Zeinab Alayan's Blog, page 8
July 9, 2013
Do it with ice cream.
When it comes to celebrating, I tend to go for chocolate and all kinds of different desserts. The most important thing to me is stuffing myself full of sugar in order to perfectly savour my celebratory moment. However, I realised I’d been overlooking one very important treat – ice cream. I have had reason to […]
June 27, 2013
Ping. Your sweetheart has just signed in.
I met the love of my life online over a mutual chocolate obsession. It wasn’t love at sight of each other’s pixels kind of thing; rather, it was a friendship that grew into something more. When I met him, I thought I had found a new best friend; I had no idea we would get […]
June 18, 2013
How often do you google yourself?
Some people shy away from that question, usually because they do not want others to think they have an ego; after all, the practice itself is called ego surfing, or even vanity searching, because of the assumption that you have to be vain to search for yourself online, but it’s actually really important, especially if […]
June 15, 2013
In which I tease you with photos of sweets and books.
I don’t know about you, but when life stresses me out – and it has been doing that alotlately – I find the best way to unwind is by spending a little money on things that make me happy. Well, all right, I’ll come clean; I spent more than a little, but today’s retail therapy […]
June 13, 2013
Choose your own adventure. Or lack of it.
You’d heard your coworkers gossiping about it at lunch break, apparently something’s happened down at the old manor next to the graveyard. You’ve seen that manor before, it always gave you the creeps, but at the same time you wished you could go exploring. Your significant other never seemed interested, and your friends always liked […]
June 10, 2013
I like math.
Whenever someone disses math and I end up defending it, I get funny looks. A lot of funny looks. The fact that I like math makes me seem abnormal to others, and there are some who say, “What is even there to like about math? Of all the subjects you could’ve picked for a favourite…” […]
June 8, 2013
WebMD recommends panicking and reading breaks.
Placing myself on a self-imposed reading ban has always been out of the question. I loved books too much to do that. Even when I swamped with work and exams, I would make sure I shared a few minutes with fictional characters. And it’s not just books either, I also love reading blogs. One of […]
May 28, 2013
Hello. My name is Zeinab.
That’s my official name on paper, the name I sign my credit card purchases with, the name I give when somebody wants to list me down for something; however, I go by a different name among my inner circles – Zen. In a way it feels like having a double identity. Formally I’m Zeinab, a […]
May 27, 2013
If you know me, you owe me an excellent review.
Authors love reviews. We really, really do. Call it vanity, call it self-indulgence, but we really like it when people sing the praises of our books. At the same time, we feel somewhat afraid of them. I’ve received an okay number of reviews, and fortunately most of them were good, though two or three have […]
May 18, 2013
Dawn of the Sequels.
Book shopping has been proving a little bit difficult lately. Not because I’m trying to cut down on my purchases (though thathasbeen rather difficult), but mostly because whenever I start to pick up a book, I have to consider whether I want to make a commitment to the rest of the books in its family. […]
