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The Pandemic Effect - Pilot

It is a late spring afternoon in Auckland, New Zealand and Akash is busy working with his colleagues planning a client event for next week. He gets a call from a familiar phone number but with no name to display. Akash has a faint idea of who it is from, so he gets up hastily and walks out of the office, away from others. The call is from a hiring manager of a big hotel chain, advising that they would like to offer him the position. Akash is ecstatic about the news and controlling his excitement, the first person he calls is Veena, his wife. The hotel chain has asked him to take charge of the role from the first week of December 2019. Akash and Veena are ready to celebrate this news with their 3 year old son, Rudra. Finally, after 9 years of hard-work, Akash has reached the pinnacle of his career in New Zealand. Few miles away at Auckland Airport, Rizwan is walking out of the Immigration check-point and has dialled a number to speak to the love of his life in Lahore, Pakistan - Ali.  R
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9 Years later...

 I have not written a single word to express myself since 2012 but I am not sorry about it. These 9 years have been great, busy and rewarding. These 9 years having been transformational for me and my family. From a struggling migrant couple to a well-settled family in New Zealand.  What made me start writing again? Now I have time to write. Let's blame it to COVID, recently I have been made redundant from my very high profile role to a job-seeker. However, this is not going to last long, hence I am taking this in-between time to write something which will make me happy. One confession, I should have started writing from at least week one of being unemployed but I was too busy finding work. Anyways, better late than never. I would like to give this blog a new direction and start writing short stories (fictional) but could have been very much true. Stay tuned blog.. I am brewing a story..
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E- Commerce to E-Work

Here I am today, doing an entire marketing campaign for an Organisation, just sitting at home and spending a few hours on the internet. By internet I mean mostly social media and bulk mailing websites. More importantly just today I realised that my average strike rate is about 23.4%, which is astoundingly high for a marketer. Only 4% of my target audience unsubscribe. Who needs them anyways .... Lol.  But the point here I am trying to make is, we all knew that ways of doing business have evolved but I guarantee that most of us would have never experienced the real power of this change. Just a few months back, I would not rely on an online trader or an e-shop to buy items. Not because he would run away with my money but because what if the product is not the one with the right specification as mentioned online. Most importantly am I aware of what specification I want unless I see it physically. And if all these possibilities go wrong, will the seller ever return my money back and t
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Revisiting the Remains - Dimholt Road

I always knew that Lord of the Rings was shot in the picturesque back drops of New Zealand. I very much liked the concept behind the film series. Always wondered whether these places are for real or just a conceptualization of the Director's brain. But how difficult it is to imagine an entire set of back-drops without an inspiration. Now I know that Peter Jackson had never conceptualised the back-drops or the scenes, on the contrary he had quite uniquely conceptualised the entire story according to what nature had to offer.I often feel how beautiful is this place on earth and how unique that it can give birth to such wonderful and mystical tales. Few days back, we had a chance to visit the Pinnacles, near Wairarapa. This place is about 1 hour 30 minutes drive from Lower Hutt (a suburban area near Wellington, NZ).  The Pinnacles are 100% naturally formed structures. Upon first look in the film, I had readily assumed that this was an artificial set created by spending
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Yet Another Come Back

Breathing a brand new air, in a country which I call "The End of the World" - New Zealand. Last year along with my wife, I arrived in this piece of land with plenty of anxiety and fear in mind. This was my big ticket to start up from scratch and make it large (I know , I sound Filmy now !! but can't help it). At that time my fear was greater than my excitement.  Many people say, when in fear of the unknown, do not worry ... everything will fall into place. I just hope that, the same happens in my case as well.  I have been in relation with my wife from past 8 years and when we started living together, both of us had our own set of inhibitions. First biggest ice-breaker was that we thought we knew everything about each other, each other's likes and dislikes but sadly we were mistaken. In these 8 months, we have learnt a lot about living together. Major realisations about each other came our way. It seemed like we had missed the target by miles apart. So
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Brand New Life

A Ray of New Hope : This is a pic of the rainbow which is often seen outside our window. Hey I am back to my mind again. Let me first apologize for not writing in for so many days. It was like, i had so many thoughts in mind, couldn't focus on one topic.  Yesterday, it felt like we have actually made  a new beginning. After a very long time we spoke to each other with open hearts. It took me time to digest this new life. I think i was just waiting for this. We went to the park for a long walk, which turned out to be a long talk and we could actually discuss and understand each other. I told her what i have been thinking for so long and she opened what was on her mind. To top it all up the weather was nice and pleasant, the location was amazing without any distractions and we had nothing else to do. We could hear more than each other.  Many a times it has happened that we used speak to each other, somehow with some distractions / distortions we couldn't understand each
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