the flight that never flew - and we almost never knew

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23 octobre

the flight that never flew - and we almost never knew

Thursday 19th October, 2006 was not a very nice day.

but why was thursday the 19th less nice than the other days of that horrible last week, considering that i was meant to fly off to karachi that very evening?

well, for starters - i had pulled a nighter on wednesday, trying to finish a paper on fundamentalism, but the constant flow of more assignements due on saturday/sunday compelled me to finish those off before i left lums - because even thinking about lums in karachi is a no-no, let alone working on assignments. KHER, i had to attend classes on thursday (which i didnt) and instead worked continuously on 3 papers side by side and paused only for iftari which belive it or not was a pack of GOLDEN crisps (too bad rehan doesn’t blog) anyway i finally zoomed around the different offices dropping off my papers and ran back to the dorms to pack, do the laundry, tidy the room, and found the time to dance around in the rain :)

ammar chachu came to pick me and sharah up and while loading the wet luggage into the car, he asked us if we confirmed with the airport if our flight was on time…now considering how there wasn’t an exact thunderstom raging, we naturally assumed tht the flight wouldn’t be cancelled for petty rain….famous last thoughts - we reached the airport along with half of the karachiite luminites and what do we find out? the 10pm flight is now leaving at 2AM!!!

after much huffing and puffing, we make our way to the waiting lounge where a glass soundproof wall divides the international departures from the domestic ones and who do we see on the other side? MIMI! hahah she had left for the airport a good hour before us and her flight to dubai was delayed as well. it was super funny how we couldn’t hear each other so we tried playing dumb charades for a while, and then resorted to typing out msgs on our cell phones and pressing those to the glass (wata cheapness! we are truly hostelites)

kher, after getting free PIA dinner (which truthfully wasn’t that bad - or maybe i just had a crappy iftari - haha now i’m glad rehan doesn’t blog!) me and sharah decided to roam around upstairs and we left our luggage with some lums seniors…so up there, we see azam down there and he’s talking to the check-in counter ppl…we started calling his name out and the lost soul wasn’t looking up and when we finally started laughing we see his stressed face looking up at us and he was asking what our plan was….hm, insert two drowsy confused faces and we later realized that not only was our flight delayed, it was completely cancelled for the night!!

so it was 1 am and our flight was now leaving friday 11am…what was my first impulsive reaction? i whipped out my cell phone and called rahaaaan….haha, i owe this little dude big time for that night, he was truly our knight in rusted armor (hey it was still raining) we ended up stuffing our re-called luggage into his santro and skidded our way back to his place where maéen (his younger sis) talked to us non-stop till sehri, while aunty forced us to eat garam parathey and i actually had kheer! i called up rehana phupo at this point and asked for another driver to get us to the airport AGAIN (since the last driver was so unreliable) lol

rehan dropped us to lums after sehri, and i swear, the sight of tht entrance gate when we had just left it so gleefully 8 hours ago was highly depressing! we had to endure the teasing of all the dorm girls who we had snubbed when we left the previous night but we were so dead, it really didn’t matter.

leave we did, eventually (again after another hour delay) at friday noon and henceforth, I, Ayesha Mulla shall try my level best NOT to travel with PIA again….oh damn,

I have a return ticket.

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	TAimura écrit : well, got nothing much to say particularly for ur blog except for that u seems to b going through great times + getting the most out ov it. neways the thing(s that I liked or impressed me is the space as a whole. u got a lil in almost every corner of the space. the photographs; which I assume r taken by U are, the way I do it :). REALLY NICE. gives a sence of free spirited the last & the best: Ur writing style iss superb,creative, it rreally gives the reader, or atleast Me ;) the sence of being there at the time. simple details in a fuzzy manner. must say MASHALLAH. well I 've bookmarked the space n ll b looking for some updates n Ya, ....well nothing 21 Nov.
	nawaz ijaza écrit : Lolzzz @ return ticket :P.... hope it wud've been a good traveling while returning... 17 Nov.

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