Love you Ma- do not like the food – can I have French Fries please? Love you Ma- I am fainting – can we have lunch at KFC? Love you Ma – you are the best the most beautiful – can I please have an Ice Cream Ma? Love you Ma- I cannot understand algebra [...]

Do not know why, but the man at the Pizza Place was angry. In anger did not want to eat anything. Was bent upon forcing his family not to eat too but they were eating except his better half who in the end also gave in to her appetite. Was the better half right in [...]

It has been a bitter-sweet week. It started with Asad Umar’s startling decision to leave Engro Corporation and join PTI. Ever since, I started working in Pakistan I have followed Asad Umar- the CEO who gave the word dynamic a Pakistani dimension by taking Engro Corporations to heights unknown to Pakistani companies. He came across [...]

You know you are not happy. You know things can be different. You want to change things but you cannot. You can either accept things beyond your control and act as if nothing has happened or you can resent the situation. If you resent you become angry frustrated person. If you accept the situation you [...]

Your determination is inspiring. Odes can be written on your resilience. You are an embodiment of persistence in the face of aggression and suppression. Where many would have surrendered, you stuck to your principles. You remind me of someone who was once my ideal – a young girl who braved deaths, exiles and imprisonments with [...]

Your silence is puzzling. You are fabulously fantastically mesmerising beauty. Five minutes with you are sufficient to conclude you can be the love of anyone’s life. You have the freshness of innocent beauty and the refined grace of ageless beauty. Your silence is intriguing. While your lovers can sing praises of your beauty and confess [...]

Pakistan vs. Afghanistan- I did not know who to support? Even if Pakistan had lost – I would have still not cursed the Pakistan cricket team. Maybe I would have cheered them for letting Afghanistan win. Pakistan won yesterday. It is a team on the go. What a change in fortunes? It was not long [...]

Absence makes the heart fonder. Not true! Fondness is unlimited, unconditional, unquestioned and thus usually blind….like my love for you is Lahore! Separated from you, your memories come rushing randomly so that not a second goes by when I do not think of you. Ironically the memory that persistently floats around is of that sunny [...]

We all aim for excellence in whatever we do. Our pursuit for excellence is aided by energy- internal and external. Students generally work very hard for exams excellence…but in this part of the world exam excellence is usually minus energy? Shocked, stunned- excellence minus energy – impossible! Do you not know of students who minus [...]

It is time to wrap up 2011. Time to move on to 2012. A change in figures makes you reflect over the hours gone by making you resolute to make the hours coming your way different. Much happened in 2011. Steve Jobs died leaving me thinking if all the wealth in the world could not [...]