a (quick) look back

Posted by anas on Mar 3, 2010 in Life | 1 comment Now that I look back at the events that left be sad, devastated, heart-broken and all those sorts, I laugh at myself thinking “I was sad for THAT?!!!” And I also realize how those apparently bad events have made me stronger and just to kill time I also pondered upon how life would have been different if a couple of them had happened as I wanted them to only to conclude in the end that...
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So… what is Halal?

Posted by anas on Feb 16, 2010 in Life | 7 comments While I am on the topic of Halal food and the meaning of Halal there is another issue that I’ve learnt of after coming to the UK related to a food item being declared as Halal or not. Now there are atleast two Halal certifying authorities in the UK (that I know of) and both do not accept each other’s way of accredition. One of them says that meat (for example of chicken) is halal only...
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The Big Day!

Posted by anas on Jan 26, 2010 in Life | 12 comments Today was my first payday! First pay from a full-time job feels … new. Obviously, never felt before. All the freshies were waiting for this day at the company. There were jokes yesterday about how each one will be keeping an eye on the online bank account page for the first glimpse of something being credited in. One of the guys actually checked it before leaving for work and called us to...
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its a different game

Posted by anas on Jan 22, 2010 in Life | 5 comments It was so easy in uni. Don’t feel like working? Just get up and go home, no one cares! Feeling drowsy? Well, there is always tomorrow to finish off the work. This luxury is perhaps snatched away when you start fulltime work. Take an example, I stared at the gap between the two monitors that I have for about one hour trying hard to get out of sleep-mode. Two mugs of coffee were absolutely...
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New Year…New Life…New Home…New Job

Posted by anas on Jan 10, 2010 in Life | 16 comments So for the first time in my life I am no longer living in a major city of the country I am residing. The current location I chose after considering multiple tradeoffs where travel time to work took priority. So I moved to this place in Hemel Hempstead (Apsley) which is just outside Greater London and takes an hour or so by train which is something I really didn’t like. I moved here on...
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Awesome '09

Posted by anas on Dec 28, 2009 in Life | 6 comments Thirty years ahead if I live and someone asks me to recollect the best days of my life, the year 2009 will most likely be in contention. Such goods this season has brought that I’m considering skipping some to make this post brief. There have been moments of sadness (and madness) but overall the success rate has been tremendous this year. On the academic side, it was perhaps the best year....
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