I'm back home in Dubai once again. This is getting a bit ridiculous to be honest. I feel like I've spent more time at home than in Newcastle this year. It's not true, obviously, but it really does feel like I've been in Dubai since September ( Read more... )

We're doing the anatomy of the skull and face this week. It's difficult stuff for me right now because there are names of bones, muscles, nerves, arteries and other fairly squishy things that are completely new to me. Last year when we were doing simpler bits of the body like the abdomen or the pelvis, at least I had felt I had a good base of ( Read more... )

My God, I thought I had it bad with my acne.


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I've been tagged by a friend [read: ruthless traitor] to do this meme.. I usually don't do memes, but this one looks interesting so here are ten facts about me that you should know since y'all have been reading my blog so faithfully ( Read more... )

After school today [you know when I begin my stories with that phrase, it's gonna be something saucy], I walked across the footbridge and sat down on the bench at the bus-stop. Three other guys - casually dressed students - were sitting with me on the bench. The one immediately next to me was wearing a black dishdasha, but he wasn't an Arab ( Read more... )

מה שלא מבינים
קוראים לו אלוהים
Mah she-lo m'vinim
Kor'im lo Elohim
That which they don't understand
They call it God.

This thought hit my head [in the original Hebrew - yes, I even think in Hebrew sometimes!] when I was reading The Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukav in the school's library today. It's a book about quantum mechanics [till now] and ( Read more... )

Last night, when I was having dinner, the doorbell rang and Murtuza bhai was at the door. He asked me if I could come to his place with him to have a discussion on the subject of Judaism and Islam. I agreed.. finished my dinner and went with him to his place, which is pretty close by.

Murtuza bhai and his father, Masood Uncle frequently go to the ( Read more... )

My dad's friend [and mine too], Murtuza bhai, asked me to copy the e-book The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie on a CD and give it to him. So today I did that and I went over to his place to give it to him ( Read more... )

Yesterday, Gulf News published this article, about the laws controlling the things that can be said or done on the Internet in the UAE.

Point numbers 4 and 5 pose, for the lack of better vocabulary, a huge pain the ass for me by stating that:

• Anyone convicted of abusing holy shrines or religious rituals or insulting them or inciting others to do ( Read more... )

What's up with people in Islamic cunt-ries boycotting Danish products? So a Danish newspaper published a bunch of caricatures "depicting" Muhammad? Big deal! Muhammad was a human, no? Had the features of a human? So why is it so "blasphemous" to sketch him ( Read more... )