Monday, December 7, 2009

Osama Bin Laden - Where is he!! but do we even care now !?!

Does it even matter whether Osama bin laden Exists!!!
Recently i have started alot of news reading, and the current situation in Pakistan makes me cry. It first started off with bombings in Rawalpindi, and then in Peshawar and just now, Lahore got hit as well...and now i wonder who's the next victim!!!

And apparently the news still reports that the West is still in the lookout for Al-Qaeda's leader, Osama Bin Laden's, whereabouts and i wonder, whether its even necessary. I mean, everyone knows its not a one-man show, whatever is happening, and whoever is involved behind all these attacks, its definitely a whole team, someone with a lot of power and money, and a lot of intelligence information to be able to carry out, not just all these attacks but also be able to infiltrate the Pakistan's government (Although, i'm not so surprised since the government is so corrupt and weak, that penetrating it would be like taking a stroll in the park.)
And in such a case as this, it doesn't really matter who is at the top, this reminds me of the movie spiderman 3, where there is this Sandman, and whatever part of his body you cut off, he still grows back. So eventually even if the West does get lucky in finding Osama Bin Laden, it still wouldn't matter, because even if they take away Osama, the apparent mind of their team, Taleban would still figure out a way to grow it back!!!

Thursday, January 15, 2009

The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid

Funny isn't it, when you read a book, and when you eventually get involved in it completely, the characters' lives start imitating yours, their feelings start becoming yours and you then realize that what in fact you are thinking and feeling and the arguments you are having in your head are exactly what goes on in everyone's heads, and also the fact what you think you only experience, has actually been experienced before, and has been going for centuries, its just that you are very new to it.

Right now i probably sound confusing but all these thoughts have been going on in my mind due to the reason that i have just right now completed reading this really serious book, "The Reluctant Fundamentalist", and although initially i didn't really like it, as a matter of fact i was a little too quick to criticize it, i never gave the protagonist's character the time to develop. I had already become biased against him and had already formed an opinion of him and pictured him to be as someone i actually know and although it was very much like him initially, however i was wrong. I had been too quick to decide, and as the story developed i realized that the protagonist was just a confused person in life, someone i can relate to, someone that anyone can relate to, and the fact that all the mental anguish he was suffering with, is so common in our society and in our generation and particularly in my generation that while reading his story i could detach myself from the mental anguishes going on in my head and probably have a more positive outlook on life, also giving me the feeling as if i am some third person looking in, in my own life.

Saturday, January 10, 2009

A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini

I never knew i could ever cry while reading a book. I've never cried in movies and i definitely never cry in front of people, but if there is anything that has moved me, it is this book.

I don't deny, its not probably the sort of book you read to kill time with and its not the sort of book that you can do light-reading with, but it is the sort of book that shows you that the life that we are living is so amazing Alhamdulillah, and the realization that our suffering is nothing in comparison to what a million people are suffering right now...

This book delves into the lives of two afghani women, and the torment and suffering they endure during their lives. While reading it, you realise how much pain a person can endure for the people they love and yet be able to survive all of that. It is very impressive and yet at the same time saddening that there can be so much suffering and torture, however at the same time, there is hope. A hope for a better future, a hope for a better life and always a hope that everything will be fine eventually...

Before i leave i'd like to end with this quote by Saib-e-Tabrizi,

"One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs,
Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls"

Sunday, January 4, 2009

How manyy people have had some weridd, stoooppidd...chatting blunderss!!!! and whn they happen they just lookk so dumbb..and you feel soo dumbb!!!
Thats why i hate group convos, firstly...u hav to not only just get the flow of the conversation..but u always have to be witty whenever u say something particularly when it is the first time u are chatting with those people!!! I meann...u cant just say..'hehe' and go on like that..cos thn it gets boring...and thn u cant say something overly smart cos thn not everyone gets the joke..so the smartness has to be toned down(& is always a problem wid me:P) !!! and well...the dumbness aswell!!!