Salaam Wa Rahmatullah...
I'm feeling soooo under the weather its not even funny! But there is a reason for it.. apart from the fact that one Ed promised to run a story on Saturday- and didn't. I'm not even surprised, kinda don't care. If I didn't know better, I'd say I was losing interest. Although I love to write, and I will always do that, even if I get published only on my own blog!!! Ha!
I'm excited about Ramadan, I'm not feeling too well these days, hope the fasting will be easy and okay and fun.
Anyway, I'm dying to give out some names... some people I wanna get even with. But its not like I'm even so mad anymore, coz I know one thing. I'm not a specialized writer- like, say- most people have an area of specialization. Either sports, or politics, or automoblies, or reporting, or fashion, perhaps feature writing... and so on. As for me, I do a bit of everything. A bit of reporting, bit of feature writing, and ofcourse my good ol' random humour which I'm afraid doesn't really have a constant market. You get published once in a while, but most Eds want a specialized kick--- (sorry for the French) writer who can deliver a steady standard of work. (In fact with my experience and credentials, I'm surprised people saw it fit to publish my work all the times they did. Dad always says: "tauba tauba akhbaron ke kafi bure din aa gaye hain". I couldn't agree more, lol)
And you get essay-cloumnist status at 55, not at 22, (as I'd once hoped). At least not unless you're a Brit who is fairly young and gets away with writing crap. (Anyone guess who I'm talking about?).
I'm learning the ropes of the professional world and I'm not sure I like them. As I often exclaim- Craaaaaaap!!!!!!!
Before I churn out more gibberish, and vent randomly, guess I should end here...
Fee Aman Illaah!
Sunday, August 17, 2008
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Salaam.
I know..I'm stalking the blogosphere. I get a little embarrassed at how many times "Karachi, Sindh" appears on the Traffic Feed thingy of my fave blogs..but TODAY IS SUNDAY....I get to be online the whole day today!
Anyway, I hope you feel better soon. Keep trying with the writings.
I also know of a certain bald-ey who's work doesn't deserve to get published. I haven't read his stuff in abt 7 months. Maybe he show's his face now? Know who I'm talking abt??
Can't stand his colounm. Can't believe a tree was cut down to produce paper, only for his gibberish to be printed on!
HAHAHAHA!!!!
You know exactly who I'm talking about!!! And no he still doesn't show his face. The way women swoon over him! (gag!) Seriously, i think you should write to the magazine- i love those letters to the Ed where they gang up on him!
And hey I'm totally on the blogosphere too, don't feel like doing much else on account of my illness. Thanks for the wishes
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