tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50289908474490000852024-03-28T13:15:55.274+05:00Occasional DiaryHeba Moeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01407694126452625099noreply@blogger.comBlogger260125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5028990847449000085.post-56255142188681630012021-01-30T12:50:00.004+05:002022-11-13T15:15:21.838+05:00BIRD TALE I was
taken aback, rather utterly baffled when I was asked if I am a potato, that too
at 5 in the morning … and by none other than Ms. Coco. It was
Sunday morning and my alarm buzzed off at 4 a.m. We were to leave for our
birding trip and as habitual as it may sound, I had snoozed it, later to flail
out of bed at 4:45 a.m. in a desperate attempt not to get late!I turned
on one light inHeba Moeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01407694126452625099noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5028990847449000085.post-3797149090114511702021-01-14T21:35:00.002+05:002021-01-14T21:35:40.145+05:00COMING SOON! BIRDING TRIP ... Heba Moeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01407694126452625099noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5028990847449000085.post-35100515855767054722020-08-12T16:10:00.002+05:002020-08-12T19:52:28.024+05:00A Unique Jewellery Statement HELL-O pretty
birdies! Ahhh … didn’t we all love Rio the movie?!Anyway, this post
is about a dear friend of mine who makes elegant bead and wire jewellery. Tee
Syed’s work has me sold for her art. She started with bead jewellery as a hobby
in 2015 and kept improving her skills; now she has evolved into creating
sophisticated Bohemian jewellery besides carrying on with her original Heba Moeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01407694126452625099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5028990847449000085.post-43470112512306354382020-06-15T23:38:00.001+05:002020-06-15T23:38:59.988+05:00Tales and Tails of Nehr-e-Khayyam - Episode 11
Human stupidity & Grandma used to say …
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Heba Moeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01407694126452625099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5028990847449000085.post-36653424088445148832020-03-28T13:23:00.000+05:002020-03-28T13:23:43.888+05:00Not self but imposed-isolation - Day 2: COVID-19
March 22, 2020 - Sunday
COVID-19: Not self but imposed isolation - Day 2
OCD took over once again ... washed the balcony with that amazing Scotch Bright wiper once again ... ahhh! We had water.
Cleaned the room ... mopped the floor with that ah-mazing lemon Dettol surface cleaner ... bloody OCD!
Cleaned all bird cages as two of my conures yelled, 'Baby' in chorus ... cheapsters.
Heba Moeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01407694126452625099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5028990847449000085.post-70206497892381787102020-03-26T22:49:00.001+05:002020-03-26T22:49:33.368+05:00Self-isolation Day 1 - COVID-19
How's isolation coming along for you folks so far? It's playing tricks on my mind by now, considering my depleting coffee reserves. Anyway, I have started maintaining a log of what's been happening since day 1 of isolation and work's been keeping me busy as well thanks to all these Corona updates but it's good to have work although from home.
Here we go ...
March 21, 2020 - Saturday
Heba Moeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01407694126452625099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5028990847449000085.post-82510925674464141562020-03-23T18:00:00.001+05:002020-03-23T18:00:49.954+05:00Tales and Tails of Nehr-e-Khayyam - Episode 10
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Heba Moeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01407694126452625099noreply@blogger.com0Karachi, Karachi City, Sindh, Pakistan24.8607343 67.001136423.9411963 65.7102429 25.7802723 68.292029899999989tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5028990847449000085.post-74766581360841926232019-12-30T16:08:00.001+05:002019-12-30T16:32:24.343+05:00Tales and Tails of Nehr-e-Khayyam - Episode 9
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Heba Moeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01407694126452625099noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5028990847449000085.post-43390095665372743952019-11-07T15:26:00.000+05:002019-11-07T15:28:19.787+05:00The Mesmerising Tharparkar District
Do you know what's it's like to be forgotten by friends in the middle of the desert, among people you don't know the language of? Well ... I know ... and when I say I know, I'm talking out of experience. Read on ...
Back in September, a group of us hobby wildlife
photographers embarked upon a journey towards a majestic land, displaying a
personality and unique cultural values of its own - Heba Moeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01407694126452625099noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5028990847449000085.post-74346216950009507842019-09-30T11:14:00.001+05:002019-09-30T11:14:13.552+05:00Tales and Tails of Nehr-e-Khayyam - Episode 6
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Heba Moeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01407694126452625099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5028990847449000085.post-73994802215827881142019-09-27T11:52:00.000+05:002019-09-29T22:50:02.581+05:00Tales and Tails of Nehr-e-Khayyam Episode 5 - ‘Raison d'être’
Naala of yesteryear … beautiful canal of Naya Pakistan)
Characters:
Kuttay
Doggo
Bashir
“The world is getting Trumped sooner than expected … I know how it
will end now ... It will be a political apocalypse,” sighed Kuttay while
half-dipping in Nehr-e-Khayyam (and displacing water molecules of equal mass),
“someone will make their country great again by building boundary Heba Moeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01407694126452625099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5028990847449000085.post-8967310250739261652019-09-26T02:03:00.000+05:002019-09-26T02:03:14.190+05:00Tales and Tails of Nehr-e-Khayyam" ... Episode 4 - Monday!
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Heba Moeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01407694126452625099noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5028990847449000085.post-4082490618201157382019-05-21T04:17:00.001+05:002019-05-21T04:41:50.749+05:00Kings of Cacti - Part 2
Abdul Aleem's love for cacti goes beyond words ...
This is not the Saguaro National Park but in fact a part of a cacti collector's garden. The last post was also about an avid cacti collector, hence the title, 'Kings of Cacti' and this one too will focus on the same theme; it is about Mr. Abdul Aleem who is one of such nature lovers that we are truly blessed with and it's absolutely amazingHeba Moeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01407694126452625099noreply@blogger.com0Karachi, Karachi City, Sindh, Pakistan24.8607343 67.0011363999999523.9411963 65.710242899999955 25.7802723 68.292029899999946tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5028990847449000085.post-42336557547803984682019-05-14T00:34:00.002+05:002019-05-15T20:50:13.706+05:00Kings of Cacti - Part 1
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Heba Moeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01407694126452625099noreply@blogger.com6Karachi, Karachi City, Sindh, Pakistan24.8607343 67.0011363999999523.9411963 65.710242899999955 25.7802723 68.292029899999946tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5028990847449000085.post-38813926443977385372019-04-08T02:51:00.001+05:002019-05-20T01:11:43.935+05:00Knitting - A Therapeutic Art
Knitting dates back to North Africa - Egyptian times where it originated in 1100 - 1300
The dragon that my nephew requested me to knit
Pick a hobby for yourself, it would help keep you sane after the week's corporate overdose or the lack of (God forbid if you are unemployed in this awful time period of mehengai). If mankind didn't have hobbies, routine would have made us extinct byHeba Moeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01407694126452625099noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5028990847449000085.post-88493335384418448902019-03-17T15:31:00.001+05:002019-05-20T01:11:51.503+05:00The book 'Quiet' by Susan Cain will actually converse with you ...
This book reveals that it's okay to be an introvert
Sometimes you need solitude more than anything and you would long for it through an overwhelming desire to take a break from everything routine based and everyone around. It may be difficult to realise it's worth for most while some would definitely know what I am talking about. It is much needed when perhaps you've been highly stimulatedHeba Moeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01407694126452625099noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5028990847449000085.post-27643548572428533502019-02-13T01:29:00.001+05:002019-02-13T01:29:40.883+05:00Hawks Bay's Star - The Oriental White-Eye
The beauty of Hawks Bay - Oriental White-Eye
Well, hello there! We found a gem at Hawks Bay and although I planned to write about it during the holiday of February 5, I was taken aback by quite a huge mishap; my beautiful sun conure took off, never to return. It may mean nothing to people but only a pet lover would understand the magnitude of my loss. Someone, asked me, 'Was the parrot Heba Moeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01407694126452625099noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5028990847449000085.post-73765164612234020762019-01-26T23:07:00.000+05:002019-01-31T02:57:06.110+05:00A Tale of Sindh's Lungh Lake & Some Bird Lovers - Part 2
There is more to a photograph than meets the eye ...
Selfie by Yasir Pechuho
Well, well, well ... after getting a good response on part 1 of the story, I felt compelled to write down a follow-up piece, also knowing that some of the wildlife group friends are anxiously waiting. So, on the first day of the trip and after having a combination of lunch and dinner around 6 p.m., we Heba Moeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01407694126452625099noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5028990847449000085.post-35937760248466369432019-01-24T22:10:00.000+05:002019-02-05T19:32:59.335+05:00A Tale of Sindh's Lungh Lake & Some Bird Lovers - Part 1
Shoot with a camera, not a gun ...
Great Egret surrounded by Northern Shovelers and Eurasian Teals
Wildlife photography is quite a niche area in photography and a rare art, amidst the ever growing bubble of wedding photography which has expanded into a lucrative field in Pakistan. Unlike the latter, wildlife photography or birding to be specific in our case, promises Heba Moeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01407694126452625099noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5028990847449000085.post-35039202217798768072018-12-11T17:19:00.000+05:002019-06-09T14:53:04.495+05:00THESE LIFEGUARDS HAVE YOUR BACK!
BUT SHOW SOME RESPONSIBILITY ...
It seems like I had been on a blogging sabbatical since forever since I couldn't manage time between work and painting and what not. I've been listening to Bee Gees again lately contrary to the preferred noise called music these days. A song by them that has been on my playlist repeat mode is 'You win again' that I have been enjoying with Coco (my Heba Moeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01407694126452625099noreply@blogger.com4Sandspit, Karachi City, Sindh, Pakistan24.8404077 66.90982220000000824.8115872 66.869481700000009 24.8692282 66.9501627