Lunch with free add-ons...

Chalo jee. There are times you go to restaurant for lunch and you wish that you could have a nice time eating. You want to consume your afternoon meal without noticing the harsh realities of life because at dinnertime, you know Kamran Khan will tell you that apocalypse would come any second and we all are goners. Thanks to him, I have gained weight over the last time as I might be binging.

Khair, lunch is where I need peace so I often eat at an eatery near my office. Today was sandwich day. As I ordered, it turns out there was a brawl in the kitchen over the wrong set of buns offered with an order. The consumer wanted round ones rather the long ones (I am still confused why). Muhajir supervisor threw the long buns on Pathan cook and then it all started. Without thinking that there was a restaurant to run, the supervisor and the waiter started with verbal abuses of all family kinds. All the other waiters started to reduce the emotional temperature, leaving only one behind to tackle all twelve tables.

The things cooled down for a second but then they reappeared. Apparently, the Pathan cook talked with his Pathan friend and the Muhajir supervisor heard there was something going on Pushtu which was enough start Round 2. This time, Muhajir supervisor targeted the "Superman" t-shirt wearing better looking Pathan cook who looked fairly younger. The supervisor was quite offended by the use of Pushtu language. He was so crossed that he threatened him with ready-to-find weapon, a raita bottle and promised to throw a plate on his face later. Meanwhile, I was half done with my sandwich but there were hungry costumers waiting for their orders to be either taken or delivered. The Pathans were ready to attack as well.

The funniest bit is that the whole brawl cooled down when a Bengali interfered.

Now everyone would think that I am being racist and in my defense, I would say I am human. This whole brawl was quite amusing to look at but it was a harsh reality that got served with my lunch bill. We as a nation are now getting very intolerant. We quarrel on small non-productive issues at a time when we have big issues on hand, and most of our quarrels are cooled down with some type of interference from external sources. It shows that the actions of our politicians is doing nothing but creating a mess.

As for me, I think Kamran Khan may not be wrong, the world might be really ending.

Hush Zardari, Shoe Zardari!

Guess who went on a vacation. Our President, the beloved Asif Ali Zardari. First, he went to Paris, and borrowed a French Army helicopter for trip to his château. I hope he had some French wine and the scenery must be real great because he needs that. A President and his false-named prince needs to be pampered. Everyone should hush up as President is a father and a vacation with his children is due. He lost so much time in the jail and never had the time for a vacation until now when half of the Pakistan is flooded. So vacation it is. When Pakistan calls its President for help, they might get to hear the melody close to the following one.

Indeed hooray! Hooray for Hyatt Regency London to be the most frugal option for our President. Hooray for Lord Nazir Ahmed who declined to meet the President. Hooray for the Labour MP Khalid Mahmood who reminded that the trip is pointless but our little old President had a country to save as he was "protecting" national interest. As it is taught in business schools all over the world, an investor should always protect his interest, and we all know the 10% interest that Mr. Zardari has on basically anything interesting.

Wise is that son of our President. He plainly refused to launch his political career and became a pauper for the devastated people of Pakistan while the President was proclaimed a "King". President Zardari and his pals in UK thought that a party would be a great end to his vacation. They made plans and they made lists of people who should be invited. You know a King's Ball is not open for all and you have to be special to be invited. So, they booked a hall in Birmingham and made sure that the party starts fashionably late. But what's a party without a Cinderella moment.

Off came the shoes! The rest is pretty much history. If Mr. President is of sound mind - a story for another day, he should know by now that he has been shooed not by the British Government, or the Overseas Pakistani but from people inside his circle. As for the people like Qaira and Babar, they must be sleeping as it is a habit of PPP leadership to doze off whenever they feel like. The footage from PTV indeed shows that there was something fishy, and the crowd was lesser than expected. The Telegraph quoted a number of 1000. The whole PPP needs to wake up and smell the Java. The reality on ground has changed. The leadership is faulty and the communication inside the PPP is worse than ever. They need a new face and a new vision. It would be best if it came from someone mature and not young, especially the ones who have drunk photos on their Facebook account.

Later on TV, Sharmil Faroqi gave a statement that Prime Minister is the Chief Executive, and he was here. According to her, President Zardari gave all his powers to Prime Minister. However, she overlooked one tiny detail, President, unlike the norm, still runs the PPP and Prime Minister is a part of the party. So we still have the same thing in a new packaging.

Oh well, as I suggested PPP needs a new leadership quotient but if they are thinking, Bilawal as the next big thing. Then they should use the following song as their new hip anthem.

As for Mr. President, he had a trip to Europe with his boys, took a joy ride in French Army helicopter and in the end, an "admirer" gave him new shoes. Not a bad trip for Mr. Even with all the hush and the shoe going on, not a bad trip for the President and for the puppies. Hush hush, Durrani. Don't get carried away now.

Chrome is not shiny, but its very useable...

Google announced its own browser called Chrome. It is a competition to IE, Firefox, Safari and Opera, and it looks like it is hear to stay. Like Talk, it looks promising and has a simple feel to it. Its kinda easy on memory as well as on eyes. It has a privacy mode called Incognito Window, which lets browse without leaving any tracks anywhere.

Last night, when I was looking at the Google Chrome Comic Book, they went with all the details over how JavaScript works like a miracle on the new browser but all is not sweet. The browser is not in good term with JavaScript being used on Facebook. Sometime, the browser tells that JavaScript has been disabled which is kinda strange. Its still in beta, and like all beta products from Google, you may expect outage.

Here is one of the example I found on Facebook:

From Drop Box

President Musharraf to address the nation in less than 15 minutes. We all knew it was coming sooner or later. It is definite that he will resign.