Cocktails and Dreams

Twenty Four!

Somehow, I havent felt like this on most of my birthdays....theres a new feeling...Im going to be a new person...im getting the feeling that the party has just started, and its not going to end anytime soon!

posted by h@mMy! @ 11:44 PM 0 comments

The Lahore Chronicles - part 2

Finally came the weekend...And having spent the previous
saturday night moping about having nothing to do and no
one to go out with (the last one a common subject of
moping for me), I was determined to plan out this
weekend properly. But for as long as I had been
planning, things werent exactly turning out the way I
wanted them to. At 630 in the evening, I was standing on
Main Boulevard, with an aching tooth, an appointment
with a dementist in 15 minutes, hardly any cash,
outgoing blocked and the ATM machine infront of me
refusing to return my ATM card AND my money....but in a
sudden change of fortune that took and hour to complete,
I had gotten my money AND my ATM back, the tooth was
hurting much less, my bills had been paid and my friend
and I were on the way to a targeted sleepless saturday
night. We rented a car, and my wish of driving in LAhore
was fulfilled. At 3 in the morning, Lahore is probably
the best place you would want to drive in. And even my
lifelong love and loyalty to Karachi could not make me
feel that at that point in time, I was really having a
marvellous time which I doubt I wouldve had in Karachi. The next day we went to DHA cinema to watch
transformers. Having grown up amidst the cartoons and
the action figures, I was really looking forward to the
experience. My decision was reinforced the moment we
stepped in the complex as I sighted a group of
stunningly attractive women. Trying to play the cool and
composed person I'm not, I coolly walked past them
without even raising my half lowered eyelid. As we made
our way to the popcorn counter, I whispered to my friend
"Dude theyre too much to handle". He nodded back.
Unfortunately, as we made our way back, God seemed to
have listened to my complaint and thought HE'd change the
circumstances a bit so that they werent too much to
handle. As I climbed back up to the lobby, my right foot
(yes the same one) clumsily caught a step and I tripped
over, instantly disseminating the entire pack of popcorn
everywhere on the floor. Somewhere from behind me, a guy
laughed. Someone beside me moaned in sympathy. This man infront of my shook his head. It was, yet again, one of those times when I wished I was carrying a portable shovel and coffin with me.

posted by h@mMy! @ 7:14 PM 1 comments