(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…
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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…
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…