Baptised Lucifer

i lurvee this grl! dont believe me, read the comments on this post!
anything which makes me laugh in service operations has to be good.

Violence against women

Check out the post on D-rebs blog.

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So today...

was supposed to be a good day. was a good day until, 10 minutes ago! why do people have to come and screw everything up?
got some very goood news an hour and a half ago, wont tell wht but im really happy bout that!
the next three weeks are going to be nightmarish... i have 4 assignments to submit in the next two weeks, with plenty of quizzes sprinkled in between and then the last week is exam week. i am going completely insane! i need time and i dont have any, im wasting 5-6 hours on a good day and 7-7.5 hrs on a day on commuting from (home to college and back) alone.
please Allah mian, sab khair say ho gaye and please push me through and dont let me flunk out or have a breakdown and please please get everyone off my case at home and please just make them back off and let me go through my moods, alone (but not shunned). pretty please! (ameen)

and now a note to M. we are both pigheaded ppl, whether u wanna agree or not. can u please let me be the queen of stupidity and pigheadedness as well as mood swings for the next three weeks? then u can be the queen forever. and as im moving out in january please hold out now and ill be out of your hair, very soon.
i know u dont like the idea of me moving out, but i wanna do it and i like it so please let me do it. ill be a much nicer person, all round, if you do and a horror if u make me stay at home. thts not a threat, just a fact. and u know it! but know this too, i love u, alot, and i always will no matter where i am or where u r and u will always be first with me. just bear with me now. and let me fly the nest.

Rain rain, come again!!!

as cheesy as the title sounds, i looveeee the rain. its 3 in the afternoon right now and its been raining for half an hour now. the weather is beautiful!!
for us rain deprived ex-karachites even half an hour of drizzle cum rain is pure bliss..!!
here are some pics of my campus and one below of sharjah.

Our lovely consulate!

so we went to the Pakistan Consulate on Tuesday. as we are planning to travel before christmas we needed to get our documents in order. everything else was fine, the only thing we needed were ID cards. i had my card but they had missplet dad's last name so i had to get it corrected and km (karachi mutant) needed to get his made. we reach the consulate, its 8:30, and this is my first visit ever and im expecting something official looking if not impressive, i look up and its a complete and total dump, the metal detector is wedged in a corner, and a wooden board propped below it acts like a ramp, there are stacks of paper, visible in the windows above, we enter a gali (really minscule lane) and enter using the door at its end, i see the smallest waiting room ever, which was thankfully empty, with a small window in the centre. so we go poke our heads inside and tell them we have come for id cards. this out, the guy goes Dhs. 60, so km gives him his 60, moves aside and i tell the guy i need to get mine reprinted, and without asking whts wrong or anything, he goes again Dhs 60. i'm like wht is wrong with his guy, its not like im going to run away with the money and even if i do, he hasnt done shit yet. and why the hell should i pay the same as a new id for getting a mistake they made, corrected. anyhow we pay, he gives us these tickets and tells us to come inside. we enter, lo and behold the dingiest office yet. it is as big as a regular classroom and is where all the processing for the cards is done.
we are told to sit as soon as we enter, even though there is no one there. then they call out my number, i go sit at the terminal and this lady in hitler style goes, whts wrong? by this time i was already being regarded as an alien with green skin and antennae and all. why u ask; coz i was in a suit! it wasnt intentional, believe it or not, it is my college uniform. a dark blue suit and a white shirt. and i dont wear a scarf, so i stuck out as a sore thumb in a room full of abaya clad women.
any way i go through the motions, the form is nearly done when this bitch starts screaming my name, im sitting 2 inches away from her and am the only grl in the room, (actually the only person other than km) she can see me and knows im getting the form done but continues shrieking my name until she is told by the hitler lady to wait. i have the stupid picture taken, and then go to the desk where the guy is collecting the signatures to complete the form. i sign, km comes and signs and picks up his pen and starts to leave. the guy goes, wait thts my pen and asks me to attest to the fact tht it was on his desk before km got there. now this is a dollar stick pen, worth a dirham and this guy is acting like its worth a fucking million!! im like fine, keep it and i tell km its worth a dh, even if it is yours let him have it, we'll get another one. at this if the dude had some self-esteem he would asked km to take the pen... but noooo!!
so seriously pissed off, i exit and go to the hand in window and give him the form. and we finally get out of our political asylum/dump (please allah, dont let there be a day, when we might have to go there for asylum, pretty please!!!)
they seriously need to do something to improve the structure and give the nazi staff some lessons in humanity, and teach them to smile and say their pleases and thank u. just coz we are pakistani, doesnt give u the right to treat us like bloody animals. and lets not forget u are paki too!! not staff personally selected by hitler himself.
i hope i never have to go there again, coz i just might lose it! and if i do, it will not be a pretty sight!!

No comments..hmmm

so ppl i see i have hit the big !)@, sorry i meant 102 mark which is an enormous deal to me. to everyone who came and got my counter rollinggg, THANKS!!!! :) its much appreciated. just one thing, leave a note when u visit so i know and can in turn check your blog out, i really need some new, interesting ones...not tht mine is all that interesting ... or is it ;) but still..:)
anyhoo will post day after tomorrow abt a rather bad experience i had today, coz its a really longggggg rant and i have to finish this bloody HR report and then finish reading economics notes.. i HATE mid-terms!! :(

Wht a day!!

ok so the 18th was pretty eventful in plenty of ways. firstly we went to GITEX and once there we went quite crazy. although it wasnt really cheap but we were in more or less a spending mood. so we got a laptop, the 2nd in the house, mashallah, and its a really cool one; its a Compaq Presario, i cant remember the model no. but it is silver and has a white keyboard which looks really cute!! then we got a digital camera, FINALLY!!!! tht is one purchase i am totally proud of, i finally got my way and we got a Nikon Coolpix P2 in blue. i wanted a Canon but its too expensive in comparison so I settled for a nikon instead. the only thing i dont like about it is because of some odd reason the pictures are shaky when i turn the flash off. and i dont like taking pictures with the flash unless necessary coz it alters the light quality and hence the effect in the picture. but whatever, we can finally take senseless pics of everything and everyone.

then we (me and my friends) went to the beach, as my birthday party was on the 18th in lieu of the 14th(stupid, stupid finance quiz, and i got a bad grade after all the late nights! :( ) the weather was completely amazing, we had a ball and then came the gifts. they pitched in and got me a sony walkman!! it is a nw-e003f and its pink!! its soooo cute!!

thanks so much guys! im completely in love with it and have taken to carrying it everywhere with me (it lives in my pockect:)!! ). so right now im on a bit of a high, come tomorrow ill be high on caffiene and low on sleep as i have an economics mid-term and an HR submission on the 22nd, both quite heavy on the contributory percentage. why i dont start work before i dont know..?
today i was at work and they ( i think) finally confirmed, as in said that the contract would be ready by next month, that i will be working for them. which is a relief but i was going to take a break and go to karachi for 15 days and come back after eid which doesnt seem possible now as they want me to join after new years day. arrrghhhhhhh!! now im thinking if i should cancel the trip altogether coz; is there any sense in going for a week?? on top of this they still havent confirmed which of the two positions am i being offered, although i have an idea; but still...

the fact tht ill be finished with school, for atleast a year, and will start work full-time, still hasnt sunk in, it is still surreal, intangible, incomprehensible. i still remember in vivid detail when i we were deciding whether i should go to eahm or not and now im done... where did the time fly?!

This is outrageous!!

going through 7 days today, i found this completely outrageous article; its about women drivers in Saudia, and their continued non-existance. i mean its fine if they dont want women on their roads because ofcourse all problems are caused by women as well as every road accident, but there is this one sentence which takes the cake. it is a statement by the Interior Minister Prince
Nayef bin Abdul Aziz

"This is a secondary issue and it is not on our

priorities (list)...I urge everyone to forget about it...

Such an issue is decided in acccordance with public interests

and women's dignity"

Now bad driving and all i can put up with, but dignity, seriously what the fuck does the car to do our dignity?? Really what an amazingly brilliant statement!!

The 21 year old

and finally the day has come (and gone) and im offically an adult! yesterday was equal parts fun and extreme stress with the finance mid-term (which went amazingly shitty even with the hours i put into preparing for it)

any how whats done is done, now im wating for the 18th, the official party!! cant wait!!

thanks D-reb for my first blog wish; Ghazal u are without a doubt the best, u remember every year and ive completely screwed up with yours for the past two, im so sorry!!

and thanks to all the people who wished me yesterday at all hours (12:00 am-10 pm); S, Ray, Omie, AA, Maren, AC, KL, KK, SR, LT and everyone im forgetting too!! thanks guys youre the best! :)

Amazing examples..

Today during finance we were doing net present value and were dicussing risk and associated rate of returns. for the addage "the higher the risk the higher the return" the example given, after saying no offence meant, was

if you had a hotel in central london and one in central karachi which one would have the highest risk associated to it?

and i thought karachi of course coz some sob would definately wanna blow it up!!

i mean no offence was taken as i am the only one in a class of 75 who could possibly take offence, but is this wht we have come to??
all i can say is f**k u, u bloody al qaida sobs! and thank you for today (meant in the most sarcastic way possible).

My thoughts...

this is an elaboration of my thoughts on a post of D rebs:
his post is basically about how ppl spend most extravagantly to make their lives comfortable and their lifestyle envious but do little or nothing to help those less fortunate than them.
it is more or less the same with me. i have been away from karachi for nearly nine years now and havent visited since, the not visiting was more of a coincidence than a deliberate effort. any how i have grown up in this really liberal place with quite liberal parents away from any knid of society which would even resemble the one at home. i am now a person who despite being female has never been deprived, i have lived on my own while on internships something quite unheard of for most of the pakistani grls i know, i am quite self assured, in more or less a taboo profession (Hospitality), independent, out spoken and i like all of tht about me. i know without a doubt had i grown up these nineish years in karachi i would have been a completely different person. and tht would have been because of social pressures to conform. people standing out, doing things differently are not only not accepted but are deliberately made to feel as if they have commited some sort of an unforgivable sin. which is very stupid.
it is these very things which make people not do things which they should do but instead play follow the leader. i dont think when people give to charity its because they want to but more because they'll be the people who gave such and such amount, oh wow now lets all stand and clap!
i know when i go back to visit over eid at the end of this year, i will be shocked, i will no more have the freedom to speak my mind as my views are too unconventional and i like to voice them which sometimes (read: always) creats squirm inducing situations for my parents, i wont be able to go out when i want by myself coz i wont be allowed.
maybe i am overexaggerating the situation but thts how i see it. ill let you know if they change. in the meanwhile feel free to comment.

did i forget to mention im an out and out cynic??!!

And another one..

this meme i got off aisha's blog too.
here i go..

Today

Height: 5,2" sigh (yoko height increaser doesnt work!! karachi mutant tried hehehehe)
Color: beige
Piercing: one in my ears, wanna get one more but am afraid it'll hurt
Tattoos: none, no needles for me

Right Now

Time: 5:45
Mood: Strange sort of good, sort of not
Taste: Craving the tiramisu brownie in my bag
Weather: Humid
Bad habit: lately, biting my lips
Thing I want to do: sleep for two days straight
Favourite TV show: Gilmore girls
Book: Love story
Non alcoholic drink: Rani peach float, Starbucks Caramel frapacinno
Brand: Giordano
Perfume: Pleasures by Estee Lauder
Designer: DKNY

Random

Have a job: Part-time financial assistant
My CD player has what in it right now: Fort minor
What makes me happy: Sunshine, flowers, beach

When/What Was the Last

I got a real letter: six months ago from B
Got an email: a few mins ago another college mail
Thing I purchased: earrings
TV program I watched: Fashion house
Movie I saw in the theaters: Narnia
Hugged: Ray :) my hug of the day
Place I was: Work then school
Song heard: Sohniye Juggy D
Phone call: Mummy who me loves

please please please guys, this one.. :)

And the countdown begins...

13 days to go...