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Sunday 28 February 2021

The Sunday Blog № 256

 Today is the 2nd Sunday in Lent 2021

The 28th of February 2021 

The 15th of Rajab 1442H

Till the Sunset ( 6:34 pm ; Karachi ☠️) 

28°C ( 23°C smoke ,partly cloudy ) 

Moon: 99.5%
Full Moon
Current Time:28 Feb 2021, 00:48:29
Moon Direction:154.64° SSE
Moon Altitude:73.65°
Moon Distance:369,017 km
Next New Moon:13 Mar 2021, 15:21
Next Full Moon:28 Mar 2021, 23:48
Next Moonset:Today, 07:45

And this is my the Sunday Blog № 256 ( Two Hundred and fifty six ) . 


Buckingham Palace with an update on Prince Philip:


“The Duke of Edinburgh remains at King Edward VII’s Hospital where he is receiving medical attention for an infection. He is comfortable and responding to treatment but is not expected to leave hospital for several days.”


So , the Duke remains in the Hospital 

He was taken to a hospital for treatment of an infection on the Seventeen 17th of February 2021 . 

Our thoughts and prayers 🙏 are for him ..may he get well soon and live a long and prosperous life 

Amen 🙏



In other related News 


Hamza Shabaz of Lahore got bail

He is a free man today 

Hamza Shahbaz released from Kot Lakhpat Jail after 20 months

Web Desk
February 27, 2021

Maryam Nawaz welcomes Hamza Shahbaz after he is released from Kot Lakhpat Jail today

d I thought  ...🤣 Anyways in the 

 
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PML-N leader Hamza Shahbaz's car swarmed by party workers. Photo: PML-N Twitter

LAHORE: PML-N's Leader of the Opposition in the Punjab Assembly, Hamza Shahbaz, was released on bail after spending 20 months in jail in relation to a money laundering investigation.

The PML-N leader was released after the accountability court issued his release orders and dispatched them to Kot Lakhpat Jail. The Punjab lawmakers was welcomed by PML-N vice president Maryam Nawaz outside the jail's premises when he came out.

The PML-N had prepared well in advance for the party leader's release as 12 different camps have been set up across Lahore to welcome him.

Arrangements were made to welcome the PML-N leader from Kot Lakhpat Jail and bring him back to his residence in the form of a rally. PML-N workers carrying drums and showering rose petals danced and celebrated for hours outside the jail in anticipation of his release.

LHC grants Hamza Shahbaz bail in money laundering case

The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday granted bail to Hamza in the money laundering case after a two-member bench of the court heard his bail plea.

Special Prosecutor Syed Faisal Raza Bukhari appeared on behalf of the National Accountability Bureau, while Azam Nazir Tarar and Amjad Pervez appeared on behalf of Hamza.

After hearing the arguments of both parties, the court had granted bail to Hamza and ordered him to submit two surety bonds of Rs10 million each.

On June 11, 2019, NAB had arrested Hamza after the LHC rejected his interim bail in the Ramzan Sugar Mills and money laundering cases.

According to NAB, the PML-N leader made five companies from 2006 to 2009 and did business of more than Rs19 billion.

On November 11, 2020, Hamza and his father Shahbaz Sharif were indicted in a money laundering reference by an accountability court.

In coming weeks after the lent 2021 we will discuss in detail ..Why the movement for justice in Pakistan or the Notorious ... Pakistan tehreek e insaaf ( PTI) ...forget to pick up  the good , the Bad and the useful legal fraternity in the two decades of their Tom Cruise 🤔


Now with that said and done I see no point in mentioning the Daska debacle ....


Let us jump to the glass ceiling at the Whitehouse in Washington DC .


The Jill's had the worst week of their presidency . After a cold send-off to the five lac Americans due to Covid-19 Corona Pandemic in just one year . Of which they and their following are responsible for staying on the party line divide and not supporting the US Administration when it all began . 


Anyways , regardless of the names of the Secretary of defense or the top brass at the Pentagon ...baby kept crawling and falling ...bumping and bumping ....ouch ! That hurts...


1. Iran Nuclear deal 

2. Afghan process 

3. Syria Air Strike 

4. Mr Khashogi was murdered 

5. Calling Riyadh 


Honestly I hope , Woods falling in the bunker had nothing to do with a Metaphor regarding shitty diapers from North Korea , China and Mexico . 

More from Tiger Woods

His car hit a kerb and then a tree before flipping over several times. No other cars were involved, but Woods needed to be cut out of the vehicle.

On Wednesday, detectives confirmed they "did not see any evidence of impairment" when they arrived at the scene - adding that the crash was "purely an accident".

Tiger Woods car crash. Pic: AP
Image:The car is said to have rolled several times. Pic: AP

Woods is considered one of the greatest golfers of his generation, and is a 15-time major winner. He made a dramatic comeback after an 11-year drought to win the Masters in 2019.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff has said that Woods will not face criminal charges over the grisly crash.


Islamabad and Delhi definitely panicked  . And hurriedly celebrated 

The World Tea Party day yesterday. 



All day the media showed India pilot emphasize the need and desire for peace . And the friars cry ...TGWHTA


Thank God We Have the Army . ...


Kings and Zalmi were forced to win in the national stadium . 


By the way ...does anybody know When the rain will double the fun and improve the odds 😁



 It is 3:25 am already ....and I feel very very sleepy 😴. 

And since I cannot sleep  until the sehri and fajr prayer ...about an hour and half away ...


So all I can do is Survive .....and enjoy 

Don't want to eat any junk food till sehri ..have already done overeating after the Iftari cum dinner and then lots of tea . Technically I should not have the sehri tonight and fast without sehri . In the past eleven days in lent 2021 ...my bulging belly did not go in ...just for the record . 




3:41 am Break ( 1124 Words) 

5:30 am Done
Astronomical twilight 5:39 am 

 وَبِصَوْمِ غَدٍ نَّوَيْتَ مِنْ شَهْرِ رَجب

Wa bisawmi ghadinn nawaiytu min shahri rajab

I intend to keep the fast for tomorrow in the month of Rajab 

میرا ارادہ ہے کہ رجب کے مہینے میں کل کا روزہ رکھو


Dear Merciful Lord All Mighty Allah Amen 🙏
I am keeping this fast just for you . So be pleased with me ...forgive and forget my Sins  . Bless my dearly departed parents Papa and Ammi and may their souls rest in peace in jannah .And if for any unforeseen reason they think of me and look down upon me from Heaven , make sure they get to see me fair seeming no matter how I may be . 
Amen 🙏
پیارے مہربان رب العزت اللہ آمین 🙏

 میں یہ روزہ صرف آپ کے لئے رکھ رہا ہوں۔  تو مجھ سے راضی رہو ... معاف کرو اور میرے گناہوں کو بھول جاؤ۔  میرے پیارے والد پاپا اور امی کو برکت دیں اور جنت میں ان کی روحیں سکون حاصل کریں ۔اور اگر کسی غیر متوقع وجوہ کی بنا پر وہ مجھ سے متعلق سوچتے ہیں اور جنت سے مجھ پر نگاہ ڈالتے ہیں تو اس بات کو یقینی بنائیں کہ مجھے اس سے قطع نظر میں کیسا ہوں 
مجھے مجھ سے بہتر ظاہر ہونا چاہئے

 آمین 🙏


Be kind and gentle to my dear siblings ....and give them Deliverance from Water and gutter Woes 
Amen 🙏

میرے پیارے بہن بھائیوں کے ساتھ نرمی برتاؤ کریں .... اور انہیں پانی اور گٹر کی پریشانی سے نجات دلائیں

 آمین 🙏

Time for the fajr Prayer 🛐 with a prayer for my Dearly Departed Parents Papa and Ammi

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!



Sun 15th Rajab 1442 H
28°C
2:07 pm Good Morning ! 
12th fast in lent ..
Over sleep 😴 
It's a hot and windy 
Quiet and Peaceful Sunday afternoon ...
Last day of the month of February 2021.
Back to Sunday Blogging...


So we were expecting a Biryani day at the Neighborhood construction site . But it seems that after watching me  doing the sehri and keeping a Sunday fast ...they changed their mind .....this is the third roof laying ...bomb shelter , ground floor and now the first floor .

In our neighborhood the bomb shelter is taken as the boom shelter and used as the godowns sometimes used by the owner or rented out . Due to the slow progress on the mass Transit green line bus tracks ...small businesses and traders in the old city areas are preferring to have the bomb shelter godowns in my neighborhood . It used to be a very posh residential neighborhood so it has wide roads and streets ...which make the logistics easy . Recently a famous US courier rented a whole floor of an old house after renovation ...so obviously the number of heavily armed guards has also increased , and so has the police petroling in uniform and Sada libaas ( non uniformed )  and where there are arms ..there is snatching ....yes of course the incidents have increased ...most remains unreported . ..


It's lunch time on our street and a little while ago I saw bags of market ovens naan bread movement . My twelveth fast is almost over ...just four more hours to go ....in which I will pray and recite ...a little rest ...then again pray and recite ....and lo ...there will be the sunset  it's 6:34 pm today 
I do sincerely believe that I need to check on my overeating and also do some walking ....but walking on these potholed streets and with heavy petroling is not my cup of tea .... The only excuse I used to have for walking was praying at the mosque and shopping for breakfast ...bread , eggs, milk and butter .... can't go to the mosque 🕌 because of Covid-19 Corona Pandemic and breakfast usually comes to the door through the bakery on wheels and food panda ....so now I am a self imprisoned totally screwed nuts ..soon my body will develop degenerative diseases and I will be bed ridden and slowly die . 🛌🛏️⚰️
Amen 🙏



Okay so here I take a short break and have a bath ..I hope there is tab water ...the hot bath days are gone ....today is the last day of the month of February ...so only sixty days left for Doctor Saab to eat fish after that it will be a month without an "R" 
The digital alarm clock thermometer is fast moving towards the alarming 30 °C plus ...when I will also have to check my beef and meat content in the regular meals and increase the milk and curd derivative 


Somebody recently pointed out that 
Cheese is also for the colder weather ....so I am totally thinking of staying away from excessive cheese consumption .... burgers and rolls without cheese ..and creamy pizza without extra topping s ....

It wasn't a very cold winter here and I did not catch the weapons of mass destruction flu 😷 so it was really easy to stick to the plan of avoiding the coffee ....I even saved the small sachets of instant coffee I got at the beginning of the winter....will have to use it soon ...

Will love the coffee☕ aroma on a rainy day ....

The  oily pakoras are slowly and gradually creeping in the Iftari menu

And there is just no chance of avoiding it especially in the fasting and rainy season ....even if I am able to avoid it in the lent fasting ....I simply can't avoid it in the  Holy month of Ramzan 
Amen 🙏

They are usually eaten without any check on quantity or quality ....So help me God the All Mighty Allah Amen 🙏

Okay it's very late .....so I have to take a break here for the Prayer 🛐 with a prayer 🤲 for my dearly departed parents Papa and Ammi
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!


3:39 pm Break ( 2229 Words) 

5:32 pm okay only one hour left ...the cooking mafia is up and has cooked Pulao ....simply irresistible ...and if I eat it in Iftari ...then it will be very difficult to reach the target of three thousand words for this my the Sunday Blog № 256 ( two hundred and fifty six ) . 





Yesterday I was channel surfing and I found out that all Senate seats from Punjab has already been elected ...so what is all this fuss about ? Isn't it the Punjab that holds all the voting power and majority in the electoral college of Pakistan ? 
There was a time I was so interested in the electoral process . Now the fun is totally gone . Just like people question our Fateha for the dearly departed ....people are beginning to question the purpose of Senate and parliament . Especially when they watch the scenes of wrestling and wrangling in the parliamentary proceedings . Especially in the times of social distancing and Pandemic Covid-19 Corona SOP s 

Sindh Assembly sees bedlam as clash between PPP, PTI members continues

Welcome

KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly again on Friday witnessed uproar and chaos when lawmakers belonging to the Pakistan Peoples Party and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf traded insults and hurled abuses on each other.

The situation took an ugly turn at the outset of the proceedings following the remarks of PTI’s Khurram Sher Zaman, who said “it seems that there is dogs’ rule in the province” while praying for dog-bite victims.

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Mukesh Kumar Chawla, Information, Science and Technology Minister Taimur Talpur and other PPP lawmakers lost their cool and aggressively moved toward the PTI benches, shouting at MPA Sher Zaman and advising him to control his tongue and not to act like a “goon”.


This week in Sindh Assembly two honorable MPA were locked horns ...with their supporting members chanting and cheering from behind ...it is very very entertaining ....in times of boring PSL6 
Have you ever tried to watch a PSL6 match between your favorite teams on the local sports channels ptv sports or Geo super ....with after every two minutes ....a commercial break ....of ..
O Mrs Osama ...f@#$ 
What is wrong with the media ? 


Okay time is up ....please remember me in your prayers ... I'll be two drowsy after the Iftari to remember anybody ...
So it's break for Iftari but first the Asr prayers  with a prayer for my dearly departed parents Papa and Ammi

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!

5:56 pm Break ( 2720 words ) 

Sun 16th Rajab 1442H
28°C(24°C )
8:12 pm Good Evening !

Iftari 

Sunset  6:34 pm 























😴😴💤

8:49 pm Good Morning ! 
No ..it is still Sunday evening ...I never understood what is the time frame of the evening ...is 5:00 pm evening ...or afternoon ? 
Is 6:00 pm evening or Night ? 
Is 9 :00 pm Night or Evening ? 
Similarly is 4:00 am night or morning vee hours ...? 


Anyways ...

11:04 pm ... Exactly the same happened  as was expected . I had a food coma . I have been sleeping for the past couple of hours ...having no idea of the the time and the place or the surrounding . It is very quiet outside . There is no sound of the television in the other room . There was a very meek sound of a spoon touching the tea cup ...so somebody in the kitchen is making or shaking the tea ...Thank God the All Mighty Allah Amen 🙏 
My mouth is very dry ...no I do not feel dehydrated but a few cups of tea till the sehri won't hurt the equilibrium . 

The fan is on and I feel a little chilly ...so I better get up and turn off the fan and sip some tea or water or juice and freshen up .,.

11:15 pm Break 

11:29 pm okay yes there is tea ...freshly made for me and lots of it ...lucky . 

The king's were not so lucky tonight the got the beating from the Lahore Qalanders ...awesome ..must be their first win ...what the points table ...and who is on the top ...will check it later ...soon ..

Who cares 🤓


And talking of Kings ..this week at the movies was not very serious because is the half day of fasting ...and before that trying to just stay awake for sehri ..,still I watched the sequel to the most repeated movie on the movie channels The king's men blah blah ...and in the sequel Golden circle which seems like a charba of the Mr bean movie ...anyways ...it had two very interesting things ... programmed drones ...to supply the vaccines and the Mr Collin firth having butterflies ....all over ....I am not there yet but it's very close ....my rose plants had a very quick transition from fall to spring this week ...none of them had a bud or rose flower since the happy Valentine's an almost over a fortnight ...and then suddenly the leaves turned yellow and dry and fall ....and then new leaves came ....if only I had any clue ...i would have made a time lapse video of just taken a few photos and made a collage or something ...
Now I am not very sure what to do about the sun bath ...in winter's I was moving the plant pots in three different locations as the sun moved ...the morning sun comes up from between two buildings for about an hour between nine and ten ...it then disappears and reappears near the back alley for an hour between eleven and noon ...and then towards the west front till the Sunset ... but now the temperature is rising to a burning hot 30° C in the direct sun ...it will burn the plants ...so now I can only give sunbath to the rose plants just once ...otherwise it will be burned or should I keep them under the shade ...all the time ....and just expose them to the direct sunlight only once for few minutes ...because from my previous experience ...they even won't survive without no sun ...it is a jam but the thought process will keep my mind very busy and occupied ....almost land grabbed 🤯 

12:00  ...


The movies of the week :


Had no idea the  list grew so long ...no wonder the week seem too short this week ...and I thought not having the day time at my disposal will shorten the movies list ...even in the normal days watching movies in the day time is not very easy  have to get up to watch the door for expected and non expected visitors ...siblings coming in and going out ... , Couriers , food panda riders ...wrong # s  , landline wrong numbers .., beggers , and neighbors kids asking for their ball in our yard . Interesting !🤔 We had no balls at all this weekend ... And no clamouring as well Must be political correctness or shift of goals ...🤣


In the list about there are many golden oldies from my tender days ..o

And talking of tender ...did I watch an edited version of the Sarah Marshall movie ....ouch it hurts ....it hurts really bed ...I remember the demo disc but I don't remember the Kama sutra pages in all the previous reruns ...must have not been concentrating 😎

AVA ..shows Saudi Arabia that probably my dear Aunt got to see up close and personal ..but thank God the All Mighty Allah Amen 🙏 Doctor Saab did not ...he still remembers and pray for it and only watch the bad stuff about it in the media ....Nope Nobody can ...Amen 🙏



The longest ride and Thomas crown affair are mare fiction to me and signifies nothing ....I don't care about the arts , I am a science person just like my Dearly Departed Papa ( May his soul rest in peace in jannah Amen 🙏) ...I fancy the moon and the Mars ..the Virgin and the SpaceX

All the Best 😍


This was perhaps the best time of my life to Have been able to watch The Conductor ... I am definitely reviewing my policy about the glass ceiling and women's March  . And this was a good read .. definitely 👍

Aha the Telugu movies are fast paced and long ...they do to my soul exactly what the market oven ( Tandoor) lines used to do . 


Okay that reminds me ...I have to pray and recite soon ..only three and a half hours left to sehri time .. can't decide what to have for sehri there is so much to choose from and there is just no room for any in the belly ...

Okay this is it from the movies ...this week ..
And in the soap ( Mrs O Osama scene ) totally entangled with Yasak Elma Turkish dubbed ...let go of the other ones ... partially 
Survived the Geo entertainment soaps  but sometimes I do update the jadoo magic and enchanting is immoral  and tabboo warning  ..this black label generation is totally wasting it's time ....


Okay I believe it's too late I must end this my the Sunday Blog № 256 ( Two Hundred and fifty Six ) right now . 
I have to search for song video link as well ... 

And who knows I might stumble upon something better in the pursuit ...
So any ways ..it's Goodbye for now 

All the Best 😍

God Bless America 🙏


Allah Hafiz ! 


Sinnerman Song by Nina Simone

Oh, sinnerman, where you gonna run to?
Sinnerman where you gonna run to?
Where you gonna run to?
All on that day
We got to run to the rock
Please hide me, I run to the rock
Please hide me, run to the rock
Please hide here
All on that day
But the rock cried out
I can't hide you, the rock cried out
I can't hide you, the rock cried out
I ain't gonna hide you there
All on that day
I said rock
What's the matter with you rock?
Don't you see I need you, rock?
Good Lord, Lord
All on that day
So I run to the river
It was bleedin', I run to the sea
It was bleedin', I run to the sea
It was bleedin', all on that day
So I run to the river
It was boilin', I run to the sea
It was boilin', I run to the sea
It was boilin', all on that day
So I run to the Lord
Please hide me, Lord
Don't you see me prayin'?
Don't you see me down here prayin'?
But the Lord said
Go to the Devil, the Lord said
Go to the Devil
He said go to the Devil
All on that day
So I ran to the Devil
He was waitin', I ran to the Devil
He was waitin', ran to the Devil
He was waitin', all on that day
I cried, power, power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Kingdom (power, Lord)
Kingdom (power, Lord)
Kingdom (power, Lord)
Kingdom (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Well, I run to the river
It was boilin', I run to the sea
It was boilin', I run to the sea
It was boilin', all on that day
So I ran to the Lord
I said Lord, hide me
Please hide me
Please help me, all on that day
He said, hide?
Where were you?
When you oughta have been prayin'
I said Lord, Lord
Hear me prayin', Lord, Lord
Hear me prayin', Lord, Lord
Hear me prayin', all on that day
Sinnerman, you oughta be prayin'
Outghta be prayin', sinnerman
Oughta be prayin', all on that day
Up come power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
(Power, Lord)
Hold down (power, Lord)
Go down (power, Lord)
Kingdom (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Power (power, Lord)
Na-na-na, na-na-na-na
Na-na-na, na-na-na-na
Na-na-na, na-na-na-na
Woah, ho
Ha-ha-ha-ha
Ha-ha-ha-ha, oh Lord
Nu, nu, nu
No-no-no-no, ma-na-na-na-na, don't you know I need you Lord?
Don't you know that I need you?
Don't you know that I need you?
Oh, Lord
Wait
Oh, Lord
Oh, Lord, Lord