rahima academy =D February 21, 2008

its one of those things that everyone’s experienced…something everyone has been serious about…something that everyone SERIOUSLY wants to forget…but the thought of which still brings a smile to our face (probably because we’re glad about the long string of changes we’ve braved and excelled at today!)

for a while…just for the hell of it..and for the joy it brings…

rewind to that kiddie mode…when being 12 was *cool*…at least in my school it was…we got our own locker and felt really special swirling around those combination locks!

elementary : kg-4: the highlight of our lives was recess! our lunchboxes and choosing friends…kiddie cliques and cooties..rock paper scissors (yasmin always won there!)…loving your teachers…working on our science projects…fighting with the librarian to make sure that we got the newest books…hunting for treasures in the library…mrs fernandes..mrs valente…mrs taboy

5-6: the love hate relationship era…love hate ur family, girls, boys,teachers..EVERYTHING…preteens and puberty! my most distinct memory of this…dressing like the rest of my GIRLS…buying exactly the same overalls (black) and dressing alike with red shirts…and then we had the parallel clique which decided to wear blue…hehe…dumb kids we were…oh and getting told off by mrs marcos for chasing abbas around campus…playing basketball (even before kuch kuch hota hai)…seeing friends go thru their first crushes…do u remember sex ed and the strange looks we gave each other after coming back from those segregated classes! hehe…mrs vaz *and the way we threw her a baby shower*..mrs barrett and her resemblance to disney witches! kareem dabbagh and backstreet boys..and sana and divya! hehe..mrs sundar who made math so so enjoyable

7-8: getting together,dancing like freaks and spilling our souls *bonding*…shahrukh khan! (most people cant even understand this weird aspect of my personality..obsession with shahrukh khan…what can i say..a bit of my childhood is still alive in meee..hehe)…hira , yasmin, and sarah..do u remember how we fought about those posters zara got us…hehe…we wouldnt quite be the people we are today if we didnt (pretend to be) mature then! relationships and all the trash they bring…and about how pathetic it can be being in the middle of a relationship! making friends for life =) ….abbas…zeeshan..playing cricket…sneaking in class…cheating! (recall arabic culture and american history and algebra and *sigh* we cheated too much!)..flattering mrs oliveira…making fun of mrs khan and mrs james (she’s such a sweetheart she’s teaching my third brother Haseeb now and still remembers me!)…learning french and feeling sophistiqué!

and now this picture on facebook! life really does come full circle!

spot me if u can!

 

 

 

to abbas and the rest of my schoolhouse friends…from those i met in that trailer in mrs fernandes’ class till the ones i fought with next to the lockers! love u! wouldnt quite be the person i am today without u! and our secrets and memories stay in that group! hehe

hugs

yayy February 19, 2008

yesterday was election day..as i said in the last post..i was pretty disappointed about not being a registered voter…so when i went along with the rest of my family to try out my like at the polling station i was pleasantly surprised at the way things were organized..they had this table set up for people who had problems etc. and they let me vote…yayy…so excited i was

and im even more excited about MQM winning in karachi. was afraid that if anyone else won from here, there would be major riots.

to the observer: elections yesterday were casualty free alhamdulillah we are not terrorists and are doing very well without foreign interference thankuverymuch!

to the PPPP: HAH you didnt win in spite of your tall claims!

to the Musharraf Critics: now THAT is democracy…no rigging in the elections! if there had been rigging, musharaf’s allies would not be voted out and his arch enemies would not win (PML – N)….im very pro musharraf!

i want to vote! February 17, 2008

ever since election year has been confirmed I’ve wanted to vote…see the way i see it, you don’t have the right to criticize the politicians unless you’ve actually owned up as a citizen and voted for the better guy…the only reason why we have so many jaahils sitting in parliament is because unfortunately most of the people who’ve gone out there and voted are jaahil..

the only way you can change anything is by going out there and voting..its a slow and painful process…but if you can read this and you’re a citizen of Pakistan..

go out there and VOTE!

the literacy rate in Pakistan is 53%…and the voter turnout rate in the last elections (according to government statistics) is about 41%…6 out of 10 registered voters do NOT participate towards the political destiny of the country…no wonder the country is in such a dismal state..most people can’t even be bothered to go and elect the smarter candidate!

anyway..i wanted to vote..so i filled out all the registration forms well in advance last summer..and sent them to the local electoral rolls…come election week and I’m waiting for my election card to arrive…it didn’t till Friday so i checked online to see whether or not I’m on the electoral rolls..and sadness set in when my name wasn’t there!

all that effort gone to waste…they didn’t register me =(…so now i can’t vote…in spite of wanting to

they say that if you’ve got an NIC (national identity card) and turn up at the polling station on the day of elections then you can vote…I’ll try doing that tomorrow..lets see if that lets me vote

elections are tomorrow..

otherwise I’m still upset =’(

and no HR people are not stupid!