tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-361994102024-03-05T20:04:07.268+03:00My Jerusalem......Every one of us has his own Jerusalem....Jerusalem is THE lost city....its THE name.. its THE dream and everybody is looking for it, its the utopia that never came true and will never come true as long as its imagination is bigger than its reality...Hind Sabanekhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320138873064787701noreply@blogger.comBlogger92125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36199410.post-61389065618302550412013-01-22T19:22:00.001+03:002013-01-22T19:22:50.644+03:00My thoughts on the former parliament video<p dir=ltr>I bet many of you have watched the video scam that went viral on YouTube this week, click <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt8dC7JUrVI&feature=youtube_gdata_player">here</a> to watch it if you haven't.</p>
<p dir=ltr>I actually found it rather funny. They're normal people just like the rest of us, and to be honest as a musician I can actually easily relate to them even though I know absolutely nothing about politics and I actually couldn't care less for politics to begin with. </p>
<p dir=ltr>An orchestra as many of you know is a group of performers playing various musical instruments including especially stringed instruments, wood winds, brass, and percussion for playing music as operas, symphonies, popular music and other compositions. </p>
<p dir=ltr>The orchestra is conducted by a conductor or a maestro that has the ultimate authority in such an ensemble, his gestures, orders and body language give the composition it's figure and it's interpretation, in other words his leadership and the musicians abidance to his remarks makes a performance successful or an absolute mess. </p>
<p dir=ltr>Enough with introduction to music 101 and I'll let you know how I see it, why it all makes sense, the parliament is the orchestra, orchestra is made of string players, oboists, flautist, horn players and so is the parliament, we have doctors, lawyers, engineers ...etc the parliament is also lead by the "maestro". </p>
<p dir=ltr>You see musicians do the same, after any orchestra performance we face the audience, some of which think we did a great job, ones who think our interpretation (which is actually not ours but the maestro's) was awful and others who know nothing about the whole performance, these are the audience and when it comes to politics you can call them the people. Afterwards as musicians we congratulate each other for this great out come and congratulate the maestro for his leadership and taste which you can call in politics ass kissing (being a yes-man or a yes-person) after all that ass kissing we gather in groups to chill. Lets see, whom will I go out with after the performance?  Definitely not my friends, for sure the most popular who is so good at his/her instrument. suddenly we're the powerful ones, we have a drink or two regardless of our religious orientation, loosen up a bit and then gossip about everything and critisis everyone, without taking into consideration that we too were performers (parliamentarians) at that crapy concert (parliament session), that we too are to blame for the hideous interpretation of Beethoven's 9th and we were the ones that followed the maestro (The MAESTRO) to the smallest detail without saying no because we were taught that in orchestra etiquette we should NEVER TALK BACK OR ARGUE WITH THE MAESTRO EVEN IF HE'S WRONG AND WE'RE RIGHT. And the end of the night we usually notice a fellow musician sitting there listening without participating and all of a sudden the next day everybody knows about everything because news travel fast. </p>
<p dir=ltr>So the parliament was dissolved and so was the Amman symphony orchestra and the maestro still stands tall, head high waiting for the next orchestra order to lead, hoping to actually establish something this time, but he did not take into consideration that his next orchestra will have the same performers because that's what's there!<br>
Call is funny call is sarcasm heck call it irony of what ever you want.</p>
<p dir=ltr>Bottom line:</p>
<p dir=ltr>Parliament and orchestras .. same same</p>
Hind Sabanekhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320138873064787701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36199410.post-71836790180778174332011-01-15T19:44:00.000+02:002011-01-15T19:44:02.350+02:00its been a while....I hate it when I do this, I never start something and carry on doing it, I have been thinking about writing a blog for so long now where I reached to a point where I imagine my self doing it, it reached to a level where I BELIEVE I've added a blog every other day, then I finally woke up and smelled the coffee, its just a pain!<br />
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Thank you all for your support, your comments and emails asking me to go back to writing, to go back to something apparently I was good at.<br />
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more blogs soon to come....Hind Sabanekhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320138873064787701noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36199410.post-27498508306622869462010-04-29T19:50:00.000+03:002010-04-29T19:50:10.127+03:00My Latest Taxixperience<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">I Rarely take Taxi to get me to wherever I want to go, but unfortunately my car is in maintenance for the past 5 days or so, I had to take those flashy yellow cars to every destination i must go to. Basically I don't find my self a type of person who chats with taxi drivers they all talk about the same thing as if they are the same person in a million different bodies tossed around sharing the same "misery". </span></span><b></b><br />
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</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">so he took a wrong turn and I pointed it out that he was not supposed to go from that way... and that's were it all started.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Driver: عمو please I am very sorry, extremely sorry يا عمي</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Me: له يا عمو مش مشكلة الواحد بخربش, مو مشكلة</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Driver: والله ماكان قصدي يا عمو سامحيني.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">after few minutes</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Driver: do you work there (extreme american accent)</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Me: yes</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Driver: I'm sorry بس شو بتشتغلي يا عمو؟</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Me: I'm a music teacher</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Driver:HERE IN JORDAN...... where did you obtain your degree?</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Me: من المعهد الوطني للموسيقى</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Driver: يا عمو you want to convince me there's a music conservatory in this part of the world.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Me: yes الحمدلله</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Driver: So what instrument?</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Me: the trumpet.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Driver: I don't believe that I am driving a girl that plays trumpet and in Jordan, it seems that God does exist in this part of the world...</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Me: **no comments**</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Driver: يا عمو I know I sound nosy to you, and that I don't mind my own business but I found it interesting that a girl is playing the trumpet, this rarely happens.... Don't laugh at me if i tell you why I'm driving a Taxi its on my list.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Me: عمو الشغل مو عيب. المهم الواحد يكون يطلع مصروفه و يدبر حاله</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Driver:عمو انا مو شوفير تكسي, انا من 31 سنة و انا برة الاردن و حلم حياتي اسوق تكسي باسواْ مكان للسواقة.... عمان..... </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">عمو انا I've been a pilot for the American Airlines for the past 10 years, but I wanted to try the highs and lows I love flying but I wanted to try driving. So I came to Jordan I thought I'll visit my home town and I will show my wife and my daughter the city as they have never been here, we came 2 months ago my, my wife said you either get me a divorce or you send me back to the state, and my daughter was about to be FORCED to marry a relative because of what those ignorant people call شرف as if they have any of it. so this is my last week in this country we are leaving back. but I just can't believe it! how do you do it! how do you cope, I am 63 years old I can cry, this is not a country this is hell, there is no art, there is no music, youth have no proper life here, how do you do that.....</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Me: we have to work things through, I am not happy as a musician in Jordan but I am trying to be.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">by this time we were almost there</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Driver: يا عمو انا بتمنى يكون في كمان ناس مثلك بس unfortunately this does not happen here! good luck</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Bla Bla Blaaaahhhhh.... I know its just one of those cliches where I feel betrayed by my own country and all that none sense nor we can deny that what he is saying is actually true, I just found it coming from him very weird, usually its the other way around I nag shout fight and scream about how unfair this country is and then an elder person tells me what I'm doing and saying is wrong, I found it very weird coming from him and yes it is true!</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
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</span></span></div>Hind Sabanekhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320138873064787701noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36199410.post-43656288086194510522010-04-27T13:44:00.000+03:002010-04-27T13:44:20.645+03:00Jordan, Enjoy your Independence while it lasts....<div style="font-family: inherit;"></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Those who know me and follow my blog know that I am a teacher, I teach the next generation, I am building the future, I am..... never mind that is not the issue and I am not the center of the universe and the world does not revolve around me I only have to do my job..</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">As a music teacher at a very important school in Amman the music department is preparing for the independence day event that almost all grade levels will participate in, yesterday when I had one of my classes a students came to me and asked:</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Student #1</b>: " Miss so, we are doing two events one for the independence day and the other one for عيد الاستقلال؟" </div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Me</b>: **I stared at him for 10 seconds**</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Student #2</b>: " Miss, Whats the difference between the Independence day and عيد الاستقلال؟"</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Me</b>: Oh, you don't know? the Independence day is on the 25th of may while عيد الاستقلال في يوم 25 ايار.</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Students#1</b>: " Oh, I did not know that." </div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">It's better done in a different way when "youth" don't know the difference between the Independence day and عيد الاستقلال its no longer a matter of education, knowledge, or understanding, its a matter of national security and a nation's future driven down the path of the unknown towards the unknown ! </div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">To whom it may concern, </div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl" style="direction: rtl; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; unicode-bidi: embed;"><i><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;"><b>نحن الشباب</b> لنا الغد ومجده المخلد</span></i><i><span dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl" style="direction: rtl; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; unicode-bidi: embed;"><i><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;"> نحن الشباب شعارنا على الزمن عاش الوطن ..</span></i><i><span dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl" style="direction: rtl; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; unicode-bidi: embed;"><i><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;"> عاش <b>الوطن</b> بعنا له يوم المحن أرواحنا <b>بلا ثمن</b></span></i><i><span dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl" style="direction: rtl; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; unicode-bidi: embed;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;"> <span lang="AR-SA">يا وطني عداك دم مثل كمن يرعى الذمم</span></span></i><i><span dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl" style="direction: rtl; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; unicode-bidi: embed;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;"> <span lang="AR-SA">علمتنا كيف الشمم و كيف يرفع<b> العلم</b></span></span></i><i><span dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl" style="direction: rtl; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; unicode-bidi: embed;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;"> <span lang="AR-SA">نحن الشباب السفح و الجداول و الحقل و السنابل</span></span></i><i><span dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl" style="direction: rtl; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; unicode-bidi: embed;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;"> <span lang="AR-SA">و ما بنى <b>الأوائل</b> نحن له معاقل </span></span></i><i><span dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl" style="direction: rtl; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; unicode-bidi: embed;"><i><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;"><b>الدين</b> في قلوبنا و النور في عيوننا و<b> الحق</b> في يميننا</span></i><i><span dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl" style="direction: rtl; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; unicode-bidi: embed;"><i><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;"> و <b>الغار</b> في <b>جبيننا</b> نحن الشباب لنا الغد </span></i></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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</style><i><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><i><span dir="ltr"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>Hind Sabanekhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320138873064787701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36199410.post-939367595490605192010-04-06T13:02:00.001+03:002010-04-06T13:06:14.778+03:00Even adults don't pay attention!!Today is our first day back to school after a two week midterm and Easter break BOOOHOOOOOO, no kids at school today its a normal orientation on set meeting day where heads of departments talk and talk non stop about issues that are of our "concern" (or to put it in a MYP language our AOI) <br />
I find it very weird how teachers were acting in the meeting(s), two teachers beside me were trying to pop a candy out of the candy wrap and it was so loud they started laughing and acting like Mr. Bean when he was at church, while the other teacher in front of me was loving the fact that he can make origami flowers out of post it notes while his colleague was sniffing it to see if it actually smells good. Teachers were acting just like teenage students, making fun of the person in front of them, telling jokes, even playing tic tac toe and hangman on the brain storming scrap sheets, even doodling while the MYP coordinator was still giving out important information. I am not criticizing any of the teachers I am not better than any of them the Coordinator asked us to finish a task and hand it back in the next 20 minutes and here I am blogging about it! I wonder whats for lunch today, should I text mom from under the table so no one notices.....Hind Sabanekhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320138873064787701noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36199410.post-57488429806432842232010-03-11T11:41:00.001+02:002010-03-11T11:43:29.138+02:00Why Haiti my niece asked?<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></meta><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 12" name="Generator"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 12" name="Originator"></meta><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CH9BF0%7E1.SAB%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CH9BF0%7E1.SAB%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx" rel="themeData"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CH9BF0%7E1.SAB%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml" rel="colorSchemeMapping"></link><style>
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</style> We all heard about the catastrophic <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Haiti_earthquake">Haiti earthquake</a> that happened earlier this year and I am also sure you heard about all the aids that were sent to Haiti from all over the world, its the least we could do of course our prayers to God the all mighty to help them in putting an end to their misery, in the end everything does happen for a reason. This is not the main reason behind this post, its because I had to face a question from a 6 year old that pushed me to publish this.<br />
My niece Yasmine goes to the same school I teach at the <a href="http://www,iaa.edu.jo/">IAA</a>, currently this school is supposed to be one of the best schools in the Kingdom, since the catastrophic earthquake the blasted its way through on the 12th of January 2010 the school became highly active organizing clothes and books drives, bake sales, selling black T-shirts with Help Haiti printed on them as well as having <a href="http://www.unicef.org.uk/myfundraising/ViewFundraiser.aspx?web=twelveterrificteachers">Twelve Terrific Teachers</a> from the school who ran the 242km marathon to raise funds for Haiti.<br />
The T-shirts where sold to almost all the students, and to make them more appealing to 1st graders they were white and printed on them was the class photo underneath help Haiti, Yasmine bought the T-shirt because all her classmates did so, she came to me wearing it and she’s showing it off to everyone and she said to me: "you know Hind why I bought this T-shirt?" why? I asked she replied:<br />
"<i>only because it has me and my friends on it, I don't understand Hind WHY HAITI, I know about the earthquake and all those who died but it was an accident and accidents happen, why didn't they do this bake sale and T-shirts or even run the marathon for PALESTINE? Why?" </i><br />
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I didn't know what to answer I just stood in front of her and said Yasmine its lunch time take off your school clothes, and she ended the conversation with <i>Oh, it seems that you do not know what’s happening in Palestine, never mind Hind, I'll tell you later.</i><br />
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Yasmine, it’s not that I don’t know what is happening, its only because I do not want to remember!<br />
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</div>Hind Sabanekhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320138873064787701noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36199410.post-26454487020732201892010-01-19T22:52:00.000+02:002010-01-19T22:52:28.741+02:00Happy New Year............things I miss....Happy new year??? I know its too late for that, but for me my year just started, it was only till last week where I felt that things are going on normally and maybe sort of blooming! I don't know how I reached this level of disorientation if I may put it in such a context, but maybe I will find my way back home, who knows! I hope you have a great year........ filled with happiness that's because I believe that happiness brings money and success and laughter not the other way around.... after what I have been through I know for sure no matter what, that I will have a better year!<br />
I don't have a new years resolution, but I do miss a lot of things that I do hope to see/do this year:<br />
<ol><li>I miss the Zayeds (no exceptions) </li>
<li>I miss Silwadi Juice</li>
<li>Za3tar ou Zeit</li>
<li>Rukab Street </li>
<li>Having breakfast with Peter with a nasty hangover </li>
<li>Christine, Basel & Tobi :) </li>
<li>Abu Khaleeel </li>
<li>Taboun Zaman </li>
<li>STONES </li>
<li>Taybeh & its festival</li>
<li>SNOWBAR</li>
<li>3amo 3amer </li>
<li>Playing Music</li>
<li>MARTIN, the weird steps while going towards BLUE!!!</li>
<li>4 shekel to birzeit 7.5 to Jerusalem & 25 to Bethlehem<br />
</li>
</ol><br />
In other words I miss Ramallah! Will I ever go back!Hind Sabanekhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320138873064787701noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36199410.post-31655188096534520362010-01-05T20:59:00.002+02:002010-01-05T21:24:53.900+02:00أميَة<div style="text-align: right; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:130%;">فكرة سريعة, مابعرف مصدرها بسسسسس.....<br />مش هون المهم, المبدأ من وين اشتقينا كلمة أمي, هذا شخص أمي؟؟؟؟ يعني لفيت و درت براسي و ما طلع معي غير انو ممكن تكون لانو بالزمنات كتير من الامهات ما كانو يقرو ولا يكتبو, بس بصراحة عمين عم نتخوت... ما لقيت حالي غير عم بفكر انو كلمة امي ممكن تكون جاي من كلمة امة, و هلا عرفت لييش بحكو برنامج محو امبة........ الله يستر!<br /></span></div>Hind Sabanekhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320138873064787701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36199410.post-44662113768261947952009-12-27T13:33:00.002+02:002009-12-27T13:45:42.315+02:00This time last year......I am not going to start my post with Gaza, and supporting its people, I am very sorry for them I detest what has happened and what is still happening, I also will not use the will never forget will never forgive crap, because yes we, as ignorant, non believers, and needless to say we're all about talk talk talk bla bla bla (mara7 yitla3 bi2eedna shiiiii) we dont know how to forgive to forgive in the first place and then the forget part, sorry but what the heck can we chickens do, grow up, its said that vengeance is for God, even though I some times say beware I do tend to steal it from him but what the heck, nothing can be done!! or even SAID we did this to our selves we better live with the consequences......<br />This time last year I wasnt here, I was in Palestine, I was alive.... now after going through what I have went through I wish I could go back there!!! I miss the beauty of living..Hind Sabanekhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320138873064787701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36199410.post-83061316297917959672009-04-27T09:00:00.003+03:002009-04-27T09:12:57.756+03:00This is just to remind meSo I decided to visit Amman, after 9 months of being away! I can't deny that I have missed it, but damn its different, the people are different, I <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">don't</span> know maybe I have changed. this is just to remind me one day of my feelings that I had when I came back to visit my family. this is just to remind me how I enjoyed the first three days doing all these pranks on family members and friends, and t his is just to remind me that my feelings haven't changed towards some elements hatred is still there, and this is just to remind me about my nervous break down that I had when i visited my school and where I worked and <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">in front</span> of my kids I cried like a baby, I never realized that the Amman Baptist School music suite was my haven back then, and I knew I wasn't ready to visit it because I <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">wasn't</span> ready to leave it when I left it........<br />To many mixed up feelings, too much negative energy <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">surrounds</span> my aurora, I know for sure now that I want to leave!Hind Sabanekhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320138873064787701noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36199410.post-49286769029578983172009-03-05T13:10:00.001+02:002009-03-05T13:10:39.533+02:00I walk down the street....<ol><li>I walk down the street, there's a deep hole in the side walk, I fall in. I am lost. I am helpless. It isn't my fault. It takes years to find a way out!</li><li>I walk down the street, there's a deep hole in the side walk, I pretend I don't see it. I fall in. I cant believe I'm in the same place!! But its not my fault, it still takes a long time to get out..</li><li>I walk down the street, there's a deep hole in the side walk, I see it there, I STILL fall in, its a habit... My eyes are open, I know where I am, its all my fault. I get out immediately.</li><li>I walk down the street, there's a deep hole in the side walk...... I walk around it.</li><li>I walk down the street, No No No!! I walk down a different street..........</li></ol>Hind Sabanekhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320138873064787701noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36199410.post-17717700986491308842009-02-25T18:21:00.004+02:002009-02-28T17:20:41.890+02:00My Mom's PHONE BOOKI Have always wanted to blog about this, I hope my mom reads it!<br />My mom has the world most funniest<span style="font-weight: bold;"> phone book</span> ever, its so hilarious it makes me angry whenever I have to use it, especially when Mom calls when I am at home and asks me for a number...<br /><br />it might sound like this:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">MOM</span>: Hind a3tini raqam il taxi (<span style="font-style: italic;">give me the taxi number</span>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">ME</span>: ok......<br /><br />so the journey begins:<br /><br />I look under <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />T</span> for taxi but NO LUCK<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">M</span> for muwasalat.... no luck<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">W</span> for wheels NO LUCK....<br /><br />SO I GIVE UP!!! I call the directory and text her the number!!!<br /><br />but never mind this is only one of those Numerous examples! this one cracks me up, I cant stop laughing when ever I think of it.....<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mom</span>: Hind i7ki ma3 JET ou i7jizili bukra 3ala Suurya (<span style="font-style: italic;">please call the JET company and book a ticket to Syria)</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">ME</span>: wein il raqam (<span style="font-style: italic;"> where is the number</span>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">MOM:</span> bil daftar ya3ni Hind wein biddo ykuun (<span style="font-style: italic;">in the phone book where would it be</span>) then she giggles because I sigh in a weird way which she totally understands.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />ME: </span>ok Yamma<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>FRUSTRATED....<br /><br />I look under<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">M</span> for MUWASALAT<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">J</span> for JET<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">B</span> for BUS<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">S</span> for SYRIA or SOMETHING<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">A </span>for ANYWHERE<br /><br />And as usual, I call back and kindly say: "I couldn't find it"<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">ME: </span>mama ma la2eito (I c<span style="font-style: italic;">ouldn't find i</span>t)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">MOM</span>: dawri mnee7 (<span style="font-style: italic;">search well</span>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">ME</span>: WEIN BIL ZABT (<span style="font-style: italic;">where exactly</span>) its not under <span style="font-weight: bold;">M J B S A </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">MOM</span>:Yimken lazem tdawri 3ind (93) (<span style="font-style: italic;"> maybe you should look under A</span>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">ME: </span>WHAT THE...... WHY 3 ??<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">MOM</span>: 3ashano bil 3abdali (its under A because its located in the ABDALI)<br /><br />I still cant figure out how she does this, because this was only the Jet bus company.... I bet my number would be stored under D because I am her Daughter, while my Fathers number is under O because he's Outta Town!!!Hind Sabanekhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320138873064787701noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36199410.post-25681451514369437862009-02-15T22:47:00.003+02:002009-02-15T23:24:09.401+02:006 Months= Half a year... random thoughtsI never thought about it! but yup... tomorrow February the 16<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">th</span> marks HALF a YEAR for me HIND <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">SABANEKH</span><br /><br />Half a year....<br />-Away from Amman<br />-Away from my Home, Family, BED!!!<br />-Away from my friends.....<br /><br />HALF A YEAR<br />-In heaven<br />-heading towards my goals and dreams<br />.......................................................................................................................<br /><strong>HIGHLIGHT OF FEELINGS</strong><br /><strong></strong><br />It was only yesterday when I came here... but its not!<br />I remember August was a dream come true,<br />I remember in September I <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">couldn't</span> believe I was here<br />I remember in October My first HOME Solo concert <br />after that in November I packed my bag to leave<br />..............I CHANGED MY MIND..................<br />I remember in December I cried my way to sleep<br />Then it was the New year......<br />January marked a glorious beginning<br />and <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">February</span> is just the same<br /><br />........................................................................<br /><br />To Mom,<br />I miss you so much, I Love you too! stop crying... I'll be back soon... I hope<br /><br />To Dad,<br />I can't find the right words to tell you THANKS!! for what??? for letting me do this!<br /><br />To <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Wael</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Shireen</span> , and Nick My brothers and sister,<br />I am not crazy, I am not silly... I know what I am doing... thanks for standing beside me! You are all the best<br /><br />To <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Hussam</span> MY FAVORITE brother,<br />I Love you more than words, and I miss you more that anything and anyone!! I miss getting on your <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">nerves</span>, I miss everything about you... even your silly childish <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">pronunciation</span>....<br />I miss you getting on my nerves... fighting for the car..... or anything else!! I know I have been a pain in the ass, but you'll always be my favorite brother... I love you... you were the only one who never doubted me... you always believed in me! I know you still do!<br /><br />Dear Friends,<br />you know who you are, I miss you....<br />..............................................................................................................<br /><br />6months= half a year!<br />thats only the beginning!Hind Sabanekhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320138873064787701noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36199410.post-16432332593905243552009-02-08T10:22:00.002+02:002009-02-08T10:46:18.149+02:00Its The little things that count..I have been away since August 16th, I won't deny that I went through the "homesickness" syndrome for a while in the beginning but I got over it quickly, everybody here was so supportive and friendly..... but what I miss is the little stuff that made my life unique back then in Amman:<br />1. I miss PLAY and MOOD FM most.<br />2. I miss my Sameera (my car) and driving in the streets pumpinng the volume up listening either to clasical music or techno.<br />3. I miss my Garden<br />4. I miss my students<br />5. I miss Muna's room<br />6. I miss driving Hussam my brother crazy and we might end up fighting and hitting each other! :D<br />7. I miss the way my nephew pronounces my name! <br />......<br />its the small things that count in the end....Hind Sabanekhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320138873064787701noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36199410.post-20188753965324469242009-02-08T00:17:00.002+02:002009-02-08T11:08:47.172+02:00If You're happy and you know it THINK AGAIN!!!!<span style="color:#ffffff;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">I often ask my self this question, AM I HAPPY??? well so what even if I am WHY the hell am I happy, whats there to be happy about!! so here comes the THINK AGAIN part......<br /><br /><br /><br />I am not <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">pessimistic</span>, on the contrary, people around me often beg me to change my funny, happy personality they say its TOO MUCH, damn it people now there's a level for happiness as well ..... so I usually try to get to the meaning of this H word, and what I came up with is that the secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it. SO SHOULD I LIE!!! well to be honest no one is the main cause of my Happiness (thats if I had it), but then I rememer Aristotle's famous words: "Happiness depends upon ourselves." thats why I am happy!!! I cause it and I end it and I don't intend to any time soon!<br /></span><br /><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></span>Hind Sabanekhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320138873064787701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36199410.post-83548322467705778922009-01-17T12:39:00.002+02:002009-01-17T13:03:02.709+02:00RIP Amer Madi.Yesterday, January 16th 2009, Jordan has lost an important person, one of the great Jordanian musicians/composers of all times in my opinion at least Mr. Amer Madi, may your soul rest in peace.<br />It was only yesterday when me and you used to sit down at your home and make fun of everything and talk about anything, I will never forget how you used to ask me about all these difficult rhythms that i must have known, nor will I forget the way you believed in me, you believed in me in a way no one has ever done. <br />You were more than a musician to me, you were a mentor, a teacher, and a Father.<br /><br />Oubaida, <br />your father had a lot of achievements, fortunately you were one of them and by far the best, may God give you and your wonderful mom the strength to continue what he started,<br />I know what your father meant to you and I am so sorry I can't be in Amman to stand right there beside you. <br /><br />Funeral Blues, is my current blues scale..... if it had notes it would sound something like this!<br /><br /><br />Funeral Blues<br /> <br />Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,<br />Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,<br />Silence the pianos and with muffled drum<br />Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.<br /><br />Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead<br />Scribbling on the sky the message He is Dead.<br />Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,<br />Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.<br /><br />He was my North, my South, my East and West,<br />My working week and my Sunday rest,<br />My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;<br />I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.<br /><br />The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,<br />Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun,<br />Pour away the ocean and sweep up the woods;<br />For nothing now can ever come to any good.<br /><br />W.H. AudenHind Sabanekhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320138873064787701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36199410.post-63839017514370817502009-01-10T00:10:00.006+02:002009-01-10T00:36:20.931+02:00Counting my way to SLEEP!!!!!Have you ever had to count anything jump over any other thing so you can fall asleep??<br />I have and I bet you have done this as well, such as how many goats/sheep can jump over the fence? how many cars pass in a certain street?...etc<br /><br />when ever I think of this sleeping "technique" if I may call it that way, I remember a joke in which a person has not been able to fall asleep for a long time, so he went to doctors, took pills did everything and still it all didn't work until one day one of his friends told him to go and count until one thousand!!! He thought he'll give it a try, and so he did, he put him self in bed started counting and by the time he reached 600 he got extremely sleepy, he got out of bed and washed his face in order to continue!!!<br /><br />The other night I couldn't sleep, so I decided to count something. I didn't feel like counting, sheep, cars, or numbers.<br /><br />What I counted was how many Israelis could be kicked higher than the wall and drop dead, and believe me that wasn't a nice thing to count, I didn't fall asleep until I managed to kick almost every single one of them, I was so sleepy I asked for help, I even started kicking them out in twos I also managed to get a couple of my niece's imaginary friends to do so as well....<br /><br />I wish we can do that one day! Just kick them out before we go to bed, wake up the next morning and it's all good, and all gone!!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6QJSw8jXIFuv87wFF7QNOWzy4MJGpn99nDEd1NPeeaMZeJi7g0S5OM10wT-jZduE33QeNOIdeaH5BUsmlZwaWk3yEJ21lzD6r9Lumaixxy98eV0g9qRvALsypgOxANGWIyfVo/s1600-h/n507849149_1339765_9549.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6QJSw8jXIFuv87wFF7QNOWzy4MJGpn99nDEd1NPeeaMZeJi7g0S5OM10wT-jZduE33QeNOIdeaH5BUsmlZwaWk3yEJ21lzD6r9Lumaixxy98eV0g9qRvALsypgOxANGWIyfVo/s320/n507849149_1339765_9549.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289426191212119074" border="0" /></a>Hind Sabanekhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320138873064787701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36199410.post-24094724614510024622008-12-21T12:12:00.004+02:002008-12-21T12:28:13.759+02:00قل لي من تصاحب، أقول لك من أنت<div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size:130%;">فن التلاعب بالكلمات مع شوية زناخة....<br />الاول للثاني يا مان : قل لي من تصاحب، أقول لك من أنت<br />الثاني للاول: من تصاحب<br />الاول: من انت<br /><br />و شكراً<br /><br /></span></div>Hind Sabanekhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320138873064787701noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36199410.post-6673935453133101642008-12-16T19:30:00.002+02:002008-12-16T19:47:02.301+02:00Its CHRISTMASits such a nice season, I enjoy every part of it!<br />any ways that's not why I'm blogging, basically I hate it when everybody types Merry Xmass...<br />its wrong, its CHRISTMAS which is CHRIST+MASS<br />we all know who Jesus Christ is and Mass/Mas/Masse is a church celebration or just a celebration so we are celebrating Christ, by using X instead of Christ you are celebrating X which is not Christ, don't do abbreviations to save time, because by using X you are taking out the main element in Christmas which is the Christ.....<br /><br />HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!!!Hind Sabanekhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320138873064787701noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36199410.post-35155308950372989492008-12-11T03:18:00.004+02:002008-12-12T19:41:21.011+02:00<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278339186820467858" style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDYf_WDtiJNZoQTjj-eU-huDsEh2mN5Xoy1SbYMVAH4qPy3aXpJioMAbS-AS7v7NqwMG0aJB6KDiUVBqmOMu89oUNDKkgon_NdV1psxrmxfo3aUGleqSo1kHjnE4rXzXHSKqFI/s320/Hind+Nazareth+2008+051.JPG" border="0" /><br />If for one moment I start talking about people her and about their qualities you will come and shut me up because I won't shut up, people's kindness, HONESTY, and sweetness here kills......<br />even when it comes to taxi drivers, they are amazing, a taxi driver drove me 2 times to where I live, the next time he saw me he honked his horn and told me he's going my direction if I wanted a lift.... <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">ain't</span> that sweet!!!<br />I don't <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">think</span> I can ever leave this place on earth, its almost heaven, it just has extra people that need to be <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">evacuated</span> and it'll be heaven...Hind Sabanekhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320138873064787701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36199410.post-11675076884783199152008-12-11T02:56:00.001+02:002008-12-11T03:04:17.793+02:00من بعض ما أرى وأسمع<div align="right">عابر سبيل كان، وأصبح صديق عريق ولربما صديق قديم.سجن مرات عدة، وكان ما يلبث أن يفرج عنه إلا وأن يعاود و يعود، أجمل أيام حياته قاضاها في السجن، هذا ما قاله لي، كان يحزن حينما يفرج عنه ويحن للزنزانة، كان يخرج ليطمئن على عائلته، ولكن حبه للزنزانة طغى الى حبه لعائلته، أو بالأحرى حبه لوطنه كان الفاعل في جملة حياته.<br />ذهبت لأزوره في منزله، ولفتت انتباهي جملةٌ معلقةٌ على حائط غرفة الجلوس، فضولي طلب مني معرفة </div><div align="right">قصة هذه الجملة، فقال لي:هذه الجملة رافقتني في كل زنزانة دخلتها، رافقتني، وعزتني، كانت رفيقة دربي<br /></div><div align="right">سأصبر حتى يعجز الصبر عن صبري</div><div align="right"> واصبر حتى يأذن الله في أمري</div><div align="right">واصبر حتى يعلم الصبر انني صابر على</div><div align="right">شيء أمر من الصبر </div>Hind Sabanekhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320138873064787701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36199410.post-52058420867317503942008-09-13T13:21:00.003+03:002008-09-13T14:11:04.353+03:00I did it.....3 months a go I applied for a visa to go to Palestine in order to participate in the Palestine Youth Orchestra workshop that was held there, unfortunately the Israeli embassy didn't issue the visa until a month and a half ago and yes I missed the workshop, so I got the visa I graduated from university and I went to Palestine on the 16th of August 2008 thinking I will never get the visa again so why not seize the moment and go visit.... I did it...<br /><br />My dad almost cried on the phone when i told him I am going to Palestine, his home town to take a trip to visit his childhood, and to see what Palestine is all about, he begged me not to go there but that was when I said my first NO, I fought for what I wanted and yes I did it....<br />it really hurt me just to know that he remembers where he lived in small little details, he knew the names of the streets the color of the walls, the names of their neighbors, he remembers every single detail and he left it when he was just a kid...<br /><br />The reality shocked me, I got there still in denial not believing that I am there, I loved it, I can finally say I am from Palestinian origins, I walked down the streets and I met people I know who still cant believe I entered, I pray for every person on the face of earth that one day they get the chance to see its glory, I walked in its streets, inhaled it essence, tasted its flavor... I did it<br /><br />Its been a month now and I still can't believe that I did it, I saw it all, and I felt it all, the Churches and the Mosques the streets and the walls are live proof of a presence of a greater force, no words I can think of describe my feelings nor what I saw... I saw it all .... I did it<br /><br />I am still here... I found my Jerusalem... I found my lost city... I found me.... I am not leaving..... I DID IT...Hind Sabanekhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320138873064787701noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36199410.post-39237622816824299742008-09-12T16:19:00.001+03:002008-09-12T16:25:15.776+03:00a Question on my mind....Its such a weird thing when I descover something new in me, I recently found out that I am one of the most random thinking people on the face of earth I ever met..... I was sitting the other day watching a movie I guess untill I found me thinking out loud saying this sentence: "if you found some one working you ask do you need a hand?? why wouldnt you say something to a person walking like would you need a leg??"<br />.<br />.<br />.<br />.<br />end of thinking..... beginning of NOTHING..... SILENCEHind Sabanekhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320138873064787701noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36199410.post-83132153796377691142008-06-22T01:10:00.002+03:002008-06-22T01:38:51.141+03:00Oh! Your daughter speaks English?? My niece speaks ARABIC!!!!My sister was out of town a while ago so I had to baby sit Yasmin a 4 year old and Faris a 2 year old, and as their nice and of course COOL auntie Hindo I had to take them on outings and spend some fun quality time with them!!!!<br />NEVER MIND........... during that month when my sister was out of town Yasmin had a birthday invitation!!! YAAAAYYYYYYY she was so happy.......<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">YASMIN</span>: "please Hindo take me I will be very nice I promise ou baw3idek ino ba7ki bil3arabi 3ashan inti you dont understand English for 3 days in a row!!!!"<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">ME</span>: "ok thats a deal missy ou ana baw3idek ino i'll start learning English..."<br /><br />I really hate how kids these days tend to speak only in English and a year or so after they end up with a crappy Arabic language command!!!!!<br /><br />a week after this conversation its the birthdayyy!!! well I we went and of course I have to stay with her, sitting with kids moms (<span style="font-style: italic;">the GOLDEN LADIES a name i gave them</span>) that speak only English, talk about shoes, fashion, etiquette and all this crap that does not interest me even if I was paid to be interested in!!!<br /><br />ANY WAAYYYYY, one of the girls came to her <span style="font-weight: bold;">MOMMY</span> and was like "Mommy, that little boy over there is not sharing the slide with every one, its annoying." the <span style="font-weight: bold;">MOMMY</span> said: "even though my daughter is 4 she has perfect English, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Arabic si3eb 3aleiha hala2 7aramm.</span>.."<br />I was so pissed but that was all at the same time when Yasmin came in.......drum roll......I was thinking of please ARABIC ARABIC YASMINE I7KI 3ARAAABIII..............."khalto Hindo, fee majal teeeji takhdeeni arooo7 a3mal rasem 3al wijeh ya3ni face painting ou t2ooli lal painter bidi farasheh ya3ni butter fly??" I was like YIS3ED RABBBBEKK, so I turned to the <span style="font-weight: bold;">MOMMY</span> and told her: " wow thats so great, same here even though Yasmin is 4 she has perfect Arabic she's not allowed to use English with me because Arabic better, English is too easy for her and thats 7aram."<br />gosh I wanted to kick that lady so hard, laykoon il wa7ad ili bi7ki 3arabi kundara!!!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Hind Vs. the Golden Ladies- MOMMY</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">1-0 </span>Hind Sabanekhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320138873064787701noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36199410.post-52527213907647536632008-05-20T10:54:00.003+03:002008-06-05T01:00:54.977+03:00Weird conversations abroad!!I was in France recently, had a concert in Bellfort then I extended my trip to visit my uncle (mom's side), anyways, I have discovered he as well have the weird kind of questions such like the ones I have with mom!!<br />it was around 2 AM when I was sitting with the family watching TV playing cards, chatting, joking...family stuff ....etc so I decided its time to go to sleep, I headed down stairs to my room and I didnt sleep immediately, any ways very long story short, after 30 minutes or so my uncle cals me,<br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Khalo</span>: HIINDDD<br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">ME</span>: aywaaa (yes)<br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Khalo</span>: Nimtee??? (did you sleep yet??)<br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">ME</span>: ehhhhh, khaliini ashuuf!! ANDARI?? (eeehhh, let me check, no clue!!!)<br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Khalo:</span> shlone ma 3am bifham?? (what, i dont understand)<br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">ME: </span>inta shu ra2yak? (what do you think)<br />*******SILENCE********<br /><br />I find these conversations very weird, lack of common sense fills the air, but again common sense isnt always common as I may presume!!!Hind Sabanekhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320138873064787701noreply@blogger.com0