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Heat Stroke Hits Karachi !!

Ramadan Mubarak to my fellow brothers and sisters!! This post is rather a sad one to announce about my city.. With a heavy heart, I write this post about the heat stroke that surrounds Karachi. Karachi! It is a city known as "The City of lights" on account of its high life and people that reside in this particular city. It could be correct as well if I refer "was" in context to it being city of lights. Heat Stroke basically happens to a person if the body temperature rises  above 105 F. The recent heat wave has taken away 700 lives and many more are at stake, Each day, each hour a person gets admitted to hospital as a result of heat stroke. At this situation, what can I, a normal resident do? This situation can happen at any city and one must always be prepared for it. Starting off, there are some prevention needed to be taken in order to safe yourself *Stay Hydrated *Avoid Fast Foods *Have minimal sun exposure *Keep yourself cool constantly via a f

Expedition to find #AsalFoodie???

Food; the first thing that comes to my mind when I think about life is all the delicious cuisines available for us. Desi families are usually the typical “foodies” according to me. The Pakistani culture itself promotes many food items which are hard to find during common practice. Usually Pakistani families offer a lot of food to their children as kids and well, later they all turn out to be foodies for life. But that is not the reason it is being mentioned here. The new 7UP TVC seemed to have left a huge impact on all foodies out there to contribute. 7UP has started a really cool competition #AsalFoodie to bring out our love for food. All that needs to be done is to make an amazing cover/profile on Facebook which depicts your real passion for food. Be it Chinese, BBQ, Italian, Fast food or Desi, foods and foods are everywhere to be found. There Is no doubt that there are many foodies out there trying their luck out; let’s just say this a native competition for us and t

Teachers Support and Empowerment

Empowering Teachers to Meet the Digital Native Learners http://www.academia.edu/420105/Empowering_Teachers_to_Meet_the_Digital_Native_Learners Abstract: The main idea discussed in the paper is related to the changing world of technology and the striving of teachers to stay in line with the digital natives. The paper depicts that in order to keep the pace up with the young generation, the teachers need to be equally socialized, their thinking should match the students’ thinking and this paper plays its sufficient part in countering those problems faced by the teachers. The paper also depicts a program that was initiated to train teachers the 21 st century teaching methods and how to teach with social media being involved. Key learning: The basic nature of the paper is to provide the teachers the ways to understand the digital natives and teach according to the needs of the ongoing high technology scenario. The whole program at Tampere University of Applied Sciences was

Writing about my Graduation Day

Hi everybody. I hope you have a really good time. First of all, I must say that I did deeply miss you guys and I should also apologize for writing after so long. Anyhow, are you all enjoying summer? Its literally boiling here in Karachi, Pakistan but nonetheless lets get back to our story. Today, this post has been done to take you a little closer to what it feels like on your own graduation day. This may remind some of their past time while some may look forward to similar events in future. I believe Convocation is one the biggest days that happens to a person other than marriage. The great deal about Graduation Day is the fact to mark your presence in the professional World. After graduation, a person feels more confident to face different personal and professional challenges of life. My Graduation Day had taken place on 25th March 2015. Needless to say that the adrenaline was high. It was not just about me but everyone seemed to be captivated through graduation theme and many