Fantasy

What is fantasy? The faculty or activity of imagining things that are impossible or improbable. But some things are just possible enough.

Everyone have some dreams in their lives to be accomplished. One among those is the success on the date of wedding. People, since their childhood days have a desire to make their wedding the most loved day of their lives. These all fantasies are set to them through reading a book where an involved marriage is taking place, or even in a movie where the couple is looking like moons and taking wedding. Off course, all of us want our marriage to be an even of status. But, sadly only few of them are lucky enough to get the same.


“MY DREAM WEDDING”

Though elegant and somewhat detailed, my wedding day should be everything I ever hoped for. The finger-tip length veil attached to me hairs. The wedding dress, which should be maroon and with grey lite colored. Being from an average family, I want to do my best to hold up my end of things and may my parents get enough blessed by wealth so that they would make my wedding day and every thing about it just right!
I want my best friends to surround me and rose petals should be scattered before me as candles lites up from every table as I moves across. All eyes should be at me as I enter the hall on my father’s arm and we walk together one last time. At the end of the read carpet stands my husband whose eyes should turn exclusively on me and who waits patiently to take my hand as my father offers him to.
The flowers, fresh gardenias, roses, and jasmine, to be chose. The tables should be set with white and dark red maroon color, and delicacies to be served as the guests enter. A sweet custard dessert, to be served to honor our guests and new in-laws. The ceremony should be cultural, what we all share, the need to love and be loved.
Fairy tales are stories and are made up, but dream weddings can come true. Waiting and settling for nothing less than the man you love and who loves you above and beyond everything else.
The truth is that all the extra stuff is great and made for a gorgeous wedding, but what would made a dream come true will be the fact that I would marry a man who would loved me more than life itself.

By Hania Rana

Tangled: Disney's Ripping Rapunzel

The current animation at Pixar, DreamWorks and Fox’s Blue Sky (the Ice Age series) concentrates on buddy movies and has all but female-centered stories. It can't be simply that the Cartoon Directors' Club is almost exclusively a male presenter, since the Disney films, from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to Mulan, were also men-made. It may be that their bosses think girls will go to boys' movies but boys won't go to girls'. Feature animation is an expensive business, and films are seen as a place too small to be worth the cost.

At the Disney animation unit, now under control by Pixar's John Lasseter, there's still a belief in girl power as shown, with amazing élan and skill, in last year's The Princess and the Frog and today in the pleasing, warming Tangled. It's the Brothers Grimm story of Rapunzel, imprisoned in a high tower by a witch, with the girl's long hair the witch's only means of way out. Under house arrest for years, disturbed for her freedom by the kingdom that misses her, she's the Aung San Suu Kyi of fairy-tale heroines. Just a few differences: Rapunzel (voiced by Mandy Moore) has 70-ft.-long (21 m) hair that can serve as a rope ladder; her jailer is not the Burmese government but the Gothel (Donna Murphy); and whereas Suu Kyi remained in imprison while her husband died of cancer in London, our princess finds a dashing thief, known as Flynn Ryder (Zachary Levi), to facilitate her escape.

STORY LINE
Having spent her entire life within the tower Rapunzel is full of interest about the outside world. One day while Mother Gothel is away, Rapunzel is scared by a surprise visitor coming through her window, the dashing, mischievous bandit Flynn Rider Flynn is on the run from his brutish former partners, the Stabbing ton Brothers, after escaping with a jeweled crown they had stolen. 
Following their meet-cute introduction, Rapunzel and Flynn make a deal. He will guide her through the rough country to the kingdom, where she'll finally get to see the annual festival of lights. In exchange, Rapunzel will give Flynn back the stolen tiara she's hidden from him. 

The title was changed to Tangled because The Princess and the Frog was no great hit at the box office and because Disney wanted to make the project seem less ... girlish. The trailers suggest that the movie is an action comedy about a mischievous guy (Flynn) whose mission is to fight and free the girl from the tower. But no, this is your basic, and very enjoyable, Disney princess musical, a tale to teach bright, dreamy girls how to grow to maturity.

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By Hania Rana

A Human Being Is Never Happy

The title says it all! And I know everyone’s going to agree with me at this point. I mean seriously what’s wrong with us? Even God must be wondering all the time “What IS their problem!? What do they want!? Why wont they just be happy for once!?”

But we, human beings just cannot help being NOT this way. It’s a natural tendency of human beings to never be content with what we have. I guess God has created us with some ‘special’ ingredients or something which make us so impossible. We just cannot help but complain, complain and complain ALL THE TIME!

Let alone others, I’ll give you MY very own example. After I got done with my Inter exams last May, I was super happy. I had decided to party continuously for the next few months. My NED test wasn’t due until the next 5 months (Plus  3 more months free after that which makes it 8 freakin’ months of FREEEEDOM!!) So in short I had months and months of free time ahead of me. No more studying, no more college (which meant no more of that hideous off white and green uniform everyday and waking up 6 in the morning) No more staying up all night and scanning all the books and feeding the information into our tiny little brains. NO MORE TENSION! What could be more amazing than this? Perfect life huh?

Little did I know that this freedom-packed vacation a.k.a “PERFECT LIFE” would eventually turn out to be a nightmare for me.

Well, it did seem perfect at first. The first few months went by in a daze. I celebrated each day like my birthday or something. I’d sleep all I want. Spend all day with my laptop. Facebook all I want. Go out all I want. Watch movies all night .. (well you get the idea?) But gradually all the excitement started dying down. Slowly I ran out of things to do. I got bored of doing the same things over and over again. I got bored of all the freedom. I became a prisoner in my very own house.

Soon a lot of my friends got busy with their lives. Most of them started off with their universities. It seemed like everyone around me had something or the other to do. It seemed like everyone around me HAD A LIFE!! Unlike me. I started getting jealous of my sisters because they got to go to school everyday. Because they got homework everyday. Because they got tired after coming home and used to pass half of their day by sleeping. I couldn’t even do THAT. Because I was just NEVER TIRED.  I was just tired of not being tired! All the free time drove me crazy. I used to scream and tear my hair off because I just had NOTHING TO DO! AAAAAAAA

Soon my helplessness turned to desperateness and I started working in a school as a (computer :p) teacher. I was happy once again. I was busy. I had plenty of work to do. So much work that not a month later I was craving for my free time again. I left my job after three months (Man! Did they suck the blood out of me or what :l phew!) and now here I am today. TIRED, EXHAUSTED, WEARY, OVERBURDENED, WEAKENED, TIRED (Oh wait that’s already done) and all DRAINED OUT. (PAF KIET sure knows how to make the kids go bonkers) I miss those eight months of frustration more than anything. I’d do anything just to get even a day off.

So you see the contrast between the two situations? When we HAVE something we crave for something else and when we finally GET that ‘something else’ we long for that ‘something’ we had before. Get what I am saying? In short, we are just NEVER satisfied.There are a million other examples of our ungratefulness. You’d know better.

By Marium Aqeel

BOOKS vs INTERNET

 “We have got Internet. Why do we need libraries?” Isn’t that what almost everyone thinks now? Sometimes I wonder, that do I read books as passionately as I used to before? The answer is an obvious ‘no’. And that’s plainly because Internet has taken over now. We tend to look up for anything over the Internet without knowing the information we gain is authenticate or not. I myself am habituated to read off the internet. So, now I still read but not books!

Internet now is a ‘necessary-evil’. Researches show that whatever we search for, 8% of which is reliable only, rest either cost, or are unauthenticated or anonymous. Other than that quality control doesn’t exist on the Internet, where as in libraries each book is checked by a trained person if it is suitable for the required age group. Yes, we do need the internet for scientific or historical info (as far as it is accurate) but there is lots of trash uploaded too where parental control is overruled. Anyone can put up anything.
Don’t you think that other than authentication of information, the library provides you with a good peaceful environment along? Where do you find this when E-Booking? And medically reading in print is better than reading off the screen for one’s eyes. There are many E-Booking readers yet again most of it isn’t free. A library is in your reach as well as cheaper.
Aren’t there libraries-less universities now? What do you all think, having a library is useful or not in comparison to internet facility? Books are portable and they have their own feel. Even after having electronic tablets and Wi-Fi’s along they can’t replace books. No doubt the web is great but can never be a good substitute for books.
Surely Internet has gone a long way ahead but it’s a poor substitute for a full-service library. I would say ‘Choose smartly’, ‘Use wisely’ and stay happy!

By Sidra Muzaffar

What makes a good movie?

Art is reflection of our society and life and movies are often regarded as modern expressions of art. They make us laugh and cry and we often love to quote them, they edify us enlighten us. 

Every year numerous movies are made in the entertainment industries but all are not liked: some top the charts while others are kicked out of the box office. Some become the hot topic of discussion for the critics while others just escapes their notice, in short some get a thumps up while others a thumps down. 

But how many of these, which get a positive feedback, are actually good movies? Well it is not that simple to answer, as it seems. The topic is very much subjective. What seems good to some may not be the same for the others. What appears enjoyable to a few others might be enjoyable for others. Then what exactly is a good movie? To generalize it, we can say that those movies, which are liked by the mass and not by some class category of people, could be considered as a good movie. But what are the traits that are needed for a movie to qualify as a good one. First of all a movie should provide good entertainment.


-By Shaista Yousuf

Will Dreams Come True!?

Dreams are just like flowers,we can't imagine our life without and as such we have to take care of just as we do with flowers to grow up as we want. Every one in this life has his own dreams and lam that one who has alot of dreams and l would like all my dreams to come true one day. One of my dreams is to take a trip around the world, so that l would be able to get knowledge and insight about that an unknown world for me. I know that is impossible to happen but l belive in God's power that can be able to turn the impossible to sth possible. For that l keep on praying him to make it true.


-By Shaista Yousuf

Rights of Special Children

Disabled children have every right as compared with other children. It is our duty to provide them with every opportunity to show their skills and talents. We should allow disabled children to work independently. They have a strong desire to work independently and you can see the happiness on their faces after an accomplishment of certain tasks. Every child has an individuality of his/her own depending upon certain skills and qualities. Sometimes we can see that children with disabilities can prove to be more talented than ordinary children or non-disabled children.

The main objective of teaching children with special needs is to make them independent by providing them with guidance for self-help skills, daily living skills, and vocational skills and also to help them to deal with daily life situations independently. Children with special needs have their own way of thinking, learning and adapting just like other children. They have the capability to perform each and every function of daily living independently with the help of some guidance. Their capacity for learning can be enhanced by the experiences they have in educational communities.

The most important point in fulfilling the special needs of special children is to identify their disability. Once a student's disability is identified by the teacher, he/she can prepare and collect suitable materials and can make suitable arrangements in the class for student's proper understanding and effective learning of the lesson. Thus a teacher can prove to be a real friend or guide for these children to help them live independently and succeed academically.




-By Shaista Yousuf