Venial Sin

It only takes a few seconds to fall in love, weirdly enough. To notice brimming eyes, to be madly infatuated with freckles and pores, and a dusting of light hair as the sunlight glows around each strand and one long finger brushes it back. It takes even less time to feel your heart break, over and over again, year after year. But you get get over it.  Over that pair of pellucid eyes, the dusty lashes, the crooked tooth, the [...]

Well, the one thing I definitely didn't expect after a night of babysitting a hyperactive 1.5 year-old and a cantankerous 5-year-old, especially after each of them had consumed about three and a half MILLION gallons of full-fat, high-sugar-content ice-cream, six dance routines at a friend's sister's wedding, two nights of food poisoning, no food for 72 hours, eleven quadruple vodka-sprites, and six triple-scotch-Diet-Cokes, was to find a fairly attractive straight man from London kissing the top of my head at [...]

So, not that I'm addicted to Final Fantasy XII: Children of Ivalice or anything, but where/how the fuck do I get access to the upper-level elemental spells?  Because plain old "Fire" and "Blizzard" aren't doing it for me, and if I don't get the chance to Blizzaga or Thundara someone really damn' soon, I'm going to start losing my shit. Additionally, the brother and his family are in town, so I doubt I'm going to have the time to do [...]

I’ve been really good about my nights out in Karachi thus far, much to the detriment of my story-telling ammunition; since I don’t go out a lot any more, I don’t have a lot of things to say (which is somewhat disturbing, but that’s a whole different story in and of itself). But once in a while, say every fortnight or so—give or take—I go on a minor bender, and wind up staggering home at four in the morning. Fortunately [...]

I've never actually seen a James Bond movie in its entirety before (oh there're moments when I'll come across a movie on TV or something, but given how little TV I actually watch, it's very rare), but tonight I went to the new Bond movie, Casino Royale première in Karachi.  This is a major step for several reasons, not the least of which is that it may well be the first time that the Pakistani public has witnessed the flogging [...]

This is the part where I apologise profusely and oh-so-eloquently (natch) for not having blogged in a while, and then I write something nice, and some of you e-mail me bitching me out (again), so how about we cut to the chase with this one? I’ve been unbearably busy and so forth, you guys are STILL sending in pictures, which, seriously, stop, I have like a couple of hundred to go through, and kidding aside, although Pakistani internet access has [...]