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Ode to Chuck

January 28, 2012

Chuck is over. One of the TV shows that I watched regularly, that I looked forward to with each episode, finished its 5 year run last night. I get invested in the TV shows that I watch and felt the need to write about Chuck, much like I did when Battlestar Galactica ended. I would [...]

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Faith Versus Foolishness

December 25, 2011

So in my last post I posed a really off the wall question: “To take one’s life is completely against Islam but what if it has to happen to prevent something horrible from occurring to others?”* Funny enough, I sort of got a response to my question. Well, as close as I could get anyways. [...]

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The Zombie Question: To Be Bitten vs Being Torn Apart

December 4, 2011

The show The Walking Dead had its midseason finale last week. The premise is simple: people somehow turned into zombies and are roaming the earth while groups of humans here and there do their best to survive. The DVR had recorded* all the new episodes but I only recently caught up with all of them, [...]

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Kinda, Sorta Doing the Thanksgiving Thing

November 24, 2011

In elementary school around Thanksgiving time, we would dress up as Pilgrims and Native Americans and sit down and have a meal. Because that’s what Thanksgiving was about right- that time when the Pilgrims invited the Native Americans to eat with them!* This was all kind of weird to me, especially since it culminated with [...]

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Ramadaning at a Wedding

August 24, 2011

I remember last October when my buddy Soerha told me she was getting married. I got pretty excited, like an “OMIGOD” kind of excited. And then she told me it was going to be in Toronto on August 20th. Me: “But that’s in Ramadan!” I didn’t say anything for a second and thought about it. [...]

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Getting Back into the Whole Video Game Thing

July 13, 2011

Back in the day, I liked me some video games. When the XBOX 360 came out though, I told my brother he was on his own, that I was done with video games. The problem was not that I didn’t care about video games anymore, the issue was the fact that I got too drawn [...]

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On turning 30 (almost) and dealing with the whole single thing

June 22, 2011

So I’m going to turn 30 in less than a couple of weeks. Yes, that’s right, I’ll be three decades old. I was dreading this at first but I’ve faced reality and have accepted it for the simple fact that some people haven’t been fortunate enough to have even made it this far. I should [...]

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Preparing for the Zombie Apocalypse

May 28, 2011

Some months ago, I was having lunch with a couple of coworkers/friends when the conversation came to what we would do if the zombie apocalypse happened. The two were talking about who, out of the rest of the coworkers, they would choose to be part of their ‘team’ against the zombies. I’m not going to [...]

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What Makes a Hero?

April 4, 2011

I was driving somewhere after work on Friday and happened to have the radio dial on the local KQED station. A story came up about the Stanford psychologist Philip Zimbardo. I’m sure most people have heard of him – he was the one in charge of the Stanford Prison Experiments where normal students were given [...]

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All I Need To Know About Cricket is What I Learned From Lagaan

March 29, 2011

Pakistan is in the semi-finals for the Cricket World Cup! This is huge folks! That’s what I’m told anyways. I’m very limited in my “Pakistani-ness” (for further details, check out my previous post “Are you down with the brown?”) Back in 1998, I remember sitting with the siblings and cousins in my uncle’s living room [...]

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