IBLC Aatish-e-Duroon – Day 4

Written by: Sidra Ajmal

The final conference day of IBLC 6 held a lot in store for the eager participants. The proceedings started with the introduction of the day champ, Mr. Saadi Makhdoom, who is a certified trainer by profession. He indulged the participants in warm up exercises and afterwards everyone played an interesting game of Antakshari, with all the girls one side and all the boys on the other. After the clusters were energized there was a session by IBA’s very own Mr.Mustafa Ilyas who is a junior in the BBA program. Every single audience member was enticed by his story. Furthermore some of the quirky lines used by him like ‘Jaaaaan what’s this’ fetched roars of laughter.

Other important highlights of the day are as follows:

• A panel discussion on ‘Pakistan’s sorry state of affairs’ by Mr. Faisal Qureshi, Mr. Leon, Mr. Shahjahan and Mr. AB Shahid Jafferi. The session was moderated by Mr. Tabish Hashmi.
• An interesting session by Mr. Saadi Makhdoom which divided clusters into groups and sent them to different activities. These included Video showing, touring IBA with reflecting on each and everything, skimming through a book and reflecting on it and lastly a story telling by himself. The last of these highlighted the dilemmas involved in decision making.
• A session on ‘Going Against the Odds’, an interactive lecture on how to successfully face the odds and turn them in your favor, by Mr. Sohail Zandani.
• Finally a lecture by Mr. Umar sultan on the topic ‘Making the Impossible Possible’. This lecture inspired everyone to believe in their own will and to believe that they too can make the impossible possible.
Another acme of the day was the funky titles given by the publications team to the IBLC participants and the CFs in the official IBLC 6 newsletter. Some of these titles were:

Titles for the CFs

Disco Deewani Ariba Farrukh
Dheeli Dhakkan Mushk Kaleem
Garam Masala Mustafa Ilyas
Chammak Challo Musaab Bin Umair

Titles for Participants

Bholay-Nath Firza (Mohammad Hamza’s Cluster)
Next Level Boy Adil (Musaab’s Cluster)
Chulbuli Kashmala (Ashad’s Cluster)
Dukkhi Atma Sameed (Hania’s Cluster)

Mr. Aftab Hussain Changi and Mr. Zain Goplani again graced the final day of the conference with their presence. The day was ended on a high note by none other than the day champ Mr. Saadi Makhdoom himself, whose session marked the end of IBLC 6. The participants now await the much hyped social event of the conference at The Country Side Chalet to be held on Wednesday 22nd January 2014.