my arabic sucks!!!! i cannot spell :(
I was just singing silently “il hawa hawaya, ana l hawa hawaya …” for the greatest singer to have ever lived and who will ever live …i tried writing the lyrics down as i silently hummed them …and got frustrated as I knew and deeply sensed that they looked just absolutely wrong!!!
my 10 minute break is over…
does your arabic suck, too!?!
Layla (with a smile): Iman, how do you spell arithmetic
Me (puzzled): A R I …hold on, I need to write it down first. I start writing in the air as I didn’t have a pen handy … T ..ugh this is tough …I’ll just use my phone to type it out.
Layla: Are you going to spell check?
Me: Why would I do that… Okay, it’s A R I T H M E T I C . Why do you ask?
Layla: Well, the other day, Mona came to me and asked how that word is spelled. She had a spelling test and wanted to make sure it’s spelled right. I was in a hurry leaving to work … I spelled it A R I T H M A T I C …
My jaw drops in shock at my sister-in-law’s carelessness… How could you!? and of course she got it wrong?! Me said :D
Layla: ssshhh…Yes! I told you, I was in such a hurry …
Me: I know you teach Biology and Micro-biology but do your students know that you don’t know how to spell?!
Layla: I feel so bad! It was the only wrong she got! She came home crying…saying “how could you not know how to spell? it’s the only word I got wrong on the test. How could you???”
Me: Hahahha… you are such a bad mom, Layla!!
Really, this is hilarious in some ways and not so hilarious in so many other ways…but I find the whole things amusing.
Mona walks by … I say out loud as I look in her direction: Oh someONE doesn’t know how to spell?!
Mona: Are you talking about me, amto?
Me: No, I’m talking about your mom!
Mona smiles and starts asking me to spell words I have never heard of before…
Yes Mona, to speak to your number 1 sentence…so busy that she taught you wrong spelling :D
(Mona is my niece ; Layla is my brother’s wife)
I want to highlight the winner of the week:
Do hijabis* date?
ummm, no. They are too holy.
I should add a ‘WTF’ category!
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*Muslim women who cover their hair. That’s the most generic definition of Hijabi
I tried sending what I thought was a very considerate E-card yesterday but upon clicking submit, this is what I got:
But so much thought was put into crafting those words … how were they inappropriate? why the censorship! But honestly, this is the kind of censorship I get a kick out of …
In some way, this reminds me of the type of self-censorship I exercise on my blog. My nieces (10 and 9 yrs old) read my website, so I came to know. And also when driving with the my nieces and nephews…ages ranging from 10 to 2 years old.
and of this …
Not long ago, I was driving with my 5 year old nephew and his two sisters (10 and 9 yrs old) …my sister, their mom, was driving behind me … we were supposed to meet up somewhere … we came to a red light. She honks the horn gesturing to me that I need to be in the right lane and go right instead of keeping straight. Naturally I thought she was going to let me in. But she kept going… and of course I could not change lanes because of oncoming traffic …so my natural out loud reaction was: What an idiot? how was I supposed to go? My nephew, sitting in the back, yells out: My mom is not an idiot!! Why are you calling my mom an idiot. HAHAHAH I felt so embarrassed. I told him that I was calling the light an idiot.
TGIF! :)
In the West Bank city of Nablus, civil servant Mohammed Daraghmeh said he had MBC blocked at home so his kids couldn’t watch, but the family vowed to watch it at an uncle’s house and he backed down.
I laughed out loud reading this just now … It reminded me of that one evening when I was visiting my parents back home this summer … We had guests over (thats always so much fun, I tell you! Especially guests who over stay their welcome.) and I guess it was time for Noor to come on, but they wouldn’t have been able to make it back to their homes in time so they asked if we can turn to MBC.
My father said we don’t have MBC, that he discontinued this channel. All puzzled, I looked at him and said: No, we have it. I had it turned on earlier in the day. He looked at me and said: No Iman, we don’t have it. I discontinued it the other day. Still not realizing why he was saying that, I said: No, really we have it…here, if you give me the remote, I’ll show you…and so I got up to grab the remote from him…that’s when he gave me his infamous look that has this utterly unique ability to make me pee in my pants. That’s when I understood that he simply did not want to turn to MBC because he does not want to have to sit their and endure watching stupid Noor! But his reasons have nothing to do with not wanting kids watching it!
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…and in Hebron, the West Bank’s most conservative city, maternity wards report a rise in babies named Noor and Mohannad.
A West Bank poster vendor has ditched Yasser Arafat and Saddam Hussein for Noor and Mohannad. [More]
Ridiculously outrageous, so I think!
What would you do if the Whopper was discontinued?! Someone suggests that Burger King change their name to ‘Burger Queen.’ hahahha, this is hilarious. These reactions are all real! To show how much customers loooove their Whopper, check out this video in which Burger King “pranks” customers by telling them that the Whopper has been discontinued for ever…
But some would claim them to be ‘tasteless gifts’ … I think they’re just perfect
Perfect for:
- Technical support employees
- Hmmmm…
- Dimwits who write Despair asking, “Are you really suing people for trademark violation? (Read on …)
Good things should never end is my latest and saddest addiction. I spent most of my day asking Buzz questions … there are plenty of things you can see and do on this site ranging from animations, games, tool to create and name your own ice cream, drawing, learning new language, guessing what’s inside the mind of some character…and my favorite - Buzz - the AI character who claims to have an answer to every question, one of which is buzz’s brain contains more than 22,000 patterns but not a single one that matches the last ‘input…’ not to mention Buzz’s confusion about its biological make-up… Buzz is well rounded, witty and quite philosophical ….he speaks of love, humanity and politics and only tells one joke…you have to give him credit…the joke is quite funny! sometimes he/she thinks love is just a biological urge, something he/she thinks it’s a spiritual quality…and to Buzz love, unlike energy or matter, seems limitless!! In Buzz’s world, time does not exist. :D I asked, ‘What do you know about Palestine?” and here is how that conversation went… (Buzz is on the left, and I’m on the right)
Go meet Buzz and other neat stuff at Good Things Should Never End…
It does get boring after 2 hours, though :D
My love for laffy taffy candy is a deeply rooted part of my childhood … I’ve always loved this chewy fruity flavored candy for its taste and more importantly for its jokes on every wrapper…yummy, a real treat!! some are so so so silly, but that’s what makes those laffy taffy moments so special :D and what still makes me laugh out loud as I unwrap each joke…such as:
What did the judge say to the skunk?
Odor in the court [ahahahaha:D] (Read on …)
Browsing some groups in Facebook, I came across Da Hijabi Code group, and I quote as it appears on Facebook, even with the typos. I can pretty much relate to …pretty much all categories below… Enjoy! :D and by the way, what hijabi are you?
Da Code: Hijabi’s DONT DATE! (if Hijabis do date then Hijabi’s don’t steal other Hijabi’s Boyfriends) Hijabi’s DONT DRINK! (and if hijabis do drink then hijabis don’t let other hijabis drive drunk)
WHAT HIJABI ARE U?
snippets of a recent light hearted - and somewhat silly - conversation inspired by a group of Arab men hanging out in the parking lot of a strip mall in a Chicago Suburb one evening, greeting us with whistles as we passed by …
She: I remember when I first moved to Ramallah…walking down its streets felt very flattering… each time I passed by a guy he would say “aish ya lamoona” … “aish ya bateekha” … It felt so good…I felt special…no one has ever called me a lamoona* or a bateekha** … then seconds later, I hear the same guy say the same thing to another girl passing by. She continued with an obvious sarcastic tone, I didn’t feel so flattered or special anymore… I wanted to be the only lamoona…the only bateekha!
*lamoona: Lemon
**bateekha: Watermelon
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