This week was crazy. This year was crazier. Maybe, someday, when I have the time and patience, I’ll write all about it (I have notes, y’know) but not today, not for a foreseeable future. The Invitation So, I was racing against time to finish things, last day and all (for the deliverable, nothing to do…
Tag: diary 2025
Thursday Thrills | Merry Xmas
Oh! Jingle bells, jingle bells, Jingle all the way. Oh! what fun it is to ride In a one-horse open sleigh. Hey! It is Christmas. The celebration for me is not Christmas but the fact that I got a day off, a day I can use to cross a few items off my never-ending list…
Random Rambling | Interview Anniversary
It’s my interview anniversary today. Hey, people celebrate 15-days birthday; weekversary, monthversary and whatnot. Why can’t I talk about interview anniversary? It’s not like I’m celebrating it. 14 years ago. On this day, I had interviewed for my current job. It was a pleasant October afternoon. For the past two days, I had been…
Random Rambling | On The Rocks
As soon as she left the hospital, she took a deep breath. The breath that had been trapped behind the mask all day seemed to have been released from her lungs now. The patients of the day, their relatives, injections, medicines, files — all were echoing in her mind like a crowd. The…
Random Rambling | Phlegm Machine
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,…
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…
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…
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 2
I was talking to my sister today. She was a bit upset that she could not perform ibadah as per her usual Ramzan routine. The only thing that has changed from Ramzan 2024 is that now she has a toddler to take care of. My nephew Abdul Haadi is only 6 months old, and he’s…
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…