Beginning now, I will introduce a new feature in this blog, a once a year entry in which I ponder about whether or not I am ready to back to Pakistan.

This time last year, my family and I were in Pakistan. I spent more than $1,500 and 2.5 weeks of my life to go there. And for what? To be largely ignored by cousins or used as pawns in family issues. I had never in my life been so homesick and I couldn’t wait to get back home and hang with friends that actually like me and will willingly hang out with me. I even missed work! Before I left Pakistan, a couple of my aunts had told me to not take too much time to come back to Pakistan, as it had been 9 years since our last trip. I just smiled noncommittally.

So… Am I Ready To Go Back To Pakistan??

*drumroll*

Nope.

Thanks for playing folks!

Watch this space next year for another round of ‘Am I Ready to Go Back to Pakistan?’

The end of a wild night in Pakistan

So Flickr just added the ability for pro users to upload videos up to 90 seconds. This works for me as I don’t really want to use YouTube for the things I’ve taped using my digital camera and I can’t bring myself to upload them to Facebook. Most of videos are of my nephew but here’s the first thing I uploaded - an 18 second Karachi street scene taken by me from a car. We spent most of those precious seconds talking about salad:

I have more footage of Pakistan on my camcorder but I wanted to try this Flickr video thing out sooner rather than later.

EDIT: Here’s another video - this time one of my cousins explaining Pakistani water to my sister and another cousin. The conversation started because my sister mentioned that we couldn’t drink tap water. There is a lot of background noise so, yeah.