Monday, February 28, 2005

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Lounging back on chair. Stretching my arms. Look right and left. yawn. Scracth ears, head. Staring at the screen.

Last time i wrote a blog was back on 16th february and since then just did no get enough motivation, time, idea, mood to do an update. Awfully boring , i know. Terribly lazy i am and this just proved the point. Even right now, i am writing coz i promised few people and it was some sort of embarrassment to me that everybody is writing on my tag urging me to post up and here i am , doing ZILCH, NOTHING and still not updating the blog.

Anyways, here it comes the belated entry. Past few days have been most ordinary, run of the mill usual stuff for me. Last semester is turning out to be a complete bore, as a matter of fact its a HUGE task to get out of bed in morning knowing when you have just couple of classes all day and nothing else. Most saddest thing is that instead of doing ANYthing constructive ever since this semester started, i have been using Uni net, rather SUCKING it for downloading U2. As usual, my ghar ka net is fucked up big time and i am not going to say anymore on that, i just use the uni net and its AS GOOD AS I VE EVER SEEN IN MY ENTIRE LIFE ! 8 Concerts i downloaded in a week, cant get any better than that. Along with it loads of htdaab performances along with video, special mention must be made to Grammy performance as well as Brooklyn Concert Video. So yeah, academically, not a most happening time despite the fact i hve my midterms from 7th. Lets see if i do enough to keep my gpa over 3 [ which i fear i might not the way i am going this semester ]

Aside from that, nothing special going on at home front either. I realized i am a super good conversationalist , esp on phone. Spend a huge amount on buying credit this week and for whatever reasons, i consider myself a nawab ka baccha and talk to my friends on MOBILE instead of land line. Though, i talk to only 3-4 friends on phone [excluding my best friend Ali ] these talks can EASILY last in excess of 2 hours. Its not that only I whos wasting credit, i make sure others do that too :D But point is that i went to bank to check out my balance and realize i am running short on finances, not exactly short but i need to get my priorities and straight and save up the money. Lately, Dividends arent coming regularly plus since Abbu moved all our shares to Ammi's account in CDC, we get less money which means mazeed ghurbat.

I curse myself for missing out the most golden opportunity to work last year after my iternship at E-Commerceateway. I applied to Mobilink call center and got thru three departmental Interviews with flying colors, with the director dude highly impressed. After completion of my 3rd interview HE congratulated me and asked me to visit the HR department and confirm the appointment . I went there, gave another interview to that lady Ms Sheeba, and she gave me the heart breaking news that since i am NOT an undergrad as yet, they wont be able to accomodate me. That was MOST shocking. One of the very few times in my life that "I" was depressed, upset and absolutely furious. But well, life moves on and i am looking at my options what to do next.

On a side note, we booked ourselves a Cultus and i am SO NOT in favour of that ! We already have a Baleno and i have serious grudges against that car , because its NO WAY WORTH its pricetag of 750,000 + Rs/- ! But its too hard to convince daddy dear to move to Toyota/Honda. He thinks us brothers are helluva reckless driver and will be smashing car around the town, plus CNG reasons also give Suzuki an edge. Except abbu, all of us were rooting for Santro [ since we are going for hatch back ] but when we went to showroom, the guy said it will take 8-9 months for that which is totally , unacceptable. Our current 2nd car, a Toyota Starlet `83 [older than me by 8 months ] is nearing its death bed and it will be end of an era for us.

Biggest news for me this week was that i FINALLY was able to buy myself a new mobile [not exactly DABBA PACK NEW :p ] . Since i got mugged on the morning of 15th December `04 at 7am while going to uni, i have been using this old, worn out 3210 which i couldnt carry withmyself due to its battery dieing in 30 minutes flat :p . Anyways, got myself Nokia 6610i, my same phone which got robbed, only this time i got it in Black color instead of silver, with 5 months warranty. Me is REALLY, REALLY happy at this deal :D


Sports Update - Pakistan cricket is leaving today for India and God Bless our team !

My test playing 11 is [in batting order]

Salman Butt
Yasir Hameed
Younis Khan
Inzamam ul Haq
Yousuf Youhana
Asim Kamal
Kamran Akmal
Muhammed Sami
Rana Naved ul Hasan
Danish Kaneria
Arshad Khan

Shahid Afridi - 12th man.

Although, i am the biggest afridi fan you can ever meet, i Even WANT him to play test matches, but with current situation, i dont think he deserves a place in team right now, at most if HE HAS to be included, it can only be done in place of Arshad Khan.

Football - CL

Man Utd lost, nistelrooy's magic did not work :( But i REALLY hope that he rises to the occassion at San Siro in return leg and kick some major ass. Real JUST sneaked ahead of Juv and i see some serious fight going on , since suddenly, real's domestic form slightly dipped with consecutive losses and Juve is getting its touch back thanks to Del Piero. I WANT A REAL/MAN UTD FINAL !


Thats all for now folks. I HOPE to come back REALLY sooon next time and wont take this long for the blog update. Thanks to everybody for their concern and asking about it. Have a good time reading :)

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