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My love: King Edward Medical University after the rain

Bake Sale 2014

Here's what my friends and I made for the Bake Sale organised by SPWS this Thursday. The purpose of the sale was to collect charity for the upgradation of the Oncology Ward of Mayo Hospital and the ICU ward in Lady Aitchison Hospital.

Photo credits: Awais Raza

 Our total collection was Rs 118,000 (equivalent to US$1203) 

Needless to say, it was a truly memorable and productive day.

Getting our hands dirty

Hope is in the Air

What is it about floating lights that renders one speechless? 

 

Is it their glittering twinkle, promising of beautiful things to come? 

Or is it the way they slowly drift towards the sky, to places unknown and unseen, lifting with them the worries that we carry on our shoulders? 

As they dissolve in the ebony darkness of the night, seemingly joining ranks with the myriad of stars that shine above us, I break from my reverie and gaze around me. All faces are lit. All are joyous. 

This is the gift that the Student Patient Welfare Society gave us last week. A charity event that promised us sights straight out of a Disney movie.

    Is it any wonder, then, that I still find my mind running through those timeless moments, reliving the whirlwind of emotions that I experienced then?

Sigh

An Apology from a (terribly) Lazy Blogger

 I know. I know.

It's been nearly nine months since my last post.

And then I wonder why I don't have enough readers.

I wish I could get away by saying that I've been incredibly busy, but I know bloggers like Nida who, despite their taxing schedules, never forsake their blogs.

I should really try and follow their examples.

I suppose I ought to shed some light on what I've been up to the past few months so I'll give you a brief summary of that below:

After giving my SATs, I had my MOCKs in March followed by my final CIE A Level examinations. Thereafter began a summer 'vacation' that promised to test the limits of my endurance by showering me with a multitude of university entrance exams. Since I took both Math and Biology in A Levels, I applied to both Engineering and Medical universities.

I will not bore you with the drab details of it but I assure you that the months of July, August and September were probably the most emotionally grueling days of my life. It felt as if my entire future hung in a delicate balance. It made me wonder at times why I was getting so worked up over university admissions although there are much higher things in life to strive for. But all I did was keep my head down and doggedly push on ahead.

This ordeal finally ended on the 23rd September when the most dreaded of entry tests-the MCAT- was held. Alhamdulillah, it went a lot better than I expected (considering that I had to rote learn books of a completely different board in two months)

Tomorrow, the merit lists are finally going to be uploaded and we'll find out which medical college we made it into. I hope everything goes well, In sha Allah.

I'll keep you updated!

Hnia

Those Trusty Bookmarks...

Peace and Salutations,

These days I'm reading Ship Breaker.

 

One of it's pages is being chewed upon by this strange creature.

  

 

This adorable page corner bookmark is the creative product of the blog 

I Could Make That. I found it using Stumble Upon a few months back and decided 

to finally try it out last night.

The last book I finished

This one was supposed to be for my brother but he took a fancy to other monster one I made.  So I kept it for myself.

Here's some pictures of two of my older bookmarks.

  I used one of the postcards my father brought for me from Uzbekistan.

And personalised it a bit.

It reads:

Willows whiten, aspens quiver

Little breezes dusk and shiver

Through the wave that runs forever

(from The Lady of Shalott by Tennyson) 

Does the road wind uphill all the way?

Yes, to the very end.

(from Uphill by Christina Georgina Rossetti)

I love to feel the ocean blowing in my face.

Wave as the old boats depart.

(from Midday by Yusuf Islam) 

I do not want people to be very agreeable as it

saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

- Jane Austen 

Release the hanging emblem 

Across the evening sky 

Bathed in the seaward dance

Of your graven romance.

(Necromancer Romance by Ayra Luccan)

Dear distant kingdoms, foreign winds and water,

hopes and dreams and innocent sunshine,

Yet could my heart be passed back to me by my passing from your courtyard,

still it would not want an exile's camp.

Yours truly.

But avoid the city after dark -Midday by Yusuf Islam 

Oh, I kept the first for another day.

Yet knowing how way leads on to way.

I doubted if I should ever come back.

-The Road Not Take, Robert Frost
 

The future is uncertain, like a feather in the wind

-Mine

The majesty of nature imposes silence over all

-to complement its stillness

-Mine

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, 

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep,

And miles to go before I sleep.

-Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,

Robert Frost

  

☮

Hnia