Pondering June 29, 2010

When will the skin on my hands start feeling like skin without the numerous applications of moisturizers?

I don’t know.
It’s a lot of work at home and I’m a SAHM and Wife.
Morning until night.

I’m upset and am leaning towards being cribby. So tolerate me please. And now I’m thinking of all I’ve got. And here goes –

But even if I never have those pre-UAE dainty hands again, I’m still grateful. Because I would prefer to count my blessings and thank Allah that I have so much more than those people with absolutely soft hands.

Soft hands is a very small price to pay for peace and tranquility.

The Mighty God/Allah! January 10, 2010

Helps us in our best and worst times.

Helps us to stand and holds us when we fall.

My 9th grade teacher, Miss Revathi L, addressed the students during Value Ed. Class, one time. We were talking about God. She said that we are always happy when things go our way. And we offer many prayers of thanks to Him, and sometimes in our happiness we forget the Thank You.

But what about, when things don’t go our way?

What when one or both of our parents die? Or we lose a sibling? Or a grandparent? Or when someone hurts us? Or when we’re facing severe problems in life? Do we Thank Him? We don’t.

We scream and blame and cry but we never say the Thank You to God, for being there and simply, invisibly holding our hand. We fail to thank him for the good times. We forget to thank him for our strength.

We never know what his purpose is when we are in pain, and we never thank Him for getting us through the day or for the chance we have to see another tomorrow and survive.

Surviving a Trial January 7, 2010

Trials are a part and parcel of life. How we choose to look at the trials in our life, is what really matters. And it is this attitude that changes our life. Makes  us happier people than hateful.

We have our best moments and our share of doomsday moments. But every trial is a long race. Surviving it is the goal. The Medallion. In the run for this medallion there will be hurdles, that’ll trip us over, scratch our knee, make our ankles bleed. But keeping in mind that no matter what, and even if things are moving slow, we will survive – is the indomitable spirit each of us have. This spirit, helps us undermine the hurdles.

With the passage of every trial in life, we sense the difference in us. People close to us also do. We all come out as stronger people. Better people. Mature people.

(But hey! people dont need to suffer trials to become nicer or more mature… thas not what i’m saying!! LOL! Some of us are born saints!)

To come up with this lengthy post, I’ve also had to suffer various trials of my own. None of them remotely bearable, but I kept my spirit alive thinking, ‘there will be a tomorrow’.  Yes, I’ve learned many things the hard way, but in the end I feel like a better person.

Hope? December 14, 2009

Might I say how beautiful the weather is? And that it has been raining for two whole days and its so romantic?

But this is the last thing on my mind.

I have a question I need an answer to, but she who can answer it, is a person who mutely accepts.

What will happen if  someone I deeply care for will be hurt? Will it not be in vain, if I protest and say that I want to protect that person – but risk the chance of being brutally scarred myself – especially since my pleas will fall on deaf years? And my heart will bleed forever?

Education December 14, 2009

This is the age of education. A majority of the world’s population is educated and being educated. And yet some of the educated choose to ignore their education, and do exactly what uneducated people would do… Did I forget to mention that when you ignore your education it is harmful, mostly to you and your own?

Also, education gives us the light of understanding. The power to distinguish right from wrong, truth from lies. And yet some people choose to buckle under fallacies than protecting their rights and fighting for the truth.

And sometimes, the worst dangers to a happy society are those people who get degrees in the name of education, but believe with all their heart that a certain thing is good, when it is actually an evil.

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My thoughts in reference to prevalent harmful and illogical ideas, behavior, practices, traditions and beliefs.

Heaven/Hell October 26, 2009

Heaven and Hell are a state of mind. After years of debating with myself on the topic of – Heaven and Hell : Do they exist? and Do good and go to Heaven; Sin and collect your passport to Hell, I’ve understood what I needed to understand.

It’s true we are built with a soul, a conscience that comes to life when we do. As a result of which, we spend our life in the quest for roots and belief and God.

We celebrate the good and want to make sense of all things catastrophic, mean, painful, storms, hurricanes, crime…

Which leads us to asking the question, where do we want to be when we die?

Why don’t we ask ourselves this instead – Where do we want to be while we are alive?

Heaven or Hell.

Heaven is created by what we perceive of reality. It is created by our actions and a mind willing to be happy.

Hell is also created by what we perceive of reality. And our actions and a mind unwilling to be happy.

-You can light a candle or curse the darkness.
-You can measure a glass as half full or half empty.
-You can choose to admire the rose or destroy it because it has thorns.

I believe you have got my point.

Winter’s Back! October 26, 2009

Slowly but surely…

The days have started to darken by 5 PM and the nights end with pleasantly cool mornings… so cool, it’w worth rejoicing that you can finally grace the balcony you have with a cup of hot tea or coffee.

And now it’s worthwhile to wake up to welcome the morning! Love it!

And it’s also worth taking a long walk in the evenings..

But I miss those days (a wee bit) of going to office, all dressed up, re-assured by the season that my expensive make up would still be perfectly in place.

Oh, by the way , speaking of mornings. Did I mention that the traffic going to Dubai chokes the road completely? Wonder how these Minibus and other public transport drivers manage to reach passengers to their workplaces in one hour? Especially when getting out of Nahda and on to E311 takes a good whole 40 min in traffic… So what about those people travelling from Rolla? Hubby uses a minibus too! And I’m always so worried especially when he returns home to tell me that there was a horrific accident on E311.

Anyway.

Let me enjoy this morning , staying warm with my tea and curling up in the warmest blanket ever with my daughter.

Banning Minibuses? October 22, 2009

How Lame! LOL. I can’t help it.
The government, RTA, the cops all seem to miss the point.
Why is the Minibus a ticking time bomb which seems to blow up on the road ever so often?

UAE police say: “Common Sense. Right? They are dangerous when over crowded.” and then they want to find a solution to this problem.

Public say: Okay. The buses are fairly light and designed to carry less passengers but how can accidents take place if the bus is light weight? LOL. The light weight issue is a downside to travelling in these buses but not an accident creator! – “Common sense. Catch hold of the drivers. Curb their speed. Fine them. Confiscate the licenses of these drivers.”

Living here for the past 3 years and having interacted with many a public, most of them complain that the bus drivers are superfast. Reaching employees from Sharjah to Sheikh Zayed Road in 1 hour? Reaching from Bur Juman to Internet City in half an hour? Don’t these drivers have to answer their employers about the fines?

A Lebanese co-traveller once got her husband to complain about our bus drivers tendency to over speed. He was reprimanded, but got to drive the bus. And he’d sneer at the Lebanese woman when she’d come in, muttering in Urdu under his breath.

What do you say?

For more, refer to this article in The National.

I must add, that at some point in their pondering, the cops got the point about speeding, licensing et al.

Bravo, Charlie Sheen! September 13, 2009

US Government was behind 9/11 attacks…..

You may find the video here

Now need I say why?

Updates. September 10, 2009

On the darker side of my life, I’m yet not free from a nightmare. And I’m afraid it shall last with me as long as I live. Meanwhile, I will continue to verbally emote.

On the brighter side of my beautiful life, I’m learning patience. Something I wasn’t born with. I get my lessons at 4 am., at my meal times, at her feeding time, at our playing time, my computer time, my cooking time… and my husband has fun watch me learn. Everyone is having fun just by the idea that I’m learning patience. Mom says, “Now you know!!! And just so you know more… she is exactly like you.” Every now and then I get a, “Enjoyed getting attention all the time? Now enjoy giving it.” (Barbie hogs attention all day long and until she sleeps at night. Thank God, she figured out ‘night’ means sleeping 8 hours.)

Yet on the brighter side of my life, I’m looking forward to winter in UAE and enjoying motherhood and being a wife after having become a mother. Some may wonder what the difference is, but many things do change after a child enters coupledom. I’m enjoying online computer games like Farmville and Mob Wars watching Sex and the City (got all 6 seasons). I’m back to blogging, which feels awesome. And yeah, I’m losing weight….

Size 14 is over with, now, I’m a size 12!!!

P.S.: Every rose has a thorn.