My debut into the world of blogging

Seeming as Ive just started a new and challenging life, I thought why not document my decreasing sanity along the way.....well that's what Ive been told it will be like anyway.

Those that know me very well will be shocked at the fact that I'm willing to share the goings on in my life with hundreds if not thousands (ok slight exaggeration) of people I don't know as I'm known as the 'private person', but hey Ive always wanted to keep a diary. Oh and don't get too excited its all kosher!

Well its been exactly 2 weeks since I started my PhD at Imperial and I still haven't really taken it all in. Leaving work and deciding to go back to being a student wasn't an easy decision but what is life if we don't challenge ourselves once in a while.

Don't get me wrong its not like I didn't want to go back to uni, in fact doing a PhD is something I wanted to do since I graduated but after a number of disappointments with funding etc. I was a bit disheartened and thought of giving up. I also got myself comfortable in the world of work and was doing well, buuuuuuut behind the scenes I was still trying and I finally got a place and at one of the best institutions in the world.

So here I am and having worked and gained the experience I have in industry, I have now come to appreciate why doing a PhD straight after a degree may have not been the best option, that maybe I wouldn't have got the best out of it and that when God delays something He does so for a reason and as He says.........

وَعَسَى أَن تَكْرَهُواْ شَيْئًا وَهُوَ خَيْرٌ لَّكُمْ وَعَسَى أَن تُحِبُّواْ شَيْئًا وَهُوَ شَرٌّ لَّكُمْ وَاللّهُ يَعْلَمُ وَأَنتُمْ لاَ تَعْلَمُونَ

"........But it is possible that ye dislike a thing which is good for you, and that ye love a thing which is bad for you. But Allah knoweth, and ye know not" (Quran 2:216)

So take home messages are............

The Lord works in ways that our minds of limited mental capacity can not begin to comprehend

and

If at first you don't succeed try, try, try again!