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Imagine the scenario. You’re in the clothes section of Carrefour supermarket in Mirdif City Centre in Dubai. You have picked a skirt off the rack and suddenly you see the right woman. You stop her with barely an ‘excuse me please’ and before she’s even had a chance to respond you stick the aforementioned skirt directly right up against her waste to size it up and see if it looks okay.
This is my first work to ever get published. I actually wrote it in October 1985 as part of a school assignment. But later a London community organisation published it in its monthly newsletter after my mother submitted it. I’m reproducing it here with a few edits.
‘Friendship is like a vase, once broken it maybe repaired, but the mark will remain’, I once read somewhere.
Everyone equates Ramadan with fasting and feasting, and in part that wouldn’t be entirely inaccurate. But it’s also a celebration of the miracle of Islam, which is the revelation of the Holy Quran. In the last 10 days of the special month, I decided to pick out some key favourite Quranic quotes and present them in a very unique style using Bitstrips cartoons. Here’s a compilation of the translations/interpretations with my own personal thoughts about each of them.
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Reposting this from last year
If it was easy, there wouldn’t be much point, would there? Still we’re into the middle bit now. So what’s it like?
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Check my social media profiles and you’ll know I’m the last person to rant against Selfie Syndrome and OPD (Obsessive Posting Disorder), but there are times when you need to put the phone away.
The first day of Ramadan – and here in the UAE it’s a 15-hour fast, the longest it’s been in 32 years!
Iftar today is at 7:12pm and you’re probably already thinking about what to dig into when the Muezzin calls for Magrib prayer.
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In this brave new world, when you’re doing your own thing and working from home, 9-5 no longer applies, particularly when you were working till 2:30am the night before.
Are teachers letting our children down, because they’re not really teaching anymore, but merely hitting targets?
Continue reading “Teaching is more than just teaching isn’t it?”
What to give a teenager on his landmark 15th birthday? We decided on a video album of his life so far!
Continue reading “My boy turned 15, here’s his life so far in 6 minutes”
