VANILLA SKY

There is absolutely, positively, assertively nothing worse than inviting seven guests over only to find the WAPDA management decided to change the load shedding routine that day. This basically means that you have seven hopeful guests and no blender, no microwave to help u out, plus tht happens to b the day ure maid decides to casually take the weekend off. Just when u wondered how things could possibly be worse, the little glass bottle of vanilla extract decides to wander off its rack inside the refrigerator and simply falls and breaks into a million pieces and most of the brown extract is all over my bunny rabbit flip flops – not to forget the overpowering vanilla scent is almost making u dizzy. Actually it was the mess that makes me dizzy but u get the drift. So now I’ve got seven guests, zero power supply and my house smells like a biscuit factory.

Thanking God the bottle broke in the kitchen and reassuring myself that iv read in COSMO somewhr about the pedicural qualities of vanilla I, inhaled deeply. And no longer did the burning desire to impress my guests with home made chicken karhai, italian lasagne and sponge cake dessert fire me up. I did what was necessary.

Ordered take out. So through the wonder of the credit card and Hallmarks scented candles my husband and I managed to throw a nice party. And what was more, thank modern day time management values that the guests arrived atleast 2 hours later than the invitation time, and by then the electricity n take out food both had arrived.

I kinda liked it when life was less gadgets and more home-made everything. For one thing we fell sick less often and the food was actually tasty. No no no people, I’m hardly one to blame technology. I don’t think not having a microwave is a blessing. I guess its just nostalgia.

Its wednesday and the sickly sweet, overpowering scent still lingers. I doubt I can ever even go near vanilla flavor.

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CARTOON

Hollywood has so far made fun of christians on the whole, catholics in particular, jesus, jews, buddhists, hindus, and what not – but denmark makes one cartoon and Pakistani people (not arabs, not african muslims, not even indian or middle eastern muslims) get killed for working in KFCs. The world mite not see it but its that fanatic-mentality being supported in Pakistan that’s creating all this bullshit. You wanna take your temper out? Go to denmark, find that guy and kill him for all I care.
And I’m not even giving the whole ‘free speech’ lecture here, which by the way, anyone who watches indian cinema, hollywood movies, american televison or geo tv for that matter, should believe in.

I talk about this right now, because there was a facebook group still getting its highs from this discussion. And some fanatic-followers were getting all emotional about something they know nothing about.
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TRUTH BE TOLD

Military regime ended and there was this coalition drama and the innocent nation believed in their hearts that now, things would be different. Truth be told we wanted to believe. We wanted to believe that there will be more electricity; we wanted to believe there will be no more people dying in the name of politics; we wanted to believe we will no longer have fatal bomb blasts. But right now I can only wish we were that lucky.

Whats with the delay on everything? They say they r handling bigger problems. Well I say deal with the human-related problems so they are alive to see ure bigger problems be solved! U made them an air-condition nation and took away electricity? What happens to a country in which its metropolitan city had a hospital that had to operate under a charging light cuz the hospital couldn’t afford fuel for generators anymore.

As a friend of my hubby puts it:
“DEMOCRACY can’t be imposed. It can only be protected.”

U can’t go around shouting the word democracy and then make the people go thru these bullshit times, and act like you know better. If u can’t think of a way to make the economy afford the country’s fuel usage then why u sit there in the first place is beyond me. U can’t get away with advising them to shut down their air-conditioning! The next thing we know we’ll be using donkey carts instead of cars so Mr.-in-charge-of-nation can sleep in his thousands of dollars worth VIP suite.

I don’t think the people of Pakistan have a lot of patience anymore. We’ve certainly been thru a lot already.

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