Every year, the company I work with plans for an offsite. They choose a nice venue, mostly beaches and plan for a two-day trip, all expense paid by the company. Yes, it is one of those awesome things that my company offers. I never said it is all bad 😉 Software engineers do get a…
Month: October 2018
Attempting to refactor the blog
My first thought was that I’m revamping / restructuring the blog. But I thought let’s use the term we use in our official meeting when we intend to say ‘move things around and most certainly break it’. Haha. It was really hard to gather all the million categories under one roof – ‘Blog’. The ‘Books’…
Book Review: Alif – Episode #3 (By Umera Ahmed)
The third episode unfolds some more mysteries & introduces one more character – Abul Aala, Momin’s grandpa; and the most important character, in my opinion. The episode ends on a cliff-hanger. Like really hangs the reader. The calligraphy link is stronger than I had imagined. Momin and Momina both can do calligraphy. In this episode,…
Book Review: Cinderella Retellings
Over the weekend, I tried to buddy-read a book. I enjoyed reading it, and I thought hey, I have never really read a Cinderella’s retelling before, fantasy or otherwise. I didn’t have anything to compare it with. Then IÂ recalled reading Undercover Princess. There was one more that I started reading the sample chapters – Cinder…