Wednesday, November 23, 2005

The most disarrayed post ever and porn stars are nice people

Seems like eons ago… But bear with me, for it might get interesting and bare with me if it doesn’t so that it shall.

Ever since the day that I got off the plane on Dubai International Airport, people have been asking me (which includes people I don’t know from Adam) “What do you think about Dubai”? How’d you find it? What about the buildings? Were you impressed? I have been unable to satisfy people. Buildings don’t impress me much. Ok so they are big and flashy…but I did see a PINK building in Abu Dhabi and I saw a Golden and Pink building in Dubai? Now that showed Guts in bad taste if anything. Anyways, I was not there to appraise buildings and couldn’t have done a good job if I were.

I went there looking for a job and I found one, I doubt it was without any divine help. I was very lucky to say the least. I used to find Karachi Huge and Ugly, (no I am not talking about the people), I cant say Dubai is that. I think it is just plain Ugly. I guess it’s the way that I am built, any place that wreaks of more than 60% of capitalism makes me nauseous. There is nothing to do in that place for someone like me, well except working and getting paid. I know, I know it is home to many but It doesn’t mean I have to like it. A lot of people like vanilla ice cream too. Oh God, forgive me, why why why Vanilla? I mean that is not even a flavor. I think if something or someone is so tasteless or lifeless that you can’t put a finger on it, or name it, then call that thing Vanilla, for example the aptly named Vanilla Ice, Cameron Crowe’s Vanilla Sky and all Vanilla mornings, if there is any such in the world.

My opinion of Dubai for expats who are their for a quickie is very well explained by one of the very very few songs of Hip Hop and Rap that I like ….namely California Love feat: Dr. Dre & Tupac Shakur. They state:

Now let me welcome everybody to the wild, wild west
A state that's untouchable like Elliot Ness
The track hits ya eardrum like a slug to ya chest
Pack a vest for your Jimmy in the city of sex
We in that sunshine state with a bomb ass hemp beat
the state where ya never find a dance floor empty
And pimps be on a mission for them greens
lean mean money-makin-machines servin fiends (California Love – Dr. Dre & Tupac Shakur)

If we for an instance remove those who are plagued by life and HAVE to work in Dubai, because for them and in their sights there is no other option whatsoever, then we shall be left with at least 75% of the remaining population. Then let the rest be the pimps who are pretty busy pimping their products, some literally, some otherwise. Does that make them bad people or good people? No I am not talking about the Pimps, I don’t really care about em, except that maybe I want to act out a jack ripper (one week of ripping did no one any bad). Also, I would like a lot of paper and a paper shredder, to make me happy. The real thing would mean blood and slashing which really makes me sick to the stomach, like Japanese horror and American Teenage Comedy movies.

All of the above has nothing to do with Dubai. It has got a general direction wherein I hate all kinds of prostitution. When you say prostitution it is usually women who get paid to get laid. But it is more than just that. I think if the woman or man chooses that as a profession herself than she / he is wrong to do so. If they are forced, then it is worst. There are other kinds of prostitution, in my opinion prostitution / rape is having to do something you don’t like at all, or something which pays you a lot but for a price payable by not just you but by the whole society. Yes yes for me it is a whole moral dilemma. Pros are bad, but not porn stars…they are naughty. Porn stars are nice people.

So what is this all about? Nothing much at all, I just want to vent various issues out of my system. Catharsis if you will. Its like driving in Lahore, if you don’t cuss at every cut and turn you will most probably die of a heart attack before you reach your destination and I have a long way to drive.