Fifty years

  Well, that is a celebration of its own kind, having lived with the same person for fifty years sharing everything of life This  by itself an achievement

 So we tried to hug each other and it was difficult both of us unstable on our feet and taking help from Walkers 

Yes we are celebrating, alHamdulillah

Unfortunately I cant bring a photo of us together-- amazing we have kept away from getting pictures together

I will ask daughter to help

Uploaded with her help 

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My friend Zulfi

 Originally I had not thought of this subject but I decided to day to jot down about this man for the remarkable life he had

   Syed Zulfiqar Haider , his full name but amongst friends he was known by this common  abbreviation of "Zulfi" He was just a couple of years older than me (was oldest in our group and there is a story behind why he was late in his educational achievement) but among the "friends" who are also "partners" he was called affectionately as Daddy or Pitaji or just by "Buddha" depending on the situation or mood but we all loved him anyway.

    In our Medical school many friendships start with "partnership" made according to Roll numbes and Partners for dissection (of human body) in practical anatomy class So we were , Wahaj + Zafar Bhutta and Zaheer + Zulfi on each Lower limb (alloted to us.). For some reason on the upperlimb of same body was Sarwar Frooki (there is a reason why we spell it as such and not Farooki) who became part of "partnership".

This was necessary to explain this special "friendship."  We had made purposeful close friendship so all of us made bare all our "life secrets" to each other in our first year early. That is how I know about Zulfi and his wonderful life and he himself told us that he has always been lucky to get so much which he did not consider he was deserving of it all and he wondered ahow and why he got all that.  Skipping the rest of his life's good and bad things, I will only mention about his death which occured in the beginning of this Islamic year. He belongs to Kattar Shia family and he had a stroke early in the year but he breahted his last on 10th day of Muharram and was burried on the 13th (See my previous blog on Muharram and Zulfi)

  So amazing for me to learn as his death is so exhalted too (as if the malkulMaut knew his lickiness) He called himself Lucky and then to die on such important date and yes he was. Inna Lillahi wa. . . . . . 

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Twentieth day of January

There are important events associated for Americans on this dat as there is Presidential ceremony on this day every four years. 

But for me today in our home there is first experience of severe cold that I did not see as much in NC residence O! I have had expereinces like ths before in my life both in England (Was in Durhan Bishop Auckland for a couple of years) as well as in US (was in Cincinnati Ohio for four years)

 So it is not new but it brings to my mind older experiences. Remembering that first time I saw snow was in my visit to Murree in Pakistan

No we did not forget 15th January, children got together here with a small piece of cake and a candle to sing happy birthday to their mom

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Holiday/Festival Times

These are  Days of celebration

  Christmas

  Hanikkah/Chanukkah

  Kwanza

         Christians made 25th December a date of birth of Jesus Christ ( PBUH) although nobody knows the real date

 Hanukkah is Jewish celebration of lights commemorating their freedom from Greek occupation and

 Kwanza is a "manufactured" celebration of African-Americans based on a African tradition, Started by a fellow called "Dr. Maulana Karengay?" from 1966  (Muslim fellow?) and it ia a week long tradition from 26th december to First of January

 Chanukkah Starts for 10 days from December 25

  We, in Pakistan have a birthday rememberance of Mohammad Ali Jinnah on 25th December

Some Muslims have tried to celebrate Birth of Jesus PBUH  on this date joining the Christians but it did not become popular There is no doubt however in that Muslims  believe in Fatherless birth of Jesus from Maryam AS (Quran Majeed)

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Codd-neck Bottle

Remembering the sodawaterbottles of my childhood (nineteen thrities The thick glass bottles in which there was a small glass ball that would be pushed forcibly down to release the soda water and the Fizzz It was invented bya London fellow by the name of Hiram Codd and it bacame popular rapidly It was therefore called Codd-neck bottle That was 1872

Interesting indeed. 

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Friday the thirteenth

  I dont know why they had made so much about this 13th date but for us Muslims Friday remains the best day of the week

  Trying to settle down in this new place with timings that need to be  co-related with the times of Hassan who has now two homes to work. for Responsibility of elderly parents for a busy Lawyer is not easy But poor fellow he is trying to do his best with his children being busy for school work and sports etc So his wife Rabia helps too His older son is finding himself busy in self created work which seems to be3 demanding more time than university studies but that is their priviledge Modern day children have different prespective on academics than we had in our days So we just watch them develope their own skills their own way.

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K E M KANA

                      Kemcolians/KEMKANA - keep in touch with me though I do not follow much any more, but

It is nearing the end of November and I have not written anything new so let me say something about this kemkana

 Well I graduated from KE MED College (Now University) in 1957 , 67 years ago.  Today I got email from Kemcolians (KE Med College Graduates) of any news for their next publication of newsletter and I thought of writing something but the technological details may fail me how to send it to them as I cant understand the modern tech language

  April 2021  some of us (Graduates of 1957) had a Zoom together meeting arranged by the son of one of us (Saeed Chughtai) and had fun He unfortunately is not with us anymore but Still Ghaus Malik (in NY), MS Farooki (in Canada), Iftikhar Khan (in England), and myself are still going strong , alHamdulillah. So  then I thought who would be interested in knowing about old folks like us as I remember when I had sent this Info of 57, reunion to this newsletter they did not bother to publish and I felt sad instead.

 Of course I dont find any familiar names in the newsletter either as they are all newer younger kemcolians.

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