I write like
Chuck Palahniuk

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My parents lived to see their unruly child come through and win the Booker prize, but one day in my 30s, I got this impossible call from Nigeria to say that my mother had gone. We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet – I was standing on nothing. It was the strangest thing. Her passing away ripped the solidity out of the world.

For a few weeks, I'd be walking along and suddenly I'd be unable to stand straight and I'd hold on to a lamppost and find the lamppost wasn't solid either. That was a turning point for me. It began a great journey. I don't feel I need to lean on lampposts any more. You need internal lampposts – and a few good friends.

- Ben Okri

we complete
the full circle

carefully treading along
avoiding the edges

it closes in
shuts out
forgets to rememeber

the space
the perfect 360

4 years of an undergrad in Marketing may not have been useful.

However, I am grateful to those instructors who spent their paid time showing us ads. Been an 'absolut' advertising fan since those days. Here's a favourite.:)

Absolut Anthem

The Phet that wasn't - Sunday 6th June 2010

somewhere over the rainbow...

The Phet that wasn't - Friday 4th June 2010

The streets are full of children carrying bowls, windshield cleaners, combs and what not. Some without limbs, hands, eyes and most of them, without a future.

Making collections. All paying for the failure of their ancestors.

Blame it on Eve

During a very 'intense' and rather random session with a friend recently we ended up tracing the roots of our problems and why we have become what we have become (clearly not happy with ourselves). Of course, the inevitable 'what is the purpose of life' question trotted along and I almost felt like I was 16 again. The only difference was, rather than being in a mental state of black and white - I found myself okay with the 'grey' of it all.

With absolutely no outcome whatsoever to that discussion we did somehow end up talking about (very randomly) evolution and where it all started from. And it all makes sense now, we can blame it all on Eve.

How / why, you ask?

If she would not have eaten that God forsaken fruit we would not be here today paying for her mistake. Mind you, not mistakes but just ONE mistake. It was a simple instruction 'Eve, dear, don't eat that tempting looking fruit cause you will ruin generations to come' but of course she's human and why would she listen? As a result this is what we get:

- The stereotype of humans giving into temptations and can you blame us? The ideaology has been set for us since the beginning of time - we're practically brainwashed into believing and hence, doing it
- Females - don't ever expect them to get anything right. You see, if only Adam had made that mistake I'm sure 'the authorities' would have found a way to 'fix' things but no, it had to be a female hence, undermining women and their capabilities, rights, freedom and so on. 'We can't give all women rights now can we? God knows what she would do with them.' Clearly, God knew.
- Finally and most importantly, if she would have just stayed away - we would not have had this right from wrong issue to deal with. We could have been blissful souls (possibly angels and whatnot) enjoying the 'promised' luxuries of heaven.

It's basic instinct for Pakistanis to blame everything on someone else. The only flaw with the blame game is that once you keep going on it turns into a vicious cycle which pretty much indicates that we're all looking for a way out.

In order to get out of the cycle - I give you 'Blame it on Eve' no one can argue with that.