Dubai Works

I woke up today morning at 9 AM because I heard the *ping* sound on my Blackberry. Someone had sent me a DM on Twitter and it pinged. I had forgotten to make it silent last night. I put my Blackberry on Silent mode and fell asleep again. Around 1 o'clock in the afternoon, my brother banged open my room's door and he rushed in. I woke up startled wondering what had happened. After him, came my dad and both looked really worried. I got up and I asked them, "what is wrong?" They both literally shouted at me. "Your sisters and mum have been involved in a major car accident! We just got a call from the Police! Some truck hit our car!" I suddenly got so worried and shocked. Then both of them said "we are going to the Hospital." Then just like that, they were gone.  I got out of bed and switched on my laptop and tweeted about it. I know it shouldn't be the case, I should not be tweeting about this, right after I have found out my sisters and mu...

From the past 2, 3 days this is what I have been doing. I have been melancholy and a bit sad. I have been down because of the happenings of the past two weeks, had literally brought me down. They had literally brought tears to my eyes and made me really upset. I don’t even want to say it but yes, I DID WISH I WAS DEAD. Unfortunately, sometimes people really disappoint us. You know what they say, we ourselves give people the chance to hurt us. If we bring someone close to us, remove our barrier for them, we are giving them the keys and opportunity to hurt us, because they start to mean something to us. We stop being vigilant and cautious in the case of few people, then most of the times it is these people who fail to meet our expectations and baffle us with their stupidity. Eventually they end up hurting us real bad. Even bringing tears to our eyes. What I believe is, people should really think twice before they say or do anything. Especially when it comes to friendship, that also good...

It was a beautiful autumn morning in London. I woke up to the birds chirping outside my window. I yawned and slowly got out of my bed. I looked at my bedside table and found my phone. I looked at the time, it was just 8 o'clock. It was my day off. I went towards the window and pushed it open. I saw outside and loved the view. The sun had come out and was shining on the street, bouncing sun rays off the rooftops. I could see elderly people strolling across the street, walking their dogs and I could see couples jogging together.  I was struck with the couples jogging together. Two people who are supposedly in love, wake up together, say good morning to one another, smile at each other and then they jog together. What a beautiful morning it must be for them? I wish I had a special someone in my life that I could do all that with, someone who would wake up with me, who I could smile at, who I could go to when I am down for a hug, someone who would go jogging with me in the mornings...

Circumstances urge me to get a grip on my thoughts and pen them down. Thoughts about how life is so cruel sometimes, no matter what you do you cannot escape the harsh realities of it. This is why dear journal you are my confidante. The only place where I can safely pen down my thoughts without the fear of anyone abusing them or without them being read and misunderstood. It has been a total of 19 days to the incident. Slowly the memory of it is fading away and it seems like the incident never occurred. 19 days to the day I lost everything. The day I lost faith in hope and the goodness in the world. The day the good people showed their true colours. The day I truly found out who my real friends are. There is a phrase dear journal and it goes like this, true friends stick by you through thick and thin. They don’t abandon you at the first hint of slight trouble or turbulence. A friend is supposed to help you in your bad times. At first my heart was crushed and I contemplated...

From back in 2008 and it is written by FU.  I thought it was a very sweet gesture by this person. Mind you, this was their first attempt at writing poetry, that also they did it for me. <3 Kyu gum sum rehti ho? Kyu chup chup rehti ho? Kuch kehti kyu nahi ho? Kuch batati kyu nahi ho? Kis se naraz rehti ho? Kisi se koi khata ho gaye ? Kyu unhe maaf nahi kerti? Kyu sab kuch bhool nahi jati ? Kyu udaas sa chehra rakhti ho? Kis soch mai doobi hue ho? Kyu khush nahi rehti ho? En sab ka hal hai humarey paas Bas unhe yaad kiya karo Jinney tumhe dekh k khushi milti hai Tumhari muskaan se ajeeb si takat milti hai Yeh kaisi takat hai? Yeh kaisa junoon hai? Woh to hum nahi jaantey hai Bas etna kehtey hai Key hum aapko dukhi nahi dekh saktey !!!!!! To meherbani ker key Aap khush raha karey Kyu key aap ko khush dekh key Kisi ko nayi zindagi mil jati hai Kisi ko khushi naseeb hoti hai Kisi ko jannat ka nazara mil jata hai Yeh jannat etnee khoobsurat hai Key sa...

How many of us have thought about that question? That question or some form of it. Of course we have. We are of curious nature, we have thought about what the person next to us or a person is thinking about. Especially, if the person is a loved one. I don't know about anyone else, but I have on countless occasions said to myself "I wish I knew what that person was thinking" or "I wish I knew what that person thinks about me" or even "I wish I knew what is/was going on or running through that person's mind". Even right now, many of us might be feeling a bit down, that or we might be wondering why someone is down. What is going on through their mind. We want to know everything. Is it such a good thing that we don't know what is going through peoples' minds? We only know what people tell us? What if we really badly wanted to know what a person thought about us, really? Not the faked front that a person shows, but what they actually taught. Wo...

By: Aisha Yaqub Recently the Indian Government – specifically the Information and Broadcast Ministry – has banned two hugely popular Indian Reality television shows from prime time broadcasting on channels, due to the fact that there was an increasingly amount of adult content on these shows. The shows are ‘Bigg Boss’, India’s version of UK’s hugely popular reality television show called Big Brother and Rakhi ka Insaf (Rakhi’s Justice). There was a public outcry over the fact that these shows had become too “raunchy” to be broadcasted at prime time.  Even though the Ministry has banned the channel broadcasters from broadcasting it before 11 PM, the Government and the affected channels have not yet confirmed about this new ruling. Why did these shows get banned? The fourth series of Bigg Boss, the reality television show attracted headlines all over Indian newspapers and raised a lot of eyebrows, with the arrival of scantily clad Hollywood celebrity Pamela Anderson in the Bigg Bo...