New Year’s affirmation!

I thank God that I am living another year of 2018! Every year I promise myself to do better in terms of organising my life. It’s a perpetual reaffirmation and needs a lot of vigor and strength to accomplish it. I am glad that previous year ended in a nice manner. Last night I was trying to recollect what I did in the whole year…

A day at Arafat and a night at Muzdalifah!

At the beginning of every New Year, I plan a trip for vacations but peculiarly this year began without any plan. There was not even a glimpse of idea on my mind that I will be going for Hajj until my elder sister suggested that we both should plan for hajj, just 4 months ago. I agreed thinking on my mind that it would be…

A thrill of a new year!

I always try to organise myself in the beginning of each new year! I try my best to organise everything in my house but time passes by and the new year starts again with so many unfinished jobs! This time I thought why not to organise everything by the end of this year and when the new year is beginning tomorrow, I am happy to…

“In love with the crockery”!

Last year, on second day of Eid, when I woke up in the morning, after cleaning my house, I thought to invite someone on breakfast. I was invited for lunch at my brother’s house that day and I was free till then. Whom to call I thought? Somebody nearby will agree on this quick invitation! So I called my neighbour whom I call aunty. She…

“Baahubali 2, the conclusion”!

When this movie was released this year and became the highest grossing Indian movie, I was not even aware of the first movie “Baahubali , the beginning” (of 2015) although I heard and read a lot about it but I didn’t watch it as I didn’t think it could be a good movie! Then I was reading in the news paper everyday how this movies…

“Trees of Karachi!”

I love the stout trees with intercepting branches, giving shade to weary people. But with a sad note, I say that my heart weeps when I see these beautiful trees cut down ruthlessly just to construct new buildings, innovating the front elevations of houses and even modifying the big prestigious institutions by cutting trees to boost ugly sense of displaying glass elevations! Other main reasons…

“Say it with flowers and do it with flowers”

While recuperating from my illness, many colleagues, friends and students brought me beautiful flowers. I am so thankful for their thoughtfulness. I love to decorate my home with flowers but every time I get a bouquet of fresh flowers, it becomes a major hard task to untie the flowers that are bound with tape with much cruelty and it is a so difficult to separate…

“Days with Herpes zoster shingles!”

Ten days back I started feeling very peculiar pain at my back scapular region on one side. It was localized to one point and was constant. It didnt seem to be a routine muscular pain that I get after vigorous home chores. I took analgesic but it didnt go away. I was perplexed as what it was but the mystery solved after four days when…

“Happiness is a state of mind”!

Since a long time I have been observing people’s response on some entertaining event. I find most of the people around me quite boring! Maybe our whole nation is devoid of deriving pleasure out of simple things. I think most of the people want to enjoy after achieving some goal in life so they ignore the little joys scattered abundantly on the way. Sometimes on…