A post better than no post at all.
knicq posted in Jalali Baba, Knicqisms on October 29th, 2006
I need to go brush my teeth; but that is not what this post is about; though it could well have been about brushing my teeth. A post about brushing one’s teeth ought to be better than no post at all. Fact is a post about brushing teeth, anyone’s teeth, would probably be even more interesting, since that – brushing anyone’s teeth – is not something one is normally expected to do, and a post about doing what one is not normally expected to do ought to be better than no post at all. I have suddenly realized that there is actually absolutely no excuse for not updating, because one can update about anything, and a post about anything ought to be better than no post at all. It gets better. Anything is a broad term. It covers everything. Everything, when isolated from the big picture, becomes ‘anything’. ‘Anything’ in other words could be anything in everything; one could thus update about everything, and there could be a post about any one ‘anything’ in everything, and there could be multiple posts about the multiple ‘anythings”, and multiple posts about anythings ought to be better than no post at all.
How is it then that knicqland has been without an update for such a long long time? Here in lies the updating conundrum, which is a new word I have learnt, and have been dying to put to good use, and an update about putting a new word to good use ought to be better than no post at all.
Jalali Baba likes new words, but he likes new phrases more, and he likes derogatory twisted lines like “You have a nose the size of my kneecap and a brain the size of my kneecap. Both deformities have not helped you in life and have, in fact, rendered your every thought a knee-jerk response” even more. (Pertinent information: My nose and brain are not the same size, JB, hence, has kneecaps in two sizes – but we will leave this anatomy discussion for another less fortunate time). He saves them in the perpetually-abuzz -with-innane-and-innocuous-information mass of neurons that is his exalted brain, so he can leave them as comments on my posts one day. Unfortunately for me these jbeurons, since JB’s neurons are slightly more than your average neurons, come with an enhanced capability to store information over longer periods of time, and an enviable/deplorable excellence in reproducing such information as and when required.
Since JB brain is perpetually abuzz with activity, these lines find themselves in a sort of cocktail party where the luminaries amongst them are invited to mingle, and add value to each other through sharing and mutual learning. Jb leaves those rehashed and restyled derogatory comments on my blog, and garnishes them with his very own unique brand of knicq-bashing, just so he can feel better about himself. JB looks in the mirror, and tells the guy he sees in it that he is better than him. (See comment 37)
Unfortunately for Jalali Baba, that is the only guy he knows he is possibly better than, and ironically it is a reflection of himself – literally so. Using me as a punching bag must make him feel just as good as it does me using him as a punching bag. A post about two friends with absolute disdain for each other using each other as a punching bag ought to be better than no post at all.
This post is not about Jalali Baba, and a post not about Jalali Baba ought to be better than no post at all. This post is about me having to brush my teeth, and we have already established that a post about I brushing my teeth ought to be better than no post at all.
So, this is a post which is better than no post at all.
October 30th, 2006 at 12:22 am
So, this is a post which is better than no post at all.
hmmm… whoever told you that was obviously still in the Ramadan spirit, spreading happiness and good cheer even if that meant being somewhat economical with the truth…
October 30th, 2006 at 12:32 am
no post is DEFINITELY better than a post like that.
kisi siyanay nay kaha tha… it’s better to remain quiet and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
i had my doubts about you. not anymore.
October 30th, 2006 at 12:39 am
Moderate Enlightenment: I wish you had waited for Shawwal to pass before you had let go of that very Ramadan Spirit….Where ya been bro???
Hemmie: I disagree. Quite a few posts are definitely better than a post like that, thanks for the nice comment though. I am flattered.
Could not make head or tail of the rest of your comment though…:)
October 30th, 2006 at 1:23 am
Where ya been bro???
Well, as helpfully pointed out by your email the other day, certain ‘creations’ have to keep a low (and in some cases, a very low) profile during a certain month. As the Allama said, albeit in a different context:
‘Nahin dunya kai aaen-e-musallam sai koi chara’, or, using an Arabic keyboard:
نهين دنيا كى آءين مسّلم سى كؤى جارا
Enough said, akhir aqalmand ko ishara kaafi hota hai.
October 30th, 2006 at 1:24 pm
just when i think you couldn’t lose it any further…Voila! you do just that
October 30th, 2006 at 5:07 pm
Hi knicq:
I am really curious about JB now. I just know Mr. JB only from your blogs. Here is the image your blogs have created:
An old guy (about 80), who is usually high (possible substance abuse) and sour. He can be more dangerous than any desi mother in law. In short words he seems to be a short tempered and volatile personality who refuses to accept any other form of existence. But now with the new angle of knee caps and physical deformity, I begin to wonder is he a Martian or purely your imagination?
October 31st, 2006 at 4:22 pm
I have said it earlier, and must admit once again… My imagination is not that fertile. JB is so eccentric he could be only real!
My blog is handicapped by my own limitations…I must appologise to JB for that…JB is definitely not 80. The rest is subjective inference and I believe such inference should be sans any interference.
Were JB to read your impressions of him, he would think you too kind, and me totally unworthy of updating about him…:)
October 31st, 2006 at 11:12 pm
that was fun and funny. =)
November 1st, 2006 at 9:27 am
And I sit here, speechless.
Maybe this response is better than no response at all.
November 5th, 2006 at 9:16 am
hahaha I loved Saadat’s comment
and yes Sir, it was definitely worth posting about 
., liked the post.
November 7th, 2006 at 11:50 pm
how about putting up a post that is better than a post better than no post at all?
your fans await an update. where ya been busy?
November 9th, 2006 at 7:29 pm
If it gets me reading… and finishing… it’s got to be worth it. Generous or optimistic, I’ll always be a fan… Keep writin’ !
November 10th, 2006 at 5:59 pm
Saadat:Great minds think alike bro…great minds think alike….:)
Saadie: Thanks very much bro. How was your trip to the land of the pure?
Hemmie: You set me daunting targets…and you patronize me.
Nishat: Thanks very much for the kind words. Welcome to blogistan. LOVED your first post! You been linked!
November 13th, 2006 at 9:23 am
oh sir it was great
. But your trip to the City of gardens is still due 
.