USA, Facebook and Pets

USA seems to me like a big facebook, with happy faces and apparently no worries. They are crazy about Facebook and pets. Both capture major part of an average American's life. They love to talk about their pets in their day to day life as well as on Facebook. 90% of their status would be about their pets. Most of them would put their pets' pictures as their profile pictures. They would name human names to their pets. If you would visit any American family who has pet, and you would ask about their kids only and not about their pet, they would get a chance to hate you forever. Hence, they give same status to their pets and kids.

How much thankless I am

There was a time when I used to fight for making any decision of my life. Then the time came when I so wanted someone could make decisions.......

Economics and Porn

Scene: I was discussing about the class we just had with a bunch of class mates.

He (a white guy):  So what do you think of today's lecture?

I: Well today's lecture was pretty good. I think he has started explaining things more in detail....blah blah.........but I am still confused about the concepts of homotheticity and homogeneity. Can you explain the difference?

He: Well I dont remember their exact definition but I can tell which production function is homothetic and which is homogeneous by looking at it. It's same like I cannot present the definition of porn but I can differentiate it among the other plain stuff by watching it.

P.S. Life becomes little bit complicated with a half broken tooth :(

Oi maan!!.....that's called a perfect snow storm

So we had a zabardast storm which stayed almost one day. They said that it's the third biggest storm in the history. Winds blew at the same speed as they do in Katrina. And the snow fell from the sky like someone was throwing buckets of snow. Night was horrible. I could not sleep due to the scary voices of the wind like "ghooooonghoooo". Thank God it's passed without any major damage.

We got two days off from the school. Wo0oho0o....I couldn't stop myself from putting up this status on facebook

"I know that's mean to say someone is happy with the storm as all classes are cancelled :P" 

I slept like bear in these two days. Still feeling drowsy. I made chicken karhai today and glued to CNN all day. Everyone was hanging out for sledding. I could not go out :( because I was already fighting with cold, runny nose and some rude sneezes which have shower effects (stay away from me, i am a walking flu). But this Sunday, we have planned to go for sledding inshAllah. That may be my last snow here!

Now some pictures (steeling some of my friends' pics too):

The frozen river

My friend's father is taking time out from shoveling....lol......I like this man alot. He is a real fun!

My window at night....snow all over

I live on the 4rth floor. When I looked down from the window, I shuddered to think what if the snow would reach to my window!

I heard that electricity was gone in few places when blizzard came. I was praying that would not happen with us. I hate this dorm even with electricity. Without electricity, I WOULD definitely loathe it!

P.S. We are praying classes will be cancelled tomorrow also (fingers crossed)..."mujhay neend aa rahi hai"....addicted :P 

My First blogger meetup

Finally, a fan and I managed to meet up for the first time. I stopped by Chicago while returning from Michigan. She also had arrived from NJ in the after noon that day. Although I was and am still on vacations (hehe still few days), but these were her busy days as her school had just started. Anyhow, I spent a night and almost a day with her. She is such a nice and lovely girl. I literally enjoyed our discussions on life, study, marriage, careers, family, politics, etc. She made yummy dinner for me. I really appreciate how she managed to cook  and pick me up from the station in that short time. We went for movie as a fan was volunteering for some film club. She showed me her school and we took few pictures. After that we went for a long walk and had chocolate cones in that freezing cold. It was fun.

Next day, another friend of mine joined us there. We hanged out together and had fun. Went to the Shedd Aquarium, but could not make to the Art gallery this time too. I hope next time we should straight go to it first.

On our returned, we missed our bus. it left just in front of us and they did not stop it even my friend knocked the door. They said door was closed and would now be opened on its destination.  Damn! I missed Niazi coach here. We had to buy a new ticket and wait for the next bus. I never ever missed any of my bus, plane or train, but now I ve been deprived of using this dialogue from so on.

All in all it was really a good trip (minus the last thingy). I got to meet a fan which was the main purpose of this visit. Thanks alot a fan for your hospitality and love. I am looking forward to your visit at our place!

P.S. I am looking forward to meet my other blogger friends :)

Teary!!

I ve been wearing this jeans since long which I bought from DC but I dont know how I couldn't notice this before:

Made in Pakistan

For good 30 minutes, I sat on the bed with this jeans in my hands and literally cried. Pakistan, my country, my love, what are these crazy nuts doing with it? I am so frustrated.....I need to come back really soon with a potion in my hand :-X

Snow, coffee and finals......an awful combination, I must say!!!

Acceptance!

I don't know how many events, family functions and other interesting occasions I would miss further. I think all. I am getting used to it now. Events come and pass and leave me with pictures only. I live on pictures. Pictures of all my loved ones are always with me. For few months,  I used to keep all pictures on my bed with the childish thought that they were with me. Then, these went to my study table and now they are lying in the drawer. I ve realized that they are only pictures, nothing more than that. I don't see them much, may be once in two weeks. I don't miss anyone much. i don't talk to them much. I have accepted that I am alone here and I will have to live like this for many years to come. Isn't acceptance a relief in itself?

Being a brat....

With extreme care and affection, I burnt my hand today. Extremely warm oil spilled over at the back of my hand leaving a mysterious scar. I am pretty sure that the mark resembles with the map of some tiny country in Africa. I am still trying to find it out. But today, I missed my mom a lot. I miss everyone terribly. If this would have happened at my home, my whole family would gather around giving me different household tootkas. My mom would first bring toothpaste. Granny would suggest icing. Papa would remain insisting on using Bernol. And after good 15 minutes, my brother would appear out of his room with a pride in his eyes like he is having Aab-e-Hayat and would hand over me a chori mori old herbal ointment explaining the benefits of it. But there was nothing today. I could not do anything for it. I didn’t have any ointment at home. I even couldn’t find the pack of my bandages. I even forgot to apply toothpaste on it. I just left it in cold water and kept remembering the comfort of my home. I am literally a spoiled, rude, irresponsible and careless child of my parents. 

I am used to my mother's voice "Eat something! you did not eat much today". And my father's loving scolds "You actually enjoy teasing us by having low BP". I literally used to enjoy it. But there is no fun here. No drama at all. There is no one to pamper you here. I do not eat until my intestines beg me to put something in them. My stomach makes the loudest noises in the class out of everyone. 

My kitchen is just three steps away. But they are three miles for me. Oh God!! to go there and make something has become the world's hardest thing, harder than running regressions, finding variances and reading stupid recommended articles. 

P.S. I found a 20` bigger tv in a running condition (not walking) in trash. Wadday log tey wadiyan wadiyan galaan :D 

I am in love

So, I have temporarily moved to Washington DC for the summer internship. I am getting used to the packing, moving to the new places and starting my life from A. I know I will be doing this for the rest of my life. So I should not complain about it anymore. Khair I am completely settled down here now. Same routine is going on. Get up early, rush for the bus, get into the freaky Metro, reach the office, work like a bloody stupid intern (even after working at a senior post for 5 yrs, for God sake!!), return home through the same route (God, God!) and sleep. That's all what I do.

But weekends are fun. I am staying with two of my friends. We share same "lovely" natures :P , so we enjoy alot. One has a car yuhoooooo. We wander around all the time. Tomorrow we are planning to go to Virginia for Chicken Karahi :D (there is a place very famous for karhai, lekin lahore wali baat tu nahi hogi naa ahhh) and may be visiting the water park there. 

Here I just want to confess one thing that I am in love:

Yeah that's true. I really liked Washington more than Chicago (Sorry a Fan). There is so much fun here. The historical buildings, very good public transportation system, all type of food around the world, the weather which is same as Lahore's (warm and humid) and top of all PEOPLE here. People are so lovely and helpful. You cant be lost here. You will find someone around to help you to find the place. And they are very well dressed. You will not find even a single person wearing tidy cloths here. 

The most excited thing is that the entry to all museums is free. wowowo0o0!! When I came to know this, I could not hide my excitement. You know muft khoray ...hehe....  I love visiting museums. So far I have visited one of them. Will post some pics later. 

I will try to keep updating the blog. But I am not sure I will be able to do so or not. Because I am fed with this blog now. In fact, I am fed up with socializing now. I don't know why. These days I want to sit quietly  in a corner of my apartment. I think I am missing everyone :(

82'

I : I think P has solved the whole problem set. I am thinking of matching my answers with her.

She : Don't call her P. Call her baji (elder sis). You know she is older than you.

I : Hein :O .....how did you know this?

She : I checked her facebook account. She is older than us. Why don't you believe me?

I : No, it's not that I am not believing you. She doesn't seem older.

She : But she is.

I : Ok.

She : So call her baji. You dont know any thing about her. You know she was born in 82.

I : Dont tell me? I mean......... Really? :O

She : Gee haan. dekha hoi ho naa heraan!

I : SUre....82....you mean 82?

She : YES 82!

I : You know what.... I was also born in 82 :)

Haha....I wish I could capture those giggling moments in which she became speechless!

P.S.  If you are on Facebook, you are a public property.

Fruit Chaat

Just few minutes back, I came across to my blog just by chance. I checked that the last time I published the well written post was February 7, 2010. It's sad. The main purpose of creating this blog was to record what's going on in my life but I could not record them on regular basis. I used to think that it would be my pastime to read my blog "if" I reach my old age. I am feeling sorry that there were so many interesting things which have been passed without leaving any record. But I think I will write about most of them when I get free and it's not that far when I become a regular blogger :)

When there are so many different things creeping into your mind and you could not find the point to start with, it becomes the post which I am going to write. I could not find the ONE topic to start with so I am going to write exactly what's going on in my multi dimensional mind. Just like Fruit Chaat, different fruits in one plate!

it reminds me Ramzan at my home :)

So every thing in one stroke. Here it goes!!

• -My finals of this semester are going to start from 20th of this month. In fact, two of my exams are on the same day. Yeah it's bad. But I have to take them with just 2 hours difference :( . Just four hours and first semester will be finished. 
• Some of the seasonal fruits are necessary to make fruit chaat. But dont think that potato is also a fruit. Yes some people think so and they put potato in fruit chaat. errr....
• -Cobb Douglas production function has so many unique properties and it can explain all types of economic concepts accurately.
• -My brother is in Karachi these days for a one-month training. He got rejected from all the universities he has applied to. I am very sad for him. The main reason of his disqualification was the misplacement of one of his diplomas and universities are not ready to reconsider his case due to the tough competition. He was already away from home and all this made him so quiet and at more distance. He is used to share everything with me. I could not talk to him from many days and his quietness is killing me through. 
• Do check that there will be no marks on fruits when you buy for fruit chaat.
• -My skin is losing all its glow in this artificial environment. How much we are near to nature while living in Pakistan? I have realized that melting summers and sharp winters were actually my skin cares. I am missing them all.  When I see the mirror, I cannot recognize myself. So It;s better not to see into mirror. 
• -The variance of P in Lucas Misperception theory is not equal to zero but it's correlation with Zi is zero.
• -I forgot chanay on stove while I was chatting with my sis and they all were burnt. My apartment is still smelling :|
• -My family is still not aware of the 'fact' that the dorm I am living in is for both girls and boys. :P There are no separate dorms like other unis in US.
• It will be fun if you get some chaat masala from any shop. Otherwise the fruit chaat with mere black pepper and slat is a patient feed. Google any Pakistani or Indian shop and get the Shaan masala immediately. 
• -I cried alot while seeing my father through Skype after three months.
• -I have finally decided that my taste for flavored yogurt could not be developed. 
• -The perfect competition is the bench mark for all types of markets. I will have to cover its all chapters although the chances of coming any question on it are very low.
• -The weather here is very uncertain. Sometimes it becomes cold in the morning and warm at the evenings. And whenever I put on jacket it becomes warmer and when I leave it at home it becomes colder.
• -Grapes rock in the fruit chaat. Its a must-put-in-thingy. 
• -My apartment mate is convincing me  hard to go to theater with her as they are showing Alice in the Wonderland. I am not sure I will go or not because I have to complete a problem set which I am supposed to submit on Tuesday. Let's see!
• -Integration is the opposite of derivation. It's easy and you can do it! (this was for me).
• -My nephew makes changes in the list of his gifts each time when I talk to him. Although I know why he's waiting for me so impatiently :P but still when he says to come back soon, my heart melts. 
• -'A' brought a mickey mouse pen for me when she went to Florida for a conference. I am lucky to have best suite mates :)
• -We are planning to go to NY during summer break but we could't get time to search for a cheap flight. I am also visiting my auntie living in Atlanta. And have to go to Chicago also. The summer is going  to be a fun. 
• -A lemon should be there your fridge. Fruit chaat is considered incomplete without it.
• -I am still searching for a topic for my paper which I have to complete during summer break. How many things which i need to do in this short time of three months. 
• -I have starting gaining weight, i guess (happy a fan?). My brother in law is used to tease me alot whenever he sees me on cam. Each time I have the only argument that it's not that I am getting fatty, it is just because I have to be over my laptop for the clearer view. hehe......
• -In overlapping generation model, we have to discuss the attitudes and behaviors of two generations.
• -I dont understand why there is only sale on strawberries? I am tired of eating 'em now :(
• -I am not going to do laundry till my exam and that's final!!
• -The only thing which I love since my arrival here is fish burger of the Burger King.  McDolands sucks here also. Burger King! I'm lovin it! 

• -My head is turning into a factory of dandruff. Do anyone need some?
• Fruits are usually expensive over there. So wait patiently for the sale. Their sales on fruits are superb.
• -Whenever I see my supervisor, we have long discussions. You know on what? No no not on my research. He always tries to convince me to stay here forever and get married to any guy settled here. haha...he is such a sweet person. He is Sikh and damn funny and I really like him. Whenever I talk to him, I feel like i am talking to my father (no my father is not Sikh). We have a deal that he ll find a suitable match for me and if I like the person, I will stay here. Can you believe that? And he is sure that I will find out 100 objectionable points in the person he'll find for me same like his daughter does. 
• -I have started learning few words of German. It's fun. 
• -After making the fruit chaat, refrigerate it for some time. Its taste will come out more deliciously.
• -Deadweight Loss is consumer surplus plus producer surplus with the implication of limit. Wait wait!! I think I am messing this concept up. Let me check it! 

I am leaving you with this must-watch-video. Good bye till my exam and you have to prayer for my exams!!!

I love it more each time I watch it. Especially when she gives a very long argument and his father says "o really?" and she says "yeah"

And this one is also a fun to watch:




P.s. I think I should go for Alice in the Wonderland. Papers to hutay rehtay hein aisi movies dubara nahi lagtiein :P

Living with awesome people :P

(Coming out of the elevator)

I: Silly girl! what you were doing there?

She: What? What I have done now? (Innocent? :O err.....I will call it acting 'innocently' aur woh bhi Over)

I: You ve been staring at her like hell. She was just few inches away from you. I was myself feeling odd.

She: YOU pointed out "Look at her hair". You are responsible not I!!

I: I didn't mean to start staring her continuously. Your eyes were stuck to her like you were taking her x-ray. How ridiculous? This is the third time you made me embarrassed.

She: Ohoo sorry naa. It's difficult for me not to stare such interesting things :P

I: Stupid!!

She: Errr....actually I have this habit by default. Mind you I am not responsible for this!

I: Who is responsible then?

She: You know I belong to Peshawar. Pathans there are used to stare like I do. I proudly got this habit from them.

I: hahaha weird people!!!


P.S. Blogger.com should have something like Tag :D 

Yes I am alive!

Life is running like a bullet these days (err  I always have a same ghissa pitta dialogue for each of my post. yeah i am a boring fellow. Go somewhere else. Or I should suggest which blog you should visit? :| ). There are so many things I want to blog about but I think I wont be able to do so. One day I will myself become a problem while solving these numerous problem sets :( . There are so many things I want to share with you people. I think I will have to find time by hook or by crook. Blog is for me a  Self Talk and I need it more than any other time.
Two important things happened these days; like my friend; a fan finally got the entry in Booth. I will be meeting her in Fall. yuppyyyy I am very excited..... about the Baskin-Robbins ice cream which she has already offered me :) .

And I finally ended up today with taking a good exam. I had two really bad ones :( . Thank God i am kind of coming back to studies.

Like you, I also receive tons of forwarded emails. I usually do not read such emails fully. But an email in which the personalities of the persons with specific dates of birth were described, grabbed my attention. It says following about me:

Always up to some sort of a mischief! The mischievous gleam in your eyes is what makes you so cute and attractive to everyone. You are an extremely fun-to-be-with kind of person. No wonder people seek for your company and look forward to include you for all get-together' s. However, you are sensitive which is a drawback. People need to select their words while talking to you. If someone tries to fiddle around and play with words while dealing with you, it is enough to invite your wrath. God bless the person then!

This small paragraph describes my whole personality. O God!! I dont know who are those people creating such emails but this is so true at least for me. I checked many of my friends', more or less their personality descriptions were correct. 

P.s.  I ve  already  explained many times that I like euphoria . Do anyone has any problem with that?

Just an ordinary day......

-Studied the whole night,
-slept for two hours only,
-went to university,
-attended two lo0o0ong classes,
-returned to dorm,
-about to have my lunch,
-cell screamed "Papa calling",
-he wished me good luck for the exam, asked few other things, his voice became heavy and he finally handed over the receiver to mother.....
-I cried for two hours,
-then got up forcefully,
-got ready for uni again, caught the shuttle which was about to leave....lunch forget it!
-reached uni and had the first ever exam of my HIGHER STUDIES in US!
-and B*A*N*G*..

A day finished with ever rising worries and tensions!!!

P.S. I wonder why these tensions have always a new upward shifting convexed to origin curve? and why they always have the tendency to be multiplied by another downward sloping variable? what the hell i am talking about!!!

Sleep baby sleep!

The Rule of Circulation

When you are abroad, the ratio of bread, jam, butter and egg gets over the ratio of blood in your body!

The real drama!

Okay guys, after so many ta'anay of The Chef and others, I am going to tell you the story of my thrilling journey.

I had connecting flights from Lahore to Dubai to London to Chicago to Milwaukee. See how much a long journey I had. The whole journey was supposed to take 36 hours approximately. But you would be shocked to know that it took me three days to actually reached Milwaukee.  It's a long story? kal naa suna doon? nahi? ok listen then!

I was traveling all alone. Nahi nahi there were other people in the plane, I mean no other fellow girl was traveling with me. All had reached there a day before. My visa arrived two days late so I had to travel alone. Due to fog, my flight from Lahore to Dubai took off eleven hours late. When I reached Dubai, it was a 100 waltz  shock for me that I had missed my next flight because it was the connecting flight. I had to stay one night in Dubai. They provided me one night stay in a hotel (a superb hotel) .  My cousin's husband is working in Dubai. So I called him after checking in the hotel. He picked me up in half an hour and drove me through Dubai. O God it's a beautiful place, I must say. It was night out there and I kept saying "kitni electricity hai in k paas". Postman! Dubai is a good place  to visit :P .....hehe

We went to a big, big, biggest shopping mall. I don't remember it's name but I had its pics. I think it was Carrefour. I would post the pics later. It was quit amazing. I bought a bag for my hand-carry luggage because the bag I had had no wheels and it was extremely difficult to carry it and stand by in lines for checking in. So it was a bad suggestion of carrying a hand carry bag without wheels. And I will surely get my bag's price the person who suggested it! so appi be ready to pay it.

We also went to KFC there. The taste of their chicken was quite different but good. Dubai seems a country of Filipinos. You meet them every where you go.  I returned hotel late night. I could sleep the remaining hours. I kept looking at the newly introduced shuttle of Dubai which comes after half an hour. My window was exactly near its track. It looked so yummy seriously. I loved it.

Next day, flight was again two hrs late because of the heavy traffic at Dubai airport. No one comes to sit with me. So I lied on the seat, took the blanket upto my face and slept the whole journey to London. After reaching London, it took me two hours to reach at the counter for the next flight to Chicago, you know the high security checks. My flight to Chicago flew just 10 minutes before I reached there. whooop...I was about to cry at the moment, but got control and started fighting with the Emirates people. They had already arranged my next flight and my stay in London. So  another one-night-stay in London. And you know what I was so happy later for losing that flight. hehe..... Many of my relatives live in London. I reached the hotel, checked in and called my uncle who immediately came there and took me to his home. All relatives got to gather at a very short notice and there was an exciting and surprising party which continued the whole night. I met most of them after such a long time.  There were so many dishes to taste but I was interested in delicious drum sticks, roasted chicken and the chapatis, O God I missed them alot. All uncles and aunties gave me alot of money for shopping at duty free shops of Heatherow Airport and coins for calling home. I still have more than half of that money.

London was congested type of city but duly planned and beautifully built. I loved its traditional architecture. I was surprised to see its narrow roads and the double decker buses whose drivers are very smart to drive through these roads.

Next day, all came to say me good bye at the Airport. It was the emotional moment. I again felt that someone is dragging me out of my parents, the same feeling which I experienced at the Lahore Airport. I left London with teary eyes. But I WILL always remember the night which I spent there.

The flight was at time, thank God. But it was the alert journey because an old fatty uncle was siting by my side. All the time we struggled to stay away from each. I did not eat any thing during the flight, you know why. I reached Chicago the next day after a long tiring journey. The American Airline had kept me on a stand by seat and another confirmed seat. And luckily my name was called for boarding the plan. I was all smiling and threw a vanity glance at the long waiting queue. Reached Milwaukee finally.  I loved the half an hour flight of this small jet plane. The thrilling journey ended peacefully Alhamdulliah. Problems came but along their solutions. I saw beautiful airports and cities and met number people.

I reached Milwaukee at night and my classes started exactly the other day. I am still coping with the jetlag but quite fine now and will be more fine inshaAllah. Study is quite difficult and different. But teachers are all helpful.

Surprise!

I knocked at the door of my newly alloted apartment. An Indian girl opened the door and welcomed me with her cheerful smile. O thank God!  I had prayed that one of my apartment mates should be a Muslim or an Indian. Thank you Allah gee!!!

And sorry I again could not type the long post. I promise I will try it the next time!! kasam say!

Tears all the way!

Chatting is fine. You can send cheerful replies to your loveones while shedding the tears and telling them every thing is going perfect. BTW why these tears are used to so warm? It may be because they come straight from your heart at the time when you feel like someone is stirring your heart on the flame. Damn it!! I always talk rubbish!

Carry money!

Ok laugh at me again. But it's true. I have to carry money everywhere. I couldn't open my bank account yet. Dollars accompany me everywhere I go. I have developed such a great love for them. I love to take them with me even in the bathroom :D.

Jeans, bathroom and dollars.........is there anything left in my life?