Things I Love and Hate about Karachi

Things I love about Karachi:

SEA:

Obviously, sea is the only feature which makes Karachi distinct from all other cities in Pakistan. It is the only city to be blessed with such exquisite, breath-taking locations. A place where Karachiites can go and refresh themselves. A place where they can go and leave behind all the stress of their busy schedules. This is hands-down the top most reason why I love this city.


Winter Season:

Winters in Karachi rock. The only reason being that it brings the perfect kinda temperature, neither so cold nor hot. People neither get stuck in their houses shivering down their spines nor do they sweat and stink like in blazing heat in summers. Winters just give me a good mood, keep me cool. That's enough reason for me to fall in love with this season.

Malls:

Man ! What else a person who enjoys buying could wish for. Karachi has all what a person could possibly want. For house-hold stuff there are Makro and Metro. For anything else there are just uncountable malls so many of which are still left to be explored by me.

Roads/Flyovers:

Shahra-e-Faisal can be a dream for drivers (when its not crowded). Drive as fast as you want and cops are too busy with their own business to come and chase you. All the Flyovers are awesome too and the one I love is KPT interchange, specially when it sparkles with all the lighting at the night time, simply amazing !

People:

Of course, how could I leave this reason out. People of this city simply rock. They're simple, friendly and so innocent. They never show off the way many insecure people do (at least most of them). They will never make you feel bad and even if the do, they'll smooth things up using their extra-ordinary ability known as 'humour' before you even know it. You guys rock !


Things I hate about Karachi:

Stupidly disgusting red stains:

These red stains are found almost everywhere in this city. There is no road, wall, pavement or anything (including one of my friends) left who's not got shot yet.

Crowded local buses:

What would you expect from your day when you get a start with a full bus and all you get is a little space on the enter/exit opening of the bus to hang on to. This city needs some immediate transport revolution.

Wall Chalking And Advertisements/Slogans:(From Kiran)

The wall chalking part in the hate list as well because its so disgusting to see our walls covered with stupid advertisements n slogans. and the amount of litter we throw on seaside is unbearable.

There is magic in the BLUE

There is something extremely fascinating, overly enchanting and magically mysterious about the blue world. Fascinating is the color of water, enchanting is the sparkling reflection of Sun on the roaring waves that never seem to get tired and mysterious are the depths of the blue.

Fortunate nature adorers like me can never get enough of the sound of waves, cool breezes of moist air, walking on the wet sand, color of water which keeps changing as the Sun moves on. Everything enchanting the already enchanted adorer even more !!

There is always something new in the blue, waiting to make me wonder, to make me adore it even more, to make me never wanna leave.

Each tide gives my soul a new wave of freshness, washes away all the disturbing memories of this world.

Watching the blue till the limit of sight gives a sense of infinity, a sense of freedom. Freedom to conquer the impossible.

These never ending tides inspire my conscience, makes it wanna have all the attributes the tides have, makes it wanna have such a determination which never gets hampered no matter what consequences it has to face.

Here are some of the memories of the magical blue infinity I never wanted to let go of:

Refreshing Sight !

Sparkling Waves

Reflection of the Sun

Colors of the Sea

A complete sense of Freedom

A sense of Infinity

Exquisite !