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Meet Sarah Dessen

Posted on 22 September, 201123 September, 2011 by Ikhlas

So yesterday I had the immense pleasure of seeing and meeting Sarah Dessen! She was in Toronto, at the Eaton Centre for yesterday and today, talking and signing her latest novel What Happened to Goodbye. I’ve been a fan of hers since I was in high school, when I read Someone like You, and have been…

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Becoming Ikhlas

Posted on 7 September, 2011 by Ikhlas

I didn’t realise I was brown until I was 4 and a half years old. I didn’t realise I was different until I was the age to start school. I didn’t realise there was something different about me. I thought I was like everyone else. Unlike everyone else, I was an only child. Well, until…

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Catching up

Posted on 22 August, 201124 August, 2011 by Ikhlas

Hello! Hi. Anyeo (that’s Korean for hi) 🙂 How’s it going? So its been a really long time since I’ve posted here, and I thought I’d do a catch up post. It feels like I haven’t posted anything in ages and ages. All right, I have posted little things, but no book reviews or anything…

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We interrupt this programming…

Posted on 15 August, 201115 August, 2011 by Ikhlas

…for a brief intermission. Dear loyal followers of my blog/website, you might have noticed that I haven’t updated in a few days, but fret not, I haven’t abandoned it or writing altogether. You may or may not know that I am in a Creative Book Publishing Program at Humber College in Toronto, Canada and that…

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Butter Chicken Delight

Posted on 10 August, 201110 August, 2011 by Ikhlas

So after months, if not years, of my mother prodding me to learn to cook some traditional Pakistani food, I finally ventured into the kitchen to do just that. What has it taken you years to do this, Ikhlas, you ask me, with an eyebrow raised. You love baking, surely that love must transfer into…

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