Ramadan Kareem!
Mood:  lucky
Topic: What's Up
First day of Ramadan today and Alhamdulillah, I thank Allah for making my life long to reach this holy month, a month of blessings and forgiveness. It is still very early and I feel hunger already, maybe it's just because it is 1st day today and my stomach was used of digesting foods early in the morning for the past 11 months ago and now it has nothing to digest at all. All office time in Kuwait nowadays are shorten, and I can say that I am lucky since my company shorten my time, now it is from 10:00 am to 2:30 pm only.

In this holy month, I want to make the best that I can do to benefit from its holiness. I hope and pray to the Almighty to forgive all my sins, more blessings and grant me the Garden of Paradise in the herefater, Insha Allah, Aameen.

Islamic Swimsuit?
Topic: Issues
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?
Topic: My Thoughts
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 but one thing I am sure of is I am not a plastic one. I am a real person.

What about you? Plastic or Real?

A Sunset
Topic: My Thoughts
Every night the horizon lights up
Swirls of pink and orange fading to blue and purple

Few bother to look anymore
At a blessing that only comes once a day

Each sunset is different, no two exactly alike
Difference flows throughout while it is the only similarity

Over the ocean or through the sky scrapers
Out on the prairie or in an apartment

You can still see a piece
A piece of something, something never to return
A sunset

For the colors are shimmering
For a moment they stay
Only to disappear into change
Change just as beautiful as the last

This is why no matter where you go
One thing remains the same,
A difference in sunsets

In your very own sunset


Sunset, my most favorite time in the afternoon. Sometimes when we were vacant, we went to the seaside to wait and watch the sunset. At the end of the day when I want to take a rest, to witness the beauty of nature and ponder what this so called life to me had offered, then watching sunset is my first choice to do. The picture in the right side was taken during one of our visit in Scientific Center, I waited as the sun disappeared below the horizon to capture few shots from it, that was one of the best shots I captured that day.

See also Rieaane's Collection

Oh, I miss writing on this blog....I got busy this past few days reading and watching some news about what happen in Lebanon. I really felt sorry for them, all I can do is pray for their safety and victory from their evil enemy. Once, I did not able to control my emotion when I saw in the newspaper a body of a dead baby boy as big as my son Azhfaar trapped in the debris of the devastated building, I cried terribly since I can relate to his parents' feeling. Alhamdulillah, there's a ceasefire now. I know it's not totally safe yet but at least, the killings will be minimized now.

As of now, I am busy in learning more Thai recipes because I noticed that my hubby is very fond of it. I knew some but I want to learn more. When I'll found a new and delicious one, I'll try it and post it in my Recipe Blog.