I've been reading Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch ALbom and a lot of things struck me while I was going through it.
It was utterly shocking that the dying professor just because he's close to death can actually relate to the death coming to innocent people in Bosina or other parts of the world. He could only shed tears at them when he himself is dying slowly. I was quite taken aback! I mean such sensitivity comes only just before dying?!
Well... I shouldn't generalize, they do cry over the death of their pets and stuff. They'd call 911 for some stray animal but they would not hesitate to drop bombs over the innocent civillians across the globe.
Oops! I shouldn't digresss... Anyway, in that book the professor talks about the meaning of life. Which is indeeed a huge topic. According to the professor one should only live to love or he/she should die! WOW! I know! And yet it took a deathbed for a professor to come close to the Bosnians who were dying?!
Sunday, June 17, 2007
Thursday, June 14, 2007
KESC Complaint Center
Well... I guess it was not enough just to show the effect of KESC in Karachi in my earlier post and being a victim, I'm compelled to add one more sleepless night's agony in here... Hurray to KESC!!!
From 2:30 am to 5:50 am:
1. If you have a generator, turn it on. Your neighbours will hate you because of the noise it creates. It actually is a head-ache!
2. Even when the generator's working, drinking up petrol, you cannot sleep because you know that you have to turn it off if the KESC people turn soft on you. So, you can read, surf the net, watch some DVD and stay awake all night. So, you can catch up with all your friends who have seen more movies than you, or have read more books than you have.
3. If your mother, father, grandfather, child, brother, sister, or anyone else in the family is sick, I can imagine the pain they go through and you go through seeing them in endless pain.
4. Best part is that the KESC complaint centres are not working anymore, so even if you dial 118 and really want to get your frustration out, no one will pick up the phone. No one can tell you how long is it going to be. So, relax and chill.
5. You and your work... hmm.. since you've been awake all night, and haven't slept the night before that, you'll curse and be mad at everyone around you. Since you're working 9 to 5 and sometimes more than the usual hours and whatever salary you get, you end up paying the KESC bills with additional surcharges and still you cannot sleep because there's no electricity. But hey, why pay the double tripple bills?! My mother thinks that everyone should boycott KESC! We're living in hell waise bhi, why pay for it?!
6. The other best thing is when you see the civillians of Karachi protesting against KESC, join them!
Apart from all these things, people who live in apartments and flats around the city are not as lucky as those who live in homes. They suffocate in their small apartments. The food turns stale. The sick gets sicker. And yet we get these long bills of KESC with additional surcharges.
There were pictures of people sleeping on the roads and service lanes in DAWN. And people who live in KArachi, knows how stray dogs roam around in the city unattended. You can make the connections, right?
The President of Pakistan, General Parvez Musharraf, in his interview with Talat Hussain said that the country's getting more advanced.It's progressing by the seconds. There will be electricity everywhere even in small towns. Lifestyle is getting better. "mulk mein taraqqi ho rahi hai"
I wonder if it's progression? or is it digression?
IT all turns around to this : " The President and the PRime Minister and the famous multi-national firm that bought KESC are BIG FAT LIARS."
The funny thing is : I'm still frustrated!
From 2:30 am to 5:50 am:
1. If you have a generator, turn it on. Your neighbours will hate you because of the noise it creates. It actually is a head-ache!
2. Even when the generator's working, drinking up petrol, you cannot sleep because you know that you have to turn it off if the KESC people turn soft on you. So, you can read, surf the net, watch some DVD and stay awake all night. So, you can catch up with all your friends who have seen more movies than you, or have read more books than you have.
3. If your mother, father, grandfather, child, brother, sister, or anyone else in the family is sick, I can imagine the pain they go through and you go through seeing them in endless pain.
4. Best part is that the KESC complaint centres are not working anymore, so even if you dial 118 and really want to get your frustration out, no one will pick up the phone. No one can tell you how long is it going to be. So, relax and chill.
5. You and your work... hmm.. since you've been awake all night, and haven't slept the night before that, you'll curse and be mad at everyone around you. Since you're working 9 to 5 and sometimes more than the usual hours and whatever salary you get, you end up paying the KESC bills with additional surcharges and still you cannot sleep because there's no electricity. But hey, why pay the double tripple bills?! My mother thinks that everyone should boycott KESC! We're living in hell waise bhi, why pay for it?!
6. The other best thing is when you see the civillians of Karachi protesting against KESC, join them!
Apart from all these things, people who live in apartments and flats around the city are not as lucky as those who live in homes. They suffocate in their small apartments. The food turns stale. The sick gets sicker. And yet we get these long bills of KESC with additional surcharges.
There were pictures of people sleeping on the roads and service lanes in DAWN. And people who live in KArachi, knows how stray dogs roam around in the city unattended. You can make the connections, right?
The President of Pakistan, General Parvez Musharraf, in his interview with Talat Hussain said that the country's getting more advanced.It's progressing by the seconds. There will be electricity everywhere even in small towns. Lifestyle is getting better. "mulk mein taraqqi ho rahi hai"
I wonder if it's progression? or is it digression?
IT all turns around to this : " The President and the PRime Minister and the famous multi-national firm that bought KESC are BIG FAT LIARS."
The funny thing is : I'm still frustrated!
Monday, June 11, 2007
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
The Iron Wall
A documentary worth watching. If pictures are worth a thousand words, this documentary's worth tens of thousands.
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
Hijab
Took this off from my friend's blog...
http://jang.com.pk/thenews/jun2007-weekly/iqra-01-06-2007/index.html#3
http://jang.com.pk/thenews/jun2007-weekly/iqra-01-06-2007/index.html#3
Monday, June 04, 2007
Karachi's Fav. topic
There's no end to the cursing and swearing to KESC in Karachi. Last month when we were having exams and even before that when temperatures soared to 40 or 41 degrees, whenever we used to ask our friends and class mates, " What did you study last night?"
Friend 1: Oh! no electricity for five hours! I couldn't study..
Friend 2: I think Robinson Crusoe is jinxed. Whenever I think or intend to do it, electricty goes out!
Friend 3: I'm so tired! We didn't have electricity all night. I couldn't sleep.
Me : It's ironic that government has sold KESC to Seimens, a multinational company, and they're are sucking us up like this! My brother calls Pakistan "andhi" (blind), whoever wants to suck up the blood and wealth of people, they do it without any hinderance! it's like a platter of food for free... come and drain us of all that we have left!
At someone's place, I heard the homemaker telling me, " I buy diesel of Rs. 32,000 every month for the generator! And we get more than that amount of the electricity bill! It's crazy and ununderstandable that there's no electricity half of the day, the rest of the day it's the voltage fluctuation game, sometimes the tubelights won't even light up! and yet we get more than Rs 50,000 bill from KESC!"
You go to the businessmen, who owns factories and shops around the city and they tell you, " We don't get electricity, but we have deadlines to meet and put those machines to work so that we could get food for our families. Yet we pay taxes and electricity bills with SURCHARGES and look the government wants more!! they want us to shut our shops at 8! How can we? People come to us after sunset, when the temperature goes down a bit."
All I want to say is that if powercut has to be there, start it off with the President and the Prime Minister's Houses. And put them in the same situation as the other civillians are. Let them go through the same powercuts of 8, 12 or 16hrs. Let them know how the kids, mothers and the sick go through when they have governments who are talking about America sending them off to "stone-age" and they are doing the same thing. Who needs America?! We have KESC who's doing a better job!
P.S. KESC has increased the unit charge by 20 paisas without prior notice. The bill that you would get would be of 50% more of your earlier bills... so yess... no electricity yet lambe lambe bill...
Friend 1: Oh! no electricity for five hours! I couldn't study..
Friend 2: I think Robinson Crusoe is jinxed. Whenever I think or intend to do it, electricty goes out!
Friend 3: I'm so tired! We didn't have electricity all night. I couldn't sleep.
Me : It's ironic that government has sold KESC to Seimens, a multinational company, and they're are sucking us up like this! My brother calls Pakistan "andhi" (blind), whoever wants to suck up the blood and wealth of people, they do it without any hinderance! it's like a platter of food for free... come and drain us of all that we have left!
At someone's place, I heard the homemaker telling me, " I buy diesel of Rs. 32,000 every month for the generator! And we get more than that amount of the electricity bill! It's crazy and ununderstandable that there's no electricity half of the day, the rest of the day it's the voltage fluctuation game, sometimes the tubelights won't even light up! and yet we get more than Rs 50,000 bill from KESC!"
You go to the businessmen, who owns factories and shops around the city and they tell you, " We don't get electricity, but we have deadlines to meet and put those machines to work so that we could get food for our families. Yet we pay taxes and electricity bills with SURCHARGES and look the government wants more!! they want us to shut our shops at 8! How can we? People come to us after sunset, when the temperature goes down a bit."
All I want to say is that if powercut has to be there, start it off with the President and the Prime Minister's Houses. And put them in the same situation as the other civillians are. Let them go through the same powercuts of 8, 12 or 16hrs. Let them know how the kids, mothers and the sick go through when they have governments who are talking about America sending them off to "stone-age" and they are doing the same thing. Who needs America?! We have KESC who's doing a better job!
P.S. KESC has increased the unit charge by 20 paisas without prior notice. The bill that you would get would be of 50% more of your earlier bills... so yess... no electricity yet lambe lambe bill...
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