Daish Expanding Tentacles in Pakistan
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Yesterday Australia, Tomorrow New Zealand?
From the Blog sohaibalvi *Yesterday Australia, Tomorrow New Zealand?* By Sohaib Alvi It’s been such an unexpected, unusual and incredible Test series in that it has bedazzled, bemused and entertained. It has been all the more unbelievable coming after a putrid performance by Pakistan in the limited over games. Undoubtedly the biggest buzz has surrounded the allegedly aging but youthfully ebullient pair of Misbah and Younus. The Khan of Karachi had initially owned the media and the masses by enthralling with his twin hundreds in the first Test and when he followed it up with a double in Abu Dhabi he more than partially eclipsed the first innings hundred by Misbah; much like the captain’s seemingly less important half century in Dubai. So the man from Mianwali just had to do something sensational to gpakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
The Samurai Editor
From the Blog blog *Josh Seiden* says about editing one’s writing, and I quote *verbatim *(is there any other way?): when you are editing, you are a deadly samurai warrior. You slash writing to bits until only the good and pure and worthy words are left. But when you are writing, you are not a samurai. You are a waterfall or some shit and your job is just to let those words flow and flow even if the good ones are all tumbled up and white-watered with the ones that are rotten and filthy and polluted. Just remember that you can’t write and edit at the same time. Why? Because you can’t be a samurai and a waterfall at the same time because that shit makes no sense at all. Beautiful! Isn’t it? Waterfall and Samurai. In that order. I definitely need a reminder (or five) with that. You can (and you mpakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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