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  • Prince Charming Doesn’t Come With A Checklist, Just A ‘To-Do’

    A friend of mine was recently talking about ‘Mr. Perfect’, the ‘Ideal Guy’, etc etc. And she gave me a list of everything he should be, from a girl’s perspective. Lets just say I…

  • Gather Round The Fire…And Listen, She Said, Of Tales Past

    I’m a puffed up, self important peahen.  I’d write, write and write some more. Writing this blog is literally how I vent, even though most of it is random rambling. I need to write out my…

  • …Meanwhile, In Lahore: Full On Falooda

    My favourite thing ever, in Lahore, is the falooda. Its a really icy cold, ice creamy treat made up of cold noodles at the bottom, topped with sweet creamy khoya and dunked in it, are one…

  • Never Was There A Tale Of More Woe, Than That Of Cadbury’s And UHU Glue

    There are two things I loved as a child:  UHU Glue and a box of Cadbury’s Quality Street. I’m not a glue sniffer, no. But I did have a peculiar habit I used to…

  • Problems With Mom? Go To Court..

    The Karachi Customs and Taxation Courts are located in an unassuming, non pretentious leafy, yellow bricked older than time building. My mom and I went there to sort out the last of the pesky…

  • Must Buy: Shoes, Clothes and a 12 Year Old Girl…?

    I now know one thing for sure. Karachi is a … hotchpotch  Trees are jammed next to fly overs, buildings loom over wires and gardens alike. But one incident happened which I will probably never forget. As…

  • Childhood Schizophrenia, Where Did You Go?

    I think I might have been schizophrenic as a child. I was looking through my old notebooks and found this list I had made, in grade 7. *drum roll*…The title was “45 Uses For…

  • When Elephants Flew, And Candlesticks Sang

    There’s a song stuck in my head stuck in my head stuck in my head.  Colours of the Wind – Pocahontas OST. Anyone remember Pocahontas? I felt so nostalgic thinking about the long forgotten…

  • Do You Know Pollyanna? Silver Linings…

    I just read Zen Scribbles’ post: Of silver linings and mailbox surprises, and figured I could look to the greener side of the grass once in a while, despite being a natural born pessimist.  The silver lining I…