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I will Fly you to the Moon and Back!

I am day dreaming now that somebody is flying me to the moon, perhaps this is just a product of being so tired from my works this morning. My boss sat in from of my desk for almost 2 hours asking me to translate all those over 100 pages “maa adry shino” proposal from one of our clients abroad. Thanks God we’re done now, I wish that I can fly somewhere else or to the moon maybe and forget all those stressful works! Oh, how can I? I don’t have 20 million dollar to realize my dream! lol

Space Toursim is one of the very hot topics nowadays and it seems that many people are very interested to travel on space even the ticket cost $20 million dollar, in fact Russian Space Agency is fully booked until 2009. This means that human beings are so adventurous, they will spend as much as that just for personal pleasure. For me, space tourism maybe will remain just a dream until the day I die. I’ll just make a wish before I sleep that during my deep sleep I will dream of travelling on space and see what the Almighty’s creation. Even I have $20 million right now in front of me, I will not go there, I will spend it in another thing, millions of people in the world cannot eat, don’t have clothes, don’t have shelters, I would rather donate it to them. I am adventurous in nature but travelling on space will remain in my dreams only!

Before I end this post, I want to dedicate this song to all of you there….

She’s taking her time making up the reasons to justify all the hurt inside.

Guess she knows from the smiles and the look in their eyes, everyones got a theory bout the bitter one.

Their saying, “Momma never loved her much and daddy never keeps in touch,that’s why she shies away from human affection”

But somewhere in a private place she packs her bags for outer space and now she’s waiting for the right kinda pilot to come.

And she’ll say to him, Love will fly you to the moon and back if you’ll be…If you’ll be my baby,Got a ticket to a world where we belong,so won’t you be my baby?

She can’t remember a time, when she had felt needed.If love was red then she was color blind.

All her friends they’ve been tried for treason, and crimes that were never defined. She’s saying “Love is like a barren place,and reaching out for human faithis like a journey I just don’t have a map for.”

So baby’s gonna take a dive, and push the shift to overdriveSend a signal that she’s placing all her hops on the stars.

What a pleasant dream… And I will fly you to the moon and back if you’ll be..If you’ll be my baby.

Got a ticket for a world where we belong,so won’t you be my baby?

~ Savage Garden~“To the Moon and Back”

Because They Mean a Lot to Me...

Losing our love ones without seeing them for how many years is really  hard and difficult to accept, the most important things during these times is faith. To believe that that is our fate in life, be it good or bad, all we have to do is to accept it.  I am writing these because these past few weeks ago were really our most  difficult times here in Kuwait.  My  hubby's beloved father returned to the Grace of Allah few weeks ago, I know it hurted him so much because I also felt it deep within me.  He cried day and night and I cannot control my tears to fall down also every time I saw him crying. I learned to love his father already as my second my father because he is so good to me even I did not see him always.

Then few days ago my maternal granny whom I loved dearly also passed away.  I remember the day during our last vacation when she told me that I will not be able to see her again, I just simply told her that NO, we will be able to see again insha Allah. I love her so much and I felt that she really loves me also, she was very proud of me. She boasted all my achievements to my cousins and she told them that they must have to follow my steps. I cried whenever I remember those things. 

Sometimes we only remembered the good things given to us by somebody when they were already gone in our lives. I don't know why, maybe this is human's nature. When my father-in-law passed away, I remembered all the good things he said about me and I cried.  When my granny passed away, I remembered how she combed my hair during my childhood days when I slept beside her.

The flower above was taken at the seaside while I was walking,  wondering what to do and thinking about those people who means a lot to me...

Love Got the Highest Rank!

This morning, I was checking the site statistics of all the homepages and blogs that I created since few years ago and I found out that my Rieaane in Love pages got the highest rank. I checked also the referrers of my visitors and it showed that they found it through search engines by searching the words like romantic thoughts or anything pertaining to love. Is this means that the most searched topic in internet is love? I hope I inspired all the people in love out there who visited my site.

I Just Wonder Why

I am looking at my bag (Polo Ralph Lauren) right now and it made me remember the first time I used it while we were shopping with my hubby in one mall here in Kuwait more than 2 years ago, I was looking at the watches in one shop of that mall when 2 arab ladies passed by, they stop and stared at me from head to foot as if they were examining every inch of me, they glanced at my bag always and I pretended not knowing their presence so that I had an enough time to observe their actions and they continued scrutinizing me, I felt it.  After a moment I looked at them with a why-are-you-staring-at-me look and they smiled dryly and went off. 

I really wondered why those 2 ladies acted that way,  not only them because I always experienced that kind of incidents from some other arabs also. My friends and relatives also experienced the same sometimes.

I have one aunt here also who shared almost the same story with me, one day she went to the supermarket driving her own car and she was wearing a sunglass, when she parked her car, a teenage arab guy walked near her and he said sarcastically "Filibiniya fi sayyara wa yalbas nathara ba'ad" means "Oh, a Filipina lady has a car and wearing sunglass too!". My aunt was really irritated so she answered to him " Why, what about you? How much your cost? Come, work to me and I'll pay you money!".

I also read few months ago that while a Philippine actress ( I will not mentioned her name)  was in an Airport, a British woman stared at her cynically from head to foot then she asked the actress which country did she came from and she answered "from Philippines", then the British lady said "Ah, that's where my maid came from", then the actress proudly answered " Ah, really? And my child's nanny is a British nurse". The British lady did't able to say a word. 

I Wish to Pray There Before I Die

The bulletin titled "A Remarkable Story" posted today by one of my Friendster friend named Muslim was the reason why I post this picture here. According to the story in that bulletin when Hadhrat Abdullah bin Mubarak (RA) asked the lady he met : Where are you coming from?, the lady answered: "Glorified be He who carried
His servant by night from the Masjid-e-Aqsa (invioble place of
worship) to the Masjid-e-Haraam" (Far distant place of worship) (Surah17 Aayat1) in which she meant that she had come from Masjid-e-Aqsa. I really long and dream to visit this place and I always watched or read the news pertaining to it.  How I wish that my dream would be realized someday insha Allah. It is one of the 3 sacred and holy  Mosque in Islam.  According to the Sunnah, every prayer to be performed there will be equivalent to 500 prayers, that's why I always pray to the Almighty that I can visit and pray in this Mosque before I die.

The Beauty after Endurance!

The picture was taken while we were in our car with my hubby on our way to home from work one late afternoon.  The weather was not really good that day, the sun didn't shone bright in the morning and it was almost dark even the time was still early. The attractive colors of the sky caught my attention and it remembers me of the One Who Made it and thank Him for blessing me with my eyesight for FREE to see the beauty of His Creations. Alhamdulillah for everything. I also remember the saying, "It takes both rain and sunshie to make a rainbow" since there was also a rain earlier that day and that made the sky looks that way. Had it not been the rain in the morning, I can't be able to see that beutiful sight in the afternoon. The picture was not really clear since I took it from my mobile phone only while my hubby was driving 100kmph that time.

Life is also like that, there will be many obstacles to face in order for us to succeed. We must have to endure the bitterness of today for us to savour the sweetness of tomorrow. 

Just a LIttle Light Please...(Part 2)

I was busy this past few weeks hence I did not able to finish my previous post anymore, anyway here I am to continue it. I know that the title of my post was "Just a Little Light Please..." but what I am writing below are the list of persons who gave me not just a little light but I would rather say a huge light that shines very bright in my life.  First of all is my everloving mother whom I consider as the best mother in the world, a very thoughful and understanding mom. Then, my father who taught me the simplicity of life and guides me the right path always. I owed him everything for what I am now.  Also, to my siblings who always there and for respecting me always as their eldest.  I am deeply honored for having them in my life. Finally, my everdearest hubby who loves me always inspite of everything (I'm moody sometimes) and our little son Azhfaar whom I consider as my twinkle star in the dark nights, he shines by waking me up in the middle of the night and said "Hug mama, hug".

Now, all I can say is I am not afraid to cross darkness anymore since I know that there will be lights that follow me always.

Just a Little Light...Please!

Have you ever experienced being stocked in a room of total darkness as a result of brown out or whatever electricity iterruptions? Or travelling alone in a dark road during an eerie night that you cannot even identify where is north, south, east or west? How does it feel? Of course all you have to wish  and pray will be just a little light for you to see what's around you... 

The reason why I write this article was because of this picture that I captured few weeks ago in our home.  We were watching a thrilling movie one late night in the living room when one of us switched off the light and I was sitting in front of the center table with some flowers and candles on it.  When the light was off, I did not able to see the flowers anymore because the movie we were watching happened to be in a dark scene also, so I immediately grabbed a match and lit the candles behind the flowers and finally I saw the flowers as if they were smiling at me.  At the same time, I was also holding my mobile phone and I decided to take a photo of the smiling flowers.  It's been long time here in my photo files when I happened to open it now and my imagination soared while I'm watching it.  I imagined my self as the flower and the candle light were my hubby and my family who gave me the light for me to see and feel the beauty of life.  The light they gave me is their unconditional love that gives me strength to pursue whatever endeavor that I want to undertake in this ever challenging world.   Of course I did not forget to thank the Almighty for blessing me with those incomparable individuals who lighted my world....to be continued

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.