God is definitely the best artist I have ever known.There are hundreds of faces I can see at this moment on Dubai Airport and all of them own different features and expressions. Every face is telling a different story from heading back home to go on a honeymoon. Promises in making and kisses being sealed on them, everyone is equally hopeless and hopeful. It just surprises me to find myself looking...
Dec 17, 2011
Dec 15, 2011
While the fountains danced, I wrote.
Sometimes you just need a hit, a hit strong enough to break you into tiny pieces.This hit can be emotional, financial or even physical but it must break your personified shell so your true strength can come out and shine. One may be broken through worst of worst means, either he gives up or looks for...
Dec 11, 2011
Frostbite
Insaan se ziada khubsurat aur uski fitraat se ziada badsurat cheez dunya main nahi.Khubsurat yun kay wo Khuda ki takhleeq hai, ek kamil haqeeqat. Jab kay uski fitrat main muhabbat daali gayi hai jo hazaar badsurtiyon ki wajah hai. Muhabbat kam ho tau insaan na-mukammal ehsaas liye phirta hai aur agar ziada hojaye tau………paani per tairti laash ki surat hota hai jo na kay ubharti hai na doobti hai.Zindagi...
Nov 23, 2011
Freezing Past
While reading “One Day”, I looked at time on my iPhone to decide whether I should sleep, and the change of date told me it’s going to be a sleepless night. Getting up on my elbows, I looked closely at calendar date counting years passed by; years spent well.Fears repaired.Inspirations instilled.Aspirations...
Nov 1, 2011
Epilogue
ہر کہانی کا اختتام لازم و ملزوم ہے. مگر کچھ کہانیاں ایسی بھی ہیں جو اپنے آغاز پر ہی انجام کو جان لیتی ہیں.اس کے باوجود ان کہانیوں کو شروع ہونے سے کوئی نہیں روک سکتا ....... ان کے کرداروں کے نصیبوں کو ملنے سے روک نہیں سکتا..........
Oct 31, 2011
Post - Confession
You: I wonder how I will spend the rest of the days & nights without you beside me.Me: Trust me…… time will make it easier for you. I will become a part of your day & night but not your day & night as of now.You: How can you say that?Me: I have experienced that with you. I am your feeling of luxury love…….. A luxury that is going nowhere; courtesy a promise.You: I respect your opinion...
Oct 14, 2011
Khwab Kahani
Hum ek khwab ki soorat zindagi guzarne ki koshish main hain. Iss beech main humein bahar se haqeeqat kay kankar aur zamane kay pathar aa kar lagte rehte hain. Hum apni si koshish kar kay apni dunya ko sath sath uthaye chalte hain. Sath chalne main takleef kam aur qurbat ziada hoti hai.Hum ne sath chalne ki bunyaad hi apni umeedon ko paray kar k rakhi thee. Lekin ye kya kay ab hum umeedon aur mohabbaton...
Oct 4, 2011
Indulgence
"I want to bury my head in your chest. Just so you don't hide yourself from me, instead I will hide myself in you." --- Kookee-ness...
Sep 19, 2011
Obedience Overrated
Today, when I opened my eyes I didn’t roll down the chicks. Instead, I looked out at the sky with thickest clouds and a shining sun playing peek-a-boo. My lips curved into a smile while thinking about the changes. Nothing is permanent but for once I want to go with the flow, to follow, with no guilt...
Aug 1, 2011
Mulaqaat
Tum se alag hone kay baad, mujhe laga ab hum kabhi nahi milen gay na hi humare raaste takrayen gay. Lekin main apne dil aur dimagh dono se bekhabar iss khush fehmi ko galay lagaye chalay jarahi thee.......... Aur tab hi...........Shehar kay shadeed shor main, sarak ki dhool kay paar dekhte hue, janay kahan se tum bijlee ki tarha zehan main koond jatay ho. Roz ek hi raaste se guzarte hue, janay kaise...
Jul 14, 2011
Baat se Baat - III
“Ab kaisa lagta hai?”“Takleef hoti hai” “Kisi aur ka hone per?”“Wo mera kab tha? Jo hota tau sach hota.”“Tumne ussay sach hi tau jana tha?”“Jan’ne aur hone main farq hota hai. Dil kay raaste andhe hote hain, mujhe maloom hi nahi hua kab main andhi gehrai main girti chali gayi.”“Kitna waqt guzar dia tumne andheron main.”“Kuch andhere aisi roshni se behtar hain, jo aankhon ko andha karde.”“Aur ab kya...
Jul 6, 2011
Dove called Love
A few years back, a friend asked me in a random conversation, what is love? I replied back, wo jo lamhe bhar main umar bhar kay liye hojaye (it happens to you in a moment for lifetime).Till today, when people are losing faith in this dove, my faith is still unshaken. Day by day, when the world is getting darker in its deeds, love is only emotion which brings in some enlightenment. The idea may sound...
Jun 28, 2011
Honestly Speaking
Some people wear their smile like a disguise. Those people who smile a lot, watch their eyes. I know 'cause I'm like that a lot. You think everything's ok, and it is . . . 'till it's not.--- Ani Difra...
Jun 20, 2011
Danger called Rangers
Back in 1992, I was introduced to the word Rangers with much remorse and hatred. The reason was the beginning of Operation Clean-Up. The locality where I grew up is a stronghold of Urdu speaking and that’s where it all began on the morning of June 19th, 1992.I saw things from the eyes of an 8-year-old,...
May 30, 2011
21 Days
Dawn breaks. It has been some time he has not seen broad daylight but today he is anticipating sunrays. This day he will be meeting his fate which will take away his license to life.He wakes up, loosely hanging his legs from cemented slab while staring away, thinking what went wrong, where he stepped mistakenly or maybe he was destined. Every morning he misses his children jumping over him to drop...
May 23, 2011
SOS
Last night, when my brother called me to inquire about the attack on PNS Mehran, I was least bothered. I told myself probably it is some minor attack etc. and will be dealt with ease. Soon enough, a friend from Islamabad messaged that what the hell is happening in Karachi. That message put me on alert...
May 6, 2011
D for Divorce
Though it’s been a while now I sought divorced, I still keep coming across amusing social norms. Interestingly, they are found not only at home but even the west has its ways to address it.My first ever amusement was seeing that children after divorce are either considered “issues” or casually called “excess baggage”. I clearly remember how many of those looking-concern aunties told me that am lucky...
Apr 23, 2011
Over Heard at Nando's
Lady to the Waiter, on choosing the flavor:“Mild aur Hot kay beech main kya hota hai?”(What’s between the mild and hot?)Next, I knew, I and other 4 friends couldn’t stop laughing over this suggestive query. We started discussing what could be the answer and also asked some of our guy friends. Here are...
Apr 21, 2011
Dear Khurram,
Today it’s been 9 years; we buried you 6 feet under.If I say that life has changed since then, would be overly dramatic and sentimental. But yes, would you have been alive and smiling, I could say my friend is there for me. Usually, time fades memories, but somehow my elephant’s memory has made a movie of that time. I keep reminiscing about you often.You are stamped in my brain; probably you were...
Apr 8, 2011
Revisiting
We keep hearing that time changes, but it’s the only side of the coin. I managed to flip and found the better side. Time does change but it is dependent on people and circumstances. It can be good, in fact so good that you want to hold on to it tightly. I too tried holding it or maybe stopping it but...
Mar 22, 2011
Confessions of a Chocoholic
I am on a chocolate overdose for the last two days; somehow I just cannot control my brain to stop responding to it. People around have start saying if am in love or a relationship and I tell them a big NO.I can go and ask anyone to make a chocolate charity for me so I can proceed with my day happily...
Mar 16, 2011
Joining the Dots
NOTE:I don't think my post needs explanation. But yes, this is purely my opinion and my theory....
Mar 8, 2011
Mar 6, 2011
Baat se Baat - II
“Ye baat se baat kaise hoti hai?”“Wo baatein jo tumhare samne nahi ho pati.”‘Kuon? Meri maujudgi tumhe rokti hai?”“Nahi. Bus haawee hojati hai.”“Samjha nahi.”“Tum samne hote ho tau mere khayalat aur alfaz aapas main jhagarne lagte hain.”“Main tumhe pareshan karta hun?”“Hargiz nahi. Bus haawee hojate ho.”“Mujhe kuon is main se ilzam ki boo aati hai?“Ilzam nahi haqeeqat hai. Tumne muhabbat main logon...
Feb 3, 2011
Pakistan (Egypt) Un(Changed)
For the last 8 days, my routine is to go home and stick to BBC to watch uprising in Egypt. It is the country in which I spent good 4 months i.e. July – November in 2010 only.When I was leaving Cairo two months back, I had all the plans to re-visit the city. Not only for the people I have befriended...
Feb 1, 2011
Welcome to Client Services
While talking to a friend in the office, I enlightened her with one of my mid-day philosophy. These philosophies occur to me usually when am consumed by client. I think people who are in the same industry will be in agreement with this.They don’t have a choice :) “Keeping a client happy is like keeping...
Jan 26, 2011
Taliban in Closet
Veena Malik’s appearance on Frontline show has created a storm not only in print media but even at office desks. Holding a morning cup of coffee, I got myself into this raging argument when my colleague said,“Veena tau wajib-ul-qatal hain. Is ne mulk ka naam badnaam kia hai Hindustan ja kar.”I snapped...
