Reflections

Farhan Rehman on January 1st, 2012

As 2012 chimes in, and my Father prepares for his retirement, I’m going into 2012 with a very different attitude that I went into 2011 with. On the morn of January 1st 2012, at about 4am, local time (GMT, in London), I’ve been spending a bit of ‘quiet’ time with myself, after seeing in the [...]

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Farhan Rehman on January 1st, 2011

As 2010 comes to a close, I’m strangely not drawn to celebrate the end of the year, or to find a party to join in with.. Instead, I want nothing to do with the world outside, and want only to curl up into my own interior. I want to spend time alone, by choice, not [...]

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Farhan Rehman on July 17th, 2010

Love is something which gets used a lot in so many different contexts.  It’s something that I’ve been mulling over a lot lately and I just wanted to get some thoughts down, and share some perspectives of mine on the matter. There’s the context of food, as in ‘I love my mom’s cooking’, or ‘I [...]

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Farhan Rehman on November 9th, 2009

Ideals are a funny one.  They are the things we aspire towards.  They are the things that we want to spend our life aligned with and the things that hold us back from putting something out before it’s complete, and perfect.  Often, that desire for perfection, or our imagined ideal situation stops us from working [...]

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Farhan Rehman on August 25th, 2009

It’s the Islamic month of Ramdan, in the year 1430 AH (anno Hegirae /after Hijra).  A month when throughout the world Muslims abstain from eating during the daylight hours.  They wake up early in the morning, to consume some food prior to sunrise, and then wait until the sun sets in the evening to then [...]

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