Last post from AKU
This will be my last posting from the frontier of AKU. I shall inshaAllah resume my work from my new base in Jhang.
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Ali Azmat in town
Yet in another record breaking act of commercialism this institution has violated all the moral and proper rights of the population of this land. Right now there is a concert going on in the football feild of this university with all woofers and guns blazing. Ali Azmat and Ali Zafar are providing the necessary recreation. But the mind numbing noise that this event is creating has made the life of healthy and unhealthy living beings in teh vicintiy nearly impossible. I have all my feelings for the patients who are just few hundred meters away in their rooms sick of all kinds of diseases in this hospital and the one next to it. I mean where in teh world are commercial rock concerts held in the premises of the hospital. You will find this prime example only here. I have heard there is curently a ban on all kinds ofconcerts in the city!! Bravo, as i would liek to say!
...And now lemme justify or, if you'd be kind enough to allow the term, explain why all that talk about sex! I live in a male hostel at the Aga Khan university. Someday, I'll write a long article on hostel life, but today just lemme throw one piece of clarifying info out. There are no gays here. At least none I've encountered in the last five years of my stay here. Of course, I could be a closet homo, enjoying what little man-on-man action I could elicit from a few like-minded friends, but that depends on what you'd rather believe. :) Anyway, I have lived in the hostel for five years. Have seen it all, inside out. Been a part of all the secret cults and societies that inevitably develop in a men's hostel. And I can safely say that 90% -- he, cross that figure -- 95% of the men here are sexually deprived (Dunno about the female hostel, I'll reserve judgement on them in my spirit of gentlemanliness). Frustration abounds. Pornography rules. Jacking off? Well, guys
Yea...I'm slipping this bit about sex in between a string of posts about my Aitkaf experience precisely because I wanna convey one message. It's not that dirty, folks. Now I can understand why premarital and adulterated -- excuse the pun and the horrible horrible slaughter of grammar -- sex is outlawed in Islam, but let's talk about it, shall we? Let's be open and fair and prod this creature called taboo right in its hiny, see what we can make of it! So what about sex, you ask, a bit shakily, a bit nervous. I close my eyes and groan. 'Cuz you know, buddy. You do, and yet you pretend ignorance. Sex is important from a human POV. It's healthy (as long as you keep yer damned fetishes to yerself!), it's a stress reliever, and it's important for conception...but most of all, it's a part of you. Like eating and pooping... Our society is male-dominated, no question about it. So is our Western counterpart, although the majority of their populace doesn't