I know I told you guys that I wasn’t going to have Internet access in Lahore… but voila here I am writing yet another blog post. Yesterday, my older sister and cousin were going to be coming to Pakistan.. they couldn’t come with us as they still had work. They both work in schools so im taking it everyone is officially on holiday now…Hope the hols are going well for you all… *except the people that are working*!

^^ That is all I wrote whilst in Lahore.. so I’m back in Sahiwal now and going to finish the blog post.. sorry about it being late. Its hard to get time to myself without cousins overshadowing me and reading what I’m writing.. it’s like grr you can read it when it’s up online!!

So here goes… again we had to leave very early in the morning at 5AM to pick sister and cousin from airport… the flight was supposed to land at 5:45AM Pakistan time..*Horrible time or what?* My sister phoned us when she was at Heathrow airport and said the flight had been delayed for 2 hours… we had booked a 7 seater wagon for the journey and off we went. I was so tired during the journey but couldnt get myself to sleep.. dad, mum and lil sis slept pretty much for the whole journey! But I’m glad I stayed awake… We left when it was still all dark… and you could see the sun rise and the sky change colour. I thought it was pretty cool anyway.. most of u might not :$ lol! The journey lasted two hours, and I counted that we almost crashed 4 times… the driver was wicked, he wasn’t the problem.. it was the other stupid drivers on the road! On the motorway you have like parts every like 10 mins where the left and right side of the motorway has a gap for people who want to do U-turns. Stupid idea or what.. I mean you have people going at 100kmph and people can do a U turn onto the fast lane starting at 0kmph.. ridiculous! But anyway this one time… a big lorry from the other side wanted to do a U Turn.. he had his indicator on *about the only right thing he did*.. everyone was going at 100Kmph, the lorry driver decides to do a 3 point turn and drives his lorry right accross both lanes, everyone had do slam there breaks, we were at the front and ended up stopping like half a metre before it. =| Luckily the wagon had ABS brakes otherwise it was a definate crash as we wouldnt of been able to brake in time. Surprisingly the driver didnt get too angry.. I would of flipped! You have to have a LOT of patience to drive here in Pakistan. It seems as if the safe drivers are more likely to have an accident than people who drive carelessly.

We got to the airport in 2 hours.. on the way I saw a couple of cool things I shall upload the piccys now..

Lahore Journey Pics

~ The first piccy is of a random Masjid I thought looked nice
~ The second piccy is of a really long road I wish I could drive on… in the pic it looks like an endless road
~ The third piccy is of…yes traffic lights.. except theres a countdown timer.. telling you how long left… even tho half of the people dont know red light means stop, Pakistan is more technologically advanced in some areas
~ The forth piccy is jus one example of many signs I saw like this… Rather than To Let signs everywhere had Tolet… even official ones… is it spelt ‘to let’ or have I gone mad during my hols?

After we picked my older sis and cousin up for the airport after standing there waiting for like 3 hours. We went back to the wagon and got him to take us to the different relatives houses for a few hours each. First we went to my grandfather’s sister’s place as we were staying there and unpacked n stuff.. I actually slept there for an hour or so too catch up on some lost sleep. Then the next house and then next one… u get the pattern lol! The first day was really just to catch up and meet the relatives in Lahore. The rest of the days were going to mainly be spent on shopping lol, no site seeing this time round. Older sister’s wedding in October and so stuff needed to be brought!

In the second day me and my dad went with my uncle to my cousins office.. he (my cousin) wasn’t there as he was ill. But I must say I was so impressed, I remember when I came last time his office was in his house… he had like 5-6 computers there and people worked for him there in his attic. But in the 4 years he’s got a professional slick office.. Website – www.e-solbiz.com If you read this Haroon, nice job (y) Whilst we were there just chillaxin… me just messing about on the net, dad and uncle talking. The girls went shopping, my older sister was trying to find her wedding lenga and found it + plus matching shoes and all that girly stuff! We didn’t want to go with them as it doesn’t appeal to us, as you can imagine.

On the third day we went to stay at my mums cousins place… and had a meal there for lunch. The family and cousin then went to this popular shopping centre place called Fortress. I didnt get anything but dvd’s.. Prison Break Series 1, 2, 3 & Heroes Series 1 and 2 =) Everyone else ended up getting dvd’s too and ended up becoming a total of 45 dvd’s in just the one shop. We were also looking for my suit but couldn’t find one in my size =( . Gutted.
Anyways, there was a McDonalds there.. so we invited relatives to come down and we all munched.. a HALAL McDonalds =P . It was nice and a change from the fish & fillet burgers.. gets boring.

On to the forth day… and still not suit or shirvani. *Still to be decided* My older sister wants me to wear a shirvani on wedding and suit on valima.. I was just thinking 2 different suits on both. Me, dad and uncle went shopping… I got some jeans, shirts and yes got a suit! Finally.. was still annoying, suits dont suit me lol! *I know you shouldn’t use the same word twice in a sentence* Well at least I dont think so. Had some adjustments to get done on the suit like trousers length.. they told us to pick it up tomorrow. *Note* Good place to shop for guys clothes in Lahore, Pakistan is Pace shopping centre! The girls went to a place called Liberty and shopped there and did their usual spending lol. We all went back to mum’s cousins and then hired a van to go back to g’fathers sisters place… and decided to take everyone out for a Pizza Hut.
It was SO packed even tho we got there after midnight, our journey to Pizza hut was horrible! Again we almost died lol.. the wagon almost toppled, I think there was something on the road and the driver *who just passed like a week ago =\* quickly yanked the steerin wheel to the right to avoid whatever it was.. so we were driving on the two right hand side wheels… and then it switched to the left two wheels… back to the right two and then finally settled..!! He was like a speed racer or something… probably jus the buzz of just passing and just showing off… no only did he do that he got lost and we ended up gettin there like an hour late! lol.. but other than that, everythin was good! lol Had a good munch.

The next day I cant actually remember… Im writing this blog so late ahh! But I do remember we went to a meal at my cousins place in the evening. I was talking to Ibz during the journey there and couldnt hear him at all, soz bro!

Finally the last day we packed all our stuffs up and then hired the same driver from Sahiwal to come to Lahore and drive us back… On the way back we stopped off at Pace to pick up my suit, got some more shirts and then off we went home. My cousin came who studies in Lahore came back with us to Sahiwal as his classes were finished for the rest of the week. The journey back went fine, Alhumdulliah.
Thats it, back in Sahiwal.. and glad in a way as I’d had enough of shopping.. plus the weather was really hot there!

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@ Ibrar – How did I know you’d be the one to ask that as well! lol haha I still cant be bothered to explain =$ I’ll explain in Manc. I know they use the horn more in one day than most people do anywhere else in the world since they’ve been driving. Ridiculous.. Im good thank bro, How are you?

@ Sonia – The game rocks eh?! We got it somewhere too.. not sure where tho lol. It depends how you hit it as to if it hurts you fingers =P I will be the driver =) it’d be class… Yeh thats a great idea, your mission is to think of secret agent gadgets I could have in my Rickshaw Everyone will think it’s an innocent lil rickshaw but secretly its a killing machine! Mwuaha.. Sorry for the late blog post.. Glad you enjoyed the read! =)

@ Star – The tash is coming along just fine thanks.. how about yours? lool Jokes =) Okay comments aren’t there for you to tell me your life story =P But its okay… sounds interesting! Driving lessons in Pakistan? Is there even such a thing? I went to Karachi last time, but don’t think we’re going this time round. You’ve never been a good driver tho to be fair =P So according to my theory of careless drivers being safer here.. you should of been just fine? Okay.. i’ll stop being mean now! Respect gone so quickly.. Typical lol! What freshie wife… there isn’t one! So tough luck you aint gona be reading about it. You take care too

@ Somia – Thanks lol When you going Pakistan next? When was the last time you went?

@ Shazia – I can’t believe it either.. it’s been on my msn name! Who told you to ignore me.. Mwuaha Jus kidding.. I am doing thanks for asking =)

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