Well this has been quite a long time since i have doing anything like this. Where do i start to explain the rollercoaster i have been through over the past few months… hmmmmmm i guess i should start from where i left off… Well march the third… i was still ill  after that… i have been quite badly ill since then… It resulted in the major news of my life… i ended up seeing my doctor and he said to me i might have to have an operation to relieve the pain and discomfort i have been in. Inbetween this i had my birthday celebration and had a pleasant meal with boys and generally chilled out… For my bday i got some clothes and an soon to arrive ipad from family… also got a racket of mohsin and a t-shirt of amer (the legends ) Then after my bday i got the unfortunate news that my operation was required so i had to go in to blackburn for an ilyestomy and partial bowel removal surgery. Not gonna lie to all you people even though i was looking forward to it cause i knew it would mean no more pain but when i got in to the clothes and all that happened… i shit it in a big way(which now looking back was ironic if you know what an ilyestomy is)… I guess i was unaware of the seriousness of this whole ordeal. I thought id be fine in a couple of days and it wouldnt be a major thing… i had 16  staples on where they cut me open and have had to had a change of lifestyle but i am getting used to it… in hospital i was okay but i had bad times and good times i was happy with all the people who came to visit me it really did mean a lot and then i got let out on tuesday after doctors said i was okay…

Then i got sent back to hospital on wednesday and on wednesday i had the worst night of my life… gastric bypass it isnt a pleasant thing trust me on this one… But after that horrific night i am doing okay since and i have my appetite back and all that… I am looking forward to getting myself on the road to recovery… Now i am all about building my weight and getting healthy and then preparing for my reverse ilyestomy operation which will happen in a few months time… Also i have been found that i dont have crohns disease now it was just a case of tb which destroyed my insides… That is good news as the tb is cureable where as crohns isnt (although sadif may beg to differ about the whole tb being curable thing)

So now thats out of the way the future is the way to look… Am i going to london with the boys or rage concert i can officially rule out the concert and say im very unlikely to be going to london then… I think its too soon for me… I wont be doing much for next two weeks and then hopefully start building up slowly slowly… I have to keep active and not bed ridden but i cant even walk down a street without getting breathless at the moment… thats how bad my fitness is at the moment… I wont be going on a holiday with the boys but if im better i might go back to italy for a week or so… Also i have been give another 2 months off work but then hopefully i should be back this should be my final absence… I think that i am going to be able to finish university in the summer and then graduate a little later then everyone but still graduate none the less i just have two exams and one piece of work… anyhoo its way past my bedtime and now i hope to update more often with more updates on the recovery as i am finally pain free and as i said on the road to recovery… Hopefully this will be the start of more consistent blogging!

This has been eagerly awaited… maybe just by me… but still the eagerness is there… What has been new in my life… hmmmmmmmmmmmm well first of all i must talk about the reason i am blogging from barnoldswick and not manchester. This is the same reason as to why i watch top gear and sky sports news on the hour every hour and then through the night. I am still ill with tb and crohns and i still suffer from intense stomach pains… This means for most of the day im just laying in bed with a pillow over my stomach and im just waiting for the pain to go and then once it passes i try to eat a bit and then go back to sleep!!! its a good life compared to the life of all you people doing all the university final year work (im lying of course i’d well rather be in manchester!!!!)

Yesterday i went to next to go and get my sister a birthday present… and after 4 minutes of walking around looking for something i actually felt like i was gonna throw up and got dizzy so i just went home with nothing… (by the way happy day after your birth sadia… i did plan on publishing this yesterday but instead i started watching love actually and then 8 out of 10 cats… sorry!!!) I have an appointment tomorrow where im going to ask if there isnt anything he can give to get rid of the stomach pain… the problem being that the medicine for crohns makes the tb in my body a lot worse but i have been on tb meds for about a month now and surely them meds should have done something… So i am hopeful that i am going to be better soon… My mother and father and auntie all want me to go and stay in hospital for like a week until i start eating properly etc… i refuse to as everytime im in hospital i dont like it… it depresses me and its just all round not a nice place to be!!!

Well so now its that time where i divulge all the information of what has been going on in my life since the last time i blogged… FYI i havent been lazy i have been quite badly ill hence why i havent been blogging but im going to miss most of the depressing ill details and push onto more fun WOOOOOOOOOOOOO details… Well where i left in my blogging bonanza last time was the mush dot co dot uk… the biggest waste of money on a birthday present ever… These were the good days when i was still at university living the life chilling top billing (whatever that means)  then the weekend after that i went home cause i started feeling ill again… Then i reappeared on the thursday for mohsin’s/zaf’s/sal’s birthday which was an all boys bonanza… it was a top laugh actually and it was after the magical semi final against man city and so we were all buzzing about wayne rooney… It was a good laugh but after that night i was a lot iller i went a lot of steps backwards… then i went for two birthday bonanza’s for ya man atafarellis birthday once with amer (aka poops)and once with sadif(aka poops) khuram(aka poops) sajid(aka poops) imran(aka poops) manzar(aka poops) majid(aka poops)… it was a good do on both times really good laughs… and then after that i got ya man asjad his birthday present which i still havent given him cause then on the day of his birthday i started projectile vomiting everywhere!!! it wasnt the best time i have had on asjads birthday!!! so unfortunately i couldnt make it but im sure in the summer i can succesfully photoshop myself into them pictures to make it seem like i was there!!!

Inbetween i have been chilling with khuram or ataf amz and kaz or sadif or manzar or mohsin or gobz actually i have to say all the crew have been very good to me since i have been ill like ibz, zahid, muddy, adeel, aneesa, nayab,  chantelle, zainab, hamzah, oun,  majid, imran, zaf and issy all keep in touch and ask how i am and its always nice when you hear people are wondering how you are it infaltes your ego big time!!! Even laura told me to update my blog and i was actually doing it at that time and that just freaked me out and made me feel like i was being watched… i closed the curtains in my room after that message!!! In other news i am going to see RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE IN FINSBURY PARK WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! THE FREE CONCERT!!!!!! COURTESY OF AMER DITTA!!! Me amer and sadif are going to be in london in june proper mashing it up and the best thing about it being that khuram khawer saqub ataf and mohsin are all going to be piling down with us!!! Should be a top laugh!!! I am also going to see jason manford aswell… see being ill means you get great presents… That is proven by how ataf got me a ipod touch for when i wasnt feeling well!!! it was a very moving moment… there were all kinds of different tears!!! My sister also got my some clothes which i am buzzing off at the moment!!!

So what does the future hold for me? well at the moment i think its more likely that i wont be finishing my final year this year… and ill have to repeat it next year but im not giving up and i hope to be able to pull a rabbit out of a hat and finishing this year and so my therefore i can graduate this year… Luckily my dad has said to me these legendary words “look at ataf kashaf and sadia… they spent 5,6 even 7 years at uni… you still have 5 years to finish this final year” that made me laugh as it reminded me that even i spend four years it still means i would have spent the least time in uni   But i am hoping to go to manchester to see the boys… i just need to make myself feel better hundred percent before i go back out in the real world!!!

Yep just incase that news missed you it is 2010… A new decade and all that razzmatazz (i dont know if thats how you spell that word but im pretty certain thats correct). Before i talk about the whole new year and whats being going on i would like to wish Aneesa a happy birthday!!! It is her birthday today and i hope she has an awesome time celebrating!!! And also i wanna give credit to the manchester people for creating what you can see on the side of this… Yes my hat is on top of it so im claiming a contribution towards it… Its a pretty impressive snowman well done to the SRB! Now on to Me Whats been going on since my mammoth new years blog well first of all i have been resting my hands and then i have bought a netbook in a major upgrade of my life! Its so light and has an unbelievable screen! Major thanks to my sister who helped me buy it by buying my laptop off me and thanks to ataf for buying it so i didnt have to wait for my loan to come through…

I spent my new years with mohsin and alfie and kashaf and manzar with the first three and i playing monopoly and manzar coming down to chill… Yep thats right i finished the decade playing monopoly woo hoo! I was still confined to my house at the time plus normally we dont do anything on new years. New years is a time to chill for us barlickers normally. I still remember the infamous 2006 new years with asjad sadif and mohsin with a special guest phone appearance by ibrar if i remember correctly. It was amazing but all we did is just chill!!! Anyhoo on New years day me mohsin alfie manzar and sadif went on a legendary walk to fouldridge and back… Was a pretty good and pretty cold walk and we were all so tired it was unbelievable! Then after that we went to shimlas and went for sheesha (the reason for why we are so unhealthy). I am no longer a smoker but am partial to the places and the places we went to was alright in bradford…

Then on sunday something terrible happened in the FA Cup and we had another monopoly sessionfollowed by watching the jason manford stand up dvd… It was pretty funny but didnt hide the fact that it was a terrible day Now this week i have been cleared to rejoin society but have been snowed in lol ironically! I will be returning to work on friday and i cant wait to get out of the house!!! I have an appointment with a specialist on tuesday and uni work to hand in on monday so these next few days are going to be pretty hectic!!! I have to admit aswell i did stay awake to watch bret hart come back on raw… the kid inside me couldnt resist… it was toooooooo much!!!!!!! it reminded me of a time when wwf was the shit and life was all about smelling what the rock is cooking and delivering the sweet chin music… THOSE WERE THE DAYS!!!I have been listening to music again for the first time in a while and am really buzzing of Daniel Merriweather if you dont know him you need his album. If you dont believe me listen to his song Red (you’ll probably have already heard it). I am loving that song at the moment and i am also in love with Kramer at the moment!!! HES TOOOO MUCH!!!!! Btw if you couldnt tell im procasinating from doing my human factors… if only essays were as easy as blogs!!! life would be so much simpler!!! I am so sick of uni right now its unbelievable… i cant wait to finish uni!!!

2009 has been and is quickly going… The first decade of the second millenium going with it… It really doesnt seem like over 10 years ago Manchester United won the treble… This time 10 years ago i was still at rainhall road community primary school! I wasnt even at High School!!! Thats just messed up!!!  But lets just stick to the year blog firstly cause thats a big enough task in itself… So i think it would make sense to start of in the month of… This is ridiculosly long… As in the same length of a piece of work i have to hand in for uni… Just warning you… I appologize but i had an eventful year… i tried to condense it as much as i could!

January

The new years started with me coming back from America (I just realised that was a year ago… that really doesnt seem a year ago!!!) January is a month which is always hard to talk about in a year review because it was so long ago and i forget easily… Mohsins birthday is in january and i think we went to nawaabs and shisha at cafe lounge if i remember correctly… Pretty standard if im honest… Oh no it wasnt we went to LUGE for mohisns birthday…  That was hilarious… All of us there doing luge thinking we are proper hard… with 6 year olds!!! it was cold and class!!! I also made a brief fleeting appearance at aneesas birthday bonanza where i hit all the traffic it took me an hour and half and i went for 30 mins and then left and was knackered for work the next day… the things i do for my friends!!!

February

February is Asjads Birthday and Atafs birthday. Ataf’s birthday resulted in a bowling session which was fun then shimlas which is always enjoyable!!! Asjads birthday was just the birthday when we planned to do everything and then ended up going to driving range in trafford centre. I think the original plan was knowsley safari park then derbyshire then chester zoo… It was funny cause there was so much planning and just not much actually doing! I think we always went

March

Sabis birthday bonanza was in march. That was a standard food and sheesha number. Im sure march was when me and asjad drove our cars into each other outside dicky road. For no real reason! Also march was when me and amzy started caining the Leeds missions and loving it big time… I really do have a love for leeds now! There was also the legendary walks along the canals and talks and all that march was very intresting if i remember but i cant divulge too much information or else i might get fixed!!!

April

I went to Italy in April for 5 days with ataf and khuram. It was tooooooo much! Chach and pupo and the two kids are unbelievably fun! I really enjoyed there and we conqured rome in a day contrary to song lyrics which may suggest otherwise I loved Italy it was brilliant so many little stories to tell about the full trip like when i tried to speak italian and the asked me a question and i crapped myself. How we got lost in the conveniance store. Alfie waking me up at 7:00 am and the disgust on my face and my chacha javed destroying us at cards! I really do love going to italy! I just like chilling with them if im honest. It was also my birthday but im not a big fan of celbrating overly so i went home to watch united vs porto with the boys if im honest with you on that day and ronaldo didnt disapoint scoring the most beautiful goal of the year for me on my birthday!

May

May was the exam period. I worked so hard at the end of this year just so i can pass if im honest. It was a lot of effort and time put in and by the end of it i was confident of passing although i didnt get stunning grades i passed with no re sits… and i did mess about a lot during the year and not really put effort in… i  mean in retrospect i went on two holidays… casually during the year… what on earth was i thinking i wouldnt change it if i was to do it again its all about life experince! It was also Nayabs birthday bonanza! Where we did laserquest and went to rice and then sheesha! Mohsin won at the laserquest and that was fun too! I also went to Ibrahim’s sisters wedding in this month with majid which was legendary… And some kind of champions league final happened which i have no recollection off…

June

The month when mohsin took sabi to be his wife and sabi took mohsin to be his husband. I was the best man (far from cause i was really ill that day) Me and sadif solidered to the wedding even though ill! I was really happy for them and it was probably my best moment of the year behind a moment in september… June then was the month when mohisn went on his trip. In more me related news that actual day was the day when i first felt ill with my stomach pains. I remember that cause i freaked ataf out big time with how ill i was it was a real action packed day!!!

July

I spent most of July working and saving up for the immenant arrival of karol! I also spent time with the boys and general chilling and LEGENDARY cricket games with the boys cause of how YA MAN GULLY cained it in world cup 20 20 i think this was June and July. I actually just remember them now… We had proper good games and even got baseball going down with tennis and footbal… It was actually alright if i can remember now and naughty little laugh!!! July i was getting a bit iller and also caining it with amer ditta on missions regularly during the week!!!

August

Mohsin came back around this time and Karol arrived in England. I travelled to London then went back to manchester all before 12 on one day… thats what you call mileage! Then we chilled had a muddy birthday bonanza which was a top laugh with charades and all that and also Sadif and khawers birthday bonanza another laser quest mission and nandos food which again was fun and i cant remeber who won that… i think it was a team thing and i dont think it was me who won! Also me and karol went to edinburgh and london and leeds and had fun in the capital with aneesa the legend. All round really enjoyed the whole karol coming over experince. Although i have to say its harder to host then it is to visit!!! So much pressure!!! August also saw me lose my phone and break my laptop. Not gonna lie to you them bits were annoying to say the least. I also had a lot more testing being done at this time and going into september aswell. Rozay also started this month but unfortunately i wasnt able to keep them cause of my illness. I also found out that mohisn and sabi were expecting a child this month! This was another bit of awesome news!!!

September

You go back to university in september so its chilling and all that but i had lost a lot of weight in this time and i was just given treatment (the roids!!!) i was looking very weak at this time and i remember one particulor day in september after eid where i wasnt really well. Because of that i didnt really do much except start uni and just be ill if im honest! September wasnt the greatest month

October

Fully into the swing of the things in uni and things looking up for me health wise aswell! I was getting on with work and actually keeping my head down not missing lectures and actually staying on top of work (this came to benefit me big time in the next month) I started blogging more prominently and had some top chilling sessions with the manchester crew! Chilling with muddy ibby chantelle and zainab on one night with the best mix ever! and Ya man Talli cained it when he moved in had some top chilling session with him and me and mohsin and muddy became scandalously middle class and going for breakfast and that. October also wasnt the best in a way aswell! for reasons i dont really need to discuss! But it was quite funny and it was topped off with the INFAMOUS ISOC event where me and mohsin stuck out like sore thumbs and mohsin just made inapporpriate comments throughout then adeel and mohsin talked to females and everyone was looking at them and i was in the cross fire dazed and confused!!! then we went to asia’s after and got involved in a war zone which was so much fun i only wish i had popcorn if i was honest!!! It was so funny it was first time at the flat and it was awkward yet i buzzed off it!

November

The month me and mohsin were supposed to go on a oslo trip lol! why did we think we would go there!!! This month i got ill badly again after having a good month and that lead to me having to miss a week of uni and so falling behind. Luckily i am very privelleged to have a good isd and dmerm group in order to be able to finish the work without me being there even though i still did my share through the pain!!! It all started my illness returning on the night of chantelles birthday bonanza ironically… Which was still fun and i did get her an awesome present!!! I was so out of it though during the day which was disappointing… i remember waking up and giving her the present and i cant remember much about that night apart from it was her and tali and me and i must have been saying some random stuff! Then at the end of the month it was the legendary SAEED BIRTHDAY BONANZA FOLLOWED BY ZAHID BIRTHDAY BONANZA! both fun in different ways… Saeed cause it was purely a lads night out and zahids cause it was everyone and me h and riz singing cained it! all round had fun!!! then i was ill again at the end of the month.

December

Saqub and Farhat had there first child in this month. Hamzah is its name. I was in hospital and i got diagnosed with crohns only for a few days later to be told i might not and might have tv instead. We cained the monopoly playing market and generally have been lazing about. Finished my work and i dont know how cause i was pretty ill! Thats pretty much been it for the year!!!

Now to review the decade in a paragraph. I mean in this decade i have grown so close to the boys and if i take one thing it will be that family is the most important thing to you and i dont mean family as in brothers and sisters but your cousins aswell. I mean i am so privelledged to be so close to my cousins and not be in a family where theres arguements all the time between families and how close we all are is something which i am grateful for. I mean the full community looks out for each other and its class! I cant believe how much i think i have grown over the year and how much things actually change over the year. This maybe my last year in education and then its the real world… How scary is that! Im not ready to grow up yet. If you have read all the way to the end of this i have to say well done! even im not going to be able to read through this again! I hope this new year brings all of you fun and good times and i hope the past decade has brought you many great memories and hears to another decade of great memories!

Sadif and Tariq

New look blog… I like this theme so im probably going to stick with it for a while… Sadif was the chief enabler in all of this happening so i would like to say thank you and if you dont read his blog you should aswell… Like anyone is reading this apart from sadz… Who are we kidding eh!

FNF match rating will be done by sadif this week… they should be arriving at the latest tomorrow im assuming… i dont see no reason why they would come at a later time… Was working at the co-op today and the lies we said last week have stuck with one customer… i was buzzing and carried on the lie… She thinks in december Ibrar is going to australia….

Today i was pretty much chilling… i watched tv and the normal friday thing occured… Just kept myself busy til 3 went to work then played football then the boys came down to mine… First it was mohsin and sadif then sadif went then amer came… us three ataf and kashaf got some food ate it… watched seinfeld generally chilled… it ended up being a good night…

First of question time… Regardless of how much Nick Griffin was exposed the fact he was on legitimised the fact the bnp are an actual existance and thats just the sad thing But i dont even want to waste words on them… Theres better things to blog about then people who cant get over there own inner weaknesses and just blame miniorites or people with differing lifestyles…

Something much more worth the time talking about is MANCHESTER UNITED VS LIVERPOOL!!! This sunday… 2:00pm… meaning i cant watch it… unless something magical happens… I cant see liverpool losing 5 games in the row… my brain just cant comprehend such a thing to happen… even though they have been playing so badly they will play better against us… and apparently rooney and gerrard are doubts… i hope we win after the last season debarcle…

In other news… Something amazing happened to mohsin on Thursday… Words can not describe what actually happened… but let me assure you… it was by far the funniest thing ever… it was throughly embarrasing for all involved and i dont think i have laughed so hard in my life…

University isnt too bad at the moment… Life at the moment is just going along… I cant wait for football seen as though i have been cleared and have actually got more vitamin E then a fish, its all about getting fit now… Although i know football is going to be solid for next few weeks hopefully i start building up stamina and hopefully i will be better physically then ever before insh’Allah. Although for this week Ataf and Sadif will be both be out joining long time injured player khuram on the sidelines. Possible replacements could be Asad and Rahim but likely to come in are Veterans Manzar and Saqub.

PRO EVOLUTION IS ALSO OUT TODAY!!! I EXPECT ATAF TO HAVE BOUGHT IT BY THE TIME I COME BACK FROM FNF! (although i dont expect it to be as good as fifa 10…)

First of all my interview with ataf talking about the FM2010 demo…

I only asked him one question… Describe football manager 2010 demo without the use of the word UN-believable… He said UNBELIEVABLE!!!!
Then he said… Its general gameplay is a certain improvement… The touchline shouts are sensational as they can change the game. Its a lot harder, but you can get the team to play exactly how you want them to play… The options are actually endless on the amount of things you can do… Player postions is now equipped with player roles… This is absolute genius as you have a 4-4-2 formation… But you want an italian style Trequestra whos actually playing up front but plays off the striker with the new roles feature you will just set one of the strikers as a striker and the other as Trequestra. There are almost 4 roles for each position.

The little things which are different aswell as you can call a press conference when you sign somebody, The general look is slick, The communicating with backroom staff is on another level. The advice you get now is brilliant… Definately the most improved thing… The amount of detail is brilliant. The process of transfers is pretty similar but if it aint broke dont fix it and the transfers have always been good… Navigation is different but once you get used to its good… The gameplay is smooth and quick but has only played a couple of games so dont know if there is kinks yet…Its definately more realistic and already its a lot better as its a new approach by FM and its worked from the demo!

Then he lost to man city and took everything back and said its a rubbish game and started a new career with real madrid

Now FNF was an absolute horrendus affair. The teams being

Ataf, Irfan. Mohsin. Sadif. Tariq

vs

Amer, Amjad, Ibrahim, Khawer, Majid

On paper we had the stronger side now… Yet the final result was an absolute battering which i was on the receiving end of… We started of well and were winning by a few goals… for the first 5-10 minutes maximum then they took complete control of possesion and just pummelled us… we scored a few goals on counter attacks and kept it within touching distance just about… then I first fell injured… Then ataf went down and Sadif’s fitness went aswell and it was pretty much 2 against 5 and thats when the battering occured… Now below im going to do a GOAL.COM-esque player ratings out of 10

Ataf – 4 Started off well… Then injury hit (cramp) and was a liability out of the nets but because of the fitness of the rest of the team had to go out for a while then when in nets made a few decent saves which maybe pushed his rating up…

Irfan – 6 Did well and was one of the better performers… Scored some good solo effort and then ended up having too much to do… Was trying to do too much at times but you cant blame the effort was just on a team which didnt really perform…

Mohsin – 6 Similar performance to irfan… scored a few good goals and did run around the pitch a lot… Was frustrated by the team performance and again had to shoulder most of the attacking responsibilities when maybe better as a box to box player…

Sadif – 5 Struggled with his fitness throughout the game but showed class is still there… Fitness is just the key for him. Did struggle today and had a disappointing game by the standards he sets for himself.

Tariq – 1 WAS AWFUL!!!! Got an injury in his foot… and his foot then turned into a complete shooda and it ruined everything… Even before though was clearly just coming back into fitness and needs to build straight from the beginning… Things can only get better from this performance

Amer – 8 Steady performance from Amer… Then excelled at the end… Paced himself well and did the simple things well. Like his full team… was very good at keeping the ball.

Amjad – 8 Was lively and good on the ball. Showed a lot of composure but was guilty of missing chances. Good passing and was good in defence.

Ibrahim – 9 A talent. Started off shy and timid but grew in the match and showed real talent and bundles of energy… Man of the match. He is the next Gabriel Obertan

Khawer – 8 Good performance by khawer. Full of energy and was up and down most game. Started off struggling with finishing… but that only lasted a little while and was a threat most times he got the ball. Didnt give up until the end.

Majid – 8 Very tidy performance from majid. Probably the best passer on the pitch but finished was wayward. Set up chances for people non stop through out the game and also carried on through out the match giving hundred percent until the end.

Football Manager 2010 demo was released yesterday. For any people who are intrested in downloading it and now having a life for the rest of the year click here My brother Ataf is going to be testing it out whilst i slave away at doing uni work… So later on tonight i will probably write a blog about his first experince of it just to see if it is still getting better and more realisitic with every release. With football manager 2009 i had a bad run and it was so realistic i thought the press was actually outside my house calling for my resignation…

Also tonight is the dramatic, unexpected, unimaginable and another un word i dont even know return of FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL. This is going to be my first form of excerise since my illness and i fear for what it has done to me. I have never been no “Michael Essien” but now with the loss of weight i should be at a all time new low for me personally. Although i am thinking in a positive light cause things can only get better health wise with a bit of excerise.