Wasiq1's Week-ly Blog : The Sunday Blog № 252

Today is the Sunday

The 31st of January 2021

The 17th of JamadiUsSani 1442H till the Sunset 6:16 pm

Moon: 95.1% Waning Gibbous

Current Time: 31 Jan 2021, 00:03:22

Moon Direction: 100.69° E↑

Moon Altitude: 53.01°

Moon Distance: 374,965 km

Next New Moon: 12 Feb 2021, 00:05

Next Full Moon: 27 Feb 2021, 13:17

Next Moonset: Today, 09:11

Weather CURRENTLY

17°C

Smoke

Feels like 17°

Smoke

Tonight, 31 January

Clear with periodic clouds

And this is my the Sunday Blog № 252 ( Two Hundred and fifty two)

So some really amazing things happened here there and everywhere , this week .

But first start from the Bed .

I watched Jessica Chastain 's Molly's game ( 2017) feeling dumb and fall asleep 😴 felt dumber ...🤓

God Bless America 🇺🇸

And talking of America we finally have a born and bred diplomate who can speak French and plays rock guitar🎸 as a hobby have married interfaith and has been okayed by the Senate to be the 71st Secretary of State of the United States of America 🇺🇸

So help you God 🙏

Karachi ☠️ the most dangerous city in the world , Won the First Test between PCB and SA .

The pitch was kinda slippery for the wickets ...they constantly keep fall still we had a unbelievable century ...

On the last day Students of Bahria University protest for the online exams probably put the proteas under pressure otherwise they could have won the match very easily or at least drawn it .

What I am saying here is all true and public knowledge...

But if you want the inside news ..go check the ICC ranking released this week in Dubai soon after the test .

None of the PCB bowlers made it to the top ICC ranking ....and yet the test record will say that two bowlers of PCB uprooted the South African batting in just few hours

Rubbish .

Anyways ,

Who Cares !

Another Big and Historic Event taking place in Karachi ☠️ the most dangerous city in the world,

Is the Wedding of Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari Chaudhary the elder daughter of former President Zardari and Former Prime minister Benazir .

They were engaged few months ago and on Friday evening the Nikah ceremony was held . Bride wore a very nice golden dress . And the groom had the traditional attire not really sure what era or area . Looks nice .

Congrats to both Bride and Groom and their families .

And Thankyou for having this wonderful event here in Karachi ☠️ the most dangerous city in the world.

Tonight the jiyalas and the piyala are celebrating the wedding in kakri ground lyari ...it's pindrop silence here in Jamshed town of Karachi ☠️ the most dangerous city in the world.

No fireworks here ...

Another reason for this pindrop silence in my part of town is probably the

T10 tournament in abu Dhabi ...our lifafa media is too quite about it because of you know who and why ....

Here are the tournament details from wiki

2021 T10 League or Abu Dhabi T10 2021 is the fourth season of the T10 League. The matches have a 10-over-a-side format with a time duration of 90 minutes. The tournament is being played as a round robin followed by semifinals and the final. It was originally scheduled to be played from 19 to 28 November 2020 at the Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium.^[1] The tournament started from 28 January with final to be held on 6 February 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[2]

2021 T10 League
Dates	28 January – 6 February 2021
Administrator(s)	Emirates Cricket Board
Cricket format	T10
Tournament format(s)	Round-robin tournament and playoffs
Host(s)	United Arab Emirates
Participants	8
Matches played	29

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1:30 am At midnight there were sounds of activity coming from the kitchen so I thought all the Spicy and salty thoughts but when I checked it turn out to be sweet carrots

...just like that ...I had more vegetables this week than I had in whole month .

I also had a lot of takeaway meals and snacks .

Still my system remained mostly normal . No worries ...did not have to take any medicine or herbal remedy ...except the mandatory masala Chai tea ☕ and the Lemon green tea 🍵

Last year this week , me and my siblings were all attacked by the weapon of mass destruction and we had high fever and flu for a week . It was before the Covid-19 Corona Pandemic . We took the antibiotics and other medicine and were ok in a week . If it had been after the Covid-19 Corona Pandemic ...we would have been scared to death .

A month later at beginning of lent I got bacterial but I did not stop the fasting . Did stop going out especially to the mosque . And took the medicine in high dose and so I survived .

Never ever again did I take the Antibiotic orally or inhaled . It was an awesome year ...most people who used to infect me with viral or bacterial germs were forced to keep away , wear masks and sanitize . And I stayed Home only go out when it was un avoidable .

Stayed away from mosque and graveyard . Food street and rides especially the Careem and Bus rides . Even avoided the carefree walks across the town . On first Eid day I got ready and only went out to the dearly departed parents grave and prayed 🤲

May the dear merciful Lord All Mighty Allah have mercy on my dearly departed parents Papa and Ammi and may they be blessed by the dear merciful Lord All Mighty Allah and Their Souls may rest in peace in heaven. Amen!

Puisse le cher Seigneur miséricordieux Tout-Puissant Allah avoir pitié de mes chers parents papa et Ammi et qu'ils soient bénis par le cher Seigneur miséricordieux Tout-Puissant Allah et leurs âmes puissent reposer en paix au paradis. Amen!

Came home and fall asleep .

Did not bring any takeaway that day . Nobody came and I did not go out till the Eid was over .

It was an unbelievable Eid last year . will never forget that . I really don't think I could ever have that awesome feeling of freedom and security on a Eid Day ever .

Before the second Eid the Builder was in the neighborhood and we had Survived a stupid lockdown by police . Somebody wanted me to start a War between the province and federal govt which was unavoidable .

I was so glad to have been relieved of Eid Takleef duty for the first time in my life . Totally avoided the meat send by family and friends . Because of the heat wave climate . Doctor Saab sent the mutton leg from his goat through bykia delivery rider .

I am telling you it was an awesome amazing 😍 year for me ...

Anyways

So where was i ?

Okay never mind ...I am falling asleep 😴

Ten nine eight seven...

Can sleep for two hours 😴

Sun 17th JamadiUsSani 1442H

23°C

10:47 am Good Morning !

Fall asleep 😴 for longer time than was expecting ..missed Fajr 😭

Missed Sunday breakfast ..

Let's hope there is brunch ..

And I don't fall asleep again 😴 feels very much like it ...

I was falling asleep 😴 with two hours to the fajr time so I thought that I should not fight this and let me self sleep .even though it was a very restless sleep 😴

Woke up after an hour with one more to go but could not get up or reach the mobile ...fall asleep again 😴

Woke up at 7:57 am

Felt very bad and fall asleep again ..

Woke up after 10 am ...watched the news ...and had tea ☕

Now at 11: am the kitchen activity started . The neighborhood is very quiet and peaceful . There is a lot of confusion in the security guards detail . The very regular temp has a replacement but I am not sure if the sponsors trust him . So most of the time there are two guards instead of one and yet the sponsors are sleepless and irritated ...shouting scolding and banging doors .

The other guards with the airsoft type rifle and their sponsors got relaxed this week or were forced to show it with children playing on the street and mother shopping from push carts vendors .

The builder had the first roof ( technically) laid this Friday . Actually the laid the basement roof about a month ago ...anyways we got the Biryani .

The work was finished before Juma Mubarak . I listened to the khutba from the nearest mosque 🕌 in very peace and quiet . The sound was clear two . And there was no chilly winds

Did not sleep after the biryani enjoyed the security details and street show .

Was thinking of skipping the dinner but when you show you don't care about one mafia ...how could the other mafia let you go without a test ..🧐

Had a Chaapa and we had zinger burgers and zinger rolls with over cooked paratha ... Very oily ...the fast-food joint has introduced new dishes and I observe that they are messing with my rolls ...so that's it for the rolls from this joint .

Amazing 😍 I am at the half way before noon today on the target word count of three thousand words for this my the Sunday Blog # 252 ( Two Hundred and fifty two ) .

The Sunday brunch is not ready yet but soon I will have to go offline so let's take a break with a latest Wasiq1Wise ...

For Change there are two definite sides , One dislike , abhor and dread Change wants to spend the lifetime in a queue ,

Others get up stop dreaming get back and join the line .

Wasiq1Wise : 137

12:56 am Done the brunch ...

Had lots of tea ☕

First Zuhr Azan finished

The one from the nearest will start after fifteen minutes .

Amazing there is no traffic on the street not even vendors and help ...only the two armed guards ...the latest one is praying with a rosery and has put up his laundry to dry in the sun outside his kerb tent . The Sindh police guards of the MPA hostel are off duty had a long night making bird cage on the illegal rooftop . 😎

The rest of the Neighborhood is still asleep 😴

Okay let's take a break here for fajr qaza prayer 🛐 with a prayer for my dearly departed parents Papa and Ammi

And the Zuhr farz Prayer 🛐 with a prayer for my dearly departed parents Papa and Ammi

1:09 pm Break ! (1897)

2:43 pm Wow ! Free data is not working ...Thank you Telenor pk .

Need a munch ...

So the younger sister is not feeling well . And the elder ones are in a state of panic . There is absolutely nothing I could do to calm them . All I can do is to go to the butcher shop and bring the leftover meat and bones for cooking . Last Monday I went to the market for some tea snacks and breakfast stuff and lo! There it was the beef shop was open with a very fine looking piece of meat hanging from the hook . It was Monday I thought ...it can't be for me and moved ahead . I never buy meat on a meatless day ...not even from the online application . Very rarely do I buy the cooked food or order meals having non chicken meat on a meatless day ...even though it's no longer legally or morally wrong ...old habits die hard .

But I should have asked the butcher ...he never opens the shop on Monday ...there must be some emergency . But I am not sure if he wanted to share his troubles with me . I may be a sight for the sore eyes at the Neighborhood mosque market but i am not very friendly with either of them ...and there is a very good reason for that ...when I step out of home towards the market , at the market , way back from the market , I start observing things trying to connect the dots ...and in doing so I am most of the time already very distracted . Have to work so hard to remember what I came to buy . Especially if I have to shop from multiple shops . Like snacks from one shop . Breakfast stuff from another . Vegetables from the push cart and medicine from another meat and chicken from separate shops ... I try very hard not to stay at the market for very long ...long enough to be missed at home . Took up this habit when my dearly departed parents Papa and Ammi

Were alive . They had this big wall clocks in front of them and they checked time

It was often difficult to return in their stipulated time but later it become a challenge and fun to be back with chores done 😁 shortest possible time . This must be the main reason behind not taking rides and lifts ..never wanted to be in a jam especially near by ...or waste time looking for a safe parking . Or dealing with an unexpected tire puncture because you parked in somebody else's spot . The fruits of Unplanned land development and the double and triple development on the same land like my society faced .

3:30 pm Break !

4:13 pm Praiseth the Lord All Mighty Allah !

The medical Emergency is aborted saved for some other dire need .

We have a Chaapa ...I was just a click away from ordering tea time snacks .

I believe that is what they call and mean by ...Saved by the bell !

Should I update this my the Sunday Blog № 252 ( Two Hundred and fifty two ) ..I have been gone too long ...or should I keep it that way half published and half unpublished .

There is still over half an hour left for the next prayer but I am feeling very sleepy .

And finally the landline phone rang ....so let's take a break and have a tea refills .

4:29 pm Break !

5:06 pm All Azans have stopped now .

So the breaking news is that instead of zinger burgers or rolls we had Javed Maghaz Nihari with naan , Sheermal and rabri ...it's a definite and most expected U-turn ...😊

Totally deserved it ...😇

Doctor Saab was on the phone when foodpanda 🐼 rider arrived ...I hope ...I always pray when I eat something I like ...that may Allah the All Mighty Amen 🙏 may give my dear siblings the very best of meals and especially the ones that are far away . Amen 🤲

Explaining far away !

Recently one night we had dhaga Kabab next day Doctor Saab called and said I want it send me .

So I tried to changing the delivery address on the foodpanda 🐼 app . When I changed the Delivery address all the restaurants on the list changed . My favorite list was totally empty . It was then I realized that food from restaurants about six hundred of them near me cannot be delivered to two town away to my dear siblings even though they have the same Woes of water and electricity .

Then I thought that I should have it delivered to me and than go by Careem ...

For normal Karachites 🚴‍♀️

It's a very normal thing infact some even go to the food streets on one end of the city and collect meals and then go to the other end of city to eat with family and friends and then go home in an absolute unbelievable direction or location .

But for me it's very unusual ...

And my experience tells me that my siblings can't wait that long and it's a Sin for me to keep them waiting .

Also when he heard my offer he was even more disappointed and lost the appetite . Plus I was afraid of the security checks so I did not insist as well . These days we eat when we can ... otherwise we say ... Corona hai we don't eat Bazar ka Khana ...it's a very normal practice ...

You won't believe it how many times I put stuff in the cart online App and then never order and happily go and eat what's on the table . And Praiseth the Lord All Mighty Allah Amen 🙏

Okay the Asr prayer time is slipping away fast

So here I first pray the Asr prayer 🛐 with a prayer for my dearly departed parents Papa and Ammi

And then after the Sunset at 6:16 pm the Maghrib Prayer 🛐 with a prayer for my dearly departed parents Papa and Ammi

5:42 pm Break ! ( 3110 words)

Sun 18th JamadiUsSani 1442 H

21°C

7:18 pm

Moon: 90.3%

Waning Gibbous

Current Time: 31 Jan 2021, 19:21:09

Moon Direction: 68.73° ENE↑

Moon Altitude: -20.80°

Moon Distance: 373,107 km

Next New Moon: 12 Feb 2021, 00:05

Next Full Moon: 27 Feb 2021, 13:17

Next Moonrise: Today, 20:56

Weather : CURRENTLY

22°C

Haze

Feels like 22°

Haze

Tonight, 31 January

Clear with periodic clouds

We did not have bar be que this year . We did not have the winter either .

Yes please 😊

Okay so yesterday afternoon I watched the movie Doctor Strange (2016) .

The strange thing is that I did not feel deja Vu watching the movie but did feel deja Vu watching the room behind the mirror . I checked the IMDb and it is on the watched list ...but not rated it is also on the going to Oscar list ... I stopped updating it long time ago ...and with Oscars just round the corner somewhere near ...I don't even have an idea who is or who should be on the list this year .

So anyways I believe I broke the movies of the week record but since I don't have the statistics I cannot be really sure these days . Another Geo entertainment serial with a catchy ost by my favourite singers ended

This week .

I made up my mind that I won't watch anymore Geo entertainment serials this year ...but fariya's character was just too bold and sexy to ignore easily , played by Mir ( not Russian) saab's Sister in law ...and this week she lost her glamour , charm and much talked about sexy outfits creating an extremely bad image for bold and sexy outfits and the girls who chose to wear them in Sharif on ka mohalla jaga jaga har jaga...So Anti happy ending Fariya did not get to enjoy the loot ...and the Police inspector Saab was just too good to be true ....Mann there ain't no justice in the justice movement government ....

O Zalim ...

Movies of the Week

This is it for this week

Uncle from Seattle WA has called my dear sister .

8:51 pm the call ended

My dear elder sister says ...uncle said Assalamualaikum and Dua

And asked about my health and well-being ..

Waalaicumassalam !

I am fine thank you 😊

He is more worried about me because three of his younger brothers (uncles) here in the neighborhood have tested positive who have always been negative and were so firmly against the sale of inherited property but were the first to grab their shares . So technically it's my turn or it will be proved beyond doubt 😅

God the All Mighty Allah Amen 🙏 forbid !

🤔

And the nine O clock News tonight ...

The Prime Minister of Pakistan office has dropped a petrol bomb on the poor and the very rich . Once again he did not take the advice of the OGRA . The previous government s used to take advice from OGRA only once a month ...this government don't take the Advice Twice a month and yet the per litre price of oil is the highest ever . The government Levy's and taxes are the highest per litre .

9:20 pm Door bell ?

Somebody claiming to be a waking up for fast in Ramzan in need ....can you seriously believe anybody in this world could do that honestly .

So the countdown begins ....

Fourteen days to Happy Valentine's day on the Sunday the 14th Feb 2021

Sixteen days to Scrumptious Pancake Day on Shrove Tuesday the 16th Feb 2021

Seventeen days to the Holy Ash Wednesday on the 17th Feb 2021 .

Come on let us Pray

🛐

Ya Allah merey Lian toh chhat ki Biryani he kafi hai ...per merey siblings ko apni apni chhat dey sub ko Ghar dey ...sub pey nazar rakh ...kisi ko bhi merey aasray na chorrd .

Amen 🤲

10: 10 pm Isha prayer 🛐 with a prayer for my dearly departed parents Papa and Ammi

So first rajab 1442H will be on Valentine's ...

And khawaja ji Sarkar ki Chatti will be in lent 2021

Awesome 👍

11:33 pm The Qalanders from Lahore in a totally different dimension are on top of the Group ...

And kings are exiled .

Amazing match ...I loved the presentation ...

Corona sub theek kar diya....

Okay then the time is up and I don't see no reason to take extra time today ...

Next Sunday it will be hot summer I will be sitting here with the fan on and mosquito repellent on too ...even today there are few mosquitoes ...but my ears are covered with the topa so it's not to bad on the nerves ...

Okay the song I chose for today actually I am still not sure so anyways enjoy !

All the Best 😍

God Bless America 🙏

Allah Hafiz !

I Wonder

Song by Kellie Pickler

sometimes I think about you
Wonder if you're out there somewhere thinkin' 'bout me
And would you even recognize
The woman that your little girl has grown up to be
Cause I look in the mirror and all I see
Are your brown eyes lookin' back at me
They're the only thing you ever gave to me at all

Oh, I hear the weather's nice in California
There's sunny sky as far as I can see
If you ever come back home to Carolina
I wonder what you'd say to me

I think about how it ain't fair
That you weren't there to braid my hair like mothers do
You weren't around to cheer me on
Help me dress for my high school prom like mothers do
Did you think I didn't need you here to hold my hand, to dry my tears?
Did you even miss me through the years at all?

Oh, I hear the weather's nice in California
There's sunny sky as far as I can see
If you ever come back home to Carolina
I wonder what you'd say to me

Forgiveness is such a simple word
But it's so hard to do
When you've been hurt

Oh, I hear the weather's nice in California
And just in case you're wonderin' about me
From now on I won't be in Carolina
Your little girl is off
Your little girl is off
Your little girl is off to Tennessee

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