Have u ever felt that what u r doing is just worthless and that u r meant for made for something bigger…like its ur destiny to do great things in life...

I guess its just one of those days that makes u feel that way…you are waiting for something bigger to just appear, something bigger to drop by and like its just around the corner… Im just tired of waiting and want it to come now

Lets make it a night to remember… that’s exactly what it was, a night to remember in Karachi. It was the 29th of January 2006 and for the first time a notable western singer performed in Pakistan and it was no other than the Canadian Bryan Adams. That’s right Bryan Adams rocked for a cause and I was there. I wasn’t ready to miss this show but I wasn’t ready to pay for the show and I didn’t, got the tickets free of cost from a friend of a friend. Thanks dude. Anyways the show was just tooooo damn good. Bryan Adams performed for a cause and it was Shahzad Roy (who we all know sucks) who bought him to our town for a charity event. More than 10,000 people and I was one of them rocking to the beat of Summer of 69 and loads of other tracks. He performed for around 2 hours live and boy did that guy had the stamina to perform for such a long time without a break. Our local Pakistani singers need to learn something from him, they can hardly perform for an hour and most of the time its not even live. Those phonies have a recording running in the background and are only lip singing.

It was a sight to see, the Karachities showed that they can handle such events. More than 10,000 people and no phadda’s or anything and there was hardly any security personnel in the crowd. The notable comments came from none other than Shahzad Roy at the start of the show when he said “We have proved one thing here that Karachi is a safe city for events like these” and he is right about that. Now I cant wait for such events in the future and lets hope that U2 comes and performs here.

So how did my journey to the far off place started. Im not joking Country Club is a far off place. I drove 140 KM that’s day. It all started a night before the concert when a friend of mine (Saqib) told me that he was unable to arrange tickets for me. I was disappointed but believe it or not I knew that something would come up. So the very next day (the day of the concert) Saqib comes up to me in the morning and says “ho geya” it turned out that a friend of his wasn’t going to the concert and gave 4 tickets to Saqib and I got one of them. We picked up the tickets from his friends place and than our journey started. Came back home, got dressed and we were on our way to the Country Club. I picked up my car and was the one driving. Had to pick up a few people on the way that led me to the 3 corners of Karachi. First picked a friend from DHA Phase 1, than another friend from SMCHS, another from Gulshan and than drove some 30 km to the Country Club. It took us more than us approximately one hour and 30 minutes just to get there. At 19:00 we were finally inn, standing inside the venue along with thousands of people.

The show started a little later than the schedule time and Shahzad Roy came and sang a few of his looser songs. The only thing worth noting is that he didn’t performed for his personal glory and only performed for a half an hour a little less or more. The real show started when Bryan Adams came up to the stage at around 21:15 and immediately started rocking. We were expecting that he would start of with Here I am but instead sang a song from his new album, which by the way I haven’t heard it and didn’t recognized the song. Bryand Adams than shared 2 song with Shahzad Roy and after that it was all Bryan Adams. The crowd was going crazy and the way they made the stage was just too cool. The lightings were superb (the couples really enjoyed themselves :)…) the arrangement was extra-ordinary, a superb job by the management. Bryan wasn’t ready for the Pakistani public cause they refused to leave even after he left the stage. They kept calling him out and the poor soul came out 3 times just for us. He didn’t came out the 4^th time infact on his 3^rd time he started off by saying “this is my last song after that I have to go and eat something…” and his last two songs came without the support of his band and that was perhaps the best performance of the show and Cloud Number 9 was just too much to handle. The concert finally ended with a fireworks show and that too was just too good. The event was superbly managed, organized and held and the final fireworks knock with the fireworks was totally unexpected.

At 23:30 we were back in the car on our way home but decided to make a pit stop for Karhii and after that I dropped off my friends at their homes and at 02:30 in the morning I was at home, exhausted and lying on my bed.

The pics here have been taken from my cell which arent that good. For more clear pics visit http://diaryofawicked.blogspot.com/2006/01/bryan-adams.html

7 days to go... My CISA Certification Exam is on 10th and from today I wont have to worry about office for a week. My leaves are supposed to start from this monday and will last till the end of the working day of the week (friday)...

Im hoping to capitialize these days and with full commitment prepare for the exam... lets hope I can do that... I didnt go to office yesterday cause I had a mock exam in the morning for which I hardly studied the way I should have studied. I was hoping to test all that I have prepared over the past 3 months and try my luck and see where I stand... I know Im making excuses trying to convince my self that its okay if u r not ready... I heard somewhere that writing about something you have no control over makes you feel better, but that doesnt exactly fit over here as I did have control over it and I simply choose something else...damn u Hashim

Well anyways the mock went okay got 138 out of 200 which as per my instructor is the average score one gets in the mock exam...I should have dont better than average as the real thing is much bigger than the mock... I only went through the first 3 chapters (the 3rd one was just a read through) and based on that I think I can clear the real thing only if I study hard... lets hope I can do that...