Sense of Modesty

How many times I have experienced running into people with no sense of modesty. It seems as if we don’t even know what is the meaning of it? We claim that we are extremely pious; we read the Holy book everyday, but how many of us have actually sat down and understood it?

The other day I and a few friends were talking about a colleague, his social sense and ego. This guy has said many famous lines, which one finds it hard to restrain from its enjoyment. During the first year of university the guy comes up and introduces himself and all of a sudden says if we haven’t understood his name correctly then we should consult the student list and that his name is right on the top.

This seems to be pretty ok. The guy must have worked really hard to get there but the next incident is hard to miss out. When he was working in company, he was told to speak and express himself on any topic. Philosophy, was chosen and the first words uttered were “there is a very famous quote by myself: always busy = very good and never time = excellent”. Who has ever mentioned that his quote is very famous at the age of 22. He is fucking 3 or what?

Similarly there have been many incidents when the other person after being contacted thinks himself to be flying high up in the sky, not willing to admit his mistakes and just wanting to run down the other person in order to show his greatness. Once again I was at boat basin waiting for my dinner. We over heard this bunch of guys sitting right next to us. There was this hefty guy sitting with 3 slightly built boys. He seemed to be their senior and the way the guy was praising himself was like an ignorant fool. This guy was trying to show off just because he had the guts to misbehave with his teachers.

I am sure we all come across such naïve people, but they all claim to have read the holy book and yet indulge in an activity which is not preferred. I have mentioned the reading the Quran why? becauase we all blame islam and insist that we are the way we are because of it. Why is this concept of just reading without understanding in our society? And this not only implies to our Holy book, but also it is sad to say our SSC and HSC education systems as well. To be a victim is one thing but promoting such an act unendurable.

Political Juvenility

Like I had mentioned in my previous post, that it is a wait and see situation regarding the reactions from the politicians on Mushy handing over his COAS post. Today while going through “The Daily Times” I can’t help but have a hearty laugh on the comments of some of our beloved political leaders and their chumchas(suck ups). Take a look here yourself here. Some of the comments are

“It is good that musharraf has doffed his uniform but that is what we wanted”

“Finally we are successful in making Musharraf taking off his uniform”

And the best one

“No other political leader forced Musharraf to doff his uniform, even after trying for the past many years but when Madam Benazir came she accomplished it in just a month’s time what no one could do”

I also remember the shameful moment when the people of the parliament were to take oath sometime in early 2000, the head of the parliament was telling everyone pick their right hand up and call their names and take the oath and that is what everyone did they picked up their right hand and said “called their names” and started with reading their oath. Such a shameful act literally is embarrassing for us. From where have they educated themselves to be called politicians? Thankfully that event was corrected by the head of the parliament.

Let us wait and see

Tomorrow, the 28^th of November, 2007, General Pervaiz Musharraf( COAS/President/Chairman of JCSC ) will be keeping his promise. He will be giving up his post of COAS. Let us see how do the politicians especially Sharif, who is apparently not so Sharif, and Benazir react to this decision. They have been crying all this time that mushy should give up his uniform, now that he’ll be giving it up what will they whine about.

Are they fucking blind or what?

It’s been almost two weeks that I haven’t written anything. The reason behind the disappearing act is twofold; I was busy with work and l wanted to be sure about something before I posted it here. Yes so my observation period is over and it really pisses me off to say this but the people who drive cars, are they mother fucking blind or what? Those of you who are lucky sitting in the back seats and relaxing or sleeping your way might not notice this but for those who have to drive my sympathies are with you.

Apparently being a driver in a house is turning out to be another industry itself (may turn into another post in the future) I mean its fucking insane out there. I am pretty sure most of you must be having drivers, hell every other car is being driven by a driver these days. And since these drivers are uneducated their way of driving is insane and I am sorry to say but some of our very own learned office going, educated, people who drive prosmatic Hondas and latest cars, May it be men or women, are fucking imbeciles.

I have taken the liberty to observe our drivers in the past 2 weeks and I would rate our status “POOREST”. I am crying out loud to hell with political issues and emergencies this is a serious matter all together and if this isn’t solved, our people are going to be frustrated and irritated all the time.

Before sunset we have the tendency to go WILD when driving. Overtaking from the wrong side, breaking the signal is like next to nature as if the signal wasn’t there at all. The traffic police are busy talking to each other, and the ones who are working don’t have the manpower to catch the defiant. The other day I was walking to work and on my I had to stand waiting for my turn to walk. There comes a motorcycle next to me, there were 3 guys sitting on it in a very obscene manner. He was also waiting for the traffic police to signal green but instead of waiting patiently he could not get his thumb off the horn. I mean after I reached the office I had developed a full migraine. What was his motive to do such a thing? Is he in his wonderland where his horn would make a way for him to reach his destination faster? Or is he the purest form of a pain in the ass. Fucking cads!!!. Apart from this you all must have noticed that whenever there is jams somewhere, most of us start going the wrong way and creating an even bigger jam.

For you to notice: if you are waiting for the signal to turn green, but before it actually turns green slowly everyone crosses the signal and start to honk their life out as if to pressurize the traffic police to let them go. How many of you are compelled to act similarly just because of sheer unconsciousness? Or are you ok with such an act?

It’s a complete different ball game during the night. Everyone have their lights turned on. The lucky ones have a device in their rear view mirror which blocks the headlights. But some of us are unfortunate and have to deal with this curse. These days driving back from work has become a bitch. The moment I leave for home it is dark and people turn their car lights on, and it’s not been a day when someone right behind me has his headlights on and giving glare at my eyes. I honestly I have no respect and no words to define such retarded fools. I mean, I am not even standing 3 feet from your car and you have your headlights on. Are you fucking blind or what? Another asinine act is when you are driving and the car coming forward would have it’s headlights on and even though you are giving him the indication to lower his light, he just won’t do it. Such idiotic bastards should not be given the license to drive. This is not only done by the illiterate drivers, but also by the educated cream of the city. I don’t know if this is the case in the other sectors of Pakistan but Karachi is full of this kind of shit.

What can one do to cure this? Is this even curable? Even if anyone of us comes up with an idea to eliminate this bullshit act, it won’t be successful because we just don’t want to do anything about it. How many of you would honestly look into your own habits, and truly admit that you do this and if you do would try to change this norm? I guess here our pride and hate for others kicks in and probes us not to lower our dignity but in reality because of this our dignity is already being hampered. There was once a time when I loved to drive around in Karachi, but now it’s becoming a menace, a source of irritancy, but you got to do what you got to do. Sunday mornings is the time I love to drive as there is no one on the street and no headlights. But on a honest and serious note we should do something about this and make people aware of this issue.