Phelgm :(

first the fog, then a very intense though brief spell of flu and now a fever..!!!!

everyone be like Chandler Bing and go " Could this be any worse"!!

Big yellow taxi- Counting crows

i just love this song!! :) some of the lines really make sense; and with Hugh Grant being in two weeks notice and then this playing in the background it makes for a double treat, doesnt it! ;)

They paved paradise and put up a parkin' lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got till it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parkin' lot

They took all the trees, and put em in a tree museum
And they charged the people a dollar and a half to see them
No, no, no, don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone
They paved paradise, and put up a parkin' lot

Hey farmer, farmer, put away your DDT
I don't care about spots on my apples,
Leave me the birds and the bees - please
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got till it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Hey now, they've paved paradise to put up a parking lot
Why not?

Listen, late last night, I heard the screen door swing,
And a big yellow taxi took my girl away
Now don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got till it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Hey now now, don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got till it's gone
They paved paradise to put up a parking lot
Why not, they paved paradise
They put up a parking lotHey hey hey, paved paradise and put up a parking lot

I don't wanna give it
Why you wanna give it
Why you wanna givin it all away
Hey, hey, hey
Now you wanna give it
I should wanna give it
Cuz you're givin it all away, no no

I don't wanna give it
Why you wanna give it
Why you wanna givin it all away
Cuz you're givin it all givin it all away yeah yeah
Cuz You're givin it all away hey, hey, hey

Hey, paved paradise, to put up a parking lot
la,la, la, la, la, la, la ,la ,la ,la ,la
Paved paradise, and put up a parking lot

Hmmm

Very wierd!

first things first, is there an art to writing titles and ending the post??? coz i cant grasp this concept, i just dont know how to end the stupid post so i end up writing something like see u later or byee or ciao. how dumb! please guys if there a secret that im oblivious of please let me in on it, thanks.

now comes the wierd part. my face has turned ito an antenna. yup it realy has. ill tell you how i know. i was in the basement of the burj (the basement is where the staff bus goes to pick up the staff, btw nearly all offices and the cafeteria are below the building, almost at sea level. no sunlight whatsoever, its so urghhh!) my mp3 also has the radio option and tht is what i was listening to, now owing to the fact that we were in the basement i had the worst reception ever and there was this song coming up which i really wanted to listen to so i started waving it about hoping to get something clearer when suddenly it touched my face and zap all i could hear was crystal clear sound! and so for the rest of the time my mp3 was glued to my chin while i was trying to act as nonchalant as possible and ignoring the fact tht everyone was staring :)
and tht is how my face became the universal antenna.

on the movie front i saw click and munich yesterday. click was okay, not as good as i imagined but munich was fantastic. for a movie based on israeli and palestinean relations it was surprizingly based on a middle ground. really good, a must see perhaps.
has anyone seen salaam-e-ishq yet??? i really wanna go and see it but i havent gone yet, maybe will in the next week so please tell me if u saw and what u thought about it, i dont wanna waste money for no reason at all.

on a different note, the brother of my bestest friend in karachi is moving here. tht just might be the best news i have received in sometime as it opens up a whole different avenue of opportunities and possibilities! yayyyy!

i miss mum so much, well only 4 days left now :(

Sooooooooooo..

well there's nothing new really. dont have internet at home so have to blog out of the office, not very nice :(
on the family front mum's going to karachi on the 24th for eight days, its going to be lonely and i will have to cook and clean on the weekend; not looking forward to that really!
on a personal front i have sworn not to look at any clothes or shoe shop for the next few months. i have brought so much stuff over the weekend, it has to be somekind of a record for me! i cant be blamed if i inherited a very phisloo tendency, can i?? ;) and is it my fault i found things at all the right prices and in the right sizes and that all the malls were at sale?? i guess not :)
i got a pair of the loveliest black strappy sandals with a good heel :) :) me is in shoe paradise! i think i have a shoe fetish, all signs point in that direction!
i hate the bloody sight of ibn batuta already. its walking distance from home now but i keep going around in circles whenever i go there! :(
i dont know if im late in doing this but i read this fabulous article in 7 days a few days ago the link is this.
on a similar note, beirut by strings, is one of those songs which gives me goosebumps even in summer. it is a fantastic song and the video is not to gory which is good. can any one tell me where i can download the video from?
And thts all folks :)

Starting out in a new place...

is like walking on egg shells. literally! you have to watch every step u take, every thing that come out of your mouth, every expression on your face; coz it all can be, ridiculously, misconstrued.
i dont know where i picked up the walking on egg shells expression but it just fits in to this shituation. although my red finger nails are cheering me up! hehe
why cant people be simple and straightforward? easy to read? direct? matter of fact? why must things be done in a roundabout way when there are simpler and easier ways. i wish everyone in the world behaved like these two amazing people, i know, do. they mean what they say always and thts their charm. its impossible to be cross with them!
i love you mum! and A im starting to really enjoy and look forward to our talks on orkut!
Cheers! :)

So Karachi...

Karachi was good at times, tiresome at others. i could see any changes after nine years of absence. everything looked and felt the same. the food was yummy as expected, but spicy as hell. i would have had some stomach problems had i stayed longer. people only know one kind of hospitality there, FOOD. they will make you eat and eat and eat until you puke, but refusing is considered rude so tht cant be done either. i dont know how people lose weight there, ive put so much on!! :(
km had to make this visit memorable or rather as memorable as possible and hence we had to take him to omi in the dead of night as he had severe food poisoning due to the quantities of food he was consuming off the street.
the only thing i felt was very strange was the fact that at times it seemed dirt cheap to me, as in the case of books. i probably bought around 15-18 and they costed me something i the area of 160 dirhams. which is nothing. but as far as good clothes and good food was concerned, man it was exorbitant!! i dont know how people live there! there is no balance whatsoever in the prices of things!! another thing which was strange was the food in fast food joints! pizza hut was unimpressive and nando's gave me indigestion. verrryyy wierd.
but after all it was fun, met up with ghazal after so many years. eventhough we only spent a day together i had so much fun! and after seeing her work and the effort she puts into it i could only say i have nothing what so ever to fret about regarding my school work coz we get off pretty easily as compared. on which note i might add, results are almost out. i havent flunked as i expected, so thts a relief :)
work is better as time passes and i suppose once i get used to it, it'll all feel routine and everyday soon.
its the marathon tomorrow and im doing the 10k. which is stupid as i havent even run a km for four months now. i shall see how tht goes.
ill post pics from the trip soon, so ill get back to work now.

Everything's a jumble!!

so i'm back... from karachi and to work! i came back on the 4th at 2 am and started work on the 7th at 8:30 and thts what ive been doing ever since. WORK!!
even now i have a bunch of figures to plug in and im blogging instead. its absoloutely insane and i dont know what i will do? :( it will probably get better now that i finally have my studio and so will not have to come from and go to sharjah every day, which is such drag!!
on top of it all, im doing the marathon on the 12th and i havent trained for an hour, meaning i will die at around 8 am on the 12th from sheer exhaustion!
ok now that ive put in my share of exclamation marks for the week, ill get back to work and post when i have something happy to report.
ill write the low down on my paki trip soon.

Ciao until then.