29 years of life but still it would mean breaking the record and going to the dentist.

and was it a looooooooooooong cleaning , and ouch all my gums hurt :( , no clue whats the fuss about but wifes happy so guess thats that. Lets hope dont need to go soon next time as in after next 29 years.

The funny part is , during the time my teeth were being subjected to horrible pain and agony all i could think was of the following strip i read yesterday on xkcd. Sad i know

http://www.xkcd.com/

And this was jsut too darned funny not to share

so like

its been like a very long absence from the online world, i never thought this was possible for a person to have soo much sudden changes in life in such a short time. Like seriously , married in 2 months from the time its arranged and 1 month after engagement and now its been almost 3 months of marrige.

the worst part is all the weight i re-gained in that time frame, like i lost 6 kgs before marrige in 2 months and i gained 7 in next 3 months, i swear im being spoiled by my in-laws.

there is loads to write , loads to talk about but lately ive been soo much out of touch with my friends thats sometimes i dont know from where to pick up the conversations, married life is Alhamdoilah going very good.

Im still trying to adjust to the whole being married thing, life does indeed change big time, what ever you thought your life was is no more, right now there is no "mE" time , i need to start finding things , hobbies and stuff for both of us to do. So far effected habbits include my being online , playing xbox and similar one per son work. and my sheesha smoking days are dying out rapidly. But its not really just a one sided , she has to adjust to all the routine as well, its equally or more hard for her i believe.

and right now im babbling , cause i dont have anythingy better than do, im sitting in a resort in Oman, with my manager who is updating his slides for tomorrows big presentation to higher management , and im just sitting waiting for him to go through my slides before i present them tomorrow so everyone is in sync. the sad part is there is a perfectly fine swimming pool here with clear blue cold water and i have not been able to go see it even in day light. wifes back home as she couldnt make it so missing her as well, its freaking hot around 34 outside and did i mention i hate these presentations ? twice in each year we have to go present these, once begining to show our this years goals and once at the end so show what we have done and its a utter complete waste of time , and did i mention its hot ?

and like Omani ppl get homesick in Oman, like seriously, today is a weekend here , and tonight all Omani ( any that are left) would pack up and go to the desert to feel more at home , cause the cities have been taken over by desi crowd , the only shops you see owned by Omani are the ones selling perfume, rest everyone is speaking dialets of desi land and you see more wobbling heads that the ones wearing Omani caps , no wonder they head out to desert on weekends and some back on saturday.

i guess i would stop writing herer, as i dont think im making much sense, lets see if i blog again or not , dont feel like blogging most of the time, sometimes there are things you think "huh i shold blog about it " but in the end you always end up "ah naa, dont feel like doing that right now "

and did i say im bored ?

interesting

http://www.brasstacks.pk/videos.aspx

coming alive

so like im slowly returning to reality, holidays over , joined office again and i knew it would suck big time especially after a holiday after marrige.

on marrige front , i have this to say so far " Ainda naheen karoonga"

now i go try to read these billion work mails

engaged

So im engaged. Been 10 days, getting married in June end InshaAllah.






Heres to a new begining.

Mawla ya Sali Wasalam

freedom

so like yeaay, finally my apartment is wireless , this darned new access point gave me a tough time and fought 1 day before finally doing what i wanted it to do ,

lost

for the first time in all my traveling , my luagage didnt arrive

to think someone would have such a black tounge when you do a little effort to meet them on transit , sigh

convos

so you have pretty interesting conversations in cabs with the cab drivers now and then.

just today we hailed one from a mall to go back to the hotel and he starts with asking how many ppl were there in the mall , we say many and he goes "more than 10? " and im like "err yea "

and then he goes to ask you know arabic or only english we we say, "Urdu" and the response we get is

" Shukriya Shurkiya.. Urdu word Urdu word"

and then after telling us some storis half in arabic half in somethingy resembling english he goes "so you all work as engineers "

to which we were surprised and asked how did he know

his reply was pretty interesting " engineers you see , it shows, "

we go shows how?

"engineers look and talk respective ppl"

go figure

Chapter Two-1/2

And Pat had his biggest ever adventure ever, as in ever so far in his life.

Pat and Lassie went to the carwash. It was the first ever time for them and they had fun time sitting in the car while automated system washed the car around them

teleport

i m begining to hate traveling , its seriously hurting mE now

Yesterday left Islamabad at 6pm
Reached Lahore at 10 pm
Met relatives then went out with friends for dinner , left hotel 1am,
reached Airport 2:15am,
Flight delayed by 30 mins, departure Lahore 4am.

Reached Dubai 6:45am local time
In Transit Lounge 7:15am
Flight from Dubai 2pm
delayed by 45 mins, departed 2:45pm
reached Amman 3:45pm local time
Out of immigration 4:50pm
Reached hotel 5:50pm
checked in - 6:25pm

damn, dont like this transit thingy , why cant we teleport

domesticated

so like i feel like ive been tamed for home use. there are just too many things to do around the house and still it doesn't seem like any progress is being made.

yesterday i finally managed to take out all my clothes out of suit cases , separate winter /summer ones, filled up the wardrobe and then put the suitcases, rather hid them in another cabinet. so now my room kinda looks like a room not a place where a explosion happened in cabinets and drawers which spilled all the clothes on the floor. I never knew i had too many clothes , and like im still wondering how the heck i managed to collect this many socks when i can never find a decent pair but now that i look at all of them it seems i have a hobby of collecting socks, one sock or a pair it doesn't matter, i collected em all.

In another news i broke 3 drill bits while trying to drill holes in the bathroom tiles to hand the shower curtains, now finally the curtains are up and the bathroom floor is less slippery after a shower, its still a mystery how i have survived not slipping till now.

kitchen, now that is one place which dosent seem to end with minor tasks, i have all the jars containing spices and salt and everythingy filled up and placed, powder milk and sugar jars are ok to go. the glasses and cups and plates are now all in their proper places. the fridge is populated enough to survive. and today i cleaned the sills and then i cleaned the stove itself, man that was some task. scrubbing is not too much fun
and like i have a separate viper for the kitchen and two sets of slippers that are solely dedicated for kitchen use ONLY and no other shoes are allowed in there, washing the tiles of the floor is not a fun idea every time someone decides to walk into the kitchen with shoes they were walking around outside in dirt or somethingy. My bro and a friend who visits often thinks im a freak. ( i now have slippers for home use as well and shoe rack is present near the entrance to change your outside shoes as soon as you get inside, btw all three washrooms have their own slippers and vipers too).

one of the book racks is assembled an the other is missing some screws need to buy some so that i can finally unpack the cartons containing the books and put em up. i need to sort out the dvds and put em in their racks as well.

i still have to find myself an electrician to fix all the switches and lights and fans in the apartment. i did what i could and fixed many of those but some of them are too complex for me to handle without getting electrocuted a bit

and seriously if anyone knows someone who does soundproofing of the rooms , i deperately require their services, all the traffic and people start talking yelling early morning and then there is constant noise of contruction crew working right next building who start somethingy like 6am in the morning , and then sometimes at nights the gaurds outside decide to sing , yes really sing.

and i yet i have buy furniture for my bedroom , im still using the sofa-cum-bed , which is so far doing a good job but then that is another thingy on the to do list , along with the air conditioners and moving my old air-con from Lahore and getting it installed here as well , it would be summer in just a blink of an eye.

and the light will be gone in 10 mins, i better finish up here and try to get some sleep before they wake me up early morning again, i swear i soooooooooo cant get up in mornings

tags

So in recent past Noone has been on a rampage and tagged mE twice, and since her first tag is now password protected thus im gonna just do the tag B

UPDATE:
Noone defined the tag as list 5 things 4 true one false. here goes

Tag A
1. My kindergarden teacher used to hit me on my left hand to make me write with the right.
2. My urdu teacher used to scold me for writing my names spellings wrong
3. I broke my left hand while going down the slide standing in class 5
4. I jumped off a cliff when i was in class 4 in bet for an icecream
5. I put a room on fire when i was in class 2

Tag B
1. Pepsi or Coke
Coke (pepsi is kinda sweeter)
2. Coffee or Tea
Coffee
3. Samsung or Nokia
Never Used either, Motorola
4. Las Angels or New York
Lahore :P
5. Mom or Dad
Mom
6. Karachi or Lahore
Lahore
7. Sexy or Smart
Smartly Sexy
8. Nehari or Haleem
Nihari
9. Junoon or Vital Signs
Junoon
10. Geo or ARY
err
11. Shia or Sunni
my beliefs are my own bussiness
12. Summer or Winter
Winter
13. Lexus or Acura
Lexus
14. Seinfeld or Friends
Friends
15. Roti or Naan
Roti
16. Hollywood or Bollywood
Hollywood
17. Morning Bird or Night Owl
Night Owl
18. Spicy food or Mild food
Spicy-est
19. Windows or MAC
Windows ( you dont get Mac softwares in PK)

movings and settings

so like , moving and setting up is too much of a headache , there are million little things which need to be corrected, all last week i have washed floors, washed all light shades, scrubbed washrooms, done electric wiring , changed light bulbs, cleaned dishes , so far i havent cooked as the stove has a leak somewhere which i need to find still.

so finally i have got my stuff in the apartment, on monday i took all the stuff from Lahore and by monday night everythingy was dummped. That night at 11am the curtains were tired to be put up, as in an interm solution was found to hand the short ones so that there is some privacy achived, the two rooms were washed and the carpeting was done, by 3am was too tired to do anythingy more so threw the sofa cum bed and slept rather tried to sleep

so the mosquitos and the lights coming form the windows with half covered curtains and the noise from outside all contributed in depriving me a peaceful sleep, next morning was meetings at 9am and then i came back around 6pm and again started working on setting up the place. so next 2 days were spent in either changing lights, washing lights, washing floors, tracing wiring, then buying a fridge and a microwave, installing the tv, putting up all wiring for the sound system and xbox 360, and then finally after 3 nights i was in a position to bring in the sofa sets for the lounge.

so finally now that the lounge has been more or less setup is that the shape or the apartment is coming out nicely , even though alot of boxes are still lying around , i need to assmble the book shelves and then arrange all theb ooks , my bed room is still a mess, need to buy a bedset also, have to take out all clothes and arrange them in the cabinets in the rooms, see to the stove, but stil a milestone has been achived when you can relax and sit and watch the tv at the end of the day.

and the traveling is still not over, if im in Pakistan next week i can hope to accomplish more , btw, Hemlock still dosent like my sofas.

packing

so here i am , packing all my stuff in llahore to move to isb tomorrow for good.

I never know i had soo many clothes and soo much of little or big junk stuff that i do use now and then, and the books took 2 cartens on their own, mad i need to throw somethingy out soon, but what i dont know

home

so where is home ? home is where your heart is ? that be body , but you need more thant thaat to live, you need clothes , unless you are a member of "nudist are us ". thus home requires clothes, someplace where you can get clothes from, thus

home is where my suitcase is...............

hectic

i cant seem to get over the tiredness, and i have a headache

nostalgic

lets walk

lets walk the walk of the past
lets walk in shadows the sun casts
lets walk by the sea
hand in hand , just you and mE
lets walk in memories of old
of times daunting of times felt gold
lets walk the walk of life
see its edge as sharp as knife
lets walk beyond the clouds
see the worlds inside the dreams
lets walk until we tire
lets walk till sun retires
lets walk by moonlit shores
lets walk in caves unexplored
lets walk

of traveling and resting

im begining to hate traveling, tonight i was supposed to get back to Pakistan, tomorrow i was gonna pack up and move my stuff from Lahore to Islamabad to the newly rented apartment , yes i finally managed to take one, one that suited mE fine for the time being till i get somethingy better. And then i had been doing the necessary shoping for the apartment, like i got this nice looking sofa set ordered, will be ready by coming saturday, and then i bought carpets, then few kitchen items, i still need to get a fridge and a microwave, so like Ammi was saying keh feels like she is shopping for my Jaheez these days.

so where was i , ah yes, traveling , like after being in Islamabad for 3 weeks in which i had no clothes with me that i had to buy stuff and wear em in meetings like suits and stuff , i finally got a chance to get to Lahore to only be flying out, and now since im not going back and i came here for 1 day only i did not bring loads of clothes with mE, i think i would be buying more clothes again comes tomorrow, so no, i wont be going back, since dubai is too darned full next week thus the meeting that was to happen there starting Monday is now going to be extended here instead and since i cant get a visa for monday if i go back tonight , i have to stay back and wait till the meeting,the worse part, my manager is gonna stay too AND the customer is here too, so i will be meeting them as well over the weekend, its a holiday here tomorrow and we would be working and when it would be holiday back home then again we would be working.

and to top it off i will be here till wednesday now , going back next thursday and then again i have to go dubai on saturday, and next whole week will be spent there.

last night i slept after 38 hours of being awake , well not direct 38 hours , i did dose off for 1 hour on the plane , but that too was with intereptions as the flight was too darn bumpy, fel like someone was shaking the plane all along.

and you cant imagine what the sound of wind is like outside my window right now, i was on 13th floor and all night it went howling soo much that i kept waking up from its noise, and i specifically asked the guy not to send mE to 13th floor when i re-checked and keep me on like 2 or 3 , so im on 2nd floor this time. But right now there seems to be a dust storm outside, and the wind is again howling like anythingy. Though that will not be stopping mE from going out to have dinner and sheesha somewhere with my friends here, might as well go to watch a moive as well, since this is a weekend night here .

i think im starting to have a headache , the moon looked really nice on my way over here to the hotel, i would try to see if i can capture it on my camera

a tag

so she has been bugging mE to get this tag done even though she hasnt done the one i tagged her for but here goes



OK here goes

1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages)

Chainfire - Terry Goodkind ( Sword of Truth - Book 9)

2. Open the book to page 123.
..

3. Find the fifth sentence.
..

4. Post the next three sentences.

1- "No need to wispher," he said. "See how the walls turn at all those angles? It cuts the echo."
2- she was little surprised to hear that he was right Usually, the echo in the stone rooms was annoying, but this odd twisting room had a hush of the dead.
3 " There is something strangely familiar about this place"

5. Tag five people.

I tag , Fatimah, No one , Fairy Dust , Tanzilla and Mysh.

breath

Begin
1- count = 1 ,
2- breath in
3- breath out
4- and then breath in ,
5- increment count ,
6- If count <10
7- Go to 2
8- Else
9- If Temper > 1
10a- Scream
10b- Go to 1
11- Else
12- Smile
Exit

hard rain

so it rained alot today in isb, and then in the evening , since tomorrow being a local holiday, i and bro started out our journey to home for the night. Since bro drove in the morning coming to isb i took the wheel while he slept this time around.

so i drove in the heavy rain and high wind and i re-fell in love with night rain once more,

right now my i think i have managed to rip my throat from all the shouting i did in the night semi indoor criket we played a while ago, cousins left around 1:30am , and now my legs are hurting

tmorrow is a holiday, lets see if they will let me sleep in peace

lunch

and today i have no one to go to lunch with me, and i think im hungry now , its 2:20
damn man, i need lunch partners in isb

divine hints

so like i was just finishing he open pack of Hershey's kisses me and a couple of friends opened while watching the movie. so im here watching tv and just finishing these.

So i pick up sone and it says "Kiss Someone" , next i pick up it says again "Kiss someone " .

The next one i pick said "Good Luck", next one says " Congratulations " and here im thinking , oh i must have already kissed someone that the next one says "Oops" , and i thought , yea now you get it

and the very next one says again " Kiss Someone" , next i pick up two , the first says " Lets Go" second says "Kiss someone " , thus saying " Lets Go kiss someone ".

and next one says " Hi" the next one "Kiss Someone " , and then it repeated for 2 more turns ,

others then were just "Good Day" and " A Big Hug".

Now ive reached the end, there be no more, but i wonder why im being given hints to kiss someone :P ,

chocolate over dose

rush

life, its passing me by in a rush these days

on work front two new project are coming in the initiation and pre sales phases of those are killing me , on the other side the existing project implementation is also demanding my attention.



and finally im serious about my apartment hunt in isb, all my hotel stay days after my shifting to isb have been spent and tomorrow will be the last day. moving with property dealers these days



need to apply for a visa tomorrow morning, my UK visa had expried and i thought its valid for 08 as well, its a good thingy that this old passport was not attached to the passport which was lost. otherwise i would have lost all my UK and Europe travel history In the other one i just lost quite a bit of history as well, but at least i can be thankful that some was saved.



now , i might be missing out a friends wedding if i get visa in time, my traveling dates colide with his wedding.



now i seriously need to go to lahore and start packing my stuff as well.

Recap

Weeks Recap. High Level summary

Sunday night:
Sleep at 3am,
Woke up at 6am
Flight to Isb at 8am

Monday night:
Sleep at 2am ,
Woke up at 6am,
Flight to Khi at 8am

Tuesday night:
Flight at 10:30pm to Dubai
Reached hotel 4am ,
Woke up 8:20 am, meeting at 8:30, reaching at 9

Wednesday night:
Watched "The Golden Compass with Friends", Movie ended 2am
Sleep at 3am, woke up at 9am, meeting at 9:30

Thursday night:
Flight at 1am
Reached Khi at 4:30 am
Out of Immigration and Baggage claim , 5;30 am,
Flight to Lahore , 8am. Check-in at 6am,

Friday Morning:
Reached Lahore at 10:10am
Reached Home 11:15am
Juma prayers 1:30pm
Lunch with friends , 2pm
In office 3:15pm

I soo am gonna run away and go home and sleep

achivement

so like, the gas problem seems solved, i have my geezer and heater both working simlutaniously, but i think someone dont likes mE that much, ever since the heater got working 2 days ago there have been water problems at home , first the pump got burned and now water pressure is not that much upstairs its fine downstairs. Just my luck.

so anyway , my heater is one of those non combustion type which dont have need to exhaust and the fire is burning behind a glass and there is vents up to let the hot air come out.

so the vent goes all the way to the top and the hot air goes up so while yours standing right in front of it you dont get warm you have to like climb up the heater to get the warmth, so last night, i had this brilliant idea, i first tried putting my quilt on the vent and tried to pass all the heat in my bed and soon i kinda smelled the quilt burning. So then i had another brilliant idea , i took this aluminium foil roll and took out a long peace to cover it up, sice the heater was hot i just placed it on the top and i got hot air coming my way, yeay

so like after an hour or so i hear this noise as somethingy fell inside the heater i got up and took the foil out and it was hot to touch, khair got it out of the way and what i see is that the knob on the top which was plastic had melted and te igniter had fallen in, so i took a pliar and turned the melting knob it came off , but i managed to turn the heater off.

in short the achivement being that i managed to melt the heater , today i took the heater from the guest room, now i have to buy a new one, tomorrow perhaps if i go out , today i stayed in home , skipped office , i think im coming down with a flu

in another news , my xbox is fixed and im soon to finished halo 3, then i have 4 other games lined out to play, dont know when i will get the time to play them though.

sync loss

being back in Lahore waznt much as i imagined it would be. i feel misplaced , out of sync. totally out of working phase, just doing it because i have to, i dont think i have slacked this much in all these past year in my working career, student life was another matter.

im ignoring phone calls in the morning from work or anywhere else and just turn over and try to sleep again or doze off for a couple of more mins, past 2 days ive been going to lunch after waking up, showering and getting ready, then to a coffee shop and after that around 4 , 4:30 i grace office with my presence. even if my manager calls me in the morning i dont pick it up and after like 30 mins or so i check emails through my phone to see if its anythingy important and then i call him back. This phone is useful in this capacity that it allows me to check my work mails.

and after im in office , i reply to few mails i deem requiring immediate response or simple response and then i phase out and then i go home when i think it late enough so no one will bother with me when i get home and i would be able to close myself up in my room upstairs.

finally managed to knock some sense into my geezer to stay working , had a to tweak alot of things in the thermostat and put up extra protection so that wind dont blow out the pilot. Thanks to gas-shedding i had to choose between warm water or warm room, figured i can always sleep with the socks on to keep the feet warm, thus warm water it is. This geezer is dedicated to my washroom only, everyone says i dont take a bath but i sterilize , i even need hot water in summers to take a bath in.

my hair are still refusing to rise up to the occasion no matter how much hair gel i apply they just remain as they are tiny half inch pointy things. or perhaps they are nearing an inch now cant say for sure how much they grow in 5 days, i just hope they would be somethingy better soon.

its been raining in all over the country but sadly there was no rain in Lahore today, i rather like the cold drizzle going on and on, thats why i love uk in winters when my cousins over there are cursing the day im enjoying walking in the rain, sadly cant walk here in rain as there is general shortage of footpaths. And somehow i am not feeling like walking in the rain no more, just sitting and watching it is fine for now.

and i swear this headache is there constantly since after the headache, asprins at night are a necessity if i need to place my head down in comfort.

gave my xbox 360 for repair once again yesterday, i havent been able to even play halo 3 and it was launched in september, and like Hemlock gifted me the collectors edition of it. its still packed placed on my bedside table, havent even opened it even though i bugged her to buy it the day it launched.

havent been to bowling yet either, even when there came a time when we used to go almost each day for weeks, dont have that company anymore, dont feel like going there and dont have the company either, 2 of them just got married in last week. One im sure will be needing permission to go to office soon by the way he was dancing on his wifes "requests" at Valima, poor sucker. The other im not sure, have yet to meet the bhabi on a less formal gathering.

this i think should be enough bakwas for now, already longer than any post ive written in a long time.

Here is to life...

Update: After 3 hours of thunder we have rain, and wow what heavy rain it is. i think im going out to catch a cold..

was it

was it worth it ???

i dont know , cant say yet

mundane words

so yesterday morning after having breakfast i decided it had been quite sometime that i had been to Lahore and that i should get a hair cut since im not gonna be able to go to my barber anytime soon. So i went to the hotels hair saloon and asked they guy i wanted spikes. The guys looks at me and says are you sure and i said yes get me spikes.
So some 10 mins later i realise the guy does not know what spikes are , and i tried telling him that hold on, for love of God stop. But he went on relentlessly hacking away and when he was finished i was left with a little more than half an inch of hair my head.
And then the guy was then trying to bring them up , as in make them stand and goes " i dont know why they are not standing up, usually the smaller they are the more they stand". And then i litterly had to tell him to stop playing.
In the end he says " dont worry sir, they will grow back in 2 or 3 days". I could only count from 1 to 10 to calmn myself.
Now i think my current headache is due to this haircut. The minute hair are insufficient to keep the cold wind from getting in and thus i have a headache since last evening.
So we played lazer Tag yesterday, there were 16 ppl so it was fun. loads of fun, we took 2 sessions back to back and by the time we were out we were exhausted.
after dinner with cousin and his new wife, then coffee my head was about to explode, took 2 asprins on my way back to hotel and then took and another 2 an hour after to sleep.

Im hungry, havent had no breakfast today, so far no lunch, at 3 i have to take interviews and at 5 is the weekly call. its going to be one hectic day, that is a seperate matter i came to office at 12:45, but still, i think im already tired, its 2pm now.

I soo dont wanna work....