I have a really strong connection with my Asian roots, it's taken a long time, but I've been totally at ease with who I am and where I'm from for a few years now. I grew up in an Asian household obviously, and we always had Indian TV or Bollywood films on in the background, and actually, by the time I went to school, I could only speak the tongue of my mother.

I was one of those foreigners the Daily Mail hates so much, that doesn't even speak English and wastes valuable teaching time. I went to a mostly white school though, and I kind of picked it up that way, much in the same way that a few years later I kind of picked up Gujurati due to living in the middle of a huge Gujarati community. It was only when I went to school that I realised I was different.

In my teens, I started to embrace that though. Picture the scene: 14 year old Asian girl, with a dupatta (loose head scarf), wearing baggy jeans and chains, listening to Limp Bizkit and various other goth/emo type bands. Thankfully I can't find any photographic evidence, but I can assure you it happened.

Of course by then I'd already became a grand master. All asians by the time they're teenagers have already developed multiple personalities, and I'm not necessarily talking about mental health. In order to assimilate or 'integrate' with British society, we need to act a certain way, because let's be honest here, British society cannot handle the 'South Asian way'. But then, if you were to go home and talk like you do to white people, you won't fit in there either.

David Attenborough and other biology types say that Humans are the most successful mammals on the planet, because we've adapted to every climate on every continent and taken over. But to go one further, I'd suggest that Asian teenagers are the most successful mammals on the planet. It's almost like we traverse between alternate universes, as we converse with our parents, with other Asians, to then conversing with white people, our friends or colleagues.

You may be thinking, well we all have to adapt our speech to fit the audience and scenario. You wouldn't talk to your mate Fred the same way you speak to your teacher. Fully agree. But then you don't develop a separate personality within yourself to speak to your teacher, you have multiple sides to the one personality. Being part of a diaspora, means having multiple sides to multiple personalities.

But I think this outfit sums me up, and perhaps even the future of the diaspora. I'm going through the process of merging my two personalities into one. The outfit is an upcycled saree, cut and stitched with a bit of a western look and feel to it. You could take the analogy that I'm upcycling myself, taking the best bits of my Indian heritage, the best bits of being raised in Britain, and blending them together.

Hopefully as we move from second and third generation immigrants to fourth and fifth generation, the diaspora can learn to take the best of both worlds, and combine them together, instead of keeping them apart to suit different audiences. It's up to us to blaze that trail, and make it easier for the next generation.

I know what you're thinking. Another Primark review Halima, seriously?

Yep. Seriously. I'm thinking of maybe creating another category on the menu across the top just for them, but let's be real here - it's not my fault they keep making all of the good things, is it?

Everything goes around in trends right? I remember the days where we all wanted marquee lighting on our walls. I only ever bought one, from Primark, and I was a bit underwhelmed by the trend if I'm honest, none of the designs seemed all that exciting. But I also remember at the time seeing a singular neon light for sale in Next, and thinking WOW. I never bought it, foolishly, because I was having an internal debate with myself over the shape of it, and by the time I'd decided to buy it, it had sold out.

Then I started getting heavily into Synthwave, and I just knew they'd go big this year. The likes of Stranger Things has seen the 80s come back in a big way, but not just actual things from the actual 80s, but things that seem like they should have been around in the 80s. Much like Synthwave itself, the trend this year seems to be all about reminiscence of a time that never was, and hasn't been yet.

Either way, this Neon Flamingo from Primark is the fucking shit. You can either plug it in to a USB port, or shove in a couple of AA batteries and light it up. Maybe you can plug it in and insert batteries at the same time, I don't know, but now I'm curious, maybe it'll open up a wormhole in the space/time continuum and take you back to the place that never was. Give it a try, just don't forget to switch it on and admire for hours.

It only costs £10, and you might be wondering "how have they managed to sell neon lights for a tenner?" The good news is they're (probably) not paying child labour in Asia less than a dollar a day to churn out little glass tubes and fill them with gas, because it's not strictly neon in the true sense, it's kind of plasticy, rubbery but gives the same effect. So you may as well buy it, if not for the beauty of it, then just for the remote possibility that you may be able to travel through time.