Remember the times when you were young and your mom would come wake you up in the morning. First, sweetly, then a little more sternly and then finally when she would notice you had slipped the comforter back on your face she would shout and say "get out of bed". Those simple words held promises of a brighter day ahead. A fun filled school day, chance to learn something new everyday!
I still remember the football practices where we would run 10 rounds in the scorching heat and collapse on the ground with sweat trickling down our eyes and staring at the sun wondering if we'd ever be able to move again when miss sadia would shout "get off the floor" that meant it was time for a match. Again signs of joy. I didn't love anything more than being on the football field. Playing! It was the best I felt in my life!
And now as i was packing up my first and second year books I lay on the floor for hours wondering who'd pick me up. Who'd tel me to get off my butt and start facing it all? I waited for hours. I have no idea why.. Finally i whispered to myself. "it's time to get off the floor".. it's a struggle, but we breathe it out as we sleep.. I'm breathing, I'm living.. I'm trying!
Friday, September 25, 2009
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Ye haray to season haray....
Hini ye haray to season haray.. My view before the derby.
Hina: We won't just watch..!
2nd mintue,, mistake by richards awesome finish by rooney. Man U 1 up
15th minute, Mistake by foster goal by barry.. Tevez continuously booed! rightly so
Me: what the hell.. what a dam stupid mistake! I want nani on!
49th minute, United lead again, giggs free kick, fletchers cool header!
52nd minute, bellamy top corner, what a drive!
Me: hinniii self destruct button, kya hai yaar
2nd half man U dominate.. berbatov should've scored twice but the irish shay given was at his top game!
81st minute, corner, fletcher rises, heads again, man U lead for the 3rd time
90th minute, mistake again by ferdinand, calm and cool finish by bellamy
I went insane!
and then 96th minute a pulsating finish by the most unexpected player, Michael owen.. party time baby
And once again Manchester united put man city in their place. Its time for mark hughes and the big spending boys to head home with the heads between their sorry and tired legs!
And its time for me to celebrate chaand raat :D
Hina: We won't just watch..!
2nd mintue,, mistake by richards awesome finish by rooney. Man U 1 up
15th minute, Mistake by foster goal by barry.. Tevez continuously booed! rightly so
Me: what the hell.. what a dam stupid mistake! I want nani on!
49th minute, United lead again, giggs free kick, fletchers cool header!
52nd minute, bellamy top corner, what a drive!
Me: hinniii self destruct button, kya hai yaar
2nd half man U dominate.. berbatov should've scored twice but the irish shay given was at his top game!
81st minute, corner, fletcher rises, heads again, man U lead for the 3rd time
90th minute, mistake again by ferdinand, calm and cool finish by bellamy
I went insane!
and then 96th minute a pulsating finish by the most unexpected player, Michael owen.. party time baby
And once again Manchester united put man city in their place. Its time for mark hughes and the big spending boys to head home with the heads between their sorry and tired legs!
And its time for me to celebrate chaand raat :D
Saturday, September 19, 2009
And I can talk, I place pride on tick and tock
It's September already. Oh well I just realized September will be over soon. :s. It seems like I'm always saying this, but time is passing by so quickly. 2009 flew by and so did 3rd year. We have pre prof's in a month and then finals from 15th December.
Now onto lesser things, that do mean the world to me, but mean nothing in the grand scheme of things. The manchester derby is tonight. I feel like a win for manchester united will really set the season off and make them more confident.
Ronaldo scored 2 spectacularly sexy goals in the champions league match. Made me hate him even more. Ungrateful Bastard.
All the shows are back which is good news for me :). It's always sunny was awesome, I can't wait for house and how i met your mother. Gossip girl was shit even the awesomeness of chuck bass couldn't make me like it. And one tree hill was actually tolerable. I hope this is the last season and they end it on a high note, or a good one.
For this eid i decided to spoil myself mainly because saru was hellbent on wanting me to be broke. I got my meni, pedi, facial and massage. My mom thinks something is up.
Dam this is such a lame ass blog which even I don't care about. I should be studying. Blahh!!!
Now onto lesser things, that do mean the world to me, but mean nothing in the grand scheme of things. The manchester derby is tonight. I feel like a win for manchester united will really set the season off and make them more confident.
Ronaldo scored 2 spectacularly sexy goals in the champions league match. Made me hate him even more. Ungrateful Bastard.
All the shows are back which is good news for me :). It's always sunny was awesome, I can't wait for house and how i met your mother. Gossip girl was shit even the awesomeness of chuck bass couldn't make me like it. And one tree hill was actually tolerable. I hope this is the last season and they end it on a high note, or a good one.
For this eid i decided to spoil myself mainly because saru was hellbent on wanting me to be broke. I got my meni, pedi, facial and massage. My mom thinks something is up.
Dam this is such a lame ass blog which even I don't care about. I should be studying. Blahh!!!
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
To tweet or not to tweet?
So the whole idea of twitter really disgusts me. It's just another way of feeding one's terrible need of keeping in track of someone you don't know or knowing what celebrities are doing at all times. I don't want to know if oprah fed her dog or if ashton kutcher had a cold one after a long days work! But anyway this 104 year old woman living in an old peoples house somewhere in england is on twitter too and she has more than 30 thousand followers. She tweets about what she does all day, what she's going to have for lunch or dinner, where she's going for vacations and general life experiences. It almost made me sign up and follow her. The woman has lived 104 years i'm sure we can all learn a thing or two from her! P.s. Melrose place 09 was hot
Friday, September 4, 2009
The us open is going on and thanks to it my studying is taking a nose dive. Ramazan sports and studies don't go. The weather has been awesome. Feels like i'm not in karachi. I like how the rain makes me feel. It makes me want to love makes me want to believe in the human race. It makes me believe i'm stil human. Anyho talking about the us open so federer was playing his first round match the other day and john mc enroe had the audacity to say he's NOT the greatest player of all time why because he doesn't have a winning record against nadal. I mean seriously how can u say that. The guy has won 16 grandslams more than anyone else in the space of 6 years. Is one of only 6 players to have a career grand slam meaning he's won all 4 grandslams. No player in the open era managed to do that. Not even pete sampras who won 15 slams and was dubbed by many as the greatest player ever until someone named roger federer arrived. He's won a record 5 us open consecutively, won 16 masters titles just one behind the great aggasi. Everytime he steps foot on the court he's out to set a new record. I don't think i can say anymore to justify my point! John mc enroe is an idiot and a fucking jealous piss off! Aaaaa school i hate, rain i love. I think i've said that already. I'm in class right now. Nazish is rambling on she's a bitch i hate her. One teacher i do not respect and refuse to respect because she has no respect for anyone! So i got to rush before she sees me and insults me too!
pretty cool
Antibodies found that prevent HIV from causing severe AIDS
By Thomas H. Maugh II
After nearly two decades of futile searching for a vaccine against the AIDS virus, researchers are reporting the tantalizing discovery of antibodies that can prevent the virus from multiplying in the body and producing severe disease.
They do not have a vaccine yet, but they may well have a road map toward the production of one.
A team based at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla reports today in the journal Science that they have isolated two so-called broadly neutralizing antibodies that can block the action of many strains of HIV, the virus responsible for AIDS.
Crucial to the discovery is the fact that the antibodies target a portion of HIV that researchers had not considered in their search for a vaccine. Moreover, the target is a relatively stable portion of the virus that does not participate in the extensive mutations that have made HIV able to escape from antiviral drugs and previous experimental vaccines.
"This is opening up a whole new area of science," said Dr. Seth F. Berkley, president and chief executive of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, which funded and coordinated the research.
At least 33 million people worldwide are infected with HIV, and at least 25 million have died from AIDS, according to the World Health Organization. Two large trials of experimental vaccines have failed -- the most recent, in 2007, because the vaccine apparently made people more susceptible to infection.
To find the neutralizing antibodies, researchers collected blood samples from more than 1,800 people in Thailand, Australia and Africa who had been infected with HIV for at least three years without the infection proceeding to severe disease. Such individuals are most likely to produce antibodies that interfere with the replication of the virus.
Researchers at Monogram Biosciences in South San Francisco studied the samples most resistant to infection, then a team from Theraclone Sciences in Seattle isolated the antibodies responsible for the resistance.
They ultimately isolated two antibodies, called PG9 and PG16, from one African patient. The antibodies were able to block the activity of about three-quarters of the 162 separate strains of HIV they tested it against.
Immunologist Dennis Burton of Scripps and his colleagues then showed that the antibodies bind to regions of two proteins on the surface of the virus, called gp120 and gp41, that help the virus invade cells. These regions had never before been considered as targets for vaccines.
Researchers still have a long way to go to produce a vaccine, however.
The antibodies themselves could potentially be used as a treatment for infected patients who develop severe disease.
But the long-term hope is to find molecules, either synthetic or natural, that can stimulate the body to produce the broadly neutralizing antibodies. Such molecules could potentially be the basis for a successful vaccine.
thomas.maugh@latimes.com
Copyright © 2009, The Los Angeles Times
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By Thomas H. Maugh II
After nearly two decades of futile searching for a vaccine against the AIDS virus, researchers are reporting the tantalizing discovery of antibodies that can prevent the virus from multiplying in the body and producing severe disease.
They do not have a vaccine yet, but they may well have a road map toward the production of one.
A team based at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla reports today in the journal Science that they have isolated two so-called broadly neutralizing antibodies that can block the action of many strains of HIV, the virus responsible for AIDS.
Crucial to the discovery is the fact that the antibodies target a portion of HIV that researchers had not considered in their search for a vaccine. Moreover, the target is a relatively stable portion of the virus that does not participate in the extensive mutations that have made HIV able to escape from antiviral drugs and previous experimental vaccines.
"This is opening up a whole new area of science," said Dr. Seth F. Berkley, president and chief executive of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, which funded and coordinated the research.
At least 33 million people worldwide are infected with HIV, and at least 25 million have died from AIDS, according to the World Health Organization. Two large trials of experimental vaccines have failed -- the most recent, in 2007, because the vaccine apparently made people more susceptible to infection.
To find the neutralizing antibodies, researchers collected blood samples from more than 1,800 people in Thailand, Australia and Africa who had been infected with HIV for at least three years without the infection proceeding to severe disease. Such individuals are most likely to produce antibodies that interfere with the replication of the virus.
Researchers at Monogram Biosciences in South San Francisco studied the samples most resistant to infection, then a team from Theraclone Sciences in Seattle isolated the antibodies responsible for the resistance.
They ultimately isolated two antibodies, called PG9 and PG16, from one African patient. The antibodies were able to block the activity of about three-quarters of the 162 separate strains of HIV they tested it against.
Immunologist Dennis Burton of Scripps and his colleagues then showed that the antibodies bind to regions of two proteins on the surface of the virus, called gp120 and gp41, that help the virus invade cells. These regions had never before been considered as targets for vaccines.
Researchers still have a long way to go to produce a vaccine, however.
The antibodies themselves could potentially be used as a treatment for infected patients who develop severe disease.
But the long-term hope is to find molecules, either synthetic or natural, that can stimulate the body to produce the broadly neutralizing antibodies. Such molecules could potentially be the basis for a successful vaccine.
thomas.maugh@latimes.com
Copyright © 2009, The Los Angeles Times
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Around the Web
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