Showing posts with label Car crashes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Car crashes. Show all posts

I hate the old Lahore

2:22 PM Ammar



U know wat i hate.. I hate purana Lahore.. So this is a magical place where both red and green lights mean go.. Where u don’t find trees.. Just flimsy branches sticking out of the ground.. Where noise cancelling headphones are a necessity not a luxury.. Where every tom dick and harry thinks they own the whole road.. Buses driving like motorbikes.. Weaving in and out of traffic.. With one hand constantly on the horn.. No one has any respect for traffic rules, one way streets or roundabouts.. As u may have guessed.. I just got back from Lahore and it was NOT pleasant! We Islamabadis are a gentle folk.. Like a herd of gazelles.. The slightest hint of trouble and we are outta there.. But not these guys.. It’s like they are looking for a fight all the time!
Oh and the smell.. The smell here is awful.. I imagine its like horse manure garnished with rotten eggs and bad cheese stuck in a microwave.. Yeah.. It’s pungent but not immediately.. At first its a faint odour.. Then it hits u like a locomotive! For all those who think i'm lying.. Go look for yourselves! And lahories thinking about sending me hate mail.. I’m not talking bout defence, gulberg, model town or cantt.. Its just the rest of it.. the walled city.. yucki gate.. anarkali.. bund road.. No offence to the people living there.. I actually commend u on being there day in day out..
And who in their right mind thot of starting a dental school RIGHT NEXT TO THE RED LIGHT DISTRICT!!! Ok so it is probably a hundred years old.. but there are millions of better places for a well-reputed school.. Oh and they shifted a couple of years ago.. u know where? 500yards down the road.. and it still sucks!!
All im trying to say is.. the ministers, commissioners, mayors or whoever is in control.. is it so hard for them to leave their comfy six-bedroom houses in Defense and sit in an air conditioned foreign car with a chauffer cross the canal and go see how the other half lives! See the roads and the drains.. and do something about them! I heard this song the other day.. u'll think its lame.. but it was pretty close to the truth.. I think its called Bullshit.. by shehzad roy.. that’s how ive been feeling ever since I got back from Lahore..
I’ve had that writer’s block thing again.. just cant shake it!
Any advice?

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I hate it when people just stand around to watch when someone is getting beaten up..

2:00 PM Ammar



U know wat I hate.. I hate it when people just stand around to watch when someone is getting beaten up.. I was watching Kick-ass last night.. great movie by the way.. and there is a scene where there are 3 guys beating up an idiot-looking junky..  the ‘super’hero says ‘The three assholes, laying into one guy while everybody else watches? And you wanna know what's wrong with me? Yeah, I'd rather die... so bring it on!’ and that got me thinking.. wat wud I do if I saw a bunch of guys beating on someone? Wud I run to his help? Or wud I run away? Wud I wait for those guys to leave and then help the guy? In a pubic poll, I think most of us wud like to say we wud help the poor arse.. but I seriously doubt many wud actually do it.. so wat is it that stops us? Wat holds us back? Fear? How do we overcome it?
Ok now think of another situation.. u are in the airport waiting lounge.. or in a crowded bus.. and u see an old man limping on crutches.. would u get up for him? Yeah? Ok so wat if its just a simple old guy.. no crutches or anything.. wud u still leave your seat for him? Maybe? Yeah me too.. arite.. so if it’s a guy your age.. no disabilities.. would u leave your comfortable seat for him.. I wouldn’t.. but why not?! That’s my question..
Another thing.. I saw this car crash the other day.. actually I dint so much see it as I deduced it.. where therez smoke.. theres fire.. right? I saw a large group of people standing by the side of the road.. then I saw the broken glass around which confirmed it.. A driver had lost control and crashed into a car parked on the side of the road.. traffic slowed down and I noticed all the drivers rubbernecking.. trying to see wat had happened.. but I dint see any one pull over to offer assistance.. they just slowed down.. to watch.. then went on their way.. that includes me.. and im ashamed of it.. but the thing is that even the people who were already there.. they dint do anything.. all of them were just standing there.. looking over someone elses shoulders.. just so they wud have something to talk about when they get back to their pathetic routine..
I remember when I got mugged.. my friend Abdul and I stupidly decided to walk thru the dimly lit streets to a shop nearby, a lil past midnight.. 2 guys on a bike came towards us.. and like 2 feet away.. one got off and pulled a gun out of his pants.. and asked us for our phones and our wallets.. after we gave up our valuables.. they turned and left.. that’s when we heard someone talking.. looking around.. I saw that there were 2 men standing on balcony of the house closest to us.. they had been there the whole time!! And they did nothing!! They saw us with our hands up.. and they decided to stay out of it!!
So wat is it? Whoz fault is it? Our teachers? Our parents? The media? We all love to read about superheroes or watch action packed movies with vigilante justice.. but when its our turn.. the phrase ‘a deer caught in the headlights’ comes to mind.. wat can we do to change this attitude? This is our time.. our generation is the one which is either gonna fix things or screw em up even more.. so the question today is.. Wat will u do?



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