Faith in humanity -- Always there

There are lots of pictures and articles online that are captioned as "faith in humanity restored". My question is why does this faith lesson over time and why is there a need for it to be restored? Cant we see the countless small good things that people do for us and others everyday? Try for once to see what your parents do for you day in and day out without ever asking anything in return and your faith will never falter.

However, sometimes people go an extra mile for the welfare of others. I have one such story of a friend who requested to not be named ("But when you do merciful deeds, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand does"). I will call him X (cliche. I know)

We were at a mall in Bangkok. This mall was on the riverside (Asiatique) and was unlike any other. The best one in my opinion in the city. Our group of about 15 people divided into small groups of three and four and we set out to explore the mall. We had 40 minutes before rendezvous. The time seemed much less than what one might need to see the place properly. The three of us had just set out when we saw a woman with an obviously swollen ankle limping and a very panicked guy, maybe her husband, trying to support her to walk. While everyone in the mall continued to give a sympathetic glance and walk away, X slowed his pace down and stayed behind the couple. We followed his lead. It became obvious that the guy trying to help her had no idea what he was doing. The girl kept planting her swollen, bent foot (possibly fractured) on the floor, grimacing every time.
We could see that X had forgotten all about the mall and just wanted to help out the girl. While we tried to stop at a few shops and ask for prices, X continued to follow the couple and instruct her friend on how to support her. The guy was still too panicky and couldn't do it so X offered his shoulder and carried the girl to a chair.
The language barrier was a problem and he couldn't explain properly to the guy that the girl cannot walk. Eventually X managed to explain it to him that he needs to arrange a taxi and that he and X will carry her in a sitting position to the taxi. While her friend went out to look for a taxi X sat there with the foot of the girl elevated by holding it in his hands so that less blood would flow and the pain would lesson.
X kept on making funny faces at her and patted her leg gently until she smiled, stopped crying and her leg stopped shivering. Twenty odd minutes passed like this.
The guy eventually came back with a wheelchair. They couldn't stop thanking X. X smiled, made sure she was okay and then joined us. The 40 minutes were over.  

Pakistan's cultural image to the world

Hey guys. I am new at this and I don't know how often I am supposed to update the blog. So here I am.

This is not as great a story as the last one. This infact is a sad post.

My days in Thailand are almost about to end so I thought I would give a short presentation about Pakistan to the students. Thai students don't know much English. Which meant I could not tell them about the cool facts about Pakistan eg.

• Pakistan has the biggest irrigation system
• Pakistan has the worlds largest NGO
• Second Largest Salt mine in the world
• 7th Nuclear power 

Etc.
I decided to show instead a few videos and pictures. I wanted to cover the currency, the marriage, people, food fruits, cricket, religion and beautiful places. The best source for all of this should be a website about Pakistan's tourism or culture. Right? Wrong.
This is the website that is supposed to tell the world all the good things about Pakistan and attract tourists  http://www.tourism.gov.pk/
Just for comparison http://www.tourismthailand.org/Thailand
So yeah that didn't work out. I decided to search on my own.

For Pakistan "culture and dress-up" I only got models posing in sleeveless or backless clothes. I am not saying whether its right or wrong but it doesn't really represent our true culture.
Google search for "Pakistani People" leads to the picture of Asif Ali Zardari and all the other amazing PPP's leaders.
Google images search for "Pakistani currency/Banknotes" makes you search and search until you get an okay picture that has the right bank notes.
Trying to find videos of marriages on Youtube leads to links like "bla bla's mehndi  hot dance".
The videos of "beautiful places in Pakistan" did not have high quality pictures at all.

I noticed that we have a bad image all over the world not just because of all the bad things that happen here. I think we ourselves have averted the eyes of the world and hidden our amazing culture from it.
This post however is not just a complain. I have a few ideas.

There is a need for compilation of different videos and pictures about all the aforementioned topics in good quality. After being compiled they need to be marketed to the world in the form of a website maybe, or even a Facebook page.

Kindly let me know if anyone is already working on this issue. If yes then i would like to join your efforts.
Also put your suggestions in the comments section below.
So many great things happen in out country everyday but we need to show it to the world instead of just complaining.

The Mr Bean

Mr Bean was one of my favorite shows while I was growing up. I still watch it whenever I can.

I am currently in Thailand on an internship teaching English to Thai students. I visited Bangkok two weeks ago. There were lots of homeless and poor people out on the streets begging for money. I would pass all of them feeling a bit sad but this one little girl in her School Uniform sitting outside a BTS (Sky train) station made me stop and search my pockets.
I didnt have any change.

Some of you might remember this one episode in which Mr Bean dances to the music being played by a blind beggar, collects coins, then gives them to the blind man, smiles and goes away.

So I pulled a Mr Bean.

It was drizzling. I spread out a shopping bag in-front of me and sat on the footpath, cross-legged, head bent down, eyes focused on the shoes of the passerbys and sang.
I sang Indian songs, Pakistani, English, anything that came to my mind. In the start I was a bit nervous and my voice was low but later I went loud and then the coins started coming. In about 25 mins I had collected Exactly 22 bath. (about 66 Rs).

I was about to get up when I saw the feet of a girl come close and stop. They stood there for a few seconds. Moved forward. Stopped. Back trekked. Stopped in-front of me and a coin dropped onto my shopping bag. I thought 23 Baath was good enough. I got up and looked around for the girl but she wasn't sitting where she was a while ago. She was walking away having given away a coin to a singer sitting in the rain. 

The experience left me shell-shocked. I was humbled. I later gave the money I had collected to other beggars I found on the road. 
Let me know what you think about the whole story in the comments section please :) This is my first official blog post. I hope I will continue to bring interesting stories like this to you guys. 

The beginning

Ah.
Its strange that one can have so many thoughts in his mind but when he tries to put them in words they all jumble up. So instead of writing about any of those things, at the moment I would like to thank Aaminah Tirmizi. I dont know why i cant tag her here. (Aaminah Tirmizi) Any way thank you for encouraging me to start a blog. I know you will have fits of laughter every time you read my English and maybe that is the reason why you put me up to this in the first place. :) Also i am great full for the tips you gave me. Lets see if i follow them or not :)

Since i dont know what else to put in my first blog post i will try and describe myself a little bit and then what this blog will be like in the future.

Yeah. About me.
If I go to a friends place and find it messy, I try and arrange the things. That's me. Trying to meddle into other peoples businesses giving them suggestions on everything. I am an opinionated person. But i am growing up and trying to see different perspectives, maybe heading towards mental maturity.
Other than that, I am a mech eng student. i like to travel alot. I am a sportsman. the basketball court is my third home (second one being a tent pitched on any mountain). I am a Facebook addict. I might have checked facebook about twenty times while writing this. When sitting in the car i wave at everyone I see hoping that someone would wave back and smile in the process. I dont mind looking like a complete fool as long as someone ends up smiling. I often go overboard.

And. About the blog.
here will posts about different places I visit or the ones I have visited. Maybe stories about my travels. A few angry posts about the govt, army or politicians or the way people think. I have bad English. So anyone who corrects me, I will be grateful as i want to improve it.

See you soon.