Found it in 7 year old thread, writer is unknown. I am sure most of the lahories can relate to it, someway or the other 
Its bit long, but very interesting read
Shughal
Lahories are wierd people. Life in Lahore revolves around âShoghalâ (and
food, but thatâs besides the point) Itâs really hard to explain what
shoghal is. I guess you could say it means fun, but itâs more than just
fun, âcause sometimes you could be laggaing shoghal (You canât have
shoghal, you have to âLaggaâ it. Laggana means `to putâ) but not having
any fun.
There are all kinds of people in Lahore. There are rich people, poor
people and people who are neither. Than there are people who donât know
who they are so they have their own little social class. Everybody does
stuff differently but where and how they do it is as different as
âŚumâŚwell itâs really different.
Rich people have a lot of money, they have to otherwise they wouldnât be
rich. They go to pseudo dance parties, get drunk and throw up in their
very expensive car. They eat out at places like Zouk which is a really
expensive place and serves three week old hacked up Iguana poo. They
have got a cool little bar that you can lean on, pretend you are in
Paris and âsend out the vibeâ. The vibe always goes to other guys who
are sending out vibe, because everybody is sending it out because thatâs
what they are there for. The boy-girl ratio in that place is
827349290825 to 0.75. This little ratio thing is always very important
for Lahories when it comes to restaurants. Thereâs gotta be âbabesâ
there-âdudeâ. I fail to understand why though, because all they ever do
is âsend out the vibeâ and smoke three million ciggarettes in an hour. I
could be wrong but I donât think that something like that would make any
girl fling herself on somebody and screw his brains out-Eh? Anyway (More
on that later) so they go to Zouk, Xinhua and Takhat Lahori because you
have to be âseen thereâ, you have to be âinâ. Spending 15 Rs. per head
on plain Roti is no big deal (Yep. In Takhat Lahori) because you are
there with all the âcoolâ crowd and itâs all âhappeninââ there.
Everybody knows everybody (Well, almost) Thereâs an LGS crowd, LCAS
crowd and various other pesky-little-extremelly-expensive-private-school
crowds. They all know each other. I donât know how, I just donât
understand it. Itâs probably because they run into each other all the
time. I would get to know people too if I ran into them whenever I went
out.
Hey! Look! Thereâs that guy that ordered a cheese burger at Zouk!
And heâs with that girl who threw up on Shazia at Buttâs party!
So they eat. But before they do that they go to the theatre or
carnivals.
About the carnivals first. They used to be called Fun Fairs. There was
one every year in Fotress Stadium in October. But like everywhere else
in Lahore, having too many people in one place isnât smart. According to
my Law of Relative Coolness there can only be a limited amount of âcoolâ
people in a given space at one time, other things remaining the same.
You just canât expect a peacefull evening when there are 11 million
âcoolâ guys all sending out the vibe to the same girl. Sooner or later
one of them realizes that heâs not getting anywhere or that heâs not
having any fun so he decides to have fun and finds himself a ****ty
little wimp. Once that minor detail is dispensed with, he starts picking
on him. Itâs really very easy to pick on people. If they are with girls
So all these pesky-little-extremelly-expensive-school-I-donât-like-blood
crowd gets together and decides to do their own little Fun Fair thing,
only theyâre called Carnivals. You have to pay about 100 Rs. to get in
and get some girl to sponsor you. This greatly reduces the risk of
fights because everybody is probably too busy making the most of their
100 Rs. Plus that girl who sponsored them is a very sensitive issue.
Every girl is a prospective Bachee (girlie) in those carnivals, unless
she is your sister or mother. Nobody would do anything to screw up his
chances by âsending out the vibeâ to every random âbacheeâ. All in all
theyâve got things pretty much in control now with these âexclusiveâ
carnivals. There are people behaving themselves, no âChappayâ, and
talking about who threw up on who at whoâs party! There are people
sending each other roses through other girls (20 Rs. for a rose,
delivery free). These carnivals are basically held in October through
Febuary in schools like LCAS, LGS, Unity High, and LAS.
And then thereâs theatre. A pretty nice little thing actually. Amateur
theatre in Lahore is really âinâ. A bunch of people get together who
have nothing to do, they have money and some rich uncle whoâs willing to
sponsor their play and they do a play. Usually itâs english plays. They
get this pseudo intellectual friend of theirâs who got a long pony and
whoâs into âstuffâ and Voila! Play!
This gives everybody a nice opportunity to âsend out the vibeâ to girls
in the cast and crew. Good fun, lots of nights out, partiesâŚYeah! And
sometimes the plays are nice too.
How can I forget cars, weâve got all sorts of cars. Big ones, small ones
and all of them, expensive. Thereâs absolutely no shortage of BMWs,
Mercedes, and Land Cruisers. As for Pajeros, pull out a brick and youâll
get a Pajero (Translate into Punjabi).
Theatre, carnivals, food, cars and partiesâŚnot bad for a third world
country where 85% of the population is living below the poverty line.
Eh?
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). So ya do tell us who the author was, provide the link or something!
Khuwaree seemed a lot less though. People are openly dating and girls are more upfront.