The Paintings Fad

Lately, I was watching an interview of one of the ex-ministers of our political scene on a local TV channel. It was a very casual kind of interview in the minister’s drawing room and the conversation wandered around her habits, past time and daily routine of life. To the answer of one of the questions of the interviewer, the minister said that she is extremely fond of paintings and she has gathered thousands of paintings all around herself. The painting selection/collection was of course very expensive and the minister mentioned that the minimum cost of her collection was around half a lakh rupees. I know this is a very minor thing and may seem irrelevant to most of the people but as soon as the minister uttered these words (i-e her paintings love) I felt a feeling of mere disgust in my heart for her and immediately switched the channel.
I started to think what benefit this minister did to us (the common people) when she was in power, she did nothing just like her contemporaries instead of looting people’s money through the damn taxes, foolish expenses and uncontrollable ‘mehngai’. I know I have no right to comment on her personal wealth and the means by which she obtained that wealth but the main thing over here is that I have no respectful feeling in my heart for the politicians of my age (except one or two) and that’s why the hatred in my heart for all our politicians rise like anything when I see the lavish lives they are spending in their many palaces and at the same time a common man is starving for basic necessities of life. A common man earning an average salary can’t sleep comfortably in his half broken bed because of the uncertainties of the expenses of the next day, a common man in our country can’t imagine in his whole life of affording a leisure and paintings…Paintings are something next to impossible for common masses but it is just a ‘fad’ for our honorable politicians :( Long Live Pakistan…

The Cineplex Experience

A couple of days ago I happened to go to one of the top graded cinema houses of Karachi city and that is Cineplex Movie theatre. It was my first ever experience in life to watch a movie on such a big screen and the experience was awesome, the characters in the movie felt so big that for a moment I thought everything is going on in just my immediate surrounding :) the sound, light, the resolution, the clarity, everything was really admirable, all in all it was a memorable experience and I strongly hope to make hundreds of similar journeys in future also. One thing which I felt very visibly was that since I was watching the movie on a reasonably big screen so all emotions pictured in the movie seem to be so influential that it was impossible for me to control both on my tears and laughs, I think if I watch same movie on a normal TV screen then probably these emotional scenes may not be of the same intensity and influence. Anyhow, I enjoyed a lot and look forward to having many such experiences.