Kol sana wento tayebeen ya batabeet ya 7elween.
I love this Eid, the small one.  The other one or as we at home sometimes call it Eid el La7ma; is exhausting and by the time the dab7 is finished the day is almost over.  Eid is a happy time for our family, when I was back [...]

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I love Ramadan.
Ya rab yekoon a7la Ramadan yet.
Kol sana wento tayebeen.
On a side note, I really need to buy a fanoos for baby Lulu.

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I love Zen Habits, it is one of those absolutely positive blogs full of smart posts, things to help you live a happy fullfiling life and easy to do tips.  Today’s post on 32 ways to make someone happy was just perfect because I’ve been feeling down myself.
My favorites from Zen Habits list are:
Smile.
Help them [...]

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My happiest childhood memory is running barefoot in the snow. What is yours?

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The flower said, “I wish I was a tree,”
The tree said, “I wish I could be
A different kind of tree,
The cat wished that it was a bee,
The turtle wished that it could fly
Really high into the sky,
Over rooftops and then dive
Deep into the sea.
And in the sea there is a fish,
A fish that has a [...]

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I went through five years of Engineering thinking that they would never end. My last year passed so slowly that it felt like someone else kept deliberately hitting the Pause button on the remote control of my life. Getting my certificate felt like the biggest key to the door that opened to the rest of [...]

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Sometimes in moments of complete serenity and silence my mind wanders off on to stranger things.  Like the other day I was thinking which would be a better place to live Wonderland (from Alice in Wonderland) or Neverneverland (from Peter Pan), taking into consideration my personal ideas on both comes from Disney’s interpretation of the [...]

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As you might have noticed, I moved the blog from wordpress.com to my own domain, all posts and comments have moved smoothly to this side of the blogsphere, but I am still in the process of a redisign.  Being the ever pragmatic daydreamer that I am, I decided to move it as it is so [...]

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Last Friday the Rotary Cosmopolitan chapter sponsored its sixth annual walkathon in Alexandria, for the benefit of children at risk. The objective was to walk from El Montaza to Kaitbey citadel. Those of you who know Alex well should know that it is almost 18 kms. Personally, I’ve always loved walking and [...]

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There is a reason why I haven’t updated the blog for so long, there always is :-)).  I finally met the little person who was living inside my belly for 9 months and kicking my insides like there was no tommorrow.  I was blessed with a beautiful baby girl who is a miniature version of [...]

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