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Jan 29, 2012, 5:29 am
Writing: This is how it's supposed to be done.
You Can't Make Them Love You.by ~estallidos
He is beautiful, new, unexplored. He has wanted to kiss her ever since they met one week ago and fell prey to helpless chemistry.
“Don’t,” she says, moving her hands in a subconscio... Comment - Like
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Jan 28, 2012, 4:07 pm
... my life loving you, exactly you; I was yours before Ieven knew you existed. I would have loved you when we were young, and I loveyou now. I met you too late to make promises or declare my undying passion, butI’m glad I met you. And I want you to know that too."
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Jan 28, 2012, 5:41 am
Saad: "I had a huge fight last night and this afternoon with my
grandmother on my not going to a meelad gathering. I dodged a bullet
today. And it creeps me out how forceful people can get in the matters
of faith."
F: "They do. It's partly because religion IS a tool for social control."
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Jan 25, 2012, 11:16 am
B: "I can't separate myself from you, or you from myself, or me and you from us, or us from me and you."
"The Shore--Chameleon Lovers" by Sya Comment - Like
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Jan 22, 2012, 11:01 am
She walked into my room uncalled for.
"I have something to talk to you about." she announced, her voice wavering.
I shuffled through some more pages before finally looking up at her. She stood midway between the door and myself, with all the stillness of a brewing storm. Her hands clutched at the fo... Comment - Like
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Oct 28, 2011, 6:15 pm
When I was younger, I used to have a series of dreams about 2 girls who meet in an all-girls boarding school in England during the 1950s and become best of friends. They also befriend the orphaned heir to a lost fortune--a rakishly handsome, dark dark skinned urchin who lives in a hovel on a trash h... Comment - Like
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Oct 28, 2011, 3:00 am
I've discovered my new favorite blog, one of the best I've seen, and I can't contact the author to tell him this. There is no way.
"An exhausted dreamer on a rooftop"One of his literary selections:-
The Magic Chalk by Kobo Abe
Next door to the toilet of an apartment building on the edge of the cit... Comment - Like
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Oct 22, 2011, 12:00 pm
Saad: "My one year old cousin calls me 'aapa'."
Me: "What does he call his mommy?"
Saad: "'Ho. Give me milk.'" Comment - Like
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Sep 28, 2011, 5:24 am
"Eternal Believer" by NadovDov"I can live without you, but I can't die without you."
Why is it people can spend their entire lives away but at the end, they find their way back to the place they love best, and the people they love the most? Comment - Like
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Sep 12, 2011, 9:55 am
From the Facebook page of Naked Tyrant Productions on the 10-year anniversary of September 9/11 2001:
R.I.P. the 2,976 innocent Americans who lost their lives on 9/11; and R.I.P. the 37,000 Pakistanis, 48,644 Afghans and 1,690,903 Iraqis who paid the ultimate price for a crime they did not commit... Comment - Like
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Aug 30, 2011, 5:47 pm
...instead of against it. /:)
I've discovered how to get my mom to take my health problems seriously instead of just waving them off.
"Mujhe doctor ke paas le ke jaaen warna kal ko mairi shaadi nahi hogi."
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Aug 29, 2011, 3:33 am
T:"We don't need to have anything in common to be friends forever, we just need to have the perfect understanding of our differences." Comment - Like
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Aug 23, 2011, 5:53 pm
In anticipation of our impending baldness:-
Wavy Hair ♥S: "We'll use the money from our first paychecks to get hair transplants."
F: "Okay. But I was going to buy a laptop with the money from my first paycheck."
S: "Hair vs Laptop? Laptop! We'll use our second paycheck to get hair t... Comment - Like
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Aug 7, 2011, 9:09 am
On the one hand, Pakistan is more liberal now than ever before. Pakistanis are challenging all sorts of laws based in religion (Link 1, Link 2), Pakistanis are challenging the very interpretation of religion; women can live on their own (in the major cities); attempts are being made to revive cinema... Comment - Like
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Jul 29, 2011, 5:28 am
I have a confession to make: sexy gay men make me wish I were a guy. Or a hermaphrodite.
(Or Mystique.)
Mystique by ~Shikou-Hari on deviantART Comment - Like
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Jul 24, 2011, 3:20 am
[As told to W.]
F:"I just had a shower and I was thinking about my breasts while showering -- actually composed this whiny semi-rant as a blogpost first so I wouldn't bother anyone, but no opportunity and I had to get this out.
I have a love-hate relationship with my breasts. I have always had. As a... Comment - Like
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Jul 22, 2011, 6:37 am
Funny, who was already old enough to choose a future career when I was just learning to read, watched some of my favorite old movies when they released, shares my penchant for talking in riddles and half-sentences, draws out a side of myself most people don't, and has the vague, relaxed awkwardness ... Comment - Like
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Jun 8, 2011, 11:38 pm
"My mom is an enigma. She seems so clueless or superficial sometimes, and so wise and intuitive other times. She's always been able to tell when I'm falling for someone. She's also always been able to tell when things are going badly. It's an unspoken thing. Neither of us talks about these matters--... Comment - Like
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Apr 10, 2011, 9:19 am
Again.
So I'm back to being his personal emergency counselor like I've been for my parents my whole life--it sounds crazy but I tend to be good at helping other people--but I don't think I can do it anymore. I don't have the patience, I don't have the emotional strength I used to have. I can't do it... Comment - Like
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Apr 10, 2011, 7:31 am
Caveman: "Busy poopin' pants?"
F: "No."
Caveman: "Busy poopin' hippo diapers?"
F: "Nope."
Caveman: "You're a liar."
F: "No. I'm just sitting here, realizing I have people I like thinking I'm supersexy and hitting on me, and I'm feeling intelligent, creative, desirable...I have it all right now, I la... Comment - Like
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Apr 5, 2011, 6:45 am
N: 'Life is more than him but he is my favorite way of living.'
My friend N, talking about why she's still hung up on her off-and-on boyfriend. Comment - Like
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Mar 26, 2011, 9:23 am
S: "I've discovered a way to send a maulvi running, figuratively. Every time they ask you why you did one thing or the other, or why is it important you have, pull an incredulous expression that says you think they're stupid if they don't know the answer to something that obvious and inform them, "B... Comment - Like
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Feb 27, 2011, 9:26 am
F:"Why do I always get so sleepy/lazy the day before a test?"
S:"PTSD. Pre-Test Sleep Disorder. All students suffer from it." Comment - Like
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Feb 6, 2011, 8:42 am
We caught a few moments of Superman dubbed in Punjabi on Apna Channel:
Villainess: "Zaleel! Kameenay! Main tenu baybas kardeyan gi."
Superman: "Haraamz*di."
My, my. I certainly don't remember such language in the English version. /:)
But then again, 'Apna Channel, Apna Andaaz.' There's no such thing... Comment - Like
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Jan 29, 2011, 7:24 am
Yellow is my favorite color. I am drawn to it, literally drawn to it. When I was younger and less 'controlled', I would find myself following bright yellow objects--bags, books, clothing, anything really--driven by the urge to touch them (I never said I wasn't crazy.) Out of all the colors, yellow i... Comment - Like
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Jan 26, 2011, 8:41 am
F: "I've noticed when a boy loves, he loves as one person. But when a girl loves, her friends and family jump in too; everybody has an opinion to hold and a judgment to pass. There's more to gamble and more to lose."
W: "A girl's love, like her life, is never hers but a common possession of her fami... Comment - Like
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Jan 20, 2011, 12:30 am
Behavioral science class. Our psychiatry department gave us a lecture on different types of hallucinations and delusions.
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Jan 19, 2011, 8:58 am
A few years after I accepted people did not associate intelligence with sexual attractiveness, a few days after I whined about my looks, a few minutes after I argued W into accepting the subtext he missed in a popular commercial:-
W: "Why do you need people to lust after your body when they can lust... Comment - Like
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Jan 13, 2011, 1:16 pm
To W
"Do you know what I consider my greatest strength?
I Listen.
Do you know what I consider your greatest strength?
You Speak." Comment - Like
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Jan 7, 2011, 3:04 pm
My father hopes someone will murder me so that he doesn't have to. The love of my life argues I am not technically wajib-ul-katal because women should be imprisoned for life instead, according to his sect. My mother is genuinely scared for my life and cries when I refuse to change myself; she prays ... Comment - Like
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Jan 5, 2011, 6:17 am
Most of Pakistan is celebrating. I have been in a state of shock and disgust at the behavior of people; I've wanted to write a post, but I feel too scattered inside, too appalled to gather myself. There are only a few others who've dared to speak out against the murder, but the atmosphere is tense; ... Comment - Like
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Jan 2, 2011, 3:18 pm
It's an uneasy feeling. Nervousness. Anxiety. He's silent. Did you have something to do with it? He wasn't like this 15 minutes ago. Did you say something wrong? He doesn't feel like talking. Okay, no problem, he's been talking to you since the moment he woke up, of course a break is no problem--you... Comment - Like
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Dec 29, 2010, 11:33 am
I've been messing around on Quibblo, trying to make a quiz for a project I'm working on. (The story of my life, neverending 'projects'...) Saw this random quiz, and hey, it's not like I wasn't already looking for a way to actually avoid work, right?
First Letter Of Your Name? F - Representing l... Comment - Like
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Dec 18, 2010, 5:31 am
I write like
Chuck PalahniukI Write Like by Mémoires, journal software. Analyze your writing!
And Chuck Palahniuk writes like this:-
Guts
by Chuck Palahniuk
Printed in Playboy magazine
March 2004
Inhale.
Take in as much air as you can.
This story should last about as long as you can hold your br... Comment - Like
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Dec 4, 2010, 9:26 am
A pair of pigeons is nesting just behind the air-conditioner in TM's room.
A noisy pair of pigeons.
A noisy, amorous pair of pigeons.
F:*poring over Snell's*
F: "I'm highlighting some of the points that will help you in the MCQs. For example, here we have strabismus."
F: "Hmm. So, what causes it?"
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Nov 30, 2010, 2:27 pm
(Dedicated to IA, whose allergies mean a never-ending case of the sniffles all year round.)
"As I stuff tissues up my nose,
And feel brain turn to mush,
I am reminded of you,
And I miss you deeply."
--F. Aachoowali A.
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Nov 17, 2010, 5:41 am
Gentle winter sunshine. Warm duvet and soft pillows.
Dial tone. Click.
F:*whispers* "You're not getting my messages. And I'm whispering because I'm pretending to be asleep."
B:*whispers back* "Okay."
F:*whispers* "I can't have anyone know I'm awake, otherwise they'll send me out to help in the kitch... Comment - Like
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Nov 16, 2010, 8:54 am
[Surveying the newly purchased goat.]
Mama: "This is wrong. This is all wrong."
A: "What is?"
Mama: "The bakra is black. You can't sacrifice a black bakra!"
H: "Racism!"
F: "Haha." Comment - Like
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Nov 16, 2010, 2:29 am
I Will Never Know
by rmr34
I will never know
How it feels to hold him
To kiss him
To smell him
To feel his hair nor the feel of his skin
I think of him
With all of my heart
My soul
I will never know
How it feels for him to hold me
His lips on mine
His finger tips on my skin
I will never know
His bre... Comment - Like
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Nov 12, 2010, 3:54 am
I admire Ayaan Hirsi Ali for her views and her courage in daring to voice them despite her circumstances and the obvious danger. Recently, she gave an interview on FiveBooks. Some excerpts:-you didn’t want to be a soft-line Muslim. You felt you had to reject it completely and became an atheist.
It... Comment - Like
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Nov 11, 2010, 5:24 am
The first person I fell in love with wanted someone else.
The second person I fell in love with didn't want me.
The third person I fell in love with wanted me to want someone else.
At this rate, the next person I fall in love with will either be my soulmate or a reincarnation of Ted Bundy. :/
B tol... Comment - Like
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Nov 10, 2010, 4:50 am
FINISHED.
Feelings: happiness, relief, anxiety, guilt.
Result's on the 15th. I have such bad luck on result days. Comment - Like
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Oct 30, 2010, 9:04 am
"You're wearing that?" I shriek.
H. makes a face at me.
R. turns around and agrees with me as I burst into very loud, very mocking, laughter.
"In that case..." H. takes off her muffler and throws it on the floor, shooting me an 'are you happy now?' look.
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