Yes Ladies and Gentlemen.. It exists! I didn't believe it too until I saw and experienced the show in person.
Sindbad Park in Karachi has a tiny 4D show cinema. It has a capacity of 22 people. The cinema is nice and clean. Currently, they are showing a 25 minutes animation by the name of "Museum of Horrors" which is inspired by Night in Museum concept. The seats are comfy, view is great from any seat and the seats keep moving, tingling and water is sprayed at multiple points of the movie. It was a wonderful experience!
I would recommend you all to view the show with your families. The ticket per person is merely Rs. 100 and its totally worth it.
Have fun all!
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I remember, not too many years ago, when I was a kid, there existed a concept of penfriends. The idea was to have long distance friends belonging to different cultures, beliefs or countries. It was looked upon as a learning activity for personal development. It increased person's view of looking at the world and being more broad minded, understanding and patient in accepting the cultures, beliefs and ideas which were different than his own.
Nowadays, phobia, hatred and intolerance has increased multifolds. Adults are so obsessed by the ideas and misconceptions of they being the most superior race and are busy indulging in hating other cultures, views and beliefs and they are imparting the same teachings to their kids. This can be observed by overhearing the conversation between any two kids. You would hear them saying that, " we are the best and those those people are so dirty and so bad etc etc. " The seeds of hatred and phobia is so deep rooted in our veins that i see that even people who are living abroad do not mingle with people of other cultures and beliefs and only move in their own community circles and wear their religion and culture upon their sleeves with a superiority complex.
What are we afraid of? Why are we suffering from this superiority complex? This phobia? Why have we started believing in these divisions? Why have we lost faith in humanity? Equality of all humans? and ability of humans to bond with each other on a simple relation of being human? Is it not enough that we are all humans and share a common home called mother earth?
The answer to this is that it is enough and
IT SHOULD BE ENOUGH! We need to break free from these divisions and value another human being, his ideas, his beliefs for whatever they may be and respect him and his beliefs, culture and value, no matter how much our own opinions and ideas differ from his. We need to get rid of our superiority complex.We need to respect everyone and accept them as who they are. We need to cultivate love and respect in our kids heart for everyone. Its time for us to let the light shine!
My message is love and peace for all!
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Interesting link:
http://www.bing.com/travel/content/search?q=Weird+World+Wonders%3a+Mono+Lake%2c+California&FORM=TRSSPG
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You would commonly hear people saying that the life styles have greatly changed. We are all so short on time, no one has time for any one else.
I would agree that life style has indeed changed and I would mainly attribute this change in lifestyle to working hours that are demanded at job. While all the other responsibilities of ours have remained the same, the working hours which are demanded at work have increased multifolds and that too of a normal working class and not some businessman. So now, all the time that people have left after work, they are busy in their daily chores and family engagements and in turn do not have time for any one else.
One perceives a certain type of relationship which would have a certain amount of time that a person would get with another person but that does not happen. Everyday, a person has million things which one is looking forward to talk about with his beloved, million things that one has marked he would do with his beloved but all those conversations are lost some where along the way as the schedule of continuous busyness stretches from days to weeks, weeks to months and then ultimately months to years.
The communication is one avenue that modern science has made great advancements in, but the opportunity to communicate with the one u want to communicate with has reduced to almost negligible.
What can be done? I don't know. I have lost hope now. I just feel perhaps we would just need to be complacent about it and learn to accept it, as otherwise, it gives us nothing but self inflicted depression and anger. Its hard to deal with but never the less, this is the reality of the matter, which cannot be changed, at least for now.
These years too shall pass, million conversations will be lost. I can still imagine! I will find my lost conversations, in my dreams.
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We all have perception of how things would be and then we have the reality which stares in our face. This results in the collision of our two worlds, our perception and the reality. Sometimes, to withstand the reality, we try to blur the lines between whats real and whats imaginary. We try to create our new perception of things. It can be a little less ambitious than our earlier perception. We try to create a new world around us by blurring those two lines. We allow ourselves to do thing by losing ourselves in beautiful things around us like music and visuals, and imagine our selves relishing in our own created worlds and dream and dwell in them to with stand the reality.
The backbone of how this system works is our imagination, which allows us to escape the clash of of our perception and the reality which stares at us. The gift of imagination is perhaps the greatest gift that God Almighty has bestowed upon us. Some lose themselves in what "could have been" would have felt like, some take refuge in religion imagining how it would be like to stroll in the beautiful gardens of heaven with beauty all around them, others imagine themselves in a whole different setting where they have created escapes by dwelling into imaginations created inspired from beautiful things around them.
We, the human race, have been wired to survive. Man is capable of surviving through the worse of worse and still smile. We survive by hoping, hope which is basically imagination of what would be and what could be. We create new perceptions about future, about ourselves, about our surrounding. Our imaginations keep us going. There is a famous that saying that "All is lost, when hope is lost." However, what I say is, "All is lost, when we stop to imagine!"
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If I had a 2nd life, what would it have been?
One of my friends, Altamash, said, "
I know now, that the greatest joy in this life, is art." I have reached such an age with enough experiences under my belt that I understood what he meant. Though perhaps that line would have a much deeper meaning in my life at perhaps in my later years and even now I feel this line and understand it.
Had I have had a 2nd life, I would perhaps only spend that indulging myself in listening to classical music, looking at beautiful paintings, photographs, watching movies.. instead of laboring away in my mundane day to day job and catering to my house hold responsibilities.
Though I am one of those lucky few who has lived a small part of their 2nd life in reality but still, there is much unwatched, unheared and unread and a lot which is ununderstood.
Someday perhaps, I would have enough sensitivity and understanding that I would create something beautiful myself which brings joy to others, allowing them to relish in some old memory or drown them in some beautiful fantasy!
Post inspired by:
Chopin's Prelude Op. 28, No. 4 in E minor
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I never thought I will see this day in my lifetime but thank God I was wrong!
http://tribune.com.pk/story/86787/fun-in-the-city-3d-cinemas-in-saddars-atrium-mall-from-dec-24/
Sniff Sniff... (Tears of joy!)
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What can be labeled as sane and what can be labeled as insane? Is there an absolute for it? One man's reality is another man's insanity. Is there a proof of what one man claims he sees which we cannot see, in reality, does not exist, just because we cannot see it? Do we really have a right to declare that person insane just because we cannot see what he sees or we cannot feel what he feels. We cannot! We try and pacify the other by saying that what he sees does not exist, so that by believing that perhaps what he is seeing does not exist may make his reality little more bearable. But who are we to say on absolute grounds that his illusion is not real and ours is. Perhaps we are living in an illusion of what he sees or feels does not exist and his view of reality is what the reality is really like. Who knows!
A similar turn of events happens when two people fall miserably in love. The perception of what is right, sane and reasonable changes. They are seen doing things which may be classified by the rest of the world as insane or unreasonable but to them it is the most reasonable and sane action. Like.. wanting to be lost in the jungle for days, wanting to stay in some one's arms forever, stare at some one while they sleep etc etc. They see themselves on one side and every one else on the other end of the world. They feel they share some thing which no one else can understand or feel at that particular moment.
It is the moments of that lovers' sanity and normal man's insanity which makes falling in love all worth while. No matter how bad a heart break one suffers after that, one is willing to go through all that pain just to share that temporary high of lovers' sanity with his lover.
The loss of love really starts to become apparent between two people or how we say the fire starts dying when one of the two may start to think that the idea the other one is presenting is silly, unreasonable or just insane. If one starts to fall out of lovers' sanity that is when one of the lovers starts becoming worried. Cos that is when the idea of whats sane and whats not between two people starts to change. The idea of sanity is some thing which they no longer share. What tied them together is no longer there.
That feeling of lovers sanity is so high amazing and beautiful that one would put all on stake just to feel the same way again, even if that is only for a moment.
Dedicated to Mr. S and Ms. A! Who are about to get married in February, May their lovers' sanity prevail!
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Sindbad Park in Karachi has a tiny 4D show cinema. It has a capacity of 22 people. The cinema is nice and clean. Currently, they are showing a 25 minutes animation by the name of "Museum of Horrors" which is inspired by Night in Museum concept. The seats are comfy, view is great from any seat and the seats keep moving, tingling and water is sprayed at multiple points of the movie. It was a wonderful experience!
