My Headaches I suffer from headaches. When I was like 5 or 6 I fell off stairs in the house I grew up in, exactly in my grandparent’s house. My parents got married in 1994. Since my grandparents and my own parent too have been old-school traditional Uzbek family, we…

“Why did you come back from abroad?!” — almost everybody has been asking me this question since I came back to my hometown from Europe [except those who already had lived abroad like me]. Even more people are surprised to find out I am WORKING here in Uzbekistan. First of…

My uncle told me an interesting thing about how Bill Gates built his software company: Such big corporation as Microsoft has a lot of secrets. To protect the business, Bill Gates built the company in a way that not a single employee knows everything about how its products work. How? …

I got my Masters degree to my hands [finally]. Eternally grateful to the Almighty for giving me such opportunity to study and graduate from one of the British Universities, earning a degree that is recognised in any part of the world [a thousand million times Alhamdulillah]. Having two European degrees…

It feels amazing when people reach out to you on DM and say “Hey, I loved your story [going through your last posts]. Really inspiring.” Amazing how it feels. Just wanted to take this chance to thank my friends who feel that way about my writing, because one of them…

Six months = six seconds Six months have passed like six seconds. I have been working as the head of IT department at this Fintech company for the last six month, since I arrived at the Tashkent International Airport from Turkey [I also noticed I haven't posted much since then]. …

In Qur’an, Allah, may He be exalted, tells us to do good to our parents along with worshipping Him. Here is a verse in surah al-Isra’ : “And your Lord has decreed that you worship none but Him. And that you be dutiful to your parents. If one of them…

Now I am in FinTech industry. “Huh? Fin what?” I can hear your thoughts. Let me explain. “FinTech” is short for Financial Technology. Electronic payments, e-banking, electronic wallets — these are the kind of things we do in FinTech industry. At this company at my current role, everyday I am…

Now I am waking up at around 8:30. Take a quick shower. Get dressed for work [shirt and jacket]. My mom prepared some breakfast: “Have something to eat,” she said. I sat down at the kitchen table and took a few sips from the cup of tea [I never have…