[Roving reporter] Your truly has just survived an imperialist attack on suday evening. I went to cantt, saddar exactly, to my Khala’s place. She sent a kid for PEPSI. The kid came back with a PEPSI, and told her that he spotted a frog in a PEPSI when the shop keeper was handing out the bottle to him and he asked to replace it. Gee.. he didn’t tell me this before I drank the other PEPSI he brought (the sister one to that frog juice). *puke puke*

If anyone of you doesn’t believe me or geniueness of the photo, you can see the bottle for yourself at ‘Gosha-e-Taskeen Pan Shop’ near Saddar round-about, opposite Jigranvi Azizia Dawakhana. You can’t feel how freakish I’m feeling. Why always I have to have such weird experiences? I always knew that there’s a big distribution network of fake drinks in Lahore and everybody’s aware of it [I even heard a shop keeper saying which number PEPSI we wanted for my cousin's wedding] but this experience was really eye-opening one. I’m not surprised but rather worried.

My recommendtation: Don’t ask for PEPSI unless and until you’re sure that it’s geniune. PEPSI and other such companies should do something about it, seriously. Until then, NO PEPSI. No other soft drink.

Moral of the story: I dream of the day when frog juice will be served in PEPSI bottles with tadpoles and frogspawns swimming freely! *angel looking toward heaven* *blink blink*

My post for the day relates to the uncanny bluntness that most of the lahoris seem to have, fortunately or unfortunately:)

I happened to accompany my mom to the ‘sabzi and fruit’ wala today…the owner ‘munshi’ (yes its actually his name) is well renowed in the sabzi zone and the world of the sabzi-buying aunties and uncles…obviously mostly the former.

so there’s this aunty getting her bill made of the zillion veggies she bought…and she goes to munshi…very casually:
“Hai mushi tu kinni mehngi sabzi deina ae…itwaar bazaar wich ais tou adhaa rate hai!”

and munshi’s ever calmer and composed reply:
“Tou maaji tussi oothon hi leloo na!”
:D

(for those of u who wont get my roman punjabi…:P he casually suggested the aunty to go buy the sabzi from itwaar bazaar since she said it was cheaper there rather then waste time at his shop getting more expensive veggies:)

:D
needless to say the aunty paid the bill and left without saying a word after that!!!

Hey Guys! Has anyone been to Caspian Sea located on the shores of the Canal. The Caspian business was severly hurt due to the demolishing of the bridge vital to accessing it from across the canal.

Yesterday morning, around 9 am, I was at Fortress Stadium, mistakenly assuming that Ring 2 would be playing at Sozo World. They were still showing War of the Worlds, and the first show was 3:45 pm. However, as we roamed about the eerily empty fortress stadium, we saw scores of people lined up next to the actual stadium’s entrances. We assumed it was a match of some sort, until we saw a woman dressed as a bride, getting out of the car. “Whoa, lahoris have really taken the cake for dressing inappropriately for an occasion this time”, we thought. Until we saw ANOTHER bride-like woman. And a decorated car. On closer inspection, we realized there was actually a mass wedding going on inside (yes, we peeked through the cracks in one of the locked gates).

Here’s a link to an article in daily times about the actual thingie.

I don’t have a picture to supplement this post…

But well its something that i wanted to know others’ opinion about…

Have you ever observed people going past you on the road?…provided that you’re not driving the car, it’s a pretty interesting exercise:)

Although I may appear offensive to the aunty drivers here…but i’d never believed in the philosophy of ‘all women are bad drivers’ until i explored their expressions while driving myself! give it a try sometime!

Observe that almost all the uncles driving their cars would be jovial…or atleast looking around at the world…(read women) but the aunties are either in an extremely ‘sara’ howa mood, or scolding their kids or gripping the steering wheel ever so tightly!!
:)

I do some driving myself…and even if someone tells me i do any of the above..i will ofcourse DENY all accounts of it:D

I’ve always been weirdly impressed by this particular petrol pump at liberty. It has no grounded fuel pumps, they hang from the ceiling as if by magic. Never seen another like it in Lahore or anywhere else in the country! :s

Doesn’t it look like some UFO is lingering above?

source here

I love the fact that in Lahore, where people deliciously love dressing up and paying attention to every little detail, wearing a red t-shirt with a red dupatta and red shoes would still not be called being ‘over’. If anything, I’d be asked why I’m not wearing red nailpolish to go with it. :p :D

Credits: Aamer

A beautifully painted bench in Allaince Fraincais & Annemarie-Schemmel-Haus. It’s a very unique idea, atleast I saw such a thing for the first time. For those of you who are interested in such art, you can check out Qudisia’s strange community about truck art with even stranger name Paas kar, ya bardaasht kar at orkut.