Scattered Aurora

This is a tribute tag to all the women bloggers out there in the big wide world of blogosphere. The authorship of this poem is controversial; its either written by Maya Angelou or by Pamela Satran. I start this tag so that all us gurlz out there can read it, paste it on our blogs, think back and feel good about ourselves. Guys can also paste it onto ur blog if u really want to, no problemo... so here goes...

A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE
enough money within her control to move out
and rent a place of her own, even if she never wants to or needs to…

A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE
something perfect to wear if the employer, or date of her dreams wants to see her in an hour…

A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE
a youth she’s content to leave behind….

A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE .
a past juicy enough that she’s looking forward to
retelling it in her old age….

A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ….
a set of screwdrivers, a cordless drill, and a black lace bra…

A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE
one friend who always makes her laugh… and one who lets her cry…

A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ..
a good piece of furniture not previously owned by anyone else in her family…

A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE .
eight matching plates, wine glasses with stems, and a recipe for a meal, that will make her guests feel honored…

A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE
a feeling of control over her destiny.

EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW
how to fall in love without losing herself.

EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW
how to quit a job, break up with a lover, and confront a friend without; ruining the friendship…

EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW
when to try harder… and WHEN TO WALK AWAY…

EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW
that she can’t change the length of her calves,
the width of her hips, or the nature of her parents..

EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW
that her childhood may not have been perfect…but its over…

EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW
what she would and wouldn’t do for love or more…

EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW
how to live alone… even if she doesn’t like it…

EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW
whom she can trust,
whom she can’t,
and why she shouldn’t take it personally…

EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW
where to go…
be it to her best friend’s kitchen table…
or a charming inn in the woods…
when her soul needs soothing…

EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW
what she can and can’t accomplish in a day…
a month…and a year…

I tag Mubi, A.joe, Lost in Rome, Lunatic, Seher dot com, M.h.a, Sami and duffer...

Even in our moments of greatest achievement, or greatest success, Nemesis lurks, waiting to remind us that we are only human and very vulnerable. Does that sound like I'm killing Hope or just issuing caution?

A smile can hide tears

A mask can hide pain

A blank face can hide an aching numbness

Hey the title actually sounds funny...
Anywho...
Have been tagged and nagged by mubi to do this post and actually have found time out from my busy schedule (ahem ahem) to oblige her. or maybe the topics interesting enough to make me visit my blog again...or maybe its just that i want to put up the pics i have of some of my fav places in Pakistan...
So here goes...

THE RULES:

The McCains own 13 cars, eight homes and have access to a corporate jet. If you were as insanely rich as them, where would your eight homes be and why?

The only rule is: The homes must be within the borders of the country you live in, so as to utterly emulate the McCains.

When you’re done, tag 8 people, so that they may join in the self-indulgence, forgetting about the crappy property market and the equivalent of The End of Pompeii on Wall-Street. You could spend your time hammering your doors and windows shut in preparation for the Apocalypse, but this meme is so much more fun!

1. Fairy Meadows... It has my dream house (just a lil bit shabby) but the location and the surroundings are stuff made of fantasies!!

2. Abbottabad... My second true home... I'd just love to have a house on top of a mountain like the ones they do have on the mountains around Abbottabad city

3. Kalash Valleys...obviously for the intriguing culture and plus they too have houses with rivers beside them opposites mountains...

4. Changla gali and Thandiani...either of the two would do and I'd make them my hidey-holes whenever i want to be lost in the clouds :D

5.Neelum Valley...I wanna own a hut sitting alone in a meadow full of flowers with the mountains making a natural wall...another one of my hidey-holes :D

6.Cholistan...a desert...yummy!! A home with the nomadic tribes that dwell there... it'd fulfill a life-long fantasy of walking under the stars on a clear night with the sand sifting through my feet or the one of getting caught in the midst of a sandstorm... or the one of riding to the rescue of someone caught in a sandstorm (and then beating the hell out of them for getting lost in it in the first place)

7.Hyderabad or Sukkur...their richness of culture lures my insatiably temptatious palate. enough said!

8. Deosai Plains with an occasional excursion to the killer mountain...just imagine walking out of your front door to that...oh and who would mind a trek up Nanga Parbat :)

9. Kohistan valley...My Nanoz massi(maid) comes from there and the stories of that valley I've heard from her make this a must add-on!

P.S. I tag kitten, bunny a.joe and sami :D