Day 25: View of Downtown Chicago from Aon Center (80th Floor)

Day 24: Catscream :)

I was done eating dinner and was craving for something sweet...so i decided to have ice cream. Up comes my cat Buddy going nuts over the whip cream and chocolate syrup....in no time Buddy licked away half of my ice cream....did i eat the other half? How about i leave you guessing :) 

Day 23: Cadillac Palace- Cirque Eloize ID

My hubby took me to this amazing Broadway show at Cadillac Palace.....it was a combination of hip hop dance and circus arts. It was spectacular! If you get a chance, you must go and see it! It was my first time going to see a Broadway show at Cadillac Palace, Chicago...its a beautiful theater as you can see. Enjoy...

Day 22: Me Bowling

Day 21: Caricature artists at Navy Pier

Day 20: Michigan Avenue

Day 19: Out in the city

Day 18: Visit to the Museum of Science and Industry

A mannequin dressed in lights

Our body's vascular system

A real baby in the third trimester before birth

Detailed Vascular system of a foot

My brother and his wife were over at our place for the first time for the last five days. They live in New York and were visiting Chicago for the first time. They both are doctors so my husband and I knew they would enjoy the Museum of Science and Industry...which they did. These are some of the pictures i took when we were there. I am posting them now because i was so busy with them i didn't get a chance to post any pictures at that time but i did take these photos for the blog...enjoy :)

Day 17: Flower Show + Silhouette of my brother

Day 16: Out in the Park

Day 15: Pathways

Today has been a really long busy day...so i decided to quickly snap a picture from my iphone. This picture is of a bed sheet that i modified with my iphone app -PS Express (sketched).

Day 14:"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing." --William Shakespeare

This is another photo that i took from my iphone. Its a picture of a center piece from our living room that i really like so i decided to use it for today :) 

Day 13: Music Xchange

Taken from my Iphone. Yesterday we had a small get together at one of our friend's place and we brought our usbs, sd cards, cds and laptops to exchange music amongst each other. Our friend Jen, gave me this cd which has great songs in it! And so i decided to take this photo and make it photo of the day [more like photo of yesterday becz i was really busy yesterday and didnt get a chance to post, so im posting now :) ]

Day 12: My cat, Buddy loves books

Day 11: Visit to Metropolis Coffee Shop and Pics from Home

 A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself. --Arthur Miller

“Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more - more unseen forms become manifest to him.” --Rumi

There is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before." --Edgar Allan Poe

 Coffee, all the goodness of life in a cup.

 Coffee, all the goodness of life in a cup.

 Coffee, all the goodness of life in a cup.

Coffee, all the goodness of life in a cup.

There is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 Coffee, all the goodness of life in a cup.

 

"Falling like a leaf, falling like a star, finding a belief, falling where you are."  Celine Dion

--Today it was hard for me to pick one or even four good photos because i liked all of them so much, so i decided to post them all up here. I was craving coffee today so went down to a coffee shop called Metropolis Coffee Shop near my condo building...they have the best coffee in town! I snapped some pictures there and snapped some more in more house (leaf and the heart ornament). Enjoy :)

Day 10: "We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.” --Denis Diderot

Day 9: "If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever." Alfred Lord Tennyson

Day 8: The Alphabet Z :)

This is a picture of a wooden alphabet Z that i painted with my little niece, Aliza...thought id take a picture of it to remember how much of a great time i had with her :)

Day 7: We are what we think. All that we are arises from our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world --Buddha

Im so blessed to have been introduced to the teachings of Buddha through my aunt, Dr.Khalida Ghousia Akhtar. When i was maybe around ten years old (1990?) she made a visit to East Asia and brought us 2 statues of Buddha.  Before that i had no idea who Buddha was and what it symbolized. We are muslims and in Islam statues are prohibited, but i think my parents were open to the idea for as long as we believed in the teachings of Islam and didnt worship the statue in any way; worshipping any form of a statue or idol would be against our belief in one God, Allah. 

For me, the statue just reminded me of suffering in life...suffering in the world... and would remind me that there other religions in the world as well that we can learn from , care for and respect...and how in a way we all are one.  Later on when i was old enough to understand things better, my aunt would often sit with me and we would have long sessions over tea talking to each other about Buddha and his teachings. When i look at this statue, I think a big part of it also reminds me of my aunt and her sufferings...her struggles ....and all the good times we have spent together...i love her so dearly and feel so lucky to have her in my life!

When we migrated ten years ago and moved to NYC we had to leave most of our belongings back in Pakistan, so we dont have those statues with us anymore. But, after i got married in July 2010 and moved to Chicago i bought myself this statue to place into my new house to carry on the same tradition :)

Day 6: Visit to Petsmart

Wanderers in the sea...

Lets go in the corner and have a chat fish to fish :)

 I know i look cute, now can i get a treat :)

A Cat's Heaven!

Today i had to do some shopping for my cat, Buddy. And on my way out i decided to take some pictures of the cute fishees they had in the fish tanks. No i didnt buy any of the fish to feed to my cat hehe although i did take a picture of a shelf filled with cat treats that Buddy would love to eat away! We have something like this on a smaller scale in our cupboard filled with treats for Buddy.We love him so much! Ill post more about Buddy sometime soon, for tonight this is it, until then ciao!