Deadpan Thoughts

As I write this, I have just returned from a whirlwind tour of the world expo here in Shanghai china. its nearly past midnight and I have stood in hour long lines just to get inside four pavilions at the expo center. More on that later though as I shall start from the beginning of [...]

As I write this, I am sitting at the bottom of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. The tallest building known to mankind looms over me like some sort of fantasy. In front of me is a dancing fountain and lights show the likes of which at least I have never seen. The building itself is [...]

I have often heard people talk of the “call of the wild”. A feeling so unique one has to actually be there to experience it. Till I took this off road adventure though these phrases seemed like hogwash to me. Still it troubles me that most of Pakistan cannot ever see what I have in [...]

Its been a week since I arrived in China and after the last post, as I flew back to Shanghai I felt like I was almost part of the fabric of this nation now, ceaseless noisy and restless. The flight back to the center of china was uneventful but the view in the morning of [...]

The city of Zhengzhou in Henan province which I got off in after the last entry is massive and a bit archaic as Henan is the poor part of china or the part most foreign tourists or business travelers do not get to see. The population of henan is about the population of our country, [...]

As I write this, I am hurtling along the Chinese countryside in a bullet train (D Train) traveling @ 204 kms/hr. Amazingly enough the wifi is keeping up with it and working perfectly. The view from my window is a blur of trees, rice paddies, yellow hayfields and equally beautiful and muddy waters of several [...]