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!!!

Hmm so whats new… i had an bronchoscopy on monday… and i literally can not remember what happened between 1-4… Its well been annoying me… i cant remember what happened to me… Apparently its normal but i wanna remember what happened… i took pictures of myself and messaged random people… it was quite freaky… and the nurse told me that i didnt fall asleep… Its well weird that i dont remember…

Then after that my throat was pretty poor to say the least about it… But i am feeling okay now… I should get my test results in three weeks time… Insh’Allah that will get resolved by then… i should get the medicine and that… What else has been new… i went to work and that was the same old same old… been chilling at home really and came to manchester to watch that pathetic united performance… makes me sick to my stomach… Why are united so poor… Been getting uni marks back.. I have got 75, 69 and 68 in my three assignments i have got results back for… I am not optimistic that my run of high grades can continue… I get 4 more assignments back in the upcoming days i think… If i get acceptable grades i will literally be blogging about them like there genuinely is no tomorrow… If i dont ill be more silent then a mute on tv with you pressing mute and turning the volume control down to zero… Now i am off to get some food me thinks… i was thinking chicken cottage with chantelle or ibrar but i shall see what the night brings… BY THE WAY 24 IS BACK 4 EPISODES AND THEY ARE TOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!!! and i was looking at my analytics page… pretty pretty pretty good way more people access my site then i expected… its pretty cool actually i buzz off it and PS the blog title doesnt make sense… but you watch on 28th january… it will make all the sense you could ever want or need!

Went to work aswell. On my third return back after illness… I think there getting sick of my return from illness’s if im honest… Me and ibrar absolutely cained saturday when we ripped sarah to shreads… She broke the lottery machine and me and ibrar like the helpful employees we are just laughed at her non stop and kept being ridiculosly unhelpful. Then on sunday i made a legendary moo noise whilst ibrar was doing the announcement to close the store and then zaf went mental and scared all the customers…  It was a fun weekend back at work if im honest with you…

Went to doctors today and i got good news! The doctor said i was improving and the treatment was being succesful and hopefully has put my crohns into remission… After i finish my course of steriods i shall be 3 weeks without meds to see if it is in remission properly… but the tests results are looking positives… Im still going to the rest of the tests they have scheduled just to make sure its not anything else…Insh’Allah this new year will be a better year for me healthwise… I am looking forward to meeting Hamzah now cant wait to go see him… Had lunch with alfie today… too much… He is an absolute legend… Chilling with him big time… When i went to work he literally didnt do a little bit of work it was class…

Really now i need to get cracking into my uni work… I am really now going to have get my final year project started… Ironically though i am writing this as a way to put off doing my work… I have to say uni work is really ann0ying me now… i hate doing work… why am i in education… The weather is the biggest deterrent to do work… The big freeze is a lot colder then everyone anticipated… I for certain didnt expect how cold it actually ended up being… And now for tomorrow i need to find the quickest way spend my loan money so im thinking of buying clothes and whatnot… then tomorrowa monopoly session is going down with the manchester boys I literally cant wait for that… infact im going to google monopoly tips in preperation for tomorrow…

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!

So what happened in the life of Tariq. Tariq’s life went badly i must say from the last blog. What happened unfortunately was that i had a reoccurence of whatever the illness i had earlier… I ended up getting really ill on the thursday i went home… Then on friday(4th december) i got worse and saturday(5th december) it was worse and i ended up getting sent home from work… and that led me down a very crap road which i wont go into too much detail into! believe me you dont want to know… Then i went to burnley hospital and that doctor was by far the worst doctor i have ever seen. If you are a pakistani and you see a pakistani doctor they automatically assume you are a dick! I got misdiagnosed there big time and he was so arrogant and rude…

Then i went to see doctor kenny and he sent me to blackburn hospital. I spent the night there(which was the worst night of my life… no young person should be in  where the nurses and the main doctors were both really good and actually seemed like they knew what they were doing… The young doctors were okay but i think there workload was very large… i can see where they were coming from… Basically i was in a lot of pain them days… then i got out and had to go back to manchester to hand in my uni work… But i was okay on thursday friday i had a legendary scrabble session with sadif and kept losing to ataf in the days after!!!(10th and 11th) then on saturday(12th) after finishing most of my work i chilled with mohsin and watched united lose to villa!

Im going to take a break from my sick blog for something else which is making me sick. MANCHESTER UNITED’S ATTACKING PERFORMANCE!!! i understand the defence thing and i think against fulham we just underestimated them by thinking we could do the old 3 at the back like we did against wolfsburg… But how piss poor are united at going forward… so one dimensional!!! I mean i know selling cristiano ronaldo will make a massive difference but how can we go from scoring from pretty much any where to not even being able to score at all! I mean united’s defence will come back and we will be okay in that sense… But something needs to change big time to get the goals we need in order to win the title!!!

Now back to the sick blog, then on sunday (13th) i was really ill luckily the manchester crew all helped me out to keep motivated and help me get through doing the work! Then on monday night i was in agony and on tuesday i was in agony i went to see dr grimes and he said that i had the Crohns Disease. Click on the link for more information about that. He said it was 80% definate and we will be working under that assumption. He gave me roids again and then move onto the next meds in january. I started feeling better on the roids and it helped me a lot after a couple of days of pain i got back to a degree of normality.

Then i got to today. I confirmed that i was back at work this sunday and Dr Kenny rang me up and said my x ray showed up saying there are things on the xray are looking suspiciously like Tuberculosis. Click on the link for more information about that. Yet if your a close member of our family you probably know all about that. So now i have had to cancel my day back at work and am in quarantine for the next two weeks so now im back to 50/50 in whether its crohns or tb… Not the healthiest of person i am at the moment!!!

So what else is new in my life… Apart from that i have been resting and eating and getting myself better… I handed in my work whilst being ill and did the whole mitigating circumstances form thing but i think that i did my work to an ok level and im glad the group work i had to do didnt get let down by my work!!! I am too tired to continue! i shall leave it for another day… now inshallah i shall try to update more regularly but ill be honest i was a little down in the dumps with how i was but now i am trying to look at a more positive way of life! I really didnt wanna write this but i just felt i had to in order to move along… Now onto more cheerier blogs in the future!!!

So, its been awile since i last narrated a blog. Actually let me explain why i am narrating this blog entry. The answer being boredom on Chantelle’s part, lazyness on Tariq’s part and finally intrigument on Zahid’s part. So lets start with the talk of the town. Saeed’s birthday bonanza aka The Greatest Birthday Ever! Some of the things which happened that night are never to be spoken of again by those involved. So unfortunatly i cant share as much as i would like, but it was a truly memorable and bonding experience (thanks Zahid for that word.) And then even after Saeed had left and the bonanza had finished, the fun carried on till the early hours with the legendary team game of who could think of the most ‘ate’ words (pause for we had to explain the game for Zahid) It was one of my most memorable nights in manchester to date. P.S the presents were too much. P.P.S the food at zouk’s was amazing, the steak was too nice, in fact thats the little picture im going to put up on the side Now on to the next bonanza…

ZAHIDS BIRTHDAY BO-NAN-ZA! Started off with a mass battle between Chantelle and Zaf, along the lines of  ‘Why dont you drink?’ A vicious assault from Zaf which resulted in me, Mohsin and Riz having to stick up for Chantelle and ask the same question to Zaf, why doesnt he drink?! Also, unfortunatly some of the Saeed birthday bonanza shenanigans were brought into Zahids birthday bonanza and the results werent pleasant for all involved (im being intentionally vague for my readers, i wish to protect you from this VILE… thing!) Then we went to Akbars aka Rudebars but their service was shocking, there was no take your time, no feel free to stick around, it was sit down, order, eat, do one! That lack of time in ordering led me and Talli to rush and pick a dish which was not right for us and our needs of what we wanted to eat. At this point i was dreaming of being back in time 24 hours to the real birthday bonanza (just kidding for Zahid, i really enjoyed the rude waiters) Then we went to Shisha and that was wicked. Me, Riz and H did karaoke without a karaoke machine. The whole shisha cafe looked at us disgustedly as we were ruining their shisha music experience. We replied by singing louder “We gotta fight fight fight fight fight for this love!!!!”  Then it turned 12 oclock and we gave Zahid birthday wishes and majority of us unfortunatly had to disperse as some had to go home and others had pressing matters. FYI on that thursday i got my first last year assignment mark back and me and Mohsin and Talha and Giorgio and Mattia got 75%. Very proud to say the least, ecstatic to say the most, anything in between is a medium answer.

Now on to this week at Manchester (Barlick was standard) Monday morning started with the new Zahid, waking up before 9am, 8.22 to be precise. Going for breakfast and then going into uni for before 10am and then staying in university until 5.30pm (pause for shock to wear off) The guy kicked it. Shame he didnt do any work. Then me, H, Muddy, Zahid and Mohsin embarked on one of the greatest walks home i have ever experienced. Again, i shall protect my readers from some of the obscenities that were used but a comment i made about Zahid had H in such laughter i thought he was gonna die. Then we chilled at night and i felt it was up to me to now try and get the second slacker to go to university. So i set my eyes firmly on Chantelle and i knew there was one thing that motivated her… Food! (only joking) I offered Chantelle a meal to come in to university at 9oclock and low and behold at 9oclock like clockwork she was ringing the bell and getting herself in and ready to go to university with Ibrar. Then at uni i went into the library and low and behold she was in the library doing work! The shock on my face was priceless! So after watching liverpool getting knocked out of the Champions league (hahahahahah) me and Chantelle went to Nandos and had a tremendous meal and nice and revealing talk. Then we went back to the house and heard all about TNF (Tuesday night football) Zahid says (“not I say its a fact, i played awesomly, this is aside from the quotations i scored 3 goals in 3 minutes or was it 2 minutes, no just put 3 minutes”) In my opinion its just a cheap friday night football althought there are disagreements in Manchester and Mohsin did soil the name, the good name, of friday night football ratings with his shoddy, disgraceful twitter post! Today i chilled with aneesa and chantelle and ibrar and told the truth… It was a very good laugh we had me and ibrar are too much at telling the truth…

So whats upcoming in the life of  Tariq? Thats the question Chantelle just asked me (Chantelle says thats a lie, but i lie on my website my readers should know that) I replied enthusiastically, Eid on friday, going home early on thursday. i have no Eid clothes thought, dissapointed. Then back to work on saturday and sunday have a big few weeks now til christman holidays, need to do alot of work. Hopefully i should get good grades. Now, we are hoping Zahid gets motivated and hands in a brilliant assignment, hoping being the key word.

(Narrated by Tariq Ahmed)

(Written by Chantelle Khaliq)

So whats been going down… Life has been pretty good.. Been buzzing of the manchester crew… Have been chilling with the SRB boys(asjad, ibrar, muddy, talal and zahid). You cant beat Schuster road its actually toooooooooooo much… Also uni has been okay but need to get cracking on final year project. Need to start doing academic reading its just so boring…

Work has been okay but i was ill today cause mohsin was ill yesterday and he gave me his illness whilst watching united… felt a bit better today so i went to work… work was alright too… proper chilled in the afternoon and didnt do any work… i was buzzing cause all i did was drink tea with gareth and listen to music of my phone…

THEN ON THAT SUNDAY IT ALL KICKED OFF

i was going to post this on the sunday… then ibrar ran into my room and said mohsin has left his facebook on… This is relevent cause last year mohsin raped my facebook and destroyed it… so this was revenge and i had muddy ibrar and asjad… i added him in groups and was sending funny messages to some people then got busted before i could really destroy it… Then mohsin came to our house… and he locked himself in my room and then forgot to unlock the room as he left and someone shut the door meaning on sunday i had to sleep on the sofa without a phone any other clothes no wallet no nothing … worst sleep of my life seriously!!!!!!

i couldnt leave the house until the landlady got there the next day and she came at half 1 and it took 20 minutes to get in… it took ages… Then on tuesday i went to uni and cained some DMERM work and today i have been working on my final year project… need to get cracking on the reading of that… not looking forward to resuming after my blogging break…. had breakfast at ambala today with talal aka tali!!! naughty cup of tea… Also bought chantelles birthday present… Chantelles birthday bonanza will be going down tomorrow… Oh yeah and started my healthy eating routine in a big way… eating a banana right now… 5 a day is the future!!!

I have new found respect for Twitter… its alright ya know… i am starting to prefer it to facebook… i rarely go on facebook nowadays… twitter is the future! Watched united last night was very frustrated with the performance need a massive improvement to beat chelsea… need a big performance to get a result at the bridge!!! Going to watch liverpool tonight aswell… looking forward to that… should be an awesome game!!! well hope lyon win…

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…