It all came to an end. I never thought it would all end so unceremoniously.
There’s nothing in my life to which I can look back and say that this place has taught me so much except for the time that I have spent at KU. While we were in our first year, one of the [...]
Archive for May, 2009
31 May
Farewell…
27 May
There Are Signs
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Last September, a bomb blast rocked the city of Islamabad- the target was Marriot Hotel. There were many stories regarding the whole blast and the most famous were that of American Embassy being invloved in the whole affair. Though the authorities wanted people to think otherwise…
Today, the target was Lahore Rescue building. So many [...]
25 May
Life
While going through my things today, I came across something which a teacher said during one of his classes and which I can relate to right now while preparing for my phonology exam.
“We have reduced life to just futile exercises of doing thingd which somehow have no effect upon afterlife.”
*sigh*
Reminds me one other teacher who [...]
19 May
Language
” Thus language does have a definite and stable oral tradition that is independent of writing, but the influence of the writing prevents our seeing this”
- Ferdinand De Saussure in Course in General Linguistics
While reading the book today, I came across this. And it reminded me of the time when we were doing Literary Theory [...]
18 May
What’s an adjunct?!
“What’s an adjunct?” I asked this question, like a hundred times.
My telephone line was dead and I couldn’t call my friends and ask for help. The credit in my cellphone was going in negatives and I couldn’t call them from it as well. So, I repeated the question like a thousand times in my head [...]
17 May
Grammar
I have been trying really hard to actually learn all the grammatical things; sentence structures, adverbial phrase, adjuncts and progressive something for the past few days. I have Grammar exam tomorrow and I hardly know anything regarding it!
“What did you do the whole semester?” ( yep… mum actually yelled at me)
“Well the teacher was soft [...]
15 May
“Oh Lord! Give me Strength”
Earlier this year or should I say the end of last year, all of us witnessed worst crisis in Gaza, where they actually closed all the borders and bombed the people of Palestine as if their lives were worth nothing. I remember watching this news report on BBC with my younger sister in which the [...]
14 May
*Sigh*
Yet another exam today! Atleast I knew something about the first one, I don’t know anything regarding this one.
“Iss dafa tu sirf duaon se pass hongi.. agar hui tu…“
But then I look around me and think how can I be so selfish… There are people around me, my brothers in faith who are in much [...]
13 May
“The Hour”
On the authority of Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) who said that the Companions were sitting with the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) when a Bedouin came to the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) and asked him about the exact date of the Hour. The Messenger of Allah [...]
12 May
“Taraash Kharaash”
Something happened today, which has made my situation a bit weird but I guess, like D.I.S. says, only after realization can you move to the next step. I’m reminded of a couplet by Mavlana Rum which I read a couple of days back;
“Anderein raah mee taraash wa mee kharaash
Ta dam-e- aakhir damay faarigh mubaash”
-Muavlana Jalal-ud-din [...]
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