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Hello readers! I haven't posted for a pretty long time. There was a lot of stuff going on, plus I had been busy in some office related stuff (where I volunteer), so I wasn't getting a chance to write and post. Although I had a few topics to write on in mind, and had begun writing on them as well, I wasn't able to conclude the writings well enough so I didn't just post them.  Anyways, back to life. I have just completed my O levels successfully, alhumdulillah, as a private candidate. Although I did face a few challenges, I'm glad that I've finally completed it with reasonably satisfactory grades. :) I have decided to do my A levels privately as well, instead of going to an A level school or college. I've picked social sciences for my A levels, (Sociology, Psychology, and English Language) instead of pure sciences. (Why I chose social sciences over pure sciences is another topic I'd like to write on sometime.) Anyways, I do hope I manage to do my A lev...

Hey Readers! Welcome back. I noticed that I hadn't posted on this blog for about two months. Not that I was very busy or anything, I just wasn't in the right mood for blogging. I guess you can assume that I'm back in the mood now, for I'm back with a new page element on my blog. I had been working on it for several weeks. It is a Reading Log , and you are most welcome to check it out. But before you do so, I must inform you about a few things related to this reading log. First of all, this reading log is NOT a list of all of the books that I have read in the sixteen years of my life! That would be pretty much impossible to do. This reading log is actually a list of some of the books that I have read and enjoyed reading very much, or received some important lessons from. They include fiction and non-fiction books. Secondly, I would like you to know that I am not rating any of these books. I would not like to say that the books listed at the top are any better than t...

Hi readers! I'm so sorry for not posting for so long; I was just too busy in a lot of stuff, especially my own studies... Anyways, if you remember my previous post, it was about Creative Clay Creations, a venture that I had started. So, this post is about something related to that; read on if you're interested. A while after I had started my company, I decided that the title 'Creative Clay Creations' was too long for a company's name. I realized that a company's name should be short, and besides, I didn't really like it's name, so I decided to change it. After a lot of thinking, we came up with the name 'Clayholds' for our startup. The name fits in well because most of our products are holders -that hold stuff- so the name Clayholds suits the idea. Even better, it hasn't been taken by anyone else yet, so maybe we can buy its domain later on as well. Anyways, I created another blog ( clayholds.blogspot.com ) for Clayholds, and updated it w...

Hello readers! I decided that now it was perhaps about time that I posted a bit about Creative Clay Creations on my blog. This is a small business that I have started and am running with my siblings. You may already know, if you have visited my art blog , that I already enjoy sculpting pots and jars out of clay. So, I planned to turn my passion into a kind of profession. I created a blog for this very purpose, which acts as an official website for the company. You can visit it at creativeclaycreations.blogspot.com . On that blog, I post details regarding all our products (though we currently have only a handful of them!), which include their description, length \ height, price, and so on. You would get a better idea once you visit the blog \ website. While on the topic, I thought I'd let you know that we'd soon be announcing a New Year's Sale, so if anyone of you would like to buy anything, you can get a discount in that season. Oh, and I also must inform you that curren...

Hello people! This is to inform you about my art blog. I recently made another blog, specifically for my art. It is actually more of an art portfolio. I just realized that I should have a separate site for all of my artwork. Although I haven't posted any of my artwork there yet, I will do it soon. I will also post the artwork which I have already posted on this blog. I will continue to post my selected artwork here as well, but over there I will be posting a lot more of it. This blog will, of course, remain functional, and I will regularly be posting my stuff here. If you are an art lover, or like my artwork, please feel free to visit my art blog:  fatimasartwork.blogspot.com  You can follow it if you wish to receive email updates whenever I post anything new. Thank you very much.

Hello Readers! My workshop has just been announced at ERDC. This will be my second workshop which is 'Mind Games for Kids'. I will be conducting it alone this time. It is for kids aged 9-13 years (so I'm sure there'll be no one older than me there!) and will be on Saturday, January 16. In it, I'll mainly play games with the kids. One game that I'll introduce is Chess. I'll introduce Chess to those who don't know much about it, and the ones who already know can help the others. Then there'll be Chess matches. I'll also introduce Sudoku, and give Sudoku puzzles to kids (the easiest level). We'll play Twenty Questions (guessing game), word games, maybe crosswords and solve other puzzles. I hope it will be successful and that the kids enjoy. I really hope that it will be better than the blogging workshop. If you have any ideas for any games or puzzles that I can include in the workshop, do leave a comment about it. I'm looking forward to an...

Hello Readers! I haven't posted much recently, as I was very busy with a few things. One of them is that I will actually be conducting a workshop soon! Yes, really, I and my sister Zainab, will together be conducting a workshop for kids aged ten till fourteen years. (And I'm still thirteen!) So I was busy in planning it, making handouts, and thinking about it. Below is the flyer, which I and Zainab made on Powerpoint; my father edited it. It is also shared on ERDC's facebook page . Thanks.

Hello Everyone! I've just realized! It's been a year since I started blogging! I am so... excited -for apparently no reason! I made my blog on 12th March, 2014. I published two posts that day. They were two of my poems; Siblings  and Desserts . Then I started blogging regularly - well, not so regularly. I have 37 published posts on my blog from 12th March, 2014 till 11th March, 2015, which averages to about three posts each month - which is not too much, but still, something's better than nothing! And I have made sure to post something each month, so there's no month in these twelve months when I haven't published any post.  I do try to post as often as I can, whenever I create anything worth posting. In these twelve months on blogger, I have: Created a blog Published thirty-six posts on it Gotten 207 comments on it (including my own replies) Made an About Me  and a Coming Soon page on it Had 2113 page views on it And a lot more! So than...

Dear Readers, Hi! First of all, I want to thank you all for reading my blog posts, following my blog, commenting on it, and more. Thank you very much! Next, I would like to inform you of some updates on my blog. Update 1: If you have visited my blog recently, you would have noticed the most prominent change in it. I have changed the colour scheme of my blog, background and all, from pink and white, to purple and turquoise. I have also changed the fonts to ones more interesting.The new one's really better than the old one, I realized after changing it. Hope you like it! Update 2: I have added two new pages to my blog. Below the header, there's a strip which says;  | Home | About Me | Coming Soon | The home page is the page where all my posts are and will continue to come. The 'About Me' page contains my brief introduction, and the 'Coming Soon' page has a list of stuff that I'll be posting on my blog soon. That's all. Hope you like the change...

Dear friends, I am participating in a  Thinkers' Club which has recently started at ERDC for children of 10-15 years. I have created it's blog with my friend Azka. Please do visit this;  thinkersclubonline.blogspot.com If you wish to join Thinkers' Club, send your request at thinkersclub.erdc@gmail.com  Also, I would really like it if you comment there, and tell others to visit it. (because I'm maintaining it) Thank you

Dear People I have added a poll on my blog in which you have to vote on who's your Favourite Author. The time is limited for voting and please give your vote. The results will be shown next month. Kindly vote on your favourite Author. If it is not one of those who I've mentioned, select the one you like best from the options available. The authors mentioned are well known and I hope you've read their books. These are the authors, select the one you like best: J.K Rowling Paulo Coelho Roald Dahl Ishtiaq Ahmed Enid Blyton By the way, if the poll does not work, post a comment saying who your favourite author is. P.S: If you follow my blog by email, you will receive updates whenever I post something new.