Life, it seems, even in the blogging world has come to a halt since the earthquakes on saturday. Almost a week later, relief still pours in and people are still glued to their TV sets. Here in the coastal areas of Karachi, though, we still await the big one that's going to come finish us all off. People have started panicking at the slightest tremor and it is rumoured that foriegn consulates in this area immediately evacuates its VIP occupants and takes them to a safer, less coastal area of Karachi to wait out the impending doom. Slight tremors have been coming by here every other day since several months, but until the major quake, none of it was a big deal. Me, I'm still going through life as normal. Sure, any night we could wake up (or not) under a pile of rubble that used to be our home, but you can't control nature, so you might as well live out normalcy untill you are no longer capable.

I must admit, it feels good to have an entire conversation filled with laughs and devoid of any mention of earthquakes and relief efforts and sad stories. Denial, thy name is Defence Resident. In times like this when even a nudge recieved on MSN Messenger can startle you, it's good to have some conversations centered entirely around ourselves.