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THE CJM CIRCULAR: the real ride down memory lane One
day, when i realized that i had over 130 alumni onboard, and less than 50 pictures
on site, i decided to send out a huge email. It turned out, Hotmail doesnt support
more than 50 addresses, so i thought it best to target the girls from 1980s
and before and off went that email, reminding,begging,pleading for pictures. click on EDIT on your mainbrowser window (look right on top)---click on"find on this page" ---type one of the names mentioned below(i suggest just the first name)---and click clicking NEXT for it to catch the next few enteries! enjoy! SALMA REHMAN, Yasmin Karim, Fatima Tyebjee, Aneela Nazir, Rashida, Gail Allman, Leslie MiddleCoat, Catherine Faddis, Munazza Akhtar, Amber Rashid, Arlene Geddes, Nabila Maniya, Geethi Aziz. Nefer Jooma, Meher Karim, Amna Shah, Salma Saranjan, Kishwar Khanzada, Uzma Masood, Nilofer Qayoom, samina 1972,
Selma Rehman: Yasmin Karim (1972): Fatima (Tyebjee) Hakeem : Aneela Nazir: Rashida: Lesley Middlecoat(class of 75) Selma: Fatima Hakeem/tyebjee: Catherine Fadis 12-04-08 Yasmin Karim (1972) Lesley Middlecoat : Lesley Middlecoat12-05 Yasmin Karim: Fatima Hakeem Mado khan Munaza Akhtar (now Shamshad): .Hi everyone, I was at the school from
1976 to 1982, (class of '82).Anyone reading this from that era I would love
to hear from you.I live in Miami, Florida. Anyone else in the area?? (other
than Fauzia)! Nabila Maniya sonia Farooq : Amber Rashid Yasmin Aneela Nazir Yasmin (1972) You know girls/ladies its so funny but I think Mother Andrew made her exit from Murree so many many times. Twice in the nine years I was there. And every farewell was a teary and heart wrenching one. I wonder if she ever thinks of all those days. I remember the farewell we gave her Yasmin Bokhari (I think) sang ¡§To Sir with Love¡¨ oh it was so sad everyone in the place howled!! While compiling a book may seem like a daunting task, we could begin our chronicles by posting stories & pictures on the CJM website. Sr. Andrews or Mother Andrew, as she was called when I started, looks so young here. I started in class 7, 1978. She was the outgoing Principal and Sr. Vienney the incoming one. I saw the heart-wrenching good-byes between her and the students, especially the Seniors. I knew I was going to miss out on knowing someone very special. My 5 yrs at CJM were filled with stories of what an amazing & dynamic person she was. Nabila Afroze (1978-1982):Hi there Captain! Wasn't it awesome to carry
the flag on the parades! Do the House Charge & run the school for a month. But
with the power came the responsibility. Supervising the study hall, talking
to house girls if they got Pink cards (specially the usual suspects), motivating
the teams etc. Once I got called to the Kindergarten class because one of the
girls had had an "accident", poor girl had peed in her pants. I had to go to
get the Ayah to take the embarrassed little kid to the dormitory to get changed.
Then get the guy to clean up the mess in the class room, all during my own classes
that were going on. But it did teach me leadership. I went onto become the Sports
Head for the Students Council at St. Joseph's College, Karachi. Do you have
some nuggets to share? Yasmin Karim (1972)Pink Cards and Blue cards¡K.wow I had forgotten all about them!!! Happy to say I was the recipient of a blue card..once I think. I remember standing in line at assembly in the hall and God forbid if you so much as looked or spoke to another person¡Kboy did we learn self discipline¡Kkids of today don¡¦t know the meaning of that do they. Lesley Middlecoat:Yassie it must of been Saba Bokhari. she was the singer!!!!
Im in touch with Nadia Khalid Waheed................remember the five sisters????
Yasmin Bokhari works for a bank in Dubai......and is presently performing Hajj.
Sunniya ( from Manila) Hi Nabila, this is Sunniya Durrani( now Durrani-Jamal).
from the class of '83. I took over from you as Captain of Courtesy. Sister Cornellius
used to manage the baby Dormitories. Remember Sister Alice ( her second in Command?),
and the Langerie where we girls would sit and take out each others boochiees
( head lice...). I think they used to dust the culprits hair with DDT in those
days. Remember the monkies that would descend into the dormitories from ventilators
and creat havoc with our jugs and basins, not to mention the cornstarched bedcovers!.
My favourite and most funny memory is being totally in awe of the rather LARGE
underpants of Sister Cornellius on the clothes line. I used to love playing
on the swing ( with metal handles) near the little park down by the driveway
( what was it called?)/ Does anyone remember Miss Uzma our Urdu teacher who
used to raise her middle finger when asking someone to stand up and couldn't
figure out why we would burst out laughing. Sister Clotilda and a french canadian
nun ( I foget her name), were my favourite because they were very kind. Sister
Simon peter still gives me the chills ( but I have never forgotton how to make
blacmange and I owe my time management skills to Housecraft!). The fauzia in
your class was Fauzia Siddique , wasn't she? selma, edinburgh:Hi folks.... what can I say! Such a great response to my feeble question of ...' what chance a reunion?' S0, should i dust down my passport for 09, or 2010? Even if I don't it has been so great just reading all of this. A book, too? wow, but yes, putting more info up on a site would be a great idea...but what of you Sonia...we surely can't just dump that on you!! I had though of some 'writing', and had already started to edit down all the info floating about (sorry, such a bad habit, after years of green papers, white papers,committee, board papers!!!!!!!) But just for myself you understand. Sad to say though, doesn't appear to be a soul from my own times or years!! Think my years were...61,62, and 63(final year) ...my mother had just passed away here in edinburgh and rather quickly, i found myself, thousands of miles away....I blame that for my slight vagueness about the dates. But,thanks to all of you, names and memories flooding back. it was only many years later (marriage, life in east pakistan, then bangladesh,) that i came back to edinburgh...me, husband my four sons. But in my wonderful time, i remember Mothers..Berchmans, Mercedes and Augusta...think she was French Canadian...but she taught me French. Ofcourse Sister Clothilda.(when did the change take place..i.e from Mother to 'Sister'.) I think the Mother Superior when I got there was called..'..Mother Loyola'. Was there ever a Mother called Maria Goretti? Who took over when Mother Loyola left....would that have been Mother Gertrude? Something tells me i should remember Fatti Bera, and Mrs Walsh? Welsh? the music teacher. Luke warm baths, and yes, someone selling(??) wonderful cakes and pastries from a tin trunk? think so!! and v warm nights and the rubmle of the tin roofs when there were earth tremors. Sad to say though, everyone seems to have been stealing those apples, myself included... severly punished i seem to remember, i.e stripped of head girl status. Going thru my memories again, i think i am still looking for a few names: jennifer bailey (think she ended up outside london, in rickmansworth) sandra?? carroll....australian with irish parentage cynthia diaz..??came from either lahore or karachi?? jean baptie??? came from 'Pindi??? seem to remember some american girl there for a while?? but the name escapes me two sister lived in tak-ti-bhai???...nwfp...sorry, spelling's bound to be wrong!...father scottish, mother english, had lived in the west indes....possibly edna tyczak waheeda, rabia, ismet or izmet, bilqis, gulnar, nagina, zara, talat.... so any help in tracking down some 'oldies' from my time would be greatly appreciated. (I am playing this tape in my head even as I type...I can see us walking out in full uniform on what..??...sunday walks...? snaking thru some trails...whispering forests......stony pathways....steep hillsides....clear blue skies thru the tree tops....) , Uzma Masood ( Abbasi ) 1973-1977Excellent idea -Let us all write down
the stories we remember and put up the pictures too from yester years.. we should
also put up our pictures of when we were in school so that everyone can identify
us-as it has really been long and people have forgotten-they just need to hve
their memories refreshed. Gail Allman : Hello Selma and everyone on this fantastic list
that has been created. It is so good to go down memory lane and talk about our
childhood and school days at CJM. Charmaine (my sister) and I frequently re-call
our days there and tell our nephews of our stories from the past. What we got
up to, the nuns that were there and the friends we made! They always ask us
to tell them more.. So we must have had fun. I understand you, Selma, would
have left before Charmaine and myself joined the school, we started in 1969
and left in 1971 when the war between India and Pakistan began. However, you
are right in thinking the nuns were called Mother, I remember Mother Goretti
as well as Mother Gertrude. They changed their titles to Sister somewhere in
this period. Sister Andrews is name I will never forget, she was in our train
compartment when I first went up to the school. All of us huddled in one train
car like sardines. Does anyone remember anyone from the years 1969 - 1971, ages
then 7 - 10? Of course I do remember a lot of seniors, like Lesley Middlecoat
(hope you are well), great picture of you that you sent the other day. You look
great! Your right, our parents lived in Kuwait, they moved from Karachi, and
when we left the school in November 71, in December that year we too left Karachi
and went home to Mum and Dad in Kuwait. We now all live in Bedfordshire, England.
Someone spoke about the toffee, well Charmaine is a great chef, she has made
toffee that I think is very close to the school toffee, but she herself says
that it is not the same, and if anyone has the recipe she would like to have
a copy please. I know we have a few photographs (black & white) at the school
and as soon as I can dig them out, I will post them on Live Spaces (still trying
to build on it at the moment). Girls, keep this going, it is so good to be in
contact again. Let me know if anyone remembers Valerie Horne (still no mention
of her). Nabila Maniya: remember the 5 sisters! (atleast 2 of them) Ayesha Khalid
(A.K.W.) Waheed was in our class, Captain of Endeavour. Sherry Khalid Waheed
was a year ahead of us. I hear she's settled in Islamabad. In our times there
were no head girls. But I heard all of the older sisters had been head girls.
I remember the day we got news that Z.A Bhutto had been hanged. He had been
a personal friend of theirs. I remember how shook up Ayesha was. It was so sad.
The other sisters I remember were Noor Jehan's (the famous singer) & actor Ijaz's
daughters: Hina Ijaz, Shazia and I just forgot the youngest's name. She was
a year junior to me. Munazza shamshad: The youngest was Nazia.I think she is in Lahore. Nabila Maniya: You know, we Convent girls are sooo similar. We even
talk the same, use the same lingo: "Paraphernalia, Confiscate, ninkumpoop".....and
so many more. My cousin in Karachi went to CJM, Karachi. So every time I visited,
I met a few of her friends from school. When I finished my Senior Cambridge,
I started St. Joseph's College in Karachi. I kid you not, I met these 6 girls
from the Karachi Convent and by the end of the day, it felt like I had known
them for years! We totally clicked! I thought I'd never get over Murree EVER!
But we've been inseparable ever since. We even had a reunion in Toronto, this
July. We got married within 1-2 years of each other, our kids are the same ages
and are totally in touch even though some of us are in karachi, Chicago, Australia...
We can talk about Sr. Mercedes, Mother Bergman, Mother Andrew etc. but not of
dormitories and meals. I went to the Karachi Convent to visit Sr. Vienney, Sr.
Mercedes and others, actually into the Nun's quarters upstairs!! Can you imagine!!,
through the "Parlour" (ours is so much more distinguished looking) ;) So while
our comraderie is not as strong as the CJM Murree girls, its still there. Anyway,
one of the Karachi Convent girls knew Ayesha Khalid Waheed from Cambridge University
where they both did their Bachelors, talk about a small world. The girl's name
is Sadia Khan (now Sadia Mohammad). She told me Ayesha got married to a german
guy, I think. Will try to get her email, if she's still in touch. Arlene Geddes: Gwen Middlecoat lives in the U.K. Parveen [Khanzada]
now Azam Khan lives in Peshawar and her sister Kishwa lives there also. Naseem
Durrani also lives in Peshawar. I heared last that Naseem Aslam was teaching
Piano at the J&M Lahore. My name is Arlene Geddes, but my maiden name was Cooper.
Class of 54. Yasmin: remember when we had Pinkie Bhutto (Benazir I think) at the
convent for a short while and we were all so impressed that she was the daughter
of a famous person. There was also a girl who was the granddaughter of President
Ayub¡K..Irshat Auranzeb I sort of think..dont remember her name that well but
remember the person. She ended up marrying a guy that my sister had been dating
in London (it was an arranged marriage) and what a shock we got when we discovered
whom he had married!! Sonia I have some great photos of some girls who did the
Shakespeare play ¡§Macbeth¡¨ one year (early 70¡¦s) I must send them to you.
In a couple of weeks I will be on school vacation so I will send you heaps them¡K¡K
Saba you will have a good laugh at them. It is so wonderful to see how spread
across the world you all are and gradutates form so many different years. I
was feeling like the oldie for a while there but it was great to see emails
from even older graduates¡absolutely wonderful..I wonder how far back we can
go. From our era does anyone remember Windifred and May (cant remember their
surnames. And that crazy girl Mary Lou Pereira¡.oh gosh she sure was forward
or us innocent CJM girls!!! Lol Aneela...class of '76 That was May and Winifred
Tate. May married a man from Indonesia, I believe and moved to England. amber gillani: Do u all remember the evening angeles bell?how in the
dusk it would gong and we would all be still?evening is a holy time and it was
such a lovely feeling...like being in tune with creation...and the islamabad
lights blinking sleepily while we gazed forlornly at them..the chill and the
dusky amber lights across the horizon added to the lonliness and the nip in
the air was the ultimate icing on the cake.did any of u ever hear the flute
being played down in the valley?it was almost magical....dunno if that was real
of just a fleeting figment of my imagination .and the tree on the flat...abundant...like
a generous mother...the leaves would create their own symphony on a lovely breezy
day....sad that all that is no more.yet it all lives within us.look at where
each is...some(not me)in places way lovlier than murree yet that was somthing
special.it was childhood..a magical time...where memory is just played back
in music.... happy eid girls... uzma Masood 1977: It is so true that we CJM girls can meet at any time of our life and start from where we left off - and when we meet a CJM ex student ,we just connect-it is like a family thing .I have had similar experiences,met people got talking clicked with them,later to find out that they were from CJM.Please everyone connect to facebook.Getting Geethi to join too.please add me from Leslie's account or Ayesha Jans.i did send out invitations to all mentioning CJM but no one added me. Ayubs other granddaughters were tania ayub,zeenat ayub ,they were very junior to us. i remember Tasneem Bhutto,i found her to be so reserved and poised and soft spoken.She was Mumtaz Bhuttos daughter. I think our class may have taken part as extras in Macbeth.please do post the pictures.it would be lovely to see them. After Laila left they did not have head girls anymore. Sherry Khalid is married to Chuahary Nisar ,who is in politics these days. Tina was the youngest of Noor Jehan's daughters: Kathleen Athans nee Manuel: Anyone around from the class of ¡¦80? Pls
respond. Nabila Maniya: Is this Kathy Manuel? Elizabeth & Beverly's older sister?
Hey, I was in Elizabeth's (am I even saying her name right) class of 1982. Please
can you give me her email address. She will know me as Nabila Afroze. I knew
Beverly briefly in Karachi for 2 yrs or so. Her son Danial and my son Akbar
used to play together at Bonvista apartments Nabila: If knowledge is power, then CJM taught us to use all its might.
I think if I had not gone to CJM, I would have lead a life of leisure and been
very spoiled since I am an only child. The Convent taught me the value of money,
how to be happy living a spartan life, have boundaries, be independent at an
early age, learn to live with people you don't like ( a skill that serves me
so well till this day) and the list goes on. Lesley Ann Middlecoat CLASS OF 75 Catherine Faddis: Selma Rehman: Yasmin Karim (1972): Yasmin: Yasmin Karim: Well here it is Sonia you wanted pics and you got pics!!!
I have many more. Many of you from 1971/72 will have a huge laugh at these.
Remember the school picnics. Some of you should remember a beautiful nun called
Sr Francis. She was Irish and I fell in love with her. I have so many of her.
We kept in touch for years and then she fell very ill. I believe she died sometime
last year and I only found out months later. She is the one playing the guitar.
She taught us so many songs. Saba you will laugh at the Macbeth photo and the
picnic one¡Kall that hair!. Girls from other years will remember Ayubia I think
it was a yearly excursion for some years for the Seniors. Oh and school picnics
on the khudside with all the goodies in those baskets¡K Oh Lesley a good one
of you and me looking so angelic!!! Little did they know!! LOL Enjoy everyone.
Nilofer Qayoom: HELLO ALL OPENED MY MAIL AFTER AGES, AND WAS THRILLED
TO HEAR FROM SO MANY EX CJM STUDENTS..BELIEVE ME GIRLS THOSE WERE THE BEST YEARS
OF MY LIFE & I WISH WE COULD GO BACK IN TIME AND LIVE THEM ONCE MORE. SOME YEARS
AGO I TOOK MY KIDS THERE, MET SR. CLOTILDA & SR.MERCEDES, THEY REMEMBERED ME(NEVER
FORGET DO THEY)..MY KIDS FELL IN LOVE WITH THE SCHOOL AND WANTED ME TO LET THEM
STUDY THERE...BY THE WAY THIS IS NILOFER QAYOOM, CLASS OF 1976..DO YOU GUYS
REMEMBER CRAZY MEENU DURRANI & SHAHNAZ MINALLAH? HAVE BEEN IN TOUCH WITH SHAHNAZ
& LESLEY THROUGHOUT MY LIFE, & SHE IS MORE THAN A SISTER TO ME AND A MOTHER
TO MY KIDZS..WE ALL LOVE YOU LES. .I REMEMBER SO MANY OF YOU, YASMEEN & MEHROON,
SABA & YASMEEN, ANEELA OFCOURSE I REMEMBER YOU..HAVE ALOT OF CONVENT PICTURES
WHICH I MUST LOOK FOR..SOMEONE ASKED ABOUT MARYLOU PEREIRA, WELL SHE IS IN KARACHI
& MARRIED TO LEON MENEZES, A WONDERFUL GUY..USED TO BE IN TOUCH WITH HER AS
WE WERE NEIGHBOURS FOR MANY YEARS...SANDRA HAYJAHAN IS IN CANADA, MARRIED AND
HAS 4 KIDZ... SAIRA IRSHAD'S DAUGHTER & MY DAUGHTER R BEST FRIENDS, TOGETHER
FROM NURSERY AT GRAMMAR SCHOOL..SAIRA STILL LOOKING AS GORGEOUS AS EVER. I REMEMBER
ONE WOULD EAT ANYTHING IN SCHOOL, I WAS LUCKY AS LES NEVER ATE EGGS OR CHICKEN,
SO I HAD DOUBLE SHARE ON THOSE DAYS...USED TO PUT RED CHILLY POWDER ON BREAD
AND IT WAS DELICIOUS, ALSO BREAD WITH CONDENSED MILK....AND ALL THOSE CARDS
WE USED TO DRAW FOR EACH OTHER ON BIRTHDAYS..MEENU DURRANI THE RICHI RICHI PROVIDED
LOTS OF CHOCOLATES WHICH I RELISHED..WONDER IF ANY OF YOU REMEMBER, MY DAD WOULD
SEND HUGE BASKETS OF LEECHEES ALL THE WAY FROM SYLHET AND WE ALL HAD A FEAST..
LES & ME LOVED TO DANCE AND WE WOULD DANCE WITH THE SENIORS...ISHRAT, DONIA
& OTHERS. LISTEN, I NEED TO DO SOME WORK, SO WILL CATCH YOU ALL AGAIN..ALL OF
YOU WHO R IN PAKISTAN, LETS MEET UP SOMEWHERE SOON.. Aneela: Nilofer, do you remeber when, i think it was in class seven--you,
me and Saadia Zarif were caught pleading with the pakora man to give us pakoras
at pindi point and the next day at assembly we got our infamous pink cards!
I also visited the convent a few years ago and my daughter thought it was absolutely
wonderful.....straight out of a story book! I haven't heard from Sandra Hay
(My vice-captain for Courtesy House) in years. Last time I met her was at Sonia
Jamal's house in Lahore---ages ago! do you have her e-mail address or maybe
you could just forward this...four kids, wow! Lots of love to you, Aneela Mary Manuel: Hi Nabila, This is Mary Manuel (not Elizabeth!) . We used
to be the best of pals at CJM. I think our house was "Service". And we did meet
approximately fourteen years ago while I was visiting my younger sister in Karachi.
At that time, your little boy, Akbar was an adorable toddler! Does anyone have
contact with my other good buddy.....her name was Rubina, but everyone just
called her Fatty? She was from the Peshawar area and was excellent at sports....especially
vollyball. Also: is this the same Fauzia Siddiqui (from the USA) who used to
write absolutely beautiful poetry? I'm in contact with Natasha Nasarulla if
anyone is interested in her e-mail address....she lives in Australia. And so
do her cousins, Kathy and Mona Carapiet. Well, three of the four Manuel girls
(Kathleen/Mary/Julianne) have settled in California, USA. The youngest, Beverly
Manuel aka Umber Hyatt, still resides in Karachi with her three kids and hubby,
Rohail Hyatt. Mary Manuel LeCompte Hi Lesley (Middlecoat), I used to fly with you
for British Air....you loved wearing yellow bows in your hair (very pretty!)
One time after a very early flight back to Karachi , you took me out for some
parathas and halva....delicious at two in the morning. Ambreen Rashid Gilani:
hello thr girls...just wanted a lil nudge on my erratic memory with a lil help
frm u all....does anyone remember the big feast and the small feast?i think
the big feast was the one which had some coupons and we did what with them...search
me...think bought school toffee etc ...i was very young.and the other feast
was on till boarding school finished...maybe it was always called fancy fair...not
small feast.and the school feast...yes on the 21st of june.where tradition required
that seniors wear saris...i had my mom buy me a new one...didnt want her hand
me downs...it was such a proud moment when she did.now girls get whatever they
want so easily.the charm is lost. and the lazy long drawn sundays of our time...the
day used to drag on and on and on...and the music on that medieval gizmo...how
we loved it.we would dance ..and have fun.now if u do...they brand u...the world
has become more intelerant hasnt it? and does anyone recall the school picnics?where
as soon as we sat in the bus we said a lil prayer and then 'OLE MACDONALD,MY
BONY LIES OVER THE OCEAN'.......sigh...what innocence.i would polish off my
picnic lunch in the bus then would be hungry all day.we went to such remote
places...close by but very private...maybe murree was just less crowded then.what
magic....and the rambles,the walks,the games,the aftr supper walks...so seriously
we lived our little lives...all so vague and misty now.plz send pics...so my
memory gets tickled back. happy sunday....;) Nabila Maniya; Do you guys remember going to NASDAQ cinema in Islamabad,
in the Convent's white van to watch movies? We used to look forward to that
little taste of the outside world. I remember the Character Building classes
with Sr. Mercedes that were held out doors in the mellow sunshine. Also the
Art classes conducted outdoors. We would pick a pine cone or a daisy to draw.
The place was so serene. In Spring, the slope going down to the Hockey field
used to be covered with white daisies. The cottage (I forget the name) at the
end of field would have such pretty wild flowers like Butter-cups and Lady Ann's
Lace. In our senior year, we were going to dissect a rabbit. First, when we
were trying to use some chlorofoam (sp?)to put it out, it escaped on the little
hill near the back corridor, near the kitchen. We had to chase it around the
hill, until we caught it after 30 min or so. Finally we put it into the whole
tin of chlorofoam. Any way, long story short, after the dissection, we buried
it near that cottage and said a little prayer for the innocent little thing
who was sacrificed in the name of science! Catherine Faddis: Hello all: If anyone knows the whereabouts of Michelle
Braganza or her sister Sabrina, please let me know or forward my info to her.
Since I have the floor, let me share with you my silly memories from CJM, which
was such a lovely time in my life. Coming from Ghana, not to mention two years
in the cloistered diplomatic circles of Islamabad it was my first real opportunity
to understand Pakistani culture at a deep level. So here goes. The 10 things
I will never forget about CJM: 10. Watching one of the visiting nus (she was
wheelchair bound) read Mills and Boon romance novels all day long 9. Learning
to enjoy paan 8. The wonderful roasted corn on the cob rubbed with lemon, salt,
and red pepper 7. Putting red pepper on potato chips. Eating street food --
Samosas! 6. Watching girls cleanse for evening prayer by touching wood. 5. Crowding
in a room for the one hour a week TV treat -- CHIPS! 4. Compulsary use of a
fountain pen. 3. Using our hair to clean excess ink from the pen. 2. Referring
to ourselves as girls. As in, "girls, its time to go now". 1. The first day
of school. Being surrounded with girls rubbing my skin to see if the color would
rub off. Yasmin: Hi Catherine, I knew a Pat Braganza and a Winnie Braganza were
they any relatives? Pat is married to a distant cousin of mine and living in
Perth Western Australia the last I heard. She was a senior when I joined the
CJM in 1965/66. AmnaShah: hi girls...its absolutely wonderful to read all these
mails..i still havent gone through all of them as i am out of station..yasmin
karim thanks for the lovely pics..btw im the one with the short hair and jeans
in the group pic of class of '72.. love to all..amna shah cjm'72. Hi Amna, my
god I couldn't believe you are still alive in this crazy world. I thought it
was yo in the photo but couldn't quite remember your last name!!! Didn't we
look funny in those days...but I remember so well those cold mornings sitting
at the back of the library and studying for our pending exams in which I didn't
do that well I might say!!! So great to hear from you. Come on anymore gals
from the graduating year of 1972 how about making contact and filling in the
blanks in the photo as I couldn't remember everyone's name. Yasmin Karim (1972) CJM forever!! Hi Selma, I'm Salma Saranjam, class
of '69. I remember you and the Scottish dance you used to do. Sandra Aziz is
in Canada, I could probably get an address for you. When I last met her she
was living in Ottawa but I do have some friends here in Toronto that are in
touch with her. Take care, Salma from selma in edinburgh: Everyone...........What can I say, FINALLY...see
below and marvel!!!! I did...the power of the internet and communications....
finally someone from my era....i was seriously worried that i had imagined my
years in Murree.......and that i was possibly gate crashing your memories!!!
(only joking!) but Salma Ataullahjan.....thank you so much for sending this.....and
if Sandra Aziz would also like to join the email allumni....i think that would
be wonderful..... I think if i understand you correctly,Salma, that by saying
class of 69, you graduated in 69...making you a bit younger than sandra and
i............ the fact that you remember my 'dancing' is somewhat worrying..................very
few people see my 'dancing'.....and to have impinged itself on your 'young'
mind like that: definitely worrying!!! Cos it's C'mas here, am surrounded by
carols and the like.........and thus, another 'memory'.... we thought we were
the first to sing 'we three goondas from bhori bazaar'...to the tune of 'we
three kings...'...................now that was truly risquee in my time!! thank
you again salma......and regards to all....from a cold and windy edinburgh AMNA HAMID: yasmin.. great to be in touch..im adding more of the 72
batch and some other girls to the mailing list.. lubna shah..samina hatimali..zarmina
durrani(tinas younger sister) maria anwar...nadi(whose name was ismat khursheed)and
kishwar saadullah... love amna SABRINA HAYAT-How many of you remember the expresso coffee we used to
make furiously beating the mixture in the cup under the table the moment the
nuns were at a distance. Once I cant quite remember who it was,I think it was
Faiza Syed ,not sure now, but the bottom of her cup came out and she was quite
petrified coz we wernt allowed to make expresso coz invariably the bottoms would
fall out (cheap quality). Well anyhow I came up with a solution and we waied
till the hall was empty. Then I took the other half of the cup and threw it
down on the floor to break it completely and not have such a tell tale shape.
Lo and behold nothing happened to the wretched cup, so i DID IT AGAIN. Little
did I know but two nuns were standing just outside. They never came in at the
first crash coz they thought " oh one of the behras broke something" but at
the second crash they came running in to catch us red handed. Sabrina Hyat ( Class of 73) Ghazala Nangiana and myself just came back
from a wedding. We met Lubna Shah and marias daughter there. Later we met Kishwar
Gail:Hi Yasmin You probably don't remember me, I guess I was much younger
than you guys or so it seemed like it back in those days, today I'm not so sure,
you really would probably be no more than 3 or 4 years older than me. I do vaguely
remember a lot of you, as well Mehroon, can't picture the face now though. Lesley
Middlecoat looks great in a recent photograph that was sent. I also remember
the names Dunia and and definitely Mary Lou. These were some of my idols if
you like when I was in school. I left Murree with my sister Charmaine who is
four years old than me, and we left in 1971 (not graduated then), I was in Class
4 aged 10 at the time. It's lovely reading emails from all of you, brings back
memories of days and years gone by although I have never forgotten them, somehow
they seem to have a lasting memory of my time there and we regularly talk about
our experiences at the school to our friends and family. Next time Charmaine
talks to Jean Carlvahlo, I will let her know you guys are on line, she lives
here in the UK too. I would still like news of Valerie Horne and Sally Ann Jones
if anyone remembers them (Class 4, 1971). Very best wishes for the New Year.
Lesley Middlecoat class of 75.Gail if I remember correctly its Sally
Ann Baker you are looking for and not Sally Ann Jones. She was a cousin of Jean
Ferguson both of whom used to live in Sylhet ( tea gardens) in then East Pakistan.
after the 71 war they did not come back to school. try a search on the net!!!
good luck. HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL YOU LADIES................HOPE THIS YEAR BRINGS
PEACE TO OUR WORLD......... AND MOST SPECIALLY TO PAKISTAN.......where all of
us grew up and many of us still live. Cheers, Munaza Akhtar (Shamshad), Class of 1982Well said Nabila.I think we all
share that experience. I remember standing on the flat and looking onto the
Islamabad lights in the evening and longing to be back in the 'plains' with
my family when I initially got there in 1977.However leaving school in 1982
was one of the most painful experiences in my life. I spent the next year feeling
lost, confused and depressed and constantly living in memories of CJM.It's amazing
how that place grabbed onto our hearts and has never let go. I don't think I
ever want to go back to Murree again as I want to just remember it like it was.
Wishing all my CJM sisters a very Happy New Year and peace and joy in the year
ahead.love, Aneela class of '76 I took it a step further: after I graduated in 1976, I went back to CJM and spent a week there. I just needed that closure. It felt weird not being a student there anymore but that was my family and I just needed to go back one more time. Yasmin Karim (1972)For those of you who went from Karachi to Murree¡Keach
year on exactly the 10th march I remember getting on the train with our steel
trunks and that huge odd looking bedding roll, piling into compartments and
the scenes of kids crying and not wanting to leave their parents. I so clearly
remember every year Mehroon not wanting to go but I somehow looked forward to
it all!!!! Those dusty days of travelling no windows and dust everywhere. The
sellers at the different stations¡Kcan¡¦t remember how many days its took about
two I think and then every 10th December doing it all again only this time looking
forward to seeing our parents.
Geethi Aziz ''75 Uzma has been forwarding me the CJM Circular (...is
that what it's called?) and I want to be a part of it - please! Adding Havovi
Pajnigara and Farzana Dossa - all of us from the class of '75 - and of course
Tubby - and hey I see Les here! When do we have an off-line get-together? Sit
around a bonfire up in Bhurban, marshmallows and all - reminisce, laugh and
perhaps shed a tear or two for those golden years. Sonia Farooq - I do believe
it is you who has knitted this together. Great job! Warmth, Nabila Maniya: did the Karachi to Murree so I remember the annual exodus too. I remember my parents dropping me on the Karachi Air-Port with all my stuff every March, after umpteen hugs and kisses and for the first year or so tears. At the Islamabad Airport, we would all meet up from all over Pakistan - Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar. The tears and long faces would vanish. We were united with our buddies, all excited, chagtting up a storm. We would be picked up by the CJM staff in the Off-white Ford van. We'd get there before the girls whose parents or families would be dropping them. The Convent would be so quiet that for the first day or so my ears would ring (seriously, due to the lack of ANY sounds). Slowly, by the evening or following day the place would fill up. CJM would come back to life, shaking off the hibernation of 3 1/2 months. By the way, the weird rolled bedding was called "Hold-Alls". I attended the 150th Anniversary of CJM and visited for the 2nd time since my graduation in 1982, it was like coming home. I had also visited in 1988 with my sister-in-laws & husband. My husband swore it was like visiting "the in-laws". Sr. Clotilda said you better be taking good care of our child. Poor guy. He's such a sweetheart, so all of this was pretty uncalled for. But I felt so protected and loved. Aaaah, to think that she is gone. Yasmin: Well things sure did change over the years didnt they..to go from those dusty miserably hot trains from Karachi to Rawalpindi to flying into Islamabad¡K.now that is progress. Well it¡¦s unfortunate you gals didn¡¦t experience the train trip that was something else indeed!! But I¦m glad time afforded you some luxury! Hi Selma I feel sorry for you in all that cold..but maybe you can spare us a thought in all this heat!! Mind you I would never swap. It is summer here in Australia and we in Mandurah Western Australia are averaging about 35% which is ideal when you have a pool which we have. My kids are making full use of it too. I don¡¦t envy you in all that snow. I remember the times we had snow in Murree. One year it snowed while we were still in school. I remember studying for final exams sitting in our jumpers coats and practically on top of the heater. How did we survive with no hot water to wash in in the mornings!! Maybe that¡¦s what made us strong. Meher Asif (mehroon k) Hello all. Just wondering if anyone is in touch
with Sairah Irshad. I met her in Karachi while I was staying at Holdiay Inn
Hotel in 1986 when my son was 2 yrs old and then again in 1987 but after that
we lost touch. I would love to get in touch with her again so please help....anyone.
Thanks amna shah '72 meher..sairah irshad lives in karachi,has 2 children,works
as an editor for NEWSLINE magazine as well as running a lovely art gallery.
we have been in touch with each other for a long time. i will get her email
addy and put it up here soon. love, samina- nee hatimali-now hussain 1972 Good God, really the dahl was
watery and pale yellow. Remember the duck eggs(large size) and how I loved them.
As far as eating a monkey if served - well: maybe at that time but honestly,
I was soooooooooooothin at the time and now it is another story. I simply loved
the raisin bread that Sister ? made and hey the egg curry, and pish pash, and
the delicious oatmeal--all nutrious and savory!!!!!!!!!! love you guys take
care Nabila Maniya: I do remember the egg in the daal. But I don't remember it being fried, just boiled in daal. It had an interesting taste. May be 1978 - 1982 they changed it. remember the square omlettes on Sundays and the Roast beef & potatoes. Yummy. I had a ginger cookie today and was reminded of the ginger snaps of CJM. amna shah '72. but lets face it...there is nothing as good as condensed milk and marie biscuits!!!...im stll addicted to them...:) my children mostly think there mum lost it a long time ago ...but are now quite resigned to the murree convent madness...they hardly have a choice...:) selma, EdinburghThanks for this...condensed milk and biscuits....i
thought i had dreamt that! (believe it or not, but i am off to the dentist...co
incidence or whjat?, but not me, just hand holding Him!) have no great memories
of the daal, but do remembr parathas...and condensed milk, and at othr times,
ketchup, chilllies and pickles..... still prefer parathas to chapattis, but
rice wins every time..... the ever expanding Yasmin '72 Ha Ha I knew once I mentioned food a lot of CJM girls would respond!!! Selma you and me alike expanding!!! Gosh Amna ¡§condensed milk¡¨¡K. I remember sneaking spoonfuls into my salivating mouth when Sr Helena wasn¡¦t looking!!! What about the tuck boxes, some of us had measly cartons with a few minor luxuries but boy oh boy do I remember some of the rich and spoilt girls (no offence if you were one of these) who came with huge treasure chests and trunk full of all sorts of goodies and often that¡¦s how friendships were formed!!!! So funny¡KLOL What did you bring in your tuck box???? Tomato sauce!!! I think that was put on everything to help with the taste! Especially on fried eggs which you could have thrown against the wall and I swear they would have bounced back! ƒº I remember one year Teresa (chow) Helen¡¦s sister was opening a huge tin of jam and sliced one of her fingers on the lid¡K.so much blood I had never seen in my life..I think tins were banned after that. Talking about food any of you ever involved in a midnight feast??? (we nearly burnt the hall down that I do remember! samina yes, siree, i remember the condensed milk and marie biscuits
and to this day I look around for those biscuits(thank God we get them now in
Cleveland) and eat them. Hey, no one responded to my previous email about the
duck eggs, delicious raisin bread that Sr. Helena made and that egg curry -
pish pash (rice concoction) boy and talk about nostalgia lane - I will never
forget the 'gunzakhas' that the Pathan friends bought. Buying friendship was
very true thru foooD!!!!!! I can never forget having a 'midnight feast' in the
cubicle with home made rotis that my mother would send up with the driver and
chicken tikka. I would share with the dorm friends. Girls, those were the days
my friend. and such life goes on and on. love amberwhat days and what times....its like a little window somewhere from which we are glimsing a golden piece of our growing up...and i am always scared it will close again...i was in class 5 in 1971...and we had a miss john...dunno if any of u recall her?bless her...once samar amin and i kept a roza...and the iftar was in class,during evening study...and she went and got us toast and keema from teachers cottage.wherever she is...may God bless her.she made two ten year olds very happy.on the other hand...miss rukhsana haq was the cause of me getting an emergency pink card a week after i joined school in class 5...coz someone claimed i had used a curse word...i didnt even know what it meant then...that was the start of my pink card collection...but hey..i got 3 blue cards then when i was a senior... they managed to tame me eventually... talking of food...i miss the kichri...it was yumm.....dry and delicious...would give an arm and a leg to recapture a meal there... u gals frm1972 ...do u recall something called the big feast?i have a faint memory...there was a school feast on june 21st,then a fancy fair and one other thing which had coupons and u could buy food with that...did that actually happen or was it a figment of my imagination? i think u gals from 1972 rock...my 1977 classfellows are underground...think only uzma is on....ah well...it doesnt matter now...a few years here and there....cheers.... p.s some other time i will confess about how i stole a cake fromthe kitchen(right under sister marie roses nose...:) selma ....Burning down halls......!! you were brave!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we got up (one time is all i can remember)and skulked around ,,,,bear with me,,,,can't exactly remember where, but try this..... dorm above the dining hall?.....near the loos? ....longish corridor, for hanging coats???? sitting on top of something? long chest? boxes? defintiely eating and keeping warm by pulling those coats??? around us? what did we eat? can't remember exactly, but do remember sneaking food up to bed, and once almost got caught by Mother Berchmans....asked us to open our desks, and she had a quick rummage... i had stuffed the biscuits right at the back. I am sure i had a cubicle bed there, in that particular dorm, with curtains all around it......some responsible senior I (wasn't!!!!) Me and an other....and after all these emails....another name almost popped into my head. have we been thru the Braganza link/family? Am i imagining a Jean Braganza? regards........ Yasmin¡¦72You aren¡¦t imagining about the Braganza girls there was
Jean and Pat from what I remember they were seniors the year I joined in the
early 60¡¦s I think. I don¡¦t know about Jean but I know Pat married a second
cousin of mine Danny McCarthy her in Perth Western Australia I haven¡¦t kept
in touch with them though. Was Pat in your year Selma? If you knew her I will
see what I can do about finding her email address from this end. I remember
the school feast on 21st June and every year on that day I think of our murree
days. Remember the fudge and toffee we could buy with those tickets and I also
remember getting a kebab wrapped in a nan¡.soooo delicious in those days anyway.
Salma Saranjam You guys have me remembering school food now, I remember
the toffee, fudge, brinjal pickles and the School feast where we all took our
bought food and went for a "Ramble" that's what it was called right? You might
not hear from me for the next 6 weeks because I am heading off to Pakistan for
4 weeks then London for my daughter's graduation. Take Care, Yasmin ¡¥72Oh and what about that mean guy who sat in the boiler room
and we would beg him to toast our one measly piece of bread and beg for an extra
bucket of hot water for our bath!! amber the guy at the boiler room guy was sharif...true...we would get
a bit more water if we were polite... and the langery...and the counterpane
and the cubicle...and tuck...all these are names no one else will probably recognise...and
remember sister clotildas bell at nite?when we were herded to bed.she would
be standing at the top of the stairs,with a stern look on her face...try as
i would,i could never get an innocent look on my face...and invariably she would
give me a warning glare.how precious she was. congratulations Salma on ur daughters
graduation...may she be a trail blazer.....love. samina (1972)THOSE precious memories shall be locked in our hearts
forever and ever. Gals, I have been reading everyone's mail and being class
of 1972 was so so special as at the time we were multicutural at the convent.
I don't know if foreign diplomats siblings attend the school. I am living in
Ohio and to date I have the memories of 'motia' fragrance, Khadim bros tuck
shop where I bought the English sandwich spread Bornvita( eat it to this day)
and warming Ovaltine and not to forget those delicious choc biscuits. How about
refreshing us with the memory of pakora wala at the tip of the winding road
from Pindi Point to school. The brisk walks to and from THE MALL. 'PLEASE LOOK
STRAIGHT AND DON'T LOOK AT THE GORA GALI BOYS.!!!!! Does anyone one remember
the Urdu teacher MISS FIRDAUS. I still remember her colorful attire. Hey, Kishwar
, how are you? please write a few lines to your buddy. Remember those wonderful
games of netball and how we sweated out running back to the dorms. love Selma REHMANcongrats on yr daughter's graduation in London......and
if you get that far, why not think of visiting edinburgh? ok we might not be
the same year, decade even, but if you fancy a trip up north, to the beautiful
part of the UK, keep me in mind!! Someone mentioend coffee...Sams and the cinema.....that's
where a few of us saw The Nuns Story....and came back to the convent with a
knowing look on our faces,,,,would any of our nuns fall in love and depart?????????
my mind is working over time re names.... i think i now remember a Fawzia, Fawzia
Sha'bzada? NWFP ? i think i'd better give up esp re the Braganza's since i think
i'm now making them up......but yes, there was a Braganza in my year/times.
Jennifer Bailey...ended up in rickmansowrth england I think an australian with
irish background...surname .........Carroll an american....possibly called Mia
('my-ahh') Helhowski...we all envied her...she got a few days off to go see
the Kennedy's. i think that was the time the US embassy took a camel driver
off to the usa. two sisters Edna and Anne....mother remarried so two surnames
floating around....Barbour and Tyzack Wahida ..possibly Khan....again NWFP...i'm
sure Gulnar Pujnigara.......karachi Bilqis ....?.....tehran I am sure i rember
a Cynthia Diaz......Lahore Ismet.... from Lahore...think her surname was Nazir....I
thought she was very glam...her folks were in the movie business....and just
coming from edinburgh for the first time ever, that was truly glam.....to me.....i
thought it was a smaller version of hollywood. Talat ? from karachi...i think
her folks had a hotel, hotel metropole.. I am giving up!!! tooooooooo tiring.
YasminGosh Samina I remember the pakora wala (what I wouldn¡¦t do for some pakoras right now) and wasn¡¦t there a guy who had no nose always sitting around Pindi Point and we were all scared of him¡K. I know I didn¡¦t imagine that one. It seems like 1972 must have been a very special group of gals as most of us chatting here are from that year!!¡¥ AneelaMemories of the pakora wala at Pindi Point. Here's one: Sadia
Zarif, Nilofer Qayum and myself, Aneela Nazir received the infamous pink cards
at Assembly time the day after we'd begged the poor guy to hand out some pakoras.
I think we were all out on one of our walks and definitely had no money on us!!!I
still don't know which one of us came up with the brilliant idea but we thought
of ourselves as the convent daredevils! Anyone from the class of '76? Amna,
you dressed up as Captain Kirk one time, didn't you. I remember how we all used
to be hooked on Star Trek. Anyone living here in the US? I'm in New Orleans
and am wondering if there's anyone close by? Regards to all of you...stay safe
and keep warm! Nefer jhoomaThe "favorite" food list has to include Sister Zaferinas'
brinjal pickle. My mouth waters every time I think of it. Have been teaching
at CJM Karachi since Aug 2008......got coerced into it by Mother Andrew...and
who can say no to Mother Andrew! She has now been posted to Tobek De Singh.(sp)?
and Mother Berchmans has taken over. We often reminesce about Murree and the
good ol' days. Can't imagine the CJM Muree being just a day school and Matric
at that! Amna, has your mobile no changed? The one I have for you says it is
not in use.
Meher Karim;Hello all. I had the most wonderful dinner at Yasmin (Bokhari)Javed's
home in Dubai. When I walked through the door I got a very warm feeling immediately.
When we met it was as though we had never lost touch. She looks exactly the
same i would have easily recognised her anywhere. Unfortunately she would not
have recognised me, yes the skinny (Mehroon) can no longer be called that beautiful
word :-( We had a wonderful time reminising about the past and also trying to
catch up on eachothers lives after Murree. I could not believe that the 9 years
she has been here we didnt bump into eachother even once. I have been in Dubai
for the last 19 years. I am sure that CJM girls have the strongest bond ever.
It doesnt matter if we were seniors or juniors. Its truly amazing. When I spoke
to Havovi and Saira its like we were back in school chatting as usual. I talked
so long the last time I'm giving her a little break now :-) I will call you
soon again Havovi. I would love to know if there are any more CJM girls living
in the UAE. (keeping in mind that they know me as I left school in 71 but should
have graduated with class of 75) It woudl be lovely to have a reunion here.
Nefer Jooma;More horrors............Sam's is now a Red Onion and the
guy who makes the famous Raj's toffees was on "chuti" when I visited Muree last
year with Azra Ayub. Was looking forward to sinking my teeth (yes I still have
them) into a Raj's toffee. Two things the CJM girls were always short of.....food
and toilet paper! Anyone in touch with Donya Partow? Nabila Maniya:Ah, our classic old Sam's! What about cold coffee and
hot chocolate. This is awful. Has anyone seen "Eternal Sunshine of the spotless
mind"? That's what I feel like, that if I go visit, all my rich memories of
old times will get wiped out and replaced by these character-less images. Tallking
about trekking... we used to walk 5 miles to the Mall with only Rs. 5.00 in
our pockets. So all we could buy were peanuts with shells crimsoned by the rich
red earth or popcorn - the only thing that would us last for the long walk back.
But thanks to those day, man, can I hike and walk. Both remain a very regular
part of my life till this day. Thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing ......ah,
those days..... Yasmin ¡¥72 Those walks all the way to Pindi Point and sometimes even
further some of us hated them and the excuses we would use to get out of going¡Kanyone
remember the supposed trigger for fainting¡Kstanding in the sun with an onion
under your armpit!!!!!! LOL I never saw it work. While we might all be good
trekkers I have to say that exercise didn¡¦t do me any good living in Australia
where everyone is a good swimmer and I can¡¦t swim a stroke!!! Nabila Maniya:Rember shopping at Raja Bros. for tuck items? Eating cones
vanilla & coffee flavored in the chilly weather? Buying books from Hamid Bros.?
Reading comics in there to hide from a sudden down pour? Naan Kebabs in those
little hole in the wall place on the Mall Road? The one with the stairs winding
down one level below the street? The covered market with yards of cloth and
nuts of all sorts? The dilapidated cinema? Coffee at Sam's.. ..ahh, the memories
just keeping flooding in! NEFER JOOMA;Never tried the onion....where would we get one. The Mall
walks were our only outings out of school grounds, plus the fact one could pick
the blueberries on the way to Pindi Point. Yes........Murree has changed. A
car worthy road that goes from Pindi Point past the school and joins the Lawrence
College Road. New hotel too just below the Holy Family guest house. SAMINA 1972Honestly, Murree to me hasn't changed except if I saw the
Mall -that could be more commercial. Same windy roads, rusted house sidings,
beautiful scenery and I can literally feel the care ride from Pindi(where I
lived)to Murree and having the queasy butterflies churning my stomach to having
to return to school.!!! Remember those days guys, when suddenly you fell sick!!!
Anyone remembers the Ayaa's name that helped Sr. Clotilda in the lingery and
other odd jobs. I can never forget how kind she was. I seem to reminesce those
days when 1972 seniors got to see Paul Anka movie- and gosh the TV show MAN
FROM UNCLE> I still think Ilya Kurkyakin was the best and no to mention Tom
Jones and his Delilah.!!! love NEFER JOOMA:No it was definitely Dr. Kildare and the Fugitive who were
the heart throbs and of course Danger Man......Lord I feel ancient. The biggest
punishment was to be kept away from those weekly shows. I remember the Ayah,
though not her name. Her daughter got married our senior year and we were allowed
to attend. I remember Tina did her make up. SELMA REHMAN;Onions, onions...where would you find an onion to stick
under yr armpit? the only onions i think i ever saw were in the food, and the
worst of all Sister Clo had a cough remedy I'm sure that featured raw onions.
DON'T ANYONE DARE HAVE A REUNION WITHOUT PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE TELLING ME!! i'm
setting myself a time target WITHIN 09...and God willing, I will make it!! when
i do make up my mind......stand back! there's still life in these old bones
yet. i kind of thought that even if i just got to karachi i might get to see
the convent and Mother Berchmans...but it would be stupid to get that far and
not to get to murree itself. Yasmine...how can you possibly not swim bearing
in mind where you are.....i promise you,it is so relaxing!!! i swim at least
once a week here in edinburgh...nothing fancy, just pounding up and down the
lanes for exercise, i can only do the breast stoke, and not on my back either!!!!.....once
i have done my minimum 20 lenghts, i then treat myself to half an hour just
floating leisurely, gently..believe me, i have swum out all my tension and aggro!
and Uzma can i please send you a very very big thank you. i had never bothered
signing up to face book, but did because of you.......and would you believe
it..someone found me from my Karachi and Dhaka days.....but no connection to
cjm. most of these long lost friends (the full family) are in talihasee usa
(...purists amongst you, forgive my spelling if this is incorrect)..but still
have lahore connections.......... i feel a reunion coming on.......but i don't
want to get to talihassee before i get to murree amna shah '72good Lord nefer did tina really do the maids daughters
make up??? :) i certainly must remind her of that when next i see her !! my
complete heart throb was capt james.t.kirk and mr spock of star trek btw !!
i remember being punished and banned from watching star trek one time but regardless
sneaking into the classroom under the baby dormitory and watching it...one of
the most daring things i ever did !!!:) love UZMA MASOODyes i was wondering how no one had mentioned the pakora wala
at pindi point.his pakoras were the best for whatever little cash we had on
us.im still trying to figure out the school toffeee recipe as sister marie rose
ha d explained it to me on one of my trips to murree.i really loved the roast
potatoes.the fudge was amazing too but never turned out like sister marie rose
recipe. Selma hi all, and don't know if i have bored you with this already,
but...actual book censorship took place in my time.. there were no james bond
books, and the one copy of neville shute's book...on the beach...was censored
with pages ripped out. every winter i went back to karachi with a list of boooks
i had to source and read! GEETHI AZIZ:Standard fare on return to school, first day, after the
hols: roast beef and potatoes! We'd reach school more often than not, in the
late afternoon or evening - first few hours away from home and family. The cold
cuts of roast and potatoes - well, didn't do a whole lot to cheer some of us
up! Who remembers the pastry wala cycling up to the flat? Green icing, fossilized
cream rolls, but boy were they good! LOL UZMA MASOOD:yes remember the guy with the trunk and the yummy cream horns ,pastries.after leaving school i never ever went near those things again.just got put off by all the things in the trunk. MEHER:Hello all. I visited Murree in 2004. this was my first visit
since 1971. I couldnt believe how crowded it had become and how small the place
looked. I was with at that time a friend Razia who is now my Mother in Law.
I visited CJM and walked into the area where parents used to be taken to visit
the nuns. A couple of the nuns whom I didnt remember too well recognised me
instantly whihc is absolutely amazing I was so touched. The feeling I had of
this place I absolutely loathed in my childhood years was of one who had come
HOME after a long long time. GEETHI AZIZ:How about the home-made jam, served up at break-time - thick
slices of bread with the jam! And does anyone remember sprinkling chillie powder
and salt on the white buttered-bread, for the lack of anything else to layer
on it, especially at the end of term when tuck ran dry? Nabila Maniya:Rember shopping at Raja Bros. for tuck items? Eating cones
vanilla & coffee flavored in the chilly weather? Buying books from Hamid Bros.?
Reading comics in there to hide from a sudden down pour? Naan Kebabs in those
little hole in the wall place on the Mall Road? The one with the stairs winding
down one level below the street? The covered market with yards of cloth and
nuts of all sorts? The dilapidated cinema? Coffee at Sam's.. ..ahh, the memories
just keeping flooding in! samina (1972) THOSE precious memories shall be locked in our hearts
forever and ever. Gals, I have been reading everyone's mail and being class
of 1972 was so so special as at the time we were multicutural at the convent.
I don't know if foreign diplomats siblings attend the school. I am living in
Ohio and to date I have the memories of 'motia' fragrance, Khadim bros tuck
shop where I bought the English sandwich spread Bornvita( eat it to this day)
and warming Ovaltine and not to forget those delicious choc biscuits. How about
refreshing us with the memory of pakora wala at the tip of the winding road
from Pindi Point to school. The brisk walks to and from THE MALL. 'PLEASE LOOK
STRAIGHT AND DON'T LOOK AT THE GORA GALI BOYS.!!!!! Does anyone one remember
the Urdu teacher MISS FIRDAUS. I still remember her colorful attire. Hey, Kishwar
, how are you? please write a few lines to your buddy. Remember those wonderful
games of netball and how we sweated out running back to the dorms. love |