Eco is the buzzword these days, and that's why we are blogging, right?

umm....naaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!

Not entirely. See, we are much shallower than that. Green. Thats the color we wore to win the World Cup. Green is innate to us. Why should we even think of going green? We already are :-)

So where's that pie chart I had about CO2 emissions? Dunno, but fact is, Pakistan's name didn't appear on that specific one (That's because our share of global CO2 emission is...minute; so buzz off). US, China and India need to go green. The G8 needs to go green. The G20 or whatever needs to go green.

Why put the effort then?

So, lets get straight to the point. The Shell Eco Marathon is held each year...blah blah blah (go to the Shell website if you want stuff on this)...and it is being held in Malaysia this year. First time in Asia. The right time to show the world how green we are. (In Germany last year, we showed the world that we aren't terrorists; not all of us, that is).

So, we (yeah yeah) - me and a group of retards from the College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, National University of Sciences and Technology - are vying to build a car that does a kazillion mpgs. That's 'eco' and...'eco' and...'eco'...

In fact, our project is being called - by us only because no one else knows about it - kaar. Literally translates as...car. Apologies for the imaginative name.

And our team...applause...is called be-kaar. That literally translates as...well forget it. It's just that we don't have a car yet, so we are without-kaar. And we want it to be. So what are we doing? We have bought a dirty old lamp, and are hoping to find a genie somewhere inside as that is the only possibility we can see the car being :-)

Enough philosophy. Just to end it up...obviously, we have a dedicated website to it:

http://www.be-kaar.webs.com/

But, we believe that being environmentally conscious (blah blah blah) is more than just being part of a competition. And so, this is an effort to...not exactly raise awareness, but more to unload ourselves from our conscience, for the time encapsulated by the Shell Eco Marathon, and beyond.