Posts Tagged ‘Life’

Your Brain: Your Garden

My son likes to watch Mr. Bean, which is a little worrisome for me, as I do not believe in ‘harmless  and silly fun’. While good humor and puns certainly  stimulate your brain-cells (aka neurons), I think that part of the reason people are amused by Mr. Bean, Charlie Chaplin (or any of the  situation [...]

Bored?

Are you bored? Do you have ٰnothing to doٰ? I salute you!
You, my friend, are a buddha-in-the-making.
Actually, you are better than Buddha. Buddha he did not have instantaneous access to the all the information in the world in the form of Internet, he did not have a phone to call friends, or a TV to [...]

On the Turning Away

This song came up on my playlist just as I published the previous post, so I had to share it.
Consider spending six minutes of your life listening to Pink Floyd.
I tried looking for a ‘moderate’ flavored documentary, but couldn’t find any good video that didn’t mention the US of A.
Warning: it contains some very shocking [...]

Visual Pollution in Lahore

I often spend my early mornings on the porch, recounting the wires outside my house (twenty-four in total, including the electric, phone, cable and a couple of unidentifiable ones) while I take in my morning nicotine hit. My neighborhood is a closed ‘colony’ with no shops or commercial activity allowed inside its premises, so I [...]

1998 was 10 f—ing years ago

Just when I was enjoying an unhealthy hit of Deep Space 9 induced nostalgia and had almost forgotten the current date, the Onion had to hit my right in the face with this news report (Click to listen). Thanks Onion :-/

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