Scooby-Doo! Where are you!

I discovered something about myself!

I almost never sit and give my back to the door!

How did I get to conclusion? I don't know, but I remember that I thought of that before I sleep and thought of where I sit in all my classes, of my bed's position, my place in the living room, my place in our dinner table, etc.

… and then I had some weird dreams.

Then woke up to my sister talking about Scooby-Doo! Yes, the same Scooby-Doo from CartoonNetworks.


Why?

Our neighbors who didn't move to their house yet hanged two Scooby-Doo's from their roof.

Why?

I will just tell you the whole story.

Few weeks ago, the 'men' came and tried shooting all the pigeons and scare them away, but the problem is, they came back.

Ladies and gentlemen, the men's way of doing it didn't work this time so the women took charge.

Today, the women came with two Scooby-Doo's and a Pakistani guy and hanged the two Scooby-Doo's from the roof to scare the pigeons away.

So do you think Scooby-Doo is capable of the job? He will spend the night hunting ghosts (from all the running I see him doing on CartoonNetworks I'm guessing that's what he does…) and the day scaring pigeons away.

Genius idea of the women, isn't it?

I will keep you updated with the results of this experiment. :)


By the way, I don't think they meant for it to be a Scooby-Doo, they just wanted a dog!

It's raining – Alain is the place to be!

It rained all over the UAE, but Alain people know how to celebrate and enjoy it like no one else. :D

Rain in Alain is different too because the weather is not as polluted, and Clouds, green of plants and sand dunes make such a nice picture. Rain in Alain is not grey from all the pollution and dust in Dubai, its clean!

Friday, as we were driving back from Dubai we passed by "7araka" and oh my. It was all covered with cars!! Everyone was outside! Everyone was going there, and there was traffic in Alain and not in front of private schools, no.

It was a rain festival.

They hold events there whenever it rains, so the police and 'ta7areyat' come and they arrange the cars and everything and guys get to "e5amsoon" in turn and all.

I took some pictures but they are not as good as the videos.

When I called my brother to make him feel bad about 'oh all the fun he is missing' he said that Dubai Marina is just perfect and talked about it and made me wish I was there.

Oh yo Bald guy!

My younger brother is getting so into Arabic poetry and reciting it, his Arabic teacher asked him once to show the other students how poetry should be recited; he went out and recited this:

يا صلعة لابي حفص ممردة
كأن ساحتها مرآة فولاذ
ترن تحت الأكف الواقعات به
ا حتى ترن بها أكناف بغداد

Which he memorized from satirical poetry and the guy is basically saying that your bald is like a mirror, and if I touch it the sound would echo all over Baghdad.

The teacher got mad at him; even though I don't think she should have because it's Arabic poetry!

My brother went on to tell her that 'it's Bin ElRomi' and to explain it to her… she still didn't let him say another one.

I found that he knows more than I do, which is basically nothing. He told me this one too:

يقتر عيسى على نفسه
و ليس بباق و لا خالد
فلو يستطيع لتقتيره
تنفس من منخر واحد

Which is that this guy is saying that the other guy is so cheap and greedy that if he could he would breathe from only one nose. (One side!)

(This will probably be my last post that includes arbic, it took me forever to write and edit it, and then I still couldn't do it the way it should be - two columns.)

Pretty deep.

In my communication skills for business first class, the teacher was asking my friend which high school she went to and my friend also mentioned the school I went to but the teacher assumed one way or another that I went to a different school, and I only knew that two weeks later.

Last week, I was leaving class and was ready with my iPod on and all, when she caught me and started asking me questions; I answered but kept walking toward the door. Her husband came, I smiled said hi and thought that now is a good time to leave class, when I was at the door she said 'oh she is the one who went to *insert school name*' and he was like 'ooh!'

I didn't know what to do, I might have told her that I didn't go to that school if she mentioned it when I was the only one there, but the way she said it to her husband, I felt bad about telling her I didn't go to that school.

She then turned to me and asked 'do you know this person?'

MJ: 'eh no' *is walking out*
Husband: 'do you know this person?'
MJ: 'no' *I'm no outside the class and they could see that I was not really paying attention to what they are saying because I had iPod on*
Husband: 'the principle…'
MJ: 'ooh!' *runs away*

In another class…

I like to write my notes on the computer because I always lose papers, they get all mixed on paper, it's neater and easier to study from and because I already have to use the laptop when I'm studying so it's easier to have everything in one place and always with me.

I was answering questions and debating things with the teacher and the teacher kept calling me 'o'7t MJ' (sister MJ) but because the students didn't get what I'm saying, he started explaining it to them in Arabic and English. I thought that now is a good time to read my notes, organize them, and add things to them.

He kept talking and talking.

… And I opened a website and started reading.

'o'7t MJ, what do you think?'

I look up to find that teacher and students are all waiting for my answer.

I think… 'Crap! I'm in trouble!'

And I just said the last number that I heard another girl saying '350!'

WRONG ANSWER!

The teacher had the evilest smile on his face, I could see that he was thinking 'I got you didn't I? Acting all smart and here I got you! You better learn!'

Teacher: 'it's what you were just explaining to us MJ, the answer is 500 because…'

I was going to go after class and show him my notes, just to prove that I was not playing… not that much at least.

The very real Malsoon

The very real Malsoon *insert my family name here* drinking pepsi, but found it's empty and still won't give it back! (no one was holding the pepsi for him in the picture)

He is the cutest thing ever. and so clever too!

He thinks of himself as part of the family, and that he has the right to everything just like every one of us, he has to eat, drink, play, talk, walk, etc. when we do. Only thing he doesn't have is a laptop, and he gets so annoyed when we all use ours and he doesn't have one and so tries to break the laptops or cut the wires.

I love him when he is walking around and then hears my dad's voice and run to him! He does run!

He acts so human at time with all his face expressions. When you talk to him, he turns his head to one side as if he is really listening to what you are saying.

oh, he is an African grey parrot.

I was right...

I never thought that heav'n would lose its blue
And sullen storm-clouds mask the gentle sky;
I never thought the rose's velvet hue
Would pale and sicken, though we said good-by.
I never dreamed the lark would hush its note
As day succeeded ever-drearier day,
Nor knew the song that swelled the robin's throat
Would fade to silence, when you went away.
I never knew the sun's irradiant beams
Upon the brooding earth no more would shine,
Nor thought that only in my mocking dreams
Would happiness that once I knew be mine.
I never thought the slim moon, mournfully,
Would shroud her pallid self in murky night.
Dear heart, I never thought these things would be-
I never thought they would, and I was right.
Dorothy Parker

Thursday = Family Time

Its part of the culture here I believe, but it can be a Thursday or a Friday. In my family it's s Thursday because Friday we go back to Alain, so today was one of those Thursday's.

The only interesting part to me is not seeing family and smiling and answering the question of 'how're you?' one hundred and one times, I just like sitting and listing to the topics discussed, and the topics can be so random that I sit there not listening to what they are saying but thinking how they got to talk about that.

In the past few months, politics, economics and religions have been the main topics, like probably every other family they talked about the new cabinet and I agreed with almost everything they said except the part that some of the new ministers are not 'pure Emarati's' but originally from Iran and therefore 'Eyam' or '3eyam', I was about to slap someone when they started saying that because we all are Emarati's and we are all living in this country and we all want to give it back and make it a better place so who you great-grandmother is is not an issue, if the person is a local who wants to give to this country and is a hard worker then I would vote for him/her to be there because that person deserve it more than a Sheikh who got it only because he is a Sheikh and wants the title, not because he worked for it.

Now it's a different matter if that person doesn't deserve the position and only got it because he works for some Sheikh and would clean their *&^% if he was asked to.

Gas prices where talked about in every gathering.

Crime was one of the main topics, and it scared my mother that she said we might get a dog again. A Pakistani guy raped and killed a local woman in Sharjah and everyone knows about it so how come I didn't hear of it?

Maids and them raising kids was another issue discussed, some new stories about maids abusing kids and how women never give up, they would be talking about it and then go 'MY maid is different!'

… If they only know!

Never send your kids with the driver alone, even if boys.

If you have to work and leave your children with the maid, don't do that, take them to a nursery.

Cars and window's tints were discussed, if you are a women you can have more tint and when a police guy catch you just tell him to go talk to all the guys and then come to you because you are a woman and so has the right to it! (I'm joking but I swear that a relative did it!)

Ajman smells so bad, you can't breathe!

Cars and which ones use more petrol – Lexus's use double what a Nissan's use.

Go read the Universal Islamic Declaration of Human Rights; link is at Emarati's blog.

Philipa Gregory is one of the best authors ever – I love her books!