Happy Eid

I hope you all have a great Eid.. tomorrow we are having our traditional Eid lunch in a non traditional setting since we are all away from home this Eid. We are going to have lunch at a nice garden restaurant here in London. My little nephew has decided he wants to wear a thobe for the occasion. And he asked his mum, aunts and grandmother all to wear hats (i'm not sure why) but i'm a big fan of hats so it'll be fun :)

What are your plans for Eid?!

what's in a photo

It was a photo I saw at a friends house AGES ago.. it was black and white and simply beautiful.. I could look at it for hours and it just made me happy..

The two faces in the photo were hidden, it seemed to me like they were laughing so hard that they hid their faces unintentionally as the camera snapped that gorgeous moment! I loved it...

I had so many questions about the two in the photo which my friend simply answered with a smile.. I didn't pay much attention I was too involved in the moment..

6 months later.. I get a package.. there was a note on the top saying:
'I remember how it made you smile, I want you to have it'

I was so happy that she gave it to me.. I found the perfect place to put it up in my room.. a hidden spot just like the faces in the photo..

something was off.. I changed the position more than once.. But there was something different about it when I looked at it this time..

Day by day, the hidden faces just kept bothering me more and more.. I could almost see the tears on them rather than the laughs I thought I saw..

Today, I took it down.. It's just too sad for me to look at! I couldn't bare it anymore..

When you be One Hundred...

This was a conversation between my 5 and a half year old nephew and his Mum

Child: Mummy, when you be one hundred will you still have your telephone with you?

Mum: ummmm, yes, I'm sure I will

Child: will Baba have his phone with him?!

Mum: yes yes, I'm sure he will, why do you ask?

Child: because I want you to ask God if you can call me when your in heaven


Children say the strangest things...

i vote for ANARCHY!!

I am not for your revolution
nor can I stand aside
and let the world pass me by
and watch it from behind

I am not for your NOISE pollution
your murmurs and your cries
you speak of vice and fraud as well
and many many lies

I CANnot throw it all away
I cannot let it be
nor do I want to follow you
I want to follow ME

You speak of change no you DEMAND
yet all you do is talk
who is it then that you believe
will have to walk the walk?!

I am not FOR your revolution
I cannot STAND your noise pollution
the change that you demand

Wake up my friends and face the world
just do it hand in hand

Or better yet go back to BED
and dream of better days
change may come, one day, that is
long after you've been dead



*someone is in a good mood today.....

Happy Ramadan

Hope you all have a great Ramadan wa kol 3aam wa antom b5air :)