I read this ranty post recently about how people generally say they are busy as an excuse for being perpetually late. And if you are one of those people, your lack of respect for people's time screams rudeness and selfishness...
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I’ve always found summing up a whole year in one word or a few to be quite cheesy. Most days in the year are, after all, simply a blur of hurried routine, a mixture of highs and lows, minor successes, disappointments...
“You must be missing Pakistan a lot!” Said an acquaintance I bumped into here in Cambridge, when I told her I had recently moved back here. My instinctive response was an emphatic no. “Not at all”, I...
So we managed it. Moved countries and set up a new home with a 4 month old. All through his fourth leap, which is notorious for being one of the most testing and nerve-wracking leaps for parents (although aren’t they...
Someone recently asked me why I have been reading “self-help” books, and then proceeded to point towards my Goodreads bookshelf. The judgemental tone, although I knew that it was just grounded in ignorance, rankled me. I...
Living abroad can really make you lazy in some ways. For me, shopping from the comfort of my couch is one of the indulgences which I have really grown used to. So much so that going out to stores and trying on stuff is a...
I love, love, love this post on PHD comics so much, I just had to repost it. As a reminder to myself, just in case I ever forget. We don’t realize how kids get many things right. Also, going through the random...
So I keep telling my husband that Pakistan is a pretty liberal place, in my attempt to convince him that there is still hope for the country. That is, liberal for a Muslim country. Yes, I know, all kinds of atrocious things...
I came across two awesome images today. The best thing about them is their ambiguity, that they can be interpreted in multiple ways. Definitely good material for a creative writing class. The first is from here: The first...
And here I was doubting the choices I had made. It’s only after I completed my bachelors, masters and then another qualification to boot which required three exams and close to a thousand hours of studying, did I realize my...