I've Come Back To You

What I left for BihariShabab.

Ladies and Gentlemans I have finally returned from my journey to the fair city of Karachi. I have many a story to tell you but I must save those for a later date. You will be happy to know that it was a great trip that I thought was short, however, a lot can happen in three weeks. I mean Bernie Mac died!?!?! Isaac Hayes too! and what's this about Russia fighting a war in Gerogia? How could I possibly have missed out on that? I watched Sportscenter this morning and I don't want to shock your socks off but Brett Favre is a New York Jet and Manny Ramirez is playing for the Dodgers. And why the hell are the Yankees 10 games behind the Rays? I was only gone for three weeks and my entire world collapsed around me. Needless to say it's going to take a few days for me to adjust to this new world.

Bihari Shabab Programming Note: While The Fahad's Away...

Nobody Beats Me, Because I'm the Wiz! I'm the Wiz!

Fear not oh loyal Bihari Shabab readers, for the scent that you are faintly picking up that smells like it is equal parts ass and Stetson aftershave, is not a dirty bomb. Rather it is a warning sign of the self-reverential lovefest that is about to get underway up in this bitch. As you know, we recently added the counter to track the number of hits we are getting here. And to be quiet honest, we were pleasantly surprised by just how many people do come here as we have not done much in the way of marketing. Now there are two ways one can take this. 1) Be humble and thank the readership or 2) Get a big head and openly solicit the female readership for Rishtas. I think you know which way we're going to go with this. I look forward to openly antagonizing the men and hitting on the women. Hello non-mehram ladies! Tis a pleasure to have your company...raise the gaze in summer of 08...

Anyway, as you know by now, young Fahad is on his way to the homeland. What does this mean to your BihariShabab experience aside from the fact that we now come to you with 100% less rap? It means that you can look forward to more posts but less original content. We will hopefully have daily Khabarnma links along with a number of weekly features, that will satiate your appetite for desiality(TM). Look for youtube clips, music reviews and other empty calorie content fillers.

Also, with today marking 100 days before the election, you can also look forward to more political coverage which really means shameless pro-Obama propaganda, because you're really not getting enough of it as it is.

The internship program is underway as well, with the first post coming up later today from the Indian Leon Phelps, Akash Shah. His first post works hand in hand with the IMEEM application you see to your left. As part of our weekly spotlight on desi artists, we will have a playlist for you for the week so you can sample some of their work and not just go by what we have to say. We think it's a terrific idea, but your comfort is paramount here, so your feedback would be much valued in determining whether we stick with the widget.

In all seriousness, we really do appreciate your patronage. If only some of you knew how to work the goddamn comment section, I think it could enhance the overall experience. I know giving out your real name may feel like a breach of your personal space. But fear not Priyanka Chopra from Mumbai or whoever you are, you can now comment anonymously, so get on it.

We look forward to hanging with you this summer.

Thanks.

Bihari Shabab Programming Note: Counter Added!

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This seems to be the week that Bihari Shabab get's some long over due surgical enhancements. First we opened up commenting to the mass public, including East Pakistanis which we had internally sworn we would avoid at all costs. Followed by the announcement of the Summer Internship Program along with the force out of the co-edito...I mean the vacation that Fahad Masood is taking. And now the addition of our brand spankin' new counter that you can see on your left. We are a boob job and tummy tuck away from being in contention for the PMOY (Badum Tish!).

Anyway, so yeah, we got ourselves a counter. At this rate I can't wait for October when we are able to use an HTML naming convention that doesn't end in .html. Am I right, or am I right folks?!?! Geek high fiiiive! For your sake, I hope no one mentions using FLASH around these parts as it will result in you burning at the stake on charges of witchcraft. Geekorriffic!

Special thanks to the Gujarati Casanova of the south, and friend of the blog Akash Shah for helping me figure out how to get a counter on the site. Akash, who is a DJ in his spare time, would be the coolest IT support person I knew had his Gujju brother Indy Shah not recently purchased this bike and blown him out of the water. Either way, tick tick tick away my friends.