Dad wrote: To all parents.....

The other day I watched an old home-film… In that film I saw my late mother, and that made me nostalgic to the old times, when I was young seeking her kindness and comfort... Those mothers, and fathers, who raised us, may be different human beings – Sometimes, I wonder if our generation of parents is as strong and kind as the generation of our parents. It is not easy for me to answer such a question, and I leave it to my children and others’, children to answer, however, we might not arrive at a specific conclusion.

On the other hand different generations might have certain sets of norms and behaviors that fit their specific era, and circumstances. Social and economic factors reflect on human attitudes and family relationships... Extended family form was the norm in Kuwait in the early decades of the 20th century. When I graduated from college in the late 60’s of last century, I found that my father built a new house with separate apartments or quarters, for each of us, the brothers. But then we moved in separate directions to different locations and separate houses…
I thought, then, that the concept of an extended family is done with in Kuwait.

It is true that brothers and sisters, along with their children, do meet occasionally, and communicate with family members, but is it the same? Anyway, one must always remember that it is hard to match his parents in their love and care. The level of love and care may differ according to time and place, but nothing can replace such love and care, especially if you were raised in a healthy social, and family environment.

This is dedicated to you Ali, with love..

Down

Why do we wake up sometimes and feel down?
Is it the weather, hermones, or just a state of mind?
I don't know how long this is going to take, so please guys and gals HELP.
So do you think I should ditch work and go to BARCELONA :-)

Hair Combing

Me, my sis and my bro don't comb our hair.
I just was wondering is that normal or abnormal?
Do a lot of people don't comb their hair and just leave it to nature to deal with it?

Conclusion

Chocolate + Red bull = A long session of Editing!!

Dedicated to Beyond

Electricity and Love

This is dedicated to you 3amo Saleem.

I was chatting to 3amo Saleem on the MSN, who is my mom’s cousin and at the same time my auntie’s husband, who lives in Iraq.

He was asking me how is the family doing and loved ones in Kuwait, well I told him simply trying to make it with this heat (how stupid of me), he replied well we are trying to SURVIVE THE HEAT back here in Baghdad, the electricity shuts off for 20 hours a day and they don’t have petrol to work the generators, how ironic could that be, Iraq with no petrol!! By the way they have a curfew also, so basically stay at home and die from heat.

Yesterday the electricity was shut off in different parts of Kuwait, some parts half an hour and some more, but the complains I heard from people were simply STUPID.

Any way to cut the story short, I asked him how are they doing after the death of his nephew who died a month ago, killed by some lunatics, followers of Muqtada Alsader, just because he is a Sunni who was in the wrong place at the wrong time, I wondered how his mom was doing, he answered me that untie Iman is done with life, my eyes started filling up with tears, untie Iman who with all the difficulties in life, she kept on going, she has a PHD in biology, is now finally done with life. They have ran away from Baghdad to Mousel leaving all sorts of memories behind.

I didn’t know what to say to him, I asked him if he gets a chance to talk to her to give her my LOVE, I know that would not change a thing to her but at these difficult times we have only love to give.

My Dear Dad Wrote...

After the devastating Arab defeat in the six-day war in June 1967, the late famous Nizzar Qabbani addressed, in one of his poems, the Arab children and asked them to redeem the “ Arab Nation “, and make it victorious in it’s coming battles. But, do you know who were among those children at that time?? Osama Bin Laden was 10 years old, Hassan Nasr Allah was 6 years old, Bashar Al-Assad was one year old and Moqtada Al-Sadder was not even born, in that year of Arab defeat.

Considering the death, misery and destruction of the last Lebanon war, which lasted for five weeks, and the results of September 11, 2001 and all the difficulties facing Iraq now, one may wonder whether Nizzar Qabbani foresaw the fate of the Arab Nation. One may also ponder if Nizzar expected those children to lead the nation under fanatical Islamic ideologies or whether he thought that they will lead toward modernization and secular rules.

Last but not least, Nizzar was famous for his advocation of women liberation and emancipation; did he think how some of those children treat women now, when they reached the forties and fifties of their age??

يا أيها الأطفال
من المحيط إلى الخليج، انتم سنابل الآمال
وأنتم الجيل الذي سيكسر الأغلال
ويقتل الأفيون في رؤوسنا
ويقتل الخيال
يا أيها الأطفال، أنتم بعد طيبون
وطاهرون كالندى والثلج طاهرون
لا تقرأوا عن جيلنا المهزوم يا أطفال
فنحن خائبون
ونحن مثل قشرة البطيخ تافهون
ونحن منخورون، منخورون.. كالنعال
لا تقرأوا أخبارنا
لا تقتفوا آثارنا
لا تقبلوا أفكارنا
فنحن جيل القيء والزهري والسعال
ونحن جيل الدجل، والرقص على الحبال
يا أيها الأطفال
يا مطر الربيع يا سنابل الآمال
أنتم بذور الخصب في حياتنا العقيمة
وأنتم الجيل الذي سيهزم الهزيمة

نزار قباني

12 things to stop waiting for in life!

I was reading an article in Glamour magazine in the title of:
12 things to stop waiting for in life
Is it true that we are waiting for things to happen or should we go ahead and make them happen, this is not the case, the case is what took my attention was number 7 and number 12.
7. Your ex to say he’s really sorry. Don’t worry— karma will get him in the end.
12. A man to change everything in your life. Change it yourself now—he’ll catch up with you later.
So tell me Guys and Gals is that possible or impossible?????

Memories

As my dear SH said, we were watching Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, the question is:
Do we really want to erase some memories out of our mind?

New

Well this is a new post in a new blog, I lost my old blog, don't know how the hell did i do that, any way this is a new blog and seriously i don't know when will my next post be!!