Salaams guys,

It's been a while since I've blogged here, I've almost drafted a blog to upload on numerous occasions but in recent times my life seems to get very crazy in the moment before I finally feel like I have time to sit down and write.

But I'm here to let you all know that I've recently self-published my first book, which is an anthology of 100 of my first poems called "Free to Speak" . Written from I guess when I started blogging here, up until a few months ago with some pieces removed and previously unpublished pieces added.

If anybody would be interested in buying a copy, all the proceeds will be going to a charity project in Gaza so you'll be supporting a great cause as well as getting to read my rambling.

Firstly oooh there is an option to add a media file to blog posts

And secondly, anyone else disappointed at how little they have achieved in Ramadan this year?

Suits is a brilliant show set in a law firm which revolves more around the personal struggles and relationships of the workers than the law work itself. The scripts are usually filled with quick witted genius dialogue and the plots themselves are entertaining too. I would say I recommend it, but after the ending of last season I'm questioning whether I should I watch it myself. Of course I can, and did, just not watch the innaporpriate scenes but that's not the point.

Anyway that was just some background information. And bear with me, this IS a Ramadan reflection

So I saw these tweets last night

do you know about stages of sleep? there's deep sleep and not so deep sleep and we're suppose to put our alarms on during that "not so deep" sleep time coz its the best time to wake up

[they say sleep cycle - light sleep to light sleep - lasts on average 90 mins so we should put our alarms on at multiples of 90 and we'd wake up more easily]

anyway, when im going through light sleep (im assuming here), especially round morning time i can hear snatches of conversation going on around me; people on landing talking, siblings getting ready for school etc...

and i hate it.

i dont know if you've experienced this before, if yes, how dyou feel about it?

I dont want to tidy my room!

there's hardly anything there thats mine

its a shared room you see, so why should i be the one stuck in there?

plus a hurricane of the-three-girls-under-the-age-ten has struck.

FOUR NIGHTS AND THREE DAYS STRAIGHT

so why should i tidy my room

where hardly any of the mess is mine?

plus there are better things to do

i've got to change the world, i've got to save it.

i cnt be stuck in my room,

when the world is going ballistic.

its not fair its not fair!

the duvet's there because the bed was most struck by the hurricane

i dont know why the jewellery's on the floor!

i was asleep the whole time!

the revival's standard size is too big, please reduce it. because i have to zoom out to 50% to get a decent view of the site, and then everything else on hte world wide web ends up the above size.

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LOST GENERATION

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quick practical straight forward advice that one can implement right there adn then.