Message 2 Fellow Bloggers

To All my dear Fellow bloggers,

Im really sorry for not being able to read your posts and share my thoughts with you.

As my IX semester exams are approaching , so we have routine assignments and reports to be submitted before the end of the semester. From last week I have indulged myself into all this so much that I have No time for blogging, which is so

bad, as I love to read and write at this place, and due to time constraints im unable to do this.

I know, I'm going to miss a lot of fun at this place, But I will visit your blogs every Sunday, so, i request you all to kindly post me any link to your post which you want me to read in the past week other than the recent posts.

I'm feeling really low and tired, I hope you all understand.. I will continue to update you about myself once I'm free from the "Trap of Semester IX" and "The chronicles of Exams"...

plzz wish me good luck for my exams !

love and hugssssssss for the coming winters.

Thanks 4 reading..

Ciaao.

Math phobia

The two sibling who take private tuitions from me have their respective Mathematic exams tomorrow, one is in 4th grade and the other is in 8th grade. they asked some alien questions about maths, horrified me and caused me nausea finally.

Mathematics is something my GENES are scared of.

My great grandfather was very good in maths, he got 2+2=4 kids, they knew that less is more ! but my grandfather was really bad in Maths, they [my grandpa and grandma, together] had 11 kids [one was still born] so 10 live kids. but why so many, is a question haunting me?

They all completed their education without getting like maniacs into maths, now they are either professors in arts stream, lawyers or politicians, but no one is a MATHEMATICIAN.

my own brother broke that myth and did his bachelors in physics [honors with maths] but he later turned into a lawyer with a law degree in his hand! he left Maths ...

My sister who's 4 years and 6 months [to be precise] is a person who for the first time in the history of Naqvee Family took high school exams without Maths. All her subjects were same except Maths, she gave it through correspondence and didn't go to a regular school because of this for 1 year. She has maths phobia......

when my turn came I wasn't too sure about Maths either, my genes supported me, as my mom is good in Maths in general but when sin cos theta syllabus was put before me for my high school then I too trembled... shivered.. and fainted ! [exaggerating ]

I also followed my dear sis, and did privately my high school !

today, my girl student Samra asked me

S: why a cylinder has a volume and the humans have weight?

Me: that's because cylinder's shape is cylindrical , if humans were also cylinderical then we too would be having a volume~

now she asked what are volumising shampoos? i said they give volume to your hair! she asked : so our hair are cylindrical?

I said: time over..

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Before giving them tuitions, way back in July I cleared to their mom that I will not teach Maths..but today they had doubts to clear, so they came to me.

Alas, I am drowned in doubts now..

why a parallelogram or quadrilateral is looking weird? where do we use it, generally? do we count money in geometry? what's the percent of people knowing what is < square=" ?"> and why should we know it? why a cube and cuboid are both similar looking? Raised eyebrow? mine as well!

We all in life face mathematics and that too without any proper requirement:

this is the course in India:
1st Standard to 3rd Standard: Which comprises; 1 to 100 counting, 2 to 20 tables, Simple Profit & Loss Calculations etc.
4th Standard & 5th Standard: Algebra, Profit & Loss, Variables & Constants etc.
6th to 8th Standard: Complex Algebra, Trigonometry, Simple Geometry etc.
9th & 10th Standard: Complex Algebra, Trigonometry, Simple Income Tax Calculation, Geometry, Matrices etc
11th & 12th Standard: Complex Algebra, Trigonometry, Simple Income Tax Calculation, Geometry, Derivatives, Integrals, Vectors, Calculus etc.

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Now the better part of story is Faheim's family is fond of Maths, his dad is a professor in Maths ! his siblings and relatives are also fond of maths... and today was his maths exam, kinda cakewalk for him! it's in their genes!

we used to have rows over my silly calculations in maths... and later we laughed on them.

Maths is a really a big issue in India, no idea about western world. A person good in maths is mostly known as brainy in here ...

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the question is open for you to answer why simple mathematics is not enough? do you too felt dreaded by maths?

Ciao ~

Where's the autumn?

When the whole world is preparing for the coming Halloween, The woods in my University Campus are cool and untouched by the dry autumn's promise of change.

To my utmost surprise, i saw umpteen new greens taking over the tall trees and new kinds of birds having a colorful cozy time at the tree tops with sparkling lemon green butterflies crossing my path and chasing me on my way to faculty.

I have collected some photos from my mobile which can show you the way to my Law faculty amidst the dark but green woods which is a habitat of various birds and anima

ls which feel blessed to live here.. I can bet on that.

Whenever I'm free I click these tall woods and the energizing sunlight giving me and the world a better life.

it's beautiful sight

Can you see the earthen pots,

I wonder who threw them there?

climbers on their way

so you think there are snakes?

i have never heard the snake hiss..

but I have heard the cricket's chirping !

The spectacular birds are finding peace in here. this photo was taken in mid-august

Early morning walk to Faculty, we are surrounded by this forest on both sides

of the path.

My Faculty building is visible now.

But since October has come, I have been waiting for my paths to turn yellow and orange, I have seen fewer trees turning orange in New Delhi. The reason behind is that New Delhi is mostly covered by the Evergreen trees..

I hope you enjoyed this green autumn walk to my Faculty..

Ciaao~

Eating to a Slimmer me

I wonder how our great grand humans Mr. Adam and Mrs. Eve looked like? were they thin or fat? My knowledge can trace them as thin but muscular people as they depended on greens and other natural "foods"

hmm.. after more and more people were born and after more and more scientific they went specially after this "processed food syndrome" and many more advancements in the past for an easy future made us more easily fat than slim ! but don't you think that too much of any food is bad but your own metabolism and body will work for your good.

Gawd.. at times I wish i was born with a mind of 22 year old ME. so that I knew the A to Z toxins for a human life. but it's OKAY.. I believe in this

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER

so from past 3 weeks I have been rushing to dietitians, so that they can tackle my hypo-thyroid and the weighty issues I got because of this [yes, Im blaming the disease, but don't we love to blame?]

anyways, the dietitian who heard my plea, gave me some little lectures on how to feel comfortable in one's skin [ great job, but skin isn't my problem, it's the fat !]

But still my first 2 weeks loss was not huge but appreciated by the doc.

He sketched a 6-times-eating in a day plan.. and asked me to continue my thyroid pill but for those 2 weeks I was on No salt in any diet plan. now its my 3 week and im on low salts now.

since my hypo thyroid thing was detected in feb 2009

My day begins at 6 am, as the first thing i do before seeing myself in the mirror is to go to gym. My weight before thyroid in 2008 was always between 54-57kg but after it in Feb 2009 it shot up to 68 kg. just in 4 months i looked like a swollen cat. later my previous doc prescribed me some exercises, i did aerobics basically and other couple of exercises. later in July I was down to 63 kg, but still i looked like a clone of balloon. im not that tall but 5'3'' is my ht

my new doc said that i should continue my gymming as it will help but he wanted me to change something more so a couple of foods and fruits he advised me to take and avoid and yes i did, after 2 weeks he wanted to see my progress and there he got it.

so my day starts at 6am,

go to gym at 6:30/7:30am comes back at 8:45am daily

chew some good wheat, good veggies and good water

rush to college at 9/10 or 11 am whatever time the class is i adjustaccordingly but

after i have had my breakfast i take something after 2 hours, like tea or tiny meal or a fruit sort of thing which is usually at 11:15am

then at 1:30pm i take lunch,

then at 4:30 i take good pomegranate juice or a pineapple juice, i walk to home usually its 25 mins walking distance.

around 5 pm i reach home, i take rest, at 6 i take 2 fruits.. as by this time i become very hungry,

at last at 8 pm i take my dinner, which I call as a pauper's meal.

at 9:30pm a warm glass of calcium [milk] calls the day for me and accordingly I sleep but make it a point that whenever i go to bed i must enjoy an 8 hours of stress free sleep.

now what amendments he asked me to make in my normal food course were actually easy to implement.

1- no processed wheat but whole wheat .. no pasta , no Chinese, no noodles.

2- yes to oatmeals & porridge [ but too much is too bad]

3- no white bread

4- no rice except the higher quality ones but that too once in a week

5- yes to lentils

6- yes to yogurt 3 bowls 3 times in a day

7- no kidney beans

8- no black eyed peas

9- No cabbage & no cauliflower and no broccoli [ they are hazards for hypo thyroid people]

10- yes to every seed & nuts but no to cashew.

and many more things...

BANNED- fried foods, pancakes and sodas

SEMI-BANNED- chicken breast & sea food is a "yes" but red meat is "NO".. but in any case i won't be eating meat and sea food [ im against sea food ! ]

eating wisely outside at a party is another thing which can be mastered after many months of practice.

well, this is more like a spider's web, you try a way out of these what-to-eat and

what-to-avoid war of food list, the only thing is that you fall back to the same pattern once you loose some pounds..

I'm a promising person and i have promised myself that I will soon get back as I was , the only mechanics , bios and sciences working for me to get slim at the moment is by eating something as now this is my LUNCH time.

ciaao

Death of My Kitten

Some memories can never fade, especially those which are really dear and innocent.

My little kitten "Luckeena" has left us all weeping to the journey which no one knows where it ends ?

16th, 17th and 18th of October will always be stored i

n my mind.. the days and nights when he started showing the signs of detachment from us. when his small fleshy pink paws started turning white and chilly and when his stomach was bloated and cheeks sank in. when he started breathing heavy.. and these three days paralyzed us as we had gazetted holiday on Saturday and Friday night he was actually in bad state. On Sunday the clinics are closed and we prayed to God to keep him alive till Monday so that at 9 pm when th

e clinics first open I could carry my dear Luckeena to the clinic.

Though the night passed, the Monday morning came, he walked up to his bowl and drank some water. after this his paw color was different and we "thought" he will be ALRIGHT.. I thought i should go to gym then, but he was laid next to me on bed.. somehow he managed to hold my ring with his claw..

I realized he was stopping me.. i said Ok. and then i slept again, to wait for the hour when the clock can strike 9 and we can go ! my mom went to her school at 8 am and at 9 she called me to say that she will also go with me! she asked me to see the his condition..

I woke up and didn't find him close to me, but he retreated to that place where after birth his mom used to keep him with his another brother.

his small brother was sitting next to him and when I dragged him out from that dark place.. i could feel a chill ! it was 9.05 am... and he didn't want us to be worried for him anymore...

mom was on phone.. I said it isn't breathing anymore.. my mom confirmed and reconfirmed. I said yes.. His b'ful hazel eyes went like light less buttons but stunned and his mouth opened.. I can't describe more as the pain comes in my eyes in the form of tears..

he looked as innocent like a dove..

My mom assured me that she's coming in minutes.. and she did. i called my dad, my sister and my love.

My mom kept preaching me that God is the ultimate healer. and Yes Indeed.

but I know that how much she cried for such a precious loss in my and my mom's world where we all think animals as members of family.

Love you Luckeena.. Im praying for you always..

Vendredi Soir [4]

Hi , I missed my last Friday's "Vendredi Soir" post, as I was busy in searching for admissions and various international universities to study in after I'm done with my Bachelor's degree in Law. But due to all this, I have realised that I'm behind my schedule in my current work of completing assignments and reports which I have to submit by the end of October, and the two reports out of which is one is Ombudsman [Lok Adalat "Lok" means people and "Adalat" means Court in Hindi] and the other is on "The era of E-Commerce" which I have to submit by November 10th so I have started stressing my fingers and joints by typing fast. I wish I could be less busy these days and buy a little time for myself.

well, today's qoutation therefore will be on time management
here we go !
I will be taking 2 quotations 2day...

"It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?"

~Henry David Thoreau~

"Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."

~H. Jackson Brown~

Some words about Henry David Thoreau :

Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American author, poet, naturalist, tax resister, development critic,surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist.

Thoreau’s ideas were not universally applauded by some of his contemporaries in literary circles.Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson judged Thoreau’s endorsement of living alone in natural simplicity, apart from modern society, to be a mark of effeminacy.

Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history,two sources of modern day environmentalism

Thoreau contracted tuberculosis in 1835 and suffered from it sporadically afterwards. In 1859, following a late night excursion to count the rings of tree stumps during a rain storm, he became ill with bronchitis. His health declined over three years with brief periods of remission, until he eventually became bedridden.

Some words about H.Jackson Brown:

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. is an American author best-known for his book Life's Little Instruction Book which was a New York Times bestseller.
Before becoming famous as a writer, Brown acted as a creative director of an advertising agency in Nashville, Tennessee. It was simple words of wisdom gathered from other people and his own experiences that made him a best-selling author.

This book contained 511 reminders about "how to live a happy and rewarding life" and became a phenomenal best-seller worldwide. It has logged more than two years on the New York Times best-seller list, including more than a year at the number one spot. Life's Little Instruction Book was the first book to ever occupy the number one spot on the New York Times best-seller list in both paperback and hardback formats simultaneously. Live and Learn and Pass It On followed and also became a New York Times best-seller.

Jackson Brown was born and still lives in Middle Tennessee with his wife.
His numerous books are in 35 languages and read throughout the world claiming 158 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list. [ I will order that book soon, it has impressed me]

Why I chose both quotes on time mangement?
The reason is simple and I won't become shy in telling that at times I act foolish. I wasted my precious week [last one] and wandered here & there, now time is ahead me, and the deadlines appear like a sword hanging on my head ! hah! but is repenting a cure? NO, one should work instead in the remaining time, and as I was talk'g about buying time, so I figured that time is in itself money and a product which can't be recycled.

Moral of the quotation :
My point of view on time has changed, I thought working for the future is intelligence but now i have realized [you must realize it as soon as possible] that working for the present and prioritizing your goals is brilliance.

Mr. Thoreau has rightly said that to be busy is not important [ ants are always busy, ever saw them?] but what's actually eating up your energy and what's that "work" which is keeping you busy is far more important.
Now coming to dear Mr. Brown, as he said that all famous people had the same amount of time as we have so why do we moan actually is the concern of this quote ! hmm... actually Mr. Brown in a sense you are wrong too, as many critical analysts have given a title to the famous painters once "time wasters, color wasters and canvas wasters". And we all know that it is only Mona Lisa
and "last supper" which are acceptable by the whole world and can be appreciated by those who doesn't have knowledge about art and not even care for the artist's sweat and talent. painters, writers and many others [scientists] have dedicated their lives on researching and working but those who were imediately affected by their deeds called them "time- wasters".. sometimes I feel that whatever time I have used up was actually an investment for the future, for example blogging at this hour has given me deep meanings of time.

Honestly, I feel it's one second that can make us or delete us, but still wasting the hours is not an amusing game.

Ciao~

School days

The days which passed this week were very tiring.

Searching for my future was the focus for some days,but ran over my present !

I have made some plans and wrote them on a paper, later i put that paper in a

drawer and will take out and get cracking once I'm done with this law thing

in my hand as my mom said that a person becomes successful only

when he takes one thing at a time and complete it on time.

we must search for priorities, what's best for this particular hour should

consume our energy and focus. Else we will lag behind and it will have a

you-are-late stamp on our future and now the only thing

which i must devote my time on is my assignments and reports, because from

past many days my mom has been seeing that I'm neglecting my studies.

Today, my school memories flashed in my mind, I could see myself so tension-free

& stress-free but then i also realized that it was the discipline in school that taught

me the meaning of priority but somewhere in between growing up I walked over

this notion, left it behind and never turned back to see what Teaching I actually

forgot.

But because my mom is a school teacher, so she reminded me of that..

thankfully. Now I'm feeling a little unburdened and light.

Talking about schooldays I have not only the best to share but also the

embarrassments that are the part and parcel of school life.

Me & my sister went to same school but it was a Sikh community school.

WE being Muslims were always given priority in that school. As we took

great interest in their language and other activities.

Their script is "gurmukhi" like "roman" is of English, so whenever

our class had break time, we girls used to rush towards the blackboard and

write some words in their language. I practiced it a lot. the other students

in the class entertained themselves by breaking each other's heads in break time~

[ they took the word "break time" too seriously !]

life was better then, nothing to prove, everything was so uniformed, even we had uniforms in the school,

all Indian schools whether private or public, dress their students in uniform !

But now, we are in universities, nothing is uniform, people act differently and

most of the time the teachers who used to be our ideals when we were in

school couldn't charm us or impress us anymore. why? because we have

our own independent but confused view point.

before whatever our teachers and parents told us we used to follow it like words of

God but now it appears [and i have also seen in my class] that students think that

the professor is some donkey who is braying and bragging about his "knowledge"

that's the new "cool" of today. Im saying all this because my own parents

are professors. but then my mom is a teacher & it was she, who,reminded me

about my priorities and concerns.

Why we forget our school teachings is another thing but what if we could not

recall or remember any such thing that was taught in school?

I guess we will remain split and the sword of confusion will keep cutting our

present time , wasting it more and ending each day in head aches and

stiffness in thoughts.

take your time and think , did you ever walk over some most important

teachings of school as I did?