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My Second Room

Staying in the 4 corners of this room for almost 7 hours a day and 6 days a week since 3 years ago made me consider it as my second room. Here, I took my breakfast when I had no time to take it at home, I also took my noontime snacks here. My office room. The room that I learned to love. The room that became a part of my life, financially. The room where I chatted with my husband almost daily during our vacant times, the room that lets my mind fly and explore whenever I had no work, and most of all the room where I exerted all my best as a professional to gain more respect and appreciations from my colleagues. While sitting here boringly right now with no work to do, I am thinking of many unemployed professionals who are very desperate in searching for a stable job, then I praised Allah for every blessings that He bestowed upon me. I can say that I am lucky to have this second room, the room with my friends around me. My friends here are my computer and the plants that brightened my day.

Islamic Swimsuit?

Ever heard of an ISLAMIC SWIMSUIT?
Check this out:

Turk takes Islam-inspired swimwear to pious bathers
Thu Aug 31, 2006 8:32am ET

By Emma Ross-Thomas

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - An unusual type of swimwear is standing out on Turkish beaches this summer -- Islam-inspired swimsuits -- which buck the trend of the past 100 years for swimsuits to get smaller.

Turkish businessman Mehmet Sahin has designed what he says is the world's first Islam-inspired swimsuit and sells head-to-ankle bathing gear to devout well-heeled Muslims, including the wives of Turkey's leading politicians.

"We are the preferred firm of the conservative politicians' wives," he told Reuters in an interview, referring to members of the ruling AK Party, which has its roots in political Islam and came to power in 2002.

It is still a small market, but Sahin's growing clientele is another sign of the rising profile of Islam in traditionally secular Turkey.

His brightly-colored women's swimming costumes look like shiny track-suits with stretchy hoods, while the racier models are like catsuits with a separate overall to cover the curves.

These costumes are a throwback to the type of swimwear worn before Australian swimmer Annette Kellerman invented and wore the first one piece swimsuit in 1906. She was arrested in the United States in 1907 for wearing the one piece suit that showed her arms, legs and neck.

We always went to the beach during weekend nights and my husband invited me to bath, I really like to but I don't want to wear normal clothes and veil while I'm in the sea, that's my biggest problem until now. While I was browsing some internet forums, I saw that article above and I said wow great idea, this will give me a chance to enjoy and have fun at the beach. So I tried my best to browse and see the picture of the said Islamic Swimsuit but when I saw it, it's not very Islamic I dare to say since I think as soon as it gets wet it will probably start to stick to the body, unless they designed not to be like that. I showed the picture to my husband and he did not comment about it.

If I will found it here in Kuwait, I will try to buy one and check if it will fit in the body when wet because if it will not, then my beach problem will be solved.

Plastic or Real?

The question that almost all our guests asked us when they visited our home. They were referring to the flower I placed above the table. My common answer was "What do you think? touch it."

Actually the flower is not real but if you don't cross-examine it, it really looks like a real one. Very tricky! 

Plastic or real? This is not only applied to that flower in our home, nowadays it is very hard to identify true people, even a friend which you consider as your best friend may sometimes let you think twice if he/she is plastic or real? Sometimes the person whom you trusted most was the first one to betray you, only then you realized that he/she was indeed a plastic one. 

When I was a student, people around me labeled me as snob, I wonder why because deep within me I was not that type. It just happened that I am not very friendly gal but I can easily smile to everybody whom I think is worth smiling for.  That's the real one.  I don't want to make good to somebody when I don't like him/her deep within.  If I smiled to somebody, then that smile was came from my heart. Now, I don't mind people labeled me as snob if it is true, that's the real me.  I want to be transparent in everything and one thing I am sure of is I am not a plastic one.  I am a real person.

What about you? Plastic or Real?