Archive for December, 2006
Saturday, December 30th, 2006
I am greatly ambivalent on the topic of capital punishment. Sadam Hussein was hanged at dawn in Baghdad (about 10 PM here), during the morning call to prayer. Hussein was hanged before the beginning of the Islamic holiday Eid al-Adha, in which Muslims celebrate the willingness of Abraham ...
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Monday, December 25th, 2006
First off, I should mention that my grades are in. I recall being terrified the middle of the semester about how my grades would turn out. I really shouldn't have worried, as everything is okay. I'm still on the Dean's List, and my grades are exactly as ...
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Friday, December 22nd, 2006
ZOMG!
I got a B+ in Syntax! I'm free!
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Thursday, December 21st, 2006
Thus far, I have spent my [insert winter holiday of choice here] break pleasure reading, working on some Arabic, playing in the evenings, and being a temporary tangerine delivery boy. A Santa Claus of citrus, if you will. I have engaged in every activity imaginable, except socializing and ...
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Monday, December 18th, 2006
Not a lot to say, since I don't feel like saying much.
Here is how I presume the semester went, judging by test rounds:
Round 1: 1/3 I got off to a rocky start. Syntax, of course, was miserable, and anthropology was less than stellar. Preformed very well in ...
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Sunday, December 10th, 2006
I read over a few Hadiths the other day. One in particular caught my eye. It was given in the context of after Friday prayer, when Muhammad got up to thank everyone for coming, etc. Here it is in Arabic and English:
و حدثني محمد بن رافع و ...
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Tuesday, December 5th, 2006
I know I posted a long-ass update yesterday, but this is worth of mention. I received an A- on my last syntax exam. Well, technically I received an A-/B+, but I won't go into my professor's method of grading.
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Monday, December 4th, 2006
Yeah, it's been a while, but it's also been a crazy while. In fact, it's been so long that I had forgotten that I had changed the layout to a WP theme. If there is anything you would like to see as per the layout of the blog, let ...
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