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  • Hi, Meet The Indestructibles

    We’ve all heard the fact about cockroaches being indestructible. After you squish them, sever their heads and feelers you should light them on fire. Or they won’t die. You can kill one of them…

  • How To… Come Up With New Year’s Resolutions

    I had a hard time thinking of complete New Year’s resolutions this year. And so I compiled a list of ‘How To’s’ for anyone stuck in the same situation as me. If you’re a…

  • Meanwhile, In Lahore… How To Take A Hot Shower

    It was 8 pm, as I walked over to the kitchen in my extra woolly socks. A freezing windy Monday night, like the others before it. So curse my luck, for needing a shower…

  • The Princess and the Unpopular Phoenix…

    Unpopular Choices? Initiate dream sequence, since its an unforgiving winter’s day outside… My sister and I were lounging lazily under the shade of a brilliant green palm leaf, our feet dipped in the crystal blue green pond, staring…

  • Ahh Love, What A Silly Game We Play

    Setting: My favourite park. Scene: A freezing foggy night, time was around 12.08 AM. I was on the swings, obviously. Back and forth, back and forth, with my hair forming a mist around my…

  • People Aren’t Made For Slaughter. Cattle Are.

    Dear leader, I went out yesterday, to the inner city. My city, that from the outside flashes by like a green, glitzy, noisy blur that seems ideal. The  city that seems to have a…

  • Playing Hide And Seek With Death? Not My Style…

    If there were a real Fountain of Youth, would you drink the water? Fountain of youth immediately reminds me of Twilight, Anne Rice, and Ian Somerhalder. Basically, vampires. And the philosopher’s stone. But the…

  • YES, I’ve Found The Secret To Happiness!

    You don’t know just how lucky you are, until you see this. What might you classify as ‘unlucky’? Fight with mom/dad/partner, a day with no hot water, when you run out of cold coffee,…

  • Brown Paper Packages Tied Up With String

    Someone knocked at my gate. I expected the usual; salesperson, beggar, cleaning woman, or kids playing a prank. Instead, I found a complete and utter stranger: the post man. How had he ventured onto…