February Cover Story; Best Friendship (a trademark of Hallians)

Best Friendship (a trademark of Hallians)
the writer preferred not to disclose her name!

A: What were you doing with her?
B: Talking, I suppose!
A: And what were you people talking about?
B: I fail to see, what business is it of yours?
A: I am supposed to be your best friend!!! You have to tell me everything!
B: God! Give me some space, will you?

An example of a featured fight between two Hallian-best friends. Best Friend, a word with a different meaning in every dictionary! So, why not consult its meaning according to any of Mr. Aristotle’s definitions. Yes, the same Aristotle, to whom every page of our science book is dedicated. So, Mr. Aristotle once said, “A TRUE FRIEND IS A SINGLE SOUL DWELLING IN TWO BODIES”. So, according to this quote, two bodies, one soul, pretty emotional, even for an emotionless Hallian, what do you think???
Well, according to most of the Hallians, friends ought to be of two types, 1) A best friend. 2) A simple friend (No one in between, no good friend or anything else). The former is the one with whom you are supposed to share all of your secrets, confide all of your sorrows & vice versa…… The latter is the type, with whom you just have a formal relationship, and God forbid, if ever, by mistake, you dared to confide any problem or sorrow to your anyone except your best-friend, then don’t expect your best pal to pass you a smile, and if things got even worse, then pray to God for a longer life!!! Anyway, back to the topic, and what more, these so-called best friends aren’t even of one type either, there is a long list which can go on and on……. And discussed below are a few types with examples and salient features.

The Virago type:
A: Hey B, I don’t want to see you with X again!
B: And who are you to tell me with whom should I go or not?
A: Just chill, ok? It’s just, I don’t like her!!!
B: And what’s that supposed to mean?
A: That means, I am your best friend, so you’ll have to live according to me!!!
B: God! You’re so naïve!!!
Okay now, the first type. Now, if one of them is, by miracle, a bit compromising then the chances of the relationship to last are increased, but if both of them are viragoes then, voila, 2 weeks at the maximum and they won’t see each other’s face in their entire life!!! The percentage of Hallians included in this category is about 45%.

2) The Gang type:
A: Hi girls!
B: Hey!
C: So, any hot news??
D: Yeah, did you hear that X & Y split up??
B: I knew it from the start that X’s a jerk!
A: Yeah, Y deserved a better best friend….. Like me!
The extent of fighting and breaking-up in this type is almost negligible. Most of them don’t care about what others say and that’s why their relationship lasts a bit longer.
They enjoy college life in its true meaning except for a few exceptions (well, we don’t blame them; a bad fish’s in every lake). Almost 25-29% Hallians fall under this category.

3) The Lounge-Lizard type:
A: How am I looking?
B: You always look dashing!!
A: I know! Ok now, when that gang comes over here, start talking about the new cell phone which I just bought.
B: Anything (to be in your company)
As the name suggests, these are the lounge-lizards that we are discussing, who can do anything to be in the company of the coolest girls around. Most of the time of their life is past frivolously. And one thing’s for sure; they don’t care about their self-esteem or ego at all and can do anything to be with the coolest gang! About 24% of total Hallians fall here.

4) The always-compromising type:
Situation 1
A: You don’t give me enough time, you’re always with her!
B: What are you talking about?? I thought you were my best friend and of all the people in this world you would understand me the best!!!
A: Look, I don’t want to exaggerate it, but you need to sort out your priorities!!!
B: (do you want me to worship you???) What??? I value you deep in my heart and I think I don’t have to show it time and again!!!!

Situation 2
A: Why do you have to confront all your sorrows to her??
B: She’s my friend, for God’s sake!
A: But I am your best friend! (You only have to share your stuff with me!)
B: Okay!!!!!!! I am SORRY! It won’t happen again!
A: It better not!

So, this is the last and also the least available type, because you have to compromise in it, and this thing is extinguishing from the grounds of Burn Hall, like pandas from earth. So, no matter how many times, they solve their feuds, one of them is always unhappy! Like above, it’s not all the fault of B, but she’s the one admitting the mea culpa! There are very rare examples of this kind around us but whatever; we truly salute them from the bottom of our heart for tolerating each other!!!! The percentage of this type of best friends is 2-0.1% and the percentage is descending day by day!!!

President in the thick of it all....AGAIN!!

Hallians sure have a knack for staying in the news all the time...especially Mariya Khan!!After the whole rude-comments-on-the-flyer scandal,Faiza Shafqat,the Vice-President was reported to have given a satisfactory apology to the Senior Editors of The Hallizine, and was, naturally, forgiven.One expected the same behavior from Mariya Khan i.e to apologize for offending the staff of the magazine, but no,Mariya didn't do so...actually, no one,not even this writer could believe that Mariya would actually REFUSE to apologize to the Senior Editors!! Yes, it is believed that she actually wanted the Senior Editors to walk over to her and then expect an apology from her!!
This outrageous behavior led to Mariya being summoned to the Vice-Principal's office,where she was made to apologize to the Senior Editors (by the way, you should've heard her apologize...it sounded as if she was saying,"Over my dead body am i gonna say i'm sorry"!). Soon after Mariya left the office, another Hallizine flyer was found torn, which was, incidently, pasted at the 9-10th corridor...makes us wonder who that was...
All of this drama certainly makes one think that if Mariya had apologized just the way Faiza had, she would surely be out of trouble...but she chose to take the wrong way out,and she'll have to pay for it....either with her arrogance or her reputation as the school President....

The Hallizine...A Success!!

The second issue of The Hallizine was released on Saturday, the twenty-second of September…It won’t be an exaggeration to call it a whooping success, as the newsletter was widely appreciated by teachers and students alike, and also compelled previously non-members to sign up for The Hallizine membership…well, now they know it’s not the piece of trash they thought it was!! This was a good slap-in-the-face for all those people out there who were of the irrational views that The Hallizine would fail miserably. Well, guess what? The Hallizine was circulating throughout the whole of BurnHall as people finally started to realize just how interesting it was…Yippee!!!

OUR PERFECT ROLE-MODELS...OR NOT??

Mariya Khan,the School President and Faiza Shafqat,the School Vice-President have both been caught in an act so filthy,it could get their sashes stripped off in disgrace.This writer also found it hard to believe that some of the obnoxious and offensive remarks scrawled all over the flyer pasted at the 9-10th corridor at BurnHall were from none other than our own, oh-so-responsible,oh-so-disciplined senior sash holders!!
A member of the HalliZine team actually had Mariya Khan telling her that the rude comments on the flyer such as "IT SUCKS" and "HELL YEAH!!"were written by her "JUST FOR FUN",according to our source.Upon further interogating,she revealed the name of Vice-President Faiza Shafqat and a Council Member too.
Further investigation proved that it really was Faiza Shafqat who had written "OH REALLY?WE DON'T WANT IT EITHER" but Mariya's alleged accusation on a Council Member proved false,as the girl clarified her positon by saying,"I just crossed out a grammatical mistake on the flyer.I'm a member of HalliZine, for God's sake...why would i do that??"
Well,well,well...we already knew that our newly-elected President and Vice-President weren't exactly forces to be reckoned with, but one thing we certainly didn't expect was this sort of crude behaviour from them.It's not that it matters if a bunch of illiterates throw unreasonable criticism at us,it's just that to have two of the most distinguished (so called!!) students at our school doing stuff like this....tsk,tsk,tsk...talk about being 'good role models'!!!So next time,gals, watch your mouths, mind your damn attitudes, zip it if you can't appreciate stuff that needs to be appreciated, and, most importantly....WATCH YOUR BACKS!!!

Cover story; Fashion in Burn Hall

Fashion In Burn Hall, by Aisha Saleem and Aymen Saleh

"Quo Non Ascendam”
It’s the motto of our college which means: “To what heights can I not rise?”
But in my opinion our 21st generation Hallians have interpreted our great motto in the wrong sense. Entering the gates of Burn Hall, in a glimpse what we see is really shameful and astounding. Everywhere we see girl students wearing really short shirts with front buttons open, cuffs open, no badges and no ties but, instead, they have got different chains and necklaces, bracelets and bangles, mehndi on their hands, colourful ponies in their hairs with flicks on their forehead and even light makeup, like lipsticks, lip glosses, nail polishes etc. Concluding from all this situation I would say that motto of our girls is:
“To what FASHIONS can I not Rise”
The history of Burn Hall goes back to late 40s when it was shifted here in Abbottabad. Since then, the college followed a value-oriented scheme of studies in order to prove itself as a great college. For this purpose students worked really hard following
Burn Hall’s Motto’ to succeed.
But gone are the days when Hallians devoted themselves whole-heartedly only towards their studies. Gone are the days when our Burn Hall had serious prim and proper girl students who were known for never daring to be different! But now from hair clips to wrist bands and from dyed and streaked hair, to kohl-rimmed eyes our school is getting a whole new look! And Hallians like it or not but FASHION IS RIGHT HERE IN BURN HALL.
Fashion at school, although quite common, is not very beneficial, as it has affected the teenage Hallians in a way that they don’t know anything about our religion, but they can tell you a lot about movies and all such things which owe their contribution to the Western culture. Now here, I would like to ask the students: “Is this the civilization of Burn Hall??? Is this what our teachers teach us??? No! Certainly not.”
The biggest problem of our generation is the use of illegal sources, abo at times, assisted by their parents. Students just don’t give a heed to any objection made by teachers because their parents have instilled in their minds that they are siblings of some officers or they can get fake medical reports and stuff like that.
Girls nowadays are seen wearing small adorable earrings, that too, in different eye-catching colours. Black coloured, but nonetheless, fancy ponies are also quite in. One of the trends that’s fast spreading through girl is “Piercing”. Girls are getting their ears and nose pierced to get them adorned with glittering nose-rings or silver earrings. All these and a whole lot of other stuff is getting Hallians accessorized. Girls get really over and out of control, it seems that the school is over and no classes are being held, and what is more great is that this culture is also being promoted by our college cafeteria as Mehndis are also available there. Girls during free periods and even in classes apply mehndi.
What if all of this is allowed? What if make-up is allowed at school? Who cares about teachers’ objections? And these are a few thinking of our fellow hallians.
I think I got too far. Well, all this does not mean that all the Hallians have fallen a prey to modern fashionable civilization. There are, indeed, a few decent and sober students who really look like normal students and who still spend all of their energies on studies-not on “FASHION”.
What Hallians really want to be is-to be different. So why not get different by being SIMPLE, WELL-MANNERED, WELL-DISCIPLENED and WELL-Behaved???
DO THINK ABOUT IT!!!!!!!

Welcome to Digital Version of HalliZine

Hey Hallians!
Welcome to the digital version of your very own HalliZine! Here you can post your comments, give your suggestions & help us improve HalliZine. This is, infact a very fast way of acquainting us with your valuable views. We are grateful to Honourable Principal Brig. Lali & our teachers especially Ma'am Zofishan for their motivation that incited us to launch this magazine.
With fond regards,
The HalliZine Team.