Met an old friend today and just reminisced about some wonderful times gone by.
People move on but memories stay with you forever.


At the end of the day, although we reach crossroads where we choose to go on divergent paths, it’s not too easy to forget the paths that brought us together in the first place, and what transpired when we travelled...

Over these past few months, it’s hit me more than before how superficial employers and their policies can be when it comes to us caring for a loved one. As a professor, I see this way too many times with students who have genuine requests for an exception to be made based on their family situations. I had a student this term whose dad was suffering from heart trouble and she wanted some time off to look after him. Unfortunately, the University denied her request for assignment extensions and alternative...

On the hierarchy of communication priority, Twitter is still pretty low on my list of tools that I use on a consistent basis. However, I must admit to the benefits that I hadn’t expected until I explored the tool a little more and started to use it for more practical purposes.

I really don’t see the need for using it just for the heck of it! Many people still take the tagline of a “life stream” very literally – tweeting about their every moment and routine. Granted, tweets are meant...

This morning I took a cab to a meeting location, and as it often happens, there was a desi cab driver – an elderly gentleman who had been driving a cab for a few years now. I struck a conversation with him and talked about various things including work. It wasn’t too surprising to find out that the guy had a fairly stable profession back home where he worked as a physician, but after coming here, he just didn’t have the resources to pursue the required certifications to upgrade his credentials....

This post is dedicated to a friend who I’ll leave unnamed for now but who I’ve been missing intensely lately - a friend who I met through GS but our friendship transcended the virtual. She’s a friend who travelled a very long distance to see me. The days I spent with her are among the most cherished of my life. As I sit tonight to write this, I don’t quite know where to begin. It’s been so long since I talked to her… and the years that I’ve spent in her absence have made me realize how much she...

So tonight was the last class of the summer term. I ended the class early to allow the students to complete their course evaluations.

One would assume that after seven years of teaching, the process of concluding a course and drawing the channel to a close would become more or less a routine… but surprisingly it hasn't.

At the end of every course, I ask myself whether I was successful this time around or not. Unfortunately, there’s no tidy answer to this. Alhamdullilah,...

I've been thinking about resuming my personal blog again... just thought tonight's an opportune time as any.

Hopefully, I'll persist with my journal writing this time around.