no prince? damn.

FOR YOUR KIND ATTENTION,

We are a Corporate Financial Service Provider in Europe. We had a customer who deposited some money with us and eventually died without any reference to a next of kin.

In accordance with the EU Trust and Federal Laws, at the expiration of 6 (six) years, his investments with our Financial Trust shall revert to ownership of the government of the country of the said investments if nobody applies as the next of kin to claim the investments.

Since you share the same surname with my client. I want to present you to stand in as the next of kin so that you and I can benefit from this investment equally. I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate arrangement that will protect us from any breach of the law.

If this proposal is acceptable to you, kindly indicate your telephone, fax numbers and location where the money will be remitted.

I will instruct you on the next step to take.

With friendly greetings,
James Ransome

-found in my gmail inbox this morning

love.

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brevity doesn’t live here anymore

law school continues to mess with my natural tendency to write concisely.
my once five-liner plain language emails are turning into ten+ paragraph letters filled with extensions, illustrations, and paragraph headings.

gah!

[insert notvomity title here]

i need to settle on a blog title that doesn’t make me jump out of bed at 3 am and immediately change it to something less vomit-inducing.

suggestions are welcome. pleaseandthanks.

in the meantime, the qua-thing will do.

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please let me know if you find the new layout completely annoying.

i was going for something simple and light. and i’ve always been fond of typing in gray.

round 3

the answer to where i’ve been all this time is here.

i’ve been (b)lurking and sulking (for no real reason), but that doesn’t explain the privitisation of all posts old. i’m not sure the answer i just thought up is convincing enough: i didn’t want that stuff up anymore.

i haven’t dismissed the possibility of bringing back some of the old stuff, though, if someone wants to see it. i also haven’t yet apologised for disappearing. z pointed out a couple of months ago that some reader(s) might be offended by an unexplained disappearance. while i don’t think it’s such a terrible thing to have one less blog to read, i do apologise for leaving without notice. it won’t happen again, sir or madam.

anyhoo, back to the point at issue: writing good blog posts requires much effort. while i gave up on the idea of being “useful” (thank you, socrates) a long time ago, i didn’t always have it in me to produce interesting stuff. i have a lot of respect for bloggers who consistently write awesome posts and, er, post more often than twice a year.

hey! i just realised that bbb is also an acronym for brown, bumbling buffoon. and i didn’t even have to change the comma placement.

anyhoo, here’s hoping and sorta promising (to self) the effort will be sufficient this time.

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all my old posts have been privatised because i suck.

i will return presently with new public posts, hopefully.
in the meantime, i’m thinking.

dushman maray ta khusi nah kariyeh sajna vi mar jana eh

these are the words of hazrat miah muhammad buksh (ra), which i’ve translated as:

rejoice not at the death of the enemy because [a] friend [or beloved], too, will die

“pakistanooN aj ik barrhi pehrrhi khabar ayi eh,” said my mother.
there’s terrible news from pakistan.