My friend Ustad Anb Jogi (composer and music director of “Risalo”) was supposed to come to Lahore, but I had not heard from him.

I have to listen to each bit of music and see where I can trim a bit, but not destroy the flow and then match that in the Urdu version as best I can.

We looked over a king’s court design I had made and then head to the Landa Bazaar to pick up cloth so that Umar can start sewing it.

All I did was wash some cilantro and pluck the leaves, and we had a delicious meal.

I needed to print out her ticket information. Sometimes simple tasks like this can be very challenging.

We started at the Janamashtan Gurdwara, situated on the site of Guru Nanak’s family home, and the place of his birth.

A visit to Mehboob and his family in Shadrah.

After some rest, we visited our friend Mohsin whose eye was injured a while back.

Qurbani is an annual thing here, and a lot of the meat is distributed to those in need as well as relatives. It is a huge spectacle here because it is done out in the open like this.

It was raining this morning. Kristeen stayed home. I grabbed the umbrella and head out after breakfast. As usual, I crossed the street and waited to flag down a passing Qing-Qi

Digitizing tapes, but here's a bazar

13 tapes need to be patched and 10 need to be digitized completely. Well, that’s a start.

I went back and digitized some more tapes on Saturday. This is my life until I finish this step.

The process is, walking from shop to shop, asking about the items I am looking for and usually spending a while to explain what those things are, followed by a quick shake of the head ‘no’ or being directed to some other shop.

I spent the day digitizing dv tapes. 2 or 3 digitized fine, but the rest have dropped frames which means when you play them back there are clearly spots missing.

So, it turned out that the “client” was not the client. There were at least 3 levels of approvals, with no direction or connection in between. The pressure came off.

The client came in to look at the cloud shot and offered a vastly different direction to the many I had been chasing down on previous days.

I had suggested that it might be better for someone else to take the shot as nothing I had created seemed to be in the unclear direction that the client wanted. With quick turn around projects, it is important to make decisions to switch tasks, methods or even artists quickly to save time.