It was the summer surrounding my organic chemistry exam. The wooden desks that had already been graffiti-ed by many a frustrated student before me. My white DCW Karachi uniform was splattered at the pocket, where my many ink-pens had been sitting (I never liked dorky pencil/stationery cases) and my forehead was icky and sweaty. I … Continue reading »
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Best Twitter Bios. #truestory
The way social media is evolving is hardly something that can be ignored. To roughly quote Will Schuester from Glee, “Thanks to Tumblr, Facebook, Blogs and twitter, there’s just so much increased pressure for social judgments and evaluations”. If Facebook wasn’t enough to make sure we shared every detail from our lives, Twitter and Tumblr … Continue reading »
An Ode to Humsafar.
(We interrupt regular programming – actually, this IS the regular programming. I’ve been interrupting THAT for my fictional tales that seem to have taken over this poor blog.) While there have been absolutely brilliant blogs (read some of them here, here and here) and terribly true parodies (I’m sure you are all familiar with the … Continue reading »
Bruno Sahab. Ye kia baat hui?
(We interrupt our regular programming to bring you something that MUST go out of my head before I spontaneously combust.) Not only is Bruno Mars ruining every woman’s concept of a macho man, of a metrosexual man, of a normal man, he is also responsible for bringing ideas into girls’ heads that have no semblance … Continue reading »
She was no Beatrix. (part six)
It was so very strange that three people from the same age group, discussing the same problem could be so silent for the past half hour. She somehow considered this as the strangest fact of the day. Not the initial yelling match between her brother, Adil, and Adeel. Not the persistent furtive opening-and-shutting of the … Continue reading »
Bonnet. Bees. Boo.
Bee Number One. Mourning what won’t return: Gone are the days when you could have just stared into space absentmindedly and chomped on something fatty and read a novel that would have invited you to explore the inner workings of a mind truly twisted. But that doesn’t happen now. As my friend Aneela Z says, … Continue reading »
Yeah. I’m politically incorrect.
Apparently it’s deeply important for everyone to be a bleeding heart liberal to be famous nowadays. Not that I blame them. When you watch shows that star witty people like Jon Stewart against demonizing crazy people like Wolf Blitzer and you’ve got genuine looking people protesting on Wall Street against ‘greed’ whereas swagger-filled scumbag billionaires … Continue reading »
The Clouds Have Parted.
This is taken from the December issue of Psychology Today. “Some roles tend to breed overachievers. Mothers today are truly busier than past generations, says psychologist Diane Halpern of Claremont McKenna College. ‘On average, women still do more child and home care than men, and with increasing work hours, women are working more.’ Layer on … Continue reading »
Pliss to the vote.
My very lovely, very endearing, very funny friend Afia Aslam is nominated as the Best Diarist at the Pakistan Blog Awards. Please tweet, fb, share the goodness and make her win. She stands for all the awesome, brilliant, loveable moms out there who are struggling to find their voices via blogs and elsewhere. Click on … Continue reading »
You who?
Yesterday at a dinner filled with young Pakistanis, including myself, I realized I have given up on so many things Pakistan. As if The Uncle wasn’t bad enough, as if my old friends harping about religion wasn’t bad enough, I am now surrounded by people who would find Islamic explanations for deeply sexist rules – … Continue reading »
