Background: My sister was watching this series Kara Para Ask on YouTube and recommended it to me. Turkish dramas are long, like really long. The first Turkish series I watched was Fatima Gul. I didn’t finish it, because it just wasn’t ending. I don’t know Turkish. I watched the episodes with English subtitles or with…
Author: Shabana Mukhtar
Software Developer, Certified Overthinker, Decidedly Underachiever, Amateur Writer, Sitcom Lover
Episode 7: Coke Studio Season 11 (Sahil)
Disclaimer: This review is an opinion of a music listener. I have no musical background or technical expertise. If anybody disagrees with anything in this post… well, they will have to live with it. I can’t help them 🙂 First and foremost, I apologize for late review. I was out of town and had no…
An offsite trip
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…
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…
Crooning Techies: The Novel
Each day, I am taking baby steps towards achieving my passion for writing. My journey for indie author is taking baby steps as well. My first full length novel is 80 percent done, and there is another 80 percent remaining. Just like my journey, I am phasing out the publishing process too. I would prefer…
Coke Studio Season 11 | Episode 6 | Zamana
Disclaimer: This review is an opinion of a music listener. I have no musical background or technical expertise. If anybody disagrees with anything in this post… well, they will have to live with it. I can’t help them 🙂 First and foremost, I apologize for late review. The coke studio episodes didn’t come last week…
Dear Google: Happy 20th
Good morning all! The first thing I do after login to my work computer is open a new tab in Google Chrome. Okay, that is not what I do. I check my emails, to find if anything needs immediate attention and then I open a new tab in Google Chrome. I have plenty of things…
Book Review: Alif – Episode #2 (By Umera Ahmed)
The second episode reveals some more characters. It reveals some relationships amongst them. And no, I’m not mentioning those here. Read for yourself 🙂 It generates further curiosity. The tracks will converge soon, based on the first two episodes. The calligraphy link is already established. This novel is sounding like Mann-o-Salwa. The setting and the…