welcome to the last month.

They say that in the last month, as the hormone levels escalate and go tizzy once again, all relationships will be put to a patience test- parents, sisters, friends, colleagues, and especially the poor wonderful husband. So in case I give into this hormonal thingy and start ranting and raving WITHOUT being given reason to, my apologies in advance. [...]

(grand)momma knows best.

When I was in class 3 (or was it 4?), I remember writing an essay once on what I wanted to be when I grew up. My mom, of course. And then another one in class 10 about an “ideal” in my life. Again my mother. Looking back now, I could not have possibly understood what a [...]

when the girls get together.

I attended my very first baby shower in Lahore last June with Hussy as her guest. And my second one was mine own.  All I can say is all that ostrogen in one room, God help us for surviving it without serious repercussions. Jokes aside, it was one of the most fun all-female times I [...]

mirror mirror on the wall.

Very few people I know are completely happy with how they look. There is always the odd complaint about the big butt, the double chin, the hooked nose, the flat chest, the non-existent waistline and so on and so forth. We look at ourselves critically from other people’s eyes so much so that we forget [...]