around the house..

Posted by mansoor on 29 Oct 2006 | Tagged as: heart 2 heart, travelogue

One of the first things which hit me, when i came to stay with my parents was this….. i was given the ‘guest room’!! Damn! i mean.. i no longer have a room at my parents house!! Kind of makes the disconnection permanent.. doesnt it?!

Oh well.. atleast i have ’somplace’ and not living off the couch :D

but then, my mother cheered me up

“mansoor, how can it be that you dont have any contribution in our home. We’ve left the drilling and hanging up of the paintings around the house for you.” (read: we didnt wanna do it.. so who better to dump it on).

how positively wonderful!!!

so two days out of my 7 days here were spent drilling holes in various walls around the house, hanging stuff off em, and then hearing about what a job (good and bad) im doing. Not bad huh?!

Also, this morning i gift wrapped various gifts mother had bought for her nieces back home. I hadnt realized it, but the gift as Eidi tradition is slowly starting up in my family as well!! All i have to say to it is… “nnnnnoooooo!!!” we used to get off so easily with just giving Eidi!!

Realizations while performing the above mentioend tasks…

  • i love drilling holes! and
  • i love gift wrapping stuff.

6 Responses to “around the house..”

  1. on 29 Oct 2006 at 5:12 pm   sid

    atleast bein away from family makes em realise all the stuff that they just couldnt do without u. :)

  2. on 29 Oct 2006 at 9:40 pm   in2deep

    since i have just gotten to know you, what do you do and where do you live? and i’m just about to blogroll you, hope you dont mind.
    and happy wrapping and drilling friend:)

  3. on 30 Oct 2006 at 11:12 am   mansoor

    sid: true that!!

    in2deep: im with a consulting and training organization, with my primary responsiblities being directing standard implementation at our clients as well as developing and delivering executive trainings here in Karachi. Over the last week, i was in isb on vacation with family. They moved over a month back.

    Mind?? ofcourse not! im honoured :)

  4. on 30 Oct 2006 at 1:57 pm   kanwal

    :) atleast you contributed!
    Happy belated eid mubarak!

  5. on 31 Oct 2006 at 12:16 am   in2deep

    okay, your work is too technical for me but i thought maybe you were living in the states. :)

  6. on 31 Oct 2006 at 11:26 am   mansoor

    kanwal: thanku! belated Eid mubarak to you too.

    in2deep: lolzzz! no.. im pretty much a pakistani!

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