Yeah, you read that right!
Insomnia is not only back it is back with the interspersed nightmares!
And last night, I think I had a first!
I had a nightmare which was going on ON twitter!
Yeap!
Do not remember the details, but all I know is something horrific was up and I was basically following it on twitter and feeling utterly miserable.
Maybe I need to stop spending so much time on twitter.
Or maybe… I should go to sleep !
Here’s a poem about twitter as discussed on my facebook status!
seriously whenever i read the word 'twitter' it goes beyond me :p :$
Sami Mughal at 19:36 on 30 June
twitter twatter... mubi on a platter...
twitter twatter tee
twitter twatter
she had no idea...
so we jus bugged her with glee :D
and then to add
some rhyme to this,
we said hee hee hee :D
lol, twitter filled poetry for me :D i feel i am disabled when my eyes scan the word twitter and its so much in this poem :
Last Sunday I visited the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, which may just be the last time one sees it there.
Today I completed my photo-journalism course, and as an assignment I had put the event into the form of a photo story.
So I have just uploaded the slide show on to YouTube and here it is!
PS… the video was still being processed while I posted this… so if it says ‘Video Unavailable’ you know why!
A long overdue post… one that is more than a month old… but I had to put this here, because as hectic as it was, it was also immensely fun. And of course it was my second time in Amsterdam but for once I was able to enjoy it for a few hours.
So this is the tale of another hectic road trip I made last month. I had to drive this van, and it was one crackly piece of kit. Very annoying, very noisy, and very bad handling. Not something you want to drive for such a long time. And do other stuff while you are at it too…
Anyways, so basically I had to get to Amsterdam at the end of a trade show we do every year, to get some stuff back from there. Before that I had to go meet a geek in Southampton in regards to some work he was doing for us. From there I headed to Dover, to catch the morning ferry to Calais, from where I had to proceed to Amsterdam, help the guys pack and load the vans, and drive back the next morning! Here is a map of what I did. Obviously A > B > C > D > E > F !!!
So my journey began with me heading to Southampton. Though not much exciting stuff happened there, I did manage to take this picture… :D 
I stayed over at the Premier Inn at Dover that night. I have to say, I was impressed. It was my first experience there, but it was really comfortable. Had a good nights sleep and wonderful dinner in the hotel !!! So if you have to spend the night at Dover, that is definitely a good place to stay.
Next morning I caught the early morning Ferry to Calais, and from there I started my journey towards Amsterdam. You pass through France, and Belgium before you hit Netherland, and after some hours, you finally get to Amsterdam. It is, needless to say, a long drive! The good thing about France is that the speed limit there is 130 kph (80 mph). It is 120 mph in Belgium and Holland.
So I finally managed to get to Amsterdam around 4ish, and we got around to packing of the stuff and loading the vans around 5ish and were done, and dead tired by 8. We headed back to the hotel, and though there was the three of us, one man was not interested, so the two of us decided to head out. Heck we were in Amsterdam, and a hard day lay ahead (driving back), but at least we deserved a good dinner and a good outing.
So we called a taxi and went to the city centre. And my what a beautiful evening it was! Just the perfect summer evening with a cool breeze going, fresh air, and lots to see!
And yes… we took a little walk, scanning the area for a few restaurants, before we thought lets head to the famous (notorious) Red Light Area of Amsterdam. Weirdly it strangely reminded me of the one in Lahore, though I suppose there is no direct relation. Guess I was just feeling homesick!
Here are a few pictures from our walk there… they are not great… but we were dead tired and could not be arsed really!
I suppose this area is more of a tourist spot than a ‘business’ centre nowadays, or at least is most definitely was that day!
We browsed for restaurants and we came across this magnificent building, which was actually a restaurant!!! So we decided to have dinner there, and my was it fantastic!!! Made all that hard work during the day feel worth it!!!
Wow i just noticed.. a girl is in the process of disappearing behind me in this photo !!! Or did we capture a ghost… woa !!! 
I know the pic is out of focus, but like I said, we could not be arsed!
So the next morning, after a hearty breakfast, we started to make our way back. Here is a picture I took at Calais, waiting to get into the ferry!
Sadly on our way back, M25 had the better of us! Took us 3 extra hours! But hey… this was the day before I did my Shoot London thingy. So I suppose alls well that ends well!
So this Twitter friend of mine (https://twitter.com/timegirl4468) and a combination of Star Trek sort of inspire this post.
Lets say… you come across an alien.
If luck serves you right, they are a friendly specie…
They treat you nice… and you end up on the alien version of Larry King Live or Winfrey Oprah or the Jonathon Ross show, or Top Gear even.
So amidst the laughs… this creature turns to you and says…
So … Sami (enter your name here) … tell us about your species… what do you think sets your species apart…
What would you tell them?
Emotions? Would anybody who has never felt any (Vulcan for example) know what an emotion is?
Feelings?
Bodily desires?
Passion?
Intelligence?
Speech?
Physical attributes?
The urge to party and fight like crazy?
Addictions?
OCDs?
Aliens… they may have something we might consider super power… telepathic abilities for example… or even smarter brains, or ability to jump higher than buildings, or move fast, or perform welding miracles through their body heat.
What if they ask us for any super powers…
We do a lot of super human feats everyday, but is there anything we would consider to be a super power?
Our ability to swim, walk, think, talk, love, hate, any of these could be a super power to an alien specie…
What do you think… what would be your answer to them… ?
Oh what a day it was last night for Top Gear! Great first show for the new series, and of course the bomb shell as had been hinted by Mr Clarkson himself in his column in The Sun, was that THE STIG would be taking off his helmet.
And the moment came around roughly half eight BST. For those of you who missed it, here is a link to the BBC article about it!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8111588.stm
For those of you who cannot see this (out of UK readers perhaps) I am sure it is all already on YouTube!
So what do you have to say about this?
Do you think he is the Stig? Or is this another one of those Top Gear moments?
Tomorrow is an exciting day for me…
I am going to Silverstone to watch F1 !!! British Grand Prix… a whole day full of adrenalin fuelled driving and cars and the smell of burning rubber and petrol… yum yum !!!
Pakistan play Sri Lanka in the T20 World Cup Final at Lords tomorrow… I will miss a bit of that but I will catch up on it later… Well excited about it though!
The new series of Top Gear starts tomorrow, and if Clarkson’s claim in Sun is anything to go by, Stig might be taking his helmet off. An episode stated by them to be ‘the greatest thing to air on television’, I am sure it will be pretty special !!!
However, I have a strong feeling he would be wearing a mask underneath that helmet!
