Category Archives: Love

I remember New Year’s Eve as if it was the day before. My dearest friends and I were having a blast watching the magical fireworks shoot up to the sky along the sprinkles of glorious fountains. Our hearts filled with joy and stomachs full of food; never did I know that there was a virus […]

It was not easy to start writing about my 2020. Simply because way too many things happened, and I didn’t know where to start. Everything around me changed. At the beginning of 2020, I was working in Japan. By the end, I was spending the holidays in the mountain Pyrenees of France with my soon-to-be […]

I’m one of seven children and grew up in Ghazighat, a small village in Pakistan. Growing up, we didn’t have electricity, and school was over an hour away by walk. I had to wade through fields with grass taller than me, but I was keen to study, so I put effort to get to school. […]

We Chartered Accountants are expected to write with numbers. A lot of us were doing exactly that till the pandemic changed life as we knew it. When the lockdown was announced in April 2020 in UAE, the first week we were all trying to adjust to new norms of ‘Work from Home’ and managing all […]

It was 1st Dec 2019 and as always, the Christmas season glided into our hearts and minds. Following my ritual every December, I decided to take stock on the progress of my current year’s resolutions. While taking stock, my mind shifted into the new resolutions I had to make. Ironically, the majority of the resolutions remained […]

On a warm Friday afternoon, April 2020, I stood against the green walls of the cardiac ICU in the hospital helplessly staring at my wife. She was motionless in deep sedation with tubes running all over. I remembered the smell and sharp agony of tincture iodine administered on an open wound at school. As a […]

Learning In early 2020, my company Festoon Signs in Dubai was ready and raring to go – we had planned to increase our revenue by a minimum of 2x, our team was in place and all systems were a go! We started off well and the first two months of the year were awesome. Then […]

What a year this has been! Putting it down as a rollercoaster would be mild – January 2020 started with Archie and me spending our 5th wedding anniversary night sleeping on the departure benches at Sofia airport, with the Gods playing a cruel joke, cancelling our flight into Serbia. A few days later I was celebrating […]

In July 2020, I lost my mother to Covid-19 while she was in India. Unable to travel, we watched the funeral via video from Dubai, together with many loved ones from across the world. As it happened, I felt deep sorrow that I could not be with my mum and dad during her final days. […]

In 42 years of my life, I have experienced lots of ups and downs but the beginning of 2020 was like nothing to expect from this year l. But once the days started passing I realize there are a lot of good things that happened. A friend in need is a friend indeed – I […]