Caffeinated Muslim

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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Ramifications and All That

May 8, 2011

I was at a concert at Sunday when I found out from my sister, who had been checking twitter on her phone, that Osama Bin Laden was killed. It was definitely a ‘whoa’ moment and I really wished I had a TV right there to watch the news to keep up with all that was [...]

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On a Path Paved with… Coffee

April 28, 2011

I like coffee. Did I mention that? I realize I rarely write about anything coffee related despite the ‘caffeinated’ in the moniker so I think I want to change that and write about coffee now and then. If you’re still reading, thanks! So today I read an article about the perfect way to use a [...]

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Assistant To the Photographer

April 17, 2011

One of my buddies Soerha is getting married. One of my other buddies, Monica, is a photographer so we all went out yesterday to take engagement pictures of the couple. I’m still trying to improve the way I take pictures, strategy and all that good stuff so my friend was awesome enough to let me [...]

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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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Lesson From The Taqwacores – Being Accepting and All That Good Stuff

March 21, 2011

I caught the movie The Taqwacores this past Friday as part of the SF Asian Film Festival at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley. The film, interestingly enough, is about a group of Muslim punks. I’m not into punk at all. I’m more of a post-rock Explosions in the Sky type of girl, and yet, [...]

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On Disaster Preparedness

March 13, 2011

With the earthquake in Japan on Friday, a lot of us have been inundated with footage of the destruction from the quake and the resulting tsunami while also hearing about a possible meltdown from Japan’s nuclear plants. We should all give to charities and pray for Japan as much as we can. However, that’s not [...]

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Out of the Comfort Zone and Gasp Talking to Strangers

March 9, 2011

I sometimes write for the online magazine Illume. My contributions consist mostly of reviews but I was asked to do an interview with the writer/director of the last movie I reviewed, Mooz-lum. Here’s the issue – I’ve never conducted an interview before. I never really wanted to mostly because I don’t know how to (it’s [...]

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