his name is jack. he is early forty something, a widower, has a daughter, works for the us ctu (counter terrorist unit) has great ties with the president and all fbi/cia senior heads, leads a highly unbalanced life jam packed with adventure, conspiracy, lots of big guns and a tonne of freaky coincidences...

 

it's official. i am having a fictional love affair wth a fictional tv character.

 

meet jack bauer, the lead character in the best tv to ever hit our screens - 24. i never really bought into the 24 concept (24 x 1 hour episodes of real time events) because the pain and hassle of watching 1 x episode a week has never sit well with me - coming from a person who tries to avoid watching tv at all costs because of the annoyingly long ad breaks (!).

 

but the story that unfolds with each season of 24 is not only spine tingling and at times stressful, it is one of the best thought out and written plotlines ever. we are faced with our lead character jack, around whom the characters constantly rotate depending on the national crisis he has been summoned to save the usa from (mainly the city of la). he has a menace of a daughter, kim, who he simultaneously rescues as she is prone to always get herself into trouble - she is usually scantily clad in skimpy, tight white singlets.

 

apart from watching a stack of 24 recently (managed to fit in around 13 hours in 2.5 days this weekend passed) and celebrating Haroon's bday (see pics), things have been pretty low key. have started attending the most amazing yoga/meditation class that will warrant a separate entry unto itself because it is actually infiltrating all aspects of my life. safe to say, choti has slowed down the pace a notch.

 

chots xx