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Showing posts with label Eid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eid. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Hold on, we're going home

Oh, my my how beautiful, oh my beautiful mother. She told me, "Son in life you're gonna go far, and if you do it right you'll love where you are."
-Jason Mraz; '93 million miles'

Last Friday, for the first time ever, I actually felt like I was in a city where I would be happy. It wasn't raining; it was one of the first chilly days of Fall, and I was sitting outside and studying.

The breeze that blew through felt just like the breeze in Karachi. Exact same feeling. Exact same sensation.

It's the first time that I've accepted that Dallas can be my home. I always used to say that Karachi was and will always be home-it still is-but until I go back, this is finally a place where I can be.. happy. Where I can be me.

I'm not going to change who I am. I'm going to love where I am. There's a feeling of peace that takes over.

Alhamdullilah :)

Oh, and Eid Mubarak!


Thursday, September 1, 2011

Put your hands in the air; show me that energyyyyy!

Everyone's posting about Eid and all.. so I shall too. A bit, at least.

Eid Mubarak to everyone =D

I spent my entire day.. texting. :P
And taking pictures. For some reason, I was really in a picture taking mood.

Even though I took them all from my cell phone's camera, I still had fun doing it.
And even though The One Who Leaves Me Breathless has the camera that I would love to take pictures with, that still didn't stop me from taking more and more pictures.

It reminds me of a really embarrassing time in Grade Six. My class went on a field trip to Lahore for three days.. And back then, we had the camera which works on the film rolls and has to be developed. I took pictures.. and spent most of my money on those film rolls.. but I was only in two of those pictures. In fact, people were only in five of them. The rest of the pictures.. had scenery in them. By scenery, I mean the fields, the brick kilns, the salt mines, the trains, the museums, the statues..

It made my dad so mad.

Thankfully, we have digital cameras now.



I spent the day with two really entertaining babies.



They're Nahyan & Ayesha, and both of them are my cousins. And yes, that's my great-grandmother in the first picture.

I kept thinking of Aral & Ayza the entire time, while playing with them. If you don't know who Aral & Ayza are, then you need to see this.



It's kind of hard to remember the rest of the world while I'm talking to The One Who Leaves Me Breathless. I was so focused on texting today that my brothers crept into my room, grabbed my bag, and went out without me even noticing that they were ever there.

It's a good thing that I always text with my back to a wall or laying down.

The new blogger is really interesting. And pretty cool. But then, that's me.. and I love a good change after a while.
I usually keep the six Shawwal rozas, but I have a cough and a cold, and I think I'll celebrate having been able to keep all my Ramadan rozas without any major migraines.

Thank you, God, for everything. Thank you, God, for letting me keep all my rozas. Thank you, God, for giving me hope for the future and for helping my dad relax a bit more. Thank you, God, for bringing some peace to my city for Eid.
All I ask now is for peace in my city. All I ask now is for people to be able to find a solution to their problems. All I ask now is that you help us improve, keep us on the straight path, and safeguard our health and families.