Archive for the 'Bazaars' Category
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
i’m a cereal killer.
» It makes me sad that the JB seems to be losing steam. [Also, that I can't get my paragraphs to separate, no matter how many <br> tags I stuff in.]
» What do you fellows make of things in Pakistan these days? I’ve been out of touch, but I’ve heard about the dilly-dallying over restoring the judiciary. Although, I don’t know if that would really matters. Scandalous, considering I was briefly involved with the Student Action Committee, for whom the judiciary is a major concern.
» The job search is — or should be — go. Any tips?
» Here are the Arsenal Ladies.
Saturday, April 19th, 2008
we can has rapidshare!
i think it’s a source of great pride that pakistan has its very own official reseller — Aekpani Networks ["To Lead You At The Peaking Edge"] — for rapidshare.
Monday, March 17th, 2008
koka kola, advertising, & cocaine
i guess the question is this: what do we want jumabazaar to be? it started out as a dedicated space for the on-line conversation we were already having, but now it’s something slightly different, although i think we’re still writing for ourselves, and not for an outside audience. and that’s a good thing - we should be our audience before anyone else.
at the same time, i think one reason we moved to JB is to have some sort of interaction with other people via comments, etc. so, we need to put links out there and hope that some of the people who follow those links share our interests. so, it would be nice to have more active readers, but it won’t kill JB if we don’t have more.
as for overload, i actually liked the two videos i’ve seen of them with pappu saeen and jhoora saeen - ‘cursed’ [from my last post] and ‘dhamaal‘. i think, for me, the absence of vocals is a plus. and i haven’t heard anything else about overload - are they still around?
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
the importance of being folk.
i’ve been checking out that dawn blog - seems promising.
the thing about tourism is, it’s an industry, a business. and tourists are consumers. so you take a place, you manufacture some attractions [like a 528798107890km tall tower], and you market it [exploiting any local peculiarities, like a legend/myth, or a giant hole in the ground]. i guess it’s not surprising that boring places are the best sellers, just like books, music records, films, etc.
what interests me about travelling is learning about lifestyles/cultures, etc. and i don’t think i can do that on a trip. so, i have some places in mind [one is iceland, many in the middle east] where hopefully, someday, i can afford to spend more than a few days or a couple of weeks.
haha, ostrich eggs certainly sound tempting. you could egg someone’s place with them, and see how that turns out. or, if you live high up, drop a couple on a passing car. there’s no way the coppers will buy the story that a giant egg hit someone’s windshield. =)
Thursday, February 7th, 2008
ingenuity!
i didn’t buy any chicks. however i do remember some roadside vendors had come up with a truly ingenious business plan. knowing that a lot of parents didn’t want to put up with the hassle of taking animals home with them, they offered to free the chicks for money.
mothers could give their children a lesson in the ethics of treating animals humanely without having to console them when the chicks invariably died within a few days. meanwhile the vendor would simply pretend to release them and then simply sell the chicks again. genius!
btw, i googled fluorescent chicks to see what came up and to assuage atomsmashers concerns that pakistani’s are the only ones to come up with pink chicks i came up withthis
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
for those who like their chicks fluorescent
it dawned on me slightly late in life that there was no natural breed of chicken who’s chicks were a radioactive pink in hue. Instead, it was that rascally breed of increadibly enterprising pakistani men, who, in a agrarian marketing coup, caused to be prepared chicks (sold live, for rearing) in all florescent colours and sold them on roadsides and bazaars (particularly juma/friday bazaars). did you guys ever buy them? my maternal instincts being quite absent, my experiments would always end in misery..
dailytimes always writes the weirdest of articles, I can never quite decide if whether some of their staff writers are increadible astute impressionistic crafters of prose, or just plain retarded. following in this honest tradition - “how to check your chicken”
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
First Post and I Think It’s a Good One
Given this is the first post in the new format I thought I’d find something related to this blog’s name. Somewhat surprisingly I’ve found a gem.
http://eyechor.blogspot.com/2005/04/whose-fault-is-it.html