I had an interesting wakaeya back when I was in matric. Back when Pakistan Studies was a compulsory subject and I simply loathed it. Partially because our teacher was way too fast at covering the course but mostly because of the way we had to prepare for exams and tests.
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Koi haal nahee hai mera. An entire journal post dedicated to just another quirky dream! Wah Awais, wah!
Thankfully, this ‘quirky’ dream was a short one, so penning it down shouldn’t be too time-consuming (unlike other dreams which span different continents and eras of time)…
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It’s that time of the year again… winters… teen-teen tuition’ein… staying up late, waking up early… dophahar ko ghar aate saath hee sou jaana.. ek routine set hogaee hai: College. Home. Lunch. Sleep. Up for Physics tuition. Go for Chemistry. Then Math. Home. Chai. A little internetz. Parhai till 2AM. Sleep. Repeat until Finals.
I feel so productive. Learning something new everyday (at least in subjects which don’t start with a “C” and end with “mistry”). Acing tests like a boss.
I find it strangely.. fun.
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It is time.
I write this the night before my Orientation Day at NUST-SEECS. I’ve been waiting for this day for a long, long time. The story, my story, from Garrison Academy to National University of Science and Technology’s School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (kaafi lamba hai ye tou [that’s what she said]) is quite interesting.
It involves crying man-tears up in my bathroom (confused over which career path I should choose), taking evening classes at a entrance test preparation center, studying for 12 hours straight in preparation for the entrance tests, getting into FAST-NU and, finally, getting selected for SEECS.
Read the full story, after the break.
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Saad Hamid is one of the pioneer professional bloggers of Pakistan. He started blogging at the ripe age of 19 at Sizlopedia.com, was the youngest blogger in Pakistan of his time (I believe I currently hold this title 
) and currently runs iPhoneism.com along with Adnan Farooqui. He graduated from Bahria University last year, where he did Bachelors in Telecommunication Engineering and is currently working at Mobilink.
I spoke with Saad on how he started blogging, the difficulties he faced, the mistakes that he made, what keeps him blogging and what advice would he give to young bloggers.
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A really funny thing happened today.
My brother Ahmed, aged 6, was in my room. All of us had changed into our night suits. I was putting on Mehndi on my little cousin’s hand and Ahmed was in the room with us, drinking water from his mug. Drinking water from his mug felt quite peculiar to me, normally he would use your average transparent glass through which, well, you could see what was being drunk. Nonetheless, I asked him what was drinking:
Ahmed: Nothing, just water!
Me: Kahan se liya?
Ahmed: Fridge say, yaaar.
Me: OKAY. *eyes suspiciously*
After our conversation ended, I continued mehndi-o-fying my little cousin only to stop suddenly in my track when I realized that there was Sprite® (A big attraction for Ahmed) in the fridge!
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I’ve become a bit of a Facebook druggie lately. Who is a ‘Facebook druggie’? Well, if you check up on Facebook every half an hour (which sometimes involves taking your phone to the bathroom), if you love it when people like your status updates, photos etc. and if you have this habit of feeling overly disappointed when seeing photos of people having fun on Facebook then, my friend, you are an addict and you need help.
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Ever since I have gained control over my faculty of senses, I’ve known that my mother and her friends are obsessed with their weight and clothes. Usually both together.
My mother has recently started a job as a fitness instructor at a gym and so, is full of new ideas about her ‘optimum weight’ and ‘food diary.‘ She also thinks she’s really fat. Now, I’ve tried to be logical and reasonable. I told her that gyms don’t hire fat people and they hired her. Ergo, she’s not fat. You would think that’s easy enough, right? Simple? Perhaps, even obvious?
Yeeeah. No.
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On my way to Lahore last weekend, I sat next to a fat man. When I boarded the bus, he was already there, sitting on both his seat, and mine. My first thought was, “My GOD! Where are his legs”? They were being engulfed by his awesome flab.
He looked at me and said, “Thank heavens someone like me isn’t sitting next to me.” Some people in the bus laughed. I didn’t. He lifted his buttcheek off of my seat and somehow managed to squeeze himself on to his own side. It didn’t matter. His fat would come oozing back on my seat five minutes later. He started talking right away.
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Of Speeches And Beeches!
Mar 5
Oration is my passion. It may not seem as such since most, if not all, of you do not even study where I do but it’s a fact, dear reader.
At present, my passion may not have that spark anymore; but that doesn’t mean that it can’t be ignited again… 
Our Rafiqui House has been consistently winning in most, if not all, competition categories and our monthly assembly weeks have been magnificent.
The week starting on 16th February was our last week in matric. Of course, exams sheckzams abhi rehte hein but parhai in school itself is basically khatam-khatam.
In this very last week, the assemblies were to be conducted by the Rafiquis. As of typing, it is 20th of February, 2008; the absolute ending point was today. I was selected by the house master to orate on ‘Character and Character Building’ (which I had skillfully copy-pasted from different websites)…
And boy, have I got a story to tell to you.
