My blog-list is finally complete. It took forever and ever. I had no idea I'd managed to amass so many people in there! Anyhow, those asking for my blog-roll back should now be appeased. Enjoy. :)
Read more...Nov 21, 2009
Nov 20, 2009
Why-oh-why did no one tell me about the meteor shower? Shame on all of you. I really could have done with a couple of dozen shooting-star wishes these days. Terrible. Terrible. I really am amazed at how self-centered the world is when in truth it should only be Xeb-centered. *tch*
Read more...Nov 19, 2009
The Sheikh wrote a long piece on why he felt non-anonymous bloggers were idiots. Today, I completely agree. As it turns out blog just may be responsible for social disaster in an incestuously small Islamabad.
*yikes*
What-to-do-what-to-do?
Option 1: Stop blogging altogether.
Option 2: Stop blogging here. Make another - anonymous - blog. Blog there instead. Make sure no one ever links Xeb-to-blog and vice versa.
Option 3: Retain blog. Promise everyone who hangs out with me that they will NOT be featured on blog, ever. Censor posts to ensure political correctness.
Option 4: Continue as before. Conclude that anyone who takes offence at what I write (unless it was meant to be offensive) has no sense of humor. Declare that I would rather not hang with people with no sense of humor. Keep blogging, bolstered by the knowledge that blog now has a new name: 'Welcome to the World of a Social Outcast'
*sniff*
I'm doomed. New city. Few friends. And foot-in-mouth (or in this case blog) disease is an awful combination methinks. :(
I just got a package from Blue-Ex (a great courier service btw, I'd pick it over TCS et al any day) wrapped in enough brown tape to clothe a small person. I opened it and found another box inside. And then another one inside that. And a fourth. Then finally, inside the fifth box came two meticulously wrapped foil cartons that contain the most delicious oober-chocolatey super-yummy brownies. All the way from Karachi! :)
I feel utterly and completely spoilt right now.
And very-very-happy.
Thank you for the chocolate-high Sarah. I love you much-ly! :D
I spy, with my little eye, lots of action on the security front today. Groups of men are hacking away at the thick bush along Islamabad's green belt. Something tells me it's not going to remain as thick, or as green, by the the time they're done with it. All the way across the city the checkposts are being reinforced with bags and bags of sand. The number and frequency of posts along with due diligence with which they check the cars is very pronounced as of this morning. At every traffic light along Kashmir Highway there are atleast five policemen weaving their way through stopped cars toting big-black-sniper-type-guns. Yet more policemen are packed away behind the sandbagged forts around every corner, hidden except for a peeking helmet and a flash of a weapon.
Even the air is somewhat tense today. Add to that the daily bomb-blast in Peshawar (in front of the judicial complex, 16 dead, 25 wounded). And it seems pretty clear. Something is about to happen. The question is: what exactly?
Nov 18, 2009
Work has been somewhat awful of late. I have been told (over-and-again) that storming before norming is an essential pre-requisite of establishing an effective team. And since I am new, I gather this is pretty-much my-problem-to-deal-with, everyone else already knows what they do and where they have to be. And as a tsunami of work floods towards me everyday it's a constant struggle to complete even the bare bones of my fairly extensive things to do list.
Nov 17, 2009
Dear All,
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