Archive for June, 2008

Friday Funnies: Quickies

Damn, I almost missed the Friday Funnies today cuz I was busy chatting with a couple of my fellow bloggers/Flickretes during my free time. Anyway, I don’t have time to subtitle each of em and instead I’ll post em up and leave the individual titles to you guys. Enjoy.

June 27th, 2008 | Posted in Humor, Pictures, Real Life | 5 Comments

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Before I begin this, I have to admit something. I am 30 years old, I love reading fiction, and yet, before this one, I had never read an Agatha Christie novel. Yes I know, I should be ashamed of myself. Now that I’ve gotten that out of the way, let’s start. The last time I [...]

June 23rd, 2008 | Posted in Agatha Christie, Books/Magazines, Fiction | No Comments

Build it and they’ll come….

If you’ve ever driven in Karachi, the one thing that bothers you most out of the list nuisance are those people who need to catch the bus and who think that it’s their right for the bus to stop wherever they are standing. It is a common sight to see a bus stopping to pick [...]

June 23rd, 2008 | Posted in Development, Karachi | 3 Comments

Zagtalk = Playboy

If you look at my most popular post list, you’ll see that the top 6 posts are from the “Desktop Wallpaper” series that I post from time to time with a combined viewing of over 40,000 views. This means that most of the people who are coming to this blog are coming to look at [...]

June 21st, 2008 | Posted in Blogs | 1 Comment

Where to get your reading fix in Karachi?

Since I am into books, I thought why not write a post about the places where I go to buy these books. I’ve searched on the net trying to find some good bookstores besides the ones that I go to, but sadly, there isn’t much information about them considering the size of the city that [...]

June 20th, 2008 | Posted in Books/Magazines, Bookshops, Karachi | 4 Comments

Firday Funnies: Kids, don’t you just love the lil devils.

A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales. The teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because even though it was a very large mammal its throat was very small. The little girl stated that Jonah was swallowed by a whale. Irritated, the teacher reiterated that a [...]

June 20th, 2008 | Posted in Humor, Jokes | 1 Comment

A case of exploding mangoes by Mohammad Hanif

Excellent debut novel from a very promising addition to the growing number of desi writers of English fiction. The thing that hooks you to this one is that it doesn’t go the path which most desi writers take, ala, desis settling down in West, or the post 9/11 world, but the writer takes a very [...]

June 20th, 2008 | Posted in Books/Magazines, Fiction, Mohammad Hanif | 1 Comment