Currently Crushing! (May 2015)

Halfway into June, and I finally get down to it! Without further ado.. 1. Organisation! Clothes, books, cosmetics, stationary- everything needs boxes and corners and tiny little cubicles; at least in my humble opinion. It is my most recent obsession. I have done the rounds at Ikea and Dragon Mart. Sadly Dragon Mart proved to...

Ma Wednesday- Liking the dislikes.

Everybody talks of the beauty of being a parent. Many also share their challenges and hardships. But not often do we hear about disliking being a parent. Is it unkind, ungrateful and blasphemous to admit that I sometimes hate being a parent. Yes, hate. I often say to people how hate is such a strong...

An uncensored, unedited thought thread.

There might be an old friend of yours; that you meet after a mighty long time. You once spoke a mile a minute and were never short of conversational inspiration. The thoughts poured forth and the words followed soon after. Then one fine day, you part and do not meet for a jolly long while. And...

Expat pangs.

Being away from home has it downsides, no doubt. But on most days, life keeps us engrossed in it's mundane throes and we fail to process and feel the underlying void within that is constant and unrelenting. Don't get me wrong folks, we have it good here; but there are times when it hits you....

The last flagship phone from Nokia- A tribute!

Windows 10 is just round the corner; July 29th to be precise. The notifications have arrived and I have done my due diligence i.e. reserved my "free" upgrade. I am one of those rare species (at least in the part of the world that I live in) that also owns the flagship Windows phone- the...

Another adventure?

I have a confession to make- I still don't drive in Qatar. Mainly because I couldn't be bothered with taking a test (my home country licence doesn't cut it here), and also because The Mister never had to take one :-/. Irrational I know! He has been to all sorts and kinds of countries (South...