Internet access across Pakistan has been messed up for the last 4 days due to a fault in the submarine cable connecting Pakistan to the rest of the world. PTCL engineers, who were supposed to have found and fixed the problem by Tuesday morning, have been working to locate and fix the fault for those 4 days now. In the meantime, SEA-ME-WE, which seems like a most twisted perversion because it sounds like an invitation to watch me take a piss, is still faulty and, hence, internet access is super-slow.
Brazil beat favorites Argentina in the Confederations Cup last night. It wasn't just a victory; it was a drubbing! Brazil won 4-1 with 2 goals from Adriano and one each from Kaka and the ever-entertaing genius Ronaldinho. Argentina pegged one back in the second half with Pablo Aimar coming off the bench to score. Argentina, on form, are the best team in the world--or so sports writers would have us believe. This is what Brazil can do to the best team in the world though. Is there ever a time when Brazil play a tournament and are not favorites to win it? They are at the moment holders of the World Cup, Copa America and Confederations Cup.
Watching the match in the M-1 common room is an experience. Nizar, Furrukh, Atif Gul, Cheeko, Laghari, Chandio and a sprinkling of other random watchers. Add to that mix Saadi and Butt and visitations from the Khoka delivery guy and you're left with the most entertaining of evenings. Insert into that mentions of Shaw, missed penalty kicks, German "greatness" and Cheeko's attempts at finally passing Persian, and you're left with a night worth remembering. I'm sure Tree Elf will do a better job of the story with his pics and his account of the arrival of the 6 Mango Shakes but what a night it was. Mad Soccer indeed.
It rained yesterday. Beautiful, cool, soothing rain. The weather was gorgeous for about 8 hours on Monday night and Tuesday morning. Now though the heat is back. Not as much as before but it's still enough to make life miserable. To top it off, humidity like you'd never imagined. The worst possible consequence of ahore rain though are the guaranted bug-invasion! Hope the heat subsides and takes the humidity with it.
My own Persian learning has also been somewhat enhanced over the 90 minutes of the match:
Lun-e-mun dar pusht-e-shumar.
LaterzZz.
2 comments:
this was the only line he learnt and that too not properly. he was being tutored by 3 different people. one of them the topper from our batch!
Saad, pardon me to break this to you. PTCL engineers are good for nothing much less repairing Fibre Optic cable stretched over thousand miles and whose fault still hasn't been found till morning Monday by Singtel Engineers.
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