If nothing else, yesterday’s blog is a reflection on how incoherent my thoughts are now. And the reason is still unknown to me.

Yesterday, the office was pretty empty except for the news team. Current Affairs department is blessed by national holidays but the news team must not sleep!!!

So anyhoo, by 2 p.m. I was very very very bored. Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance had lost its appeal and nobody was online. So I ventured into the current affairs department hoping to hack someone’s computer and listen to some music. I saw Yasir sahib sitting in his usual place which was a surprise since it was his day off. Yasir sahib needs an introduction. He produces our main current affairs show and is solely responsible for all our musical scores for programs. He is also what most people call in Urdu…a ‘dehriya’. Generally its considered that he’s an atheist but I believe otherwise. He and I share one common interest…Egyptology.

While shan was here, I watched a documentary he brought about the sphinx being more than ten thousand years old, as opposed to the widely held belief that its about 4-5 thousand years old. The evidence that suggests this is erosion on sphinx’s body caused by water. Most scholars now believe the fact that the water caused the erosion to the body of the Sphinx. Egypt was subject to severe flooding, at the end of the last Ice Age, c. 15,000-10,000 BCE.

So, if the erosion was caused by water, the Sphinx must have been carved before Egypt was under water i.e. more than 12,000 years ago. This, in turn, is too radical for scholars to swallow, as they prefer not to change their theory that Khafra (Chephren) built the Sphinx. As a result, those unfamiliar with scientific principles suggested that the ground water, and not direct flooding, caused such erosion.

I think it’s a fascinating theory because construction of a massive structure such as the sphinx more than ten millennia ago is certainly capable of overwriting the history the way we have known it practically all our lives. Anyhoo, I shared the theory with him and then we started comparing our ideas on origin of life and how advanced the civilizations were before they were wiped out. The conversation naturally shifted to theology and we talked about the various concepts of seven heavens, the difference between humans and angels, and speculated about Allah’s reasons for creation of the universe. It was truly a very scintillating conversation.

After I came home…I spent some time with ammi and watched four man show…brain child of my colleague Murtaza in head office…I think it has the potential to cross Begum Nawazish Ali in terms of creativity and revenue generation.

Later I logged in and found FIR online. FIR is a very good friend of mine and only recently I came to discover that she had fallen for another friend of mine from University but it didn’t workout. Yesterday, as I started talking to her, I realized how hurt she was so I tried to show her that even in failed relationships we can find something to cherish. We talked about how glorious it feels when you first discover that you like someone and even losing your sleep doesn’t matter. And I guess most of the time, what keeps us going despite the odds, is the feeling of butterflies in your stomach.