You Worship Your Lords I Worship Mine

It was one of the best Football Club in Islamabad. This Football club used to see players come later than other Football grounds mainly because in this ground all the business professionals and executives used to play after office timings. Practice used to carry on much later after dusk i.e. Maghrib prayers. The team was a fine amalgamation of youngsters and oldies. Age ranging from 16 to 50. 

There was a guy who was an excellent footballer and a human being. Most of the time he was silent on the pitch and all his attention remain on his game. He was lightening fast and an emphatic finisher. But he had the habit of sneaking out approximately 5 minutes before calling for prayer (Azan) to a nearby mosque and after offering Namaz resume training. The club management was upset about this fact and was weighing up their options to confront him one day.

On the very next day as soon as he was about to leave the ground; game halted, players gathered, and coaches accompanied by senior players questioned his commitment about the game. He said that we could start the game much earlier tomorrow and finish it before Namaz. This argument upset the management and they said we cannot do this as our office timings demand this tight schedule to follow and quite frankly we are not changing timing just because of you. And if you do not abide by the timing fully you're welcome to leave the club. Just leave the ground today and you may never come back to play again for this club. What do you say? And folks his response was legendary, "You worship your lords at the offices I worship mine in the mosque". He said this with such calm that everybody went dead silent and he hurriedly walked towards mosque.

Indo-Pak Cricket Series Boycott

Tough call for many but yes I am doing it. Frankly speaking every Pakistani should do a boycott of this series in context to what happened with Pakistani Blind Cricket Team captain in India. As the moment I am writing I feel so free, so buoyant, and so ecstatic that words cannot define this feeling and also I am out of words but this feeling is incontestably supreme that I have not felt in years. This is the feeling of breaking free of these unseen chain of viewership. I did not watch the game and believe me nothing bad happened to me. Everything is working as normal as routine. I did not get nerve attack which I am certain to get after watching out team play in past. I would have been watching as enthusiastically as I did each time for this particular fixture had it not been the case of vicious attack on our captain a few week ago. So it is not like I do not watch Cricket. Even Ehsan Mani said, "Pakistan should not tour India."

"I think the PCB is wrong to have agreed to this. If it is a political decision, then the PCB should have asked the politicians to make sure that India reciprocated by coming and playing against Pakistan even if it was at a neutral venue," Mani said in an interview on 'Pakpassion.net' website.

I believe that if all of us decide to stand up against this false system we can overcome the facades of this system. Unity of people can bring down any system. But as depicted in Matrix we are so inert so hopelessly dependent on the system that we would fight anything that is helping us to get out of this vicious system.

Today is 25th December and I lay my humblest tribute to Jinnah. May God be pleased with him. I have not much to say seriously but I have got nothing but utmost respect for the great man who gave us this wonderful country than and now mere pieces of lands. He famously said, "failure is a word unknown to me". I bet that he expected not all but many of us to be like him but we collectively failed him. Sorry Mr. Jinnah!

- Usman Saeed

Gulfam's Birthday

I feel terrible about missing out on Gulfam's birthday and the worst part I called him and talked routine talk. Shit!!! The bro must have picked up phone with the belief that I called him for wishing birthday and I did not. Anyways I was reminded once I disconnected the call in a lofty manner. Fully deserved. 

But I have come up with something that did not only made me feel better but also will calm once he reads my blog. The Bro Code Article 52 states: A Bro is not required to remember another Bro's birthday, though a [good luck] call every now and again probably wouldn't kill him. I rest my case.

Although we do not share the same month yet we do share a same date which is 24. I would like to extend my heartiest wishes to this special bro and would greet him with my trademark birthday greetings, "May life treats you as her son in law for many years to come". In our society a son in law for a mother in law is as dear as Israel to America. For girls I wish otherwise. God I come up with a lot of good stuff.

Have a blasting whatever time you have left bro. Bear witness with me that belated birthday will be celebrated.

- Usman Saeed

Movie Recommendation

Folks, I am going to recommend an amazing and most inspiring movie ever. At least I learned a lot from this movie. It helped me asking myself some questions that every individual should be asking to oneself. Someone said, "the man who does not think of himself does not think at all."

The movie is called Network. It is an old yet an awe inspiring movie. The movie was released in 1976. The story involves a fictional TV network, UBS, and its struggle with poor audience ratings. Howard Beale, a long serving but underfire anchor has two more weeks in the office. Beale on live TV claims he is going to commit suicide and gets fired immediately after his proclamation but Max Schumacher, news division president and Beale's friend intervenes and so that Beale can have a dignified departure. Beale promises that he will apologize for his emotional outburst but instead he raves that life is 'bullshit'. Beale's grandiloquence results in an overnight rating hike. Reinstated as anchor, he is now being hailed as 'mad prophet' as he galvanizes the nation by shouting his famous phrase out of their windows, "I am as mad as hell, and I am not going to take this anymore!". (well, I had the same feeling about Malala conspiracy dragged on for months) But his speeches do not match with the interests of UBS both ideologically and rating wise. So he comes undefire once again and silenced forever on the very show he used to inspire audience.

Please do watch this mini marvel and leave your thoughts in comments. Thank you!
- Usman Saeed

The link: http://kat.ph/network-1976-dvdrip-xvid-t447967.html

Media Hypocrisy

Shame on our channels for broadcasting substandard and vulgar Indian Dramas. Shame on the viewers who follow this nonsense. I am a grown ass man and still I cannot watch even some of Pakistani dramas with my family. Why on earth so much coverage to those and their culture who cannot be our friends ever? Geo is the worst TV Channel. Musharraf did a lot of bad things but when he put a ban on Geo I saluted him. Have you ever seen Pakistani dramas on Indian TV Channels? Their media molests the image of Pakistan in any way you can think of but we cannot wait to shake hands and welcome them on our soil. We cannot wait to start this new 'friendly' Cricket series. When they attacked on Pakistani Blind Team captain we could have left the tournament and should have returned home but we did not because our leadership is weak and we are a weak nation. They banished international Cricket in Pakistan by using there influence and we cannot wait to 'reply opponents on the pitch.' Their dramas offer you nothing more than vulgarity, sex, adultery, and domestic turmoil and treacheries. Now Pakistani dramas are using same strategies. What I am watching is highly disturbing to me and I am highly angered and frustrated by these media pigs.

I have no issue if someone watches Indian movies and dramas individually but TV makes mass opinion and this is unacceptable to every sane Pakistani. Take a critical look around this hypocritical world of media. Geo has hired the most fraudulent bastards in their ranks. Dunya has had media bitches like Mubasshar Luqman and Mehar Bukhari. The list goes on and on. So far I found Express a better channel among the rest but it is like picking bad among the worst. 

If you're thinking that any channel will tell you the truth then please open your eyes because this is never going to happen. YOU and only YOU can make a difference because TV is not the truth and truth will never come out on this TV because when you speak truth this happens. (Video of a brave American sister who spoke in favor of Pakistani people and other countries against American barbarianism) see for yourself that how brutally she is being silenced by champions of 'Freedom of Speech/Expressions'

I salute this American sister's Bravery and condemn the acts of authorities for silencing her and the dragging away of a an unarmed innocent woman. But wait a minute most of you have not seen it on any TV channel even on Pakistani ones. When you can watch Miss Universe's news and Mayan End of World shit then above video definitely deserve a news slot but it did not. Why? Because their masters did not want us to see this video. I think it is a known fact that these Pakistani News Channels are funded by America and supporters of one world government. 

I have decided to write emails to these news and entertainment stations of Pakistan. Please help me with your thoughts and topics you may want to include. Thank you!

- Usman Saeed

P. S. Above video might not work as Youtube has not been working since quite sometime in Pakistan. But it is a must watch and softwares like HotSpot Shield can help you.