Just when I thought I'd start...

A lot of people told me it was high time I started my preps...

So I took out my lippin.

Opened the first chapter on carbs.

.... And then got a text message that our send ups had been delayed.

Yeah you get the idea.... : P

The Rebel...that fell

Ok.. so we had a biochem genetics test the last day before our eid hols...
Fasts... a horrid syllabus and ooo-eid's-coming!! feelings must have had something to do with NOONE wanting to prep for the test... I mean more than the usual :P

But like always,
bang our heads against our books we did...
show up the test day, we did...
and buy answer sheets from our uni's photocopy shop to write what-nots, we did...

Test time: We find out the test's out of syllabus!
 Arrray waaah ye tou kisi ko be nai ata.... shukaaaaaar.. Yes! Yes!..  bach gai!! 
uhh what I meant was: how horrible!

We protested,then got a lecture from granny...
Protested some more, and got a bigger, louder lecture from granny...

I put my pen down.
I Smelled it.
I Heard it.
I Felt it.
The scent, the call, the feel of a Rebellion.

My Thoughts then: Come on this is it!! Noone wants to give it right! We don't even know it! So we should just Walk out!!!! Boycott!!!!!!! Strike!!!!!!!!! Bhook hartaal if we have to!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I took a glance at Mango shake on my right. She was still frantically writing like anything (a thing I find seriously freaky), completely deaf to the LOOOOUD rebellion calls in the air. She looked up just once: to tell me to not waste time n continue writing.

My Thoughts then:  Kia likon agr kuch ata nahein and she could break her hand at that speed!

And then, we all heard it: slogans, shouts. The misters in our class weren't giving the test.

My Thoughts then: Cool! and hey, do my thoughts have a loudspeaker somewhere...uh oh :P

A msg was conveyed to the girls to do the same. Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd of course:



We.just.sat.there.and.did.nothing.

I looked expectantly at our G.R.. Twice. And said Chalo! Chalo! She was willing. I could tell. She just needed a push. Sadly, that didn't come. I'd credit granny for that. She went all this'll cost you in your prof!! And you know what words like that can do to girls. Sigh.

My Thoughts then: Awww No rebellion??!! and hmmm granny must have had zero friends when she was in med school.

In the end, give the test, we did... Giving it was more agonising than...than... getting bitten by a centipede (trust me! it just happened recently)

Our teachers kept saying that what the misters did was stupid.
Yet, it was us who gave a stupid test, with stupid answers, that'll probably just win us stupid marks.
My Thoughts then and now: Who's the real stupid one??!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!HE DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

7-6, 7-6...
Plus the most heart-touching, patriotic words...

Ok.. so the match was nail bitingly close. Bopanna was superb at the net; both of them showed speedy momentum... You could literally feel their inner passion. And we actually saw the crowd's cheers sway towards them!

In the second set we were... what 3-1 in the lead. But the Bryans caught up.

Two tie breakers... so it was just sooo close!!

And the Bryan bros won.

BUT

In the award ceremony... we heard something that was completely out of the blue...

'We want as much peace in this world as you do'

After gazing up at the crowd, he said into the mike that: 

-He'd like to wish an Eid mubarak to all the Muslims and Pakistanis out there... (wohoo!)

-He was sorry for not winning two times in a row (can you believe he was a.p.o.l.o.g.i.s.i.n.g.?!)

-The Indo-Pak Express had an incredible run... till it met these guys (the Bryan bros)

-Wished his sis a happy birthday, apologising again for not giving her the best bday present (aww!)

-Said '...I don't want to take the limelight away from these guys BUT, EVER SINCE I'VE COME HERE, THERE'S BEEN A MISCONCEPTION ABOUT PAKISTAN BEING A TERRORIST COUNTRY. WE ARE VERY FRIENDLY, CARING AND LOVING PEOPLE. AND WE WANT AS MUCH PEACE IN THIS WORLD AS YOU GUYS WANT. MAY ALLAH BLESS US ALL'

My sisters and I were like... gasp.. OMG...gasp... APPLAAAAAUSE!!!

It was SOOO UNEXPECTED... I was expecting him to say what a long, tiring journey it had been for him, or maybe talking about how this'll be great for Indo Pak ties...

but no, infront of some 25000 Americans, he just stood there and sent across a msg so strong and pure and needed...

the crowd started clapping loudly,

the mike guy went 'Well Said!... That was beautiful!!',

our channels began giving the quote as breaking news,

and all of us watching on the tele live... went through shock, disbelief, praise and ended with patriotism and pride bursting inside.

Those sentences actually stole the limelight away from the championship winners! :P

Oh, and after receiving the runners' up trophy he (like in the mixed final) said he'd forgotten to say something, which was to thank the Bryan bros who had (v graciously) made a donation to the flood victims.

Awwww. It couldn't have been scripted better.

  

I remember when he first qualified for wimbedon. He wasn't financed by anyone then, had no sponsorship and zero media coverage. I remember my sis n I getting so excited then. A Pakistani! Playing wimbledon!

And now he was sharing two runner up shields for the US Open. Sniff. :D

So here's to Aisam ul Haq Qureshi. Like I said before, the REAL Champ! 

To Quote the L.A. Times:

'He lost the match, but won hearts.'
:'D  :'D  :'D

Stand up for the Champion II

Much like the circumstance of my first stand up for the champions post, aaagaaaain we've got our lousy, brain-droughted cricketers on one side... who've taken shame to a whole new level...

Hello? Guiness Bk guys... Hey your going to record this rt..? As the largest no ball..?
NO??!!? WHY?
Oh cause it was fixed.. hmmm good point! 

and Aisam ul Haq on the other.He's fought his way to both the Mens' double and the Mixed double Finals in the year's last GRAND SLAM... the US Open...
 COOL OR WHAT??!!

For the first time, Pk tennis fans were able to see him play live, in the mixed final.
The pair lost :'s but
the match... was pretty awesome,
our green flag at the award ceremony... majestic,
getting the runner's up shield.... momentous in Pakistan's history
and his talk at the end... of hoping to send good news to a terrorism and flood stricken country.... heck emotional for all us Pakistanis glued to the screen! :'D :'D
He even called the mike-lady back to thank all the Pakistani fans watching him play.
Awwwww Bravo!!!!

In the end, best of luck for today's match!
But whatever the outcome, we know our green flag's going to be there on the centre court for the awards ceremony... and we can't thank our champion enough for giving us that! :')

6TH SEPTEMBER

Major Bhatti- recepient of NH

Shaheed ki jo moat hai..
Wo kaum ki Hayaat hai...

Laho ko hy shaheed ka....
Wo kaum ki Zakat hai.........

1965-Pak Army captures Indian soil Khemkaran

M.M. Alam shot down 5 Indian AF planes in 30 s -setting a world record

1965- Indian Field Guns captured by Pak Army Soldiers

A Shot of Indian Prisoners of War-'65

A SALUTE TO THE MATYRS AND GHAZIS OF THE SEPT 1965 WAR!
LAHORE WOULDN'T HAVE STAYED SAFE WITHOUT YOUR SACRIFICES.
MAY ALLAH BLESS YOU and all the soldiers of our great, cool army who have laid down their lives, so that the rest of us can live in peace.

V.I.C.T.O.R.Y.!!!

Engineering Some Illusions...

So I had a happy day on the 4th of Sept...

Two reasons:

1) After.2.years.of.being.in.med.school.I.actually.gave.an.answer.spontaneoulsly.in.class.AND.IT.WAS.RIGHT.!!!!!!!!!!!!

O Meray Parwardegaar!

I mean this is completely different from being thrown a question by a sir. You have to answer something then... and I've been there... done that.

But spontaneously answering... ahhhh I always thought that was a level too high to be touched by a mere mortal medic like me...

me...amongst the many supers, who always have a right answer stored somewhere in them. 

I viewed 'it' as the supreme act of wisdom, the pinnacle of intelligence shown only by the very bright.The very bookish.The very know-it-all-ish.

And yet when Sir A. struggled to come up with a word for blind spot teasers... going 'optical..' 'uhh optical...?' the words burst out from me 'OPTICAL ILLUSIONS!!!' Sir went 'Ohh yes! Illusions!'

Ahhhh...triumph...

Yes I'll admit it's not exactly a course word... but hey, in my history of spontaneous-right-answers.. its a first!

2)

Yup! Congrats to her :D
We had plans to go to Fry-chicks which isn't far, but the plan shifted to today :D
Her result though has started an epic debate of 'uet fields other than electrical' vs. 'pu electrical eng'. It's sort of me vs. dad n big sis... I think pu's electrical engineering is peee yeeewww! Let's see how it turns out...

Ramadan In the Air!

This is really really late, but hey I've still got to wish! So...

Ramadan Kareem to everyone out there!!!

Fasts have been a bit tiring, this month; but what's a fast that you can't feel huh?! : D
Ramadan always has this sort of special warmth to it... you always have a feeling of wanting to do somthing good, tv channels go religious for once, plus you get fruit chaats and pakoray for aftari!
That feel of having aftari together... aww its irreplaceable :D

It's my first Ramadan in med school... hmm fasts and course books never haaave gone together... neither have fasts n broken down lecture room acs! But if you think about the many many less fortunate like the people who dont have electricity half the day (thanks to wapda) or some a house (cause of floods!) you're humbled to not complain.
I've had 1 aftari out... at Gym Khana (Zuzu's  a.k.a Apple juice's bday!) I'll always remember it as the day an Araaein challenged a Butt, with the food race ending in me winning :D n having a COMPLETELY DISFUNCTIONAL, ON THE  STAND STILL GIT!! Ufff buraaa haaal hogya tha meraaa! But global Butt self-respect was at stake so my tummy's motility had to be sacrificed. Yes the heads of Butts (lolz :P) stayed high. All 3 of us were actually in 'ouch' mood for a day after that aftari..

This ramadan's also special, cause Abeer kept her very first roza this year! Go Abeer :D :D!! The traditional flowery haar ceremony was fun... and she loved her gifts :D.

For the record, she says she felt hungry 3 times.

So easy on the pakoray and samosay people.. huh?! what do you mean look who's talking??!!
PLEASE REMEMBER THE FLOOD VICTIMS IN YOUR DONATIONS!

Let's hope we can all make the best of this Ramadan :D