So far my stay in khi has been too eventful, I guess the ‘official trip’ explains most of the tiring part. I did meet some of my good friends and for that reason even got to speak some of the rest. The shoots have been taking up most of my time, heh heh, I make it sound as if I’m a top notch celebrity. Well it seems every media person in khi ought to know this by now that nothing ever happens according to time, everyone’s always running late by almost 2 hours or sometimes more, though ive gotten use to that by now, so I take my own sweet time preparing for the rest of the day.
Last night I was sitting at boat basin, somewhat known as a hub for food joints, went to a place called Baithak. While sitting on wooden “Takht”, I could smell the smoke that an old man was blowing onto a parked car; apparently he was tryin to ward off bad spirits and omen. After 20 minutes, I could hear a clicking-clacking noise which came from 2 small bottles of oil that were tapping against each other, The guy carrying them was apparently is a masseuse. For a mere 100 rupees, the guy would give you one of the best leg massages ever, or so I’ve heard.
Anyhow, after baithak, me and Baig, drove off into the streets of khi, quietly listening to the silence of solitude, yup sometimes we just drive around for hours without uttering a word, boring you say, not when you’re in a new place, that’s what Karachi is for me. A home away from home. The next day we went off to a place called “Soraabghoat”, apparently there’s a huge Cattle Market there or should I say “Bakra-mandi” where we had to shoot an episode. Lets just say it wasn’t the best of venues and the smell there was literally to die with. Though being with the rest of the Vj’s was fun, it was one of the first times the team was together. Khair, later in the night I went to the Site office (The Musik), and I Saw the most freaky-est thing on the way, A Jeep which was submerged half way in the middle of the street, submerged!!!!....in what you ask, a ditch which was conveniently left un-filled with concrete but water instead, I guess the driver couldn’t make out what he was gonna drive over…or into. so you see, life can throw you the most unexpected things from time to time. (still cant get the ditch thing outta my head).
The following day, the whole team went to the beach, “sanspit”. That was another great experience, at first I was like, its gonna be another boring shoot, but I met up with the sahil boys there, we got along really well, don’t know if it was the music, the jokes or just the companionship but we gelled well and made it through the whole night. The shoot which was supposed to start at 6:30Pm started at 12AM and ended around 4:30AM, making me reach home at around 5AM.
23rd Dec 2006The day after that we went for an meeting with Saima, a stylist who would be giving all the Vjs a new look for new years, Now if anyone out there knows me well enough they oughta know this about me that im very very very very picky about anyone who claims to give me a good haircut. So I simply told Saima what exactly I wanted and stuck by that saying nothing funky entended. In the following two days all the vjs had their new looks, or so they say. I was the only guy who got away with a sane duo and Alizay, another sweet vj got something she was satisfied with. As for the rest, orange-head, blonde, Red head, short crazy haired, Tina turner were some of the words used to describe em. Poor souls.
24th Dec 2006The next day, there wasn’t any shoot for the team, but Aliza called me in to make an appearance on her show called “freshly-baked”, which was during lunch hours. After the shoot me and her went off to enjoy some kick-ass hunter beef burgers, and we really bonded as friends. Felt great. The rest of the day I went back to the guest house and slept till baig came over and then we went to meet some friends.
25th Dec 2006 – MERRY CHRISTMASAfter all the new look funda was over, we head off to deja-vu a day later, a restaurant where we were shooting 3 day episodes of the Eid lounge, which was pretty boring, I was lucky to have the Call boys sitting with me on my segment, the other celebs were just an average bunch who’re probably really popular amongst there own following. Apparently this is the last video shoot for which I was flown to khi for, so finally Im free now. Though there is one photo-shoot left which covers our new look and then I’m done.
The evening I hung out with a fellow vj, and chilled with the band Call for dinner and bowling. The night came to an end with me pooped.
Dec 26th 2006So since today we had no shoot, I decided to take two friends to lunch, which meant a lot to me. Though being the guest it felt odd being the one giving the treat and pickin n dropping. But somewhere, somehow…it was worth it.
Jan 1st 2007Happy new year to one and all. Ok so sometimes things get a lil crazier than you’d expect. I’ve moved in with mom and dad, had a great new year and made some more amazing friends. New years was pretty good. A dinner followed by a party at the beach, though I wasn’t into the whole party scene so at my pleasure there was a bonfire by the beach which made everything pretty perfect. Since I’m going back in another 2-3 days, Im gonna stop the blogs and probably get back to it once im back home. Oh yeh before I leave, just wanna confess that the 26th lunch wasn’t worth it after all, I guess some things are too good to be true.
Peace.
