Tag: life

  • Trees Can’t Swim, Or Climb Mountains

    I’m a foresty kind of person. You know what I mean. Thick undergrowth underfoot, littered with roots and leaves. The very low incessant humming and buzzing of all the tiny lives that live there: beetles tapping on wood, spiders spinning their homes, constructing new identities everyday. The trees overhead, growing together, clustering branches and foliage, soaking up the sun,… →

  • The Perfect Salad: Lettuce, Tomatoes, Dead Bird?

    So, imagine a nice cosy winter’s evening, a candle lit dinner and your partner. You set the plates and the food that you’ve slaved over all day. The only thing that you bought from the store was ‘fresh’ baby leaves rocket salad which you set lovingly in a glass dish. And then you see a… →

  • Demons On A Warm Summer’s Day!

    We fear what we do not understand, and most of all, we fear the unknown, the intangible. Dream sequence. A bright summer’s day and I’m standing on a mountain. From the very peak, I can see below and there are rivers and trees and hills and sunlight. I feel content, and am just about to… →

  • I Was A Seaman, Cook Or Carpenter… In 1675

    Re-incarnation. Of course I believe in it! I mean you must have been somewhere or someone else before you came to exist in this life. And just to be sure of who I was in my past life, I did thorough research and found that I was:  Awesome. Okay so there was no research, and… →

  • For All The Sick Penguins Out There…

    I shall compare private and public healthcare (for my country) using a delightful metaphor that involves penguins. So, first are the really fat penguins who give government healthcare. They finance themselves using taxes, which they increase each year to support different endeavours. These are the ones who have all the fish, and the big kahuna, or lord… →

  • How To…Tell If You’re In Love – With Your Cellphone

    This is my personal guide that will tell you whether your phone is a lifeline, a nuisance or something in between: Signs To Look For: Number One: You wake up, stretch and yawn, muss your hair for that sexy straight out of bed effect (which leaves you looking like a drunken llama), and reach for your phone.… →

  • I’ll Love You…On February 14th

    “Hi, so I know we’ve only been dating for 5 months, but…would you be my Valentine?” “Of course! I didn’t know you felt that strongly about me!” “I do, I love you.” “You just said the ”L” word…Oh I couldn’t be happier!” *hugging and kissing ensues* Ahh, Valentine’s Day. Roses, chocolate, singing, serenading, presents, poetry… →

  • I Opened A Different Sort Of Window Entirely…

      Through the Window? Right outside my window, a clear blue streams gurgles past. It takes along with it odd, smooth, glassine pebbles, some leaves and the occasional lizard. I can hear the tiny tick tick noises the reptilians make when trying to cling onto the bank with miniature nails. Their holds don’t stick, and… →

  • Sorry Yeats, I Died…

    Ahh, my eulogy… Here lies an unusual eighteen year old. She loved life, but she didn’t fear death, because Albus Dumbledore taught her that “to the well organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” In death, she wanted to leave something behind for future generations, so they could learn and not make the… →

  • How Does Adultery Make You Feel?

    There’s something I cannot get off my mind at the moment. It’s not deep, brooded over or intellectual. But it’s been preying in my thoughts, inexorably. Adultery. Infidelity. Cheating. Two-timing. What do they all mean? If you ‘cheat’, will you be labeled an adulterer? Even if you have your reasons and are being treated badly?… →

  • Hello, Liebster. We Meet At Last…!

    Could this day get any better? So much got done, I feel like a productive person today, which is sort of an alien feeling…I came to the blog and found an amazing surprise! Laekanzeakemp nominated me for the Liebster Award. YAY *jumps*. I couldn’t be any happier than I am right now. Two things I love are comments on… →

  • Its Raining, Its Pouring…The Old Man Is Dead

    It’s raining; it’s pouring. The old man is snoring. He went to bed and bumped his head, And he couldn’t get up in the morning. Umm, okay so I stumbled across this nursery rhyme yesterday and this is what I understood: So, an old man was snoring in his bed while it was raining and… →

  • You’re Anything But Ordinary…

    Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary. – Oscar Wilde Fall in love with someone who is/can be: Your best friend. Your ultimate confidant.  A really soft punching bag. A hugger. A pet (actions include snuggling, cuddling and puppy eyes) A cry-into-pillow. Superman. A realistic dreamer (paradoxically…) Your moral conscience, at parties and… →

  • I’m A Child Of The Rain, At Home In The Soil

    Rain… This reminds me of the first time I actually ‘experienced’ a thunderstorm as a child. I was a little over 7 years old, and had been playing in the back garden quietly, with dolls and imaginary friends alike. Augusts in Lahore are monsoon months, with heavy rain coming down at unexpected moments. Before I… →

  • 136 Kinds Of Weather…

    Winter’s End A hard winter, this was. The end of winter is here; spring yawns and awakens. Starting over means that when I wake up at 5 am, it won’t be dark outside; the sky won’t be the shade of a two day old bruise. Instead, dawn will be straining to break out, streaking candy… →

  • …Meanwhile, In Lahore: Here Comes The Sun!

    Finally, finally! The sun has come out! The near freezing (for us at least) temperatures have taken a hike! Today was a brilliant day in Lahore, with the sun shining at full beam, glad to be out of the clouds’ shadow finally. Time to put away sweaters and blankets wrapped in mothballs and dig out… →

  • “When God Made Time, He Made Plenty Of It.”

    Yesterday, a friend’s pet passed away, her grey Persian cat who she dearly loved. Weeping, she told me “No one can ever replace him.” At that moment, it would’ve been imprudent to counter her statement, but it did get me thinking. Are people and things really irreplaceable? For example, I love my sisters, and I… →

  • 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… →