Sanj's Blog

Are you proud of who you are?

2008-04-27T23:28:52Z

I am a British Chinese Muslim. However, I do not know if I can say I am proud to be any of these at the moment. If I don't speak I can get away with not being British (my Mancunian accent would give me away), but if you were to judge me from my ...

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Is competition healthy?

2008-04-27T22:50:20Z

When you were a kid, did your parents ever compare you to your cousin, your sibling (if you are a twin), the next door neighbour, if you were of similiar age and sex? My mum used to always say that so and so (a relative in London) was bigger than...

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Can Wii really lose weight from playing games?

2008-04-27T22:38:39Z

We just got a new Wii Fit, its a balance board for the Nintendo Wii which has fun games as well as yoga, aerobics and muscle workouts. After setting up our profiles and entering our heights and ages, the wii board told me that my weight and BMI w...

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To vote or not to vote....

2008-04-27T22:33:49Z

The local elections (for council seats) are to take place in May (only a few days away) and up crops the dilema of whether to vote or not. There are those from the Islamic school of thought, that we should not take part in the electoral process, ...

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QotD: No Laughing Matter

2008-03-29T00:04:13Z

What do you think is too serious to joke around about? Well depends on who your talking to. My brother in law died on New Year's Eve and his brother was cracking jokes about the mortgage being paid off now (cos his brother had insurance), a few ...

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Vox Hunt: Drink Up

2008-03-28T23:58:09Z

Show us a beverage you absolutely can't stand the taste of. Being Chinese I have drank some of the most foul tasting drinks ever, as a child I had to drink Chinese medicine for my asthma, I would just gulp it down in one go and eat something swee...

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BodyWorlds 4

2008-03-27T22:54:15Z

Today i went to the Bodyworlds 4 exhibition. To be honest I didnt know what to expect. I was disgusted and amazed. Fascinated and disturbed. Although all the people/bodies consented I can't understand why people would want to donate their body t...

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Self evaluation

2008-03-04T00:51:19Z

I have been listening to a lecture series in my car on long journeys by Imam Suhaib Webb, a young American speaker on the topic Purification of the Soul. I am only on CD 2 but so far I have learnt a great deal. He told us to to get a piece of pap...

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A genuine cry for help?

2008-03-04T00:25:50Z

Last week I saw an English woman outside my local mosque, she looked as if she was waiting for someone. She looked familiar and I remember she knocked on my house a few years ago, asking for help. She said she had identified me as a Muslim and ...

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A protest for Palestine

2008-03-03T01:18:52Z

This is an old piece of news, but unfortunately for me I havent had much time to catch up on International News lately, as I prefer to watch the news or read the newspaper rather than read it online, and if it's to do with Palestine then there is...

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