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 went to Mahesh's place today.. we had planned to go swimming in the pool near his place. On my way there, Mahesh was talking to (asking) me on the phone about the difference in days/weeks between date X and date Y e.g. May 4th to June 9thSo anyways, when I got to his place, he was typing away at the computer. He asks me the difference between two ( 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... )

Thursday was Confiscate-My-Camera-Phone Day, sponsored by Mr D'Souza and Mr Paul. They barged into our Chemistry class/lab while we were carrying out some experiments. Most of us were. We were already in a hurry, as it were, because we were short on time and there were many tests left to do on the silly compounds ( Read more... )

A lot has happened in the past week ( 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... )

The joy and excitement was so thick in the air that you could cut it with a plastic knife. We were all sitting there, breathing as silently as possible, glancing at our fellow inmates and smiling occasionally. That familiar tingle in the tummy, that feeling of cheer coursing through the body - for a lot of us, today was the last day of the academic ( Read more... )

I went bowling with Mahesh today. I won!! I scored 82 points and Mahesh scored 1 - that too, because I played in his turn by mistake ( Read more... )

My friend Mahesh was in a pissy mood today. I was talking to him on the phone and before talking to him, I'd talked to his mom about coming over to their place and then going bowling at the alley nearby ( Read more... )