Saturday, January 29, 2005

So, here is it my VERY late blog update. Almost a week late, but circumstances were stacking up against me hence i had no chance to make an entry. Some excellent weaher in karachi of late and it rained on monday and tuesday, bringing back the freezing, bone chilling winds back in town WHICH I LOVE !! Its strange in a way, because i am one who is very vulnerable to cold weather and normally, i feel much more cold than others do. But despite all of that, i still think that Winter is the best time of year. The feeling of wrapping yourself around in a blanket, wearing 4-5 jerseys/sweaters/jacket/hooded shirt/beanie cap/socks ... HEAVEN !! Nothing beats that.

But along with the rain, my cable guy had his service absolutely disrupted by the weather and i had no cable for a while and along with that, another pc problem. My Secondary HDD crashed with the most unusual and un-recoverable problem. Its media broke down. When i turne on my pc, while booing up it made some weird , scary screeching and knocking noise and bios failed to detect the primary slave. I tried some different combos and checked out with bios but all failed and right now i am in a fix what to do with it. The HDD was with me for 5 years and it had some important stuff, which , i can live without but prefer to have it. No clue nor any hopes if it can be recovered.

This wasnt the only tragedy of the week. All my favourites participating in various sports, lost.
Worse was Federer/Safin match where i had to sit the entire 4½ hours only to see him lose agains the 2nd MOST talented player in men's tour, Safin. It was most sublime tennis on display. Only another match which i can remember displayed this much quality was the Sampras/Agassi quarterfinal in US Open 2001. This match was phenomenal with both showing their gutsy, never say die attitude and coming up with some out of this world, miraculous shot making skills. Treat for all tennis aficinados. Final score line was 5-7, 6-4, 5-7, 7-6, 9-7 in Safin's favour. Bottom line is that i am just glad that it was Safin who beat him, not those morons named hewitt and roddick. Safin plays Hewitt on sunday and i am all for the russian.
Sharapova lost to serena in a magnificient match where serena had to come back from 3 match points to secure the victory and today, Serena lifted the Trophy by defeating Davenport.

Soccer wasnt any good, Man utd were beaten by chelsea in a pulsating encounter in League cup semi-finals and lastly, Cricket - Lara single-handedly blew us off the Gabba.


Other than this, University will resume on monday and this whole week i was occupied with numerous trips to bank and DC office. Applied for shares of Attock Petroleum Ltd. and it was quite a hectic thing. It was an absolute machli bazaar at all the banks. I had to go there on Friday and today as well, and both times i had to wait for over 2 hours to have my application accepted/verified/forwarded ! Total Khuwari .

In another episode of tragedy in my life , i went to this new driving liscence office which started working near my place, on thursday. I had my previopus learner's lisc. expire 2 years ago and i decided that now being 21 yrs old, i ought to get a Pakka lisc. When i reached the office, iwas told to get myself made another Learnes lisc will be valid for 10 days. I applied, had my application forwarded and medical checkup in no time. Then, this guy came up to me and told me to go this another building to have my TEST taken. Stumped at this new revelation since there is NO TEST TAKEN if you apply for learner's lisc. I went to the other buildin and there this traffic constable asked me to sit and answer atleast 4 out of 5 traffic signs. I was stunned !!
Eventual result , no prizes on guessing, i failed by answering 2 out of 5 correctly.

Next attempt will be made sometime in the coming week and at this i culminate my rather sorry week which hopefully will come to an end now !!


Till then, have fun all of you and have a grand weekend !



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