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Having a sabbatical year in Boston.
All this time while I was away I was preparing for it. I wish I could say I dropped everything and flew, but it wasn’t so. It took long planning and laborous preperation but, with God’s aid, I finally made it.
I’m still settling down (the internet took two weeks to […]

I had to delete the previous post (re: UAE Designer’s Exhibition). The person arranging it had been requested by her senior to arrange for it after Ramadan, that’s sometime after September, and she wasn’t too happy about it. Moreover, it was drawing spam comments; 583 comments to be precise, which remained invisible under moderation until I deleted […]

My list of activities consists of three categories:
1. Things I want to do
2. Things I should do (even if I’m not to keen on them)
3. Things I’d do when I got nothing better to do the time
I can only juggle two at the time (usually 1 & 2), leaving 3 after I drop 2. Unfortunately, […]

Monday, March 3rd: 
My younger sister arrived today and we headed to Movenpick to spirit her away from her husband. I called her first to make sure she waits for us in the lobby. Called her again to tell her to hussle and bring her own luggage down rather that wait for the bellhop.
 
“They (your suitcases) […]

To make up for my absence, I’m reporting what happened in the past two weeks, day by day. Because most entries are without photos, I’ll keep them short for an easy read. 
Saturday, March 1st:
Flew to Doha, Qatar to stay at my cousin’s to attend her wedding. Her younger sister, M, picked me up from the airport, since the […]