Meet the Phlegm Machine At least twice a year, I turn into what I can only describe as a phlegm machine. Once when the winter is just beginning, and again when it is packing its bags. Like clockwork, my body decides to audition for a one-person orchestra, complete with blocked sinuses, scratchy throat,…
Author: Shabana Mukhtar
Book Review | Breath of Fresh Air | Erica James
Breath of Fresh Air by Erica James Charlotte Lawrence, widowed at thirty-four, decides to return to all things pre-Peter, and that means moving back to the Cheshire village of her childhood. It also means exchanging a clinical company flat for the pretty but overgrown garden of Ivy Cottage, and the constant attentions of her…
The Result Day
It’s today. On the last day of annual exams, we were told that the results would be announced on May 1st, and that we are to report to our respective classrooms at 7 o’clock. Yesterday, I couldn’t sleep.Was I excited?“Excitement” doesn’t even begin to express how I felt. Today is the result day. I…
TOMU is back!
Hello lovely readers, Thank you for your patience! I’m excited to let you know that the website is now up and running normally. Over the past few weeks I was working behind the scenes to move the hosting to a different provider and gets things up and running without anyone noticing. Everything is resolved —…
We’re Moving Hosting!
I’m excited to share that my website is transitioning to a new hosting home. 🎉 This change means better speed, reliability, more control over the server and room to grow (especially me as a software developer; there’s so much I still need to learn). During this transition, you might notice small hiccups like some missing…
Book Review | Shuter Murgh Riasat | Mustansar Hussain Tarar
Book Review Shuter Murgh Riasat / شترمرغ ریاست by Mustansar Hussain Tarar A collection of 39 short stories About Author Mustansar Hussain Tarar (Urdu: مستنصر حسين تارڑ) is a Pakistani author, actor, the first Morning Show presenter and a pioneer trekker – in his own words: a vagabond. For more details, read his Goodreads…
Random Rambling | 20 Years
(Un)happy work anniversary 20 years ago, on a pleasant monsoon morning, I joined my first job. It was a Friday. I wore a new salwar kameez that mum had stitched for this very event-white kurta with lavender and cyan flowers paired with solid cyan salwar and dupatta. My heart raced so hard as…
Book Review | Never Greener | Ruth Jones
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll The past has a habit of tracking us down. And tripping us up. When Kate was twenty-two, she had an intense and passionate affair with a married man, Callum, which ended in heartbreak. Kate thought she’d never get over it. Seventeen years later, life has moved on…
10 Things I Noticed About | It’s a Boy Girl Thing
As the title suggests, this movie was kinda forced upon my as YouTube kept recommending it to me for more than a week. I was like, what the heck! And it’s a Thursday, so this post is kinda perfect for #ThrowbackThursday Short recap The girl sitting with her legs parted like a man, and…
Book Review | Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll On a drowsy afternoon by a riverbank, a young and distracted Alice follows a rabbit into a fantastical underground world that grows curiouser and curiouser. Dared, insulted, amused, and threatened by a succession of anthropomorphic creatures, the indomitable Alice falls deeper into a swirl of the imagination…