I have been thinking about this for quite some time now.
The way I have been working this last few months and telling myself its just this year. This year is for the great future. That is what I have been telling my wife also. That is what I am telling myself again and again for last few hours also as my daughter turns 4 in a few hours.
Is it really worth it? I am stuck here in another country while my family is back in homeland. The formalities for travel just wouldn't process faster for us to be together and I be with her for her birthday. Here it comes that thought again... "It's just this year... this year for the future..."
I have been working real hard. Too hard some people say. Its just that I am enjoying it as well as I know there is much to look forward to. But at what cost. Sacrifice of family time. Sacrifice of my daughter's birthday.
I have been thinking. Is this a good deal? If somebody asks me to trade in today for yesterday, I would probably say yes. I have written on this aspect before. But on the other side of it, would I trade in today for a better tomorrow?
I think that is a rhetorical question. I think we already have.
We are always chasing after things. Look at us. Just stop...and look at yourself.
There is always something ahead to chase for. But what about what you worked for this last few days, weeks, years... This was something you wanted to bad. So now that you have got what you worked for, just stop and live a little? Stop to smell the flowers. Admire this beautiful world God created.
Nah. I would rather keep running this rat race right? We are really stupid you know. We don't notice it because we are in majority. Its like if everybody is doing it, that's how it should be.
I am so pissed at myself today. I'll not be around my daughter for her 4th birthday. This goes in history. History repeats itself. I hate myself today. I made a bad deal. Traded in today for tomorrow.
Happy Birthday Caterpillar. Lots of prayers.
Soaps - Now I Get it
I never quite got to understand why were they called Soaps. I am not talking detergent and hand washing stuff here. I am talking the non-stopping, always lasting sagas of what we call a type of TV programs.
It was only recently that somebody told me that they were named Soaps from the Soap Opera concept where these shows seemed they would never end. Stage dramas seemed endless with all the singing or so called singing sounding like crying musicals in the medieval times.
I have managed to stay away from them, well away and had managed to keep my family (read wife) away from them as well until last year. We started getting an Indian channel on Nilesat and if its an Indian Channel its gotta play soap, right?
The desperate housewives that most UAE wives become naturally tend to get glued to anything on TV. In our case with the limited options available on TV, it had to happen sooner or later. Welcome into the house "Jyoti", "Bandini" and what not. OH yeah "Rakhee ka Soyemwar"... heheh... yes SOYEMwar was intentional :). We are already awaiting the beginning of "Rahul BHaiyya Dulhaniya Lay Jayengay..."
When DISH came into Karachi in our younger years, and star plus (now Star World) started, there were 2 shows which always left me confused. "Santa Barbara" & "Bold & The Beautiful". Considering its been about 17-18 years since then and we still get to see the never-ending story and the never-aging people, its pretty crazy. How can they call this entertainment? Does anybody even watch that show anymore?
I think whatever the reason may have been to call these programs Soaps. They are nothing but 30-minute broken into 5 minute drama, 10-minute recap & yet to come and 15 minute advertisements programs
We see so many soap advertisements but they always drive one message. Yes now, I am speaking about the hand-washing and dish-washing stuff. I remember many advertisements indicating how their brand of soap,
Translated to,
Now, I get it. I get those advertisements now and why these programs are called Soaps. Its all coming crystal clear for me now. Its definitely not because they are clean or keep things clean.
It was only recently that somebody told me that they were named Soaps from the Soap Opera concept where these shows seemed they would never end. Stage dramas seemed endless with all the singing or so called singing sounding like crying musicals in the medieval times.
I have managed to stay away from them, well away and had managed to keep my family (read wife) away from them as well until last year. We started getting an Indian channel on Nilesat and if its an Indian Channel its gotta play soap, right?
The desperate housewives that most UAE wives become naturally tend to get glued to anything on TV. In our case with the limited options available on TV, it had to happen sooner or later. Welcome into the house "Jyoti", "Bandini" and what not. OH yeah "Rakhee ka Soyemwar"... heheh... yes SOYEMwar was intentional :). We are already awaiting the beginning of "Rahul BHaiyya Dulhaniya Lay Jayengay..."
When DISH came into Karachi in our younger years, and star plus (now Star World) started, there were 2 shows which always left me confused. "Santa Barbara" & "Bold & The Beautiful". Considering its been about 17-18 years since then and we still get to see the never-ending story and the never-aging people, its pretty crazy. How can they call this entertainment? Does anybody even watch that show anymore?
I think whatever the reason may have been to call these programs Soaps. They are nothing but 30-minute broken into 5 minute drama, 10-minute recap & yet to come and 15 minute advertisements programs
We see so many soap advertisements but they always drive one message. Yes now, I am speaking about the hand-washing and dish-washing stuff. I remember many advertisements indicating how their brand of soap,
"...kabhi nahi ghulta... hamesha chalta hay..."
Translated to,
"Never dissolves... keeps going on forever..."
Now, I get it. I get those advertisements now and why these programs are called Soaps. Its all coming crystal clear for me now. Its definitely not because they are clean or keep things clean.
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