(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…
Category: Dear Diary
Feelings and opinions (and frustrations) about things in general, mostly about work.
Random Rambling | That’s not how you do it, hon!
Yesterday morning, I decided to quit tea for good. And it was one of the best decision of my life. And I survived, almost fourteen hours since the sweeping declaration, almost thirty hours without tea. I was feeling quite proud of myself. But then, after dinner, my head started to spin, my eyes were…
Random Rambling | The Reluctant Traveller
The Lust of Wanderlust When I was little, I ached to travel around. I mean, I heard all these stories from my classmates and neighbourly of how their families would pack up every summer and venture to other neighboring cities for a summer break at their grandparents’ house like it was the most…
10 things I Notice Everytime I Watch Kya Hua Tera Wada song from Hum Kisi Se Kum Nahin
I have a tendency to resort to Bollywood music every now and then, I like my dosage of nostalgia, you see. I’m not proud of it, but that’s what I do. Kya Hua Tera Wada (Hum Kisi Se Kum Nahin) Today, I recalled this particular one, and watched it a couple of times,…
Random Rambling | Multitasking
We had a quarterly meeting today. The contents of that meeting are probably classified and definitely boring, so we’re not delving into that. Towards the end, a comment triggered some people to add their two cents. That comment that started it all: Do not multitask!!!.. Another person: Multitasking is a myth. The third…
Dear Diary | Eid Break 2025 | Day 6
Why do the vacation days fly by? Why does the clock drag during working days? I mean, time kinda flies either way but while working every second makes its presence felt. Vacation days, not so much. Just the leisure and the fact that there’s no need to login, feels amazing. In the six days…
Dear Diary | Eid Break 2025 | Day 4
This must be the only Eid that I haven’t slept a wink the whole night. Staying through the night to not miss Suhoor is a norm, for years (I’m paranoid)but not for the last day of Ramzan, not for the first day of Shawwal. I sleep for a couple of hours, wake up for…
Dear Diary | Eid Break 2025 | Day 3
I think, I think, that spending the Chand raat doing dusting and cleaning and whatnot is a must. عید کی تیاری یہ نہیں ہوتی کہ علی العشاء نماز پڑھ کر مہندی لگا کر سو گئے اور علی الفجر تیار ہو گئے۔ عید کی تیاری یہ ہوتی ہے کہ اماں کو خوشُ کیا جائے۔ اگر…
Dear Diary | Eid Break 2025 | Day 0
Day 0 Let’s begin with day 0 to be honest. It is not day 1 because being a computer engineer, I start my indexing from zero, not one. Day One would be tomorrow . Today is just the beginning of the Eid break. And it went like this. The Madness This day was a…
The Real Me Unfolded
More than 7 years ago, on January 20, 2015, I started my blog and posted for the first time. The Blah Person in Me After that, my blogging journey met with many speed bumps and discontinued often, until I found my true calling and started writing more frequently. The rest is history (a very forgettable…