Tag: life

  • 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… →

  • 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… →

  • 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… →

  • 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… →

  • …Meanwhile, In Lahore: The 10 Year ‘Old’ Mother

    I was at the park, and saw these three little children playing on the swings. They had tangled, dirty hair and fraying clothes, but they were happy and jumping around with all the energy of squirrels who’ve gulped down Red Bull.  I did notice one thing out of order though. The eldest of the four… →

  • Help! My Pet Giraffe Is Moving Out

    You wake up and pad down to the kitchen, only to find your family giraffe sitting placidly, fully dressed, cross legged at the table. His usual bowl of cereal and glass of veggie juice are not in front of him. Today he is reading a newspaper, and has a red Sharpie clutched in his fore… →

  • Dear God, Not Again

    I gave my A levels in May this year, and already that feels like it was decades ago. Most of my friends went to college, while I gave different tests and took a year off, to get into my ‘dream university’, which had rejected me in April. Today, I’m going back to school to start… →

  • Oh, Let’s See. Why Not A Walrus?

    Daily Prompt: Slash and Burn Thematically, this post will be pure nonsense. Read if its worth your while. One day, gazing into outer space with my super binoculars, I realized that once you turn into a walrus, you never turn back. I mean, you could, if you really really wanted to, but why would you?… →

  • 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 experiences in the hopes that they’ll make some people laugh, some cry, and help some not make the same mistakes. I… →

  • 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 do with glue. I would put a tiny pearl sized amount on my forefinger, and then stick my thumb to it,… →

  • 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 court case that had been brought up against her wrongly, by a confused old man who was convinced she was the… →