to tell u the truth, i can't wait to go to karachi...i have so few relatives here and i have no hopes of going anywhere with my friends again for the time i'm in lahore...we're all too, too busy. well, i just caught up with the blogs...everyone's updated except chij (where ARE u girl? dropping a private blog doesn't mean u don't post on the beloved public one anymore!)...and am still amused by the differnt kinds of ppl in the world...seriously, y r they looking for life on other planets anyway? as if we weren't confused enuff with our diversity... so, all guests gone, and now i'm in peace. but i do miss the few days i had with my cousins, een though they weren't of my age group. i simply became a child again (well, they're not exactly kids, they make dirty jokes and everything that comes with adolescence)...playing board and card games with them till late into the night, laffing my head off at the wacky parodies they act out, getting crazier and crazier the later it gets, ( u shud have seen their parody of my getting the award from the president!that was priceless....)living solely on junk food but not gaining any wieght because of all the chakkars we had around the city...well, the list cud go on and on forever. anyways, in karachi i'll be able to do all that and much more cuz there r cousins of every shape and size over there...and the sea! oh, how i luv that sea...the waves swooping forward and crashing on the beach and then drawing away again....it gives me this wonderful feeling...i can be inspired to do simply anything by that wondrous thing. well, gotta run....there still the whole packing to do...if only the sea was here and my cousins came every year instead of us going thru the hassle of travelling...i hate the tension in that.