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Introducing: My Project 365

amellie — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:15:28 +0000

Ever heard of the term Project 365? A lot of people, especially photography enthusiasts (take for example Dustin Diaz), have done this sort of project — they’d take one picture each day for 365 days. It sounds easy…

Five Years of Blogging

20 Things About Me

amellie — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:38:46 +0000

Few weeks ago, I came to find the list of “25 things about me” which I wrote about a year ago. But I realized some of them do not apply to me anymore. So, I figured it’d be fun to…

Traveling around the Netherlands

amellie — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:27:27 +0000

I have lived here for more than 1.5 years and have traveled within the country for many times. These are just some of the places I’d recommend you to go to and some tips of what you should do when…

New Design for amellie.net

amellie — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:59:53 +0000

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim…

Hello everyone! I wanna introduce a brand new layout design for my 5+ years blog, amellie.net.

Ok, don’t ask me how I could actually design a new blog when I had tons of things to do. Well, I was…

The Beauty of Madain Saleh

amellie — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:04:47 +0000

I escaped the snowy Eindhoven and spent my winter/Christmas break this time in the sunny Saudi Arabia. It had been 2 years since my family and I hadn’t had a vacation with the complete members; it’s either I wasn’t there,…

Why Do Muslims Need to Learn Arabic?

amellie — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:51:17 +0000

I wanna share a VERY interesting and enlightening video by Nouman Ali Khan. I got this video last year actually, but I always forgot to share this in my blog! I love his speech and da’wah. He delivers his messages…

The Idea of Going Back for Good

amellie — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:01:54 +0000

I am not going to lie to anyone and I’m not being hypocrite. I do enjoy living abroad, despite of cultural and language differences, despite of being minority, and many other things. I don’t care about those people who have…

The Snow that Brought Chaos

amellie — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 23:01:40 +0000

* This post is quite outdated, actually. It happened in the mid of December 09. I should have written it a long time ago, but I didn’t have much time as I was having vacation with my family back in…

The Long Conflicts

amellie — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:27:10 +0000

I have always been very ignorant about the Palestinian and Israeli conflicts. I’ve kept my ears and eyes shut when it came to these issues. The problems that the two nations face are too complex involving years of pain, revenge,…

My Useless Opinion about Minaret Banning

amellie — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:28:16 +0000

So, the decision is final. The Swiss people don’t want the minarets anymore. It was shocking, concerning that there are only a total of 4 minarets in the country. I wonder why do they even care about such thing? Why…