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Oriental Sparkle: August 2013
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Wednesday, August 14, 2013. On this independence day, let us decide that we'll refrain from pointing out all the things that have gone wrong with Pakistan, and instead we'll try to work for the betterment of Pakistan. We'll take each problem and turn it into an opportunity. It will not happen in a day. But if we try and try hard, inshaAllah one day we'll take Pakistan to where it was intended to be by its founders, the very top. Hai jazba junoon tou himmat na haar. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Oriental Sparkle: Taleem ne jin ka kuch nahi bigara
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Friday, January 18, 2013. Taleem ne jin ka kuch nahi bigara. If you have the guts to categorize such things as killing then beware that you live in a world where either you are at the receiving end of the these day-to-day activities or you are at the famous giving end. You would think that all those years of education may have taught people to refrain from discrimination, deeming it an unjustifiable trait. But it’s a shame to know that this aspect of education was wasted on them. Luckily enough, I have b...
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Oriental Sparkle: July 2011
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Thursday, July 14, 2011. Sab se phele Pakistan. Karachi, aka Roshniyon ka shehar. Have been, for a long while now, suffering from bouts of darkness, and no, not just because of the frequent blackouts, but due to the bomb blasts, target killings and everything evil. Now don't think that "how can WE be corrupted? Because we are, we all are. And if you think you are not, then ask yourself the following:. 1) Have you never cheated in a paper/test/exam? Remember, that just confirming ture/false is cheating?
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Oriental Sparkle: May 2012
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Monday, May 28, 2012. As soon as I was successful in saving up enough money, I started nagging my parents to let me buy a car. Though convincing the elders in my household wasn’t much difficult, buying a car was. Starting with 2 lac (in the beginning of the year 2010) we ended up buying a car of about 5 lacs (and that too months later). The knowledge, the fear, came crashing on me during my first lesson. I don’t think I’ve ever been rebuked this severely by anyone else as I was by my driv...I stared with...
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Oriental Sparkle: February 2012
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Saturday, February 25, 2012. Of leading and leaders. From Steve Job's biography by Walter Isaacson. Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are. Nolan Bushnell, Founder of Atari. Labels: Quotes n Quotes. Wednesday, February 22, 2012. Millat ka paasban hain Mohammad Ali Jinnah. Quaid-e-Azam's Quotes collected from Dawn (25th December, 2011, Sunday). Karachi, 7 August 1947. Letter to M.A.H. Isphani, 1945. Karachi, August 11, 1947. Y]ou have fifth-columnists - and I am sorry to s...
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Oriental Sparkle: November 2012
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012. The need to Believe. And yet, after all of this, whenever our prayers are answered by something we do not understand, something that is not in accordance to our liking, we forget all about what we have been praying for and instead fall victims of thanklessness. We ask Allah why this happened? Why our prayers were not answered? When in fact they have been answered. With a cool mind anyone would be able to say all that has been written above. And future, because that is what we ...
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Oriental Sparkle: Change begins at home
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Sunday, May 12, 2013. Change begins at home. I know, I know. The actual saying goes like “Charity begins at home” but I don’t think anyone would mind if I modify it a tad. To understand the reason for this modification, let’s begin at the beginning. Yesterday, May 11. 2013, marked the historic day of the much awaited and much anticipated elections. The day we get to decide our fate, or so we thought. Twitter was flooded with Pakistan election’s news and views. Such was the ardor that a guy (on ...All we ...
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Oriental Sparkle: Help Spread Education ~Change begins at Home
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Sunday, May 26, 2013. Help Spread Education Change begins at Home. The only way to bring about a bigger change is to educate people. Tell them the difference between right and wrong. Show them the thin line which separates good from bad and then let them make their own decisions. Don’t leave the responsibility of educating your children to schools alone. Get yourself involved. And play your part. Make them understand the value of time. And the need of hard work. Teach them about Islam. Teach them abo...
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Oriental Sparkle: Be the best of the best ~Change begins at Home
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Monday, May 13, 2013. Be the best of the best Change begins at Home. I have been working on a software project in my office for the past two years. The project, like any other of its siblings, started with a bucket load of hopes. Everyone involved committed themselves to work laboriously and bring out the best product ever. With it also came the realization that it is not a lack of skills that reined us. But a lack of confidence in those skills. And this is what happens every where with everyone here.
