Those were the days..

May 22, 2008 at 10:05 pm | In Family, Life, Me Myself & I, Memories, Personal, a-ha | 21 Comments
  • I miss the visits to my grandma’s, Allah Yir7amha, house in Mansouriya. We used to go there, and then to my aunt’s house in the back. I remember playing inside the van ‘Waneet’ which was always parked outside, though I never knew to whom it belonged. 
  • I miss playing in 7adiqat el Mansouriya.
  • I miss seeing my grandma at breakfast each morning when I was in Kuwait. She can’t do it anymore but I keep remembering that.
  • I miss uncle ‘Y’ Allah yir7ama when he used to come to my mother-in-law’s house (his sister) each night for dinner. He used to eat khoboz o jibin or soup or kebab. He was the most humble modest man I know.
  • I miss my best ‘relative’ friend. I remember the days when we used to stay long hours, in her room, just reading magazines and cutting what we want. Or, translating and looking up every word in the dictionary we didn’t know from an A-HA song. Though we are not together any more, I truly wish her well and all the best.
  • I miss aunt ‘M’ Allah yir7amha. I don’t really know what exactly to mention about her because there was and will never be anyone like her.
  • I miss the days when we used to record tamthiliyyat (Tv shows) with my brothers. The Monopoly games and the so7oor in Ramdan.
  • I miss the gatherings on Wednesdays. Used to be my favourite day of the week.
  • I miss uncle ‘M’ Allah yir7ma. I miss his visits to my house in Switzerland. He stayed with me two times and during that time, I got to know the real him, which not many know unless you live with him. 
  • I miss her, although I haven’t seen her for a long time, and now she’s gone. 
  • I just miss everything and hate the changes but all I can say is Al Hamdilla 3ala kil 7al.
  • There are so many other things but I can’t write anymore. My heart is aching and I so need a hug :( .
P.S: I am really sorry to all my relatives who are reading this. I know they relate to a lot of the things I said so I am really sorry if I made you feel bad but I felt I had to let it out somewhere.

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May 21, 2008 at 9:07 am | In Family, Personal | 28 Comments

I am still in shock and denial

:( :( :(

My eyes are glued at the name in the newspaper.

Re-reading it over and over.

I don’t know why I went there, just to read her name.

Maybe to let it sink in.

But it doesn’t.

 

 

Good Morning Fellas!

May 16, 2008 at 10:18 am | In Health, Beauty & Fitness, Me Myself & I, My Kids, Personal | 3 Comments

For the past few days, I’ve been really tired, too much neck pain. I am still getting the physio for it. Sometimes it is better but sometimes not. Allah Kareem inshallah.

So what’s new? Nothing much really, the weather keeps changing its mind. Sometimes it’s like 28/30 but 2 days ago, it started to rain with a bit of a nice cool breeze. It’s nice but thing is, it makes you sick. My kids became sick like 5 times in 4 months it’s really tiring!

O bas mako shay.

Soooo Tired…

May 15, 2008 at 8:11 pm | In Me Myself & I, Personal, Thoughts | 10 Comments

I REALLy need to sleep.. I am really tired, so please do not wake me up before I come back and say so!

On Image & Fashion

May 12, 2008 at 11:36 am | In Fashion, Me Myself & I, Personal, Thoughts | 17 Comments

I was watching “The Devil Wears Prada” last week. It got me into thinking about image and fashion.

Is it really important how we dress? Does it affect your personality? Do you judge people by the way they look like?

I was always the type who didn’t care much about fashion. I never really cared about what I wear. I mean, it didn’t make any difference if I bought my clothes or mum did. Sometimes we used to go together and I would say I want this, she’s like yes or no and I wouldn’t really insist on anything. 

Then I got engaged and I still didn’t know how to dress! I didn’t know to use make-up, actually I never used it anyway. I must have been one of the very few in college who never wore it. I was always wondering how those girls had the time to apply all that and choose that bag and that shoe and do that hair! My hair was in ponytails all the time! I could barely open my eyes, let alone apply make-up lol! Now, I might use a bit of kohl and mascara but only very rarely. I feel it’s a big deal when I put it on, maybe because I am not used to it. Mind you I do like make-up but I don’t know how to apply it plus there’s no occasion. I wouldn’t apply make-up to go shopping for example lol! 

Anyways, I do get some designer bags/shoes and stuff but I don’t FEEL the thing some people feel about them. I would buy a bag because I like it, because it’s practical or for a certain purpose: cheap or expensive. I never had this feeling that I HAVE to have this bag or whatever. I just buy what I love.

Yeah I do like neat things (Who doesn’t?) but honestly, when I look at people, I don’t check out what they are wearing. Their jewels, shoes, bags, the lot. Sometimes people ask me if I went somewhere, like how was the party, the decoration or what the people were wearing and I am like “I don’t know I didn’t check”. They would give me that look “3ayyal shino sawwaytay?!!” and I am like “I don’t know I just ate and talked to people!” looool

I don’t like it when I am talking to people, they look at me from head to toe, if you what I mean. Checking out everything.. WHAT’s THAT ABOUT?!

Breakfast

May 10, 2008 at 1:18 pm | In Food & Cuisine, Me Myself & I, Personal | 24 Comments

Do you eat breakfast?

I hardly do. Even when I was at school, my brothers would be eating their breakfast at the table except for me. I don’t know why, but I’ve always found it hard to eat first thing in the morning. Although, I love everything served at breakfast time: Croissants, toasts, eggs, cornflakes.. the lot.

Mind you, when I am in a hotel, I do. 

 

Hijab Accidents

May 5, 2008 at 11:24 pm | In Me Myself & I, My Kids, Personal | 28 Comments

My question for el mo7ajjabat: Were you ever seen by accident without your Hijaab?

       ( Thanks Cat for the lovely drawing! )

LoL, I swear, I think I am the most one seen and honestly, is it because I don’t think or clumsy or what i am not sure.. but here are some incidents:

  • When I first wore it, I kept forgetting, and went out talking to the people who work in the house and wonder why they were looking at the floor and not at my face lol!
  • Once I was taken by an ambulance to the hospital here in Switzerland. It was when my little boy was about 10 months, and they didn’t allow me to put anything but what i already had on. Thank God I had Pjs on!
  • When I was at the hospital for my second boy, they told me the next day to get out of bed and bath my son. So, I went in that babies’ room (such a nice one BTW). So, since it was all nurses and mummies, I decided to take off my hijab as it’s not easy to bath the boy wearing it. So I did. and then a daddy came in with the mummy to bath his kid loooooooool! I couldn’t just drop my son in the water, so I just went on as if nothing had happened, finished, put on the hijab and went out!
  • Also at the hospital, my son’s pediatrician came. He knocked and came in. I wasn’t wearing it. He shook my hands and started talking. I felt, ‘What’s the point? looooooooool. I mean, I didn’t want to panic you know! It was the first time I met him, and he didn’t know I wear it but I think he was shocked when I visited him in his clinic later on.
  • Once, we called a satellite guy to come and fix the Tv. I don’t remember hearing the doorbell, I just saw a guy coming in, smiling “Bonjouuurrrrrr Madame” and I just froze then smiled back. I went inside very calmly, and put on my Hijab and sat back in the salon again!
  • I was in London once, in a salon and wanted to cut my hair. The girl told me she’d take me upstairs to cut my hair. So I went upstairs and sat on the chair . She started to cut my hair and suddenly a guy came, took something and went back down. I looked at her, about to say something but she just shrugged “never mind him, he’s gay!”
These sort of things happen a lot to me.  Do they happen to you or is it just me?

Things I want to do

April 28, 2008 at 7:35 pm | In Fun Stuff, Me Myself & I, Personal, Thoughts | 18 Comments

Things I always wanted to do but of course, impossible:

  • Sleeping on a cloud and jumping from a cloud to another.
  • Sit on a really high fountain lol!
  • Go in a cartoon and walk in the jungle (Winnie the Pooh) or go in the castle (Cindrella) or anything fun!
  • Fly!
  • Go in the magical world of Harry Potter.
Things I REALLY consider trying:
  • Go in a baloon or jump off the top of a mountain like  this.
  • Swimming in a waterfall (just need to find a deserted one lol)
  • Learn to swim first.
  • Go rafting like this.
What about you? 

 

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