Feb 6, 2009 Posted by saaleha

A big bad block, but there’s always a poem

Tweet Dew says it so perfectly dewish here. Context: My brain is, again, stubborn lint and my words have left me for someone skinnier with perfectly tweezed eyebrows. When I’m feeling particularly useless, I type random words into my Gmail search and read the regurgitated chat archives. It was April 10, 2006 and Sg33k had sent that very first email. I... read more

Feb 1, 2009 Posted by saaleha

Coz Angelina hasn’t got to this one yet

Tweet Save Drollic, Mingent and Noscible! Start your own little lexical tribe here: www.savethewords.org – via lifehacker via Digital... read more

Jan 21, 2009 Posted by saaleha

The Craft of the Beautiful Opposite

Tweet Effective/Affective Rhetoric “… To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society’s ills on the West: Know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy. To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong... read more

Dec 23, 2008 Posted by saaleha

I’ll eventually grow into it

Tweet It happened just after my eyes fell on the notice stuck to one of the walls at Khan’s Butchery. “Ready fried onions. Perfect for vagaars and biryanis. Don’t be fooled by imitations”. Where my mind was fixed on the pastrami and chump chops, it was now ambushed by intrigue. Fake fried onions? What a thing! Perhaps the onions were... read more

Dec 11, 2008 Posted by saaleha

{The Zephyr & I} blood-relief

Tweet It’s not that I don’t want you. Almighty Forbid. May that not be taken for prayer. It’s just that I don’t want you right just now. If I were having guests over for lunch, would I tell them to come at 10am? They’d eat their fingers while I chopped onions. I want there to be stories ready for when you arrive. Of how we went... read more