Launched!

I started feeling all low and dizzy, tomorrow is Founders' Friday , where's the head Founders' Friday lead? Damn, she has got FYI - For Your Information to launch! Good of a reason, hell na! With work just piling up, I had no idea where to even start from?! Started with Founders' Friday company posters. Kudos to their co-operation, you text them and there comes the reply! DONE. Now we need a single poster to display all the COMPANIES rigghhhttttt???!!!! Gosh, way to design again! I guess it turned out to be pretty good for someone who deep inside runs away from designing posters.

Oops did I forget the design changes at FYI - For Your Information ? Nope, cause shabbir Jodhpurwala was already pinging every second. Is the launch video ready? Almost, Nisa Rahman is working on it since days! Where's Aliya Noorain ? Damn, Forever Cookie is launching as well! How many people did I invite to my launch yet - none! Why is this happening?! Did I sleep? Nope, not since the last 3 nights! Great going for a launch Simrah Munaza Ikram , keep it up! Adding the video, Nisa Rahman made!

Okay so that's a lot of NOs now! Time to buckle up girl, God's there to help ya! Founders' Friday video went up to our Instagram Page! Wanna see it? Credits to Mohammed Khaja Rehanuddin , the Documentation Team at EdVenture Park .

Posted all the posts on our Instagram page, great captions syeda afshaan fathima ! What's left now? Follow-up with the startups launching tomorrow! Amtul Baseer Ifra , Mohammed Shoaib Choudry , Aliya Noorain , and Sadia Anam; with utmost sincerity, I shall not bombard you with follow-up texts again, LinkedIn being my witness! Done. Now? Sponsorship posts, damn these last moment nightmares! Searched for logos, sat with the design. Posted 'em, thanks Hamza Bin Abdul Mujeeb ! Now what's left? The last moment Meetup post and LinkedIn post! Way to go, done! But, why is everything the last moment? The effect of not managing things the right way, noted. Not delegating stuff, and taking up everything on yourself at the last moment, it's bound to happen Simrah Munaza Ikram ! You can make millions of reasons for the world to listen, but we ain't lying, are we? Never. Cool.

Now what? Oops have to invite people right! Hamza Bin Abdul Mujeeb in all-time action, community groups, done! Time for some chai please! I know Amtul Baseer Ifra , this coming from a coffee person hurts! But it's Meraj Faheem effect, right Athika Fatima ? Did I just forget Twitter posts, yes I did! Please do the honors Simrah Munaza Ikram ! CAKE?! What's up with the cake for Business Showers? Huda Hajira for the rescue, mad respect for you! Registration form for Founders' Friday , done! All the QRs in place - yes Hamza Bin Abdul Mujeeb has got the print! All sorted - NOT YET!

What about the FYI - For Your Information PPT? Aliya Noorain made a draft for the speech, so did shabbir Jodhpurwala , but did I open it? Nope. I hope they don't see this. Reason being, I cannot give prepared speeches - been there, done that, and it's just not my thing. I only need to make prompts and a BANGER PPT! Time now? It's Fajr. Quickly made prompts for the PPT. Done, I was quite happy with it. Shall we sleep a bit now? YES, let's not look like a zombie Simrah Munaza Ikram , please! BTW, the first version of FYI - For Your Information is out! Have a look!

When did I wake up? 2:00 PM, GREAT! When is the Founders' Friday starting? 4:00 PM, a big round of applause for someone who thought she could experience the sleep of 3 consecutive nights in 6 hours! Logic left the chat, but I had to rush to the office! Got ready ready, went to the office. Oops, forgot to mention the un-ending list of calls I got from Shakeela Nazeer , Mohammad Ansab Ali Ansari , Hamza Bin Abdul Mujeeb , and syeda afshaan fathima ! I was juggling on the road to find an auto and was parallelly giving access to the 谷歌 sheets. In the auto, I started preparing my PPT. I had the prompts ready, and I just knew that it had to look like Meraj Faheem 's PPT on Domains - loved that one!

Reached the office, auto waale ke paas chutta nahi, aur time rukne na naam nahi leta! Bhaiyya Dua kardo mere launch ke liye, I rush to the elevator. Reached the office - I listen "SIMRAHHH" everywhere. But the eyes were speaking, "Why so late Simrah! What do we do now?" Didn't speak a word. Just looked into their eyes, and they got it, and owned it up like the rockstars they are! Founders' Friday team, honoured to have ya!

I sit in the boardroom, without looking at Meraj Faheem , because of course I was late. "PPT bani kya", asks shabbir Jodhpurwala . I knew what had to be done, and guess what the PPT got approved by Meraj Faheem ! He asks us to add "a" GIF of Ilyas Shah Khan . But thanks Syed Fawaz Ali , the entire PPT for now full of super-relatable GIFs. X-Team of EdVenture Park , always there for the rescue! Siddiqua Begum comes and asks who's handling the crowd pitching? With only question marks on my face I said I'll do it, and then she said, "You have a launch right? Let syeda afshaan fathima do it!" The boss lady syeda afshaan fathima handled it with all the fire she had! CRAZY CROUD PITCHING!

With the GIF-party still going on in the boardroom, I reach out to Siddiqua Begum saying, "You are handling the Business Showers, and I know no one can do it better than you!" She did not let anyone of us down, and literally handled the entire Founders' Friday , like the elegant lady she is!

Arma Sahar comes and tells me, Aliya Noorain is done launching Forever Cookie . Time's near. Amtul Baseer Ifra is done launching HUDN . Time's near. Mohammed Shoaib Choudry is done launching Academic Ally . Damn Simrah Munaza Ikram , ASR. Arma Sahar for the rescue. Has Sadia Anam launched @thegiftbowtique_? ALMOST there! Rush to the seminar hall now! Kept the laptop, finally looked at the slides, because now I had something even more exciting to speak, so are you telling me you have changed the speech on spot? Yes, I did!

And yes, the mic, stage, and FF were all mine now! Here we start! NGL, was able to make this video because of the fire clips from Mohammed Khan and Abdullah Zaman ! This is the first time I tried my hands on a video. Check that out!

The vibe. The stage. The launch. It was DAMN CRAZY! There you go buildspace , that's how our launch went!

I could only see smiling faces everywhere. And more than everyone, I enjoyed it the most! Enjoyed every damn moment I stood there and pitched FYI - For Your Information !

Cake from Chefmuzaffar ... , samosa from Minerva Sweets, and chai from Osmani.in ! I'm happy, Mama's happy, Hamdaan's happy, godman every single person is happy! Siddiqua Begum comes and tells me, "If I were an all-rounder, I would be Simrah Munaza Ikram !" And syeda afshaan fathima gives me that very much-needed tight waala hug! Buying two boxes of Forever Cookie was a must, and so Hamdaan did fulfil it!

Now I go to boardroom to get my bag! I go there, everything goes fine, all good, really good. But just in the nick of the moment something happens. Something silly, but that gets stuck in my mind. For so long, that I lost myself. People are out there talking, laughing, celebrating, and I have no idea what's happening. I pull myself up, for no one to notice me, I hope no one did.

That day I return home, all numb. Someone told me something, and that gets stuck with me. For so long that I return home, all tired, all exhausted. I try eating some food, as I didn't eat anything except for a bite of roti since morning. That day I went to bed crying, thinking it was my worst day ever. Felt like an absolute loser. Didn't feel like doing anything, so I slept. It took me quite a few days to recover from it. It was after a week or so, when I knew I wasn't able to document anything - Meraj Faheem , upon asking told me, "When the bad has the power of making you overlook all the good that has happened in a day, then why can't the good make you overlook all the bad?", and that hit!

Yeps, it was a pretty good of a day, after all, wasn't it? Very haphazard of an ending, right? That's how the day was!