Californian Fantasy II

Day two in Ca.
We woke up to a beautiful, bright morning. The weather was definitely on our side, Alhamdulilah. Me and hubby excitedly got ready for the big day. MB dropped us to Lawrence Station from where we boarded the Cal-Train to San Fran. Boy, was I excited! We knew we wouldn’t have too much [...]

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Confessions of a Lazy Bum

Ahem. I confess. I stand guilty. I am indeed a classified lazy bum. There’s no other way to explain my almost year long hiatus. Well, actually, you could add another reason- a morbid addiction to Facebook. Not that anyone must have particularly missed my ranting though. But at least while I was at it, it [...]

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Munira’s Notes

My teacher and now colleague Munira has a sense of humor that reverbates with deep irony. Pune is not in the best of spirits right now, what with the sudden negative media attention and all that. While I agree with her in condemning ALL acts of terrorism, I couldn’t help but laugh at her post [...]

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Issues unsettled

I like my comfort zone. It’s kinda cozy in there. A place where you are at peace with yourself. No tough questions to answer. No thinking outside of the box. Just being.
It gets a little complacent in there I guess, but still, it’s easy!  And it’s never easy trading that luxury for an enquiring conscience. [...]

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Why did he do this?

 

Why does a Protestant preacher become a Muslim? Hear it in his own words. A humorous yet sincere account by Yusuf Estes. I highly recommend that you watch all the 5 parts. Very impressive, if you ask me. I heard myself saying, ‘Sub-hanallah’ several times

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  Just returned from a long weekend in California! San Francisco and San Jose to be more precise. Stay tuned while I gather my thoughts for a full fledged post on the sunny side of USA!

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The University Town

Technorati Tags: Chicago,travel,Ann Arbor,University of Michigan,Bill Bryson,Zingerman’s,Mifrah
My husband loves traveling. So it was only a matter of time before we set out of the cozy confines of Chicago. At least for the weekend.
So we embarked on our first little getaway. The destination chosen was Ann Arbor, Michigan- a place Javed has visited nearly a hundred [...]

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Married!

Yessirs! This blog writer is now officially married! Woohoo! Twenty five days ago we exchanged the vows (wow! is it really almost a month?) and now here I am, in the US of A, with the husband in tow (actually I was the one in tow ) and enjoying every single bit of [...]

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Busy, busy, busyyyyyyyyy!

If I have been in hibernation for some time, it’s because I have been  so very loaded with things to do. Boy. Those were the days when there was always something to blog about. My poor ‘ol blog isn’t getting half the attention that it should.  Tch tch. And I guess that’s how it’s going [...]

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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
Henry Wadworth Longfellow
 
…Now that’s a thought.

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