WARNING: Content of STRONG (euwcky nature for some) Ahead Don’t blame me if you are caught up mid way :-p

A girl in Lahore, Kit Mal, is almost obsessed with her love for lizzies, yes yes the house Lizards I’m talking about :)

What she usually do is grab a lizzie – take a picture and let her go her way – Can You DARE??

She says just the FIRST try is hard then it comes naturally … way to go girl.

To see first-hand glimpses …
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One thing you find en abundance in Lahore is this very animal, My city was built courtesy him (it looks a bit HARSH to me for the poor animals). I feel sad at the condition of most of Khotaas in Lahore city roaming around and being treated exactly as lahoris call KhottTTTtaaa (with an accent).

BTW, can you figure something in this Image??

Hint: An important CHAIR :>

Message of the Day: Treat the animal kindly, Aaakhir Khotaa bhi Insaan hay :|

Image Courtesy: Here

Asma suggests this interesting picture on how biological weapons of mass destruction are sold in our food markets :)

Source: Edge of Space’s Flickr

Sent in by a colleague. Hilarious yet thought provoking.

Edit: Photo credit… Maciej Dakowicz

I suppose you guys cannot guess where in lahore this picture has been taken and what is this poor donkey actually trying to do :D? Any ideas :0)

APP Photo by Masood – Suggested by Sa’ad :)-

A letter to The NEWS editorial was very interesting in pointing out what other famous Pakistani politicians may label their books when they get them published as allegations or counter allegations against each other.

This is how Pervez E Qureshi from Dubai writes it:

“Joke of the year: Nawaz Sharif to counter allegations against him in President Pervez Musharraf’s book ‘In the Line of Fire’ has announced that he will be writing his own book. If the trend of this ping pong allegation/counter allegation via book launching continues, soon we will have the demagogic personalities of our nation coming out with books with similar titles:

Shahbaz Sharif: “Hair Line” — Altaf Hussain: “Telephone Line”
Shiekh Rashid: “Railway Line” — Benazir Bhutto: “Side Line”
J Salik: “Jacob Line” — Imran Khan:” Body Line”
Altaf Saleem: “$$$ Fault Line” — Shaukat Aziz: “Bottom Line”
Qazi Hussain: “Picket Line” — Sherry Rehman: “Bad Line”
Amin Faheem: “Hold the Line” — Dr. Shahid Masood: “Cross Line”
Chaudhry Shujaat: “What Line?” — Jemima Khan: “Piccadilly Line” “

Bandwidth, something you only realize the importance of when you don’t have enough of it! Same goes for almost everything else, every other freakin’ thing else!

The lahoris here know it too well, that we have been experiencing one of the finest weathers for a long time. Cool, peaceful breeze with the faintest of showers, so faint that it seems to slowly appear rather than pour! (I know that some parts of Lahore have drowned their roads in silent protest to the government, but that is for a different post!) And for people who are tucked away in their homes, our LESCO (the electric manipulations company!) sends a wake up call, by giving you no light, no fan, no TV, no nothing. The LESCO formula seems to be catching on, now that WorldCall almost religiously follows the same patterns; a little ‘stormy’ weather, and BHOOM, no cable, no Internet. The modem light just blinks, as if mocking you. I stare at the blinking light, trying to catch a beat to it perhaps, but no, it does not have a metronome built it, alas!

My cable is down, the modem light blinking as if to mock me! Akkh. The dial up cards that I had to buy are unbelievably slow. I did not know that majority of the Internet users here in Lahore had to go through ‘this’, this pipette-like bandwidth!

I am hoping you guys will guide me as to which dialup connection is the best and at what times! I still recall, fainlty though, that there were un-written timing when a certain ISP would give you good bandwidth; for example, BRAINNET would be the fastest in the early morning hours. But now, I don’t know. I am using GoNet right now, or perhaps Go Net is using me!

It’s like rationing bandwith, it’s like when the Israel of the Internet attacks the Lebanon of your Peace of Mind, it’s like when you had to tilt that empty coke bottle all the way to the bottoms-up position and then wait! wait for at least ‘some’ drop to find its way through the bottle-neck to give your drying mouth a taste of what ‘could have been!’ Oye hoeyyyy, I miss my bandwidth.

So I have a quick question for all of you here: How many on dialup and how many on cable? DSL, satellite etc?

P.S. I had to re-connect THREE times before I was able to post this! And let me re-confirm your doubt that yes, I am ticked off and I have seen better days than this. I am ticked off enough to at least humor this situation!

I found this one in today’s edition of Daily Times. One the one hand, its quite funny but on the other hand, this is a very serious and improtant issue for our city. Open manholes needlessly claim so many lives every year. I remember, they used to be made out of cement slabs which would often break and needed costly replacements and then they were for the most part replaced by metal covers which the drug addicts starting stealing in order to sell to the metal scrappers. I don’t know if the same thing happened here where a motorist is stuck in an open manhole in Iqbal Town, or was there some cleaning work going on and someone took a break without bothering to put the cover back on.

So every now and then you see people boasting about the college they went to on their cars. The most common ones in Lahore are “Engineers Make It Happen” for UET champs, “Ravian”, “Crescentarian” etc. Some institutes which don’t even have toilets have a car sticker for their students. But here is one I saw today that I had not seen before. It’s a pity I didn’t have a camera with me at the time :( Anyway, it said: “I was born intelligent, education ruined me”

I guess all the people who go through our education system feel so at one time or the other. People might suggest foreign education and O/A level for high school education, but personally these things didn’t work for me. At the end of the day you have to realise that a person cannot find intellectual satisfaction in his profession and studies.