3 more days before I call Karachi home again...

Ummm...

What do you say when your younger siblings say they look up to you? Even when it fills you with pride, all the not so good things you've done, flash before your eyes. You feel like shouting to everyone who's put you on a pedestal that you have feet of clay, that you are ofcourse only human, and you have, and will countless times again, made mistakes. You've just been fortunate enough to've made them where no one of consequence was present, you've made them in front of people who are highly unlikely (I hope!!) to meet your family. Or you've made them in front of/with very very good friends who are going to keep your confidence till death do you part.
Moral of the story: please please please keep in mind, I am human, and have done many things I am not proud of.
On a lighter note...7 more days till I'm home.

I am a college graduate!!!!

I have one more paper to finish but its my independent study and the prof is in no hurry to get it. I will get it done before I leave for Pakistan. I only slept for 3 hrs last night. Was finishing up a paper. Saw King Kong today. I don't know, I didn't like it very much. It is very very sad. Makes me want to scream at ourselves for being so prejudiced and bigoted. You can probably tell Im new new out of college :P
More to come soon

Cheeers! 

Me and Neha, Havovi's friend, at Thanksgiving dinner at Havovi's friends' place 

Told you so!!!

The word "shams" (sun) is feminine, and "qamar" (moon) is masculine. The sun burns itself out to give light and life to everything around, and the moon is muneer, meaning it reflects the light. Within itself it has no light; it radiates the brilliance of the sun. So when we shine as men, the implication is that we are reflecting the glorious light of our women. May Allah Subhanahu wa
Ta'aala be pleased with them.
- Shaykh Abdullah Adhami

Back by popular demand...

Or not. However the case maybe :D Anyway, as my li'l sis pointed out, its been a long time since my last post. So here I am like the nice big sister I am, updating my blog. So what has been happening in the last couple of months?
Well I finished my "Statement of Purpose" for grad schools. Big relief! Now all I have to do is enter the same ol' boring basic info multiples times in mutiple forms and my applications will be done. I should do that soon, as some of the deadlines are on the 15th :D
Wat else?? Oh yeah...I'm moving back home for 7, 8 months. Will come back to the US sometime in Aug inshallah to start grad school inshallah. Inshallah.
So I will land at Quaid-e-Azam Int'l Airport sometime early on Jan 3rd. And by early I mean the middle of the night between the 2nd and the 3rd. Atleast that's plan. Hopefully no blizzard, or mountain high enough, or valley low enough, will interfere with the above-stated plan.
Yes I will be home for baqra-eid; yes I will be home for Sehban bhai's valima, and a couple of other shaadis in the khandan. Fun.
And last but not least, I will hopefully find a job to do something while I'm in Khi. Otherwise I will probably drive myself and my parents insane :)
So anyone reading this, if you have, or know of a job that an Economics and Mathematics double major, Bachelor of Arts, Cum Laude, from Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, USA, can do, please let me know. I will be forever grateful.