Back from Eid!

Eid came and gone. Happy Eid to all! (as in whoever bothers to read!)

Best part about this Eid is that it came at the beginning of the month so I was rich to spend!
And now I’m broke. Nothing new in that of course!

Eid is gone, I’m back at work and I’m ill.
I have a cold. I hate colds. They are such nuisances.
I got the cold from going to Emirates Mall. They are keeping the temperature so low in that mall for their indoor snow park and ski slopes that is sickening!



I’m going to a Gala dinner tomorrow. A media company is hosting it. As the invitation was for two people, I had to beg my sister Aminah to come. She turned me down!
So I started looking for “a date” among my girlfriends. (How Sad!!!)
Luckily I have a couple of cool friends!
Ghizlan agreed to go with me.
After arranging when and how we will go, we couldn’t decipher the dress code. The dress code is “Inno sport chic or Formal”. What does that mean?
I might understand sport chic…but what’s inno??
I don’t have a problem with dress codes usually. You can’t go wrong with the traditional local dress. So Abaya and Sheila it is for me!
I’ve told Ghizlan to go formal and forget about the inno sport chic!

I swear some people just like to make our lives hard!!



Anyway…. Eid in 2000 and Eid in 2005…still has the same pain:

أيا عيد

أيا عيد
جئتني مهرولا
تأمرني أن ألقي
همي جانبا
أن أمسح دمعي
وأرسم البسمة
على وجهي

أيا عيد
كيف أتجاهل
سقمي..
كيف أخفي
أسى الدهر
وغمي...
لست طفلة بريئة
يلهيها ثوب العيد
عن آهاتها
عن جرح في السويداء
يدمي

أيا عيد
كيف أصطنع الفرح
وأطفالي في العراق
جياع...مرضى
يموتون...
وأخوتي من الكوت
في الأسر...
متى يعودون
وأهلي في الشيشان
يذبحون.....
يبادون....
وفي الجزائر ينحرون
والجرح الأبدي...فلسطين
والجنوب...والجولان
وفي آسيا القصوى
المسلمون يقتلون...

أيا عيد
كيف ألقاك
وحزني عميقٌ
وضميري عاتبٌ
وقلبي شهيدٌ
وروحي مليئةٌ
بالأشواك

أيا عيد
دعني لهمي
ولا تعد
حتى ينتصر الحق
ويعرف طريق وطني!