Wednesday, 27 April 2011

Wishes

I want to go somewhere known as Nowhere.I want to meet someone who is a noone, I want to say something but in silence, I want to scream with my mouth shut, I want to run in air, I want to fly in water, I want a diamond that is priceless (free), I want a night that never ends, I want to meet people who dont pretend,  I want to see the world alone..

Thursday, 7 April 2011

Just A Thought...

Yesterday when i was bored n had nothing to do my mom told me to read the newspaper(as if that was going to help) but something is better than nothing. so i grabbed the You! page and started reading.. I came across this article n really liked it, it actually did make me think, not about kameez shalwar but about how westernized our fashion is..
 Here is a part of the article its too long so I'll just write till the part that made me think this way..
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In The Name Of Fashion: What Has Happened To Our Good Old Shalwar Kameez?...

By Umaid Wasim
The snow leopard is a beautiful animal found in the northern areas of Pakistan. A symbolic beast for the people of the highlands, it stands on the verge of extinction. Probably it isn't fashionable anymore. Today, Pakistan's national dress for women is heading down the same road.Probably because today's women think that the 'traditional' shalwar kameez makes them look un-cool.
 In my great search to find the 'perfect' shalwar kameez, this season I attended some lawn launches - but to my dismay, I didn't find anything even close to perfect!
  While the kameez has turned into more of a gown, the shalwars have become either shorter (Capri), way to loose (a mix of pants and culottes) or way too tight (much like skinny jeans). More horrendous than this are the extremely loose kameez's that make women look like they are wearing colorful paper bags. Going through catalogs i also spotted various models wearing a strapless 'kameez'. It seemed like total confusion
  In the name of fashion, the shalwar kameez has been given a shear towards the west. Logical thinking though says that it is fallacy. If that wasn't the case then the term ABCD (American Born Confused Desi's) wouldn't have been coined in the early part of this millennium.
  I wish our designers could've spared our national dress. It's more like saying it 14th August on 14th February . Gazetted national holidays don't change so doesn't the shalwar kameez deserve a fighting chance?
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Anyway my point here is that do we really have to forget our religion to be modern? Is wearing sleeveless or strapless shirts, and Capri the only way u can be 'tagged' as modern?
the other day i was watching a fashion show with my dad n he asked me "Are these Muslims?" I laughed and said "yea". Like it was no big deal.. yea they're all wearing low back or should i say 'no' back shirts, dresses that barely reach their knees, so what? every modern person does that right?

Looking at all this I'm not surprised why our country is going to the dogs.. Since drinking alcohol, doing drugs adultery and westernized clothes have become so common and that too for Muslims, and the only time we remember Allah is when we need anything so we quickly wear a dupatta(scarf) n start praying, do you really think Allah will listen to us?

I've heard many stories about tribes that were destroyed, Allah's wrath.. Is that what's going to happen to us? If yea then I don't blame the system.