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if u dont really do, what u’r supposed to do, then wat do u do, if anything at all?
I paid the fees for the transport just as much as anyone else, and still none of the van drivers are willing to pick me in the morning for uni or drop me off back home. And i really dont even know the reason. I mean, its not my fault that my house is on the service lane, somwhere in the middle of two flyovers that connect to the Korangi road and the van would have to take a detour to pick me up. Neither do i want to be dropped off on the opposite side of the flyover because there is no pedestrian bridge, and i am scared to death of crossing roads.
So every day, i stand at the gate for a minimum half hour to wait for the van….n along with me is the driver, my dad and my kid brother because they all think its mighty funny. And yayyyy we all spot the van on the main road….the van that sees me standing at the gate, does NOT bother to stop and instead speeds away. My brother keeps laughing and waving at the van to stop and all this while i curse the van to get a tire puncture :@ Ofcourse i have to turn back and ask the driver to drop me off. This in turn, makes me late for class!
So last week i told the driver to talk to the van-walas. And he did. After much bickering, one of them decided to pick me on the way to uni and another one would drop me off.
And then finally, on wednesday morning the big blue van stopped on the main road; honking all the time until i had crossed the service lane, managed my way through huge piles of sand and finally got on to the bus. Success? yes! but the big question being, where do i sit because all the seats are occupied 
‘Beith jayen bibi van late horahi hei’ shouted the van driver and i ignored him. Waaaay at the back i saw a guy enjoying his sweet dreams and the seat beside him was empty. I woke the bechara with a bang of my books on his seat (noooo, not on his head!) and told him to scoot over. He did. After i had sat down, i saw that the bechara was finding it hard to snooze again so v talked and he was also from California 
and waaaay junior to me
So now i am friends with the bechara who has tons of oil in his hairs, has hairs longer than mine, and who loves to talk about interesting stuff… and he has promised to keep a seat for me! oh and did i mention that he is waaaaaay junior to me? *i have to keep reminding my mom about this na!!!*
The journey on the way back has a problem of its own. The door for the small van does not open from the inside. Okay, i am unable to open because the stupid latch doesnt give way at all no matter how hard i try to force it open 
For the last 2 days of uni, i have spent atleast 10 minutes wrestling with the door to open it and i know that the other ppl in the van hate me now they are all as eager to get home as i am and must not like the 10 mins ‘futile’ wrestling match that they have been seeing. In the end, some chokidaar or the driver happens to come out thankfully, and open the door from the outside for me.
Now i have decided that 10 mins before getting home, im gonna sms the driver to come at the gate and open the van door hehehe i feel stupid but honestly, i cant help it!
‘Uncanny’ and ’bizarre’ and ‘odd’ and ‘unusual’ and ’strange’….. 5 meanings for this 5 letter word and here are the 5 facts about moi for which X had tagged me:
1- I prefer scrap-chatting on orkut instead of instant messengers.
2- Its so hard to throw away things .. i keep all gifts with dates and occasions on which they were received. I dont even wanna change my oh-so-oldish cellphone because i can make/receive calls and send/receive sms.
3- I like staring at the non-existent spot on the wall…and i love it when someone asks what me is thinking about! Simply because i can say “Oh, nothing really” and annoy them I cant remember if i ever slept without going through this very ritual.
4- I am so unable to make good work out of the maids and drivers. I hate shouting at them, i prefer not to be present when they get their share of daantein and i always get in trouble for ’spoiling’ them :S
5- I cant seem to hate people no matter how much they have annoyed me or hurt me. Amazingly enough, thsoe around me think that i am hardly annoyed ever..so not true, i tell u! so NOT true :@
I wonder if that really is strange stuff about me. It sounded wierd while i was jotting it down but now it sounds pretty normal..whoops! Now, i feel funny hehehe
The most ‘wierdly wierd’ fact is that all along i have spelt it wrong.. its WEIRD.. did u notice? 
I tag : Umar bhai, Xill-e-Ilahi, Nocturnal, Sammy and anyone else who wants to join the feeling of being weird
026.083 -O my Lord! bestow wisdom on me,and join me with the righteous;
026.085 -And place me among the inheritors of the Garden of Delight, (THE HOLY QURAN) – Ameen
My Lord! I seek refuge in Thee from suggestions of the evil ones, And I seek refuge in Thee, my Lord, lest they be present with me, Ameen (Al-Muminun 23, 97-98 ~ The Holy Qur’an)
Our Lord! Pour out on us patience and constancy, and make us die as those who have surrendered themselves unto You. (7:126) – Ameen
i remember telling my seven yr. old niece a story abt how a little girl was planning something over the phone and her stepmom overheard and punished her.”serves her right for being stupid”she said, “why didn’t she send an email?”
*from a fwded email*
Was it my imagination,or was it really supposed to be something of a book-blog week ? Nobody reads books kya????????????????????? Why hasn’t anyone except 2 bloggers posted any stuff :@ baaaaaaaddddddddd
I’m making a trip to the library this weekend. Hope to find something worthwhile to read… n i’ll put up the meme and tag all of u my list of books i love, would be Enid Blyton’s books (fairytale world) and Nancy Drew and Hardy boys (detective stories) and and Charles Dickens ones; then books by the Bronte sisters and Danielle Steel, John Gray (Mars n Venus series) and Chicken Soup series and more! Then came along ‘She’s the One’ by Kelly. This one’s amazingly inspiring and life-changing and its a window into the world of relationships from women’s point of view. (so much for it being a men’s world hehe) Must have read plenty many in between too but i cant remember all names.Wuthering Heights is worth mentioning and Lioness by Barabara Cartland and Woman of Substance by B.Taylor
The only good book i’v read in the past year was ‘Memoirs of a Geisha’ and loved it because of it being a woven fantasy of the real world and dreamnland. My cousin gave me his book ‘Society’ and it made me hate USA all the more :S Since he’s so much of a ‘im-AMREEEEEEKANN now’, i duno y he bought that book but it helped me bring down his Pledge of Allience down to the ground woohooo!! take that Bhai ofcourse, i cudnt possibly miss the chance of humiliating US-society
Unfortunately though, i have not read very many Urdu books. Khuda ki basti, Raja Gidh, Ujala, Shama, Mere khwab rezah rezah,Angoothi ki museebat,Koela are probably the only ones i read. None among my friends read books let alone urdu ones which is sad very very sad.
Actually, i think i just love the fairytale stories All full of pixie dust and magic and goblins hehe(thats the kid in me talking 
). None of the serious stuff ever brings a smile on my face as does all my bachpan wali story-books and the adventures of the Famous Five or that of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn! Even Sherlock Holmes i’d prefer after a double dose of Sidney Sheldon. Itna crap in this life na, books should be entertaining and relaxing and fun and….. i can go on and on here
And yes, to anyone bothered by fairytales => grow up, i shall NOT!!!!!
| From Geoge Washington Univ. MSA…She take my money While I’m in residency She’s a trifling Hijabi She’s an M.D. Digger Way out of line All set on me… I ain’t saying you an M.D. Digger I got a random poke from a DC sister (Chorus) 30 days…she ate all my dates for all those 30 days Now I aint saying you a M.D. digger but you got needs (Chorus) |
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Certified that Mr./Miss _________________ , working in your organization, is suffering from ‘time-bound’ illness. Due to this, he/she will NOT be able to work more than 8 hours a day and 5 days a week.
Any attempt to stretch beyond this timing will lead to severe health problems. The losses to the company due to medical reimbursements will be far more compared to the gains made by stretching beyond 8 hours.
It is also warned to keep my patient away from any kind of shocking news such as”Come over weekend..”, “Let’s work on holiday..”, “Leave cannot be granted..”
etc. which can directly lead to heart strokes.
In view of the above, it is strongly recommended to adjust your deadlines in
accordance with the convenience of my patient.
Sd/-
Dr.
| Greed: | Medium |
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| Gluttony: | Medium |
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| Wrath: | Medium |
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| Sloth: | High |
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| Envy: | Medium |
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| Lust: | Very Low |
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| Pride: | High |
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Take the Seven Deadly Sins Quiz
there now….im a sloth (or am i sloth-y? duno how that word is used grammatically)..have too much pride..low on gluttony? i thought i was a foodie!..all others r fine too..pretty much spot on hmmm i been honest on the test
Theres scorching heat everywhere but most places in CA have broken/tied records of heatwaves! Its been 11 straight days of temperatures soaring in triple figures…
Pretty obviously, such temperatures had my sis in a bad mad mood since she has to pick and drop the youngest one from school daily.So, when she woke me up at noon on tuesday, i thought she wanted me to give her company through the boring ride and mumbled something about being tired,feeling sick and to grab a couple of pizzas from Safeway cos i cannot stand the heat in the kitchen.And, then i pulled the covers back on my face to go back to sleep but she yanked them back and burst into tears saying that theres something horrbile wrong with the van’s windshield and needs help….okay i said and got up with a sigh.The heat that struck the face as soon as i stepped outside was a shocker but even more so was the condition of the van :S someone had actually thrown buckets full of glue (or something like glue) on it and the heat had dried it up making matters worse. So while she came back inside to grab a sponge brush and liquid soap, i filled up jugs of water to make that stuff icky sticky and easy to remove…
A good 37 visits n jugfuls of water it took to wash that stuff out. A total hour wasted while my bro had to wait outside in the heat waiting for someone to pick him up. Aching hands, massive sweating and wondering who did all this and why, we went off to pick him up grab the pizza and b home asap.
As v got off, v got the answer to the WHY! there was a paper stuck to the side of the license plate :
CUZ YER MOSLEM
V r hurt by who so ever did this because v live here peacfully and abide by all rules n believe ourselves equal to all fellow Americans no matter which race, color or religion they belong to! Such prejudice is extremely offensive against all Moslems everywhere and v had never assumed that v would become another victim to such hatred against Muslims in the US.
As to how they knew v r Muslims….heres a clue to what type of questions my sis gets asked during her day @ the Sunrise Mall :
