Posted in Reflections on October 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Salma has found her Saleem!
Islamic protocol does not involve betrothals or bachelors’ parties or bridal showers as pre-wedding rituals. We just have the planetarians sighting each other (one being from Mars and the other from Venus), the relatives can be intergalactic for all we care as long as the two protagonists like each other.
Yesterday I went [...]
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Posted in Reflections, tagged Eid, Iman, Ramadan on October 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Now that Eid has come and gone, as always I’m finding it difficult to get back to the ‘rest- of- the -year’ rhythm. It’s a sad truth that it always comes to this, I should be feeling up and ready to go tackle the rest of the year with what I’ve gathered from Ramadan, but [...]
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After many pleas, much whining and emotional blackmail from the younger siblings, I had to give in and bake a chocolate cake for them. But I’m the eternal rebel when it comes to certain things, I don’t listen to my siblings without taking personal delight in the end results. Hence, mule headed moi must come [...]
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Posted in Reflections, tagged Iftar, Ramadan on October 9, 2007 | 3 Comments »
CIS(Centre for Islamic Studies), my previously favouritest hangouts had organized an Iftar get-together for the old and the new crowd, patrons, new muslims and interested non-muslims. It was a roar! (I reserve my opinion about it being a success or not). Subhan Allah it was wonderful seeing the good ‘ol gang, Huda – The momma [...]
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Posted in Frivolity on October 5, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Hello! I just blogleaped The ‘why’ comes with a story you don’t want to know- come to think of it , it’s not much of a story either. So ‘YAY!’ for me and the ride, dear blogistan(to borrow the favoured term), is on the house!
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