so.. here I am... still waitin'... a lil' fatter and a lot of new experiences... and of course La Ley de Murphy (Murphy's Law) is in full effect here!
1. I can't post directly to my blog with photos as this cafe doesnt have Firefox (MUCH better than explorer)...
2. Being born in Bombay is apparently a crime that involves SERIOUS looking into... very annoying and ironic considering the person giving me the initial permission to volunteer in Pakistan is a Pakistani Army Lt. General! So a country that is essentially under Military rule cant get me to a military zone because a beaurocrat needs to "look into my background because of my place of birth". Ironic point #2: My ancestors are from what is now the Pakistani side of Punjab, not more than 100 kms from where I sit now!
3.Its been the best waiting time ever I could have hoped for... more on that later... but it involves sticking my hand in "Saheli's" mouth, an 18 year old beauty of an elephant belonging to the family of a new friend, Kash to hangin in the sound studio for a live recording at Pakistan Television, supervising the mixing for another new friend and fantastic Sufi musician (think Amitabh's deep voice in his younger days except with classical raga talent!)... Arieb Azhar to hangin' in Lahore and getting massaged by burly men at 3 am while eating great Karahi chicken on the street in Laxmi Chowk to seeing two of my fav living qwalli groups (Sher Ali Mehr Ali and Rahat Fateh Ali Khan) in the Lahore stadium to hangin' with the Aussies at the Aussie Club to driving the Islamabad roads and driving on the wrong side and no one really honking as folks do that here! :)
But more on that later... time to get down to what I came here to do... build strawbale houses... inshahallah (and more on that word also... it certainly doesn't mean "God Willing" here!!!)
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