My very first post…

I’m brand new to blogging. So what do I write about? Hmmm…errr…yes…good question.

When I was a kid (this will tell you how old I am) an American comic called Kelly Monteith had a show on the BBC. I wasn’t allowed to stay up to see this very often (my folks were rather strict with my bedtimes) but I did see some of it. KM was an ‘observational comic’. The set up was that he was at home musing about life, the universe and everything whilst trying to write.

He was faced with the tyranny of the blank page. It sat, untouched in his typewriter (clue, this was the early 80s). He sat in front of it wondering what to do next…cut to Kelly as an Egyptian pharaoh behind his typewriter with the blank page. “What do I write? How can I start?…I know what would look good over there…a pyramid!”

Anything to distract himself from the looming threat of the blank page.

So what is this about? Hmmm….no idea. Here’s what, I will write about life here in Pakistan; what it’s like to be a migrant in a radically different culture; some of my observations of life here; the politics and everyday culture perhaps.

I’m passionate about politics and international relations so I’ll write something about that; I’m a lover of art and culture, so I’ll write about that too.

In short I’ll write about anything that comes to mind. My interests are very wide ranging – from the obsessively irrelevant to the profoundly important. Sometimes I can be An Intellectual, sometimes I can be pretty bloody thick. It’s all grist for the mill.

I’ll try and keep my stuff short and to the point, though I have a habit of rambling. And interesting. Yes…interesting too.

There you go, this is my very first blog post on the web. Ho, hum…is that it? Sort of anti-climactic now. Let’s see what happens.