This article was originally published in Carey The Torch blog on 8 May 2019. In 2017, I decided to continue my education and get my long-overdue graduate degree, as I felt my career had plateaued. I began searching for schools and programs. For more than 11 years until that point, I had nurtured a broadly defined investment…
Fari and I planned to meet up again for Friday prayer at the Embassy. Unfortunately, both of us miscoordinated on the plan, so we arrived late, but we arrived nonetheless. I had an appointment with Mas Irawan, so we got to be there anyway. Mas Irawan was the person who interviewed me back in Fall…
We went out for lunch today. The three of us (me, Salman, and Mariam, who just came two days ago for a visit) picked an Ethiopian restaurant, Meskerem, for our afternoon consumption. Meskerem is located in the Adams Morgan area, which is probably the most unique but undercovered DC neighborhood. It’s so ethnic, cool, urban,…
This morning I attended a workshop seminar where Macromedia showed their latest installment, Studio 8. Earlier this week, I received the e-mail invitation from my boss, Graham, and decided to register and attend it. The room was packed. There were probably more than 200 people who participated in the event. Most of them were government…
Crap. I just found out last night that my internship didn’t go through. CAIR just e-mailed me that I wasn’t selected for the summer internship. Well, now what? Now, the plan could either be saved or let it fell through. I’ve traveled this far (three hours flight but still), so I won’t let it fall…
It seemed like a movie-out weekend or something. We ended up watching another movie last night. This time, it was the movie that we had planned to watch two weeks earlier, if only Salman didn’t get into a car accident (don’t worry, it wasn’t his fault, read my Day 76 posting for more details). Yes,…