For Sue ,a kind friend ♥️

Hello dear friends ♥️

Hope and pray that everyone is having blessed day by the grace of God!🙏

Our weather has taken a pleasant turn since it’s raining throughout the country including capital city Islamabad.  Temperatures are spinning around 35 to 24 c and you can imagine how it makes us happy and grateful 🥹🙏 Time is running speedily and days to get back to our hot city are getting closer. For the first time in life hubby and me don’t want to leave surprisingly 🤗. And it’s only because of the glassed wall that gives us strong feelings of connection with nature 🥹☺️🤗🥰🤗 it’s beautiful here with everything so perfect 🤗🙏 But we will be leaving for home before July ends anyway 😅. Sharing below glimpse of our little joys in previous week. 

Dear friend Sue and I keep in touch once a while . Sue is a wonderful person who participates in life to fullest by the grace of God! She and her husband John run some company related to computer systems. She teach badminton to younger students and writes for a magazine as well for which she has to go through different ways including interviewing people from various professions and backgrounds. She inspires every heart who is in love with life 🥰 Sue has mentioned once that she would like to see highlights of markets I visit here. So I have captured not some perfect but random pictures during our visit to Karachi company market,I  always wondered about this dislocated name of the market so when I googled about it this article showed up Karachi company . Thanks Sue for showing interest in our capital city ♥️. I will try to share some more photos in future. 

This year market seemed quite and lonesome because of CDS crack down of  illegal occupancy by  so many sellers. I realised that majority of the customers would prefer to buy from those cheap shops on midways and footpaths. Most of the shops had some,few or no customers. Hubby said the occupants will return by bribing the municipality because such changes don’t stay for long .

                             

         Bed sheets shop , I realised I never bought anything like this from here 

          

Most of the shop owners use the walking area as well for which they have to pay extra charges I guess 

         The samosa  and pakora shop , such shops have long queues during morning and evening hours 

Now, one of the lovely news , my dear friend Shazia visited us in our apartment and it made me so happy 🥰🤗 she came with her youngest son who is 20 years old and second year in university. Best thing she stayed for one night and two days which makes it longest period of time we spent together ever 😊 we had best time chatting 😍 

We visited the Centaurs Mall where we did some shopping and had ice cream after few years 😃 children ate pizza and chips with cold drinks as usual. This will stay with me for long 🥰

 

                           Taken another day in same market while hubby and me were taking tea 

                              Shot is taken in Safa Gold mall in Jinnah Super Market Islamabad

                                                  Karachi company market main entrance 

                                        Safa gold mall , embroidered shawls and other items 

                                                                 Toys shop in Safa gold mall 

          Safa gold mall has far smaller crowds than Centaurus Mall even after food court has been altered 

                      While paying on the counter i took this shot as view was truly captivating 

                                                         Jinna super Market main entrance 

         It was quick click while walking in the Golra market near by , it reminded me days when we would drink from clay pots in clay bowls,  though clay pots are things of the past now but clay things still fascinate and interest many of us even today including me 😊

Heartfelt thanks for bearing with me precious friends 🥰🙏

Health, peace and happiness to you all and to all you love 🥰🙏♥️♥️♥️

Across The Glass Wall Lies Natural Beauty And Natural Light!

Hey Sweet Hearts 🥰 

Hope and pray that all is well with you and yours 🙏

We are fine but little sad that younger son had to leave for the university for some subjects issues. He tried hard that matter can be solved online but it couldn’t. We see off him last night on national bus terminal. We asked him to return if issue is resolved soon.Let’s hope for the better!🤞

Since it’s raining once in while here we are feeling grateful for lovely weather which is just a dream in Sindh where we live ☹️

Believe it or not for the first time in my life I am not missing my beautiful home .And this is because apartment has a one whole wall made up of glass facing gorgeous margalla hills and I don’t want to leave this most missed sight of my life as you know I grew up in home facing beautiful hills 🥹 sharing few lovely things we experienced while sipping our tea together .

As I used to mention in many of the my old posts that sparrows were in abundance in my native town along with robins and starlings. During winters our village would have lots of  migratory birds from colder parts of the world. I missed having sparrows around too often in Sindh province after my marriage . Watching sparrows close by was a kind of an emotional experience 🥹🥰♥️

This one is taken on different day while having morning tea (around 11am)  two pigeons flew in the balcony and sat in the perfect position 🥰 I captured the beautiful moment without wasting any time 🤗

It was becoming a consistent feeling to reconnecting with life I used to live once 😊♥️

I captured the first rainy day after our arrival here , the rain didn’t just washed the entire view but seemed to water our souls starving to see rain fall ☺️🥰♥️

The beauty of this apartment is mostly due to the glass wall that connects me with nature . When curtains are removed natural light brightens everything and my heart feels eternal peace  🥹

This keeps us calm mentally so urge for daily outings lessens automatically. But we go for evening walks regularly though when my legs feel much tired we take one day off. Walk from here to the central market is 5km almost so you can say we walk ten km after each one day break. Me and hubby doing our exercises daily morning as well which means stronger legs ready to walk.

At night watching tv is together is the option. We are unable to tune Netflix for some reason. So I tried and found out an old drama of popular channel Hum tv run in 2024  which I have skipped. It turned out to be A beautiful drama drama actually with lots of messages needed badly by our society! We watched last episode last night. We all felt inspired by the story and the way it was played on screen. Even our youngest son didn’t missed the single scene of this show which reveals the strength of a great project.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for being with me precious friends 🥰♥️🙏

Thinking of you all with love and prayers in my heart for you and yours🙏🥰

God Bless you all 🙏🥰♥️♥️♥️

It Rained Eventually and We Visited Daman E Koh

 

Hey lovely souls 🥰

Hope and pray that having blessed time by the grace of God🙏

Our monsoon season has begun and it’s raining throughout the country since few days. Older parts of big cities like Karachi are facing drainage issues as usual sadly . Few unfortunate incidents have been reported as well because of sudden rushes of water in dry rivers where people were busy in taking pictures! 

In Islamabad we were waiting for the rain desperately to be honest,so when it rained ,we tried to do some outdoor activities like shopping and visiting few tourist spots . Sharing few glimpses of our trip to hilltop visiting sight Damian E Koh ( lap of the hill)  .we spent one beautiful hour while chatting and looking down to the gorgeous city of the Islamabad 🥰 which is covered in smoke most of the time if it doesn’t rain for few days.

     While having breakfast when we realised that day is going to stay cloudy we found it great for going out,everyone suggested  his favourite destination but  mine was considered best because watching city from above clearly is rare otherwise.

     Though the whole city looks like a beautiful park but when our rented car started to move upward hills coming closer seemed so welcoming 🥹🤗

     The whole way to hill site was packed with cars because of the favourable weather, this is entrance 
From where you can imagine the density of the crowd .but beauty of the day stood within and I decided to focus on it only 😊

     I had to wait for the moment when I can click without the possibility of capturing people mostly 

     I felt grateful each day for having my younger son for long term with us 🥹🙏🥰♥️

The most unusual sight was finding so monkeys playing in the park 🤗 some were just wandering around and observing visitors quietly but some were chasing each other angrily,I realised that children were offering them different things so when some female monkeys or younger monkeys would take something to eat the aggressive male monkeys would harass them to ward off. One of the females followed my youngest son until he gave her piece of his ice cream. 

Hubby took many pictures of mother monkeys who were having their babies on their backs and trying to feed them with food offered by children . The instructions of  not feeding monkeys were displayed on many places but children were having fun and parents hardly seemed concerned either.

Both of my sons left some money on the rug where an artist was playing a beautiful local tune on some local guitar like instrument. I feel happy when they do so always because they saw their parents appreciating artists always 🥰♥️

I took this photo when our ride passed by the Faisal Mosque.place was full of visitors as expected. I envy with people living here in northern part who have privilege to go out when weather is suitable. I wish I can move here asap 🤗

Heartfelt thanks for your kind support of sweet comments dear friends,I am trying to visit each of you everyday when possible.

Thinking of you all! Health, peace and happiness to you all and to all you love 🙏🥰♥️

From Islamabad Sharing My Life

Hello Sweethearts🥰

Hope and pray that everyone is doing well by the grace of God!!!

We arrived in Islamabad on 12th June. Apartment rented by eldest son for us was a pleasant surprise 🤗

We all loved the coziness it offered but the most beautiful thing was view we were able to see from the glass wall 🥰🤗👍

Yes my most favourite thing,the foothills of Himalayan mountains that are called margalla hills here were lying lazily before when we removed the curtain 😍

Weather is nice with far better temperatures than our khairpur city ( 30 plus with highs and lows) though it hasn’t rained since we came but rains in higher parts are bringing relief thankfully 🙏

We got back from my native village after two days stay which was full of fun and family gatherings 🤗♥️ we also did some light hiking after sunrise yesterday that seemed quite lovely 🥹🥰

Sharing some pics of the apartment and few glimpses from hiking.

Nostalgia is magical recreation of  beautiful moments of past that refill your soul with long gone joys and energy 🥹🥰♥️

While standing on the hills and looking at lush fields below was certainly an uplifting and spiritual experience 🥰

I took these photos on the day we arrived at apartment and hills welcomed us quietly and smilingly 🤗

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Hey precious friends the best news of my life came from my eldest son who moved into his new home which he has just bought 🥹🥰♥️🙏 by the grace of kind God he is progressing  slowly towards the point of settling down in family life and we are waiting for this with our hearts full of prayers 🙏🙏🙏🥰♥️

Thank you so much for your support and love dear friends ♥️♥️♥️🙏

I will be visiting you now soon hopefully 🤞 

Thinking of you all with heart full of best wishes and prayers 🥰🙏♥️

Health peace and happiness to you all and to all you love 🙏🥰♥️🌸☘️🌺🌹💐♥️♥️♥️