and fearing a repeat of the Sri Lankan cricket team
-wallah
scene, they’ve closed down whole of Isloo to protect these important types. I swear you can’t take three steps without getting stopped by a police
-wallah
at a check post and being searched in places you didn’t even know you had.
Everyone in Isloo is
tau
fed up. I was talking to my friend Sammy who lives in Isloo and runs the art gallery, Sammy’s Selections, and she said you can’t believe how bore life has become. Hardly any parties-sharties or balls are happening. People are frightened of even leaving their houses. And those few brave ones who do go out to a dinner or GT (Get Togethers, of course) have to leave two hours before they’re invited because of all the stoppages along the way at police check posts. Honestly!
God knows what will happen when the wedding season starts properly. And this year
tau
, the whole of it is going to be jam-packed into just November and half of December because after that is Muharram,
na
, when nobody can have a ball, let alone throw a proper seven-event wedding. I think so this is going to be a very bore winter. Sunny and Akbar are going off to Dubai for New Year’s Eve and winters holidays because they say Pakistan’s going to be so bore. I just mentioned to Janoo that maybe we should also go to Dubai for New Year’s and he blew up like a rocket launcher.
“Your country is in flames and all you can think of is partying! Are you off your head?”
I wanted to say I will be if I stay here a moment longer but then I thought, would he listen? Never in a thousand years.
On top of that we have no electricity. Oho, I
know
the whole country has no electricity but I mean
we, us
. Our generator has gone
thup
again. I think so the servants must be doing something to it (it’s kept by their quarters only, because it is too noisy near the house). It’s the second time it’s broken down in six months. Other people’s keep going and going like Queen Elizabeth of England but not ours. Sunny says she hasn’t had to change hers even once since all this “electricity conservation” started two years ago. Who does she think she is? Using words like “electricity conservation” as if electricity was a rare animal like the tiger or the
shahtoosh
goat or something. But come to think of it, electricity is becoming rarer and rarer in Pakistan. But still. She can call it “load shedding” like everyone else does. “Electricity conservation” my shoe!
On TV the guvmunt says that it’s all the fault of Musharraf’s guvmunt that we have no electricity. They say Musharraf didn’t plan ahead. But now this guvmunt is saying they are putting in lots of electricity plants into the ground and that soon electricity is going to start coming non stop through the wires like it used to before all this load shedding started and look how much they are doing for us. But we still have four hours of load shedding in our area. Now we’ll have to buy a new generator and this on top of the three thou a day we pay for diesel for it and the electricity bill we get for the few hours we get from main line. I’ve heard they are also going to do load shedding on gas. Thanks Godguvmunt doesn’t control air otherwise they would also start doing load shedding on
that
.
And if that’s not enough Aunty Pussy called again to ask if I had done anything for her Jonky yet.
I told her, “Aunty Pussy I have other things to do also, okay.”
“Like what?”
“Like buying a new generator.”
“Kaukab’s cousin’s son has a dealership in generators. I’ll tell him to come to your house and I’ll make sure he gives you best price.”
So Uncle Kaukab’s nephew from Gentle Generators came in the afternoon and he told me which one I should get and then two hours later he sent two men around in a van and they brought the new generator and fixed it up and now we have electricity again. And he knocked up seven thou from the price also. That’s why
-wallah
scene, they’ve closed down whole of Isloo to protect these important types. I swear you can’t take three steps without getting stopped by a police
-wallah
at a check post and being searched in places you didn’t even know you had.
Everyone in Isloo is
tau
fed up. I was talking to my friend Sammy who lives in Isloo and runs the art gallery, Sammy’s Selections, and she said you can’t believe how bore life has become. Hardly any parties-sharties or balls are happening. People are frightened of even leaving their houses. And those few brave ones who do go out to a dinner or GT (Get Togethers, of course) have to leave two hours before they’re invited because of all the stoppages along the way at police check posts. Honestly!
God knows what will happen when the wedding season starts properly. And this year
tau
, the whole of it is going to be jam-packed into just November and half of December because after that is Muharram,
na
, when nobody can have a ball, let alone throw a proper seven-event wedding. I think so this is going to be a very bore winter. Sunny and Akbar are going off to Dubai for New Year’s Eve and winters holidays because they say Pakistan’s going to be so bore. I just mentioned to Janoo that maybe we should also go to Dubai for New Year’s and he blew up like a rocket launcher.
“Your country is in flames and all you can think of is partying! Are you off your head?”
I wanted to say I will be if I stay here a moment longer but then I thought, would he listen? Never in a thousand years.
On top of that we have no electricity. Oho, I
know
the whole country has no electricity but I mean
we, us
. Our generator has gone
thup
again. I think so the servants must be doing something to it (it’s kept by their quarters only, because it is too noisy near the house). It’s the second time it’s broken down in six months. Other people’s keep going and going like Queen Elizabeth of England but not ours. Sunny says she hasn’t had to change hers even once since all this “electricity conservation” started two years ago. Who does she think she is? Using words like “electricity conservation” as if electricity was a rare animal like the tiger or the
shahtoosh
goat or something. But come to think of it, electricity is becoming rarer and rarer in Pakistan. But still. She can call it “load shedding” like everyone else does. “Electricity conservation” my shoe!
On TV the guvmunt says that it’s all the fault of Musharraf’s guvmunt that we have no electricity. They say Musharraf didn’t plan ahead. But now this guvmunt is saying they are putting in lots of electricity plants into the ground and that soon electricity is going to start coming non stop through the wires like it used to before all this load shedding started and look how much they are doing for us. But we still have four hours of load shedding in our area. Now we’ll have to buy a new generator and this on top of the three thou a day we pay for diesel for it and the electricity bill we get for the few hours we get from main line. I’ve heard they are also going to do load shedding on gas. Thanks Godguvmunt doesn’t control air otherwise they would also start doing load shedding on
that
.
And if that’s not enough Aunty Pussy called again to ask if I had done anything for her Jonky yet.
I told her, “Aunty Pussy I have other things to do also, okay.”
“Like what?”
“Like buying a new generator.”
“Kaukab’s cousin’s son has a dealership in generators. I’ll tell him to come to your house and I’ll make sure he gives you best price.”
So Uncle Kaukab’s nephew from Gentle Generators came in the afternoon and he told me which one I should get and then two hours later he sent two men around in a van and they brought the new generator and fixed it up and now we have electricity again. And he knocked up seven thou from the price also. That’s why
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