I cannot even attempt to imagine how his poor parents are coping with dilemma, allah ye9abberhom o yeshfee Fahad enshallah  and that would be through help we could all assist in bringing together for the sake of this child and the over priced transplant he urgently requires. God, money IS such an issue ha?!la 7awla wala qowwata ella bellah

[ Danderma ] emailed us for this and attached Fahad’s photo as we as a copy of his medical reports. You know how influential you guys can be by just spreading the word on his case here – elsewhere hoping for a miracle to happen…

Danderma’s email:

Remember last time when we tried to help the cancer patient Abdul Kareem and we made quite a buzz he actually got several sponsors. Having a sponsor is their last hope, check out this adorable little baby esh7elwah o his chin killa sa3abeel. His mother is a Kuwaiti and his father is a Syrian. He has lukemia,and needs bone marrow transplant to live but non of his family members are matches to donate to him so they found him a donor in India but they need a sponsor to donate 37 thousand KDs so he can have it.

تذكرون حالة عبد الكريم؟ من خلال نداء اطلقناه من مدوناتنا قدرنا نوصل حالة عبد الكريم للأيدي الكريمة اللي ما قصرت و تكفلت بالمبلغ اللازم لعلاجه. التفاعل مع حالة عبد الكريم كان كبير جدا و عدد كبير من الناس عرضوا يتكفلون بعلاجه عشان ينقذونه.

لكن للأسف مرض السرطان مرض قاس و ما يحرم و لا يوقف. في كل يوم حالات أصابات جديدة لكن مو في كل يوم المريض يقدر يوفر العلاج. حالة من هذه الحالات إهي حالة الرضيع فهد المولود لأم كويتية و أب سوري الجنسية. فهد مصاب بسرطان الدم (اللوكيميا) و يحتاج لعملية زرع نخاع عظم لكن للأسف لم بجدوا أي نخاع عظم مطابق من أفراد عائلته فبالتالي يحتاج إلى متبرع بالإضافة إلى عملية زراعة نخاع.

المتبرع و العملية متوافران في الهند. و لكن المبلغ غير متوفر و هو ما يقارب ال 37  ألف دينار كويتي.

في حالة عبد الكريم كان الرجاء هو منحه الأمل بإنقاذ حياته و ساقه. أما في حالة الرضيع فهد فالرجاء في منحه الفرصة ليعيش الحياة! ليكبر و يدخل المدرسة و يلعب و يفرح و يعمل و يتزوج و يموت رجلا كهلا محاطا بأبنائه و أحفاده.

For more information, contact me for the medical report – Danderma through her blog or  Q8Rain@gmail.com – Twitter: @Q8Rain

I’ve been at Zajil Telecom since 2002, had my ups and lots of downs and regardless to how I honestly feel about the place and some of those who work here; I managed to create my own connections with decent human beings. Now we all argue every now and then – It’s human nature not to agree but  respect remains so when I heard of the news on Saturday I prayed for the man and no body knows this till now – I dreamt of him dead! I mean he’s old (60+) and he used to work his ass off for the company (Or that’s what I witnessed at least) so no one had high hopes on his survival after that stroke he had during the weekend and although we should have faith in Allah for he mapped our lives ahead but subhan Allah, it was time for Abu Juma’a to finally rest in peace..

Abu Juma3a – Hajji, used to drive me insane asking for gift items and during events for more coupons or giveaway and I used to always contain myself responding to him because he was an elderly but last Thursday we exchanged “HIs” and he asked about my daughter so when I came to know of his death over dinner, I got too emotional… The idea of losing a person is a blink of an eye scares me to hell! I never openly discussed this with anyone but I sometimes can’t sleep at night praying for Allah to extend the lives of my loved ones and protect them from harm.. I start thinking of different scenarios of what will happen if I lose x or y and I almost end up with one scene: Me dying from a heart attack caused by grief over that person… Ok, this is too depressing from early morning.

“يا أيتها النفس المطمئنة ارجعي إلى ربك راضية مرضية فادخلي في عبادي وادخلي جنتي”

Allah yer7amak bas he used to wear that White dishdasha Winter – Summer! <– Me trying to make this easy :/

of course I think the people who work with him – his department would be devastated and I don’t want to even go there today but his Manager emailed us the following:

(Born – 1945  Died 30^th January 2012)

Please accept our sincere condolences for the sudden loss of our dear colleague Mr. Mohammed Juma Hareeb Yesterday  30^th January 2012.  We can only imagine what a shock it must be to his Zajil extended family. Indeed, it was only Last Thursday that Abu Juma and our colleague shared a humorous time prayed Asar Prayer with him.

Abu Juma  Joined Zajil family on 27-Nov-1991 and I go back more than 20 years as very dedicated and hardworking colleague.  Not only was he a great person,  he was also an excellent co-worker with whom I spent many memorable days at Zajil over the years. He had an amazing sense of humor and was a gifted True & honest Muslim. In business dealings Abu Juma was always straight forward and honest. In short, Our brother Abu Juma was an exceptional friend and colleague who will be deeply missed by all who knew him.

We collectively mourn our Be-loved Marhoom Mohammed Jumma Harib’s loss

You see, he’s not the first at this place to suffer from medical issues and as much as I would like to elaborate, I shall keep quiet out of respect to good individuals working there and in the end I say: I have much more to do in life than lose my mind or sacrifice my health for lame pathetic reasons.  (PERIOD)

May you rest in peace Abo Jum3a..

I celebrated my birthday on January – Friday 13th! and although the majority tend to be superstitious about that freaky date, mine was relaxing, full of love and wonderful! Clueless as I was to the surprise in the making, I helped my family a lot by providing them time for the cake to arrive as well as dinner so I went home to check if Dear Nanny had things done then left to my parents house… What no one knows except Julie ;p - LOL – is that playing on Instagram at my place, I managed to take a shot of this bug on our window

After that I was checking the Feed and spotted my name on a cake !

HAHAHAHAHA- Sorry Julz but that was sincerely funny!

So I kept quiet, played dumb and watched them buzz around the house trying to keep things ready and my husband was asking: “what do you wanna do tomorrow on your b-day?” or “I’ve got the feeling that I’m gonna mess my diet tonight” LOL !

I excused myself to go pray – more time for them to set the cake down and gather waiting for me ;p and it happened! All the clapping and singing! God, I am anti birthday celebrations :/ I’d consider every day my birthday if I’d receive gifts! >:)but what was really cool is having my Birthday cake done by Julie of [ A Little Sugar ] ! I’ve always wondered what they’d create – design for me and it came out beautiful as all her work.

A cute fully decorated cupcake on top of a Pink cake! So I’m full of sugar it seems ;)

Another view of “Me”

I love the details – which are all edible btw – on the cake!

That’s the top of the cupcake lady on top of the cake base – how cute! All is fondant covered and everything again I say is edible!

The saddest part was having to cut through the cake so we removed Mrs. Cupcake and dug in the cake base

Dear lord, if i hadn’t enough self control that things would have been eaten up by me! I took a thin slice of this chocolaty, yummy YUMMY goodness! OMG! The thing about Julie is she understands what her clients want and my husband told me he didn’t request a specific flavor but she know what I like :) chocolataaaaa <3

And because we got too curious on what was filled in cupcake lady, we cut through it to find a White cake with cream and cherries I assume! Equally delicious and fattening!

I was so happy to see the family gathered around the table, specially with Alma clapping (she does :) ) and smiling, my first birthday with her and enshallah many more to come. I was so happy that Mrs Julie managed to squeeze my cake on her already fully booked schedule because she’s always booked in advance mashallah!

I am happy that i got gifts: a Michael Kors watch, a Green ensemble which makes me look like a tree and I tweeted it and got hugged for it ;p

and my husband got me an Aigner watch! <3 My family knows – can understand my obsession to that brand! I have several watches of different colors to match any color I wear and the latest is a Black – Silver one with Pearl dial off the latest collection At Geneve Novelties..

The full “A” – Love the color BTW! Need Red ;p E7emmm

Thanks to those who made this memorable, thanks to Julie for the cake, thanks to those who sent in their b-day greetings and thanks Man for the gift and Alma :*

Previous posts on A Little Sugar read [ HERE ], [HERE ] & [ HERE ] or you could follow her on Twitter @A_LittleSugar & her FB group link’s mentioned in the beginning of this post.

Kan youm aswad o man7oos, the day we decided to “go on a date” as Dear Nanny called it – thinking of it now I think she might have been the one to jinx the whole setting!

You see, Since Pregnancy and needless to say akeed, every since delivery I have not been to the movie theater because of my sacrifice (LOL) and having no time for me and honestly speaking, we didn’t like what was showing so we opted to wait for [ Sherlock Holmes ] specially after the 1st part and I still remember how excited we were even after leaving the cinema. Since CinescapeQ8 have a Twitter account [ HERE ], I though I would ask because I was confused about the booking date. We wanted to go on a Friday and our booking was after 12 Am. They didn’t reply…

I dress up, take kid over to grandparents and ensure all house chores are done. At 11 PM, man & I head to the Avenue – I originally wanted to go to 360 but I swear to God I stayed on their stupid iPhone application more than 2 hours trying to book and it kept giving me an error message and I am stupid I didn’t snap that to keep as evidence! Even booking online was equally disgusting! 1. Couldn’t access my account!!! 2. Didn’t show vacant seats! So we ended up going to Mohallab to use the kiosk machine – ALSO SPENT LIKE 15 MINUTES because it just kept logging off! Let me stay on track here:

Again, 11 PM we head to the Avenue in spite the fact that we were an hour early but we wanted to avoid traffic, lines at their snacks bar  and most importantly be there first to watch the ads. After we bought everything I wanted to use the toilet before entering the movie and that security guy (Who happens to be Egyptian) advised us to wait… OK I WILL HOLD IT! After like half an hour I tell da man I need to go! I head towards the same guy and I go like: “3am, I really need to use the bathroom!” <– He looks at me, lets me in! ALTHOUGGGGGH we are god damn entitled to stay in the lobby – area if he takes the tickets! WTH! We pay so much for a censored movie and over priced snacks and we don’t get to use the lu! El mohem, I returned to the man and we saw the que forming to enter the movie so we stood. We are now like 5 seconds away for being allowed to go in the area in front of the movie hall and the man (The Egyptian dude) looks at the ticket and goes like: “El film etlaga” <– movie was canceled!! 55555 freaking minutes before it starts! So I looked at him and went like: “You knew it was canceled, why didn’t you inform us!” because it doesn’t make since that he was just informed, we didn’t see anyone coming out of the hall and the whole thing was full of contradictions! Man got pissed off and they were gonna fist fight :/ but people managed to pull them off. As advised by one of their security I dunno dudes in dishdasha, we head to client service guys and people were enraged! Everybody wanted to exchange or redeem money as the guy told us but since we don’t get to go out alone that much we decided to watch anything… Adam Sandler’s movie Jack & Jill: a complete waste of time, money and mental stability! yukh!

2 guys were covering the angry crowd and they had such an attitude man, only thing left for them to do is start swearing at people or beat them up! They were very rude especially the dark one! la2222 not that only! He shouted at a customer in front of us and as I asked him if he needed money from us he misheard me and told the other guy: “Ge6lehom flooshom” ! <– Throw their money at’em ! MF ! …… 3aleik bas it is our fault that we are decent with you! #Etfouh !

1. We came to know movie was canceled 15 minutes earlier and we were not informed.

2. Dishdasha guy said that KNCC sent emails apologizing for the inconvenience and informing people about the cancellation which never happened.

3. Dishdasha dude said if you don’t use the tickets today, you can some other time as other theaters were informed and I think that’s one big fat lie since no one notified us online

4. Again I asked the Twitter person and there was NOTHING, NO REPLY and after some time they decided to tweet on what happened! maskhara! That person even is not into what’s happening. Only thing that person does is Retweet and announce movies release!

Toz! I am not going to go to watch a movie there again (and that’s for now who knows what will they be showing in the future) ! but what reallllllly pisses me off is their tweep – the dude handling their account either has ordered not to reply to inquiries which is stupid because you’re misusing your social media medium or doesn’t understand English… some have suggested that it’s a Robot! lol sending automated tweets but no, they retweet good feedback and neglect – block – delete the actual ones which could help them fix their services – shame, you cant take criticism!

On a more desperate and very angry note, I decided to call & file a complaint against that person’s neglect to tweets and the reply – attitude I got was really bad, as if they don’t give a shit about what people have to say.

As Kuwaiti’s say: “Elsharha mo 3aleikom” – “Shame on us – it’s our fault” for wasting money on your tickets, crappy smelly halls and overly priced popcorn which got me poisoned the next day making spend new year’s eve at Dar El Shifa hooked to an IV drip!

I’ve always wanted to do ONE thing for a long time and while we were at the Avenues, I dropped by [ Build-A-Bear ] (Phase 2 upper floor) & gladly fulfilled my fantasy:

ONE

Head towards the hair accessories stand and picked up a suitable wig for the kid, in this case the Light Brown was fine  – she’s too young to go Madonna on us!

TWO

Miraculously placed wig on kid’s head and snapped as much photos as we can before she pulled it away and into her mouth! Ha Ha! Mashallah it suits her well ;)

P.S: That shop is way too cute! Y’all, specially with kids gotta try it out soon… Oh! Make sure you have enough money cuz your avarage teddy + accessories would not be less than KD 20!

YES I resumed duty! After ONE YEAR, FIVE MONTHS of maternity leave, I chose to resume work with the beginning of  the new year. I’ve been up since 5:30 AM- I made sure baby had enough of me and I left crying because I will be away from her from 8 to 4:30 5 days a week! *CRY* I wish times were much more simple and life wasn’t as expensive so women would stay home and take care of the kids and yes I would totally encourage any mom to stay home (Based on my personal experience and at least for the first 2 years)… I am aware that I will be missing some important milestones but there’s nothing we can do about it unless I win the God damn Jawhara account prize!!! YA RAB !

So many changes which I need to keep track of, too many people left, many yet to leave and I was surprised with a “kind of “ career change in spite of being under the same domain as well as a new location / office but this time there’s a window!! YES some ventilation hallelujah. I am kinda pissed cuz I am away from those that I know but change is good no?!

I am so happy that there are windows <3 !! It’s refreshing and the view’s a killer! I never knew that garden was THAT big! 7amdellah ! As for the office space itself, it’s just great! I am gonna have my own mini fridge – microwave – Nespresso machine! You name it! and am filling it with my baby’s photos <3 so I see her all around me! *enshallah*

Oh, and the Man decided to treat me to a Diet Center subscription, Let’s see how that’d work with 1050 calories per day!!

I just miss one person in this world more than anyone or anything else … :(

All I remember was picking her off the floor, running around the house like a mad woman not knowing what to do, who to call, how to react! It was a disaster and what made it worse was deciding whom to contact first! All I knew is that they were all going to go angry at me so I started to calm the baby down trying to see if she’s drowsy or if she’s throwing up since it’s one of the signs of having a brain concussion which means it’s an emergency – god forbid this happens again but I was so stupid not to have read about such incidents knowing that children are prone to falling injuries mostly when they start to move around. We monitored her for the next couple of days at my parents house and thank God she was ok – we tried to check all her senses mostly eye movement, hearing as well as her body for bruises just because we were all sick worried. You never know HOW precious your child is till something malicious – evil – disgusting occurs. I later remembered to search Baby Center for more information on head injuries and this link was useful to me and I hope it will be for another new mom out there [ LINK ]

I am currently now planning to childproof my house and NO it is not early because my young one is hyper active and there are many things which need to be off the ground – stored in boxes – given away :/ just to make the house safe and ready for her to discover the place.. Any ideas – tips – advice you mamas out there could share with me?

Even though I’m a superstitious person, I’ve never had to let the baby wear a special evil eye amulet – hmm, only once maybe because it’s better if I just recite some Quran verses in my heart or say Masha2 allah loud when someone makes a comment about her just to ward off any bad eye.

And because I strongly believe in Allah’s protective eyes over my daughter; I decided to post her photo here because I want her to be the biggest part of this blog

*TIFF TIFF TIFF* <– Evil eye spit ! Masha2 allah too! Alma’s 6 months going on 7 God willing

Question: When will my daughter have a full set of hair!? lol ! It’s growing but she totally looks like a “Hammoudi” without a band or beanie ! :/ which reminds me, some stupid people still ask “HOW OLD IS YOUR BOYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!” OMG – SHE HAS EARRINGS ONNNNN for crying out loud!

It’s been like 2 weeks already since Nanny dearest arrived to our household, I’ve got mixed feelings about welcoming a stranger into our small family and what makes it harder is the amount of horrific news we read in newspapers on “domestic assistants” going insane with all the crimes they perform on sometimes innocent people. You see, it truly comes down to the simple basic word of “RESPECT”! Treat them how you like to be treated of course with certain imitations i.e not have her lie down on the couch while you are around .. E7m ! I am not going to further discuss this issue because some get touchy & start placing unnecessary accusations and we all know what some of these maids go through – doesn’t give them the right to murder, torture, run away, steal.. etc but I feel they do this out of their despair and YES I think they need to have some psychological / behavior assessment prior to bringing them over.

“LOL” was the SMS I got from the man when her went to pick her up, I called back frantically feeling that something went wrong. When he didn’t pick up I replied back saying: “If she’s not the same person as on her application DO NOT BOTHER bringing her home” ! Assuring that she’s the same person, I waited for them to ring the doorbell and I held Alma excited yet very anxious I opened the door and I laughed! Dude, I am 158 cm and they call me short huh! SHE IS SHORTER than me @@ I handed Alma who’s almost half her body height lol ! let’s see how she’d carry her as she grows taller!

I am not going to sugar coat what happened through those last few days especially with the man who calls her “you durra” – second wife – I tried in my own way to explain as show in practice how things are done around the house, how baby is cleaned, fed, put to bed and they all told me to be patient since she’s getting familiar with my style of running the house but how many times do you show one how to do something specific!? and to be completely fair I am satisfied with her today for the first time since she came!!!! She took the baby to let me “work” as she thinks :p and I can hear them playing outside and that was done by telling Alma “Yalla, let’s let mama work!” Cool!! Besides the fact that the house is spotless clean, laundry is done, dishes are washed and everything’s tidy in its right place (I much obsess on that) and she knows that by now. I have not seen major signs of her being a bad nanny and we much debated on having some type of surveillance equipment in the house but we agreed on observing how the baby reacts to her. Baby sometimes is agitated by her but we know that Alma is hyper and is too attached to me so I was instructed to butt off and let her deal with the child to further learn about her personality yet one cannot confirm if this is (having a nanny) is a good or bad decision unless at least after a couple of months and I sure do hope she gives back (taking care of the baby) like we’ve given her so far and I’m going to keep my mouth sealed since I was instructed not to blog about the nanny but I feel I need some feedback or some of your personal experience with your baby caregivers i.e do you let them go out on a day off? Does your nanny have a mobile?! How do you point out / emphasize on something wrong that she’s done?

Tidbits of the day:

1. Sleeping till 12 PM !

2. Nanny had everything done around the house which includes changing Alma when she woke up early in the morning + preparing her bottle

3. Nanny keeping baby away for me to “work” lol

4. Having some “me time” during morning because I’ve recently turned nocturnal!

5. Did lunch within 30 minutes

How do YOU feel about having a nanny in your house?

Over at my parents place and to be more specific, my sister’s room when my eyes came across this mini brochure with the Black lady (I have no other description for it and sorry if you find it offensive, I am not trying to be mean nor make fun) and I was curious more than ever to know why they had the Red big sign on that figure so I read the thing which was ok till I got to the back side of it…

I will translate the above and let you know why I was upset from this:

28- (Literal translation) Watching poisonous Satellite channels and pornographic sites:

OK, I get that porn is a haram and no no but can’t a Muslim after fulfilling his Godly duty pass some time watching a documentary? A movie? Some TV show he-she likes? are all channels bad?! I know that some of’em’s level have stooped down tremendously and just to be honest is garbage but we have brains and we can flip if we don’t want to watch just don’t generalize!

29- (Literal translation) Fall into traps of lies, slander and backstabbing:

Fair enough and true! I mean we were warned in the Quran about it however, it is difficult nowadays to keep our mouths shut and this applies on both genders not women alone! and I won’t go over verses here or quotes because we all know them quite well.

30- (Literal translation) Shaking hands with foreign men = strangers:

Besides the hygienic side to it, it’s all about modest, shyness and self respect and I personally find it hard embarrassing some men who extend their hands for a shake however, I never thought a man rude if he turns me down, you know we just do these things unconsciously..

31- (Literal translation) Not abiding to Sunnah when it comes to beauty and fashion:

Eyebrow plucking [ Al Nams ] is haram but how on Earth am I supposed to go around with nasty eyebrows and facial hair (although I seriously don’t need to do that) but still, being “clean” for your husband and for yourself is something good.. I know it’s haram :/

32- (Literal translation) Being fashionable in an Against Islam manner:

I remember when I put the hejab on, I was strict and very uptight about it till my father told me to go slowly and get used to it and not to wear Abaya or Black / dark head carves and praised me for the move instead of coming down harsh on me like some sheikhs do which honestly drive ladies away from doing that . I know that my attire sometimes is not “Islam appropriate” but does Islam accept Niqabi ladies to ditch their niqab at any possible chance? or have a 5 years old kid wearing an abaya!? Does that plant modesty in them from childhood, is that the purpose? In this era – time, I feel this pushes them to go do the opposite! Also, is it haram if a hejabi lady looks nice in colors and prints AND manage to be covered and decent? or does that make her a sinner?

33- (literal translation) STARING – not looking away:

Hmm… In nature we women are supposed to be shy – decent but some ladies sure as hell master the art of scanning men like a predator mannn they are nasty I assure you and they do more than that when they give guys their numbers or the stupid eye contacts with the BBMs and shit, so I guess BBM – Twitter – FB – internet, alllllllll is haram but we use them and again this is up to the person himself so why specify it in the brochure to women?!

34- (literal translation) Correspond to foreign men / comply to their saying:

I am not sure if I got this one right but if my boss who’s a male asks me for something should I refuse? Because I don’t think a sane woman would take off her panty of a stranger asked her to!

35- (literal translation) Ditching modesty / shyness:

Sometimes ya akhy one goes crazy – upset and voice tone goes a bit, certainly not a nice scene and yes women have to be much subtle and “soft” yet that doesn’t mean that we go into a cocoon and be antisocial

36- (literal translation) Taking pride in your family – ancestry:

Well, to a reasonable extent we all do just don’t go bashing people with you family name … …….

37- (literal translation) Working in a mixed gender workplace:

This point is what ticked me off into writing this post because we are not be zaman el jaheleya! Looooooooooooooooooooooooong time ago things were much different, women were staying home to watch after the family and in Quran we females are the weaker gender and it’s a man’s duty to earn for the household and it would sure be AWESOME if we could all stay home and better watch and take care of the men and children but some scholars really push it when they say women should work in men free organizations and that occupancies are available.. WHERE IS THAT? Even in KSA it’s hard to land such jobs so where in Kuwait good decent women could find decently paying jobs where it’s not mixed for them to support the husband financially? I’ve personally applied at schools and the pay is just not good! yan3y I leave my husband and kid to work for a minimal pay which doesn’t comply to our consumption? la2, I’d rather work with men whom I consider brothers and be normal! If you go back to Muhammed PBUH you’ll read about many examples where he was flexible and understanding and in Islam there are examples of women supporting their elderly fathers so to whomever printed this must further learn about Islam and just not make it harder than it is already for working Muslim decent women :@ Men now can’t just take responsibility for everything! Plain haram because it’s stressful enough to make a decent life and worry about raising kids and living under a roof with basic necessities. Where the hell in my case am I going to apply my studies and uni. degree? being a nurse? teaching girls at a girls only schools? or work from home? who does this in Kuwait, tell me and I will apply? Work at an Islamic bank? Even those places have men, security men? office boys – cleaners!

38- (literal translation) Wearing colored contacts to beautify oneself :

I for one don’t use colored contacts but why not wear them if there’s a girls only gathering?

39- (literal translation) Traveling without a mahram :

A Mahrams is the category that refers to all those males whom a woman cannot marry at anytime in her life whatsoever. In other word a male who is forbidden permanently, forever (i.e. one’s father, brother or son etc). of course if a women is married then she accompanies the husband and again there are many details on certain distances which a woman can go around without her mahram but in the KSA they let them ladies go with their drivers when he is not a mahran obviously so can someone explain how they allow this to happen while Hai2at el amr bel ma3roof people question every single lady and we’ve heard so many stories on women with their own husbands being stopped and asked for some sort of marriage – relation identification eh!  What about business trips?? Do we also say no unless we take a brother, father, grandfather, husband along? no wonder why employers think twice before hiring females besides all the other things we go through from moody PMSing, pregnancy, children and domestic issues to handle..

40- (literal translation) Wearing tight – figure showing abayas and clothes:

I mentioned above that wearing fashionable decent clothes doesn’t do harm and MEN should not stare but for the tight abayas, yes I would say them hideous sometimes FAT ASS women in tight abayas should be punished just because they do serious damage to the eye! Either wear it right or freakin take it off since it shows every single part of you and sometimes they wear nothing underneath and that’s nasty! and this is what I mean when I say that they are forced to wear it just for their families – communities / tradition.

At the end, I just want to clear again that I am not making fun nor am I undermining Islam or what we have to obey from Allah – prophet Muhammed’s PBUH’s saying but times are different and scholars should be more open to flexibility and inviting more people towards Islam not the opposite with such a brochure!

To prove my theory right, I was totally surprised when I received a call from the [ November Bakery ]‘s driver verifying my address to drop a gift item as he said over the phone and that was the sweetest thing EVER! First let me show you the pictures I took of the box and items included:

The box was big containing 2 smaller packs, a bag, roses and the Swarovski box! I wanted to rip open the packing off but I immediately called Eman up since we exchanged numbers before but never spoke to each other in person then Alma started crying as it was her feeding time so I was patient enough to put her to sleep then get dirty with the gift because I could smell chocolate from far away! *drools*

Now, she told me that each item has its own meaning and I honestly Eman couldn’t figure anything out ;p all I know is that my heart and tummy were sooooo filled with love & yummy treats – you diet ruin-er! :@

beautiful blooms

2 bags of 2 types of cookies which were gone on the same day – thank you very much!

Delicious chocolate chip cookies, reminds me of the Baking Tray cookies and I loved the double chocolate chip cookies even more..

I’ve always wanted to try their classic truffles and maaaan they are divine! They just melt in your mouth and if I hadn’t enough control, I would have licked the wrapper as well! :$

Another November classic are their mini cupcakes – anything with chocolate is a winner to me, not a big fan of Red Velvet but they were scrumptious as well and their mouth bite size is so convenient but you have a big tummy! wa7da wara wa7da !

Finally – I mean on top of all the above, she got me something awwww! a dragon fly pin which is beautiful!

I don’t like dragonflies but my husband got me a pendent and I rarely wear it except on the day I got her gift, I had brought it out of the safe to wear the next day for a visit! As copied from a website, this is what it symbolizes:

• Maturity and a Depth of character
  The dragonfly, in almost every part of the world symbolizes change and change in the perspective of self realization; and the kind of change that has its source in mental and emotional maturity and the understanding of the deeper meaning of life. 

  The traditional association of Dragonflies with water also gives rise to this meaning to this amazing insect. The Dragonfly’s scurrying flight across water represents an act of going beyond what’s on the surface and looking into the deeper implications and aspects of life.

• Power and Poise
  The dragonfly’s agile flight and its ability to move in all six directions exude a sense of power and poise – something that comes only with age and maturity.
  The dragonfly can move at an amazing 45 miles an hour,  hover like a helicopter fly backwards like a hummingbird, fly straight up, down and on either side. What is mind blowing is the fact that it can do this while flapping its wings a mere 30 times a minute while mosquitoes and houseflies need to flap their wings 600 and 1000 times a minute respectively. 

  The awe inspiring aspect is how the dragonfly accomplishes its objectives with utmost simplicity, effectiveness and well, if you look at proportions, with 20 times as much power in each of its wing strokes when compared to the other insects.  The best part is that the dragonfly does it with elegance and grace that can be compared to a veteran ballet dancer. If this is not a brazen, lazy, overkill in terms of display of raw power, what is?

• Defeat of Self Created Illusions
  The dragonfly exhibits iridescence both on its wings as well as on its body. Iridescence is the property of an object to show itself in different colors depending on the angle and polarization of light falling on it. 

  This property is seen and believed as the end of one’s self created illusions and a clear vision into the realities of life. The magical property of iridescence is also associated with the discovery of one’s own abilities by unmasking the real self and removing the doubts one casts on his/her own sense of identity. This again indirectly means self discovery and removal of inhibitions.

• Focus on living ‘IN’ the moment
  The dragonfly normally lives most of its life as a nymph or an immature. It flies only for a fraction of its life and usually not more than a few months. This adult dragonfly does it all in these few months and leaves nothing to be desired. This style of life symbolizes and exemplifies the virtue of living IN the moment and living life to the fullest. By living in the moment you are aware of who you are, where you are, what you are doing, what you want, what you don’t and make informed choices on a moment-to-moment basis. 

  This ability lets you live your life without regrets like the great dragonfly.

• The opening of one’s eyes
  The eyes of the dragonfly are one of the most amazing and awe inspiring sights. Given almost 80% of the insect’s brain power is dedicated to its sight and the fact that it can see in all 360 degrees around it, it symbolizes the uninhibited vision of the mind and the ability to see beyond the limitations of the human self. It also in a manner of speaking symbolizes a man/woman’s rising from materialism to be able to see beyond the mundane into the vastness that is really our Universe, and our own minds.

I guess this is what you meant Eman by the “meaning” of the gift or am I too “cold” from the right answer?! ;p

I have always wanted to try out November Company’s goodies and matter a’fact, I contacted them for my wedding reception dinner arrangements which was supposed to be held at Le Notre when we ended up choosing Hilton’s Resort instead because their work is simply amazing… all their bakery goodies, flowers and items they sell in their shop are so pretty and unique and I’ve always kept myself away specially when husband goes to Diet Center for his check up because I know I wouldn’t resist picking up a bag of cookies, tray of truffles or an entire cake maybe since all are giving back excellent reviews and feedback on the same. Check their FB group [ HERE ].

As for you Ms. Eman Al Habib, I would really like to thank you sooooo much (again) and you get the hug in person as we agreed enshallah ;) Thank you for taking time to go through my blog, which some people despise – like I give a shit – <– foul mouth I told you! What matters to me is having someone understand what I go through and get to share experiences, simply enjoying the company should it be in real life or online which reminds me of the reader SAM, who used to give me hard time with his – her comments and emails, special shout out to you buddy! Some people know how to leave a good impression.

As for November Bakery, I would like to thank you as well for the lovely pack I received and all the delicious diet ruining stuff you create! I love your packaging and designs.

P.S Eman: Little birdie ratted you out :p <– figure this out ba2a ! na naaa naaa boo boo