February 2012
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Anonymous asked: Hi! What kind of law are you studying? Criminal or the like?
Anonymous asked: Are you Punjabi? If yes, why? If no, why not?
“you’re a song, a wished-for song♥”
– rumi
siddthekid asked: lol thank youuuuuuu, I had a good hair day! :)
Anonymous asked: Are you coming to Pakistan this year?
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The words “chocolate cake” were shown to a group of Americans & their word associations were recorded.
“Guilty” was the top response.
If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: “Celebration”
Anonymous asked: What did you study in undergraduate school?
Waiting to exhale. Almost time.
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In my inbox late last night. Literature on...
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larkay larkiyon vote karo (c/o express tribune).
Hello Tumblr kitties. I present to you below a tale. A story of how 3.7 million Pakistanis living outside their home country were absolved of their right to passivity & nonchalance & instead, were bestowed with the power to affect change & to participate. Don’t screw this up. As soon as possible, go & have yourself registered. And if you can’t be bothered then...
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Today in Property law.
classmate X: "HAPPY VALENTINES DAY PROFESSOR!"
professor irvine: "yes."
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some ways for the silent, secret economist in all of us to profess our love. adorable.
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Fascinating. Courtesy of the Discovery Channel.
The Science of Why Adele’s ‘Someone Like You’ Makes Everyone Cry
Tension, resolution, and the ever important “buildy-ness” (which is a term I invented but is accurate), these are the characteristics behind the most extreme emotional reactions to songs:
Twenty years ago, the British psychologist John Sloboda conducted a simple experiment. He asked music lovers to identify passages of songs...
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On Valentines Day in 1884, Teddy Roosevelt’s wife and mother died within hours of each other. This was his diary entry for that Thursday.
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Proof chivalry is not dead. Multipurpose gifts. My...
B: and Clarisonic is my Valentines...and birthday gift.
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One of those days where you want to just bottle up...
sadness only serves to remind you how temporary this world is…the challenge is to wait and strive for an Eternity where sadness becomes a long-lost myth…
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“I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud...”
– Khalid Hosseini, The Kite Runner
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The federal government of Canada has unveiled their counter-terrorism strategy, which essentially looks like it’ll be reverting to pre-Maher Arar, immediately post-9/11 days.
After the Maher Arar inquiry, at which time various Canadian governmental agencies tried to evade culpability by pointing fingers at one another, a lot of these agencies and levels of beauracracies became decentralized...
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Isaiah Berlin split intellectuals into 2 groups: foxes, who know a great deal about many things & hedgehogs, who know one big thing. Which one are you?
-@mariakari1414 #WhatAreYou
Anonymous asked: Are you getting married soon? We could use you in Pakistan!
Anonymous asked: Who is "b"?
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Dhadkhan-inspired chapals: Sunil Shetty approved
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b: also, got me new sunil shetty signed flip flops from dockers...their rags to riches line. just kidding. i made that up.
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books you probably shouldn’t give on this v-day to your beloved.
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Mahzab kay jo byopairi hain, woh sab se baree bemaari hain…In jhute aur makkaron se, mahzab kay thekedaron say, mein baaghi hoon, mein baaghi hon…
-Dr. Khalid Javed Jan
The traders of religion are the worst disease, I rebel from these liars and hypocrites.
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Going home for the weekend. Robin blue skies,...
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Satire pieces (and satire writers) in general are always loveable and fun. The latest piece on The Onion is satirically true, however. It goes as follows:
Report: Watching Episode of ‘Downton Abbey’ Counts As Reading Book
“It’s a period piece with British accents and drama that hinges on each character’s place within an aristocratic peerage system, so needless to say, viewing one show from...
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Too bad we can’t summon Madonna’s Roman Army from tonight’s Superbowl halftime show to destroy all memories of that twelve-minute performance.
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Hell hath no fury like a social mediaite scorned.
After plenty of fury on part of the Twitterati, bloggers, op-ed writers, and the public at large, Samaa TV has done what was right (IMHO) and fired Maya Khan and her team. Just goes to show that social pressure works (!)
Your local park is now safe. You may sit at the opposite edge of benches and breathe in the same air as your beloved in peace.