Blah Blah from The TeaBreak Team.

I’m depressed today.

Yesterday, I was happy. Pakistan won. By a whopping margin. I watched the cricket match with my cousin and younger brother and yelled and screamed everytime a Netherlands wicket was taken. (For an over-over commentary, go to Five Rupees). Then my rescued bird is doing just fine. I saw it yesterday in its cage. It was hopping around (wing still damaged) but it looked so much better. Like someone had pumped up and resuscitated its broken spirit (and wing). I’m going to call it the ‘Red Quail’ from now on. I love the Red Quail’s red eyes. So fascinating.

Before that, I wasn’t feeling too well. I was recovering from my Sunday trip to French beach where I frolicked in the waves and ate barbecue looking at the sun setting over the ocean. But I also took in (ingested) enough salt in to fill my daily nutritional requirements for a year and a half. Pakistan’s dismal loss to England because our captain thinks Twenty20 is fun cricket just added to my not-feeling-well day. (Idiot that Younis Khan is!)

But the reason why I’m depressed today is because I opened the papers and saw the Peshawar carnage. And it tore me into two. The attackers planned it out so well. They jumped the wall, lowered the barricades and drove their explosive-laden truck into the PC hotel. They killed people who I want to be like; UNHCR officers, NGO workers and people who just want to save the frickin’ world. They want to save the IDPs and the poor of Pakistan. Do they deserve this? Read and comment on CHUP. Kals gives awesome coverage to this.

You know, maybe it’s immature or chimerical but I wish I owned a Transformer. Not one stolen from KESC but one from another galaxy. Like an Autobot or a Decepticon. Then I would show these mercenaries of religion not to mess with us. I like world peace. I would enforce it without letting the sheer power go to my head.

I promise I would.

PS: Here’s a song from the Goo Goo Dolls who sang the soundtrack for the Transformers movie. It’s titled, “Better Days” and Inshallah we shall see better days for this country. Inshallah.