Shhhhh.... Let the music play!

Amidst all the depressing news of bomb blasts, killings, inflation... relating to Pakistan, the following news came as a breath of fresh air:

Winter Olympics are in full swing in Vancouver, Canada. Every night, thousands of viewers in Pakistan and millions in the world are glued to their screens watching the exciting Winter Olympics games in the beautiful mountains and stadiums of Vancouver.

We belong to a country where very few areas get snow each year for a very small time and winter games are almost non-existent . Therefore, it came as a wonderful surprise that Pakistan is competing in skiing in Winter Olympics this year.

Therefore, mark your calenders my friends and stay glued to your televisions tonight to catch the glimpse of first Pakistani, Mohammad Abbas, to ski down the slopes of Alpines competing for the very first time in Winter Olympics.

Mohammad Abbas is a fairy tale story of how passion and struggle of one man and determination of another can make them a reason of pride for the entire country. He was discovered by Farooq while he was posted to Naltar in 1999. He would see Abbas and his friends chop off some wood, chisel it, make it into thin bits to look like skis and they would tie it to their feet with rubber or nylon rope and ski down. There, they held trials and picked 16 boys. They gave them skies and boots, and started training them and sending them to small championships.

While there are many odds against these boys, there is a small slope in Pakistan that is only 500 meters long and the vertical drop is only about 80 to 100 meters, plus the training time they get due to lack of snow is only about 8 weeks per year. They don't have any professional coaches, managers or ski technicians, they only have Farooq and his commitment to the cause. In addition to this Abbas will be 96th in 103 starters in Olympics. Never the less, their passion and commitment have brought them this far and we hope it would take them all the way to glory.

We pray things would be even better til it will be time for next Winter Olympics. Farooq has done a commendable job and he even aims higher that by next Olympics, he aims at sending a woman from Pakistan as well.

Our prayers, well wishes and support is with Mohammad Abbas as we will see him ski down the slopes of Alpine in Pakistan's suit tonight and with Farooq for his mission and his cause.


Pakistan Zindabad!

Ref: http://www.aaj.tv/news/Sports/159374_detail.html
Photos of Abbas from first run:
http://www.daylife.com/photo/0e573hp8dB9zd?q=Muhammad+Abbas

The following are my personal favorites:

Suffering knows no bounds.. My heart weeps for my people! May God give strength to these affected people who have suffered loss and pain.

http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/provinces/03-pakistans-victims-of-war-struggle-to-move+on-ss-02

This may be the first and the last time my work would ever make it to the banner of any website, so saving this moment forever, before it comes off. Only two more to go before it comes off. Look at my guy, he is the third one from right. YAY!

heheh :D

Almost half way to my office, i realized there is some thing wrong. I don't feel how I feel usually when i am driving to work. Some thing is amiss!

Did I forget my cell phone? No
Did I forget my glasses? No
Did I forget my lunch? nopes.. its right here

Then.. hmmm... HOLY SHIIT!!!!!!! I forgot to brush my teeeth!
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! how on earth did i manage to do that! i just don't get it. what do i do? my mouth tastes weird.

I called my man, "Hello, baby.. can you plz drop my trust brush and tooth paste on your way to my office?"

baby: "uh! what! why?!"

so i explained him..

So he went psychological with me, " No honey you did!"
Me: "I did?How come?"

Baby: "see! I saw you go into the wash room. YOu must have. I am sure you are mistaken now"
Me: " I did.. really? acha", I said, keeping in mind my hopelessly bad memory

Baby: "Yeah! Yeah! I am sure you did"

Me: "did you see me doing it?"

Baby: "You were doing some thing."
Me: "Did you see me actually doing tooth brush?"
Baby: "No... but.."
Me: " then how are you sure?"
Baby:"err..actually the thing is.. Sorry honey.. i am really getting late, can't you instead buy it from some shop?"

Me: "uh.. ok. Have a wonderful day!" :) ...my man, i thought with a smile on my face, being all love filled for my man and thinking about all the logics he gives. hehe :D


stopped at a pump on my way over but there was no shop there. ah well... :D

First time ever i forgot to brush my teeth. I must be getting really old. Now I am sitting in my office and chewing on a sandwich. Ah well... What can be done! :D

On the 5th of Febuary, two blast ripped through the city of Karachi, one on the bus carrying mourners commemorating the martyr doom of Hazrat Imam Hussain and the second after a little while at the emergency ward of Jinnah Hospital, causing almost 50 casualties and leaving numerous injured and crippled.

In Jinnah hospital, a family visiting a relative who just had a newly born baby, lost 6 members of the family in the blast. The blast also left one 8 year old girl of the same family paralyzed for life. The memoirs of the girl of the blast are as follows:

"Mom disappeared in the air and her mobile fell. I hurriedly pick it up, so nobody else would take it"

May God put some humanity in the the hearts of the people who perform these sub-human acts and may they feel the pain of all the people who feel the loss and pain of their loved ones lost combined.

May God have mercy on us and on the souls of the people who were martyred in these sub-human terrorist acts!