1. A woman with really strong moral character (my dad revealed this to me only recently)
2. Dew drops on baby grass at dawn (my dad told me that when I was younger)
I'm Chinese, but born in Pakistan, but my family is still very traditional, and insisted on giving me a Chinese name, and thus Yi-Yin, from Vicky (Victoria) Zhuang Yi-Yin. It is also the most difficult to write characters in the Chinese writing, and rare names, apparently my dad told me it was a name only royalty used in ancient times. I chose this user name because it was unique and just me and I liked the name. The Chinese characters of this name is also very interesting. It consists of two characters. Yi's character contains the heart and human characters in it. While Yin is written in such a way that at the heart of the character, there's a character symbolizing 'big', and I call it big heart. So, I kind of feel special about this name, and am proud to be named that. I wish I could show you the characters but it's impossible because I can't find the characters anywhere online.
23rd March 2011: I just can’t believe that I would ever say this. It started off when the entire team decided to hang out on a Sunday, but apparently someone figured out that there was a holiday before that. Although some people couldn’t make it, it turned out awesome.
We did all those things that desis do on a public holiday and hung out at places where desis do. I truly had a Desi day in my last semester, without having the need to dress up though.
Detours and delays made us late, but it was worth it.
We had an addition to our team today: little Shakir from Shakir. I miss Aamna’s epic face when we all had a glimpse of Shakir’s new look, oh and Sarah decided to look like someone from our near history. Awais had his hair pinned up for some reason, and his contagious disease of confusing left and right got to me and Sunny at the end of the day. Amel’s surprise was an epic fail, due to poor miscalculation of time, but then we went straight to her home to make the day complete. Welcome back to Lahore Amel!!!
Amin was sleepy as usual, and Sunny was enjoying his Gay Shah ways at his hostel, and wouldn’t come out until Hamza called him. Samara and Fatima ditched us at Jinnah Gardens, and Hashim was trying to be a model at Shalimar Gardens. And we shouldn’t forget Shakir’s spontaneous randomness. Oh and the paper chicken surprise for Mathour was the funniest.
Everything we did was random and spontaneous. Who could ever forget Shakir jumping into the filthy canal.
So here’s how the story goes:
- Shakir picked me up at 10 from Main Boulevard, and then we went to Hamza’s place
- Made a detour, and went to Aitchison to pick a kid up
- Went to 14 Tollington
- Went to Multan Road to pick Awais
- Went to NCA’s hostels to pick Samara, Fatima, Mathour and Sunny
- Went to Badshahi Mosque for breakfast of Halwa Puri and Lassi (Shakir drank two glasses! And for some reason Fatima was competing with him on who could drink the fastest.)
- Said goodbye to Amin, Umer, Sarah and Hamza, apparently Hamza’s stomach was upset, and Sarah and Amin had to go home
- Went to Mariam Zaman’s mosque, where we took pictures, while Shakir was praying
- Shalimar Gardens! Epic funniness, and realization that 10 year old kids are way too advance than we were, when we were 10
- On the way to drop Arham, the Aitchisonian, and Shakir randomly, purely randomly, stopped the car and said, wait a minute, and then jumped out of the car, walked across the road, and took off his kameez and jumped into the canal, which by the way, according to Awais, is filled with sewage water from the near north. Oh and Mathour followed
- Dropped Arham at Aitchison
- Lawrence Garden’s tour, and the quest to find the epic-est gol gappas, and that’s where Fatima and Samara ditched, when we climbed up the hill to see the TREE!
- Then Hashim and Sunny had this weird urge to eat Chinese food, and after discussing what to do, and whether or not to give Amel a Daewoo surprise, we went to Tao Yuan Chinese Restaurant, or as bhaiya puts it Humayun Restaurant
- Went to Readings after sending Awais and Aamna in the rickshaws to their preferred destinations
- Went to Daewoo for the epic surprise which turned out to be an epic fail, because we were 10 minutes late
- Went to Amel’s place
- Home
- Chatted for almost another hour with Shakir and Amel on Facebook
And that’s how my day went. I’m not going to give too much details, because all the epicness is in my brain right now. Thanks guys for a wonderful day, made me look at Lahore in a different way. Oh and Awais’ history lessons and architecture lessons were interesting too!
Random quotes of the day!
- Making awesome since 1989 – Shakir
- Right! (while pointing left) – Awais
- They could be land rich bankrupt aristocracy without a penny to their name! Just like you… and me (while walking down the steps, spoofing Hamza) – Hashim
At Shalimar Garden: Apparently there weren't enough poles...
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