Tag: postaday

  • Having Tea With The Tsar In A Cottage On The Nile…?

    I want to have wings on my feet. I want to…explore. I want to have breakfast in a river side cafe in Paris and lunch in a crowded sweet-smelling farmers market in California.  I want to live out of my suitcase; I don’t have a problem washing my clothes in a stream in Japan while stunned… →

  • Heirate mich! Hooking Up With The Berlin Wall…And More

    So…stranded in a strange country with no monies and no food? Gulp. Being stuck in a foreign country where the locals speak English would be way too easy. I could just seek out a kindred looking spirit, ask to use their cell phone and call my family or the nearest embassy, and get rescued. So to… →

  • Dragon’s Loyalty Award!

    Oh my oh my! The Dragon’s Loyalty Award! I’m hoping this comes complete with a stone castle, emeralds as big as my palm and of course my perfect prince… On a serious note, WOW. This is one of the coolest awards I’ve received, and all thanks to Arman at Corporate Skirts. You’re a sweetheart! ❤… →

  • “Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!”

    “Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!” Dumbledore’s ‘signature’ dialogue, which in a way opens and closes the Harry Potter series. Since the phrase refers to the four houses, I’ll let my mind ponder over the possibilities… NITWIT…RAVENCLAW: After being sorted, I would be ecstatic. Actually, since I’d be so brilliant, I would just politely and demurely congratulate… →

  • How To…Survive A Gap Year

    Gap Year: (def.) A year that you take off from ‘normal’ life, namely hole up at home and veg out, away from real responsibilities, basically adult stuff. This year that I took off from real life, has been strange. I took a vacation because I got rejected from the one university I wanted to get into,… →

  • Emasculation and Derogation…Why Respect Can Never Be Overrated

    I’ve seen so many couples. Teenagers in for a ‘fling’, couples struggling through their 10th anniversary, even couples who relished their 70th year together, and still found themselves wishing for more time. And now I want to root out the rules for a successful relationship. I won’t pretend that I can even begin to understand… →

  • 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.… →

  • Do Not Drink Wine – Like A Savage!

    “Flangiprop” Hmm. I’ve been reading Game of Thrones lately so this word reminds me of fantastical things. ‘Flangi’ reminds me of flagons and the word mangy simultaneously, while ‘prop’ makes me think of propriety and etiquette. Overall the word makes me think of a master, or teacher. No Game of Thrones influence at all…yeah right. So basically,… →

  • 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… →

  • …Meanwhile, In Lahore: Humans Are The Worst Kind Of Animals

    I feel so lucky. Last night, on my way home I saw something on the road that instantly made me want to cry and be grateful simultaneously. He was a man, and not one at the same time. He crawled on all fours, walking like an animal, in between the cars, begging for change. When… →