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…
Roundup | August 2025
Intro I’m committed to doing roundup, even if I have to write a backdated post. Here goes for August. It was dull in terms of book reads. This one is actually published on November 1, 2025. August 2025 Reading Roundup I must have read some Urdu books unlisted on Goodreads. After that, I started Never…
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…
Book Review | The House That Spoke | Zuni Chopra
The House That Spoke | Zuni Chopra Fourteen-year-old Zoon Razdan is witty, intelligent and deeply perceptive. She also has a deep connection with magic. She was born into it. The house that she lives in is fantastical—life thrums through its wooden walls—and she can talk to everything in it, from the armchair and the…
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…
Roundup | July 2025
Intro We’re back to doing roundups! It’s been a while (hello, 2020 flashbacks), but honestly, I missed chatting about what I read each month. So here we are, resurrecting the tradition—this time with more chaos, more candour, and way better book picks (I think?). Let’s dive into what July 2025 looked like on my reading…
Book Review | Dog Days | Diary of a Wimpy Kid #4 | Jeff Kinney
Dog Days (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #4) by Jeff Kinney It’s summer vacation, the weather’s great, and all the kids are having fun outside. So where’s Greg Heffley? Inside his house, playing video games with the shades drawn. Greg, a self-confessed “indoor person,” is living out his ultimate summer fantasy: no responsibilities and…