Blending in |
I like to blend in, often I can get away with it which I like. Other times I caught out, and then I dont esp by seedy rickshaw drivers. I confess I was jet lagged and starting to get a little disorie...
Posted by on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:15:00 GMT |
Readjusting to Pakistan |
My eyes are changing. Flickers of it were apparent in the days leading up to my departure. Id catch sight of people in the street going about their business and for half a moment my perception of the...
Posted by on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 04:52:00 GMT |
Channel 4 News |
For those who don't know already, I've been offered a job in Pakistan with a British news programme Channel 4 News http://www.channel4.com/news/ of Krishnan Gurumurthy and Jon Snow fame.I'm going to b...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:26:00 GMT |
Things I love about Lahore |
More for myself than anything, feeling very jittery today about leaving London:The adventure, the feeling of living in a unfolding story.The better standard of livingGetting re-fluent in the languageG...
Posted by on Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:21:00 GMT |
Freelancing in the world's hotspots |
I read this journo's exp of freelancing in Iraq and Somalia -http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7993895.stm - not too impressed with the way the it seems to be glamourising this kind of work:"Colin Freema...
Posted by on Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:28:00 GMT |
I had a dream my dad died |
God it was horrible. I can express it, it was like waking up to find an arm missing.Nothing about it felt good, not the guests coming to comfort my family, not my sister and I finally getting along, n...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Mar 2009 03:18:00 GMT |
Turkey Dinner |
The first thing I noticed was the turkey carcass on the kitchen surface. It startled me, I didn't expect to see a big Thanksgiving turkey in Lahore.Then again I didn't expect to stumble upon a private...
Posted by on Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:41:00 GMT |
Get Lost |
There was a moment one evening in April this year. I was in a traffic jam at the bottom of Main Blvd in Garden Town. The splutter of passing rickshaws, beeping, the dust and the heat, the darkness.&nb...
Posted by on Sat, 22 Nov 2008 12:07:00 GMT |
Gender Bores |
It seems like everyone's got something to say about gender these days except me.
I've never thought it was a big deal that someone wanted to change their actual sex and it's clear lots of people spend...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:16:00 GMT |
These are the things that dreams are made of |
The job I do is exhausting me. My head gets so crammed with information every day that I leavework feeling tense like a tightly coiled spring.
It's difficult for me to wind down which is par...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:10:00 GMT |
