My pretty ordinary day! (You might not be interested!!!)

30 July 2009

So I slept pretty late last night again, near 4, and was dragged back from my mere nothingness long before it officially gave me the permission to move out! I was informed that were visiting our maternal side of the family for a day! Hmmm!
Well in Pakistan we have a strong joint family system, rather than living alone people live together with their parents and their siblings even after they get married. This is a principle here, we cannot just abandon our parents and move out. Usually people who do that aren't respected or valued in the society. Islam, the religion in Pakistan, teaches us to remain with our parents till they breath their very last breadth.
So as the whole of my maternal family lives in one house, so a trip there means a day spent with my mom's youngest brother who we call Chunay mamoo ( mamoo is a word in urdu for mom's brother), Pappu mamoo who is elder than chunay mamoo, his wife, his one-year old, Fatima; Jawed mamoo, my mom's eldest brother, his wife and his four kids: Taimoor: 17, Uroosa: my age, Sharmeen: 11 and Hassan:9; my mom's sister who I call khalajani (a word in urdu for mom's sister) and my mom's mother who I call my nanna!
Okay so that makes one big family but out of all people three people are dearest to me, my khalajani, more like my own sister, my Chunay mamoo, who spoils me and my nanna, who loves and prays for me every second of the day!
So as sleepy as I was, after entering the house and greeting everyone the next thing I did was dive on the bed and get lost once again in my welcoming mere nothingness! I gave in on myself at 11:30 and got the control back when it was 2:30 in the afternoon. I was called for lunch and after that things went pretty ordinarily. I discussed the recent twist in the political events of the nation with my khalajani, cursed a politician here and there and commented on some old photos that were lying around!
My mom was going to the beauty saloon so I decided to tag along and get my haircut refreshed for my big party! Wanna know what big party I am talking about, well I just got my Matriculation result and have scored 90% MashAllah! So my mom and dad decided to throw this huge party for every one! I am soooo waiting for it!!! Its on the 1st August 2009! :)
After my Chunay mamoo came home he showed me the new iPhone he bought me! UUUHHHHH I soooo love it! I was drooling over it, but my khalajani said that my mamoo will bring it as an official gift on the day of my party! Oh well...I don't wanna wait till then but I have to! :(
So near nine my dad came to pick us up and we were on our way back to home! Well what can I say I love my home! It's good to be back! :)

I call it a day!

29 July 2009

I had to go to school for the rehearsal of our Matriculation convocation (matriculation equals to sophomore year), so I decided to spend the rest of the day at my friend's place. Sarwat has been my friend since sixth grade and she is the only friend who I am allowed to visit. Why not others, well let's just say that there are somethings we call as limitations in our society.
In respectable Pakistani societies (the one where I belong) girls are protected from an outsider's eye. Girls don't move around as liberally as men do and they have to carry a dupatta, a large piece of cloth, with their dresses to cover themselves. It's not necessary that one covers her head with the dupatta, but a duppata is otherwise very important. This doesn't mean that girls are held back, girls are allowed to get educated and work. They even study with guys, but we have limits, such as pre-marital relationships and physical contact with guy is regarded as utter vulgarity. Guys and girls don't mingle around a lot and we have a strong system of arranged marriages, which work out most of the times! But please keep in mind that I talk about respectable Pakistani families here. Other family types, I'll cover them sometime later!

This is how a our Pakistani national dress looks like, it's called Shalwar Kamiz (btw the girl in the pic is not me!)



So the reason I am allowed to go to Sarwat's place is that they are a respectable family and I am pretty fine with it!
It was fun to visit school (Let me state that I went to an all girls school). It had been so long since I had seen faces I was used to of seeing everyday (two months to be exact). I got to meet a lot of people; some really nice ones, some not soo nice ones and some what can I say I hate 'em.
While I was waiting for Sarwat's driver to arrive I had a little thought provoking chat with a friend of mine (can't mention the name), who is a genious student and a really nice person. You might be wondering why I introduced the talk we had as thought provoking, well the thing is that while we were sitting she just started talking about the hard times she is going through. Her dad's inconsistent job and how bad she feels for that. Her voice was soo watery and her eyes were all teary! It just put me to the thought that how spoiled I am and how I just get everything. It made me feel ashamed of myself that I am so unaware of what people might be going through! Their struggles, of how it feels when you want something but you know you can't get it! I was speechless, I didn't know how to console her. My thoughts were enough to keep me engaged within myself while I delved my vocabulary for the right words. Before I could utter much Sarwat beckoned me to the door. Her driver was there. I took my friend's number and promised to keep in touch. I was too pensive to say anything else!
So what did Sarwat and I do when we got to her place...umm...Talk talk eat talk and laugh! For me it was more like I poured everything right in front of her until my head felt empty and light! I think she did the same 'cos by the end of the day we were feeling soo light and refreshed that we laughed on the most stupidest of things! It was certainly a day!
After I came home, I was sooo damn tired and sleepy that unintentionally, I had to make my way to my bed. It was not what I'll call a sound sleep but it was certainly a necessary one. While I snoozed away my brothers used the laptop to play games, but after an hour I was up again so they had to leave! Usman, complaint that he didn't get a chance to play a single game! Oh well!
So I browsed around here and there for a while and then went back to my mere nothingness, my sleep! I call it a day!!!

The filmy way!

28 July 2009

Okay of all the things I hate in this world one of them certainly has to be being overly-dramatic! I mean I can't stand drama-queens (or kings) at all! People who replace pretty and simple words like 'I like you' by stupidity such as 'we are soo meant to be' or people who rather prefer saying 'I can't live without' than uttering the beautiful words ' I miss you'!

I mean what is up with such people? Why can't they just be a bit real! Why don't they climb down from the rocket Edward Cullen is on and try to ride the airplane I travel in!!
Life doesn't have to be the piece of shit, influence from movies and books has turned it into!! For life they have a special word in the dictionary: REALITY!

I mean how many times in real life does it actually happen that a HOTTIE like Troy Bolten falls for a nerdie like Gabriella Montez? Or a senator falls for a Latini maid? Or a (so-called) Perfect bloodsucker falls for a girl soo damn unattractive who didn't even have a relationship before that? (anti-twlight fan!) or a guy absolutely changes himself after meeting the catholic Jamie?

It's not like I am denying the power of love or anything, I am just saying that things actually don't work that way! Hot guys like hot girls not unattractive ones!! Rich guys like girls with money they don't even give shit about their noble heart or their aims or whatever!!!

Puh-lease!

All I ask is why don't they make films where the unattractive girls are not usually looked at, where hot guys don't fall for girls if they are all so noble and ambitious but not hot!!! Where guys don't change themselves at all, 'cos they are already under the impression that they are heroes!?!

Life is not as simple as they portray it, people can't turn immortal and live together forever! Life offers roses but with them come thorns as well!!! Not every time does the person realize that we are wrong a lot of times they just continue moving the same way! Not every time is a kid able to sneak in and make the relation between a maid and senator work!

But then again, what would happen to those melodramatic freaks who actually take lines from these movies to use in situations from their real life??? Who actually wait for an Edward Cullen to come along! Where would they go???

Robert Pattinson's most humiliating moment!!! (that's what I predicted after watching this!!)

27 July 2009, Late night! (I sooo wanted to make this post!!!)

Okay, so I've gotta confess... I have lost track of how many times I have watched this video, I mean it's sooooo darn funny! Rob seems so desperate for it: the kiss! He comes up and pretty confident he's like "I need to remove my gum" in a super manly voice! He's all preparing and stuff, his eyes closed and then he feels Kristen in front of him and he might be thinking; "Alright so I am gonna get this one!" And as soon as he opens his mouth, his hears, "THANK YOU SOOO MUCH" Bam! He realizes he's sucking on air, he smiles in a defeated or maybe embarrassed manner I have nooo idea and huh! There you go one perfect "Most humiliating moment ever"! And what can I say this Pakistani girl can go a little over-board and step a bit out of her ethical limits to enjoy moments such as this, these are must-sees! Hope you enjoy the video, its not that clear though! But it was clear enough to help me work out the details of this video so I am fine with it!

It's a Brother-Sister thing

27th July 2009

Yesterday I ended up crying in my pillow after I had a very bad fight with my brothers over the internet! My mom decided to take things in her hand and thus as a punishment I was deprived of the internet access for the night and my brothers, for the rest of their pre-teen lives!

I hated my brothers for that…’cos the truth is that internet is like a drug to me and I can soooo not manage without it!

So to express my anger I decided not to talk to my brother at all, but that proved to be awfully difficult when they started trying to make up for the fight by asking really stupid and random things just to check if I’ll answer them or not!!! It was sooo darn cute and adorable!

My brothers, U: 12 and A10 are the nicest guys I have ever met in my life! They are such gentle(lil)men! They are two really different people who are tied up in the bond of brotherhood! They are not at all spoilt or stuck up and they eat a lot!

It’s like when you put the bowl of pudding in the fridge it’s full, the next time you open the fridge you find an empty bowl resting to be washed!!! This totally pisses me off and then I run to my mom and complain that because of Usman and Abbas I never get anything to eat! She reasons it out that they are growing boys they need a lot to eat…blah blah blah! I make a face, stay angry with them for a while and then the next time something good is in the fridge the same story repeats itself all over again!

My brothers are style freaks, sports geek (especially U, A not so much!) and really nice supporters and admirers for everything I do! They are understanding and caring! They listen to my advices, share their secrets and we laugh like hell at really silly jokes!!

No matter how angry I get with them, by the end of the day I just can’t stop loving them to a dangerous degree!

10/10 on the weirdest day scale!

26th July 2009

Okay...Since the clock struck 12 last night to welcome the 26th of July 2009, things have been absolutely topsy-turvy for me! I mean, it seems as if everything decided to attack me all at once!!! Like the D-day back in World War II when everybody decided to attack Germany and Hitler committed a suicide. Well I actually didn't commit a suicide but by the of day I was sooo damn tingly, that my insides felt like a gelatin!

It started when a school friend, Marium, who is two year junior to me appeared online! And then we started talking about really stupid stuff!!! Stuff I usually don't talk about..but my heart went like, "Come on Khulud, you don't have to be serious all the time" So I dropped the serious act and joined in the fun!! We talked through the night, until 6 in the morning. What we actually did: made stupid pairs of people who don’t even know each other and laughed like hell! Mariam made my day! (Do tell me if you want to read the chat, I’ll post it, it’s saved!!!)

The next morning near nine my mom dragged me back from my mere nothingness filled with mismatched images I call my dreams, to say my goodbyes to a cousin and her daughter who were leaving for Riyadh. Dangling between consciousness and unconsciousness I said my goodbyes and then flung my self again to the bed! This time my nothingness was filled with images of my cousin’s daughter, my baby: Hiba who is really going to be missed!

Finally when I came back to my real world, I was informed that we are going to the beach with the maternal side of my family! What was about to come my way? I had no idea!

The beach

So after spending almost two hours in the car we finally reached the beach, which wasn’t exactly what I had imagined… Okay I’ll come around again, it was nothing like what I had expected! I was expecting a calm quiet beach with no one around and a totally awesome beach house with a great view!

What I got was an overly populated beach, with loads and loads of people. No hut, but a room which did have a good view. But I didn’t want this view, with the beach packed with people! I didn’t even step in the water… I didn’t want to act all stuck up or anything but I just couldn’t make myself in the pool of those people.

The populated beach!

So all I did was kept roaming around on the cliff above, took some pictures and had a whole lot of time to think and sort things out! What did I sort out in the end…that I can’t help being mean and stuck up and I discriminate people! Why did I figure that out: ‘cos I considered myself in another such people where the beach would be crowded but with good classy people not such people and then I would have been soaked in the sea water!

And I absolutely hated myself for that! I hated myself for liking people because of their class!! I think I suck!!! L

Time after coming from the picnic:

Okay so once I was back I prayed my maghrib (the evening muslim prayer) and went online in Facebook. That’s when one of my friends played an awfully stupid joke on me putting me in the most awkward situation ever! Oooooh my god I was sooo freaked out!!! I didn’t know what to do or say!!!! UHHH!!! I am soo glad that was a joke!!!! But then again, I hate my friend for putting that thing into my mind… ‘cos my mind is like a maze, things go in and never come out!

By the end of the day I was happy about one thing though: My maternal uncle is getting me an iPhone!!! YIPPEEE!

Obsessed with being obsessed!

25 July 2oo9, Last night I used crazy Facebook applications till 4 in the morning. I was not able to sleep properly and I am still yawning like hell! I was chatting with my friends discussing the crazy twist my life just took yesterday... What was that crazy twist; you people so don't wanna know! So there I was sitting on my my bed with my fingers crazily moving around the keyboard and my mind processing a lot things at once, when one a small corner of my mind took the liberty to break it to me that I am obsessed with being obsessed! That small corner of my mind suddenly started to conquer the busier and pre-occupied areas of my mind until my hands rested over the keyboard and my mind was in complete peace to pursue the idea, without other thoughts tagging along! Is it true, am I really obsessed with being obsessed? Well, to support my the point that I am not, I virtually pushed the play button in the 'flashback' area of my mind and reviewed the last two days! How did I spend those days...Well the days were spent in front of the laptop! Here are some highlights of what I actually did on the computer: -I was Facebook-ing the whole day -I watched the video, in which Kristen Stewart decides not to kiss Rob on stage in the MTV movie awards, like a billion times. -I watched 'A walk to remember' and thought about it till I slept. -My cousins, who were over, got sick of me doing the same things over and over again! CONCLUSION: I am obsessed with being obsessed! I take everything to the extremes, I think a lot! My mind is like a maze which is so damn confusing that sometimes even I get lost in it!!! Huh!!! Thank you Mr. Small Corner for putting one more thing in my already too heavy brain! I think now I need supports on my shoulder to keep my head in its place 'cos pretty soon it'll fall down because of the weight!