Saba Imtiaz: Everyday is a winding road..

• Beautiful spring afternoons/evenings in Amman spent walking and snapping away random sights
  
• Sohaib got into HARVARD! At last count, everyone I know is either envious, in disbelief, or well..envious. Which is why sentences these days start with.."F**king hell, can you believe it?"
  
• And no one I call from home seems to recognize my voice anymore. Which means I can probably call pretending to..oh wait. Evil plan in the making.
• Spotting a sign for 'Jammu Kashmir Restaurant". Must go. Must assess whether it is (a) Pakistani (b) Indian (c) Kashmiri (d) bad Pakistani/Indian food made by locals
  
• Cooking an entire pot of curry pakoray from scratch and guarding it with my life. And eating parathas! Yay for the punjabiness.
  
• New question of the year: "Yes my name is Persian.." "Oh, is your mother Persian?". That beats "Is your Dad Arab?" I need a new name that is neither Persian or Arabic.
  
• Having one of the grant folk look at me with what I'm sure was pity and sympathy when I stumbled into their office this afternoon. I am officially done with grant management for today.
  
• Finally getting GPRS activated on my phone..and then wasting all my credit checking Facebook at 4 AM.
  
• Realizing calling Egypt is more expensive than calling home. Even though Egypt is next door and Pakistan is..well, rather far away.
• Chocolate milkshakes during a 30 minute break between two meetings and spilling the beans on my illustrious day to E.
  
• Random Urdu conversation with a guy I met at a party. 'So did you watch a lot of Indian movies?' 'Nope. I had a Pakistani girlfriend'. Thats a new one.
• Random emails from friends all over the world
  
• Getting lost in Amman again!
  
• Wishing I had a day off tomorrow, cos everyone else does. BHAAA!

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