Today at the office we were told to make sure that our PC's were off once we leave the office, and not to switch them on tomorrow until the IT guy tries to access our company's server on a separate laptop, and all this because of the threat of the new virus, and this made me remember when the Computer world lost it on the eve of the year 2000. Back then nothing happened, so lets hope that this is another hoax.
I have a great interest in food, and I appreciate it, but unfortunately it seems that everytime I like a place the first time, my second experience is never quite as pleasant as the first, I don't know if it means that I should diversify and not go to the same place more than once, but that will cut my choices and narrow down my options, or whether it is because I am a perfectionist and when I go out to eat I want it to be really exceptional, of course I am not talking about the regular Pizza, sandwich or burger, but rather the sit down restaurants where the meal is enjoyed over a couple of hours, with adults for company and a varied discussion but the other thing is that people in my age group have young children which need supervision so they can't actually go out in the evening unless they get a babysitter and then every half hour or so they have to call to check on the kids, so in the end I think why bother and just go with my husband and enjoy each other's company.
The good thing about being away from your home country is that you get to spend so much quality time with your spouse and children, and you focus on them only and your spare time is for them only. I think for a family to bond they should have this sort of sabbatical from our regular social hectic life. This does not mean that I don't miss it, but I am grateful as well for this chance to be really close to my kids who are young adults Mashallah !
I really liked one comment made by a blogger some time back where he said that he thinks that blogging has become female rantings ! This comment is really brilliant and I congratulate whoever is behind it ! I think it truly describes blogging and why not !
I personally don't like to go into politics, or news so maybe the female rantings is the thing, I dont know, let's just wait and see....
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Thursday, March 26, 2009
HUNGRY
Saha, Shahrazad ! Your babkbuki really made me hungry. By the way I tried to write you a comment and after writing it wouldn't publish so I dont know why, something might stopping the publishing on your blog. I will keep my comment short except to say that my coworkers were drooling over the bakbuki, and they are all waiting for me to do something about it! Hmm, maybe I will have to ask them over, or bring it into the office, we will see.
To be told that I am suffering from depression just because I dont understand it when someone doesn't like to mix with people, well ......
I rest my case.
To be told that I am suffering from depression just because I dont understand it when someone doesn't like to mix with people, well ......
I rest my case.
Friday, March 20, 2009
Prayer
Today, while sitting at my desk working and listening to the Egyptian Radio live broadcast, the Maghreb Adhan came on and I found myself listening with tears in my eyes. I never realised how much I missed actually hearing the Adhan at each prayer, and the Friday Khutba. When in Tripoli I lived near a Mosque, and listening to the Adhan was really beautiful, I remember on Friday specially when all the neighbours men would walk down the road with their white robes and the children following and playing along the way, the women waving at each other from the doorways and then making the family meal which will traditionally be Couscous. So you can imagine how hard it is when because of the cold you rush from one place to the other and don't even have time to stand and say hello, or enjoy the scenery which is quite breathtaking. The views are remarkable, the sunlight is dazzling, everything is nice but the most important thing missing is the human touch. Which is something I was discussing with a friend who used to be in Libya with her family, she made her husband give up a good position with great expat benefits just because there werent enough places to go to for eating , and she didn't like that people were trying to be friendly and always inviting them over etc... so I told her that I hate where I am at the moment because of exactly the lack of what she had plenty of ! She said she preferred to be left alone, and only go where she wants. I told her that this was the way that people show you how much they care and they thought they were being friendly and they didn't want her to be lonely or to be homesick, but our discussion was just a waste of time because she really did not understand it ! This makes me wonder why ? Why is it so strange that people actually want to make you feel welcome ? why is it considered that it is an imposition ? why is it uncomfortable to some when the whole purpose is thought to be good ? I am baffled ! I do understand that a person isn't always feeling social, but not always , and being in a strange environment would actually make you want some type of human contact, other than your immediate family, but like I always say it takes all kinds to make this world .
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Thanks everybody
I would like to thank everyone who has posted a comment and assure you as well that I am not angry or anything like that, it is just that life is unfair . ...
We don't always get what we want, I remember the first time I had a fight with my husband and packed up my bags and gone to my parents, my father gave me till 6 p.m and then called me into the sitting room to be on our own, and said to me : I only have one question for you, so I said ok dad go ahead I am listening. His question was : The man you married, who's choice was it ? Of course I replied that it was my choice, so he said : I have nothing more to add, except to tell you that you just have to take your bags and go back to your house and sort it out there.
I sat there with my mouth hanging open , and my dad just opened the door to the sitting room and went out, I of course went straight to my mother in the kitchen and started crying that parents are supposed to stand by their daughter, and that my husband will never respect me because my parents did not give him hell, blah blah on and on until I finally understood that I am better off by going back to my house and ranting at my husband and not speak to him for about 2 weeks and then life just went back to normal. Since then I learned to never complain to my parents because they just weren't going to be involved. Now many years and 2 children later and being away from my country and parents, I am thinking that my dad is actually the greatest and my mother too of course, for not actually getting involved and letting us sort it out.
Amazingly enough my husband thinks that my parents are the greatest because they never got involved in our squirmishes, like so many of his friends who have to deal with the wife and her parents too, anyway to cut a story short, we all make choices and no matter how bad sometimes things are , I personally would never think of exchanging my life with someone else, I am just happy that I am alive and well and that things do happen and we can't always understand nor expect everybody else to understand, so if I was a bit on the flip side , please forgive me and I do apologise.
Now, I would love to post some photos, we have beautiful scenery here, but I have come to realise like my singing that I wasn't the best at photo taking which actually makes me want to take some classes ( whenever I have the time ) , In this life you are either artistic or not, so obviously I am not . I can describe what I see from my office window or the view from our appartment building, but of course it is not the same, all I can say is that everywhere you look the blinding glare of the sun on the white snow is unbelievable, the cold is cold, the air has a knife-like feel to it, the crunch sound under the tires or your shoes is just like crunch !
I am very excited about Shahrazad's cooking blog, I personally am a very good cook but I always like to learn new stuff, I would like Shahrazad to post a recipe for Fasouliah (Beans) the Libyan way, Macaroona Mbakbaka, Chicken Tajine with vegetables and Reshta.
I do miss Libya, the sounds and smells of the Souk Al Turk, all the weddings, baby sboua's, the Lama for no reason, the Eid get together, the Friday Zarda everything except my mother in law and her daughters, there I said it .. It is really amazing how much I abhore them , and if I start ranting about them it is a never ending story so I better not, just mentioning them started my blood boiling and like Music Lover said it is not worth getting all worked up and ending with an ulcer when the world is actually going on with or without me.
Life isn't always as we want it , but we should make the best of what we have.
We don't always get what we want, I remember the first time I had a fight with my husband and packed up my bags and gone to my parents, my father gave me till 6 p.m and then called me into the sitting room to be on our own, and said to me : I only have one question for you, so I said ok dad go ahead I am listening. His question was : The man you married, who's choice was it ? Of course I replied that it was my choice, so he said : I have nothing more to add, except to tell you that you just have to take your bags and go back to your house and sort it out there.
I sat there with my mouth hanging open , and my dad just opened the door to the sitting room and went out, I of course went straight to my mother in the kitchen and started crying that parents are supposed to stand by their daughter, and that my husband will never respect me because my parents did not give him hell, blah blah on and on until I finally understood that I am better off by going back to my house and ranting at my husband and not speak to him for about 2 weeks and then life just went back to normal. Since then I learned to never complain to my parents because they just weren't going to be involved. Now many years and 2 children later and being away from my country and parents, I am thinking that my dad is actually the greatest and my mother too of course, for not actually getting involved and letting us sort it out.
Amazingly enough my husband thinks that my parents are the greatest because they never got involved in our squirmishes, like so many of his friends who have to deal with the wife and her parents too, anyway to cut a story short, we all make choices and no matter how bad sometimes things are , I personally would never think of exchanging my life with someone else, I am just happy that I am alive and well and that things do happen and we can't always understand nor expect everybody else to understand, so if I was a bit on the flip side , please forgive me and I do apologise.
Now, I would love to post some photos, we have beautiful scenery here, but I have come to realise like my singing that I wasn't the best at photo taking which actually makes me want to take some classes ( whenever I have the time ) , In this life you are either artistic or not, so obviously I am not . I can describe what I see from my office window or the view from our appartment building, but of course it is not the same, all I can say is that everywhere you look the blinding glare of the sun on the white snow is unbelievable, the cold is cold, the air has a knife-like feel to it, the crunch sound under the tires or your shoes is just like crunch !
I am very excited about Shahrazad's cooking blog, I personally am a very good cook but I always like to learn new stuff, I would like Shahrazad to post a recipe for Fasouliah (Beans) the Libyan way, Macaroona Mbakbaka, Chicken Tajine with vegetables and Reshta.
I do miss Libya, the sounds and smells of the Souk Al Turk, all the weddings, baby sboua's, the Lama for no reason, the Eid get together, the Friday Zarda everything except my mother in law and her daughters, there I said it .. It is really amazing how much I abhore them , and if I start ranting about them it is a never ending story so I better not, just mentioning them started my blood boiling and like Music Lover said it is not worth getting all worked up and ending with an ulcer when the world is actually going on with or without me.
Life isn't always as we want it , but we should make the best of what we have.
Monday, March 16, 2009
LIBYAN THIS, LIBYAN THAT ......
I have been trying to decide if I should continue this blogging thing or if I should just forget about it and do something else worthwhile, but it still did not stop me from thinking why do we have to be judgemental...
Libyans are
and 
and 
and 
and 
I think I have demonstrated how the Ajnabia thinks of her hubby ! ( I am surprised why they still stick around )
I personally said that in general the foreign women (irrespective of nationality - just the non libyan ) are well respected within the society, nothing was said about sadist, rapist, abductor, torturor etc.. we all know that it takes all kinds of people to make this world, but we are supposed to be talking our modern everyday social life and not what goes on behind closed doors or weird conditions.
Anyway, each one of use has the right to her opinion.
As for saws hanging over a doorway and being there for ever just goes to show that nothing catastrophic must have happened or else they would have been moved, ( you could have just mentioned it to the storekeeper and told him in a joking fashion that it was a weird place to showcase dangerous equipment, and left it at that - he could have taken the hint and changed its place or maybe not, it is up to him ),
Not carrying coins around, people would if they had coins to carry, before the European Union no one would tip in coins but now they do because the coin has a value and it is in circulation, as for kidnapping and and ... anyway the list is just too long.
I think we need more positive thinking in our lives, and please don't start again about Libyan this , Libyan that.
Libyans are
and and and and I think I have demonstrated how the Ajnabia thinks of her hubby ! ( I am surprised why they still stick around )
I personally said that in general the foreign women (irrespective of nationality - just the non libyan ) are well respected within the society, nothing was said about sadist, rapist, abductor, torturor etc.. we all know that it takes all kinds of people to make this world, but we are supposed to be talking our modern everyday social life and not what goes on behind closed doors or weird conditions.
Anyway, each one of use has the right to her opinion.
As for saws hanging over a doorway and being there for ever just goes to show that nothing catastrophic must have happened or else they would have been moved, ( you could have just mentioned it to the storekeeper and told him in a joking fashion that it was a weird place to showcase dangerous equipment, and left it at that - he could have taken the hint and changed its place or maybe not, it is up to him ),
Not carrying coins around, people would if they had coins to carry, before the European Union no one would tip in coins but now they do because the coin has a value and it is in circulation, as for kidnapping and and ... anyway the list is just too long.
I think we need more positive thinking in our lives, and please don't start again about Libyan this , Libyan that.
Monday, March 2, 2009
What Exactly Happened
Can someone tell me exactly what happened. I was surfing the web pages for some features, so I started goofing around to find what I want to post and what may be suitable and
imagine my surprise when I found that they have actually been posted. Thanks god not everything did get posted, I was logging into some stuff to see details and how it would look, but I am sure having on my page would have been quite shocking, ugh. That should actually teach me not to have my account open while trying out things ! I am lucky it was only my packed suitcase which I have open and ready for my travel in JULY, and the one in the boat is how it feels being stuck at WORK. I come in the morning dazed and sleepy, after my first dose of cafeine, I sort of wake up, and start doing some work, then lunch time comes and I have my lunch which makes me go back to step 1 where I have to resort to the cafeine again, and the good thing is that by 5p.m I am wide awake but dead tired, so really I think I am due for a break before I break. So anyway my advice to anybody who is interested don't surf the web while you have your page account open.
imagine my surprise when I found that they have actually been posted. Thanks god not everything did get posted, I was logging into some stuff to see details and how it would look, but I am sure having on my page would have been quite shocking, ugh. That should actually teach me not to have my account open while trying out things ! I am lucky it was only my packed suitcase which I have open and ready for my travel in JULY, and the one in the boat is how it feels being stuck at WORK. I come in the morning dazed and sleepy, after my first dose of cafeine, I sort of wake up, and start doing some work, then lunch time comes and I have my lunch which makes me go back to step 1 where I have to resort to the cafeine again, and the good thing is that by 5p.m I am wide awake but dead tired, so really I think I am due for a break before I break. So anyway my advice to anybody who is interested don't surf the web while you have your page account open.
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