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things that never change # 342: crank calls

lah_nausheen — Wed, 10 May 2006 08:16:21 +0000

Things that will never change in Pakistan, no matter which city you live in: the post-12 am crank calls. You pick up the receiver, say a random hello. The voice at the other end sounds oily, and you try to place it in vain as he breathes a “heaylo”. You ask “aap ko kiss say baat karnee hai?” (“Who do you wish to speak to?”), and get the one reply you’ve been dreading: “aap say” (“with you!”) The introduction of CLI has drastically decreased the number of crank calls that you get on your landline atleast, but now there’s a more harassing, stubborn breed of people hell-bent on talking to you at ungodly hours of the night, even on cellphones where you can easily track them down. I guess the latter’s not a threat as such for them anymore.

Everyone has their own way of dealing with the particular string of calls that follow the inevitable first hanging up. What’s yours?

Pakistan

lah_nausheen — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:52:34 +0000

Pakistan

Originally uploaded by offstage4.

i know this isn’t VERY relevant to lahore, but wanted to share: camera toss is a wonderful photographing technique in which you literally toss your camera in the air to take a picture. flickr has some amazing camera toss pictures, and i found this picture of the Pakistan flag that someone had painstakingly done – along with other pictures that you can see here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/shaneenglish/sets/72057594061414730/

look what you can now do!

lah_nausheen — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 10:14:50 +0000

dear readers of Metroblogging Lahore -
we’d love to hear from you! now, in addition to commenting on each post made here, you can suggest a story you want us to write about here! it could be an anecdote about living in the city, a funny episode, anything to do with living in lahore! Just follow the link on the right>>>> :D

pappu saeen and overload at LUMS

lah_nausheen — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 13:06:05 +0000

pappu

Originally uploaded by Asad K.

The concert, for a surprising 100 rupees per ticket, was very very good. I’ve only heard rave reviews so far. Asad’s taken some really good pictures, you can see more of them on his flickr :)

RSS!

lah_nausheen — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:12:14 +0000

We now have a lovely rss feed of all the cities across the metroblogging network: check it, use it, love it http://feeds.metroblogging.com/allcities.xml
:D

gelato affair

lah_nausheen — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:07:47 +0000

cakes

Originally uploaded by psnob.

while their ice cream is good, they have this annoying policy of not letting you take pictures of their icecreams! This was the only one i managed to take before a worried looking man approached me from behind their icecream counter and said “madam yeh yahan allowed nahin hai!” (madam this isn’t allowed here!)
:s weird policies man. did they think i’d take a picture of their icecreams and replicate their recipes?

review: noori concert at alhamrah, 19th march

lah_nausheen — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 08:21:31 +0000

The first noori concert off the peeli patti tour was goood. TOOOOO short, but good. (i think it lasted an hour and a half max). Ali Noor first did an acoustic set, three songs, without his band, just to get the crowd going – all old stuff. Then they played some new stuff, but not a lot. I think the division was more like 70/30, in favour of old stuff. One of the best moments in the concert was

when Ali Hamza did a solo song, and after he was done, people in the crowd yelled out “Ali Hamza ROCKS!”, and he took a bow. He’s so the sweetheart of the band.

The lights were a bit iffy though. And the gig ended with gaana number 1, no encores (:().

pygmalion at alhamra

lah_nausheen — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 05:04:23 +0000

Pygmalion was on at alhamra this friday night – (the same play that was made into the movie My Fair Lady) and they decided to make it a musical. Big mistake. The girl who played the lead role – Eliza Doolittle – couldn’t sing to save her life. Half the time, the violins drowned her out. (the good part was they had live violinists playing). She couldn’t do a cockney accent either, though, to be fair, that was probably too much to expect of any Pakistani girl.

The professor – Professor Higgins – carried the play. He was just the right (believable) amount of arrogant. The stills too, were nice. They did cut out an entire scene at the end, and made the play end at a startling note – they didnt let eliza end up with professor higgins. Instead, the play ended with the professor proclaiming his love for her, and her walking off the stage at the end.

You can read more details about the play at the Daily Times review of it. The last bit, the summary of the play though, does no justice to the undertones suggested both in the play as well as in the staging of it. It was almost satirical, messing with the idea of how easy it is to gain access to “high society” by just learning their language and mannerisms. There was a human service message in there too somewhere…about treating people not like flower girls or princesses but you know, like humans.
Or something.
(image taken from www.pygmalion.ws/ images/pygm1938movie.jpg)

paintballing!

lah_nausheen — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 00:50:12 +0000

A whiiile ago, I made a post about the paintballing battlefield opening up in Lahore soon…it’s finally open! it’s on the new airport road, when going towards Bhatta Chowk, you’ll see it on your left opposite it is the PSO pump.

The deal is – you book the battlefield exclusively for your team, and the charges are: (taken from an orkut comment)
rs. 375 – 30 min + 30 paint pellets
rs. 100 – for extra 10 paint pellets
rs. 375 – for every extra half hour you play.

You have to pay the amount up front before you play.

They plan to start a membership thing. From what i understand it’s rs. 3000 for every person that lasts 6 months. And in that they give you discounted rates. Not sure what they are though.

They provide you with uniforms (so that your clothes don’t get messy obviously), and armour. Everyone I’ve talked to who’s been there says its a LOT of fun…

The contact person for bookings and all – call: 042-8449462, or Hassan Noor 0333-4222770

and an atif aslam concert

lah_nausheen — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 00:38:14 +0000

Never liked the man much myself, but anyway, got this in an email too, in case anyone’s a fan..

Atif Aslam

Naqsh and Hasnain & Anjum

The “Soul Saviour” Concert

LIVE
All proceeds go to earthquake relief efforts

Date: Saturday, 25th March 2006
Venue: Lahore Grammar School, 39 Main Gulberg, Lahore
Time: 7pm SHARP

Tickets available at
The Venue
CityFM89 office
Selected Telenor Outlets

For further details contact
+92-42-5789467-68
Or visit www.cityfm89.com

An event managed by JAWS Productions