My journey, thoughts and obsessions.
Do I Exist?
As a Pakistani-born Chinese person, I often experience incidents that show me what others question about me. I was treated like I’m not supposed to exist by some local brands. Story time. Once it happened in 2023 with an ice pop brand, which I thought was supposed to be a one-off thing. Turns out, it’s…
Do I Hate Pride and Prejudice or Do I have Marriage Hangover?
I have read Pride and Prejudice, and I have thoughts…
Enough with the Racism (Repost)
I reflect on my experiences with racism and think about what can we do to call it out for the evil that it is. I wrote about some of my experiences with racism previously. I wrote in my article Compassion Corona about my concerns about how this virus was going to create another face of…
The Cheeni and Chicken Manchurian (Repost)
Chicken Manchurian hits differently in the Zhuang household. It’s not just an Indo-Chinese dish that we enjoy, it represents rite of passage. Papa Cheeni started his Chinese restaurant in Lahore in September 1992. It was called Ming Hsing (眀兴) Chinese Restaurant. I still remember going to Model Town Bank Square Market on weekends and on…
Mama Cheeni (Repost)
My mother is a resilient woman who left her home to marry a man she never met and raise two children in a country where she didn’t know the language or the people. This is a tribute to her. It is very common knowledge that my parents came to Pakistan in the 80s. Today, I…
The Journey into Loneliness (Repost)
Loneliness is a vast and expansive space where one can get lost in the deafening silence because one is faced by nobody, and has nobody on their side. However, this deafening silence often times is not able to drown out the sounds of the inner turmoil. Turmoil that is governed by voices of self-doubt, self-loathing…
The Cheeni Chronicles 