My very first Meme...YAAYYY!!

This one i got from aisha's blog who in turn got it from huda's blog. and it couldnt be more perfect as its about books. and books and more books :) i'm going to do it differently than the original ones coz i dont want to any impose limits; so here goes:

My absolute favourites: i am a die hard romantic, who still sees life through rose colored glass-atleast most of the time. the only thing im truly cynical about is money. so its no surprize that my favourites would mostly be romantics.

Gone with the wind: read it once and you will get hooked. it is one of those truly romantic novels written in a time when chastity was coveted not ridiculed, and it details the journey of a remarkable woman; remarkable not because she was a perfect woman, an ideal wife, mother, sister and daughter but because she was neither. she was far from perfect but she fought hard and overcame enormous obstacles. another reason is Rhett Butler; i have three men who in my life stand on pedestels; he is one of them. i lovvveeee the character. the movie to be is the most acurate representation of the novel which is quite rare. i always picture vivian leigh as scarlett and clark gable as rhett when ever i read it.

Scarlett: it is the sequel to gone with the wind; she gets the man and goes to ireland, what more could i want?? :)

Love story: this is a fabulous book in the sence that it is an out and out romance but doesnt have an ounce of obsenity. it is also one of the cult books of the 1970s. how can i help but love Oliver Barrett IV!! he is another one of my men on pedestals. this book came highly recommended to me by none other than mama; i think she is more in love with ob than i. she had already told me the story before i even read it but that did not make the read less enjoyable.

Oliver's story: this is the sequel to love story. i read this one before i read love story and i loved it for what it was. it is an amazing book. erich segal has a tact for writting which is so clever so sharp yet there is no crap to be found, no beating around the bush for no reason; he is such a natural writer than you cant help but fall in love with the book.

Must reads:

Boy-tales of childhood: this a true gem. it is Roald Dahl's autobiography and is completely hilarious. it is full of pranks played, punishments received, growing up, schools everything he experienced in his life; incidents which make a

wonderful story. this is a book everyone should read no matter what their age.

Out of the dust: this is all in prose and one of the most beautiful things i have ever read. it is one of those kinds of books which make you want to think that you reallly are previlaged and that when mum says look at those less fortunate than you she really is right.

Howls moving castle: its really funny how i got my hands on this, one of my sisters friends was disposing it and she got it to see if it might me nice. it turned out to be completely fabulous like an amazing presecessor to Harry Potter. i cant nderstand how any one could bring themselves to through it away. btw i read it ages before the movie was made.

Harry Potter: i lovvvveeeee these books, all six of them. i have read them so many times i know them by heart. we are so hooked on to this (me, my sis and bro) tht my sis actually wrote this examm type quiz of the first four books an dmade us solve them as a part of game, it was bloody long and she even marked them. thts how crazy we are!! Lol! :)

i think im going to stop now; its long enough and has taken me absolute ages.

i tag Omie, Ghazal and the Karachi mutant.

O, my bro, how I love thee!!

how can i not love him, he drives me up the wall sometimes which is plenty of times but he does such things at times and so spontaneously no matter how pissed off i maybe i just start laughing and the anger goes right out the window. like this morning; we got out of the house at 7 am and got to Jumeirah at 10; completely insane (arghhhh!!! Hate traffic want Ramadan timings back!!!); all he was thinking about the entire way, and very loud, was how he had made a major mistake by not coming through rolla (a way to get to dubai from Sharjah) and instead taking al wahda (another way to get to dubai from Sharjah) and I had to listen to this stupid rant every 15 seconds, no amount of shouting and swearing was shutting him up until I threatened to douse him with my cafe latte which was quite hot and then he goes

rolla is nice
whoever doesn’t come from there
will eat mice

tht doesn’t make any sense but it made me laugh; a lot!

Thanks O, my bro; you are the best even though I don’t say tht often J

EID MUBARAK!!!!!

its finally here!! EID MUBARAK to every one celebrating eid today and an early wish to everyone in Karachi!

Very Interesting

i was trying ot find some pics from google regarding eid, although i didnt find any pictures worth posting i did find this article on wikipedia called chand raat of Karachi. i would neve have believed i would find mention of gulf in wikipedia!! nice naa, the article is below:

Chand Raat (Urdu: چاند رات, Hindi: चाँद रात literally means Night of the Moon) is a typical term found among Hindi-Urdu speakers of Pakistan and India. It is referred to the festivity celebrated on the eve of Eid.
Chand Raat in Karachi is a moment of joy and festivities. Families and friends usually have a get together on the last day of Ramadan (Ramazan in Urdu/Hindi) to break the last day of fasting. Once the fast has been broken, people gather on rooftops and other open areas in order to spot the new moon and signal the arrival of the Islamic month of Shawwal and the day of Eid. Everybody is enthusiastic, and once the moon is sighted, congratulatory remarks are exchanged among each other with wishes of "Chand raat Mubarak" (Have a blessed night of the new moon) or "Eid Mubarak" (Blessings of the Eid day). Women and girls gather to decorate their hands with mehndi (henna), sweet dishes are prepared for the next day of eid, and the last rounds of shopping for the Eid Day are also carried out on this day.
City streets wear a look of festivities with streets and shopping areas brightly decorated and malls and markets remaining open till late at night. The joy and energy of this night in Karachi are usually very contagious and can be compared with Christmas eve in Christian nations.
Places to visit in Karachi on Chand Raat include Tariq Road, Hyderi Bazaar, Park Towers Clifton and The Gulf near Teen Talwar, Clifton.

And in true karachi spirit, i present an absolute gem

Happy Birthday Mama!! e

Yesterday was mums 42nd birthday; yet another year passed in the life of the woman i love with all my heart, who is my best friend, the person i learn most from, take most seriously and who is not only my bestest friend but also the best bitching companion a girl could wish for!!!

Happy Birthday mum, mama, ammi, ma mimi, mummy, friend. :)

with love, your sabbo rani

Which of the X-Men am I??? hehe

You Are Jean Grey
Although your fate is often unknown, you always seem to survive (even after death).
Your mind is your greatest weapon, literally!
Powers: telepathy and telekinesis, the ability to project thoughts into the mind of others, communication with animals

WOO double HOOOOOOOO

blog patrol rocks!!!i just discovered i got a visitor each from pakistan, canada and america, how COOL is that!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Addictions

ever notice sometimes when you start something no matter how tired or bored you might be you just cant get to stop...its like every particle in yr body is willing you to do it, whether u r in class or at home or even in the library...thts whts been happening to me since yesterday morning i dont remember how i came across jammie's blog but i couldnt stop, read the entire thing yesterday and today have been drifting across these

khizzy

kAy

and jammie's other blog

insane...stupid...misdirected...dont know whts going on, but something definately is...

G do u now these people? i have a feeling u might coz they are from IVSAA as well

inspite of everything i still love this crazy addiction...you cna knw so much about people and find links to people you may even know...

anyone notice the new look of my blog... i love beta!! life is so much easier!!!!!!!:)

the only drawback of beta is tht i cnat use it from home as the connections too slow for it to load so no blogging next week coz ill be offffffffffffff!!! finally a six day break!!! but as soon as i get back im tagging people... so get ready..

happy bunny or rather happy confused bunny

what did i Do??

this is both a reproach and rhetorical question... what did i do???? as in i havent read anything for the econ quiz thts in 5hrs and 40 mins and what did i do.. as in what the hell have i been doing for the past 2 hrs?

yesterday was a good day after many crappy days...we went out bought stuff :))) always a good thing but in my case the bestest thing coz i got new lenses; my old ones had finished and so i thought ill have my eyes checked again and get new ones; i had a feeling that my prescription had changed again but i had thought only a little bit, but i was soooooooo wrong it shot up from R-7 and L-6.50 to R-7.75 and L-7.25. i actually asked the optician how long before i go blind!!!

any hoo what to do cant revert it so have to live with it...wht else oh yeah i was just telling my mum tht i hadnt done anything which would make it shoot up so much and i got the age old rely back layt kee ghantoon kitabeen parho gi to aur kiya ho (translation: if you will lie on your stomach and read for hours what else do u expect to happen) so i told her i am not the only person in the world to do so to which i got YES U R!!!! go figure...i think she's still pissed off from teh time i asked her not to talk to me, actually everybody, until after i have finished a book and because of my never ending addiction to them. i know tht was rude but wht can i do?? everytime i would be engrossed in my characters' plight someone would start a conver with moi, which is no doubt interesting but i cnat concentrate on wht they are saying at all which makes me want to ask them to repeat themselves which pisses them off; wht can i do??

but all in all no matter how much i may crib about my parents and no matter how much i like my independence i would be unable to survive a day without them, i just wish their faith in me keeps fast and that i never severely disappoint them.

i love u mama and abba!! :))))

Gimme a break!!

I got an email yesterday which was a repeat of about the controversy of the KFC thing, (them not using real chickens) an I was like really people take a look around you, kfc changed their name from Kentucky fried chicken to kfc so they must be using genetically engineered chickens and has nothing to do with the word fried??!!! The first question I ask is why the hell would someone invest thousands to dollars to create a brand new organism and that too a fast food chain just so they can have meatier chickens?? Do ppl know how much time, money and effort it takes, for someone to even consider doing something of this sort would be a complete WOMBAT! We are constantly reading about how McDonalds is changing their menu to accommodate more healty options because of the growing obesity in America………has anyone out there ever heard of “Super size me”?? and if there was even a shred of truth to this rationally speaking this would have been in the paper, the media would have had a field day and KFC would have been shut down by WHO. And think about this as well, if these genetically engineered chicken did in fact exist how in the hell have they been smuggled into all the countries where there are KFC outlets with being detected??????? As nothing of this sort has been done to date people using a bit of the fluff in your skulls and stop forwarding such crap!!

Now lets rant bout etisalat hehehe; yesterday I was trying to access the gossip page on msn and guess what………it was blocked!! I was like what?? Since when has etisalat taken it upon itself (as a community friendly organization of course) to shield us from the daily shenanigans of Paris Hilton? What could have been on that page that had to be blocked? I am really curious to find out. Or did they just have nothing better do so they just blocked it for fun?

There are just a few more days to go for eid, I just cant believe how Ramadan this year had passed so amazingly quickly; it was just plain weird.

two words: disjointed.............dysfunctional

look what i just found, there is actually a peta website called kfc cruelty.com and another one which is called www.openrescue.org . and the pics on it are just plain gross!!! eeewwwwwwwww