My first large scale contact with snow happened about two weeks ago, apart from the fact a few years ago I tried to sit in my deep freezer back home trying to get some sort of relief from the heat. It was too dark inside; I now see why the fad never caught on. That and trying to make sure my mum never found out. She never understood how a torch got there next to her frozen qeema.
When it snows it falls from the skies like slow motion rain. Looking up n the sky, its like staring up in a 3 dimensional planetarium with white flecks coming down at you. I could almost make out the star wars font and theme songs playing in my head. And after a while when your eyes start freezing, you try playing upside down space invaders with the snowflakes. Instead of small lasery bits you have your breath to blow them out of the sky. In the end, no matter what the analogy god always wins. And of course there’s always point in someone’s life that you want to catch a snowflake on your tongue. Especially people from Karachi that have read about this powdery stuff in books and seen them only in deep freezers.
You will not believe how the people react to snow. One flake of snow and the entire nation will come to a stand still. The schools will shutdown, offices closed, public transport delayed and general mayhem and chaos. It’s a sort of mini vacation we all look forward to in our daily lives. In Karachi, it’s either rain or a strike depending on the season, here it’s snow. I mean the panic is phenomenal. Al Qaeda should seriously invest in snow machines. The government actually had the army on standby in a worst-case scenario! Haha what a joke. Seeing the so called “proficient” army in action in peace keeping efforts (invasion for oil) in the rest of the world (Iraq) it would be July before they get here, and they would need 10,000 so called troops for backup and everything would fall apart when a regiment would be caught trying to melt a snowman with a blowtorch.
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