Here are some more snaps from my last trip home.
Sunday, 6 January 2013
Thursday, 20 December 2012
The happiest 18 days of my life
Every year I visit my home in Pakistan around december, this year however, I visited a couple of month earlier and experienced the happiest time of my life. It was my brothers wedding. This post is about this time back home and how special it was.
A few months before my 12th birthday I went to a boarding school and a year after that, when I came home for my first long vacation, my brother left for another boarding school. As it turned out, we had our long vacations in different seasons. He had them in winter and I in summer. There were years when we just saw each other twice a year, at the Eids. With cell phones not common and boarding school restrictions we didn't even get to talk much and it was like each of us was a single child of the same parents for so long. Then he joined the military and I left Pakistan for higher studies, which continue till now, only to return once a year. Whenever I visit Pakistan, I only get to meet him for a few days. This time, however, it was special. He was getting married. The person dearest to me on the planet was getting married.
A few months before my 12th birthday I went to a boarding school and a year after that, when I came home for my first long vacation, my brother left for another boarding school. As it turned out, we had our long vacations in different seasons. He had them in winter and I in summer. There were years when we just saw each other twice a year, at the Eids. With cell phones not common and boarding school restrictions we didn't even get to talk much and it was like each of us was a single child of the same parents for so long. Then he joined the military and I left Pakistan for higher studies, which continue till now, only to return once a year. Whenever I visit Pakistan, I only get to meet him for a few days. This time, however, it was special. He was getting married. The person dearest to me on the planet was getting married.
Sunday, 16 September 2012
Why so judgemental?
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A while back I grew a beard just for the lack of not wanting to shave. Someone I know told me I look like son of Osaman Bin Laden. Sometime later, I shaved and someone else I know commented that you "shaved the beard? how un-Islamic!". Some more time later, I grew a French beard like the ones the Arab Sheikhs have and I was told by someone else I know "harami harami lag rehe ho?" (translated as 'why have you put up a bastard look on your face?'). All these people I know are from different countries and different ages. I ask, why so judgemental? Could it not be that I just do with my facial hair what I like?
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