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institutionalized
you wouldn’t be very wrong if you suggested that i had obsessive compulsive disorder. but i will not stop until i get all 93.
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the answer to most things in life has been found in literature. how one defines literature, however, is important when analysing the previous statement. if a variety of definitions didn’t exist, half the pseudo-intellectuals in the world who parade around bragging about their post graduate degrees in subjects which never got them more than an […]
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i too shall model for brylcreem…
… on fm radio. ____________________________ there is, in abu dhabi, a harley davidson dealership which seems to sell more jackets than choppers. there is one hell of a good restaurant that claims to have the original “americana” variety of that very pakistani dish, chicken tikka, and a laloo laundry run by – you guessed it […]
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… taqreeb kuch to behr-e-mulaqaat chahiye” mirza ghalib (a pretty long time ago) considering that you lot have awesomely short memories, a symptom of mental retardation – you are after all reading this blog – i’ll be nice and remind you of the last time we discussed the work of nida waqas nee` aqeel. it […]
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kipling had it wrong. keeping your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you has got nothing to do with being a man. its about being able to pay your bills. imagine yourself in a situation where you’ve managed to generate a bill of rs 27,379 for your room service over […]
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the end of all sanity
there are reasons why auditors are generally considered to be the wierdest form of humanity after pakistan muslim leaguers and p.i.a. air hostesses. innate wit and a splendid sense of humour are not among them. neither, of course, is sanity. so when you become the ball being kicked around between managers who insist you get to the […]
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i remember posting a piece on my blog about a painting an artist friend made some time back. two weeks ago i saw the thing in dawn’s weekly art section, gallery, and i thought “damn, what a ripoff” before i noticed who it had been credited to. for something about the veneration a desi woman […]
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he does it better than panadol….
the intricacies of the final tax regime are enough to make most mannequins weep tears of frustration. add that to a situation where the air conditioner’s not working, the class is jam packed and the guys on either side of you happen to be the type who’ve never heard of deodorant and the least you can expect to […]
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daryani for president!!!
the art world’s newest rodin, my buddy, tatheer fatima daryani has put up some of her awesome pieces on saatchi. obviously, all of you are going to ensure that she wins. voting starts at 0900 gmt on the fifth of march. c’mon people! you can see she deserves it! to vote: click here (in case you […]
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stud-nee and her dad’s kulfi
and so i finally ate my first kulfi in sixteen years. bleah. can’t stand the stuff. but what do you do when you’re served the damn thing by a sixty something, white bearded, bald dulhan ka baap on the stage while you’re sitting next to the groom? you eat it, thats what you do. it […]
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part of the reason….
Copy 1 of Picture(40) Originally uploaded by Xill-e-Ilahi. when by the end of the working day (and night) your dustbin begins to look like this, it suddenly hits you that all the jokes about broad wheelbases begin to become decidedly unfunny, yet you grudgingly admit that kentucky boiled chicken would never have made it big. […]
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24 hours later (almost exactly) Originally uploaded by Xill-e-Ilahi. while i continue to gradually rot and decay (an also inflate) at hpml, it has been raining hard (yes hard – as someone said, farishtay tika tika ker maar rahe hain) in our delightful ruins by the sea. and on the first, and incidentally the worst, […]
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familia
familia Originally uploaded by Xill-e-Ilahi. and this is all of us after the dholki – all eleven cousins (for the first time in years), the first “through marriage” relation, and the next generation. and for the record i’m not tall enough to earn that peechay wala spot, i’m standing on the dhol.
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meira pyar
meira pyar Originally uploaded by kiran2000. Yeah I plagiarized this off Kirna’s blog. But it is one of my favorite songs ennit? And going by Icemanic law, that gives me the right to reproduce this (even if I have to be a nice guy by giving all the credits to the owner and all).
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Mona Lisa Smile
Mona Lisa Smile Originally uploaded by Xill-e-Ilahi. I got this off somebody’s Orkut profile and well, it was funny enough to blog
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Samandar-e-Bemaina - The Abbasnama 