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If You`re Happy and You Know It…Praise the Lord!

*Dedicated to Amma Wadi and my Dad**Special Thanks to Fatima Altaf for pushing me to blog and Noor Saeed for proof-reading* The other day I received my registration from PEC (meaning I can now go around saying “hi i`m engineer malo, whats your name?” :-p) and well saying I was super-excited would be the understatement of the […]

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You`re Beautiful, Its True…

S *Warning: Keep away from reach of narcissists. How many times do we look in the mirror and sigh/whine/dream for flawless skin, perfect hair, and hour-glass figures? All that stares back at us (or so we think) is fat that we like to call love-handles, pimples we try to convince ourselves are normal signs of […]

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Debunking Music Myths Part I-The Philosophers Talk Music

Even thousands of years ago, philosophers like Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates understood the tremendous influence music has on its listeners. Aristotle and How Music Effects Emotions: “Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul…when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued withthe same passion; and if over a […]

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Man`s Flight

Man has always yearned to fly, to soar above the clouds, to glide in the skies, to feel the wind on his cheeks, merely to defy gravity. He made ships, he made planes, and he went into space. Yet he could not be like the smallest of birds, he could not fly, not literally. But […]

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The “I RoxXxX Atittude”- Arrogance and Its Many Off-Shoots

                                                    For this article I thought I would talk small and quote big. Throughout my life I was a care-free work-little-have-fun-all-year-round kinda student who somehow managed to score 80-90% regardless of […]