Day 10 - where to start........

Hello people!!

Firstly I hope everyone got home safely today!  I don’t want to talk about the riots in detail but what I would like to say is….

WELL DONE WEST MIDLANDS POLICE SERVICE

I feel like I can walk around the city and feel safe…..One thing I do want to mention is that the city was quiet as I left the work place earlier and we finished the play scheme earlier as well.  I didn’t feel the normal city that I walk through everyday.  People were scared.  The normal city talk didn’t call out to me or the general city feel wasn’t there!  It’s sad…I also would like to say that ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.  People have died because of this and I think everyone should take a moment and pray that these souls rest in peace and are granted a place in Heaven…..

Right………Because of everything that is happening, I forget that I am fasting.  This doesn’t mean I go around eating, but I don’t feel hungry, I just feel there are more important things happening in this world apart from me being hungry!

I have just come back from TESCO (but I am loyal to ASDA, but it closed early today) and my cousin was saying kept on saying I was looting for jokes……NOT FUNNY!!!

I made Pasta bake, fish, pizza and a whole lot of love…..well I hope I did hahaha!!!  All for my cousin who is staying with us for the next few days!!  I have a wedding to go to this weekend but I don’t know what to do!  Although things have calmed down in Birmingham tonight, I don’t know if it will rise again on the weekend!!!

What makes me flabbergasted (and that is a real word to me!!!) is that these yobbo’s think they won’t get caught!  They blatantly looting in front of the camera and don’t care!  Some of the children came up with the idea that we should make an electric prison for these animals so if they try to escape, they get electrocuted!!!  I said that was a very good idea hahaha!!!

My kids at the play scheme are our next generation and they need to be educated about these things!  I cannot keep up with the Media in this country!  We have had soo much going on since the Royal wedding!  I think I should be a personal advisor to our Prime Minister.  Tell him a few jokes so he likes me, the gradually do a coup and take over!!!

At the moment we are known as a yobbo country……….lets change this inshallah!  Look after yourself my peeps!!!

Day 9 - Good vs Evil...............

Hello!!

Sorry for the very very very late blog…I have just been very busy discussing our children’s safety at the play scheme and how we can deal with this tomorrow.  As I type I am watching Sky News and still there are youth are creating havoc!

Today’s blog is called Good VS Evil…….It’s all about these riots around the country.  As I type, a Sky News correspondent is talking to young people in Greater Manchester and they are saying the youth are doing this to make money for college and University….I am sorry, but this is no excuse whatsoever for these animalistic acts!  I am unemployed and I am fed up about being unemployed, does this mean I should join the rioters or work towards change?

I totally understand that the government has let young people down regarding students fee’s, shutting down youth services and soo much more.  I totally understand that, BUT as I was looking around my room full of kids aged between 8 to 14, I wondered….

IS THIS WHAT I WANT FOR THE NEXT GENERATION?

The answer is HELL NO!!!  A question I ask myself and the media is asking is WHERE ARE THE PARENTS?!!!  Are they joining in or do they not care?  I can’t sympathise with the people who are committing these acts!  It’s absolutely disgusting and selfish of these people! 

BUT………..

Where is evil, good will always over power the bad!!!  I will stand up and salute the people who have helped with the clean up projects around the country.  I am proud to be British when I see people cleaning their city.  People need to show these animals that we will not fall in this epic battle…..NEVER!!!!

People please phone in and name and shame these young people so they know not to do this again.  At the moment I don’t have enough confidence with the police because London jails/prisons are full up with these looters and now have 16,000 extra officers, but what about the rest of the country?!!  AND where will they put the other looters?  Everyone one of these young people have a future and yes instead of being disgusted, we need more youth workers to get involved, we need to train more youth workers so that young people feel that they are not being ignored!

OK I have ranted enough regarding this but I feel so passionate about this as well.  Yes my fasting is going good but I want to do as much good as I can in this month and after to help change this chaos into order!!!!  I hope the Prime Minister has a great solution or we need a new Government!!!!

I’ll leave you with a funny thought…..One of my children said (who is eight):

‘Sir I am in a gang’.  I was like a gang?!  He goes:

‘A good gang though’.  He even has a name for their gang.  Here goes…..

THE REDFOOT GANG!!!

Kids these days!  I am just glad they are not on the streets!  Remember once these looters are done with the shops, they’ll come for our houses!  They are already attacking people, innocent people!  Come one people, we can change this!!!

GOOD WILL ALWAYS BE STRONGER THAN EVIL!

Good Bless You All

Day 8 - The Fasting Bug.............

Hello All!!

Sorry for the late blog, but I have been hooked onto the news since I got home!  Riots left, right and centre!!!!  I can’t believe what some parts of London have become!  It really sickens me that people think they can get away with looting, smashing windows, setting buildings alight!

The thing is and I will say this because I am part of an ethnic minority…..that we don’t help ourselves!  Yes I do understand that there may be some sort of injustice within the deprived areas across the country, I really do understand this and I know people are probably angry, BUT this does not give these people the right o go around and create havoc!  I really don’t know the whole story regarding the gentlemen that got shot, but I don’t think this is the right way about doing things….but I am not going to go on about this as there is soo much I want to talk about today!

Right…It was a very good day today!  We had a guest come in for the play scheme.  His name is Shaun Welch and he is part of Evoke Media!  The kids loved him!!  The girls done a poetry session with him and the boys done an acting and innovative performance workshop.  The day could not have gone better if I say so myself!

See fasting is like a bug…I call it the fasting bug.  After a certain amount of time (one week), you get used to fasting and you just get on with your day…its amazing how this happens because you don’t recognise this, it just happens!!!  Its fantastic!!!  Now I can just go with the flow…..

What else can I tell you….ummmm…..I am eating halal marshmallows as we speak!  Delicious!  Sorry but the riots have just got on my nerves because what are you fighting for seriously?!!!

Today I am thankful for the friends I have and really appreciate them.  Ramadhan does help you reflect on what you take for granted and this is why we should take full advantage of the month and yess this is including me!  So today I am going to love you and leave you with these thoughts and please feel free to not agree with me, I don’t mind at all!!!

PLEASE BE SAFE THIS WEEK

Day 7 - Don't touch that chocolate finger!!!!!!

Hello All!!

I don’t know where to start as there are soo many things I want to talk about!  Right I have just come back from a BBQ in the rain!  One to remember….My uncle did raise a good point though after reading one of my previous blogs in which I mentioned Holby City, he said:

‘Instead of watching Holby City to keep you awake, which it didn’t, try reading the Koran’

I had to come out with something that’s me which is I am at the rebellious stage of I-Slam!  What I mean by this is that I don’t know what to do.  I want to pray because I want to, not because it is a chore for me to do.  So I will be focussing on this as well this Ramadhan alongside many other things.

Today in the early hours of the morning, I kept thinking whenever I awoke (3 times!!!) that I was running very very very late for my play scheme!  So I would say pout loud:

‘Oh s***, I am late!!’ (no foul language on my blog)!!!!

It was hilarious when I thought about it after.  The main title that I have for day 7 ‘don’t eat that chocolate finger’ is because Ramadhan is all about control.  Controlling your urges.  Today I had one chocolate finger remaining (fingers meaning the biscuit) on the plate and I kept looking at it all day and I was telling myself not to eat but my stomach was saying eat it!  What did I do you ask...........well….I…

DID NOT EAT IT!!!!   I am well happy about that!  But now I have eaten it because I just got home from my BBQ and ate it because I am not fasting because I have opened my fast!  So what I am trying to say people is control all those urges until after you open you’re fast!!!

Today I had a telephone conversation with the bank because I had forgotten my pin details and the lady was telling me to press this button and do this and I was saying:

‘Well it’s not working is it because I am doing everything you are saying’

Then she would just repeat the same instruction over and over and over again!  There were also some awkward pauses as well!  I HATE awkward pauses, well I hate pauses full stop!!  I just don’t know what to say to fill that pause, I am not a pause filler and I never will be thank god!!!  Oh sorry god is with a capital G…..GOD.

I have also done some job searches today because I do not want to do any more free work, yes that’s right….

NO MORE FREE WORK!!!!

EXCEPT…….my friend’s charity do because he is my very good friend!!!  This charity do is about raising money for the people of Palestine especially those poor orphaned children.  So if you are interested in attending a fun filled night then all you have to do is phone Interpal (the charity) 07527 345 464  and ask for Adil who is the organiser.  It’s on the 21^st August in Birmingham.  Anymore information ten you can reply to this blog and I will forward you to the right place.  It’s a worthwhile charity and I will be there on the day helping out but seriously after than….NO MORE FREE WORK!!!

So people what have you learnt?  Well you tell me and then I’ll tell you if you’re right!!!  I hope this blog just takes you away from that certain stress you have or that bad day you’ve had at home or at work and I hope I cheer you up or make you think about certain things.  If I have done that then I am happy because that’s what my aim is!

I love writing this blog, it empowers me!  Maybe I will become famous from this, or maybe not I don’t know…who knows what will happen?  Just remember one thing…………………………………………….

DON’T TOUCH THAT CHOCOLATE FINGER!!!!

key words


koran - holy book

Interpal - charity to help Palestine