Posts Tagged ‘2010’

With Ink’s online competition!

Scribble your random thoughts on a piece of paper in a way that it becomes a masterpiece of art! Be as creative as you can – use a ballpoint pen only. You can include characters, and other images – but the words you scribble will be the most important part of it.

We’ll choose 3 winners who will receive a Goodie Bag filled with prizes –> t-shirts, original movie DVDs, original music CDs, all issues of Ink, a Radio 1 FM91 gift, and much more! The winners will also be featured, along with their Scribble Art, in the Apr – Jun 2010 issue of Ink. Continue

Please note that completely owing to Ink’s own fault, this article of Ayesha’s was incompletely printed in the current Jan – Mar 2010 Gold Issue of Ink. We are therefore uploading it here in full! Apologies to Ayesha and our readers for the mishap!

By Ayesha Ali Khan

Growing up in suburban Lahore, New Year’s eves used to be a quiet event. Yet excitement for the New Year was evident in the spirit of every child and adult. New Year’s Eve was the celebration of a new beginning. Something to be jubilant about. It was a time for a simple gesture of wishing health and wealth to all, and the best that life could give to all. Indeed, the New Year promised a bright future. Even today, the charm of the New Year’s Eve continues to thrill. Despite the face paced life, it offers a chance for friends and family to come together and celebrate a joyous occasion. It is a new hope harbored into an old fashioned cheer.
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MIAMI, USA – The home-building nonprofit organization The Fuller Center for Housing, is traveling to Haiti with a group of aid workers gathered by actor Sean Penn.

Penn gathered the team to fly out to Haiti and is on the ground helping out in the effort. As aid agencies face bottlenecks preventing the delivery of aid, other smaller charities are sending their own supplies via the Dominican Republic.

“I was given Sean Penn’s name and made the necessary connections to be on that plane with some Fuller Center people,” Fuller Center country partner director Michael Bonderer said on the phone in El Salvador. Continue

From film stars to music icons, celebrities are throwing their weight behind global efforts to raise funds for the victims of the Haiti Earthquake

On 22nd January George Clooney will be hosting an MTV telethon along with Wyclef Jean and other stars. Earlier this week, donations came from many industry icons including Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Madonna, and Sandra Bullock.

Barack Obama has enlisted George Bush and Bill Clinton who have just launched their online campaign: http://www.clintonbushhaitifund.org/ Continue