Well the last weekend was spent in Lahore on account of a wedding (wifey’s cousin Zeeshan). Lahore is the cultural capital city of Pakistan . . . a city alive with the beat of the drums of Punjab, the food of the mughal and the decadence of the Lahori. (this will require a note all on its own)
I had to stay back in Isloo for work and missed the mehndi (which for you non-Pakistanis is the happening fun party before the groom and bride realize what they are getting into) on account of the fact that Rob Conway (chairman of the GSM Association and apparent big fish!) was supposed to arrive on Thursday evening and the PR department (which is yours truly) had to arrange the visit protocol and meetings/activities etc for that evening and the next day.
Well lo and behold the airline gods were on holiday because he missed his flight to Dubai and the onward connection to Pakistan (well done PIA engineers who are on strike demanding the resignation of their CEO) and we missed the mehndi!! Apparently it was an enthralling bash with fire dancers and the works keeping the guests boogying till the wee hours of the morning.
We made it to the cultural capital on the day of the Shaadi (that’s the wedding ceremony for the locally unaware) and stayed with my cousins Hassan and Mehreen Afridi. The trip was excellent because we got to spend some good quality time with our hosts. Wifey caught up on the times and Hassan was kind enough to teach me the tricks of Texas hold ’em Poker on the net. He was generous enough to let me wash his online account from 1,000,000 to 300,000 in one evening (thought the currency is not real there is a lot of hard work and patience involved in making ones account grow from 100,000 to 1,000,000 plus). Their kids are great and finally warmed up to us on the day we were supposed to leave which was ok because Hassan’s daughter asked him in the morning; while I was sound asleep, “where is your favourite Omar” which made my day!
Monday we set off to drive back home and made it safe and sound to our own familiar settings by sunset. Looks like we might head back again sometime soon to just chill with the cousins and not have to change into the oh-so comfortable wedding attire which allows one to get some good pics to store in an album that eventually gathers dust till the kids turn 18 and want to see how funny their parents looked in the hey-days!!
Spring is in the air which means summer is around the corner. . .look out lahori’s its bound to be a scorcher.
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