Yesterday morning, I went to the new premises of Al Noor School for Children with Special Needs. They had thrown a party for the Best Buddies people in Dubai, and since this was gonna be the last Best Buddies party that I'd attend, I thought I'd go. Plus, it's really close to home, just behind the Mall of the Emirates which is where I've been ( Read more... )

I had a pretty productive Friday today.

In the morning, I studied for my Chemistry test next week.

After lunch with the family, Ammi dropped me off to this place in Jumeirah for a gathering/gala/funfair thing organized by the Children's Hope foundation or something like that. All I knew was that it was at the residence of the owner of Ajmal ( Read more... )

I was ironing my uniform for tomorrow when I found a piece of paper in the right pocket of my trousers. The trousers were newly washed so the paper must have been in there all through the wash and must've definitely received a good beating in the washing machine ( Read more... )

I've been feeling so relieved, so un-tense for the past two days. I've finally sent the required documentation to the University of Toronto and McMaster University ( Read more... )

I was supposed to go to this Best Buddies Int'l meeting where we were supposed to brainstorm for ideas for a fun-fair that we are planning to hold in March for the special needs children ( Read more... )

Ever since that reporter fellow from Emirates Today/Emirates Evening Post interviewed me and clicked mine and Yousuf's photo at the Best Buddies Party, I've been wondering when they'd publish our photo and our words in the paper. In fact, today I was gonna call the fellow who interviewed me, David Tusing, and ask him whether they were planning to ( Read more... )

Best Buddies International's Dubai chapter had a Christmas party today at the Le Meridien Mina Seyahi near the Dubai Marina ( Read more... )

Best Buddies had organized a picnic today at the Jumeirah Beach in Dubai so I hopped into a bus from school and went to Jumeirah Beach around 11:00. After much driving around Jumeirah generally, we finally found the spot where we set camp i.e. dumped all our food, shoes and sanity on a covered bench and dove straight into the fun ( Read more... )

Been a busy man this weekend!

On Thursday evening, tas99, Abeer and I went to International City [it's a residential area] to Masooma's place. Arjun and Akshay and Farren [sp?] came too. We didn't do much at first, just played cards, bugged Tasneem etc. Then we went up to the roof of the building where they have a swimming pool. No, we didn' swim, I ( Read more... )

Damn, the Internet connection on my PC has failed. I'm updating from my parents' laptop. The keyboard is so ugly.

Anyways, for those of you who are keeping track, today's the Persian New Year, Nowroz [I guess it means 'new day' in Farsi] which always falls on March 21, the first day of spring and more importantly, my cousin Abeer's birthday ( Read more... )