Belated update

I know I haven’t written here for ages (Ed: not an exaggeration) and its almost like I’ve completely forgotten about this blog but in fact its been niggling me for ages (Ed: probably an exaggeration). I just haven’t gotten round to writing here. There have been quite a few developments since I last wrote – I’ll go into detail about them in later posts – but for now I’ll just give you a quick bullet point summary about what has happened since then.

I passed my first year of medical school – nothing short of a miracle. For one of the exams I went in doing nothing but 4-5 hours of revision that morning (Ed: an almost had a stroke waking up and thinking I was late for the exam – but in fact the exam was an hour later than previously thought) but, praise be to Allah (SWT), I managed a decent pass.

I toured Pakistan, India and Dubai for 6 weeks during the summer holiday with my father (Ed: 6 weeks +me+father+alone=reduced life expectancy). This was probably the one of the best experiences of my humble and so far, short life. I saw almost everything from tropical storms and sweltering deserts to political crises and the simplicity of life in an Indian village(Ed: sometimes simple is beautiful, but a lot of the time is just downright filthy).

I started the second year of medical school in October – now living with two other muslim medics in a fairly swish area of London for not such a bad price (Ed: Yet there still seems to be that hole in my wallet I haven’t fixed yet). I think I can count myself blessed to live in such surroundings, again praise be to Allah (SWT).

That sums of most of the important events in the last few months – there are more but I might detail them in a later post. For now got to get back to work…again.