Protected: O ye who believe.

Yeah. I’m politically incorrect.

Apparently it’s deeply important for everyone to be a bleeding heart liberal to be famous nowadays. Not that I blame them. When you watch shows that star witty people like Jon Stewart against demonizing crazy people like Wolf Blitzer and you’ve got genuine looking people protesting on Wall Street against ‘greed’ whereas swagger-filled scumbag billionaires … Continue reading »

Randomly housed.

In all fairness, hindsight is what makes Yemen perfect. That’s what happens with most situations. You look back on the ugliest of days and somehow the ugliness tends to seem fainter and you end up wishing for the ‘good old days’ to return because of the fact that they are gone for good. Especially when … Continue reading »

Spin, spin, spin to the loo.

I love how the news media can turn a day around. You can wake up happy and refreshed but Dawn will tell you they’ve killed people in a mosque. You are about to go to sleep tired and disgruntled and Geo will air something about a donkey falling in a gutter or Meera being fabbullooss. … Continue reading »

2010 in review

WordPress just emailed me this fascinating report about my yearly blogging activity. The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers Madison Square Garden can seat 20,000 people for a concert. This blog … Continue reading »

Children’s Quotable Quotes.

As Jibran learns newer and funnier faces every day there’s a huge anticipation in me rising about his first words. He’s currently exploring syllables and loves going zazazaza and babbabaaa and mamamaaa and a mixture of the aforementioned but I can’t wait for him to start talking and saying things that’ll make me laugh my … Continue reading »

Say what now?

A very Ali-like email arrives. Ali: Ask Mom to bring me a Ferrari t-shirt for me from Bahrain airport. Me: Hain? Who buys a Ferrari t-shirt? Ali: Or a deodorant. Me: FERRARI DEODORANT? Pagal hogaye ho kia? Idiot! Ali: Why not. I bought it before, and it was good. Me: ALL deodorants are good. As … Continue reading »

Yeah. That’s what I was saying all along.

Don Draper: The reason you haven’t felt it is because it doesn’t exist. What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons. You’re born alone and you die alone and this world just drops a bunch of rules on top of you to make you forget those facts. But I never … Continue reading »

Oh Mama.

“To nourish children and raise them against odds is any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.” – Marilyn French “No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.” – Margaret Sange “At work, you think … Continue reading »

Rain on my terrain.

(The view from my window.) I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will. – Clint Eastwood