Category: Everyday Clutter

  • Say No To Slurpers

    So I’ve had some strange friends. I’ve known some strange people. I’ve seen people who breathe just through their mouths, people who pick their ear lobes when talking, and people who twitch when they talk.  All these quirks are okay.  But what is not okay, is weird eating habits. No. You see a girl. She →

  • What Is Peace?

    A child crawls on the mud strewn ground, his ribs jutting out in sharp relief, distorting the light of the harsh Somalian sun that beats down, parching the land dry; he looks around for his mother. There she comes, carrying a tiny package in her burnt brown hands, to lift up her child; he weighs →

  • God Save The Queen’s English Or Why I Don’t Like Dropping U’s

    There I used to be, in a crisp, blindingly white uniform, sash all pressed, not a hair out of place, sitting with my legs tucked beneath me. Shoes polished, composed demeanour, perfect little Conventarian child. Oh how that changed. Going from a private English school to an American university…walking across worlds. 1. Professors are human →

  • Don’t Look Here…

    Controversy.  It’s dark, and hidden, and attractive. Isn’t it?  What is it about the taboo that attracts us? To see an addict wrap his shaking fingers around a filthy needle, inject warmth into his paper thin veins and breathe in contentment, is controversy. But to whom, and how? To a ‘respectable’ older woman who calls →

  • Stop Staring Professor, I’m Blogging…

    Hey, I’m trying to survive. I sleep four hours a day, and sometimes I skip out on it altogether. I paint my nails while taking notes on a book, while writing an email, while drinking my morning cup of coffee. My conversations with people have started to involve words like “thesis”, “your media analysis”, “my →

  • The Pessimist’s Quick Guide To Death

    Basically, if you’re a pessimist, here are the things that can kill you on a day to day basis. Go ahead, you’re too depressed to look away anyway. 1. Other people. So, I mean why make the effort to talk to anyone really? People are strange beings, so different from each other and yet the →

  • Remember That?

    What can you say about memory? Nobody knows the future but everybody, everybody knows their past. I don’t know how it is for other people, but I remember it all. The worst part of total recall though, is standing in front of it, arms open wide. Hit me. You take that girl there, standing with →

  • The Red Lipstick Debate

    For the last two days whenever I’ve dug into my book bag for a pen, I’ve invariably found a red lipstick pencil.  Hmm.  I might be the living breathing embodiment of the education vs looks debate. Do people automatically assume a pretty girl will be incompetent? Or is it the other way around? It’s a →

  • Once Upon A Time In California…

    I woke up today with sunshine in my hair. No, seriously. My dorm room is currently suffering a power outage. While this means no light in the room, it hasn’t stopped the air conditioner from working on full blast. This means I have to keep the windows open just so I don’t freeze while I →

  • That Grasshopper’s Sitting On A Book, Cooking Berries

    If you stepped into my room on any given evening in the year 2007, you’d invariably find me curled up somewhere, reading. How I miss thirteen and all the years that preceded it. Childhood was a time where I saved up all my pocket money to buy a fuzzy slip covered notebook, which I then →

  • The 7 Advantages Of Being A Girl

    Now I don’t want to set foot in the murky waters of the men vs women debate. But I will say that while some people say it’s a male dominated society in general, there’s a lot in it for the “softer sex” too…and I consider all the sassy gay guys too. So, women, read on… #1: THE SMART →

  • What Sings Beneath The Earth (fiction)

    So I’ve decided to take the bull by the horns and dab away at a spot of fiction. I’m an impatient person so fiction doesn’t come easily to me. Short stories, let alone full blown novels have completely evaded me. Except now I’ve written something. Oh what an accomplishment. The piece is called What Sings →

  • Pull Up Your Pants, Turn Off Your Swagger – The Bill O’ Reilly Debate

    Fox News Host Bill O’ Reilly talked about how the African American community is disintegrating, and young black men are choosing lives filled with drugs, violence and crime. He also featured a a song sung by Lil Wayne, using it as an example to show people how black music is full of negative language and →

  • Send Me Flowers Again…

    Ring. “Drat!” The doorbell goes off Ten minutes to nine Precisely timed, Flowers on the porch Silver holder, pink card “From a secret admirer” “Oh, not again!” * I’m clean worn out With this flower business Just last week It was chocolates, A month ago Love poem, printed out I know my eyes sparkle And →

  • How To…Tell If You’re A Clingy Best Friend

    7 Signs That Show If You’re A Clingy Best Friend 1. Speed Dial Cling On – Your best friend has been given a dedicated key on your dial pad, so you can contact them in the space of seconds should an emergency arise. For example, your hairdresser cuts your hair an inch too short and →

  • Grab Your Box Of Tissues…

    I dread looking at stats… My main five posts have all been about social issues…huh. This is a surprise because I thought all my light and fluffy posts were more popular. Guess who’s breaking out the compassion journal and tears? →

  • Of Mammograms, Ultrasounds and Peacocks

    As you step onto the slick marble floors of the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Center, you’re faced with a bank of elevators.To the left veers the Radiology Department, and to the right sprawls the Nuclear Medicine Ward. It was there that I turned.  The brightly lit corridor is infused with sunlight, pouring in from →

  • Ghetto Harry Potter Meets Gay Mr. Darcy

    I’ve always admired writers who can dabble in fiction. I myself, although not a writer yet, have never approached the imaginary world, at least not on paper. More than fiction, however, I’m curious about fan fiction. Taking up another’s original idea, concept and theme and adding your own version it. So Harry Potter could be →

  • Politics = Passion…Pakistani Tales

    Politics…means different things to different people. Or should I say to different nations? Because never have I seen a nation so obsessed, no infused with their political system; where political leaders, discussions and rallies are the backbone of everyday conversations, than Pakistan. In Lahore, you’d be hard pressed to find someone who didn’t know and had something to say →

  • Sex Sells…Empathy Doesn’t

    Prostitute.  def: Noun. A person, typically a woman, who engages in sex for payment. How would you describe her? Standing on a shadowy street corner with an uplifted head, searching for her next customer. Heavily rimmed eyes, the kohl giving her an aura of toughness she doesn’t really possess. Inches thick padded push up bra to uplift →

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