How I Spent Eid

I wonder where this function was ???

Jersey City???

I hate Jersey City!!!!!

Shiraz:

I have attended this Eid Millan in person and will totally disagree with your implied sarcasm. You have taken bits and pieces and are trying to make-up a story here. Your comments on Bapsi`s readings were again misplaced. You forgot to mention the reference to the context in which she had brought up certain points. You would have been in a better position to comment, had you seen the movie Earth or read her book, ``Cracking India``.

This piece is nothing but the usual derogatory but well-worded writeup.

Refreshing and funny!

Please keep writing ....someday one of the pretty pakistani girl will ``Taras Khao`` on you!

Wow, I thought they would never accept anything I ever wrote. Who was the unfortunate soul who allowed the publication of this ... this ... joy-filled misery ?

hypocrisy , confusion, and a sordid tale of our DENIGRATED state...shameful!

wish we could think!

Very funny.. Cant stop laughing!.

Now I know, why all the Pakistani guys flock to the Diwali and Holi functions organized by the ISA in my university. Where else will they

get to dance with girls.

May be I should attend my city`s Eid function, whenever it comes again. The city mosque is right next door to me.

And then I can dance with all the Muslim girls -- hopefully Pakistani girls, as I prefer them--- all alone with no competition from other guys. Good idea isnt it. I donot belong to any Muslim students` association and am not a Muslim, so hopefully the Abbaas, wont stone me and Allah wont throw me in the fires of hell, for dancing with girls :)

People any Pakistani function coming in the Detroit area, please let me know.. seriously.

And Shiraz, attend an Indian Students Association function - Diwali or Holi or Dandia, in the university xlosest to your place.The girls wont be nearly as good as the Pakistani ones, barring a few, but you will get to dance with desi girls. Think about it.

Satyavadi

Hilarious reading!! I can`t believe you even thought about wearing black to a Pakistani party...

Ylh, the function was not in Jersey city. It was in Lake Wood (I think). I live in Manhattan but had to travel a really long distance just to get there (path trains plus over $50 in cab fare). When I arrived at the Hoboken train stop I discovered there were no trains going that way over the weekend. So I had to make my way to the function with a cab driver whose command over the english language was as shaky as his command over the wheel of the car. When I was not shivering from the cold (he did not understand when I asked him to turn on the heater) I was shaking from the prospect of become part of some 18 wheeler.

I`m glad that you were finally able to make
it past the CHOWK Editors. But Shiraz Ji, just
don`t get too carried away here.
Enjoyed this writing. But I Will remember this week.First the Clinton lecture and then another Siddiqui on CHOWK. Reality has finally kicked in. The world is changing. What next?

Ras

Hmmm, let`s see...didn`t really laugh. Most probably because I have a dry sense of humour. Well, I guess you`re on the first rung of the literary ladder. Your Pakistani nature shows through the article. Us brethren have a habit of looking around our environment, see what everybody else is doing and then we copy it. Halal butcher shops, Leather jackets, grocery stores, doctors, Imran Khans, you name it. Let`s take the Chowkwalas, all we ever do is take the piss out of ourselves, weather it be Pakistan or Islam etc. etc. I guess you`ve done the same. Congratulations. You`re now a true Pakistani

Still, your article`s better than mine is so I can`t really talk.

Best Wishes

Omar Phoenix

Oh Well

I hate Jersey City aNyWaYs!!!!

I HATE JERSEY CITY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

First, let me say your writing ability leaves must to be desired!!! I had a hard time following your cliched language, but then I gather you have not been to writing school.

What offended me most was the manner in which you denigrated a writer of Bapsi Sidwa`s calibre and marginalised her words by one sweep of her ``Parsi`` background. I wish you had taken the time to understand the depth and intensity of her words and had been able to measure the respect that she has for our culture and our history. Something that I am sure you will not be able to appreciate let alone understand.

Your jibes on the function itself are too transparent! I must mention that it was a very well organised event and a large number of people managed to have a good time!!!

Enjoyed the restrained humour Shiraz.You have what it takes to tell a story well.Thanks

ZAHRA:

This is not a reportage or a journalistic coverage of the event.This is the report about a person`s view & feelings alongwith his prides & predjudices.Isn`t that what colors the sketches of Life itself?

This guy has an ability to look at things in dimensions other than regular.I like the convoluted imagery.

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wassalaam.

isnt this your second chowk piece shiraz saab?

funny but rough in places..you have it in you..just harness (not restrict) it a little more :))

i enjoyed it. sarcasm is my faveorite type of humor.

rizvi

Shiraz (my dear fellow New Yorker),

They will put a fatwa out with your name on it soon ... still its good to know you`re out there in the Big Apple too, resisting Satan and the temptations of Farangi Culture by attending Paki-Eid functions in N.J designed to save your soul in the hereafter ...

Talibanization is inevitable, resistence is futile ... jahannum is around the corner ... inebriate yourself with the spirit of Islam ... all you truly need is an anguthaaa chaap biwi or 4, to produce you 9 kids (contraception is a Zionist conspiracy) ... and you`ll realize its not soo bad ...

What I fail to understand is why you didn`t show up drunk on the Eid Spirit (there`s a marketing gem of an idea, like Eid-Nogg) before the party, brother.

It seems i had the Eid you wanted to have, and I spent it in desi company ... though not at a desi function or dnner of any kind. And I had fun w/o gajar ka halwa or Sivayaan too ...

Wah`Salaam!

Omar Mirza

One funny story. Now go write that book you have inside you.