Its raining pancakes

So like yesterday i checked my comments and discovered my friend silly sal was in town (Town = Lahore). which was like .. "AWESOME" coz i was dying to go to that pancake house i'd read about in the Daily Times Photo Spread.

i picked her up from fortress and the two of us went off merrily thinking we knew where Defence Double D (DD) market was. I thought it was the whole stretch right after the Ghazi Chowk roundabout, like i think thats where the planet an all are.. i think?!

So we drove there and we went around, avoided a few misdirected vehicles headed our way and finally had to solicit the mercy of a roadside waiter who told us we were in the entirely incorrect geographic zone. He directed us towards the Y-Block.

So off we went.. merrily so.. bumping along Defence's rollicking roads... and ended up in Y-block. Now i for the life of me couldnt figure out how Y-Block could be classified as the DD Market. So we asked again at an estate agent, a trick i learned in Karachi when trying to find houses in Defence there. He told us to go straight till we got to DD. like Double Duh.. anyway.. desperate as we were for any nourishement whatsoever (it mustve been around 9pm) we pushed off again and got to the DD signal. obviously if you want to find something in DD you should stick to the DD road right.. coz thats where everything should (technically!) be. unfortunately that didnt hold true in this case and when we had driven all the way to the Lesco office heading round circle back to where we had began this journey, i finally swallowed whatever little pride i had left and called my Map-Making Directing-Giving Shining-Light-In-Darkness Savior-of-The-Lost-And-Misdirected Master-of-All-Locations-In-Lahore Colleague (Master Sal) and got some much needed guidance.

So we whizzed around and headed BACK to the DD Signal and this time we went straight down the Y-Block road and came to this REALLY deserted place which a little sign stating "The Pancake Lounge" hanging from it. Turned into the little road and we were at this little deserted desert shop.

You'd like to think this story has a happy ending.. wouldnt you.. WOULDNT YOU?!!!.. of course you would. any normal human being would. But it DOESNT!!

we found the place all right.. the Rs95 bucks a PLAIN PANCAKE place.. with maple syrup of course. I as usual wanted to try the Salty Pancake which the dude told me came with a Salad for RS 140 bucks. No Salad. Apparently the chicken & salad are what goes INTO the pint sized pancake. Now if you've ever had a pancake in Europe (like Holland for example) when you order a Pancake for this wondrous amount you get one the size of a dinner plate. When we inquired what the of the pancake would be, obviously envisioning a dinner plate sized concoction, we were told its the same size as a COOKIE... A COOKIE FOR GOD'S SAKE!!!

At that point however we were hungry enough to ignore the whole scenario and just order the damn things so we did. One ray of sunshine was that their Menu Board stated that "every additional pancake for Rs.45". So we were like cool. we can order more of what we're eating. However, when we tried getting more, we were told oh only the PLAIN PANCAKE IS FOR RS 45. Everything else is the same price. (Also they didnt serve Banana Pancakes which is like.. blasphemous...)

So i sternly informed them that they should clearly state that on the board because its very misleading. I mean like .. oh whatever.. its not like we're EVER going back.. maybe.. i never like closing doors, but it was a sad experience.

Especially since last weekend or the weekend before that i had made pancakes at home, plain & which cheese. and trust me.. neither equated to Rs. 95 to make a pint sized one.

But thats the world of food. i seriously want to open a bakery cum cafe and put in bunk beds & lazy boy black leather chairs.. It would be the coolest.

Just had a run in with SCB Credit Cards. For one they keep charging you Credit Cover & Smart Wallet Charges regardless of whether you've asked for it or not. Then when i had them Cancelled in MAY i am todate receiving not only the charges themselves but also financial charges on the ones i had cancelled. Like HELL man.. So i once AGAIN for like the umpteenth time called the SCB offices yesterday, obviously i got the Lahore Phone Banking people and this gentleman told me that the request wasnt in the system but he'd put it in and it will all be reversed. However i got my August statement today and OHMYGOD MORE OF THE SAME. DAMMIT. So i called up AGAIN. AND this time some dame called Nazia totally pissed me off by telling me it wasnt in the system and while she could send a request for the Credit Cover Charges of Rs. 0.95 like OHMYGOD and the remaining 7-800 bucks i'll just have to foot. LIKE HELL.

Since Lahore SCB Customer Service SUCKS bigtime.. and i dont think its a Lahore phenomenon cause the Alfalah bank guyz rock.. so i called the Khi number and got this nice girl named MaryAnn. She reversed EVERYTHING. Did i mention I'd also sent the whole odyssey in WRITING on the 21st of July to them as well.. anyway she was a sweetheart and i wanted to tell her that she should teach a few things to her colleagues here in the paindo plateaus...

Anwyay, i tried getting pakoras since it started raining here, but to no avail. what the hell yaar.. i miss my railway crossing wala aalo-key pakoray bananey waley gentleman. Those were da bomb. The best damn pakoras ever.. i miss them.. and their masala. and their piping hot taste ... sigh... funny how something never leave the periphery of your memory..

im racking my brains trying to remember what else happened to me. The sad part is i literally have to refer to the calendar to try to place the days & the dates.. its actually sad.

My Naseer dada passed away this Friday. He was my dadijan's 2nd elder brother. Shes 2 brothers and 5 sisters. he was number 2. he was a naval commander in the Pakistan Navy. He loved new music and always made genre collections like Bhangra cassettes and Shadi songs. He kept everything from old wires to pesticide spray in case someone needed it in the future. I remember he once gave me a roller pen roto something german calendar and i fell in love with the colors and the pictures on it. i still remember that.
May Allah grant him a place in heaven..

Princess of the GemWorld

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