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7 more days until Eid. :-) I can't remember the last time I was this excited about any holiday. It'll be on a Friday too – extra nice. :-) Like every Eid ul-Fitr it'll begin with a cup of sweet red tea and something light like a croissant and then it's off to the Mosque for beautiful takbeer, short sermon and salat.
Afterwards is where the fun will begin. Everything is still tentative but basically I want to take my wife out for brunch, preferably somewhere scenic. I don't know what we'll do for the afternoon but for the evening- live music would be cool.
Basically go with the flow but those are two components that I want to enjoy (scenic brunch, live music). Heck we might spend the afternoon at Sunway Lagoon waterpark, water-sliding, surfing and whatnot. With Ramadan over it's all good because the energy to enjoy will be there.
Well those are my plans. Share yours if you like.
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eid used to piss me off. one year i took my daughter to the local mosque cuz they always would serve up the dinner as a get together thing. well my kid is really picky and wont touch that nasty food with a ten ft pole, but they ordered pizzas for the kids. hows about i go to get the last 2 slices for her and this fat muslim chick rudely cuts in front of me and piles them onto her plate that was already stacked a mile high with rice, meat and all kinds of stuff she likes. then there were these other two women fighting over some other last morsels of some dish. so ya my daughter ate nothing and i was so disgusted i never returned.
another yr, an egyptian friend who owns a restaurant paid to take the whole mosque that day to a nice restaurant.
then after all is said and done, the men resorted back to their usual ways of sleeping around and smoking.
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“fat muslim chick” + free food = recipe for disaster. I never partook in free food venues, I'm sure the intention of the mosques/organizers is good but seems like a waste of time. I guess they try to immulate “open house” that is prevalent in the Muslim countries/communities. Those as well never appealed to me. I mean it's more of a friends/family thing visiting each other, snacking a bit and then moving on to another home.
It's the reason why every Eid, my wife and I celebrate it together, doing things we enjoy, never looking to celebrate with other people. The Mosque in the morning with the ummah is plenty fine, the rest of the day is just the two of us. Friends and family can expect an SMS/Phone call.
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Not being Muslim, religious and non-Egyptian Eid for me is just a holiday to go to the beach and the pool!!!
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Making sure I get 3 days worth of food in because the shops round my way will all be shut!
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quote:Originally posted by Shanta Qadeama: Making sure I get 3 days worth of food in because the shops round my way will all be shut!
Hahaha. Yeah Cairo metropolitan area can be annoying with so many places closed. Hoard up food and cat food. Ahahaha
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For most of the world anyway. I believe the European Council for Fatwa and Research have decreed that Eid will be September 9th. I'm not faulting them because their calculation is based on the moon sighting on the 8th of September which will be visible in southern Argentina and Chile. The trajectory of the sighting will then gradually move north westerly. Doesn't phase me at all because celebrating Eid on the 9th or 10th is all about intention and if the moon is sighted on the 9th or 10th in my locale then so be it.
I do know come this weekend I will have a new leash on life. To have the luxury to jog during daylight is one of the things I'm looking forward to. Walking down the street and knowing I can walk at any pace without tiring and dehydrating my body is another luxury usually taken for granted. I have a bad yet enjoyable habit of running up flights of stairs, I've been deprived of that too. Making love in the morning, missed that also. I'm sharing some of my reflections, and to sum it up, I miss the vigor that I normally have at all hours of the day.
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i dont have to leave for another 8 hours ...going nuts waiting for the time to pass. and i wouldn't want to spend it any other way then talking to you bb Posts: 9443 | From: USA...... | Registered: Jun 2006
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quote:Originally posted by Chef Mick: i dont have to leave for another 8 hours ...going nuts waiting for the time to pass. and i wouldn't want to spend it any other way then talking to you bb
Thanks Micky. This time tomorrow you'll be in your second home. Have the best time, you truly deserve it. We all know you worked your butt off this past year. *Hugs*
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thanks sweetie.i just wish you were there too , need my sous chef with me.but i know thats way to much to ask for, but i will be meeting some of this gang here so i know you will be here in spirit.xx
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27 days into Ramadan with Shawwal a mere three days away. Prior to holy month commencing my wife and I thought this was going to be a daunting one, especially with us relocating half way around the world. People thought it must've been difficult for us to move and settle whilst fasting. Sure, nothing is ever easy, but Ramadan overshadowed the difficulties and highlighted the blessings. I thought that I would be extra thirsty, running around in tropical heat and humidity, but all I saw were people who appeared thirstier.
They say you never forget your first love, first car, first home, first Ramadan. This isn't the first, but it might just turn out to be the most memorable.
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I have almost all my Eid clothes. I bought 2 shirts, including a white dress shirt that I'll wear in the evening. Also bought a pair of brown leather Eastland sandals. Tomorrow will go downtown to buy a different scent musk and bukhoor (incense). My wife may get henna done, which I hope, because I find it very attractive. Also need to pay the Eid-ul-Fitr zakat (alms) before I forget, like last year. They have kiosks in shopping complexes to do that.
2 more days left, with a 5% probability that tommorow will be the last day Ramadan. Oh well had a good several year run of 29 days Ramadan.
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Happy days. I hear it is very different now.. in fact I have friends who call it Little Britain!
The also call it Hamam as-Saudia (The Saudi Toliet) Apparently becuase Saudis cross over the border bridge in droves during weekends to indulge in things they can't in Saudi Arabia. Kind of hypocritcial because the only toliet on the Arabian peninsula is the Saudi capital, Riyadh.
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No more waiting, as the Eve of Eid is upon us in the Far East. The festive air definitely feels great. What a beautiful journey the past 30 days have been. Incidentally today was the hardest fast day, apparently a reminder by Ramadan that not all holy months will be smooth sailing. That's cool, but the only thing on my mind now is celebration.
The next step is to properly welcome the month of Shawwal at Eid prayers tomorrow morning at 8:30am.
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Having a lazy day off. Tonight been invited to an Egyptian friend and his wife for an Eid meal which I'm looking forward to it.
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Eid has come to an end, although radio stations and department stores continue to play festive songs. I especially love “Suasana Hari Raya” by Anuar Zain and Ellina. There's a custom here where couples wear matching colors for Eid, some entire families do the same as well.
It was a lovely holiday, one that I felt, and this isn't something that comes too easily or often. It actually seemed like one continuous day from Friday until yesterday. Also made the chick very happy and made good on my promise to take her back to Ikea to pick out furniture, which I did Sunday. I'll give here a 10/10, we have different taste at times. But she choose some really cool stuff, I especially liked the dark grey 3 seater karlstad. I wanted this large picture of a London street that was black and white but with a tilted double decker facing straight in a colorful red, nice, but at that point my stomach started begging for food. And this lead us to Ikea's Swedish meatballs, what can I say?! OMG they were amazing. Will certainly have to look into Swedish cuisine if that's an indication of how Swedish food tastes.
So yeah, it was a very nice Eid, I tried my best to make my wife happy and also find time for happy hour session with a little pool for me.
Wishing you all had a lovely Eid.
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