I gave up trying to fight my insomnia and opted to enter the depths of my basement and on the computer at 3 am. It’s only around this time that I’ve had unfortunate run-ins with basement creatures, from your average house spider to a handful of centipedes the size of my fist. It would make [...]
Safia vs. YouTube watching, hip hop loving, 53 year old father
*ring ring*
Me: Hello?
Dad: HA HALLO? Assalamu alaikum!
Me: Wa alaikum assalam abo, why so loud?
Dad: Oh, how is everyone?
Me: I’m home alone right now.
Dad: Safia, what was the name of the Dangerous poet on YouTube? The one we saw that day?
Me: Amir Sulaiman?
Dad: Ok ciao!
Me: Why?
Dad: [...]
Rabble has an interesting advice column where you can direct your ‘most perplexingly personal political question’ to the columnist, Ms.Communicate. I’d consider my question to be a pseudo-problem at best, because I’m not unbearably broke, and I’d rather lose a limb than work for Chapters, Starbucks or any of those big name corporations for a [...]
I was looking for a certain book and some of my paints around the house the other day when I stumbled upon this picture. My family doesn’t tend to take a lot of pictures, though my dad tries to store the important ones, but the vast majority are scattered around the house, usually stuffed inside [...]
Over the last few months I’ve been writing in this thing, I’ve accumulated a fair share of fan mail, a large portion of which are questions I wish I made up. Other questions and comments come from the many characters in my life. So I’ve dedicated a post to respond to inquiring minds. I’ll keep [...]
I am a sugar addict.
In the past, I would buy tea almost daily with a friend who shall remain nameless, and together we would head over to the little table with sugar and milk. And together we would finish all the little packets of sugar in the entire cafeteria. At times I feel that I [...]
1) I went to the Raptors game last night, against the Wizards. Needless to say, I am pissed. It’s bad enough that they lost after tying up the game with just seconds left in regulation time, but the crowd was pathetic! It seems as though the real fans were the ones sitting in the 300s, [...]
1) I finished reading Northrop Frye’s ‘The Educated Imagination’ this morning. After hours and hours of reading and taking notes, even missing out on some precious class time at Route 114 this past weekend just to have it finished for class, I’m finally done. I haven’t quite made sense of all his theories and ideas [...]
1) I was walking outside earlier today, and I took a moment to look at everything and take it all in. It was blowing snow, and the ground seemed indistinguishable from the sky. Completely covered in white. I don’t think I’ve seen this much snow as long as I’ve been living in Toronto, it’s [...]
To finish off the last list I started, inshaAllah.
51. This should have been #1 by far, but I guess I thought it was a given. I feel so blessed to be a Muslim, and to have been born into a practicing family, with parents who instilled a love of Allah and His messenger in me [...]
It has been a rough couple weeks. Sometimes it’s difficult to watch the news and not take it personal, when it’s our brothers and sisters being killed. Watching Gaza being slowly starved while some appear on television claiming that this was the most ‘humanitarian’ method for Israel to stop the rockets made my blood boil. [...]
WordPress has this neat feature where you can see where people clicked from to get on to your page. So you can imagine my surprise when I saw all of these views coming in from the CNN website. I clicked the link, only to find an article on the Turkey hijab ban, and at the [...]
