Umar Pirzada a.k.a UTP: Life

Making it Work...

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:52:04 GMT

Sometimes all one needs is to slow down maybe even stop to take a breather and evaluate whats happening around him. What happens is we go running around chasing things and moving towards getting them and there are so many of them that you lose track and get frustrated. As things seem to go farther away with the distributed focus we only get more frustrated...thats when one needs to realize that its time to stop and smell the roses....

Thats what I have done. I just realized this last weekend as to how so many things have been bothering me and I havent dont anything about it. Alhumdulillah, this weekend helped me sort out a lot of things and I feel refreshed. At least a break in thoughts and putting the pieces in place to continue the process has got me back on track.

Its amazing how nothing seems right and when you look at it one-by-one and settle it, it looks so simple. So many people depend on you just like you do on them and it all seems more positive now... To make it work its YOU who has to make the effort....

I am back...absolutely on track...May Allah guide me through...

Be yourself....

Mon, 21 May 2007 14:21:35 GMT

Be Yourself. Everybody else is already taken - Oscar Wilde

I think Mr. Oscar said enough to say any more on this...

Moods and the Music

Fri, 18 May 2007 10:39:20 GMT

Are you one of those people who think their life is so FILMY?? I think I am heheh...

Its not that hidden a fact how nobody would mind being inside the TV box on the screen or on a DVD cover. These people living a SCRIPT life and a happy ending always. Even in the so-called sad ending you do end with happiness off the screen or OSCARs hehe.... Its still all very filmy...

But the fun begins when your moods start linking with the movies. Right now this feels like that guy in some hollywood, bollywood or lollywood (hopefully not!!) movie. Or some drama on tv.

Ever tried to link music with your moods. Depending on the mood, you may want to listen to this specific song or may be NOT want to listen to that song. Or a complete playlist according to the moods like my wife does. But the best part is when she starts repeatedly playing a song at enough loud music to let me know I have not been good or I need to do something hehehe...thats really when life becomes FILMY with a ZINDAGI ka SOUNDTRACK for the while...

Example,

In the times when I am quiet and in thoughts then the ZINDAGI ka Sound Track for her is "Ranjish hi sahi...DIl hee dukhanay kay liay aa...."

Other songs on her BLUES list are "Neela Aasmaan sou gaya....", "Mujh say pehli see muhabbat meray mehboob na maang..."

But the worst is, the baddest of moods the music that I get to listen to is "Teray bina Zindagi say koi Shikwa tou nahi...."

This is when I just know its time to make up to it...

Heheh talking about myself I somehow dont get to listen to my kind of music anymore. Its not that I ve lost my thing for music. I just dont get that kind of time as the old days. Where you could go online and stay online for a whole night with your headphones on you. Times change, I ve moved on. Now its just a Windows Media Player library that goes on RANDOM SHUFFLE ON/REPEAT ON for the time that I am on the PC

But still...its fun to see how a song can actually affect your mood or the other way around where you want to listen to this specific song cos you are in that mood. Music...and its powerful effect.

Leg pulling...

Sat, 05 May 2007 09:00:32 GMT

Spending a large part of my life at FAST leads me to a very common thing there..."leg pulling...". I am sure it might be a normal thing at other places also but I noticed specially cos I was never a leg-puller before FAST. In fact, if anything I was at the recieving end of things before that. Only at FAST did it happen that it became a part of my repetoire as well. I dont really enjoy doing it but its just natural now.

After FAST however, I have started getting back to my old self now. I have my way with my wife cos she respects me so much but honestly speaking I am back to being on the recieving end and amazingly now its tough to explode with my own version of a response. I have become my own quiet self who would let people enjoy at my expense. I dont know how good is that but its just something that I observed...

So all those leg-pullers out there, just know that one can come back at you also. Dont take advantage of anyone...as someone very nicely said a few days back...the quiet ones are the most deadly...as they will take just one shot and it will be at the RIGHT SPOT...OOOUUCH!!!