That's right! Paying the bills is a sport! And it should be in the Olympics. Because, if you are good at it, you surely deserve a medal!
Have a prosperous 2009!
-- ARK
Thursday, December 18, 2008
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MemChu
The beautiful mosaic on the front of the Stanford University Memorial Church (affectionately known as MemChu).
http://www.stanford.edu/group/religiouslife/memchu.html
Friday, December 5, 2008
Salaam Bombay!
Despite the fact that we have been sort of desensitized to violence over the years, the massacre in Mumbai shocked us all. Our hearts go out to the people of Mumbai who went through another terrible nightmare at the hand of terror that has become so frequent in the sub-continent.
We feel helpless. The trust that we have been trying so hard to rebuild is shredded to pieces by the terrorists' bullets along with the brave souls who had nothing to fight back with.
The feeling of helplessness was there when we suffered from bombings while growing up in Karachi. Now the violence has spread to the rest of the Pakistan and beyond and we all gasped in shock and horror when our very own Benazir was slain in Islamabad. No place is safe anymore. And no one is safe anymore. It will remain like this until we do something about the cancerous "terror" that is spreading fast inside of us.
Blogging surely does not count as any kind of action against the terror. See this for some real action taken by Pakistani men in uniform! But that old adage, "Pen is mightier than the sword", does indeed apply here. We need to make some noise. We just have to bring out our best "pen" to fight the level of weaponry and carnage that has ripped our society with such vengeance. We must expose the terrorists and their recruiters until they feel the might of our collective "pen". Our collective message to these coward terrorists is, "Pakistan will NOT let you get away with this heinous crime! "
Mumbai (Bombay) is my kind of town. How can I say that? Well Mumbai is a lot like Karachi and Karachi of course is my town. And for that matter, India is my kind of country. Someone once asked me, "Which part of India are you from?" - People often mix Indians and Pakistanis up over here - And who can blame them? We belong to the same people. I instinctively replied, "I come from Pakistan part of India!" It is not that I am being unpatriotic. I was playing with words. Pakistan once was part of India. So I could technically say "Pakistan part of India".
But beyond just the words, the people from the two countries share so much that they practically are the same people. Quite literally, half my family lives in India. They all support India with the passion that matches what I have for Pakistan.
So when I say "Salaam Bombay", it is as if I am saying, "Salaam Karachi". And to the terrorists I say, "When you mess with Mumbai, you mess with Karachi!"
-- ARK
We feel helpless. The trust that we have been trying so hard to rebuild is shredded to pieces by the terrorists' bullets along with the brave souls who had nothing to fight back with.
The feeling of helplessness was there when we suffered from bombings while growing up in Karachi. Now the violence has spread to the rest of the Pakistan and beyond and we all gasped in shock and horror when our very own Benazir was slain in Islamabad. No place is safe anymore. And no one is safe anymore. It will remain like this until we do something about the cancerous "terror" that is spreading fast inside of us.
Blogging surely does not count as any kind of action against the terror. See this for some real action taken by Pakistani men in uniform! But that old adage, "Pen is mightier than the sword", does indeed apply here. We need to make some noise. We just have to bring out our best "pen" to fight the level of weaponry and carnage that has ripped our society with such vengeance. We must expose the terrorists and their recruiters until they feel the might of our collective "pen". Our collective message to these coward terrorists is, "Pakistan will NOT let you get away with this heinous crime! "
Mumbai (Bombay) is my kind of town. How can I say that? Well Mumbai is a lot like Karachi and Karachi of course is my town. And for that matter, India is my kind of country. Someone once asked me, "Which part of India are you from?" - People often mix Indians and Pakistanis up over here - And who can blame them? We belong to the same people. I instinctively replied, "I come from Pakistan part of India!" It is not that I am being unpatriotic. I was playing with words. Pakistan once was part of India. So I could technically say "Pakistan part of India".
But beyond just the words, the people from the two countries share so much that they practically are the same people. Quite literally, half my family lives in India. They all support India with the passion that matches what I have for Pakistan.
So when I say "Salaam Bombay", it is as if I am saying, "Salaam Karachi". And to the terrorists I say, "When you mess with Mumbai, you mess with Karachi!"
-- ARK
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