Uncategorized Do puritanical ideas harm society or keep it straight? A couple’s kiss that led to…… 29 May 202129 May 2021 First of all, kissing, for all intents and purposes is strictly prohibited in Pakistan. It’s not a good thing to do. Even kissing your husband is considered forward and crass.…
Uncategorized “Feature me”! From Zakat to Outfits. Pakistani mindset in 2020. 10 Dec 202027 Feb 2021 It's no wonder that everything in my country is so incentive-based that when someone wants to do something for someone else's benefit, the benefactor wants a certain extra benefit also.…
Uncategorized Hosting the Grown Up Asian. “Dual Identity “. 15 Nov 2020 How I Embraced My Dual Cultural Identity as a Grown Up Asian I was born in Staten Island NY to two physician immigrants from the Philippines. I was…
Uncategorized Quirky Pakistani 3 21 Oct 202021 Oct 2020 "Honey! Your nipples are showing". "Yes, Mom, it's cold". "Cover them, honey". "How can I cover them?" "Erm... wear a sweatshirt". "Mom! I'm wearing a sweatshirt". "Wear another one. Didn't…
feminism… Cat fight! What do men want to see? 15 Sep 202018 Sep 2020 Cat fights have been the longest-awaited and most highly esteemed things to happen for most men. They're strangely obsessed with it and might I add, probably sexually. In the words…
Uncategorized “Even Chanel gets copied”….. the legitimizing of plagiarism and its devastating effects on the moral fabric of our society. 16 Aug 202016 Aug 2020 Plagiarism has become common with the advent of social media. Or may be it has become easier to catch. One of the two. Either way, it is very difficult to…
Uncategorized The Pet Store 11 Aug 202020 Aug 2020 As I entered the pet store it reminded me eerily of my college days when I spent hours at bars hoping for some handsome stranger to materialize, buy me a…
covid… 2020….. my reflections on a hallmark half a year so far 25 Jul 20207 Aug 2020 https://www.instagram.com/p/B6wSpkklmbJ/?igshid=fb58pukfptjy The above is my post from December 2019 on my Instagram. We had just come back about three weeks before this from a fantastic vacation in New Orleans and…
Uncategorized Born Brown, Raised Muslim. 22 Jul 202022 Jun 2021 When women quote Islam online in response to cultural problems and they're Pakistani women I try to remember that I squashed this conundrum eons ago. That I separated being a…
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