Independence Day

On the eve of Pakistan’s 61st Independence Day, it rained thoroughly throughout the city — perhaps throughout the country. I walked out late in the morning over the wet asphalt on a road that was rebuilt a few months ago to the spot where one of our cars was parked. Dad is in [...]

So great to have someone to come home to!

Lubna tagged me. The lines I have chosen aren’t exactly three lines, they aren’t exactly from a book lying nearest to where I had been when I chose the lines, and the first of those lines isn’t exactly the fifth line on that page. They are from an electronic copy of the enthralling [...]

Drenched memories.

“It rained heavily, and periodically for a little over an hour.”
The downpour, following an intermediate sand storm, was one that happened roughly after a whole year, or something to that effect. It came as a surprise, as with many other aspects of mother nature, but was, nonetheless, a moment to be cherished by us Karachiites.
Coincidentally, [...]

Of managers and wrong people at workplace.

I have been reading the book “Good to Great” for months now. It is such a wonderful read that I am intentionally resisting from devouring it in one go. I went through a few pages last night, and felt an itch to put the following excerpt on the blog. I typed it [...]

Special Besan Ka Halwa

Cleaning my study today, I found written on a piece of paper a brief but complete recipe to quickly make Besan Ka Halwa. As I fell back into time, I remembered everything from the point where how someone went to great lengths to clearly convey the recipe across to me online to the point [...]

I could care less: The bastardisation

I suppose I was being needlessly anal when today I pointed out that someone’s use of the phrase “I can actually do shit when I am high” actually meant “I can actually do nothing when I am high”. Some wise-ass, who I should not have been talking to wasting time in the first place, [...]

Undelivered email

Anyone trying to get to me via my ayaz.pk email address in the last two weeks will have their emails bounced back or not delivered. The hard-disk on which ayaz.pk is hosted died two weeks ago. The data centre folks are rebuilding the system. I am not sure when my website will [...]

Climbing out of The Stone Age!

The primary land line is fixed. Connection from a local cable-net provider got established yesterday. DSL subscription will be enabled by Monday. I will from next week on have a primary DSL link and a fast backup link both. Oh, and I also figured out how to establish a connection on [...]

Note: Sudden absence

I have not been able to get online much the past week. Both my phone lines are dead, and I have no hope to expect they would be fixed any time soon. I don’t get time to get online from work either, so I am cut-off from the Internet to a great extent. [...]

3rd blogging anniversary. Three years ago, I wrote my first …

I hadn’t noticed. Today marks the passing of three tiresome years of my blogging epoch. The thought of celebrating, however modestly, the first anniversary had never crossed me, and I ended up shamelessly forgetting about it last year and year before. I may well not have remembered today either, were it not [...]