Archive for the ‘Australia’ Category

I’ve moved at last

Sunday, July 1st, 2007

Ahhh, at last I have moved out of Fenner Hall. No more wiping yellow splotches off the toilet seats for me. No more camping outside the laundry room just to get a chance at using the washing machine. I am my own man now :)

My new cycling record

Thursday, May 10th, 2007

I did about 12.5 km today. I went to see an apartment and after that visited the Australian Taxation office which I found to be a pleasant experience. I am now back at collage and I am planning to take the bus home to Fenner Hall :( . Yes, I am that sore.

I buy a bike…

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

On Friday I bought a new bike. Today I cycled to Uni. I now hurt in various areas.
scout bike

I mean the bike seat is HARD. I am not sure but I think I am going to need a padded seat or something. And as I am posting this from collage, I admit that I dread the ride home :(

An interesting day

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

Today I did two interesting things:
1. I helped physically install a Sun Fire X4600 Server with 8 dual core Opterons and 32GB of RAM.
I can’t describe the beauty of Sun hardware :)

2. I cooked for myself today and for the first time since I arrived in Australia I had a meal after 2:00pm :)
In fact, as I made about twice what I was able to eat, I will have something to eat tomorrow.

Today I meet my Supervisor

Monday, March 26th, 2007

I will be meeting my supervisor in about 3 hours. I will also see about my enrollment procedures. Hope it all goes well.

I had arranged to see a 2nd hand bike today and was planning to buy it unless there was something wrong with it. I got an email a while ago from the owner that he already sold it. To tell you the truth I feel quite betrayed :( I mean I told the guy I wanted the bike and he gave me a place and date to see it. Why would then go and sell it with out giving me that chance to buy it first?

Something good that happened is that I met (over the phone) two Egyptians. Dr Khalid Abbas, Chairman of the Canberra Muslim Community and Amro a political Science student at the ANU.

In Shaa’ Allah thing will get better.

If you are thinking of comming to Australia

Sunday, March 25th, 2007

Here is a link that saved my life :)
Hall Foods in Canberra

Finding Halal food is one of the biggest concerns for Muslims and I was really lost before I stumbled on the ANU Muslim Association (ANUMA) website.

another good link is http://www.islam-australia.org/ (The Canberra Islamic Center).