Once upon a time….
Once upon a time there was a lovely couple who gave birth to a cute lil’ baby girl and gave her a beautiful name "Fariha" which means "Joy and Happiness". However, the meaning they came to know about then was "Paak Daaman" (Could neone plz help tell me the english for Pak Daaman? 
) and since it’s a very good meaning so, they decided to call the little one by this name. Days passed…years passed, the baby girl grew up and started going to school. She had always heard her parents calling her "Fariha" pronounced as "Fur-ree-hA" but now she was quite surprised to hear everyone calling her by different names such as Faria (pronounced as fareeAa….very similar to "chariyaa"…an urdu slang word for crazy), Farha, Faryal, Farheen and hardly anyone called her by her real name. When she started her high school aka college, she was hopeful as she was part of a group of grown ups now, who she mistakenly thought to be intelligent enough to call her by her actual name that is FARIHA…but the situation was actually worst there. People not just called her by different defaced versions of “Fariha” but also spelled her name incorrectly. She spent all her college years in trying to correct them but all in vain 
. Then she started her undergrad studies and was hopeful that at least the people in her university would be wise enough to spell and pronounce her name properly but ahhh…there she came across some newer versions of her name, Freeha being the most common …..Haan…Freeha ?
Sounds like a name of some place where people could laugh freely ..Free Ha as in ha ha ha! Silly people 
During the entire course of her bachelors….her coordinator kept calling her Fareha (pronounced as Faarayha) as if she was a ray coming from somewhere far…Far ray HA…HUH! She kept requesting everyone to call her Fariha but nobody listened.
Then after her bachelors, she started working and was pretty much sure of being called FARIHA as per rules of the professional environment, which require everyone at office to be called by his/her proper name but how wrong was she. At office also people kept calling her by the twisted versions of her name and even by different nicks, the most common being Fari/ Fari Pari (which till 2-3 years ago only the close friends were allowed to call her by)…sigh
. She excused everything but then one day she that noticed her boss has renamed her resume to “Fareeha_Athtaar” OMG both the spellings incorrect! At that very moment she decided to SUE not just her boss but also everyone else who doesn’t call her by her actual name i.e. FARIHA and spell it correctly too i.e. F A R I H A (any other spelling and pronunciation no matter how appropriate it may seem to be is totally UNACCEPTABLE).
Being called by his/her name is everyone’s birth right and people have been depriving a little girl who btw is a young lady now 
, of her right for the past so many years. This can also be taken as the violation of human rights and hence needs to be strongly condemned. So, I PROTEST!
Point Noted! Fareeeha!
i will take care that no one will call you FAREE, FREE , FRIYA and all other names
Comment by Ali Raza Shaikh — June 23, 2008 @ 11:01 pm
@Ali
Consider urself a dead man..i mean a dead boss now :@
Comment by Administrator — June 23, 2008 @ 11:03 pm
Hey Fariha, Ur blog is great for being just as normal as life. I can actually relate wid many thing u write[:)]
N u r tagged. http://sufferingbehaviours.blogspot.com/2008/06/so-m-tagged-by-ikram.html
Comment by Woman in a men's world — June 23, 2008 @ 11:55 pm
Damn! I didnt know that some of us that includes me were actually hurting you
point noted.
Comment by aMmAr — June 23, 2008 @ 11:56 pm
Hmm, I always thought of you as Fur-ree-ha. That makes the most sense to me. Farha, Faryal, Farheen??? People must have very twisted minds.
And look at my name. I have it much worse. Native English speakers would pronounce it in all sorts of weird ways, depending on where they come from, none of them being correct.
Comment by waqas — June 24, 2008 @ 3:17 am
Well, I actually pronounce it as furry-ha. Is that right?
Comment by waqas — June 24, 2008 @ 3:19 am
Buy one.. get one furrryyy ;P
Comment by Munir — June 24, 2008 @ 9:07 am
haha !!
Comment by Suleman — June 24, 2008 @ 9:27 am
Man ta Fariha ee chawndo aahyan!
Thnk God, my name’s quite common n evrybdy pronounces it correctly… ecpt by sm Punjabi who pronounce it like “Aamar”
Comment by AamirRaz — June 24, 2008 @ 9:11 pm
@Ali!
So is there any new policy due to FAREEHA’s post?
Comment by Muhammad Qasim Pasta — June 24, 2008 @ 9:29 pm
@Qasim
Yes, there is! we said her to change her name to FAREEHA
Comment by Ali Raza Shaikh — June 25, 2008 @ 5:30 am
I’m with you 100% on this one Farryhaw!
(Yes, that’s the best I could come up with)
Comment by SAWJ — June 25, 2008 @ 2:32 pm
Give me a FREE HA too…in fact a FREE HA every day…keeps the doctor away…heheh…
Comment by UTP — June 25, 2008 @ 9:30 pm
Lawyers movement ke baad we’d have the get-me-back-my-name tehreeek!
Comment by Kamran — June 25, 2008 @ 11:40 pm
Ugh! I hate it when that happens. People keep calling me Ab-ser instead of AbsAr. You’d figure that correcting them three or four times would help… but NNOOOOO!
Yours is a pretty simple name, so it must piss you off even more
Comment by Absar — June 26, 2008 @ 2:05 pm
pak daman = Clean shirt’s bottom?
free-haa is the correct pronunciation, nay? ;P
Comment by Asma — June 27, 2008 @ 10:22 am
What’s in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet!
Comment by Hina — June 28, 2008 @ 11:15 am
I’ll be extremely careful next time, Fureehah
Comment by Muneeb — July 5, 2008 @ 1:53 pm
@Women in Men’s World
Glad to know that u like my blog and thanks for tagging me…will do it sometime soon InshAllah
@Ammar
Thankee Ammar….u r such a nice, obedient guy
@Waqas
Twisted minds….they hav twisted tongues as well
Waisay wud love to hear about the different versions of your name 
And yes fortunately or unfortunately Furry-ha is the right pronunciation
@SAWJ
Farryhaw….my God ..what made u say haww…pretty synonymous to awww??
@UTP
Ada ……u know y a free HA keeps the doctor away because all doctors are often busy curing freeHA
Comment by Administrator — July 6, 2008 @ 11:26 pm
@Munir
Buy one what…..lubbo balloon?
@Suleman
He he
@Aamir
Ada thanks for pronouncing it correctly and too bad to hear about Aamar…it sounds like aa mar….come die
@Qasim
Qasim bhai…..who says Ali makes policies? It’s my friend Lubz who does it and she’ll always make sure they r in my favor
(I hope Lubz doesn’t read this )
@Ali
Ali bhai…aap ne bol diya aur main ne karliya
@Kamran
Agree and I want u to be part of it
Comment by Administrator — July 6, 2008 @ 11:37 pm
@Absar
It at times irritates me but as u said…it usually doesn’t help correcting ppl so, I try to enjoy it…I always come back and check the meaning of the names that people are calling me by…if it’s good I don’t mind….else I make sure to warn them next time they call me by ne of those names
@Asma
Aik baat batin…do u work for surf excel?
…..and free-ha only burger ppl call me freeha…r u one? 
@Hina
Oh thanks….so u mean I’m as sweet as rose?
@Muneeb
Fureehah…thank God u didn’t say FureeHUH
Comment by Administrator — July 6, 2008 @ 11:43 pm