Flow of random thoughts from a restless soul
Oh well life has come back to its normal routine, although tension remains at work. Rest is chill.
Yes, I am falling... how much longer till I hit the ground?
Yesterday I was quite lucky, lucky to an extent that if I hadn’t been protected I am quite sure I would not have been writing this right now. My friend was driving and I was sitting next to him, as soon as he entered the main road after giving a look at the incoming traffic. He suddenly took an evasive action and turned the car to left, a fast speeding bus whistled passed us touching the side of the car and thrusting it further to left. Bus driver stops the bus after around 200 meters(imagine the momentum he had) looks at us looks at his bus and goes. Initially I wasn’t able to judge how close it was, later I realized that if both the drivers hadn’t acted then, bus would have smashed right into us and God knows what would have happened then. Now only when I think about it, it gives me shivers and I cant stop Thanking God. It was pretty close call. My friend still doesn’t know how he didn’t see that bus coming and he still doesn’t know what made him turn the car. I guess those were the prayers of our families. Its been third time that I have had lucky escape from an accident, this one being far more serious. I just hope there is no decreasing counter.
Whenever our “Dear President” and his fellow “Dear Companions” visit Karachi, traveling in Karachi becomes a nightmare. The time he decides to move the most busiest road in this city suffers the most and as a result all the citizens using that road get stuck in huge traffic jams simply because our security personals are very efficient in blocking a road but do not give a single thought for alternative routes. At times people are in real emergency situations where delay of a minute can be of serious consequences but it seems that concern for citizens welfare has been put far behind long ago in this country. If you have so much threat to your security why don’t you build a castle close to the airport and spare us all from the trouble or even if that is not possible then atleast do travel at the most non peak hour. That day no one had any good words for you and trust me you weren’t earning any prayers from your citizens.
Rickshaw ride at 12 AM on December night is not a good idea at all, specially if it’s a relatively long journey and that was exactly I experienced tonight. You will most probably end up with slight but niggling pain in our of ears and your head would feel as if it was hit against the wall. Coming back from a mehendi, I had no choice but to take rickshaw because it was getting little too late and there was no cab in sight.
Just needed time to write and update. Last 10 days are so, have been pretty busy, not because I had much work but this time it was my social life which had taken up all the time :). Its weird, at times weeks go by when I hardly go out and at times I am out all 7 days at a stretch(I guess I would prefer more balance).
Second floor of a three story departmental store, I got a perfume for myself and since I had to get other stuff from downstairs so I asked the store owner, if I can pay for the perfume downstairs instead of paying on the same floor. He was like “fine no problem”. On our(I was with a friend) way down I saw the owner having a word with the security guard. As I got to the bottom floor I saw the security guard entering our lane, walked in few steps then turned to another lane on the first corner. He disappeared towards the counter, and while I was picking up chocolates I saw him coming back again. I got my stuff went to the counter and there was he again, moving as if he is just there to share jokes with his colleagues. As soon as my transaction was done I turned around and he was no where to be seen.
