Umar Pirzada a.k.a UTP

This is to announce the launching of Mayg & UTP - The Blog. It was something that me and my wife wanted to for quite some time which was to have a shared blog. We do have a story to tell and we think we are pretty good story tellers. So thats the inspiration and the result is the above blogspace. Direct your browsers to the above.

 

This is my wife's first try at blogging and honestly she is right at home with this stuff. Anyway, this is the latest update. I am not blogging Space very much.

 

I am currently blogging at the following addresses quite regularly,

 

 

 

 

Update blogrolls, feeds (get them at the above addresses) and hope to see you there. Thanks.

Its been quiet at this blog SPOT...for quite some time. Shortage of time is the first excuse and whatever I do get, I blog at my wordpress blog. Anyway, this SPACE was going to be my family area and more about updates regarding myself and my family. As I once wrote earlier also heheh...I do not know how many people really would be interested. Well anyway...it was 16th Jan a few days back...my daughter's 2nd birthday.

 

I dont know if people remember her 1st birthday and its strange I did not feel the same vigour I did then. I have been asking myself the same since the day. I am a bit sad that she is growing up itni jaldi. I am worried I wont enjoy it to the full and she would be gone to her own things all grown up.

 

My wife bought a few story books from Pakistan on our last visit and one of the stories was of the caterpillar who turns into a butterfly. I was lucky enough to be the first one to read it with my daughter. She has become really curious and entered the age where she understands the stories we tell her so I had to be animated and make her understand. Least did I know that during the story, I would get real sad considering my little caterpillar is growing up and will soon become a butterfly and fly away...

 

I close this post here...its too sad to write further...

Our lives are all about setting goals and achieving them and then setting some more. It is very important that people set their priorities right cos you dont want to waste time and effort chasing after something you really didnt want. In that way other than the fact that you wasted time and effort you also missed out on doing something you really would have liked to do...

Anyway, there was a project that was going on in our lives. When I say "our", I mean my family...all of them...namely baba, ammi, saad, mayg and mahnoor....yes I missed out my sister on purpose cos that was what the project was all about...Ghazal...my dear sister...graduates on the 6th....and its a proud moment for all of us....

Other than her own efforts put in towards the biggest goal on her to-do list in recent times there were individual efforts put in by each member of the family in every way possible to get this team project....achieve its completion....its been a team effort and here I would like to congratulate the family...each one of you...

and Ghazal...my dear sister...I wish all the best...now you are on your way...these are the exact words a great man in "our" lives said...only he said it when I crossed matric and he wasn't around to see me through FAST....I am sure if he were around he would have said the same...

By the way I didnt come up with the title line...its from my all time greatest movie series....ROCKY...

We did it...team...we did it!!!

Tu Jo Nahi Hay...tou Kuch Bhi Nahi Hay...Ye Maana kay Mehfil Jawaan hay...Haseen hay...

 

The above song is the soundtrack for the next month...with my wife and daughter travelling to Pakistan. I will be joining them after a month for my first vacation after moving to Dubai. Sigh...I never though it would be so quiet...in the house...I am somehow used to their presence....

 

Just left them at the airport...turned the radio on and the above song played....almost sounded like for me....

 

Dubai is definitely jawaan and haseen...in any sense you want it to be....literary, emotionally, philosophically...but....

 

Tu jo nahi hay....tou...kuch bhee nahi hay...

Na gilaaf, Na lehaaf
Na gilaaf, Na lehaaf thandi hawa ke khilaaf sasuri
O itni sardi hai kisika lehaaf lehi leh
O jaa padosi ke chuleh se aag lehi leh

Beeri jalayi leh jigar se piya
Jigar maa barri aag hai

 
Wadaa nikari o lab se piya aah aa
Wadaa nikari o lab se piya jeh duniya badi dhank hai
Haan beeri jalayi leh jigar se piya
Jigar maa barri aag hai

Na kasoor, Na fatoor
Na kasoor, Na fatoor bina juraam ke hajoor maar gaye
O maar gaye

O aise ik din duphari bula liyo re
Bandh ghungroo kacheri lagaliyo re
Bula liyo re, Bula liyo re dupehri

lagayilo re, lagayilo re kacheri

Angeethi charrayi leh jigar se piya
Jigar maa barri aag hai
Beeri chalayi leh jigar se piya
Jigar maa barri aag hai

Ho na toh chakuon ki dhaar
Ho na tan raati na kataar
Aisa kaate ke daat ga nisaan chhor de
Yeh katayi toh koi bhi kisaan chhor de
O aise jalim ka chhor de makaan chhor de re bilo
Chalim ka chod de makaan chhor de
Aise jalim ka, O aise chalim ka
Aise jalim ka chhor de makaan chhor de

Na bulaya
Na bataya
Na bulaya, Na bataya maane neend se jagaya hai re
Aise chonkele haath mein naseeb aa gaya
Woh ilaychi khilayike kareeb aa gaya
Koyila jalayi leh jigar se piya
Jigar maa barri aag hai

Itni sardi hai kisika lehaf lehi leh
O jaa padosi, O jaa padosi, Jaa jaa padosi
O jaa padosi ke chule se aag lehi leh