wedding food.. caterers

We pay so much for food on weddings.. i never realized until my own.
We are going to have a huge number of guests around 600 and that is why the food money seems so much to me
God help my dad

lost and found

Can you believe it.. i lost and found my cell phone wohoo
This sound even stranger when i tell you that i left it in the Cafeteria of my office and found it 4 days after...
Actually, the security people found it for me
I already bought a new cell beacuse of two reasons
1. I knew for sure i am never gonna get my cell back
2. I was planning on buying a new phone for ages.

so now i have two cells... both are ok .. nothing to die for but hey i was dreaming for an iphone and hence landed on nokia 5130 :S

no connection right?

A song from my past.. actually present

I live in the past and i live alone

People come and go, moments come and go, time comes and goes..
but i have always lived in the past.
Is it a bad thing to live in the past? i don`t know but i have always done that
when i was living in the US.. i actually was living here in Pakistan, because i wanted to live in the past
and now that i am living in Pakistan... i actually am living in the US.. i think about all the places i used to go to, the things i used to do, my friends, my apartment, college, events, weather, snow, winds, ice cream, travelling

oh i live in the past and that is how i am

EID in kalabagh!!!

I had my last eid before marriage at Kalabagh. The place is so pretty and is near Murree, nathiagali

It was a blast with my uncle`s family , me and my bro ... the weather was awesome , unlike the hot and humid weather of Rawalpindi. We had hikes and walks and all kinds of fun i love. I did a little shopping from nathiagali.

Then after that i had to go see my MIL, she brought in my eidi the day i arrived back from kalabagh(3rd day of EID). Me and my bro went to her place , her elder DIL is expecting and in her last month so couldn`t come. I had to show my beautiful eid dress to her (EVIL), Oh btw i loved my Eid dress(the one i got for myself ).

No mehndi on eid this time.. couldn`t find time but yeh i got ots and lots of pics at kalabagh
Just to show you how the place looks like here are a few pictures:

R in the US of A

So i forgot to tell you guys that R is in the USA nowadays for an official visit
He will be staying for 5 weeks (2 of which have already passed). Of course i have asked him to bring some stuff.. but only a few things
R: abhi to america se wapis aai ho abhi aur lalach bhi hai ?
Me: yar i forgot to bring somethings :S

He is having fun there , has his own car so he is all over the place
I am glad he is enjoying

done with jewellery, furniture, walima dress and makeup yeh

It gives me immense pleasure to announce that i am done with my jewellery,walima dress and furniture orders... I even went ahead and talked to my MIL about the walima makeup and somehow managed to convince her to get my makeup done from the place i wanted to (evil grin). but hey i will also be paying some amount for that without letting her know. The damn parlor increased their charges by 3K in a month ... wish i had booked earlier

So life is on track now... with less then 1.5 months to go for the wedding...

The poison

I have noticed a bitterness inside me for people and relationships recently
what is going on i don`t know.. i don`t like it but can`t help it.
I have been thinking about how to get rid of all this and so far have not come up with a successful plan

clothes, jewellery,makeup ......shadi is driving me crazy

I have been busy busy with all the shadi preps
Not having any sister does not help :( especially the only sibling you have is a younger brother in college and as goof as mine (he once gave my dopatta to my MIL instead of her shalwar)
I have a long to do list half of which my parents don`t even know about like makeup booking, photoshoot booking etc.

I am working as well , not that i have a lot to do at the office (my boss is away for his annual leave) but still I have to wake up early in the morning and i come back at 7:15 pm ... can i practically do anything after that ? i still drag myself as i know , no body will do anything if i don`t.

Apart from the fact i am marrying the love of my life .. i hate this wedding.. it`s driving me crazy

missing boston

I hate to admit it to anyone but i am missing boston so much these days it makes me cry
i wish to go back there at least once more in my life

got an official laptop and the first pay

So, yesturday i got my new official laptop.. it`s an hp compac 6910p if anyone`s interested. My boss passed on his to me as he got a new one.. i believe he didn`t use it that much because it is in excellent shape...
there are two very cute butterfly stickers on it which he said his daughter put there... hehe
khair i also got my first pay yeeeeeeah... no work and pay is good.. nah
i feel bored sometimes because as much as hate it i don`t have much work yet. My boss said my honey moon period is one month.. i joined on july 3rd so it`s almost a month now.. hmmm but my boss is going on his annual leaves from 1st for two weeks ... so no work i guess for another two weeks

So i got one very nice formal suit for myself yesturday... pay jo mili thi
then got my mom one formal as well :)

bas ab ayashi.. deparately waiting for R to come on a vacation so that we can go out to eat...

wedding makeup

i have decided to get my makeup done from daniella in islamabad for the barat
but for the valima my MIL wants to get it donw from nikhar or headlines :(
i don`t use makeup and these two days would probably be the only days of my life i get makeup done so i want it to be the best not a money saver deal :(

tough decision to make

nowadays i am giving deep thoughts to what i should do after i get married.
You see the situation is something like this.
My husband R is in the army and lives 1.5 hours away from my city in a place that is not even a village. He gets bored there. I have just started working this month with a very decent salary. we are getting married in nov inshallah and after that i would either have to leave my job and live with him or continue with my job, live at my parents` place and visit him on the weekends (i do not drive so will have to learn how to drive as well as buy a car). R gets only Sundays off .. which being in the army are sometimes off as well.i can go to him on fridays after work and then drive to work on monday morning.Let me mention that ours is a love marriage and we have been together for 10 years now.. so practically all our adult life. We have always lived in different cities except for the first two years which were college years and we were not in love at that time.. just friends. We would love to live together

so difficult decision to make.. i still have time :S

i am back and all nikahfied

It happened on Friday July 10th.
I signed some papers and i was married
The day was a normal one.. i went to work in the morning as i just started working and also that i did not want to tell my colleagues about my nikah (people ask questions which i do not like).
I have heard that marriages change your life. Lets see what is coming my way.

Allah khair karay

My university`s pride !!!

I don`t know why and how but today while surfing the net and watching the movie "New York", i remembered that my university used to have an extremely humiliating event once every year.. not that i ever saw it live
a. because it always took place at midnight or so and i was always afraid of drunk people
b. because there were so many better things to do

khair here it is for you to see how humiliating and embarrassing it is