Category: Everyday Clutter

  • My Teacher, Who Pets Some And Tries All…

    My teacher can’t be seen, or heard even. My teacher has never received much recognition, except on job resumes, or in hiring adverts. My teacher is intangible, and comes in infinite different shapes and sizes. And so, my teacher cannot be seen or heard. Unless you really start to listen. Because my teacher is experience. Experience started →

  • A Fizzy, Caramelly Journey…

    Coca Cola. And my story with it. This story starts even before I was born, and as a matter of fact, it started when my mother was pregnant with me. In her words, ‘normal everyday food’  bored her, and so, in the last month before I was due, she began a new diet, that consisted →

  • The Voices In My Bathroom Were Real…Oh God

    I’m a control freak. I thought ‘helpless‘ wasn’t in my dictionary. Until this morning. Today, around 7.30 AM I had the two worst nightmares I have ever had, even as a child. And what makes you feel more helpless than your subconscious? It shows you things you can’t control, or change. Unless you’re a lucid →

  • Never Try To Outstubborn A Cat…

    Hi, Favourite Person Remember last Saturday when I went to that sleep over? You looked pretty much nonchalant as I was leaving. You watched me while I stuffed my favourite neon pink pajamas inside my handbag with your glassy stare, and I knew you were judging me. I tried to pat you on the head but you →

  • Heathcliff Is My Romeo?

    Call Me Ishmael At the best of times, you may call me ‘indecisive’. Therefore, it will not surprise anyone to see not one, but two first lines from books. I have too many favourites! “1801 – I have just returned from a visit to my landlord – the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly →

  • 7 Things Indian Cinema Has Taught Me…

    1. Make up stays on permanently, and never runs. For normal women, getting drenched in a thunderstorm, water fight or sob fest inevitably leads to runny mascara, smudged lipstick and messy base, making them look just slightly less graceful than your everyday quality vampire. In Indian movies however, heroines do not go through this ordeal. Their →

  • Writing Has Its Rewards…And Awards!

    Blogging days for me just could not get any better! Two days ago, I got nominated for the Sisterhood of the World Bloggers Award and today I came here to find another award. Yes, I’m talking about this as if these are Golden Oscars, but honestly, to me, they’re nothing else! I never ever thought →

  • How To Get Rich Quick…!

    If you ask kids what their favourite board games are, they’ll most probably answer with Candy Land, Hungry Hungry Hippos or Snakes and Ladders. I was one of the children who listed the following in my favourites; Chess, Scrabble and especially Monopoly. Monopoly. In which we could all become rich, very fast. Being honest, it →

  • Feels Like An Oscar Nomination

    I just signed into WordPress and found a comment notification by Hey Sugar Sugar, saying that she nominated me for the ‘Sisterhood of the World’ Bloggers Award. Let me just say, for me, this is the absolute best thing that could have happened. i started blogging two months ago and saw many excellent bloggers who had these award proudly →

  • Nice To Meet You! :)

    I just read Hey Sugar Sugar‘s post where she ‘parameterized‘ herself, and found it very interesting. Here’s my own version: I’m 5 feet, 2 1/2 inches. I weigh exactly 49 kg (I don’t like measuring in lbs). I was born on the 25th of June, in 1994. Summer baby who can’t stand winters. I’m female. Duh. Both my eyes →

  • 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 and walk away, only to find a few hours later that its no longer there. They’re the only organisms that would →

  • 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 normal person, you’ve probably offended one or two people in 2012. Snapped at your mom, dad or cat, or punched your →

  • 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 just then. However, as always there was no gas and therefore no hot water in the house. As usual. And so →

  • 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 up at the sky. Since it was a tropical forest, the sun seemed to be on full beam, and the mellow →

  • 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 head, which was bent with eyes closed. And then I felt the stirring of butterflies in my stomach, the whoop and →

  • 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 viable beating heart in the center, connecting all who live, dream and toil here everyday. I ventured into this sacred heart →

  • 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 answer is simple. No, I would not drink the water. I don’t want to stay young and party every day. I →

  • 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, or chocolate, or when your kids are annoying you? I haven’t been in a war and I don’t carry any battle →

  • 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 this territory, this alien land he never ever visited? I figured he probably had the wrong address and had stopped to →

  • I’m Sorry, Korea!

    Daily Prompt: Mix Tape This is my dream prompt. I’ve been gathering this list for ever. 1. Broken – Amy Lee ft Seether.  2. Girl On Fire – Alicia Keys ft Nicki Minaj.  3. Heaven – Theory Of A Deadman 4. Hurricane – Theory Of A Deadman 5. Skyfall – Adele 6. The Only Exception →

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