Well, I’ve been in Islamabad for most of the week for a conference, and Islamabad was a pleasant change. Quite a difference, compared to Karachi. Everything is very well planned and laid out. Someone decided back in the sixties that Pakistan needed a new capital, so they created a city. Perfect square blocks form perfect square sectors… each sector has its own market area in the middle. It’s a far cry from Karachi, where the roads sometimes go around buildings that were built there illegally years ago; where a half inch of rain causes major flooding. Everything is peaceful and quiet in Islamabad, but its eerie in that “It’s quiet… too quiet” kind of way. Everything is just a little too planned out. It feels false… like pretense. I looked around at all the open space and thought, where are all the cars, trucks, crazy busses, donkeys, camels, stray dogs, beggars, rickshaws, burning piles of garbage…? This isn’t what I’ve come to know and love.
But now I’m back. Time to start up this blogging with a vengeance now that we’ve got it pretty much set up. How do you blog with a vengeance anyway?
Congrats to Troy on the show, I hear it went well.
Who told? They lie!!
You’re right, that was a total lie. No one told me it went well, how could they? I just kind of presumed you did ok.
Kind of sad though that we’re the only ones posting comments on our own blog.
If you post it, they will come!