"Life can only be understood backwards, but must be lived forwards." -Soren Kierkegaard
You people are just fantastic!!!!!!…you know just how to keep a girl blubbering on and a writer writing on...keep it up with those comments and emails…love you all xxxxxx
Today had a phone call from one of my friends…Telling me she was pregnant again…(I think this year is not only actors baby blooms season but my friend's as well…just this year I have 3 mamas on the go…) Any way she is " mashalla" meaning =God does as he wills …a mother of already 4 kids and this one( like the others) was "by accident"..or she didn't know "how that happened"…
Ok..lets make things clear!!!!!!..we don't know how we mixed sugar with salt in our "oum 3ali"…(an Arabian sweet that I urge you to try if you didn't)… we don't know how our little brother plays 4 hours in his PSP (a video game) with his eyes popping out and still have a functioning brain…we don't know how after a couple of highlights our hair color turns orange henna fluorescent after a simple contact with sea water + sun…
BUT for God's sake people… por favor... we DO know how we fell pregnant…!!!!!
Unless of course you have a minute memory like "Blue" the Fish in finding Nemo or "he" was just a minute-man… Which either way is not a very good sign…
hmmmmm….poor you..
This scenario back there is a typical female saudi/khaleji scene…
Since the beginning of time in Saudi as well as other Arabian countries…mothers passed to daughters the key to a long lasting marriage…Whether it is a happy one or not: " Bring it on " with the kids…
It reminds me so much of this chocolate kinder surprise invention…you eat the chocolate and poof here is a surprise!…poof here is another one..and another one and another!!!
Since we are not chinese ( the number is not limited) and Do love our kids to grow naturally through their phases ( Too naturally)..unlike Germans, Swiss germans, Austrians (anything that finishes with "ans") and Japanese..
It is not surprising to find a lot of newly weds to be "oh my god! How can it be..I am pregnant!" after only a couple of months…
The purpose of this Golden rule is to "enchain" the husbands to their wives…And the kids to go " Babaaaaaaa abee la3ba!" meaning "Dadddddyyyyy I want a toooooooyyyy!"…." Babaaaaaaa abee sayara!" meaning " Daddddyyyyy I want a caaaarrrr!"…." Babaaaaaaaaaaa abee zey Sarah!" meaning " Daddddyyy I want like Sarah!"…"Babaaaaaaaaa…" meaning " Dadddddddddddddyyyyyyyy!!!!"…
Of course as you can see The "Golden rule" can most of the time function positively for the wife…who can think about something else if you have a squeaking kid(s) 24/7 on your head..????
And an arab kid is NOT like any other kid… First we start as really ugly ducklings that change dramatically as we grow older…I remember a family member who did not believe that this was her newly born son…His fore head was bigger than his body and his nose was like a door slammed on his face!…she told the others to double check with the nurse..lol.. imagine "yashen weldi!!!!" meaning " my ugly son!"…lol
Well actually he turned out to be a handsome young man later on..The more we grow older the more beautiful we are…Unlike a lot of Europeans… when seeing the parents you just cannot believe that this little baby doll is their kid…But that’s how she or he will turn out to be…..like the parents..
Normal kids start talking at 1 or 2…we start yelling at 8 months…Normal kids start walking carefully around the same age…we start jumping from the top of the stairs to arrive faster to the bottom…Want to hear where the baby is in the house????.. Normal kids have a special device put for them in every room to hear them….We don't need one, just follow the sound!…In the playground normal kids stay in their own space where their mother left them with their sand bucket….we finished our castle, destroyed another kids castle, ran around the play ground, and drove our mother or filipinno nanny crazy by going out of the park and in the middle of the road…
If we applied the "calming down" pill that Americans invented for their hyper active children to our kids…We wont have anymore kids….lol..
But the "Golden rule" does not always work.. There comes a time when a man has got to go.. He's got to go ...whether he has one kid or 30…
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hehe i'm glad to say i grew out of the ugly duckling syndrome thing.. can u believe that my mother nearly wept when i was born? my uncle still calls me mouse.. i think i looked like ET.. ;p i was the ugliest baby of the bunch, i cringe when i see my baby pictures (which incidentally are alot compared to my other siblings post the gulf war, i guess the iraqis didn't want my pics i was too ugly to have my pics stolen ;p )
hehe seriously can relate about the changing and becoming better thing we arabs have going for us..
You are writing like a really old woman. Hope you have stunning old woman's looks :-)
Mashael! Im not a Kierkegaard fan but I agree with that phrase. About the Golden rule, I think it is Love. Without him we are nothing so you better live forwards. Some people it confuses the love of a wife and a love of a mother. They try to focus love on their kids to forget a frustrated love for a husband. Women have the same rigth, when a woman has got to go.. She's got to go ...whether she has one kid or 30…
I liked your reference in portuguese thanks.
por favor means please.
حتي في المره القادمه
my daddy didn't have the birds and bees talk with me yet...hmmm...wonder when he's gonna do it. ill just say : "dad, its ok. i already have a bastard child." and wait for the shoe to smack me in the face.
Damn! What an analysis. I see talent here...
baroque: looooooooolll...I am sure you are not that bad...but really darling loooooollll...
shlemazl:It is called being wise and observent and sometimes analytical..see there are three more appropiate synonyms!!!lol:):):):):
luis: very true..that rule applies for women too..which makes me curious about your gender?
n$@n: loooolll...you never know might have one...check with your aquaintances..lol!!!
thanks you guys for your support...lulu..neo and dottson for your very cool comments:):):): keep it up xxxx
Do not think you wont understand portuguese: I'll see that you learn to recognize every word of it, only, off course, if you come and visit me.
I wish to favore you with that heavenly pleasure.
Portuguese Kisses
hehehe loved the golden rule !! great material.
loooooooooooooooooool that was ture on every level possiable
keep up the good material
joshua:love the portuguese hospitality...lol..saudi kisses
abdulla and sweetest sin...thanks for your comments..keep on reading and remember..enjoy!xxxx
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