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Answer of tag!

Welll "The solitary writer" one of my great buddy tagged me in an awesome post. First of all thanks a lot for tagging me I am honored yeahh!! :') Secondly, I really enjoyed the questions, interesting mazay dar! :).


Ten how’s: 

1. How did you get one of your scars? My finger got burn, when I was ironing d dress :(

2. How did you celebrate your last birthday? with friends in uni and at home with family :)

3. How are you feeling at this moment? happy plus sad for the death of Moin Akhtar. May his soul rest in heaven amen. :'(

4. How did your night go last night? full of dreamss!! achay achay walay!!:)

5. How did you do in high school? Awesome, great, amazing, wonderful:P

6. How did you get the shirt you’re wearing? My dad gifted it :) Looove u dad :*

7. How often do you see your best friend(s)? Dailyyy!! and I keep in touch with other freinds through text! I love forwarding text! ;)

8. How much money did you spend last month? ahem ahem ahem...:P

9. How old do you want to be when you get married? emm...emm...neva think abt it!

10. How old will you be at your next birthday? ohh ohhhooohoo :D :D 21 :)

Nine what’s:

1. Your mother's name? Mrs. Hanif :P

2. What did you do last weekend? work, assignment, study, dinner with family, it was a great weekend! :)

3. What is the most important part of your life? My family :)

4. What would you rather be doing? well, offcourse, playing farmville or cityville or searching the terms!

5. What did you last cry over? for cornetto choco disc :( I love choco made stuf!! :)

6. What always makes you feel better when you’re upset? CRy!! :/

7. What’s the most important thing you look for in a significant other? mmmmhhhhmm....

8. What are you worried about? Assignments and exams :( 

9. What did you have for breakfast? Anda, bread or parhata ahaa yumm!! full tym healthy wealthy nashta :) Mere sehat ka raaz :P

Eight Have you-s:

1. Have you ever liked someone who had a girlfriend/boyfriend? naaa...!

2. Have you ever had your heartbroken? hmmm :( :( ahhh...:(

3. Have you ever been out of the country? na....
4. Have you ever done something outrageously dumb? almost daily..:P actually I enjoy doing such blunders, part of life an my excellent golden memories :)

5. Have you ever been back stabbed by a friend? May be, my friends know better about it..

6. Pass

7. Have you ever dated someone younger than you? hahahaah NO!! but It would be fun hahaha :D :D

8. Have you ever read an entire book in one day? yeah short story books.

Seven who’s:

1. Who was the last person you saw? My sis!! :)

2. Who was the last person you texted? KIru! :)

3. Who was the last person you hung out with? My family :)

4. Who was the last person to call you? Ashley!

5. Who did you last hug? My mum's khala!

6. Who is the last person who texted you? Ashley!

7. Who was the last person you said “I love you” to? My cousin aroug :) <3 and to all my buddies luvv u ppl!! :)

Six where’s:

1. Where does your best friend(s) live? Karachi :) They all are with me <3!!

2. Where did you last go? Library

3. Where did you last hang out? Clifton

4. Where do you go to school? Karachi, Pakistan!!

5. Where is your favorite place to be? a place where alllllll my friends are!!

6. Where did you sleep last night? on mattress :P:P

Five do’s:

1. Do you think anyone likes you?  EVERYONE LIKES ME! I AM SURE <3 <3 :)

2. Do you ever wish you were someone else? naaa! I am happy for what I am!! :)

3. Do you know the muffin man? yeh kon hai?? :s who!

4. Does the future scare you? naa..I trust God! :) 

5. Do your parents know about your blog? hahah!! Yes!! :D

Four why’s:

1. Why are you best friends with your best friend? cuzzz my all friends are so awesome and special :)

2. Why did you get into Blogging? to vomit out my feeling!! My blog is one of my best buddy!! <3

3. Why did your parents give you the name you have? actually my parents didn't give me this name. It was my phuppho who suggested it! :) bt my father selected d koolest nick name for me! thx dad! <3 :)

4. Why are you doing this survey? Cuz its veryyy interesting enjoying ti :)

Three if’s:

1. If you could have one super power what would it be? I don't want any super power I am happy for what I am! :) :) :)

2. If you could go back in time and change one thing, would you? nothing, Jo hogaya so hogaya! lets think for d future :)

3. If you were stranded on a deserted island and could bring 1 thing, what would you bring? My cell phone with unlimited sms package!!  :D :D

Two would-you-ever’s:

1. Would you ever get back together with any of your ex’s if they asked you? no ex no chance of going back :(

2. Would you ever shave your head to save someone you love? well yeah!! anything for love ones!! <3

One last question:

1. Are you happy with your life right now? Offcourse Alhummdulliah!! :)

Golden Daughters of Pakistan

Naseem Hameed

We are living in a male dominating society in which females are gradually creating a revolution. Now women are present in every field, whether it is army, navy, sports or politics. Golden ladies of Pakistan have proved themselves by their tremendous performance in their fields that they are not behind any one. Naseem Hameed won gold medal and the title of fastest South Asian woman and the victory of Pakistan’s women cricket team can’t be neglected. However, in Pakistan women sport has not given the importance that usually gives to men. Men’s sport is mostly highlighted in our country as compare to women sport.

Pakistan women's cricket team

At the time of T-20 championship 2009 and recent World Cup 2011, everyone was stickled to the television screens to watch the semi final and final but there hasn’t much buzz for the women cricket team. Infact we don’t know the names of Pakistani women cricketers before the victory but now their names are flashing on the news same as with Naseem Hameed. We didn’t hear her name before but after her achievement we could recognize the daughter of Pakistan. Is it necessary to win for recognition? I think it’s not. On the other hand, from corruption till the match fixing all issues regarding men’s sports are highlighted in media but no place for women.

Proud of Pakistan
Naseem Hameed

Game is the name of win and lose one team has to defeated by other but it doesn’t mean that the defeated team or person didn’t worked hard. It's very difficult to participate and match the level of game. In this situation if a player participated we should encourage her/him, win and defeat is in the hand of God. We should recognize and appreciate the players so that youngsters follow them as their role model. There are many young girls in Pakistan who want to win gold medals for their county but they don’t have any role model to follow and again in male dominating society, parents don’t let their daughters to go out and play in front of men but now there are role models for young girls and parents are also satisfied regarding their security and other issues.

Women like Naseem Hameed, Sana Mir and her team are not rare in Pakistan. Pakistan is the land of talent. Our homeland is full of talent regarding any field. We don’t have proper platforms. In other words, we have gold but no proper jewelers to shape the raw gold into beautiful ornaments. We should come out from ethnicitical barriers and work for our nation and give all our support to women sports.

Abaya in JUW

“Ding Ding! This is Jinnah University for Women (JUW) where uniform is must. Every girl is wearing white kamez and shalwar with peach duppatta but what I am looking? Girls in abaya and surprisingly they are sitting inside class room and taking lectures too!”

Abaya has become part of uniform; every third girl is wearing the shaded coats. To, dissolve my confusion; I talked to some girls to find out the mystery behind the growing trends of abaya under University premises.

The most common reason that every girl share is, “University timings are from 9:00 am to 2:45 pm and I have only one class today that’s why I use to wear abaya, it helps me to go out from University before finishing hours”

However, there are many girls who come from public transport and wears abaya for covering themselves and a bunch of girls use to wear it as a fashion symbol.

On the other hand, authority figures of the JUW use to say that if there is only one class a day then girls should spend their time in library or in other educational activities.

Girls have their own reasons to wear abaya but as a JUW student, they should follow the rules and regulations fully.

Abaya in JUW

Darkness

By Noor-ul-ain Hanif

A year ago,
I went miles away inside a dark forest,
I digged a big hole near a tall tree,
I put all your memories inside it,
I put a seed and poured water,
I visited it daily,
I fertilized it with my feelings,
I watered it with my tears,
It got further nourishment,
through your sensation,
After some days the seed cracked,
A small plant came out,
I smelled it,
It smelled same as you,
I talked to it,
As if it was you,
But soon my imagination broke,
And I found myself alone in the dew,
No one was around me,
Only dark forest was surrounding me,
I realized how far I have come,
This encouraged me to go backward,
I left you behind,
And moved in my life,
But today I have come here again,
and found the scene very strange,
The plant has turned into a tall tree,
And giving shelter to little little entities,
It makes me happy,
It makes me delight,
It gives me another reason to smile.

Lively and Colorful Carnival

The building of Jinnah University (JUW) for women that use to reverberate with the sound of chemical experiments, in whose floors students explore the new versions of IT and do gossip on topics related to linguistics, media and business was turned into a dancing diva, on 26th March when a colorful carnival (Mela) was arranged in it.

The Mela was inaugurated by the Vice Chancellor of JUW Dr. Naeem Farooqi. Raza Haroon Provincial Minister of Information and Technology (Sindh) and Syed Faisal Ali Sabzwari Minister of Youth were invited as guests. However, many news channels like Sama, Duniya and Metro etc captured the lively event through their lens

As it is a women university so students were allowed to come only with their female friends or other female family members. All the students including visitors participated in this multicolored event with their heart and soul. Ayesha Siddiqui, student of mass-communication expresses her views and said, "This is a healthy activity. We comes to university to study but today we've come here to have fun". An other visitor Nimra Waseem said, "I've come here with my friend and I am having a good time here"

The stalls of face painting, mehindi, accessories, food, juices were the most crowded ones. There were two swings; ferris wheel and merry-go-round that remained the point of attention through out the mela. Music was the main essence, students danced on their favorite numbers.

   

Our faded hopes!

“Jeetyga bhi jeetyga Pakistan jeetyga” “Pakistan will win only Pakistan will win”, “Ya Allah! Pakistan semi final mein India se jeet jaye” “O Allah! Pakistan will win in semi-final against India”, “Bas India har jaye!”; “India will lose!”

These were some of the wishes that every tongue was asking from God before the so called India-Pak semi final match. There was a great enthusiasm among the people; whole nation was united for a single common cause and many of us was so much sure for the victory of Pakistan that most of us had already celebrated Pakistan’s victory before the semi-final. This was our blind trust over Pakistani players that they will never let us down. After all they were on the top ranking.

On the other hand, most of us arranged dua for Pakistan’s victory, in their school, colleges or universities. I am one of them. 
A day before the match, my department (mass-communication) arranged a dua for Pakistan’s victory, in which we all students participated and prayed; wearing green duppattas, green bangles, nails and face painted with national flag, stars etc participated in the dua. These were the most memorable moments of my life. I will never forget them. This is the world cup that I am enjoying in my complete mature senses. Everyone was damn sure for the victory of Pakistan. The fun, celebration and hopes, not ended at this moment. It continued within in my van. Yup! In van Jazba junoon, hai koi hum jaisa, stand up for the champions was turned on in high volume. We were repeating the lyrics and enjoying. Our hopes were so so high. I can say that my hopes were touching the sky but I was unfamiliar with the reality that many of our players have already sold and my hopes were going to crush into little pieces after watching the semi-final.

Moreover, we all changed out facebook profile pictures into green as if it was a national day but after defeat, the first task we did was to change the facebook display picture.

Me and my friends

Golden glories:

In spite of all the reasons behind Pakistan’s defeat, we can’t neglect the golden glories that our team brings on the Mohali ground. The rough and hard ground of Mohali turns into a blessing or you can say that the ground turn into a millionaire of blessings, when Pakistan team offer Magrib prayer on the ground. The spiritual energy spread over the whole green carpet. Every piece of grass was repeating the name of Allah Almighty

Second, the Sajda done by Wahab Riaz after taking 5^th (fifth) wicket of Zaheer Khan. As a Muslim and Pakistani, I feel proud in fact not only me all the Pakistanis feel proud when our player pass these religious gestures.

Wahab Riaz does the sajda after taking 5/46. Zaheer Khan was his fifth wicket

Another, golden event whose credit goes to Afridi, due to his efforts we made it to the semi-final and because of him Pakistan national anthem was sung in whole stadium which was a great honor for our nation.

Unfairness:

A lot of unfairness was done in the match. Majority people sitting in the ground were against Pakistan and were supporting India. Indian crowd was huge. On every four or sixes, song chakde India was playing. The noise of crowd and these songs played a great role to buck up the team and there wasn’t any noise or song for Pakistani team. On out of every Indian player, there was complete silence in the ground.

Tendulkar wasn’t so much lucky, umpires made him lucky.They gave number of shot reviews to him. Moreover, our own players dropped his catches a number of time.

The day of great disappointment:

At the time of toss, I felt something in my heart little shocked too; when India won the toss and got the chance to bat first. But I was soon calm down because I trusted my Pakistani Shaheens, they will not allow India to make runs but I was wrong.
Before the start of match, Prime Minister of Pakistan Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani shake hand with Indian cricket team and Prime minter of India Dr Manmohan Singh shake hand with our Shaheens, that was a good gesture.

India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, and Pakistan's Prime Minister, Yousaf Raza Gillani, shake hands with members of India's cricket team, before the start of the World Cup Semi-Final match between India and Pakistan in Mohali

India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, and Pakistan's Prime Minister, Yousaf Raza Gillani, shake hands with members of India's cricket team, before the start of the World Cup Semi-Final match between India and Pakistan in Mohali

Match was started, it was more looking like a battle field then a cricket field, aggression was flowing out of the eyes of every Indian player.

No doubt, Indian players played well or in other words our Shaheens gave them chance to play more. Our players were trying to take strokes although they knew that it’s not the time to take big shots. They should take runs on every ball, in spite of giving ball in the hand of Indian players. Misbah-ul-Haq was not in the mood to take run. It was like he has taken an oath not to take any run. He only wanted to complete his half century thats it. Apart from him there were many players who were not interested to play.

At the end Afridi was sad. Well for me Afridi is a very good captain. At least under his captaincy our team made it to the semi-final. We love you captain.

But on the other hand, my mind is saying that its may be a trick to grab the emotional sympathy of nation. No doubt our nation is very emotional and most of them are supporting Afridi after his apologies to nation.

We can forgive our team but the people who have done suicides and who got injured due to firing incidents and a number of people who made it to go India to watch match. They have spent all their life time earnings on ticket. Who will pay back the precious loss of lives? Who will pay the medical bill of the injured people? Who will pay back the life time earning of poor people? No one will take the responsibility!