Life Through My Eyes
Two weeks ago, on February 21st, I had my first [and God-willing last] surgery. Thyroid surgery to be precise. It’s one of the toughest and scariest things, if not the toughest and scariest thing, I have [physically] faced [as of yet] in my life. It’s been a hard two weeks of recovery thus far but, …
This blog has been my open journal for several years now. Writing has always been an outlet for me. I’ve shared my recipes, my thoughts, my reflections, and what’s going on in my life. Except for one part. It’s something I have not shared here, because quite honestly it’s something I haven’t shared with most …
I was at the event when Bill Clinton came to Rutgers at the height of Barack Obama’s election campaign [when I was still a Rutgers student]. I met/shook hands with Barack Obama when he came to FDU. Not to mention I met Nelson Mandela as an elementary school student in Canada when he visited Toronto, …
Two years ago I was convinced to get the flu shot for the first time ever because I had been feeling unwell. Guess who got the flu, shortly thereafter, for the first ever in my life that year? Last year? I didn’t get the flu shot or the flu. While there are a bunch …
Before I went, a lot of the reading I did [which was A LOT] told me that everything is readily accessible to purchase upon my arrival. That may have been true, but I wasn’t going there to shop and wanted to utilize my time as best as I could. With me, I took along things …
We came back late last night from our short weekend trip to Canada for Nanna and Nana’s 50th anniversary celebratory party, and I wanted to wrap up my hajj posts. I can’t complete my Hajj posts without talking about the group we went through: Dar el Salam. I can’t even imagine the amount of planning …
Click here to read my last hajj-related post [from the day after arriving home]. It also links to all my other hajj trip posts. Click here to read my next post, about our travel group– Dar el Salam. It’s been ten days since we got back, at this point, and I can’t believe it’s already been ten …
Alhumdulillah, with the grace of God, my parents and I returned from hajj Saturday [yesterday] morning. It was, indeed, an experience/opportunity of a lifetime and I am so fortunate/thankful for the chance. And to do it with my parents was the icing on the cake. I also want to make note of how thankful I …
Posted on a later day, 11.04.13, I chose to keep the dates in mark with their corresponding dates from our Hajj trip for convenience. You can see a link of all the post-trip posts by clicking here and scrolling down. Click here to see the previous day’s post and then click here to see my next post …
