He was in the photography club, while you were in the painting club. You met through a club collaboration, wherein you had to paint a picture he would take. Through out the entire event, Al Haitham kept spitting out petty insults to your craft, on how its just much more convenient to take a camera to capture memories.

"I dont get it, why would you take hours to paint if all it took was a single click?"

He leans behind you, staring at the messy blobs of paint on your canvas.