Cee...Emm...Oh...Enn (CMON)! My cousin said, as she impatiently nudged me to ask our parents the much awaited question. It was the summer of 1998 - the year our lives changed. McDonald's had finally opened it's doors in Karachi. We were visiting from Riyadh those days and whenever we would pass by the golden arches, it... Continue Reading →
"She is throwing up, move away quickly!", my fellow classmates said on my second day of starting at my new school in Riyadh. It was a dreadfully embarrassing moment for me to display all of my insides during assembly. To be fair, it was a lot to digest. I had moved to Manarat Al-Riyadh school... Continue Reading →
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” - Marcel Proust Before traveling somewhere new, we have so many different visions in our mind. Our thoughts about a city are already prefabricated based on the photographs and lists of ‘top things to do’ that we read online.... Continue Reading →
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