Been sort of out of the loop the last couple of days… The internet is shady so Ive been putting off writing something about the first fews being back in Pakistan…

Im still jet lagged - sleeping when most people here are awake, and awake when most people are asleep. When I am awake, I feel Im in a sort of a Bizzaro World, where everything is very familiar, yet, quite weird and almost foreign. I mean, almost nothing is as I left it - Karachi has changed quite a lot, and not everything for the better. Its weird, you go to these places that you used to go to all the time when you were young, but they look completely different now. There are a couple of things I cant get over: [Disclaimer: only Karachites will know what I’m talking about here…]
1. Fly-overs. Everywhere. I mean EVERYWHERE.
2. Dirt. More of it.
3. Shops and malls (yes, malls). More of them. A LOT more. EVERYWHERE.
4. Zamzama. What used to be a nice, small little empty street is now a major thru-way and shopping district. I just cant get over it!!!
5. The Agha’s ’roundabout’… well, its not a roundabout anymore!!! So weird.
6. People. More of them. Everywhere!!!
7. Billboards. Huge ones. Everywhere.
8. Seaview. Its HUGE and its completely different, and I must say that this is the best improvement of all.
9. McDonald’s is everywhere. No really, you think your city has a lot of them? Try one on almost every corner here in Karachi! I mean, youre greated with one as soon as you walk out of the airport.

Some things dont change:
1. Dirty, fucked up roads.
2. Open manholes on every road.
3. Did I mention the dirt?
4. Driving is a health and sanity hazard, where you literally have to watch out for UFOs and all sorts of shit from every fuckin’ direction.

I’ve taken a few pictures but my Camera Raw plug-in for photoshop is fucked, so I can’t open any of the shots that Ive taken. The replacement plug-in I downloaded from the Adobe web site only works on CS2, a cheeky way for Adobe to get us to buy the latest copy! Bastids! OK then, Im going to oblige and run down to the local computer software store and buy a copy of PhotoShop CS2… for $1. Can you do that in America? I think not, bitches!