Coca-Cola has always been on the forefront in bringing up cool ideas, themes and jingles for its ultra-hip brand and the products it labels. Be it the ‘Coca-Cola Enjoy’ basant theme or the current, refreshing ‘Khaa Lay, Pei Lay, Jee Lay’ campaign; they have always put colors, celebration and youth in focus.

They did the same with the much celebrated ‘Independence Day’ event. Although, there were not any advertisement campaign as such, however these flashy billboards were put up at selected spots in the city including this one at Centre Point.

PepsiCo may have a better market share, however, it has so far been unable to personify fun, excitement and party mode in its image…

Mujra is an urdu term.
The term itself is vulgar enough for me.
I am not proclaiming self-rightousness. I just saw one. As broadcast on Geo TV.
ILux Style Awards has them new Mujras, their evolved form.

The ‘art’ form of Mujra, as our ‘artist’ Nargis calls it, has slowly but surely evolved.

Seeing Veena Malik, Resham, etc perform some seriously ‘hipp’ numbers has convinced me to be able to comment on this: The Mujra has evolved to what I saw at Lux Style Awards. And as with evolution, natural selection if you may, has shown the Jhankaar-mixed songs the door, giving way to the more upbeat, remixed type songs. The remixed songs invariably has rap in them, and they are using words like Nigger in their raps! Now, apart from the fact that the N word is a bad word to use in itself, it also doesn’t make sense for a PAKISTANI song to have this word!! Hello, wake up song writers, rappers, composers blah blah. Oh by the way, they still are keeping the camera-focusing-on-thrusting-pelvis bit though. (as broadcast on GeoTV).

We are what we choose to accept and choose not to accept. I know I don’t accept this as a viewable form of entertainment representing our country and nation. What do you guys say? And please, no flaming…

The Afghanistan National Women’s Team is visiting Lahore to play a friendly series of two matches against Pakistan’s National Women’s Team on August 26 and 27 here at Punjab stadium, Lahore.

This the first ever women football event between the two countries.

Both the matches will be played under lights commencing at 7.30 pm. Bank Alfalah will be the sponsors of these ties. The entry in the stadium will be free. So grab your stuff and enjoy a sporting evening :). This event will add to the experience and exposure of the Pakistan team besides promoting women football.

Also, the Punjab Open Squash Championship have just commenced. Punjab Squash Association is organizing the Championship which will conclude on August 31.

Boys and Girls from all over Pakistan will participate in this Championship. The attendance for the Pre-Qualification Round will be held at 09:00 AM on Friday. About 65 players from all over Pakistan will participate in the Pre-Qualification round.

I hope things grow better in future and we get to see more of such events that are more organized and bring more talent to the country at the national and international levels.

[Story: Pakistan Times]

Alif Laila is a children’s library situated in a beautiful small park near Punjab Tikka House, in Main Market.

Take kids in your family to the library and hopefully you will find out our version of Harry Potter, Daastan-E-Ameer Hamza (?).

(more…)

Guess who’s back, bac again
Sharif’s back, tell a friend*

I’ve created a monster, cause nobody wants to see bald no more
They want Hair, I’m your ravi river (huh?)
Well if you want hair, this is what I’ll give ya
The soccer of politics and I am your best kicker
And some votes that’ll jump start my office quicker
than a shock when I get shocked at the hospital
by the doctor when I’m not co-operating
When I’m fiddling the mic while he’s operating (hey!!)

You waited this long, now stop debating
Cause I’m back, I’m on the news and articulating
I know that you got a job Ms. Bhutto
but your husband’s 10 percent is complicating
So the N.A.B. won’t let me be
or let me be me, so let me see
They try to shut me down on P.T.V.
But it feels so empty, without me

So, come on and vote fo’ meeeee
And get ready, cause this shit’s about to get heavy
I just settled all my lawsuits, BLEEP U MUSHYYY
!
Now this looks like a job for me
so everybody, just follow me
so we can get a little
counttt-reee
coz it feels so empty
without me
—-

*obviously to be rapped to the tune of Without Me by none other than Eminem.

Lahore Metblog joins hands with Alvi-e Team of Karachi Metblog and Don’t Block the Blog Movement (DBTB) to condemn the blocking of WordPress based blogs by Turkish Government.

We believe, that this will only favour the miscommunication and mishandling of the information. Whereas, responsible dialogs are the only way of settling the conflicts among Turkish Government, Adnan Oktar (aka Harun Yahya) and the WordPress Bloggers.

Precisely at 3:27 PM on July 13, 2007, Binary Zero a member of LMB writers guild had given Lahoris a delightful news of the Lahore Rapid Mass Transit Rail Project (aka LRMT) getting OKAYED-approval from the City Government. The Owais Mughal (info…) of Lahore Blogosphere has went into further depths, gathered some more valuable information on the topic and posted it on Pakistaniat Blog. The information is concise and gives loads of information on one page.

Please visit: Here for more information on the topic.

See the comments provided by different visitors and feel free to have your say as well.

A larger bench of 7 judges decided in favour of Nawaz and Shahbaz Sharifs to allow return Pakistan and declared their exile illegal. This news will hit to all the Lahoris as they have always been the biggest supporters of PML-N in the past. No matter if we distributed Sweets when Musharraf came but now (hungry and ready for another change), Lahoris are looking forward to their return.

Shahbaz is trying to give impression that Pervez Musharraf would have got them killed but it was Saudi Arabia that intervened and saved them, But they fail to give any tenable reason why they remained quiet for so many years and why they showed cowardice and fled Pakistan and why they did not face the charges against them in the courts of Pakistan earlier. Certain elements on the basis of ethnic considerations are trying to give impression that Sharif Brothers have gained popularity in Pakistan. They remained quiet for almost seven years.

Whereas, Musharraf’s supporters say:

The decision shows General Musharraf has
given us free judiciary and free media - that was not available in Nawaz Sharif era. He was a stooge of General Zia – the military dictator and still called by PPPians as Baquiat of Zia.

Now lets see what Musharaf and his team come back to media with..?

I personally wonder why these cases were not rested before Musharraf targetted CJP. These cases have been pending for long in past but how they are eventually getting finalised in few hours time so quickly?

Is it just because CJP has taken it up personally and now doing everything musharraf didn’t want to?

Then I believe Musharraf should start saying the opposite to get the work done his way! LOL. As it’s more looking like a personal war than war between Judiciary and Army as such.

Lets hear your point of views too?

[More News at: BBC, GEO]

I know a friend who runs a rather neat photography studio (Studio Q). He, for reasons he may not know himself, fell in love with an obscure mosque called Masjid Wazir Khan. This was one and half years ago. Now, the following is no exagerration, but for more than a year, every Sunday, he would head out to this mosque in inner-city Lahore to photograph it. He has photographed it from almost all angles. His wife rightly thinks he is crazy. (He probably is proud of that comment)
His photography is available online at Flickr and they have a thread going there called the Masjid Wazir Khan fever. A lot of people suddenly started photographing it. And after the inclusion of Masjid Wazir Khan in the film Khuda Kay Liyae, the popularity of the mosque quadrupled. According to him, the administration at MAsjid Wazir Khan now charge 1000 bucks (yes, three zeroes) to allow people to photograph!