Postponed
Sunday, May 11, 2008
For the last two weeks we've been receiving lots of visitors, some come in the morning when I'm in college and some come in the afternoon. Mom can't do all the work herself since she has to sit with the visitors and so one of us (me and HNK) has to be there to help, and sometimes the two of us. From 4:30 till 7 and sometimes 8 PM the house is never empty of guests. I come back from college at around 3, take a nap and wakeup to get dressed again and help. When it's all over I just can't study.. I try but can't manage more than an hour of reading. Thankfully we haven't been taking much this week so it wasn't very bad, which is why I was obliged to work more than HNK who had exams.
D -my classmate- came up with an idea that he hesitatingly proposed and got the satisfaction of the class. He thought we should have a 2-hour break, have lunch and do some activities (jokes, poems, ..). My friends were very excited but having been socializing non-stop lately, unlike them, I wasn't excited at all. It was only the fact that we're going to have la7m b3ajeen for lunch (which I have been craving for for say.. 4 years!) that made me willing to attend. The party was scheduled on Sunday after 12 o'clock and was agreed on by the head of the department, the students did their best to get my approval.
La7m b3ajeen, a peace of paste with meat, tomatoes and onion as toppings.. since I don't eat tomatoes nor onion, I was under the impression that I was going to hate it and so never tasted it until I was around 14, and then I just fell in love with it. It has to be from the suq though, and straight from the oven.. and it would be heavenly if it had a well-shaken egg on top of it making it ever more delicious.. Just writing about it makes me smell it. Upon complaining about having not eaten it for ages, dad said that he'd take me to eat after the war.. of course I started laughing and told him there was no need to continue.
My day-dreaming about La7m b3ajeen for the last few days made me worried that it might not taste like it used to.. maybe the shop they'll buy it from won't be as good as the one dad used to buy it from.. maybe it'll get all pasty or maybe there will be large un-ignorable pieces of onion.. I was growing less and less excited about the party.
On Friday night they announced a curfew until further notice. I finally had time to study. I had to write a report for the lab and they told us it was not allowed to type it this time, it has to be hand-written. It was about counters. It was very annoying to draw all the block diagrams and timing diagrams by hand.. and by the time I came to the experiment results I was under the strong impression that the results weren't accurate at all.. As I got to the discussion questions, I was actually praying the "further notice" wouldn't be tomorrow. I desperately needed to check the results with the graduate students working in the lab and the la7m b3ajeen is so not going to meet my standards!
Time went by and there were no news whatsoever of the curfew.. I wrote a whining message for my friend who replied whinigly as well saying she didn't finish the report either and that she thinks the curfew would still be on, and that was that..
Now it's Sunday, 12:30PM, I'm trying to convince myself that I really need not worry about the report till next week but my head just can't help not thinking about it.. and after writing this post I really really want to eat la7m b3ajeen :((
My sister and her husband have rented a house in a suburb near Mosul where they both have to work for some time.. They went there with few of their belongings to check the place and now they're stuck.
Dad is doing very well.. his next operation was scheduled on the 15th next month, I could only wonder who's put a curse on my when I heard the date, that's right in the middle of the finals! Upon seeing the frightened faces of HNK and myself dad decided to put off the operation until the end of the exams thankfully.
Other than the gossip and rumors, Mosul has been very quiet these last two days.. I'm hoping the curfew wouldn't last long or else we aren't going to finish the curriculum and the finals might be put off too and we'd be so doomed! Planning is such an impossibility here.
D -my classmate- came up with an idea that he hesitatingly proposed and got the satisfaction of the class. He thought we should have a 2-hour break, have lunch and do some activities (jokes, poems, ..). My friends were very excited but having been socializing non-stop lately, unlike them, I wasn't excited at all. It was only the fact that we're going to have la7m b3ajeen for lunch (which I have been craving for for say.. 4 years!) that made me willing to attend. The party was scheduled on Sunday after 12 o'clock and was agreed on by the head of the department, the students did their best to get my approval.
La7m b3ajeen, a peace of paste with meat, tomatoes and onion as toppings.. since I don't eat tomatoes nor onion, I was under the impression that I was going to hate it and so never tasted it until I was around 14, and then I just fell in love with it. It has to be from the suq though, and straight from the oven.. and it would be heavenly if it had a well-shaken egg on top of it making it ever more delicious.. Just writing about it makes me smell it. Upon complaining about having not eaten it for ages, dad said that he'd take me to eat after the war.. of course I started laughing and told him there was no need to continue.
My day-dreaming about La7m b3ajeen for the last few days made me worried that it might not taste like it used to.. maybe the shop they'll buy it from won't be as good as the one dad used to buy it from.. maybe it'll get all pasty or maybe there will be large un-ignorable pieces of onion.. I was growing less and less excited about the party.
On Friday night they announced a curfew until further notice. I finally had time to study. I had to write a report for the lab and they told us it was not allowed to type it this time, it has to be hand-written. It was about counters. It was very annoying to draw all the block diagrams and timing diagrams by hand.. and by the time I came to the experiment results I was under the strong impression that the results weren't accurate at all.. As I got to the discussion questions, I was actually praying the "further notice" wouldn't be tomorrow. I desperately needed to check the results with the graduate students working in the lab and the la7m b3ajeen is so not going to meet my standards!
Time went by and there were no news whatsoever of the curfew.. I wrote a whining message for my friend who replied whinigly as well saying she didn't finish the report either and that she thinks the curfew would still be on, and that was that..
Now it's Sunday, 12:30PM, I'm trying to convince myself that I really need not worry about the report till next week but my head just can't help not thinking about it.. and after writing this post I really really want to eat la7m b3ajeen :((
My sister and her husband have rented a house in a suburb near Mosul where they both have to work for some time.. They went there with few of their belongings to check the place and now they're stuck.
Dad is doing very well.. his next operation was scheduled on the 15th next month, I could only wonder who's put a curse on my when I heard the date, that's right in the middle of the finals! Upon seeing the frightened faces of HNK and myself dad decided to put off the operation until the end of the exams thankfully.
Other than the gossip and rumors, Mosul has been very quiet these last two days.. I'm hoping the curfew wouldn't last long or else we aren't going to finish the curriculum and the finals might be put off too and we'd be so doomed! Planning is such an impossibility here.
posted by Najma at 12:48 PM, | 
8 Comments:
you can take this holiday as a recreation, although it really is boring.
ask your mom or grandma for a La7mB3ajeen.
and eat it with your friends on the internet.. be carefull, don't spill it on the LapTop..!
take care..
ask your mom or grandma for a La7mB3ajeen.
and eat it with your friends on the internet.. be carefull, don't spill it on the LapTop..!
take care..
Surreal,
I hate this too.. now we just have to let life go the way it wants to.
No more la7m b3ajeen, I don't think there will be a party any time soon.
And the link is working fine now.. well, since yesterday to be concise.
Hoti,
A recreation of my boredom.. I'm just welcoming it because of the report, I hope it doesn't last till next Sunday or it'll be teetee teetee mithil ma ri7ti jeeti. I didn't study ANYTHING these days.
And home-made la7im b3ajeen doesn't stand a chance if compared with that from the suq.
All my laptop really needs is some bits of meat and onion stuck between the keys!
I hate this too.. now we just have to let life go the way it wants to.
No more la7m b3ajeen, I don't think there will be a party any time soon.
And the link is working fine now.. well, since yesterday to be concise.
Hoti,
A recreation of my boredom.. I'm just welcoming it because of the report, I hope it doesn't last till next Sunday or it'll be teetee teetee mithil ma ri7ti jeeti. I didn't study ANYTHING these days.
And home-made la7im b3ajeen doesn't stand a chance if compared with that from the suq.
All my laptop really needs is some bits of meat and onion stuck between the keys!
I am thinking of you all, Najma.
'Ghost city' Mosul braces for assault on last bastion of al-Qa'ida in Iraq Independent 12 May 2008
Soldiers shoot at any civilian vehicle on the streets in defiance of a strict curfew. Two men, a woman and child in one car which failed to stop were shot dead yesterday by US troops, who issued a statement saying the men were armed and one made "threatening movements".
Mosul, on the Tigris river, is inhabited by 1.4 million people, but has been sealed off from the outside world by hundreds of police and army checkpoints since the Iraqi government offensive against al-Qa'ida began at 4am on Saturday. The operation is a critical part of an attempt to reassert military control over Iraq which has led to heavy fighting in Baghdad and Basra. ... I was in Mosul on the day it was surrendered by Saddam Hussein's forces in 2003. Scenes of joy were succeeded within the space of a few hours by looting and gun battles between Arabs and Kurds. Five years later Mosul, one of the great cities of the world, looks ruinous and under siege. Every alley way is blocked by barricades and the only new building is in the form of concrete blast walls. The fact that the government has to empty the streets of Mosul of its people to establish peace for a few days shows how far the city is from genuine peace.
A note to American readers: there was no Al-Qaida in Iraq before the illegal US-led invasion of 2003.
'Ghost city' Mosul braces for assault on last bastion of al-Qa'ida in Iraq Independent 12 May 2008
Soldiers shoot at any civilian vehicle on the streets in defiance of a strict curfew. Two men, a woman and child in one car which failed to stop were shot dead yesterday by US troops, who issued a statement saying the men were armed and one made "threatening movements".
Mosul, on the Tigris river, is inhabited by 1.4 million people, but has been sealed off from the outside world by hundreds of police and army checkpoints since the Iraqi government offensive against al-Qa'ida began at 4am on Saturday. The operation is a critical part of an attempt to reassert military control over Iraq which has led to heavy fighting in Baghdad and Basra. ... I was in Mosul on the day it was surrendered by Saddam Hussein's forces in 2003. Scenes of joy were succeeded within the space of a few hours by looting and gun battles between Arabs and Kurds. Five years later Mosul, one of the great cities of the world, looks ruinous and under siege. Every alley way is blocked by barricades and the only new building is in the form of concrete blast walls. The fact that the government has to empty the streets of Mosul of its people to establish peace for a few days shows how far the city is from genuine peace.
A note to American readers: there was no Al-Qaida in Iraq before the illegal US-led invasion of 2003.
Dear Najma,
I'm so sorry that things are so chaotic. Please keep being careful. You and HNK certainly have a lot on your minds but I have great confidence in both of you. And I'll pray for you of course, as usual. I hope you enjoy the La7m b3ajeen. (I don't know what the numbers are doing in its name. I guess they must be Arabic letters that don't translate into English.)
I'm so sorry that things are so chaotic. Please keep being careful. You and HNK certainly have a lot on your minds but I have great confidence in both of you. And I'll pray for you of course, as usual. I hope you enjoy the La7m b3ajeen. (I don't know what the numbers are doing in its name. I guess they must be Arabic letters that don't translate into English.)
La7m b3ajeen,,,,
to simplefy things for the western readers
La7m b3ajeen = Laham Ba'ajeen
It's very popular among iraqis (equivalent to the Pan cake in USA).
Made usually of minced beef,tomatoes n onions on a paste in the oven.
I think that there are some variants.
to simplefy things for the western readers
La7m b3ajeen = Laham Ba'ajeen
It's very popular among iraqis (equivalent to the Pan cake in USA).
Made usually of minced beef,tomatoes n onions on a paste in the oven.
I think that there are some variants.
Dear Najma
I read your profile and I discover you was with me in Alfitwia primary school, and me be we know each other so I hope we meat each other in our university, I hope that I read all your blogs really wonderful I like your language and morality I sent you mail to your Gmail but you don’t replay me I fell you afraid because the bad situation in out society don’t hesitate to contact me I'm your colleague like you student , I born I Baghdad in AL Yarmook area near to UAE embassy in the olden days after that I left Baghdad with my family and move to mousl due to the job of my dad , I start my study in AL-fotowa primary school and after graduate a join Alshrkeya preparatory school that lie near to Ashor Hotel ,after that I pass the general exam from the ministry with an average of marks 86 . I felt in desperate
Because I was thinking in the college of engineering department of computer because this is my hobby , I replay the academic year but the vise happen due to the bad circumstance that I faced in that time so I got mark bad more than the previous year
I got 76 average marks in the situation I believe this is my fate from God and I cant
Run away from it ,I encouraged myself and I choose English course because I like English culture so much , and I thanked God because I'm so happy now in this department and I'm number one and for that reason my dad help me and I will go to UK to continue my study there ,
I'm elder than you in one and half year exactly ,I like sport so much I'm member of the challenge gym in mosul near to our university ,I like swimming football ,English program in TV , I speak English in British dialect. i hope you contact me at this mail
bluesky_amh@yahoo.com
I read your profile and I discover you was with me in Alfitwia primary school, and me be we know each other so I hope we meat each other in our university, I hope that I read all your blogs really wonderful I like your language and morality I sent you mail to your Gmail but you don’t replay me I fell you afraid because the bad situation in out society don’t hesitate to contact me I'm your colleague like you student , I born I Baghdad in AL Yarmook area near to UAE embassy in the olden days after that I left Baghdad with my family and move to mousl due to the job of my dad , I start my study in AL-fotowa primary school and after graduate a join Alshrkeya preparatory school that lie near to Ashor Hotel ,after that I pass the general exam from the ministry with an average of marks 86 . I felt in desperate
Because I was thinking in the college of engineering department of computer because this is my hobby , I replay the academic year but the vise happen due to the bad circumstance that I faced in that time so I got mark bad more than the previous year
I got 76 average marks in the situation I believe this is my fate from God and I cant
Run away from it ,I encouraged myself and I choose English course because I like English culture so much , and I thanked God because I'm so happy now in this department and I'm number one and for that reason my dad help me and I will go to UK to continue my study there ,
I'm elder than you in one and half year exactly ,I like sport so much I'm member of the challenge gym in mosul near to our university ,I like swimming football ,English program in TV , I speak English in British dialect. i hope you contact me at this mail
bluesky_amh@yahoo.com
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Thank you.
Thank you.
With this fact am trying hardly to be coexist, Simply.. you can't make a plan for what you are going to eat at the next meal..!
I HATE THIS..! the whole world plan for the next ten years, next vacation, next summer, next life!
Finaly, wish the la7m b3jeen reachs your expectations and BONA PETIT..
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