Ramadan Kareeem

It's my FAVORITE time of the year.. I just love everything about Ramadan. The slower pace of life, family gatherings, the food, how it highlights the goodness in people and brings us all together.

The Job Hunt

I've been actively job hunting for the past few weeks and I must say it isn't an easy thing to do in this crappy economy .. but alhamdu lillah things are slowly looking better..

I'm more positive now than I was a month or two before about getting the RIGHT job..

On a positive note.. I'm working on starting up my own business, the one I spoke about 6 months back. It's in the design and branding phase and soon I'll take it to the next level. I'm so excited about it and I KNOW that it will succeed if it is done well ..

Updating time

Well my last post was May 10th in which I was complaining about mood swings, the need to travel, stress and not knowing how to post from my BB..

Well let me update you with what happened since:

*May 13th I lost my job as the company's shareholders decided to shut it down
*I took it well the first 2 or 3 weeks then fell into a mild case of depression that resulted in a "Whats wrong with you YaZ?" question whenever I answered the phone or bumped into anyone.
*June 23rd My husband surprised me by a trip to Sharm El Sheekh (Egypt) 16 hrs before the trip and until I reached the airport I realized that:
A. We weren't going alone but our very good couple friends were joining us (& joined my husband in the planning and cover up)
B. That we weren't going to Sharm El Sheekh!! I only knew that when the passport control guy asked about my destination and I answered with confidence Egypt :) he pulled out my ticket with a clueless look! Then my husband rushed back to me and answered him instead: She's going to the Seychelles!!
We celebrated our 6th wedding anniversary in the most beautiful spot on earth. I had the time of my life..
*We traveled again to Beirut and took my son Omar to see his great grandparents and his father's aunts and uncles and we all had a great time there.

Travel always had an unbelievable positive affect on me and there was never a time I needed it more than this.

Anyways.. I'm back now and I'm motivated and ready to look more seriously for a job and get my life back on track..

I STILL didn't figure out the BB posting RSS whatchamacallit thing ...

I need HELP!!

Mood Swings

I've never been a moody person.. I get rare mood swings in certain times of the month but that's pretty much it. However that's not how it's been lately..
My mood shifts on a daily basis from a depressed, pessimistic, unhappy mood to a bubbly, cheerful, positive and hopeful one the next...

What I need is a proper vacation where I travel and live freely and do the things I love and go back to being myself as I've always noticed that I'm the happiest when I travel and that's always been a mystery to me.

Hope things work out for the best..

and hope I learn how to post on this blog from my BB ... I just don't know how to.. Once I'll figure this out I'll manage to post regularly and get things off my chest and share interesting things and incidents the minute they happen..

Is it happening to me?!

I haven't been in the mood for posting here for a while now.. Too much going on.. So much uncertainty and instability going on and I'm frankly fed up with it all..

So I've been having an over active social life..Weekends getaways, weekdays karaoke nights, concerts, Jet Skiing and lazing by the pool, girls gatherings and much more.. everything and anything that would take my mind of whats going on career wise ..

I have great hope that it's all going to be ok.. it's just the not knowing part that bothers..

Anyways.. I'm off to plan my summer vacation...

When it rains here :)

I've lived and been to many parts of the world where ppl consider rain a gray and gloomy day that initiates complaints and grumpiness .... But not here.

Rain in this part of the world is prayed & hoped for and celebrated in a way like nowhere else..

Since rain is so rare kids would skip school and go out to play in the rain.. guys would find silly and obvious excuses to leave work or uni in order to enjoy the weather by taking their sand buggies to the desert.. girls would take long drives in their cars with Mohd Abdu music playing "Unshoodat Al Ma6ar" out laud with a cup of hot karak tea in their hands ... These are the rituals of "rainy days".

So although it took me over 2 hours to reach work today as I couldn't skip it I sat in my car with the music playing all those songs that makes me feel a teenager all over again and considered it as my own little rainy day trip just like the old days ..

Working in the DIFC is a treat for the eye

I normally come to work 1-2 hours before my work starts in order to avoid traffic, go to the gym and get my hair done or in some cases just have some quite me time alone in the nearly empty building..

Lately many of the designers boutiques, chic cafes and restaurants & world class art galleries in DIFC's Gate village has opened like Nina Ricci, Vivian Westwood, Tsumori Chisato, Anya Handmarch, Dries Van Noten, Issey Miyake, Jil Sanders, Marni, Zuma, Opera, Cuadro & Empty Quarter Art gallery and soon Prada, miu miu "& Laduree and many others..

To add on top of that the outdoor sculptures and and art pieces that makes you feel like you're in an outdoor museum..

So coming to work in itself has become like a short visit to a museum or a chic shopping district in one of the art and fashion capitals of the world .. I'm so blessed and I should never take that for granted.. ever..

Mother's Day...

I've always felt that Mother's Day has become another meaningless & overly commercialized holiday where kids pressure their fathers to get "something nice & expensive" for mummy and then mothers subtly mentioning it to other mothers so that the other mother would either try to compete by bragging about how much effort her kids put into making her feel so special or she'll withdraw and feel unloved and worthless because her family (who might be the most loving family) didn't do the same to her..

But hang on.. Now I have my own kids and they too will be pressured by their teachers and endless mother's day promotions displayed everywhere that makes them feel like a bunch of ungrateful and unloving children if they didn't get "something" for mummy ..

So I decided this..

I'll create a family's day tradition that doesn't involve material gifts nor flowers..

I want it to be a day where we spend it entirely together and where we could all sleep in one bed, stay up late, go out or any other memorable experience where we enjoy it as a family... Because the more and more I think about it I realize that these experiences and memories are what will last and mean the most to all of us..