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Coming back after attending the YLES 2010 in LUMS, our TIES team was very much energized to do something similar in our very own TIP!
So we decided to hold a Business Idea Competition.

Rules were pretty simple, we had our punchline as Think Global & Act Local.
Initially we got 17 teams that participated in the first round, and that was to submit a two pages executive summary of their business idea.
We already asked everybody to be as creative and innovative as possible but restricting oneself to business viability!!!

From these 17 teams we selected the top 8 teams, the judging panel for the first round consisted of students including the TIES members (Sarim, Amna, Shumaila, Dawood, Rida and Nussebah).

After the screening out of the 8 teams, we had our Final round on 24th Feb’ 2010 Wednesday TISF Slot. Each team gave a presentation of 5 minutes on their proposals.

For the final round, our judges consisted of Sidrah Nadeem (external jury) and for the internal jury we had Ma’am Saira Danish, Sir Saifuddin Kamran, Sir Fariq Mukhtar, Sir A.Q. Zaidi and the chief guest for the event was our very own president Mr. Tariq Ikram.

The ideas varied from fashion houses to nutritional plans, to utilizing natural fuels to designer wear Abayas!

It was very difficult controlling the audience since its a natural aspect of TIPains to be as happening as possible!

And as for the winners, third position was secured by Umair Sadiq TMM4 (Nutropia), second position by a group of 4 girls, Madiha Altaf, Fizza Asad, Saba Alam and Fatima TMM3 ( Glamour House) and the champion of BIC 2010 was Muneeb Ur Rehman TDT-2 (Jacq-Art).

We, the Team of TIES highly appreciate the hard work and effort put in my each and every participant and acknowledge the fact that the judges took out their precious time for this event!

Thank you everyone for your support and participation

By Komal

It’s Halloween! It’s Halloween!
The moon is full and bright
And we shall see what can’t be seen
On any other night.

Skeletons and ghosts and ghouls,
Grinning goblins fighting duels,
Werewolves rising from their tombs,
Witches on their magic brooms.
In masks and gowns
we haunt the street
And knock on doors
for trick or treat. Read the rest of this entry »

By Shakaib Ifkikhar, AMM1

Textile Institute of Pakistan has celebrated it’s carnival on Dec 04 2009. The event was beautifully arranged by Textile Institute Students Forum. Many students and Texperts brightened the night with their colorful yet scary costumes. The theme was Halloween with the Desi touch. The event started with the coverage of AAG TV who not only captured the scary and desi night in their cameras but also made the crowd to dance the night away. The event included “Dance competition” and “Best costume award” and cash prizes were awarded to deserving participants by the host of AAG TV. The location of carnival was decorated with scary theme in mind; there were graves with RIP signs on them which were not only frightening but became favourite photo shoot spot for the students. Read the rest of this entry »

By Shoaib Wahab, TMM3

There’s a goblin at my window,
A monster by my door.
The pumpkin at my table
keeps on smiling more and more.
There’s a ghost who haunts my bedroom,
A witch whose face is green.
They used to be my family,
till they dressed for Halloween.

History of Halloween…. Like any other festival’s history is inspired through traditions that have transpired through ages from one generation to another. We follow them mostly as did our dads and grandpas. And as this process goes on, much of their originality get distorted with newer additions and alterations. It happens so gradually, spanning over so many ages, that we hardly come to know about these distortions. At one point of time it leaves us puzzled, with its multicolored faces. Yet, doubts still lurk deep into us, especially when the reality differs from what has taken a deep seated root into our beliefs. Read the rest of this entry »

Dear All;
The Textile Institute Student Forum is organizing the fall semester carnival on Friday the 4th of Dec’09. Enjoy a spooky night with your friends in the wackiest and scariest costumes you can think of.

Hope to see you there! Spook you later.