Skipper called Freddie

Two words for Andrew Flintoff...

FUKING BRILLIANT!!!!!!,

The way you marshaled your depleted squad and led them from the front with cool head batting and aggressive bowling, was just breathtaking. Reminded me of great Imran Khan. Hats off…


Flintoff ended with a batting average of above 50 and a bowling average of 30.

Here People its is My Beamer :D

Alright Ladies and Gentlemen let me introduce to you 189 hp 2.5L 6 cylinder engine beamer. Yup that’s my 325i :D. Finally got it on Sunday , its registration is underway and will inshAllah get it tomorrow. Drove it on Tuesday and loving it :D. Still coming in terms with its braking but its fun :D, after five years of waiting finally a car of mine :D a relief I tell you.

Annoyance of E-Cards

Ok this is insaneeee, I have like 9 different electronic cards in my wallet and it has become a major pain carrying it :P(poor butt). Here is the list

1. My Overseas Pakistani National Identity card.
2. My Health card.
3. My UAE Identity Card.
4. 2 Credit Cards.
5. My account Debit Card.
6. License.
7. Car registration Card.
8. Medical Insurance Card.

Jeeez seriously need some other type of carrier for these cards, other wise my wallet will just explode :O.

Yup Bryan Adams did rock Dubai

Oh well these days I am updating my blog on weekly basis so hence it becomes on big post which most of the times infact all the times doesn’t make a good read. Must update atleast twice a week

Ok so let’s begin with the Musical festival which held exactly a week before.
The venue was great, held inside an old fort next to its west wall and with the kind of lightning they had it gave quite a wonderful effect, perfect for a classical music event.
That Austrian orchestra played Mozart really well, started with his first symphony which he wrote when he was just eight years old. Ok that was quite early I mean I don’t know even S of symphony and that guy composed it all when he was just eight. I guess he was born with a music specialized brain. According to the Master, Mozart used to compose the entire composition in his head and when he knew it was done he would write it down on paper completed. Its like you write an entire novel in your head and when it is done you just write on the paper grrrrrrrrr, some brain. After the symphony they played one of his compositions for the clarinet which was followed by another symphony. By the time it was done I decided to leave I had to meet a colleague of mine though that never happened. Weekend was usual trip to Sharjah met a distant cousin my mom had sent some food with him so picked that up :D finally some home food :D. Checked out a car didn’t like it and came back.

Rest of the week was good, had a demo presentation of a certain project with my manager and he seemed to like it but gave loads of additional work :(.

Now coming back to kul, some of you know it was the Bryan Adams Concert in Dubai. The one which was postponed earlier this year. Although it was on a weekday but in no way I was going to miss it. But before leaving Al-Ain, the car dealer gives me a call and goes “there is another BM in a very good condition if you need it come and check it”. And I was like kapoooot because I was so short on time that I knew if I go to Sharjah I won’t make it to the concert anyway before 21:00(that was the start time). But I had to check out that car too so after suffering from the usual stupid Sharjah Traffic jams made it to the showroom around 20:40, grrrrr but that guy had taken car for the wash. Anyhow he came back, car was in an immaculate condition. Nice bumpers, new tyres and alloy rims (pretty hot). Color ok wasn’t of my first choice but have to compensate some where, drove it felt good, no issues with engine and brakes and yes decided to buy it :D, so Ladies and Gentlemen I am or will be soon inshAllah proud owner of BMW 325i , 95 model(old but driven very little). It has gone for some tuning and once it is back I will ask someone to drive it back to Al-Ain(not advisable to drive on highway your first up) inshAllah inshAllah.

Hokay so after making the car deal, rushed for a cab and reached the venue around 21:35. Concert had already started. They didn’t allow cameras so I had to deposit it, sigh sorry people no pictures :( will find some from the net. It was in the same center court(it is like my 4th visit to that court in as many as 3 weeks :O) where I witnessed WTA and ATP actions. Court was jam picked got a place in the west stand, center playing area was jam packed so they closed it otherwise I would have loved to be there but I guess for that I had to reach there quite quite earlier. But my entry was on the perfect song yes our beloved Summer of 69(btw concert had started 21:00, so punctual :D). From there it was one hell of an experience song after song he played hamari jawani kay favourites, lol. I mean the early music the one you start listening to at the beginning of your teen years. Crowd was ecstatic, they were all singing with him. I am sure Karachi concert people must have felt the same. He made us sing, he made us dance. Like he has done before he pulls a girl from the crowd to sing a duet with him When You're Gone. This time it was a Lebanese babe who had come specially to attend this concert and boy didn’t it make her travel a memorable one. I am sure lots of ladies were jealous of her :P, not so sure about her boyfriend though haha I don’t need to give any details :P. but she sang ok, it wasn’t easy for her to control her emotions so she was just jumping and trying to say a word or two lol. But crowd was mast(urdu wala), plus this guy is a very good entertainer he kept the crowd going, joked a lot and the crowd responded. Plus I think the tennis court was a good idea, it gave a kind of closed atmosphere feeling not like usual Bharia museum/Creek club walay concerts feeling. So had loads of fun fully rocked by Bryan Adams :D. Especially gonna run to you was done brilliantly with his lead guitarist playing some good riffs. But like all the good things which come to an end this had to end too though he came back twice(maybe he does that always, no idea). I had to take a private cab to get back home which did cost me few extra bucks but still in a reasonable range. Too sad no cameras were allowed but then I don’t think my camera would have done a good job in those light conditions. Oh well gotta run now, a friend of mine is leaving to Karachi tomorrow so I am going to Sharjah today instead of my usual Thursdays. Take care all.

Falling Car Deal and Al-Ain Musical

Ggrrrrrrrrrrr I don’t know what was I thinking when I said ok(and paid a very little amount, what they call token money) for a wonderfully modified BM 320, without having required funds in my bank account. Probably I was expecting that the banks would honor me and pay me required car loan. But no they can’t, model is too old to come under their conditions. So I was left with a choice of taking a personal loan from my bank. But since I have got here just 6 months back so they can’t grant me more than 20 k loan which is couple of thousands less than the required amount. Oh well so I called up home and my family wasn’t really comfortable with the interest thing and all. They suggested that they will look for some other sources, maybe in family or something. I know their own financial condition doesn’t allow them to loan me a substantial amount for a longer period, especially when they themselves are looking for a car. Ammi talked to one of my khala and the sweet khala immediately agreed to finance me :D, but the problem is her bank account is in Karachi(she herself is in US) so funds cannot be transferred immediately to me and that’s where the whole masla lies. The car dealer needs atleast 10k by Thursday otherwise the deal will be off. Parents are willing to send me funds until the complete transfer of funds from my aunt can be managed. I had to ask another friend of mine for the rest. Its really embarrassing asking someone for funds and I made my mom do it :(. And my father has been calling atleast twice a day asking for status like has that guy agreed for delayed payment, what are the bank details, did I manage anything from a friend ? etc etc etc I feel so bacha(child) right now :S, just like very old days. So now the situation is the car dealer wants 10k by Thursday and my parents and a friend is willing to send funds but that won’t arrive on time so I guess situation is quite hopeless right now. If you are thinking why I am going for a car while not having enough funds so isn’t it that’s the way it is these days everyone is leasing out cars and cars and cars plus conveyance is must here specially with my frequent Dubai trips and stupid taxi walas f—-ked up attitude (yup I need to write one post on that too).

Oh well(seems like I am using it a lot grrrrrr) due to this idiotic ban on blogspot by PTA has caused a dramatic reduction of readers so I wont be writing much about my ATP experience and shall upload pictures later too I am too lazy :P. and yes it is a difficult process uploading pics on flickr since its tool doesn’t work here.

This weekend there is Al Ain Classical Music Festival celebrating Mozart, it will be held in an old fort which is like 5 minutes walk from my home really. Can’t miss it :D.

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