Eid’s on Monday. You’ve probably done the math by now. If not, the following piece of information will make you go berserk: there are not three, not four, but FIVE consecutive holidays, this time (if you have Saturday school then I feel for you)!!
What’s that? You get it now? LONG WEEKEND!!!!!
You: FINALLY!! I’ve waited all my life for this. Hamesha Eid Sunday ko ho jatee hai. This is awesome!
What’s that? You get it now? LONG WEEKEND!!!!!
You: FINALLY!! I’ve waited all my life for this. Hamesha Eid Sunday ko ho jatee hai. This is awesome!
Me: Well no.
While I do concur with you when you say that the LONG WEEKEND is awesome, it’s not the first time it’s happened in your life. But everyone does act like it happens once in a blue moon. Just last year, for example, Eid-ul-Azha was on a Thursday *does math for a few seconds*. Haan. Tou kya bana? LONG WEEKEND! Moreover, statistics (from Zabihah or whatever those sites are called) show that this probably won’t be your last “Eid on long weekend”. But I’m sure the next time it happens, you’ll have the same reaction.
At the mosque today, I noticed the sudden decrease in the number of Namazees (or as I shall call it from now on, Brother Strength). Nothing odd though, Brother Strength always decreases around Eid times. People go to their ancestral villages or whatever. Traffic cools down. There’s a mass exodus and what is left behind is just an Islamabad, only (still) cooler. It happens every year. Twice a year actually. Am I complaining? Maybe. It IS a little depressing.
And what do you say about the people who do leave? Are they less Lahori than someone like me, who gets his goat here every year?
That’s not for me to decide though. But it’s really annoying. For once can they NOT leave? Imagine how Eid would be like then? For one, there would be more blood on the streets. That’s not necessarily a bad thing right? It IS bakra blood after all. (Deykho Daniyal, these people need to celebrate Eid with their families. What if they are the only ones from their families living in Lahore, while the rest all live in Islamabad, for example? They’re not going to call the whole khaandan here, right? They’ll go to where the family is. Cut them some slack. *I'm going out of the city for Eid, too, so...*)
While I do concur with you when you say that the LONG WEEKEND is awesome, it’s not the first time it’s happened in your life. But everyone does act like it happens once in a blue moon. Just last year, for example, Eid-ul-Azha was on a Thursday *does math for a few seconds*. Haan. Tou kya bana? LONG WEEKEND! Moreover, statistics (from Zabihah or whatever those sites are called) show that this probably won’t be your last “Eid on long weekend”. But I’m sure the next time it happens, you’ll have the same reaction.
At the mosque today, I noticed the sudden decrease in the number of Namazees (or as I shall call it from now on, Brother Strength). Nothing odd though, Brother Strength always decreases around Eid times. People go to their ancestral villages or whatever. Traffic cools down. There’s a mass exodus and what is left behind is just an Islamabad, only (still) cooler. It happens every year. Twice a year actually. Am I complaining? Maybe. It IS a little depressing.
And what do you say about the people who do leave? Are they less Lahori than someone like me, who gets his goat here every year?
That’s not for me to decide though. But it’s really annoying. For once can they NOT leave? Imagine how Eid would be like then? For one, there would be more blood on the streets. That’s not necessarily a bad thing right? It IS bakra blood after all. (Deykho Daniyal, these people need to celebrate Eid with their families. What if they are the only ones from their families living in Lahore, while the rest all live in Islamabad, for example? They’re not going to call the whole khaandan here, right? They’ll go to where the family is. Cut them some slack. *I'm going out of the city for Eid, too, so...*)
Leaving the randomness to that other one, Eid Mubarik to you (presumably the blogosphere and our readers), from me and Daniyal. We hope you have a fantastic Eid, and dont forget to remind all the elders that, Barri Eid bhi Eid hai, tou Eidi milni chahiye, gosht nahi (smiley).
All my family lives here, but they still pack up and leave on Eid. -____-
ReplyDeleteand stop using "per se"
Had you read the name of the blog, and the description, you'd know that "per se" is not going to stop, come whatever.
ReplyDeleteAnd some people do that, care to elaborate?
zuhair is that you??
ReplyDeletethe only zuhair I know is a lebanese fashion designer
ReplyDeletejehanzaeb. or haider
ReplyDeletewhy haider?
ReplyDeleteUmm dani, what is all this?
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