The Snow Will Melt

I'm happy that you liked some sad lines.

:)

Tahir,

With every word that I have read of your articles, my respect for you as a writer and as a man behind those words has grown immensely.

Having lost the dearest of people to death very early on in life I can so relate to this article in my own way.

"No death is painless, not even the one that men face suddenly or while asleep. What is more painful than death itself is facing the sudden truth of being responsible for—directly or indirectly—the death and destruction of fellow man; it grinds one’s soul into hellish dust, it stretches into painfully hot eons the fading moments during which the snow of life melts".... Beautiful.

Thank you for writing..

Best Regards,
Meher.

Zeemax and all else,
Do you know the Biblical Incident of "who will cast the first stone"

Re: # 70

Khuda aap ko muaf farmaaye, aur tamaam namazaiN ada karnay ki taufeeq aur hidayat day. Ameen, khhuuupphhhheeeeww (can you feel the ruhani breeze in your giraybaaN?)

Do smile more often.

Peace.

Re: # 71

Siddiqui sahib! Of course I remember your comment ("This is wonderful/entertaining writing. Enjoyed this piece to the very uncovered end.").

These days I'm into designer stuff: my shirt is tucked into the rear of the trousers because the shirt is torn. From the front the shirt hangs out because there's some technical flaw with the designer fly which must remain undone!

Despite these minor annoyances in such troubled times, I'm glad to report that nobody seems suspicious!

Peace.

RE: Tahir #58...

Look Ma, No Pants!

Remember?

Dhuhr? Tahir saab aap kab say Arbi bun gaye hein? Hamare zamane mein to Zuhr ki namaaz hoti thi. Maaf ki jiya ga, salat. Aur Ramadan? Aur Allahhafiz? Mein to ab tuk Khudhafiz hi kehta hoon.

;-)

Re: # 66

Dear Cinema Scope,

She must have been torn between two lovers: the Ruh and Iblees.

Even the coloured ladies of the Red District (I am told by those who've witnessed this miracle) offer Fajr (morning prayers) regularly, but in the evenings they're at it again. If only they'd remember that there's Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib, and Isha after Fajr!

Thanks for laying bare your inner self.

Its nice to know that you started your career with an airline that taught Singapore, Malta, and Emirates how to fly. Those you left behind weeping have all gone old.

Peace indeed.

... sorry I thought that post was addressed to me.

Regards.

#64 Posted by tahir.

Look Tahir Saheb, this post hurt me. You took me wrong. I started my career with PIA. It was the best airline in the world, and it still can be.

But air hostesses are the same all over the world, it's not only PIA. I mean, what else does one do on layovers but get laid?

#63 Posted by slyder,

There was once when I asked this girl to my room, and she said "acha ... Namaz parh kar aati hoon'.

#62 Posted by tahir,

No offense, but have you ever been inside 'Rock Castle'? I mean inside ... in the air hostess rooms ... not just honking at the gate begging the chowkidar to page your favorite air hostess.

Peace. Absolutely. I agree.

Re: # 63

Honestly, decent folks like you never travel by PIA. It's the uneducated poor (who are afraid of asking for ten million eatables from fair blondes of western airlines) who remain the bread and butter of the airline who've strongly condemned.

Stepping on the ones you love, is this your favourite pastime? If you knew how people are employed in Asian countries, what salaries they get, and how much work they're expected to do, you would sympathise and never criticise.

Even the best make mistakes, forget, or fall asleep at the wheel. If all the other trades in the world were as tightly regulated as commercial aviation is, we'd have a lot less non-sense today. People in aviation get grounded, depend on their medical fitness and professional abilities, and lose licences all the time. They really PAY if they commit mistakes, and worse, they don't have parachutes or after-burners like fighter planes do!

PIA is totally lenient when it comes to foul-mouthed, rowdy, over-demanding passengers (the types who'd probably stick elbows into their own sisters' buttocks if they passed them by!).

On which other airline can one make a mess of the airplane, steal cutlery, ruin entertainment systems, and insist on yelling, Don't you know who I am?

Are you from the FAA, do you work as a consultant to the EU, are you a disgruntled ATCO who still hasn't been able to get in PIA? What are you SLY-DER.

Now the unfortunate ones who you say are 'picked up' always come from dubious backgrounds, and in worse places do they eventually wind up. Perhaps they don't have a choice in a world where knights don't move about in shining armour but rather pimp around on 50cc bikes in search of 'scores'.

I guess you've been taught to refer to your dealing with the fair sex as 'scoring it'. Look around, there may be worse creatures in your workplace, office, school, neighbourhood, or circle of friends.

Unless you dismantle your sexist scoreboard, each of your glorious sixers will end up as a naught.

Howzat!!??

And peace.

PIA's crew is probably the most pathetic in the world. The cabin crew, both male and female, have beards, mustaches, pot bellies and huge butts. The number 2 perfume won't mask their bad BO and they haven't heard that mints have been invented. The pilots are probably the most poorly trained and managed other than a few West African airlines. They smoke on board, even in airspaces where smoking is not allowed, and have the skills of bus drivers on Mandi Bhau din - Phalia route. I recall PIA belly landed a 747 in Islamabad in the 80s because the crew forgot to lower the wheels! The 3 idiots in the cockpit were probably busy puffing on their Wills ;)

The PIA 'Ho'-stesses were picked up from the AP Hotel on 50 CC mopeds and rickshaws -- so no big deal if you scored some.

Re: # 61

Dear ZeeMax,

You said: If you're a batch mate of Dabbu's, we may even have met or shared some air hostesses :)

I say:
Dabbu was an entirely different bird when he spoke about females unrelated to him, as most men often do, but then in 1989 he was young.

Most people, usually not linked to the airlines, insist on painting a picture whose shades I can clearly see in your statement. Its not a healthy sign unless you've just turned seventeen.

How can I remember meeting you when your name sounds like a cinema projection technology? As for your implication that we might have had 'fun' sharing females with one another, that has utterly ruined my impression about you. I hope women with integrity (there are plenty in PIA and at CHOWK) will take up the issue with you from now on.

You may choose to live with whatever impression you might have about me.

Peace (to the max).

#59 Dear tahir,

Whatever I said is firsthand ... and certainly not from clerks of PALPA or newspapers.

If you're a batch mate of Dabbu's, we may even have met or shared some air hostesses :)

Nothing of the incident can be verified of-course.