FatemaYasmine

My next visit to London is booked, it will be breif. A two week stay already packed-out with friends, family and work. One fun stop I will be making is at the Restless Beings 3rd Anniversary event (Tickets still up for grabs here).

The theme for the charity fundraiser is 1920’s and whilst trying to find a suitable outfit I have fallen crazy in love, with 1920’s headbands.

Not sure if I will feel brave enough to wear one but here are a selection for you to drool over. 

My latest purchase - These sunglasses really do shout: Summer is here.

Dolce & Gabbana Oversized Square Floral Sunglasses.

Get Yours here.

When I heard the news I couldn't visualise it. I quickly put together this photo of Anne Hathaway as Catwomen, and I still can't see it. Will she do a Heath Leger and blow as all away? I hope so, I love Anne and I love Batman. 

I have no idea why Starship Troupers is a trending topic on Twitter right now. But it did bring back memories of watching the film and laughing lots.

The human race being destroyed by big ugly bugs, and their mommy looks like enlarged womens-bits. Classy.

Anyway, here are some fun photos for a trip down memory lane.

Enjoy!

I manage Immad's public relations; talks, blog, published articles, ironed shirts, you get the idea. He has been a busy little bee this year and here is an article that was recently published that I want to share with you and especially any budding entrepreneurs:

http://vator.tv/news/2010-12-14-how-to-write-a-killer-deck-and-get-funded

What makes this article awesome is Paul Graham's response to it on Hacker News;

"Immad is one of the best at fundraising of all the alumni, so whatever he has to say about the topic is worth listening to."

Having a legend say something like this about my husband is really something to smile about. Immad will probably kill me for being so mushy but I am allowed to have my gushy-wife-moments!

*Big Grin*

Anyone that really knows me will also know that I am kinda crazy when it comes to Keanu Reeves, like totally obsessed with him. At one point (my early teenage years) I had every single photo of him available in the public domain (in print form). My bedroom was plastered with his image and my video collection boasted every obscure film he had starred in.

So you can imagine my delight when I turned up at the JustSpotted office party to find three of him, the party theme was; celeb-dress-up, JustSpotted are a celebrity focused start-up after all.

*Smile*

I only managed to be photographed with two out of the three Keanu's - Sorry Neo and Ted for drooling all over you but thank you so much for making my evening! 

And remember everyone; Be excellent to each other.

More photos here:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=579724&id=803475337

If you can not access these photos send me a message and I will add you as a friend.

"Party on Dudes!".

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    Fatema Yasmine

    How do we feel about the new FB changes?

    Yesterday at 10:35am · 

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        Jakia Khanom Not happy!!

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        Fatema Yasmine i dont like the two step process in updating your status.

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        Jakia Khanom i dont like any of it! Change is not good!!

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        Shamik Das Maybe I'm being incredibly thick, but not noticing any new changes! What's happened?

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        Muhammad Aasim the first thing that came to mind was Big B's quote "mujhe parivardhan pasand nahi hai, mr aryan"

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        Mamunur Rahman dont like the new profile layout. its all cool apart from the row of pics where the tabs use to be, the post on wall section.. in the words of jay sean bring it back.

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        Muhammad Aasim but then again, in the words of jay sean again 'its not the end of the world'... :)

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        Abdul Munim What's the changes? Haven't logged on my laptop for ages!

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        Abdul Nusrat Hate them. Make profiles look so ugly

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        Mooktakim Ahmed Updating status is ok, but most of the time your posting text, so its annoying you have to click twice.

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        Mooktakim Ahmed Also, you used to have a larger area to click to enable the textbox, now you have to click small "Text" link.

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        Fatema Yasmine nope. i dont like it. but we will get used to it no doubt.

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        Mush Rahman Crap y do they do that lol

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        Mamunur Rahman Update: the little box under your profile pic that usually has people's quotes is missing. I liked the fact that you could write a little personal tag but now its capoot.

So there was a big roar in the middle of the afternoon. I live near the Stadium. The roar didn't stop for two hours, so Immad and I decide to investigate. 

The SF Giants had won the World Series. There were street celebrations everywhere. The most popular theme was to hang out/ontop of the cars as they drove around cheering and beeping. Everyone was Hi5'ing everyone else - even dogs.

We stayed out for two hours - the cheers were going till 6am. Crazy.

See the rest of the photos I took on my main Facebook Profile: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=564194&id=803475337

Facebook has launched a new and very cool feature called Friendship Pages. Whenever a friend posts on your wall and vice versa you will see a little link that says; 'see friendship' - this takes you to a 'Friendship Page'. Friendship Pages is a wonderful way of remembering the depths of your relationship with people who you share your Facebook with. 

When I viewed my relationship with my husband, Immad Akhund, Facebook pulled in our wedding photo as the main photo for our shared page. It also populated the page with events we had attended, comments we made and even Facebook Pages we had in common. This was a lovely nostalgia fueled trip down memory lane - especially good for Immad as his longterm memory sucks.  

Facebook has become much more cluttered and this feature takes away the digging needed to see your relationship with a friend. You can also search and view relationships between your friends and their friends. But do not worry, people can only see the information that you have given access too.

Be warned this does get a little addictive. After 'aaawwwing' my way through mine and Immad's relationship, I looked at mine and my sisters, Mahumuda's Friendship Page. This time it made me cry a little, the last two events we had attended together was so long ago. She lives in London and I am here in San Francisco, yes I miss her a lot.

There are only a few people I would want to do this search for. Also the thought of mine and Immad's friends having access to view our Friendship Page freaks me out a little, for no other reason then the fact that they would probably feel nauseous from all the icky-love. In our defense these posts were made over the duration of 4 years and is presented in a more concentrated form on our Friendship Page. 

*sick bucket please*

I can only see myself using Friendship Pages infrequently. I am uncertain if pushing this feature into such a prominent position (profile page under each wall post) is a brilliant idea. This feels more like a trend/fad then a integral feature. Friendship Pages would have defiantly made a killer application and will certainly increase user engagement but to be a vital organ it needs to perform a stronger function. It would be interesting to see if Facebook views this as a platform and allows others to build on top of it.

Everything aside, Facebook Friendship Pages brilliantly brings home the message that, Facebook is once again all about your friends. 

The Pakistan flood is one of the worst humanitarian distastes we have ever seen. Twenty million people have been affected and six million people are in need of immediate assistance. 

It is our duty to help.

Please donate as much as you can to;

Muslim Aid, they have people already on the ground

http://www.muslimaid.org/index.php/get-involved/donate-online 

or for no religious affiliations donate to the DEC

http://www.dec.org.uk/donate_now/

or donate to a friend of mine, her name is Amina Ansari (Artist) and she is travelling to Pakistan next week.

http://www.facebook.com/Aminaart

Three trusted and safe methods to get help to the people of Pakistan. 

“We come spinning out of nothingness,

scattering stars like dust”.

I love this quote from Rumi.  It has been on my Facebook status for a number of days. Every time I read these words I get a sense of invincibility. Rumi empathizing the greatness of humanity. The universe bows, bends and breaks every time a person is born, such is our strength, such is our ability. 

We are so powerful that when human life is created nothing is superior to us and we have the potential to shape the universe itself. The potential to achieve any dream we can imagine ourself.

I believe that each person has the ability to achieve anything that they truly desire. I also believe that humanity is wonderous. We all have different paths to our destination. But just keep on walking and you will hold all that you desire in the palm of your hands.  

Rumi and Roddenberry believed that humanity and each individual was, and is great, we must never ever forget that.

All you need to do is dare to dream, and dare to work hard enough to make it come true.

“We come spinning out of nothingness

scattering stars like dust”

- Rumi

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“Oh soul, you worry too much.

You have seen your own strength.

You have seen your own beauty.

You have seen your golden wings.

Of anything less,why do you worry?

You are in truth the soul, of the soul, of the soul.”

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- Rumi

Just saw this at the bottom of my Forever21 shopping bag. I googled John 3:16. This is what I found, from the Bible.

John 3:16 (New International Version)

One of the most searched term on my blog is 'Fatema Yasmine Wedding Photos'. Funnily enough I only have about three photos form my wedding day shared online. So I have decided to post some up. There were three events during the day, registration, nikah and reception. My husband and I decided to get married on our anniversary, the 22nd of September. 

First: The Registry Office @ Islington Town Hall

Second: Nikah @ Regents Park Mosque 

Third: Reception @ Nottinghill.

This photo is from the Registration. Will upload a full Wedding album later.

I have very few photos of when I was young. So I was super excited when my sister found this one, taken at school. I can hardly believe that it is me in this photo, baby teeth still in tact. Same annoying naturally tapering eye-brows. My face looks so young. Why the greasy hair? No I didn't have an accident with a tub of hair jell. I used to have super long hair that would tangle itself into a birds nest. To deal with this, my mother would cover me in coconut hair oil. This ritual continued even when my hair was cut shorter. Yes, that is right. Mother would send me to school with oil saturated hair. lol #DesiMumFail. 

Thank you Heps for sending me this photo.

Love you really Mum.