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Love...

An excerpt from Khalil Gibran's book 'The Prophet':

"And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

Love has no other desire but to fulfil itself. But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: 

To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.

To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love;

And to bleed willingly and joyfully.

To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;

To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy;

To return home at evening tide with gratitude;

And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips."

Contributed by Muhammad Awais Aftab

You are from Karachiif...

- You get shocked when someone stops at a yellow light.

- You never really know what to say when someone asks you what there is to see in Karachi.

- You give missed calls.

- You've never really seen a tourist.

- It's December and you attend 5 mehndis/shaadis in one night and end up meeting the same people at each of them.

- You use the phrases 'What's the scene?' 'Scene on hai' or 'Who's she sceening with?'

- You still have some of Everest Videos movies and don't plan to return them.

- You feel you never have to wait in line if you are with ladies.

- You've bought a DVD of a movie that hasn't even been released yet.

- You actually go out for coffee.

- You used to go for tuitions even though you didn't need them.

- You categorize people as 'burgers' or 'melas'.

- You roll down your car window and you can actually touch the car next to you.

- You go by landmarks not street names.

- Your only argument in the Lahore/Karachi debate is, 'Well, we have a beach!'

- You never have dinner before 1 a.m. in the shaadi season.

- You know the 'telefun' number by heart even though you don't know what 'telefun' is/does.

- Your school gets closed when it rains.

- You know your city is a hole, but you love it anyway.

Wonderful Men!

-Several men are in the locker room of a golf club. A cell phone on a bench rings and a man engages the hands-free speaker-function and begins to talk. Everyone else in the room stops to listen.

Man: 'Hello?'

Woman: 'Honey, it's me. Are you at the club?'

Man: 'Yes'

Woman: 'I'm at the mall now and have found this beautiful leather coat. It's only $1,000. Is it OK if I buy it?'

Man: 'Sure, go ahead if you like it that much.'

Woman: 'I also stopped by the Mercedes dealership and saw the new 2006 models. I saw one I really liked.'

Man: 'How much?'

Woman: '$68,000.'

MAN: 'OK, but for that price I want it with all the options.'

Woman: 'Great! Oh, and one more thing... The house we wanted last year is back on the market. They're asking $950,000.'

Man: 'Well, then go ahead and make them an offer, but just offer $900,000.'

Woman: 'OK. I'll see you later! I love you!'

Man: 'Bye, I love you, too.'

The man hangs up. The other men in the locker room are looking at him in astonishment. Then he smiles and asks: 'Does anyone know whose phone is this?'

lWhen he found out he was going to inherit a fortune after the death of his sickly, widowed father, Charles decided he needed a woman to enjoy it with. So one evening, he went to a single's bar, where he spotted the most beautiful woman he'd ever seen. Her beauty took his breath away.

'I may look just like an ordinary man,' he said, as he walked up to her, 'but in just a week or two, my father will die, and I'll inherit 20 million dollars.' The woman went home with Charles that evening, and the next day, she became his stepmother!

Contributed by Hira Jalal