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Memories of my childhood

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I remember my childhood was such a great period of my life, that i enjoyed fully. Some of the nice moments i am sharing here and i am sure many of you may get nostalgic about your own childhood after reading this post, some of the magical moments that are always treasured through out our lives. Here are some of my childhood story book's pages, the treasured one "my first school certificate" and the examination papers of my early school and i am happy to see that my mama still kept all that for me, makes  me miss those precious moments when she gave me all that.   A page from my story book bear my signature Lols My first school certificate and examination papers   Pages from my story books

A stay on the river Kunhar

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Following pictures are taken at Balakot town and near its famous River "Kunhar". This town is situated in Mansehra district of Pakistan. The town was badly damaged by 2005 earthquake and later on was rebuilt, but unfortunately it have lost that charm and beauty that used to be earlier especially its main town area . I have visit this place many times during my childhood with my parents. Now again after such a long time i got a chance of passing by this town. So i am going to share this beautiful River Kunhar side along with some of  newly constructed balakot town that is suppose to be earthquake resistant.  

Protection against an evil eye. A tribal myth or reality.

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In different cultures of the world, there is a belief of protection from an evil eye, however the concept vary widely among different cultures yet the believe is more or less the same. According to a belief, an evil eye is considered a look with bad intention, that may cause harm or bad luck to the person to whom it is directed with evil or malicious intention. Among Pashtuns, an ethnic group, both from northwest of Pakistan and Afghanistan, a local language term "Nazar" is used in such cases."Nazar" means an "evil eye" in English language.  It is suppose to be that certain people have a gaze of their magical eye that may cause harm to some one's beautiful house, possession, property business or any individual etc. For protection from evil eye,usually amulets, bracelets, black thread, sea shells, necklaces with black color pearls and beads are used. Apart from that the rural traditional women used to put alum along with red chillies in fire to finis...

My elegant Samsung galaxy camera

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I just fell in love with my New Samsung Galaxy Camera™ AT&T 4G Connected (White). Its elegant and have many features. My sweetest mama gifted me this camera. I am really thankful to my dear mom for giving me such an incredible device. It runs Android like a smart phone and its wireless feature let you skip your computer completely. Picture quality is great, though i am just testing it right now and some of the following pictures are taken with default settings... Its very easy to edit and decorate pictures directly on camera and to share on blog and in emails.Though Samsung also announces a newer version of this Android galaxy camera this year, which is bit cheaper but it doesn't have 3G/4G connect... Features of my Galaxy camera are following. Apart from its internal memory, i have to purchase 32 GB micro SDHC UHS I Card. 16.3 Megapixel CMOS Image Sensor 1.4GHz Quad-Core Processor F2.8, 23 mm, 21x Super Long Zoom Lens 4.8-inch HD Super Clear Touch Display Android 4.1 ...