We as Pakistani citizens have always complained on how poor the state of the country is. Whether it’s the system, people, corruption, power shortages, terrorism or traffic jams you name it. But despite these social evils and other major crisis there must have been so many real life occasions when you would have been felt proud of the country we all called our Homeland.
Pakistan is our home and we have contributed in both the good and bad. But today for a change bring the patriotism that lies within you to life and blog something about your country that has made you happy, proud and patriotic.
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This webpage will be especially setup for Pakistani bloggers on this nationalistic occasion.
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Event: Teabreak Hi-Tea
Venue: Copper-Kettle (
Host: The Teabreak Team
I got there early with Asim and Imad to check the arrangements out. Jamal (The photo blogger) was the first one to show up and Asim asked me ‘why is he too early’. I asked Zair to check his ID card, he was 10 minutes earlier, very unlike any Paksitani 
. In the meanwhile Zair disclose the news that Shahzad won’t be able to make it, as he is sick and throwing up all over the neighborhood. I called him and asked him to try his best as we can’t afford to loose a team member in an important event such as this. At quarter past 4 Asim started to get a little nervous.
“Why aren’t they showing up?” he asked
I told him to calm down and then some bloggers started to show up one after another. I was quite pissed at my friends (who also happen to be fellow bloggers) as I spend the whole Saturday reminding them to be there at 4 PM and except Imad all of them were “LATE”.
As a result we started the procession without them. Asim gave the welcome speech for which he spend the whole week preparing and then it was my turn to tell the world (18 or more people) that what is we have in mind for Pakistani Blogging Community. I will God willing discuss the “agenda” in the upcoming posts. But that was the turning point of the whole evening as from their all the teabreak bloggers engaged themselves in a fruitful debate over a cup of tea. Of course the majority didn’t agree to certain points we presented but then we never expected them to do that.
The main idea behind this “Get together” event was to provide Pakistani bloggers an opportunity to meet and identify our existence in the society we live in and if we have that certain existence then how can we work out a way to reshape the world around us. How successful we are to achieve that only future can tell. But I got a great response from bloggers like Jehan Ara, Dr. Awab and Ramla Akhtar. They are the who’s who of the industry and their encouragement really counts to a team as young as ours.
It was also nice to meet new people and we shared quite a few jokes in a friendly environment. That’s the best part about blogging we have 1 million issues to talk, cry and laugh about. I want to thank all those who took some time out on a day like Sunday and joined us over a cup of tea.
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I was confirming a reservation for the upcoming event in a local restaurant, that a University friend walked in with a girl. We embraced and I inquired was he on a date? (Yes I am quite straight forward ). On which he took a deep breath and replied;
“Oh I used to date her but we are married now :D”
Me: “Mahsllah! Congrats dude, when did this happen?”
Friend: 3 months ago
His wife interrupted: ‘No! 4 months ago’
Me: ‘You guys sound married too ’
It was nice to meet a young married couple, not all love birds end up getting married in the society I live in. Reason; financial, racial, sectarian etc They don’t let you marry if you love someone, have a good understanding and are willing to live your life together. But they have little or no problem if you want to get married for wrong reasons. Wrong reasons; you will often read in News paper (Matrimonial columns) that Mr. XYZ wants to marry a tall girl with fair skin and beautiful face who can help settle Mr.XYZ in USA/CANDA/DUBAI .
Dowry is another way to sign a business deal among so-called honorable families. The longer the list of items the greater the probability that the girl will be given more respect among her in laws. These are the arranged marriages I am talking about where an unknown girl marries a completely unknown guy. Here the parents arrange the business deal and the ‘bride & groom’ are completely unfamiliar of each other habits, interests and personalities.
Now the religious or traditionalist readers will jump in and protest. But I wont say much, I proved my point.
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The last time I met her, the first question I asked was how she’s able to keep her blog content so fresh despite the busy life that she lives. She smiled and told me that her blog readers make her write and when the day ends she utilizes her night to write such interesting blog posts for us.
I was lucky enough to interview Madam Jehan Ara as shes the featured blogger for Teabreak.pk for the month of July.
Catch her interview here.
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You heard the lady, apparently we are Pakistan’s largest Tea house (Chaai Khana). Now thats a compliment eh? 
Bits and Bytes is a Technology program produced by Samaa Television. If you’re wondering what’s going on with Information Technology in Pakistan, Bits and Bytes is the program you need to be watching. And if I am not wrong among hundreds of Pakistani Channels Bits and Bytes is only program that exclusively covers IT industry in the country.
There is a little funny story behind this video as well. For those who don’t know this Bits and Bytes episode went on air last week and none of the Teabreak team member had a clue that our site will be featured on it. So we were totally taken by surprise. And boy was it a good one.
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