Sameer coming back , against all odds

I left US today on 30th.. (and now at night..this part of the world say that its the night of 31st..My mental time clock is totally screwed)

AGAINST ALL ODDS

My first flight was from Detroit to Newyork at 1:00 pm and i made it to the gate just 15 minutes before the gate closing...I had so many odds against catching this flight . they are all worth mentioning :

• First i got delayed in packing my stuff. i had planned to do it on 29th (the day before my flight) but all of a sudden i had to attend a dinner - it was a goodbye dinner to me :) so i had to attend it , then i had to visit a guy to return him some money, then after coming back from his place i had to go visit him again 'cause he called to inform me that i had given him 20 bucks more.. then i slept late..woke up late..couldnt start packing on time..
  
• had too much stuff to pack. (i went with one bag 1 hand carry. am coming back with two bags, 2 handcarries with 2 jackets on arms)
  
  
• Usually , in my hotel ,at the front desk , people can give you your complete bill whenever you aks them but For my complete hotel bill detail , the front desk lady had to go to get the accountant. a long process that wasted my time
  
• it took time to clean snow from my car.. It snowed that morning..
  
• I took a wrong exit on my way to airport..and in US ,taking a wrong direction can not be fixed very quickly. luckily somehow i got a sense of the road directions (even though the place was new for me) and got back on track again...
  
• Before Returning the car to car rental , we are supposed to fill it up with fuel. When i reached the fuel station , the car's fuel lid was was frozen , it didnt open ...
  
• After fuelling, i was supposed to make a U-turn on the road, the way i take U-turns in USA is that i keep on going my road until i find an empty street on the right side, i drive into that street , take a U-turn there , come back towards the main road , and take a left turn - this results in a complete U-turn.. This strategy didnt work today, i didn't find any street at all on the way forward, all the streets that i got were entrances to some other Car Rental companies . and you can not get your car out easily if you mistakenly enter in there..
• I had two luggage bags, two hand carries and was carrying two jackets.. and i didn't find any trolley in the airport area...i had to take my stuff one at a time.. u know taking few pieces forward, putting them there, coming back to get the rest of the stuff, then moving forward with some parts... The most difficult of this was climbing the elevator..
  
• when i finally made it to the boarding pass issuing area, i was told that one of the bag is overweight.. I had to make some luggage adjustments right there..
  
• there was something in me that beeped in the security door.. even though i had removed my jackets, belt, steel-toe-shoes, wallet, mobile..everything ..the door just beeped...so the guard took me to a side and kept checking me for some 10-15 minutes.. (it was a descent checking - mind you!! )
  
• I kept kept racing the car all the time (even overtook a few cars, a big acheivement for me) , at airport i was running all the time, , remained frantic all the time.. It took me some time to stabilize my breath when i finally reached the destination... (thanks to my motapa)
  
  With so many hands (hands ; the verb , not the noun.), I made it . I got the flight.. Now thats an improvement.. (Reminder: Last time i entirely missed my flight from New York to Detroit). I don't know how i got his flight . some may consider that time stopped for me, some may consider it a CLEAR sign of some divine existence , some may consider it just a coincidence and some may consider it just a part of the the script .
  
  Anyways, I made it to New york near 3:30. ..stayed on airport for some 7-8 hours (with nothing to do).. had an 11 hour flight to Dubai (watched four movies)..and now i am in Dubai. once again i have to spend some 6 hours on the airport here.. :(...
  
  

THE SPIRIT WITHIN

Now when i look on my travel accomplishments...to me it seems i learnt a lot from this trip. Probably i might be able to label my recent life in terms of this trip (like the sameer before the US trip and the sameer after the US trip) ...It was a big paradigm shift in my life.. Thanks to the answer.. (Referring to my last blog).. I am a happy being now.. nothing is eating me inside anymore.. A psychic read me and said that my state is like a tree whose trunk has recently been shaken. The answers i got from the Jean and Don Daughtry were really amazing.

I have realized that people are more important than places..For the first time, i felt i was missing people.. may be i got too social in previous years.. or may be i have improved my relationships.. may be i have started giving more importance to the friendship bonds.

I have also learnt about many new spiritual concepts..new ideas that make sense to me.. new spiritual practices.. new beliefs...

My belief in the script is increasing ... The way things go , and their sequences.. it really amazes me.. Even on this flight that i just had from Newyork to Dubai...well.. there is a Movie - "The Peace full Warrior"... For some unkown reason, i wanted to see the movie.. bus dil karta tha..when i was going to Newyork (in Novemeber) , i thought many times of watching the movie on plane but skipped it every time for some reason or the other.... Now ! when i watched the movie tonight during the flight ... i realized that it had 2 very important messages for me ..which i would not have caught at all , had i watched the movie before the US stay.. i mean.. something that i learnt in US, made me properly understand the message..this sequence of events in my life . it is so amazing... these Lessons - coming in the order they should be ; I just cant call it a coincidence...

Anyways, I am happy that i am going home.. i am happy that I have got "Eternal Sunshine of the SPOTless mind". "SPOT" being the name of my project.. This project had made me extremely busy ..since August .. thanks good that i am not working on this project anymore.. i want to live my life now.. working for 16 hours a day doesnt leave you with a normal life at all..

and oh! My parents are cooking up something for my future ... I feel something coming my way SOON.. a further BIG change in life .. I don't know wether I will be accepting their decision or not. but.. well.. i dont know.. the coming 2-3 days are going to be very important. ... but!!... when i look inside, i dont feel too much motivation in going against their desires ..

PS. oh regarding my achievements , i forgot to mention that i finally learnt how speak the word "pork" , earlier for some reason i couldn't speak it properly .. every time my tongue slipped on "k" , making it an "n"... Just imagine a guy making this mistake at a restaurant enquiring ," Has this stuff got any pork in it?" :)

PPS. pray for me to recover from the Jet Lag soon... i am completely different when my sleep is disturbed..

Sameer gets THE answers

The scripts of my life took me to Jean and Don Daughtery.. An excellent spiritual couple whose life is all full of unbelievable things.. I met these guys at the Psychic Festival . They gave a live demonstration of Consultation in Trance . The way it is does and what it does is that Don (the husband) goes into deep trance and the Jean (wife) asks him the questions which are then answered by Don.. while he is in the deep trance state...

I was lucky to get a free reading ticket from Jean and Don .. I was even luckier to get some help from a guy Harry. Harry happens to be an iridologist (Iridology or iridodiagnosis is an alternative medicine practice in which patterns, colors, and other characteristics of the iris are examined for information about a patient's health ). I got a chance to get my eye examined by him and he told me some health problems that will arise soon if i dont take any necessary precautions.

Anyways, Me and Harry went to see the Daughtery couple at their place.. It was some 40 minutes drive.. and i was really scared by the traffic Jam..

It was a good talk that we had there.. I felt my self all inside a pool of knowledge.. They have a Greeeeeat weatlh of knowledge about things and the good point is that all their concepts are original i.e They have not been derived by any other person's , cult's or religion's teachings but by their own life experiences and their personal abilities which have taught them a lot . Jean has been seeing spirits since her childhood and the guy has been too much regular in medidation, Out of body Experinces and Near Death Experiences..

I had prepared a list of questions with the help of Harry , most of which related to me , my sister and mother... i only had some 55 minutes to ask the questions..cause Don cant stay in his state more than that.

I got satisfied answers to all the question that i had . i asked all the important things that were bothering me ..Especially my biggest problem.. something that has been bothering me for quite some long years. something that had completely changed my view of life, religion , society and everything that relates me for i dont remember how long......there is something that was there and i just could not accept it ..the only way out was to accept it completely and bear the resulting difficult life... but a part of me was not willing to accept it..and i was under some internal conflict that was affecting my life..so i posed this qusetion to Don.... and the answer that i got filled with me with happiness..it was completely according to my expectations....It was so strange an answer that Harry even shouted and requested Don to answer that question again.. And I was all full of Joy , amazement , happiness.. I just wish i could write things clearly... I tend to tell everything about me.. but there are things that i just cant tell , not because i am shy but because of the complexity in understanding it....so.. for you ,my dear reader!! ..the summary is that once again my view on life has changed and its good now.....i just want to share this new joy and happiness with you.. Just feel happy for me..

Haaaaah!!! i finally solved one big issue of life..Now i just wait to get new tensions and problems... Lol...

And i am about to go back to Pakistan.. Now that my purpose to come to USA has been fulfilled, i guess its time for me to leave the place.. .I was thinking of going to the couple again to ask few more things.. to know about my past lives, to know about the unfinished business that i carry from the past lives... but i guess the script doesnt want me to have more knowledge. May be its not needed..

Hmmm!!!.....Its a good script.. I am enjoying it...

Sameer meets psychics in USA

Long ago when i dived into the world of spiritual knowledge , i thought there are not many people in this field ..it was always difficult for me to find people with this same interest and explain the things to those who have no interest in this field at all.... i have seen some people explaining it in a very good way to other...... but whenever I try to do it ..I start feeling stupid myself during the conversation... lol..

when i came here to US , i thought it will be now more difficult to me to tell people about all the spiritual things cause they are so developed and realatively more logical..

but i was wrong.

last week i attended a meditation seminar in a library here.. It was good... its an organization called "Art of living Foundation" which also happens to have a center in Pakistan..in islamabad (which is probably not active)...they gave a good demo of a breathing exercise that they wanted to teach in a course later..it was a good exercise.. but the class is like 200$ (this is special discount for me when i did some runna pitna that i am a visitor and wont be here for long) .. so i am still thinking wether i should go for it not.. havent i already done enough courses...

After the meditatin class i was just checking out the library and i found a magazine there from which i got to know about a Psychic Festival in Sheraton Hotel nearby..

so Today (7 Jan 2007) i went to that Festival...and i was amazed by the size of the crowd and the amount of activities going on.. There were so many things there.. the list goes as:

-Psychic readers and Clairovoyants ,who were using tarrot cards , astronomy , nuemerology , palmistry and so many other things and stuffs to tell you about you....they were charging some 15-30$ for it...i couldnt get time to get a reading.. i regret that...

-People selling crystalized water (based on Dr Emoto's research..RAZA are you reading this..:) ) , they process the water so that it maintains the internal symetrical crystalline structure on the molecular level(even in the liqud form) and then they sell it..... they claimed that a drop of it can be used to convert some gallons of water into having that kind of structure..

-then there were Meditation cassettes by a company that i already know about, Minroe institue.. i dont know wether its a company or a proper institute..they had some CDs that can make you have Out of Body Experience.. the cost was nearly 100$... :(..

-then i met Christian tableeghees who spent some 20 minutes around me to brainwash me in belieiving that in every problem i should call the Jesus name as he is still alive and still listens to us .One woman became very emotional and she gave me some dozen examples of her life in which she was about to have some life threatning accident but all of a sudden she called the name of the Jesus ....and bingo!!! she was saved... in her opinion , that was enough to convince people.. ..anyways, They did a special prayer for me and my family specially my sister....they also asked the holy jesus to cure my throat (i cough a lot.. for no reason at all.. )... it was all free .. they didnt take any money from me.. :) they did take a lot of time from me.... :( ... once i left their stall i didnt go even near to that corner again... and oh!! my coughing never stopped...

-then there were Dianetics people who even took my emotional test through the legendary E-meter ... The lady was so much worried about my mental stress that she was asking me to buy the book again and again.. it was 8.95$ .. could have bought it ..but c'mon !! its available in Pakistan too...probably at a cheaper price..

-then their were full body reiki massages.. there were beds and massage machines and people were getting massages there...

there was so much there.... Free lectures on so many things.. i missed many of them cause i was late.. i still curse myself for being a lazy @$$...

-then there were aura photographers.. one guy was taking aura photograph with a krillian photography tehcnique.. i got my aura picture through a Bio Feed Back Machine.. See my aura below..

This picture comes with a 28 pages report about me .. telling me that i am all fine... there is no problem with me at all.. Shit.. there is no point in wasting your money on knowing that you dont have any problem at all.. lol.. but the 28 pages report is really great.. i always love people talking about me (the main reason why i always miss my Giki time : we , all the TAs, used to discuss ME in our spare time in cafeteria).. so a 28 pages report is really kool...It tells me a lot..

See my aura on the right . According to the report , it seems my chakras , my aura , my yin / yang , my male/female within , my energy levels........everything is balanced.. all my things are in total harmony.. i felt good to know that... good to know that all my chakras are all fine.. good to know that my cough is not because of any problem with throat chakra.. good to know that my too much relocations is not causing any problem to my root chakra.. good to know the reason of my not being able to have an out of body experience -> the lady says that its because i am too much grounded (i dont know what it means..)..... good to know that i have a good amount of connection with the angels up there who are trying to guide me..its even visible (to that lady who took the pic) in my aura picture.. .. the diamond above my head in my aura picture depicts that there is already something going on for my Psychic development, some divine help is already going on..some thing is making way for me.. and yeah! i feel that too.. sometimes i feel as if my life is scripted... its a kind of feeling that somehow someway i always find spiritual people/events ... but its just a thought...

Anyways , i wasted sometime in having the lunch buffet there.. it was 10$ only ..seemed good..was cheap..so i went for it.. but it kinda turned out a waste of time..as i didnt know about the free lectures going on as well in a seperate room...i would have preferred attending the lectures then going for food...

The first lecture i attended was on breathing.. there was some new kind of breathing that the guy was teaching.. a new technique that i really liked..usually we are supposed to use our nose while doing the breath meditataion... but in this technique we used mouth.. the effects were good...

Then there was a lecture on stones... i learnt a good deal about them.. and now i may start this new interest...cause stones are KOOL,,. The lecturer also told a thing of Palmistry...according to which, it seems , i am carrying a big amount of knowledge from my past lives...

Later, I attended a demonstration of consultation during Trance...where a man went in trance in front of audience and told us that there will be a polar shifting in 2018 .. he told us about its effect on Michigan ....he predicted that there wont be much loss in michigan..the north pole will shift by 45 degrees...there will occur some difference to the number of hours in a day ..probably an additino 2-3 seconds.....and a few more things will happen that i have forgotten....They had a Qura_andazi too .. in which they offered a free reading to one of lecture participants.....and lucky me ...i won a 220$ free reading .. i.e the guy will go in trance specially for me and i will be asking him the questions......so i will be knowing about MY future soon....or probably i will just ask about my present..that is of more interest to me...My present and the information that i carry from my past lives...

It was a fun festival.. I still curse myself for going late.. would have done so many other things.. would have learnt so many other things.. but well. i guess..may be it was scripted that way.... that was best for me..cause if i had known more ,it would have taken me longer to post this blog..lol...

one month remaining...

New year passed , bari eid passed, my birthday passed.. first time out of country...out of Pakistan.. These celeberations are already boring; i mean, i already complain about these days as being boring,but this time it was boring than ever before....

We were/are having very narrow deadlines for the current project...so we worked non-stop without a break..for nearly some 28 - 29 consecutive days.... There were no weekends, no holidays, no breaks etc..i had started getting my latent depression getting over me....infact i guess it did.. i dont think that is the proper way to work on a project..a break is always needed to increase productivity...thats not what i say , thats what psychology says. .. you always need to spend some time out of the box..

Anyways , we finally had a break ...a long one.. on christmas..starting from 23rd Dec to 1st Jan..most of the part of this vocation was spent in bed......Three people from Pakistan NCR left .two are not billable on project anymore (they wont return) .. so i am left with just one person to hang around with.. Its really boring..

The only great thing that has happened is my own car.. i finally rented a car.. a Chevy HHR.. i guess its 2000 CC...Its great.... more than enough for all of my requirements.. has a roof window , automatic gears, remote ignition (that is you can start/ignite the car engine from the remote ) , seated heats , a big diggie.. its a complete comfort... i am gonna miss this car later....i wont be able to enjoy THE PRINCESS at all when i will return to Pakistan..

There happens to be an Auntie of mine who lives nearby .. at a distance of some 35 minutes .each time i visit her my driving time decreases.. Driving is very very easy here.. but i am always scared .. especially on free ways/high ways.. Visiting my auntie was the only good thing in the vocations.. the only time i could conversate with people for long times.. She is in US for some 26 years now..and her children are all Americans now..

Google map is a real fun thing now. i visit a certain place and then keep on looking it on map for sometime to see all the area around.. its really beautiful , the way it shows all the roads and building , amazing.. i always take my driving directions from there..

In the vocations , i once visited the Detroit Science Center.. It was amazing.. I finally saw I-MAX cinema there; something i had planned before coming to US...an I-MAx cinema covers nearly the complete vison angle... in a normal cinema when you just you just look in front on a flat screen .. in an I-MAX , the roof is the screen .so you sit and rest your head on the head rest and look slightly upward.. Its really Amazing..I might visit it again before leaving..if i will get time..

I have started feeling really bored now.. want to go back to Pakistan.. This place is good .. its really beautiful and all organized.. but i dont have friends here..

Work started again.. soon i will be all busy .. but my countdown has started..today is 2nd.. i have to stay here till 31st.. 30 days remaing...

Right now i am in office.. there is no task to do right now.. but when they will start coming , it will be like raining..i wont have anytime or life then..

Ali bhai blogged about our newyork trip on his blog here . Ali bhai is my colleague in NCR... basically my batch mate.. happens to have very good knowledge about every topic of the world.. He has written a very very very very long narration of all that happened in Newyork.. (still his post doesnt beat Raza and my war on Professor Eugito mototo or whatever ) ...thanks Ali.. His long boring narration has become funny with my slight interruption in the writing.. (those who have been reading for long can easily find my touch there :) )...

And you people can see my pics here.. and of my car here .. see some more here in the order they are ..do give some attention to the captions ...they explain a lot...