Living Abroad

I agree totally. Wish you all the best at home. The same happened to me last year, although I was in NYC for just 8 months!
cheers

Ref ali_1 #22

[I don`t get it. Amreeka has so much to offer to newly arrived desis.... like unrestricted access to porn, alcohol, peep shows etc. etc.... And of course the chance to get laid. Whats this cribbing about, hanh?]

I knew at some point you would come clean about yourself. Confession is good for the soul.

As for getting laid, have you got any action at the local gay bars yet or are you still being turned down?

#51 I completely agree with you.

It is a love-hate relationship with America that is coming out in this debate. We love America for its good life, freedom, success, equal oppurtunity, prospects etc

But we hate it for the emtional price that it requires and now the arrogance of its Govt.

The same ambivelent love-hate relationship exists between the Indians and the Pakistanis. We like each other`s sameness, dress, origins, history, geography, movies, food, culture etc.

And burst out some other times for totally different incoherent illogical reasons.

/Jay#60
///For the past 20 years, all through south india, education is free, and in tamilnadu at least for the past 25 years, primary school children get free lunch, and for the past 5 years, it should include one egg for each child.////

wow! what a progress! lunch and now Unda.........:)

I dont understand what political gimmick Ch.Pervez Elahi is driving here. Primary Education was always free in Govt owned public Schools, someone from Punjab should correct me if this was not the case in Punjab.... because it was free in Karachi and other cities of Sindh as far as Govt schools are concerned and all we had to pay 400 Rs for the year which is equal to free.

i dont think private schools high charging fee trend is going to change with this decision if its some valid decision.

How ever Ch Saheb should work to make sure that every student should receive atleast one buttered toast if egg is not possible.

Funds should be allocated for public schools to buy some computers.

nawaid

I don`t understand Ch. Parvez Elahi`s non-sense either. Education in government schools upto 10th grade has been free ever since early 70`s. This Rs. 400 per year was added in mid to late 90`s probably by Benazir. I think PE has taken that back under his new program. During my 12th grade and college I paid less than Rs. 30 per month for college. My Engineering college was a little bit expensive. I paid like Rs. 360 per semester there.

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This article is straight from heart - an excellent piece of writing. I wish and pray no one has to leave his country. Migration is a very painful process, and the worst part is that it never ends. May be that`s how we are punished for not loving our country enough. I left Pakistan because:


kuj uNj vee raNhvaaN aukhiyaaN san
kuj gal vich Gham daa tauQ vi si
kuj Shehr day lok vi zaalim san
kuj saannooN maran daa ShauQ vi si

And now another migration is just right ahead. And I have no intention to fulfill my ``marn da ShouQ`` at an internment camp.

AAmir, I think your reading between the lines a bit to much.
My profile is a little something about me.. it isnt me...

I am living in the US and I am happy..not because Im living here but due to other things.. family, my sig. other... to name a few..

I do however want to retreat back home after I`m done in school...
Just because I dont have 100% of everything doesn`t mean I cant be happy or content.. and because I`m content doesnt mean that there arent`t things that I would like to better..

my opinion to you.. dont just an entir person by a few lines in the profile. :)


#74... aweseome shiar yaarra.. been looking for it for a while now...

Urstruly: hunn eh gaao:

banda chaahey te ki nai kar sakda,
waqat beshak tang toN tang aunda.
Ranjha Takhat HazareyoN turay te sahi,
pairraN haiTh SiyalaN da Jhang aunda.

Coorection.
It is Ustad Daaman`s shair and goes like this:

banda chaahey te ki nai kar sakda,
manneyaN waqat hai tang toN tang aunda.
Ranjha Takhat HazareyoN turay te sahi,
pairraN haiTh SiyalaN da Jhang aunda.

Waqar.. I agree with you.. but I dont think I would be of too much assitance to anyone until I am complete myself...being completed to me is completeing my education and returning home as an asset not liability..


Inshahallah.. pray for the day. :)

...speaking from experience, zermin it`s def. the ppl that make the place...you could live in timbuktu and have the time of your life if you have the right ppl with you...but it takes effort...you have to come out of your shell...your comfort zone...but whatever the case, i`m glad your happy and back in pak...

Bhatti Saheb

speaking of Ustad Daman, does any one know few shair of Daman`s poem that he read in IndoPak Mushaira attended by Pundit Nehru and after listening that piece he shed some crocodile tears?

Nothing a little goolge search can`t find.:-)

Bha`n-wain Moo-hoon Na Kahyae, Pur Wichoon Wichee
Khoo-aye Tusee Wi O, Khooaye us-ee Wi Aaa`n

Lali Akhiaa`n Dee Pay-ee Dus-di Aye
Roo-aye Tusee Wi O, Roo-aye us-ee Wi Aaa`n.

Aya-naan Azaadian Huthoon Barbaad Hoona
Hoo-aye Tusee Wi O, Hoo-aye us-ee Wi Aaa`n

Ko-jh Ommeed Aye, Zind-agee Mil Ja-aye Gi
Moo-aye Tusee Wi O, Moo-aye us-ee Wi Aaa`n

Joondi Jan Aye, Mot Dai Moo-nh Undar
Dhoo-aye Tusee Wi O, Dhoo-aye us-ee Wi Aaa`n

Jaagan Waliaan Nay Ruj Kaye Lot-yaa Aye
Soo-aye Tusee Wi O, Soo-aye us-ee Wi Aaa`n

Ref 12-Head #71

Well; along thes ame lines, the author speaks of her life in Chicago as a student while her profile says she is a student at the University of Michigan. I know Chicago is on Lake Michigan but I don`t know there is a university in Chicago named for that lake.

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