Main Sadiyoon Sey...

Main sadiyoon sey sitaron main bhatak raha tha
Tanhai ki aag main akela hi sulagh raha tha
Beetay waqt key samunder mai aaj phir
meri ankhon sey aik fasana chalak raha tha

Jab ek nazar nazar sey ashna hue
aik awaz jab dil sey rooshanas hue
kinara mila uss talaash ko yun laga
manzil wo mili, thi barson se jo khoye hue

Magar saraab tha sab, sach kuch na tha
Rooh to thi par, jism sey uss ka nata na tha
Khawab jald hi woh toot gaya
Woh lams hamesha key liye wafa na tha

Har kahaani adhoori reh gaye
Har dastaan ajnabi reh gaye
Bahut kuch guzar gaya uss rait mai
Bus chand dhundli yaadein reh gaye

Mai phir Sadiyoon tak sitaron main bhatakta raha
Yaadon ki sooli pe akela hi latakta raha
Dasht-o-Sehra paar kiye aik talaash mai
Pahaar-o-dariya sab main khojta raha

V for Vendetta

Some days ago I saw this movie. I actually liked it. Here are some of its interesting dialogues.

- Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is it vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.

- Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of every day routine- the security, the familiar, the tranquility, repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration, thereby those important events of the past usually associated with someone's death or the end of some awful bloody struggle, a celebration of a nice holiday, I thought we could mark this November the 5th, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat. There are of course those who do not want us to speak. I suspect even now, orders are being shouted into telephones, and men with guns will soon be on their way. Why? Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the annunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance, and depression. And where once you had the freedom to object, think, and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillence coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myraid of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic you turned to the now high chancellor, Adam Sutler. He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent. Last night I sought to end that silence. Last night I destroyed the Old Bailey, to remind this country of what it has forgotten. More than four hundred years ago a great citizen wished to embed the fifth of November forever in our memory. His hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice, and freedom are more than words, they are perspectives. So if you've seen nothing, if the crimes of this government remain unknown to you then I would suggest you allow the fifth of November to pass unmarked. But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek, then I ask you to stand beside me one year from tonight, outside the gates of Parliament, and together we shall give them a fifth of November that shall never, ever be forgot.

- Her compassion,her hope,her faith given to someone she doesnt know, through a little toilet paper!..and even dough she knows death is certain..she hopes someone will survive trough it! to save the world she once loved!If people could be a little bit like it,..caring about each other,not mattering who or what they are...we would reach harmony!

- Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici

By the power of truth, I,while living, have conquered the Universe.

I, Me, Myself

Just another post about the person I am.

I have Abstract thoughts. I am a person who absorbs a lot from his environment. The people around me; the situations around me, influence me and mold me. I have split personalities. One side of me is somewhat reserved and doesn’t open up much with people. This part is socially shy and feels uncomfortable in public comprising of strangers. Whereas the second part contrasts deeply with the first one. It makes me extrovert and endlessly exuberant. It all depends on the company I am having. This makes me weird but I am born with it, cant help. I love to read people and am a silent observer of people and situations. You can say I am a bit abnormal person in this so-called normal world. I mostly like to be contained in myself and always prefer to achieve or do things on my own. I am honest and controversial in my thoughts which are hardly appreciated by others therefore I just keep them to myself. I am a very optimistic person. If I couldn’t get something I wanted, I would not lose hope. I would regard it as something, which might not be any worth to me at the moment, and if it is of any worth to me, I will find it later in my life. This makes me a believer of destiny. Now it all depends which route we take; the longer one or the shorter one. I am bit weak ethically and morally, even though I try hard to be best in my ethics and moral beliefs, but a certain quotient of deficiency is always left, which always makes me feel guilty at the end. My brain and heart both are quite strong enough to make decisions. In most of the people, either of them have the caliber of making a decision but in my case I have both to do the honors. The tragedy is nearly every time, they both decide in opposite direction to that of each other, which confuses me and sometimes I end up with a wrong decision and regret is what I meet up with afterwards. I am a freedom lover and am rebellious when restricted. I don’t like myself to get bind with one situation or with one place or with one person for a longer period of time. I like to discover myself periodically and want to experience new things in life and to learn new things in life.

Friendship

I might not be the friend who is willing to give his life for his friend. But I am quite honest in my friendship. I would certainly love to listen my friends and I always try to give honest advices to them. I can help them in any possible way, which I can. For me if you are my friend then you are my friend for lifetime. I like my friends to be part of my life forever.

Career

I have been confused all those years for what I wanted to be. Either to be a doctor or an artist or an astronaut or an engineer or a chartered accountant or a scientist or a CSS officer or a teacher or a computer engineer; I was never sure what I want to be. But still I don’t have any regrets. I have been in a good shape of my career right now with good bucks. In Pakistan, earning good bucks matter, what work you do, doesn’t. But the best thing is that you work what you wanted to do and earn good bucks with it; but it hardly happens. Money corrupts our minds and interests and career. Anyhow I have some dreams regarding my career and I am quite passionate about them. But that thing will take time but I know, that’s what for which I am born for and ultimately I will land up there soon InshAllah.

Your Name is Actually You

It’s been couple of years since I joined this blog world. If you have checked my blog you must have noticed that I have written nothing about myself yet. My blog consists of poems reflecting blues and some random thoughts about life and world around. Let me introduce myself to you. My name is Arfan Ameer. “What?” Well this is the question which people ask me when I tell them my name. I have quite an unusual name. Its not like the regular names that people have. There is another name which resemble my first name like Irfan, therefore mostly people say to me its actually Irfan, I am making it wrong. In other words they meant I have a wrong identity. When I was young and such remarks were given to me I felt like I have a very wrong name. And I changed it to Irfan actually in my school life. But then I realized what am I doing. Why am I running away from my name? I am just allowing myself to flow along with instead of standing in front of it. My name is actually me. Why am I forsaking it? An honest answer to all these questions was that I want to change my existence just on the will of others. This thought shocked me and it stopped me to precede any further. Since then, I stopped caring about the comments of others regarding my name. I love my name and I feel I have a conspicuous name in the whole world.

You are the Change

Today, when my car was waiting at the traffic signal, a boy came up to me. He was in his teens and was holding a piece of cloth. He went and, without saying any word, he started cleaning the front mirror screen of the car with it. After he had cleaned it, I gave him a 5-rupee coin. He took it and went away to another car. During the whole episode, a beggar came to the car next to me and he asked the driver for money. The driver gave him a 5-rupee coin too. These two beings were equal in the amount of effort they were both putting in to earn a livelihood. But the main difference was attitude. One preferred to live life with self-esteem and pride, whereas the other traded his life for it. However, the one who has traded might go home with a little more money than the former one, but that doesn’t mean this person is successful. Success is a relative term. It depends on what you had earlier and through what you have to go through in order to achieve what you have now. Success is not a destination, it’s a journey. I have seen many people personally who are pessimistic. The people who have taken their lives for granted and never had courage to shape the course of their lives. They have just believed themselves to be the victim of life and have forgotten that they chose it to be that way. For me, life so far has been quite amazing. I have been through many ups and downs. Success and failure have both been part of life, but I have always tried never to choose myself to fall a victim of it. The passion to strive to excel has always been the driving force. I am the part of society which is quite compressed and pessimistic. In newspapers and television discussions, I found people find it hopeless in the current situation; for them, to run away from this society if the best option. The whole blame is given to politicians and the military. For a country with the lowest literacy rate in South-Asia, lack of basic necessities for a major chunk of the population and an increasing inflation rate, it is quite evident how much anger will be in the minds and hearts of its nationals. Day by day, earning a decent living is becoming difficult. People who have resources try to settle in a well-developed alien land. Many of my relatives and friends have opted for it, since they found this country incapable of providing them with food, shelter and security. I won't say that I am a true patriot, because I too feel that way, I too want to get some western country passport and want to settle there for rest of my life but then something stops me. Instead of running away, why don’t I be a part of it and try to change it to a better way? I know I can’t change the world in a day. I can’t change my country in a day. But I guess I can make a change in one life today. I still remember, during my college days, in one seminar a renowned social activist said, “Changes in the lives of people are brought by one man’s effort”. Only a single person always makes a difference. There are many examples. If those people had chosen to run away, then the world would not have been the same today. If there were no Abraham Lincoln, no Muhammad Ali Jinnah, no Mustafa Kamal, no Mahatma Gandhi, no Nelson Mandela, no Mother Teresa, no Mao Tse Tung, then the world of which we are part of would be brutal and would be a world of barbarians. A little courage, a handful of hope, a sense of humanity and a quotient of self-esteem are needed to be awakened within us. If it happens, then we never have to run away and never have to take life as a burden to us anymore.

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." (Mahatma Gandhi)

Quotes of the Month

• "I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me." - Dudley Field Malone
• "The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!'; a leader says, 'Let's go!'" - E.M. Kelly
• "There are no shortcuts to any place worth going." - Anonymous
• "If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done." – Anonymous
• "First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people." - Leo Rosten
• "There are two rules to success in life: 1. Don't tell people everything you know." – Unknown
• "You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her." – Anonymous
• "Men always want to be a woman's first love -- women like to be a man's last romance." - Oscar Wilde
• "Relationships should come with those little black boxes that airplanes have. That way, when they crash and burn, we'd actually get some answers." - Corrina Bunch
• "Too many people are looking for the right person, instead of being the right person." – Unknown
• "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." – Unknown
• "You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you." - Eric Hoffer
• "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt
• "Beware the fury of a patient man." - John Dryden
• "He who angers you conquers you." - Elizabeth Kenny
• "He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them." - Chinese proverb
• "A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment." - Carl Gustav Jung
• "Since the dawn of time, men have waged wars over women; even inside them." - Vanessa Burton
• "Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are beautiful." – Unknown
• "There are more important things in life than money -- but they won't go out with you if you're broke." – Unknown
• "Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night." – Anonymous
• "Be careful of your thoughts, they may become words at any moment." - Ira Gassen
• "Whatever happens to you, it will have previously happened to everyone you know, only more so." – Unknown
• "Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." - Abraham Lincoln
• "Isn't it surprising how many things, if not said immediately, seem not worth saying 10 minutes from now?" - Arnot L. Sheppard, Jr.
• "Some people wish to get what they deserve, while others fear the same." – Unknown
• "Before marriage, a man yearns for the woman he loves. After marriage, the 'Y' becomes silent." – Unknown
• "I haven't spoken to my wife in 18 months -- I don't like to interrupt her." – Anonymous
• "There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner." - P.J. O'Rourke
• "Doing a bunch of different women is easy; doing the same woman for 24 years, now that's dedication." - Jay Leno
• "I wonder why prostitution is illegal. Why should it be illegal to sell something that's perfectly legal to give away?" - George Carlin

Aether

The best and worst thing about life is its unpredictability. You can't see into the future and can't predict what life has next in store for you. Every time, it brings you something new and completely unexpected. Sometimes it's far better than what you had hoped for, and sometimes it rewards you with the biggest disappointment.

Thought of the Day

My attitude towards life is simple and direct. I just take it as it comes to me. Despite my best efforts, I have never been successful in moulding it in my image. The day I do it, that day would be the Day of My Revelation.

Earth

It has been more than 3 months since the disastrous earthquake took place in Pakistan. The whole country was deeply affected by it in one way or another. The earthquake, which can be regarded as the biggest national tragedy, affected the lives of 3 million people directly. One hundred thousand people were killed. The government estimated that it would take 5 billion dollars to rebuild the entire infrastructure and start the rehabilitation process. The earthquake came and left, but that one moment changed the lives of millions of people. For those people, life would never be the same again. The smile, the cherishment, the satisfaction would never be the same again. It's hard to survive in such circumstances, but it is more difficult to live afterwards. Hundreds of young girls and boys have been exported outside the country. Such girls will be used for prostitution and such boys for the deadly camel race. The whole generation has vanished. Families have been shattered. But only one thing is needed now, and that is hope. It's the only reason to live for it. The hope for a better future; the hope for a new life filled with cherishment; the hope of regaining a lost smile; the hope of soul satisfaction; the hope of regaining faith; and the hope of living happily ever.