Simply Aasia

So I promised Nafisa I would do this this year end wrap up. 1. What did you do in 2011 that you’d never done before? Participated in a photo-shoot that was all about me.  2. Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year? like every other year I said quit smoking, I did for about 4 months Diet - which is on going and Adding Fitness to the list. I plan on doing Midmar and the Otter trail.  3. How will you be spending New Year’s Eve? Quietly. By myself, it's a new experience.  4. Did anyone close to you die? No 5. What countries did you visit? Inhaca Island off Mozambique  6. What would you like to have in 2012 that you lacked in 2011?  An LED TV  7. What date from 2012 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?  well a weekend really last weekend of September I won a game show which meant I got to go on an amazing cruise and I won an Umrah trip.  8. What was your biggest achievement of th...

When I read titles like A letter to Islam: we are women, not things: iLIVE Fills me not with trepidation but as a muslim woman, my back is automatically up. I can't take away the experience this woman has had at the hands of the men in her life, but I fail to see how her generalisations make me want to empathise with her. In one swift article she has insulted me, my intelligence and disrespected my choice- yes my choice to remain muslim. My friend Saaleha said it perfectly. "it's tiresome we shouldn't have to apologise all the time" I am by no standards a feminist, islamist and detest the term moderate muslim. Yes South African Muslims are possibly the only nation of muslims that are allowed to practice freely, regardless of the sect they belong to. But I refuse to have to explain that EVERYTIME. She disrespects me by saying: No self-respecting woman can be Muslim. I can't fight for every muslim in the rest of the world, I can only change perceptions ...

The most beautiful thing I have ever seen was sarcasm Stuck between your lips before it poured out all over the conversation. The arch of your eyebrow and the tilt of your head as the words you spoke remain unsaid Is as far as I got with the thoughts in my head but it's written in the same tone as Jason Mraz's Beautiful Mess "A Beautiful Mess" You've got the best of both worlds You're the kind of girl who can take down a man, And lift him back up again You are strong but you're needy, Humble but you're greedy And based on your body language, And shoddy cursive I've been reading Your style is quite selective, though your mind is rather reckless Well I guess it just suggests that this is just what happiness is Hey, what a beautiful mess this is It's like picking up trash in dresses Well it kind of hurts when the kind of words you write Kind of turn themselves into knives And don't mind my nerve you could call ...