Life without a pc is hell.

Life without a pc gives you net-sickness and makes you mentally disturbed.

- If it crashes on 8th moharram, this means about it will take 5 days to get it fixed.
- If the city is on fire and your computer is making you=fire=frustrated.
- You can’t work on your projects as your mental muscles only work while you are hitting those keys.
- If you get it on new year’s eve and you have made a resolution that you’ll spend less time on internet in the coming year and more on actually DO-ing.
- If the bill is huge, mostly it is THE case.

Happy New Year!
PS: This sucks, new year starts with a strike. Bad for the country, awesome for procastinators. I guess not, they are already bored with so many holidays here and there.
PSS: I think I will update OneImageLess! blog too.

 

Seeing your photography on glossy pages is a complete unique feeling. Thank You

 

Certainly uncertain.

Every time my exams come, I have this rush of creativity. Then I start feeling like a bird trapped inside a cage. I detest accounting, this isn’t a field for me. I would try to study it to the core but I am not satisfied with what I been taught either at the institutions, nor what I am learning from texts on my own. I am hoping for a field switch, I hope I get a chance. Pray for me.

I still need to figure out my options. I need to talk more to myself and give more quality time to the talk itself, wish me luck.

I don’t even now as this moment that I want to continue blogging in this way. Maybe this will become a diary and some other space for creative and content writing. Let’s see.

 

Blogging in llalalalaalalaa mast mode

I bought a mast tshirt today which has headphones and wings and other stuff and especially the word mast printed in urdu. Omg I m in love with this tshirt and the band Kostal but I know the Dekh Magar Pyar Se Rickshaw wali tee takes the cake.

Coke Studio ke khayalat tou kahin reh hi gaye. Sept khatam ho tou likhun, time hij nako.

It’s so much fun participating in surprise birthdays and gifting others your own work. Btw my hands stink of balloons right now :s

I had Hobnob ka Chocolate Mousse Cake today and loved it, and now I am off to eat ras malai so please don’t dishtub =P

 

Faluda Fun Dilpasand

Only pakis can have something like dilpasand ka solid faluda. I mean I’ve never had such tasty and heavy faluda. Omg it was like faluda in rabri milk with khoya, icecream which wouldn’t melt till the last bite, nuts, jello, vercimelli and what not with a reasonable price, yeah you read it right. And the jokes of dad were mindboggling.. bicharay waiters, I know they also had fun North Nazimabad Board Office wala have seating too and the natural AC, what fun! Thandak pae gayi =D

PS: With every social service, there comes a gift. This experience was one of those for today. Thanks God love you =D

 

Thank you my dear God. Feeling so blessed.

Today was a blessed day, every day is if you reflect, but sometimes you can’t deny it, you don’t even need to reflect. It fills your heart instantly. You feel a changed/inspired/revived person from within. And Thank you my dear God for that.

Firstly yesterday I got a beautiful card from my friend, from a sis, and it was so heartfelt and perfect. I am bad at expressing there and then at such moments so what follows is kind of silence but poodle sis if you have google’d my name again :p and if you’re reading this Thank you so much. Main esko sambhaal kar rakhunga, lol try karunga because you know I can misplace things so easily =P but you it will always remain where it should. We will miss you and I know you’ll get the visa =D. And don’t worry I don’t think I would get engaged before two years so you’ll surely be able to attend that

Then I was just chatting with a class fellow at a community course which I am doing, enjoying and breathing. I just got to know that my assumptions about M.Ed. course that AKU-IED offers were wrong and their requirements fit nearly perfect with what I have. I know I would have to work way hard to get the admission but I’ll try my best. This has come at perfect time and I am so hopeful.

We got our results of the same course which has an university like setting; result of the second-trimester of the first semester and I got 4.0 GPA which makes an aggregate of 3.95 for the semester. I felt so happy I can not even explain. I am so thankful, though I can’t be equal to the blessing. This course is my jaan, sachi! I pray that I can be able to sustain this.

And then baarish(rain) and a class off and lots of masti with friends and tip tip tip drops and ice-cream moments with my loving parents.. mashallah loved it. I guess I haven’t enjoyed rain like this in long time. Last was with my cousin around a year or more ago. A perfect end to my birthday month =D

I look forward to take a lot of photographs tomorrow if it continues to rain.

Hopefully God will help me to take things forward from here.

 

The birthday week

A lot has to be said and written. I guess I fall in that kind of blogger who is always off in timing. I always write posts days after living the moment.

Okay so 13th August was my birthday but I was quietly celebrating it since the weekend ahead. People take me as a talkative and social person but I mostly am very shy in public and want my own space, shy not in regular sense. It’s difficult to explain. I’m that kind of person who can even enjoy anything alone.

So the saturday and sunday was a film festival event in our community which I covered with my new DSLR, the birthday present which was used to its fullest whole week and for good reasons. Thanks to God, the results were pretty decent and it gave me a lot of publicity, networking and joy. Even I got an offer for shaadi photography in my signature experimental portrait style, though I dread shaadis :p First reaction from acquaintances were yaar tumhare camera pe dil aagaya when they got hold of it and started clicking, they should have assumed that photography is a completely different ball game and not fully dependent on equipment. It was fun.

Then Monday was one more photography day with a lot of kids who were planting and painting. Enjoyed that like anything.

Tuesday was a relaxer.

Wednesday was the first ever trip to Lal Qila and what a grand place it is. Loved all dishes except Palak Paneer for obvious reasons. Celebrated my birthday at 12 with my parents, came back to home, with all the warmth and thankfulness for my dear shining star up above and everyone.

Slept for less than 4 hours. And it was the birthday. Went to see the final rehearsal of community kids who had to perform today at the awards night of film festival. Had a facial, lol, bohat force hone per, and black head removing was a pain. I don’t know how girls awaam actually tolerate such stuff, leave aside the men. The birthday was so special – the bachas and friends wished me from the morning rehearsal till the night we reached home, I felt really loved. Event was awesome and izzat baj gayi ke photographs turned out to be good. Somebody said it is my best work till date but I disagree. When people compliment your pictures, you are trying to pick the weakness out of your own work.. photographer ki khalish rooh ja jati hai

With less than 2 hours of sleep, I was off to Mubarak Village with Photo Club of Karachi (PCK). What good people the group was and what great place. The place is so serene, truly reflecting the grandeur of God Almighty. As I am afraid of heights, I tried to climb half of the rock but in between I was damn scared, tried to be calm, there was no one around as everyone hiked above, thankfully few members haven’t come till now, they were exploring other areas and they helped me get off that rock, LONG SENTENCE I KNOW =D
Mubarak Village Flickr Set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcoldcoffee/sets/72157622065512112/

Next one hour, I was taking snaps of the landscape, the beach, the people, listening to their stories and apprehensions, trying to keep my camera safe, waiting for others to come back but hey what an enjoyable private time.. unmatchable! I wish I had a paper and pen there or a book maybe.

Saturday was sleepy and Sunday I took a lecture where the students got pretty much bored. I had to less time to plan actually and you know why after reading this post and the subject was also not one of my strongest.

So till the next time I write, enjoy. Next will be reviews of the last two episodes of Coke Studio 2 which now also have become quite purana.

 

Yaay!!!

The best things happen unexpectedly whether they are small or BIG. I finally got a DSLR.. its 1000d baby and I am loving it. 50mm bokehs are so delicious. DSLR will open a new world of experimentation for me. I hope its not luxury, maybe it is. I know it is comforting.. forget that.

So I got this camera and I got a message from a friend, it was a joke,

Pathan goes to photographer and says: “passport size photo khichwana hai aur kocha tum hamari paaon ki bhi tasweer lena” – he wants me to do fulfill this challenge :p

and then I wanted MJ songs so I asked a friend whether she has it or not. I was too tired to search over the net. She said, “Not on pc, cassette pe” and I was like man what days. Had to save Rs. 30 to buy one of those, and when mom allowed you can get more than one. I had Thriller, Bad/Dangerous, History and it was those two lesakte ho days when I bought them ek saath =D It used to be so much fun and charm hi alag tha, the same way camera shopping was.