Meaning When your little one tells you that Narnia is the best movie he has ever watched and can he please have some more pop corn. Or when the little one’s younger siblings are all over you as soon as you step inside the door. Enlightenment When you catch a student eye as he finally…
Category: Personal shit
The Alchemy Story or How I became rude, mean and abusive
Osama Hashmi at Green and White did a post on support for entrepreneurs and I thought it would be worthwhile to share our story with the community to add to the points I made on his blog. Here is my story. Year One. On 1st January 2003, I came back home to Karachi. I had…
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I don’t know… The late Eqbal Hassan once said that “Whatever you do, don’t complain?”. This is your country, if you have any issue work and resolve it. But don’t complain. So I am not going to complain. Not that I have anything to complain about. Yes there was no electricity for the last 30…
Karachi United, redux
Heard on the sidelines of Karachi United Football Club, Coach to his class of little ones… “Its not about the goal, its about the ball. When its not about the ball, its about the mindset” I have now been a KUFC summer camp father on the side lines for three weeks. It has been a…
Karachi United Football Club or Why I work for myself
Karachi United Football Club – Or why I work for myself After four and a half long years of 18 hour days, 7 day weeks, I decided to take a break. The last 12 months have been especially rough. We went through two due diligence trips; the toughest close I have ever had to make…
Mid life crisis redux
15 years ago when a young woman looked at me, I actually thought that I must be cool. Today when three young (relatively speaking) girls turned around and looked at me, I could read their minds – look at that fat, bald guy dipping his bread in his Wild Mushroom soup and his two cold…
Second brush with the Big Bad Dee
February 2001… I sort of drowned in the pool, off my loverly (not a typo) pool in southern california. Well not exactly my pool and since I shared with 90 other residents in the complex. But at the time of the first big Dee incident, I was the only one in it, it was as…