First day in lahore

I woke up at 5:20 by the sound of Azans… prefessional loud speaker azan… first time in 3 months… music to my ears, so why wont I wake up. Said the fajar prayer and then didnt goto sleep as that is one habit I have (which did change in japan as there is TOO much gap in prayer and office time). so here i was back on my old habit… Jet Lags are pretty non-existant for me… when I went to Japan.. i adjusted to that time in no time.. and here it was the same.. I was back on my schedule without any problem.

Setting up the computer
Although I had turned on HardKore (my desktop computer) yesterday but had to shut it down as there was stuff to do… in morning after fajar. first of all I opened the lid and found a lot of my dirt friend inside.. so took the PC out and 6 o’ clock in the morning and I was usign a blower creating a ratchet in the town.

Back inside setup my 1 TB harddisk in teh casing. rearranged the cables. My X360 controller and gaming headset were missing… looked for them around in teh cabinets and familiar locations… no where to be found. My whole room had been cleaned up as my parents had given it a new coat of paint for my upcoming wedding.. so nothing was left inside. after a search of hours.. i found them.. so set them up too.

With Kazumi on one side and HardKore on other side… it was finally setup… yes it was a mess right now on ground with everythign just lying there and i hadnt put a mattress there yet. But I was out of energy so left those tasks for some later time. I did took out the miniature Batgirl and Bane figures out and set them up on the top of LCD, where i had intended to place them.

Food
In the morning I ate Qeema wala katlamba with channay. Then for aftrenoon I requested Allo kay parathay… and at night I ate BBQ Chicken Tikka and seekh kabab. Yup I was fulfiling all my desires I had collected all that time. but sorry i had no energy left to take pic of chicken tikka at night as u will find out later in this post…

Playing games
As expected playign games on HardKore was a major part of my day in the start.. feels good to play in my Cockpit after so long… the arm strected out to right position.. the keyboard in the lap.. its all so perfect now.

• First I played Call of Duty 4 .. but since pakistani servers were empty in the morning so i just kept to playing on international servers and ppl kept knifing me.. i had gone rustic over such a long period.
• Then I updated Team Fortress 2 to latest version to play online. and played on MBL server for first time. Wh33ls and Skullbox and I were on one side… and we did give a whopass to the other team. With skull and i using voice chat to communicate with each other… yup yelling in urdu
  “mein mer gia .. mein mar gia!… Goli mat maro.. mein spy nehin hoon… agay sentry hai.. heavy ko bheejo… oye koi teleporter laga dey… medic kidher hai… loog meray tidh mein goliyan mar rehay hain… LANAT LANAT LANAT!!!!“.. ah the fun!
• Then my connection interrupted… and net slowed down.. so I shifted to Tomb Raider – Underworld which I had completed on last night in Japan. and once I started playing it.. it was pretty hard to let go… I did take some screenshots of yup u know who.

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Missing the Blogger convention
In the afternoon.. My clan mate and good friend: c0d3r’s sms came tht he was in Lahore. Today was All Pakistan Bloggers convention at LUMS university.. and although I had registered.. but not my mom had told me that my in-laws were coming at 4:00 PM. so i couldnt go the convetion was from 3 to 6. and i really wanted to meet c0d3r first time in flesh. and since I had returned home the struggle of Home/family prioroties vs Virtual life had already started on first day. Considering tht I had met my in-laws just once in my whole life time (at time of engagement.. directly). So, there was no chance I could get out of this one. but later on as it turned out that my mother in law got sick and they decided to postpone the plan…

I am not adept to using mobile now
so now tht the initial plan was cancelled.. I hoped i could slip out now.. but instead my family planed to go out with me now… so i had to abide by tht.. we had to get a new stove too and then had to goto the marriage hall my family had finalized for my wedding to confirm the seating arrangment. Why in the heck was I needed for tht was beyond me… I HATE stuff like this… waste of time!! But as per laws of universe.. i was supposed to be there.. even though I didnt have a say in it. When they did ask for my opinion .. I said.. “Nope I dont want an extravagant wedding.. so i diagree to all of this”. and then they turned away their faces as if I never said anything… and tht is how much my opinion is worth… THEN why take me to such things!!!

Moreover the bad thing was that I realized tht I had no mobile with me.. I was on Ferozpur road.. where I could meet c0d3r before he leaves for pindi.. at Daewoo stop atleast since i had already missed the time for blogger convention. But after 3 months of no mobile usage i realized tht i forgot to pick it up when leaving the house. and i didnt memeorize his number so using dads phone was no good too.

Later on I reached back home at around 9… when I saw tht he had smsed me tht he was going to Daewoo stop.. and then msged again when he told tht he had left for pindi without meeting me i feel so bad about it. But i dont know how to maange time for both on the same first day in lahore… too much pressure.

Missing the COD4 clan match
and then there was dinner.. for which we had BBQ tikka plan… i had eaten BBQ last time on Eid day when we went to Monkey Island and BBQed ourselves.. and regarding Rognini nan tillon wala.. well it had been more than 3 months now.. and in all that excitment.. wht i was ignoring was tht I had a clan match of “call of duty 4″ at that time… once again Real life +1… Virtual life raking a toll for it… but this is all because of first day .. once all “my” hype dies out… I will be back to being the ignored one.. and i could return to my virtual activities on time.

Later when I got free.. I was so dead tired to even reach my cockpit to take a look at its screen.. Been awake since 5:30 in the morning .. it was a tiring day. So, I went to sleep. and just woke up before fajar now. and doing this blog post. And I can see my other clan mate m0d3r’s messages on xfire asking me to come to match… and his msg tht people didnt show up and our team got disqualified from the match well u cannot win every battle… and on my first day in lahore i let reality win this one out.