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looking back

2011-12-21T07:11:00.001-08:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

The other day i sat here and i read through some of my old posts in the blog, i realised i used to be a lot more open and even write somethings i now consider private , i wonder how that happened. I have a lot going on lately and i dont get as much time as id like to sit down and write about my feelings in something as long as detailed as a blog post.. I see something i want to write about happen but at a time where its impossible for me to write, ill tell you something about what i do usually.

I dont seem to have much time in the day because throughout the day i study and revise and study , and fascinating things like that, i also work at a hospital part time , im looking to work more hours and i teach English.

The rest of the times im at home just hanging out and watching reality tv or something :P, or hanging out with my husband, sisters and family , in the weekends or every friday night i usually go out with my husband for dinner and something weird like diving or water ski or something (jet skis are a lot of fun for anyone who likes water).

when he had a small break from work we managed to fit in a small break to Turkey ankara and antakya because its such a wonderful country, i totally recommend visits to turkey .
so its something like a lot of studying all week and a lot of family on weekends means seriously a lack of computer time for naz :(, i barely get to watch the online shows i like let alone write , but i am obviously not that quiet i do tweet a lot lately, because my bb is always with me so you can follow me @nazmiirah if you like and yeah, just an explanation for why i am MIA.

Yesterday was a lot of fun for me because basically me and a bunch of friends have this thing called once a month, where atleast once every month we all go out and have some fun just girls, so yesterday i was sleeping and it seemed that everyone had the day off from whatever they usualy do and they called me and we went out to do some shopping, then to cinema to watch new years eve, and got some dinner too, nothing extraoridnary or anything but it was so great to have fun with the girls, and one of my friends surprised me with a beautiful perfume gift set and a clutch bag and yes i still havent got over my perfume addiction or my coke one (the drink people).

Also i dont like to blog when im upset and stressed and stuff, and i have been a little because of some problems but things are looking up now and if you could kindly keep me in your prayers itll get better.

blogger is quiet these days anyways init
lol
salaamz
naz

- For Emarat كلنا امارات

2011-12-07T03:44:00.000-08:00

Our Villas National day decor :P

Some Better Photography of the city :p
Decorations of lights on towers in celebration of UAE's 4oth national day

So i know im late with this post but it was the national day of the uae on dec2 and well i wasnt posting because i was celebrating or something but id still love to wish the UAE and all Emaratis a happy national day, and many more years of beauty, peace and prosperity .

I love the UAE especially Dubai a lot :P, i hope everyone here enjoyed the activities, air shows, military parades, concerts, lights, family parties, speeches , rides and all the events that took place, in my family the little children had most fun with face paints and stuff.

This is to the UAE and for all its wonderful achievements in such a small period of time, and for all it will achieve in the future. Allahs peace and blessings and mercy rain upon your cities inshallah.

I love Dubai so the first song is dedicated to Dubai :P

and this is for the UAE as a whole , i love love this song

Naz

Eid Pictures -2011

2011-11-08T06:32:00.000-08:00

Above pics courtesy of Global village dont know why some are small and some big :S but you can click on them, ill get more later :P
Eid Mubarak
Love
naz

My Eid- Eid Mubarak

2011-11-07T06:29:00.000-08:00

(jeddah Eid Fireworks display)

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

My Eid Wishes:

Eid Mubarak to all the Muslims wherever you may be in the world, wishing you all a blessed eid, good health, iman and happiness , peace and joy aswell as forgiveness from all your sins, i hope Allah protects you all gives you peace, prosperity and happiness and health. I hope Allah improves circumstances in the muslim world, and the rest of the world. I hope you are all granted all that you love which is good for you.

My Eid:

My Eid was lovely though i wasnt feeling tip top because i didnt sleep the night before. typical of crazy people i had gotten my clothes i wanted for eid ages ago then changed my mind last minute and went shopping for new stuff in the rushh of the day before eid - though when i did get it i was really happy with it and all that. i got some gifts and stuff for litlle cousins before and siblings then on eid day we went to the masjid and prayed at the mosque saw old friends and family and kids and everyone and then went to the mall for breakfast with my uncles family and then they came home with us because they wanted to see my grandmother and after chatting and stuff and exchanging money we went to lunch at my aunts house for a big feast and food and deserts and all and the boys went someplace an the girls except a few who went with boys stayed and watched movies an ate more :P and chatted and hang out, then we watched a fireworks display an some dancers and then my eid was over but i was happy.

My phone is still not working though :(

How was your Eid?

I saw this Eid Song on Somalitv- HCTV last night and i loved it, its wishing you a beautiful eid in somali have a listen.

Love
Naz

Makes me happy

2011-10-29T08:43:00.001-07:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

Everyone that knows me , knows i have a big crazy love for perfumes, a few times my family members have gone on holiday or some of my friends and brought back literally tons of stuff for me like shoes, clothes, bags , jewelry but the one gift that totally makes my day is the perfumes :P. My Husband even learnt and now when he goes out to get me a small random gift its usually a perfume , therefore i have quiete a big perfume collection (thats not all) , include western perfumes and Arabic Oils and all that but ah pics are on my blackberry and now its not working anymore :( but yeah Perfumes make me happy.

2) Spending time with my family.

In my family we are pretty close all of us , even with the extended family of aunts uncles, cousins grandoarents and everything as well as the nucleur family therefore we have always spent a lot of time together and even still see my cousins and aunts and stuff on the weekends and one of my sisters but i miss seeing my mum and all my sisters and brothers every day and spending time with them ever since i moved i miss them :P- so yes spending time with my family makes me happy.

Also love spending time with my husband hes gone to do Hajj and i will miss him, always miss him a lot and get realy bored when hes gone even for a lil bit :p.

3) Rings-Jewelry

This is my other random obsession i love rings, im not a fan of gold though i do have some gold jewelry because my mum keeps buying it and i never wear it , I like diamond rings , ruby rings fake rings, unique design rings, rings that match my clothes , my wedding ring and my swarowski crystals ring. I also like jewelry boxes my cousins from Saudi for my wedding made like this wedding box for me and decorated it with ribbons and crystals and jweerlry and stuff , its a tradition to give it to the bride so she can put her bits and pieces in for the wedding ill take a picture of it when my blackberry returns and show you if i remember.

4) Lipsticks

5) Pools

6) Book
I love reading, so much and i always sort of wanted to be a journalist ;)

7) Dancing
I love dancing, i stopped dancing in groups and stage when i sort of became religious and started hijab and stuff but i still love it, at family parties, weddings , female gatherings , etc its still my fave thing to do .

This is a list of some of the things that make me happy in no particular order, just reminding myself :P.

Love
Naz

More from me

2011-10-27T07:42:00.000-07:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

I know im the worst blogger in the history of bloggers lately but i like to write when im happy or have time or have space to breathe and currently have not had much time to write down or assess whats going on in my life, other times i do have time i am stressed to death trying to find a job and other things aswell as some family problems (my uncle is ill please pray for him) and home sickness (i really miss my mum and sisters) as well as a really heavy workload from uni (my to do list can make you feel suicidal) means the rare times i do have time i want to do something fun like have a party or go out with my friends, or drive across the border and see my family and therefore not really sit and write , also i dont want to depress you guys about how i have a cold or uni will kill me :P.

I am also feeling very easily emotional lately like constant pms , swear to god i think the tiniest thing will make me cry, and i feel like my problems are just all my problems always come at once its like whenever something goes wrong all the other things in my life decide oh hey how about we follow suit and go wrong too, even my phone chose the worst timing in the world to stop working , how will i live without my precious phone for 3 weeks god knows.

other things ive done is joined a few charity organisations, to raise awareness of some issues which affect women and also things like the UKSSA or UK Somali students association as well as supporting Somali Stars @ IamatstarSomalia on twitter and etc these are charities or movements which are realy useful to the young somalis who are interested they create events and host meetings etc where funds end up helping those who need it in Somalia.

the Iamastar somalia also host special events bringing somali politicians doctors fashion designers musicians models, etc as well as ordinary somali youth in the same place to encourage dialogue and somali success so yeah go join.

Since blogging often requires a long decent post with a proper explanation (not like this one), i dont always feel like i have the time but i do these days kind of say what i want in about 140 characters on twitter :P more, i used to use twitter to follow things that intrested me but now i sort of write on it too so follow me @nazmiirah or here http://twitter.com/#!/Nazmiirah

Desperate in dubai is out and i finally ordered my copy cant wait to get my hands on it and read it all day with some coke :P
My cousin got engaged and its her milkeh soon in dubai and i cant wait to go
Will you all think im crazy if i actually buy a pink ferrari?(seriously answer this question everyone please)
i vow again to blog again :P

I hope you are all well and fantastic
be back soon
love
naz

Life, me and everything in between

2011-09-28T09:24:00.000-07:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

Hala
Dear blog, ive missed you kind of , i dont know what happened to me , i remember there were times i used to be here a lot, pretty much every day and times when there was very very long unreadable posts, lol i mustve had a lot to say... that was usually during procastination in uni times though, nowadays i dont really have time or i do have time but im so bored out of my mind i have nothing to say, this means me and you dear blog have had a shit relationship lately :P.

When i discovered blogging it was a good time for me to release and write down all the things in my mind or all the things that happened to me, these days i dont want to talk much i enjoy reading and seeing what other people are doing but let me remember what i have been up to.

2 days ago if i remember correctly it was Maitha's and Maysa's birthday my beautiful friends an identical twins as well as awesome people. their birthday was really cool because the party was on a yacht and just like my dream yacht it was gorgeous and decorated with fendi lol i really want a yacht now, but we had fun eating and drinking an dancing and being weird as usual :P, also for the first time ever my best friends Maitha, Maysa , Mryooma got to hang out with my cousins and both my friends and my cousins got along so well we decided to make a pact that every month atleast once to all meet for one day of fun, cinema shopping , eating or something :P and even made a BB group called "once a month" should be fun.

Their birthday also gave me a chance/excuse to checkout the new loboutin store thats opened at the Mall and it was obviously fabulous i lovve his stuff so i got them a pair and i didnt get me anything :(
What else is new?

Hmm well very soon it will be my one year wedding anniversary, isnt that cool? :P i have no idea what we will be doing to celebrate or anything, because its a surprise butt it should be fun, this year flew past, i think it was a memorable and life changing year,i feel settled and happy generally now 7mdella. anyway ill let u know how it goes.Haha what else? hmm we have some weird complex family drama this is quiete common and sounds straight out of a kuwaiti soap , so tis been fun sitting with my cousins talking about how every person in our entire family is actually crazy :P.

For the last few days ive been a little bit sick or feverish i dont know why and fevery for no apparent reason, anyway yesterday i wasnt planning on doing anything because of that, but my friend came over to check on me and brought tons of junk food, we invited a spa over and had a facial and got hair done, its actually true apparently, if u look good u feel a little good too :P
try it.

On friday i have something i really want to do happening or i will getting the results of something , please if you can remember me and say god please let naz have what she wants on this day :P, friday in my religion is a blessed day also so inshallah it will work out.

ma3salama dear blog
love
naz
ps everyone tell me what have u been up2?

For my country, Happy Birthday

2011-09-23T06:38:00.000-07:00

Today is the National Day of my beautiful Country Saudi Arabia.(Riyadh)
Today we celebrate 81 Years of Unity and of Statehood, today we celebrate Peace and Prosperity, today we Celebrate Beauty and Love.
(Jeddah)

Today we celebrate oppurtunity, and achievements today we celebrate milestones in education, health care, and economic and agricultural achievementents.

Khobar.Abha

Today we celebrate King Abdullah the custodian of the two Holy Mosques for his achievements and his contributions to improving life for his citizens .Today we Celebrate, tradition, heritage, culture , language, arts , unity and everything we are proud of.

Today we Celebrate the unification of our State, we celebrate taw7eed, and the umbrella of Islam which is able to unite tribes and factions with different Goals, as well as entire Nations with one testimony.

Allah Bless and protect my country, Allah send his mercy over its cities, protect its people , unite and never divide and guide towards the right path,
Many Many congratulations to all the Saudis across the world wherever you may be , may you have a great and fanatastic day a lovely holiday tomorrow and Happy Happy birthday to KSA.

Kul 3aam w Galb Akhdar ;)

Love
Naz

The Man of Dreams

2011-09-20T08:38:00.000-07:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

I would like to dedicate this post to the most courageous, most beautiful, most kindhearted , most honest, most truthful, most innocent, most pure, most influential, most praiseworthy of humans, most perfect man to ever walk this earth .

He goes by many names such as the chosen one , the trustworthy one , the most beloved of God, he is perfect and generous , he brightened up the world like a lamp , he is loved by many , he is engraved in hearts and his name lives forever on. He has changed the course of history and he has liberated the Arabs of jahilliyah , and consequently freed the world.

He has brought the story of guidance of truth and he has shared his vision of a brighter world, he brought us the Word of God and for this we are ever thankful . We love you from every corner of the universe.

So i wanted to say 'Alf Salat w Salam 3la 7abib Allah Mu7ammad or a Thousand peace and blessings upon the Beloved of God MuHammad (saw)' and i want you to say it with me and i want you to sing the praise of Allah and his incredible Messenger.

Listen to Mahers Zains praise of the prophet in a few languages eg. Turkish, English, Arabic and Urdu.

Love
Naz

Romance in the Gulf

2011-09-07T01:07:00.000-07:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

Heeey Everyone belated Eid Mubarak and everything i hope you guys had an awesome Ramadan and a wonderful Eid etc :), I saw this from Saudi Girl 's blog and found it so hilarious i had to share lol
have fun....

هذه طرق الرجل التي يجب ان يعامل بها المرأة كي يبقى الحب موجود لاخر العمر ( اتعلمو يا شباب)

عندما تمشى مبتعدة عنك (إلحق بها)
عندما تنظر إلى شفاهك ( قبلها )
عندما تدفعك أو تضربك ( امسك بها ولا تتركها )
عندما تطيل لسانها عليك ( قبلها وقل لها انك تحبها )
عندما تكون صامته ( اسألها ما المشكلة )

عندما تتجاهلك ( أعطها اهتمامك الكامل )

عندما تريد الابتعاد عنك قليلاً ( لاتوافقها الرأي )

عندما تراها في أسوأ حالاتها ( قل لها أنها جميلة )

عندما تراها تبكي ( أحضنها ولا تقل شيئاً )
عندما تراها تمشي ( تربص لها قليلا ثم أحضنها فجأة من الخلف )
عندما تكون خائفة ( أحميها )
عندما تضع رأسها على كتفك ( أمل راسها قليلا وقبلها )
عندما تأخذ منك شيئاً عزيزا ( دعها تأخذه فلن يكون أعز منها )
عندما تمازحك ( مازحها وأضحكها )
عندما لاتجيب الهاتف لفترات طويلة ( أكد لها أن كل شئ على مايرام )

عندما تقول أنك تعجبها ( فهي حقا تكن لك مشاعر اكبر مما قالت ) عندما تمسك يديك ( أمسك يديها وداعب أصابعها ) عندما تقول لك سرا ( أحتفظ به ولا تخبر به أحداً ) عندما تنظر إلى عينيك ( لاتلتفت حتى تلتفت هي ) عندما تفتقدك ( فهي تتألم من الداخل )

عندما تحطم قلبها ( الألم لن يزول بل سيستمر )
عندما تقول أن العلاقة انتهت ( فهي لازالت تريدك )
عندما ترسل لك هذه الرسالة ( فهي تريدك أن تقرأها )

عندما تقول أن العلاقة انتهت ( فهي لازالت تريدك ) عندما ترسل لك هذه الرسالة ( فهي تريدك أن تقرأها ) أبق على خط التليفون معها حتى لو لم تقل شيئا عندما تغضب احضنها بقوة ولا تتركها عندما تقول أن كل شئ على ما يرام لا تصدقها بل تحدث معها عن المشكلة لأنها بعد عشر سنوات ستظل تتذكرك أتصل بها في أول ساعة من يوم ميلادها وقل لها أنك تحبها اتصل بها قبل أن تنام وبعد ماتصحو من النوم عاملها كأنها كل شئ مهم لك في الحياة مازحها ودعها تمازحك
ابق معها طوال الليل عندما تكون مريضة شاهد معها فيلمها المفضل أو برنامجها المفضل حتى لو كنت تعتقد انه غبي أعطها العالم عندما تحس بالملل أو متضايقة اخرج معها واجعلها تتسلى دعها تحس أنها مهمة لديك قبلها تحت المطر عندما تجري لك باكية ، أول سؤال تقوله لها ، مين اللي زعلك حبيبتي كل هذا لن يكلفكم شيئاً يا شباب هذا هو الحب الحقيقي ولا تنسون يا شباب ان اغلاط النساء اقل من اغلاطنا فنحن دوما نحتاج السماح منهن والتعقل والله يهدي الجميع

الرد الأول

اقتباس: أرسل أصلا بواسطة الجندي المجهول999

عندما تجري لك باكية ، أول سؤال تقوله لها ، مين اللي زعلك حبيبتي

عاد من كبر البيت عشان تركض فيه . . . كله شقه قرقور حجره وحمام .

الرد الثاني سالفة المطر شوي قوية خاصتا عندنه في البحرين احاول اعلق الهوز مال الزرع ورا الدريشة وننزل برا عشان نكمل الرومنسية تحت المطر

الرد الثالث تسلم على الموضوع بس صعبة علينا هذي الأمور مو متعودين عليها عندما تدفعك أو تضربك ( امسك بها ولا تتركها ) كم دقيقة ؟ غير لا اجيبها براشدي اعدل ملامح وجها

الرد الرابع عندما تمشى مبتعدة عنك (إلحق بها) ليش راكض ورى تيس

عندما تدفعك أو تضربك ( امسك بها ولا تتركها ) ها ها ها هاي الى ناقص بعد اشوفها تبي تضربني اقعد ليها غير شلح الثوب وهرب لاتجيني صفريه او ملاس بالغلط

عندما تراها تمشي ( تربص لها قليلا ثم أحضنها فجأة من الخلف ) ليش ؟؟ نلعب خشيشه

عندما تمسك يديك ( أمسك يديها وداعب أصابعها ) واذا كانت مصفطه سمج قبل لا تجود ايدي؟؟

أبق على خط التليفون معها حتى لو لم تقل شيئا وآخر الشهر من بيدفع البيل ابوي !؟

عندما تغضب احضنها بقوة ولا تتركها رابط تيس وانه مادري

عندما تطيل لسانها عليك ( قبلها وقل لها انك تحبها ) غير لا العب على وجها تكواندو

ابق معها طوال الليل عندما تكون مريضة وتالي لين رحت الشغل متأخر وفنشوني خلها تنفعني حزتها

Lool funny isnt it ? ;)
Love
Naz

Embarak El Shahar

2011-08-01T06:11:00.000-07:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

Ramadan Kareem to the entire Muslim Ummah
may our fasts and prayers and worship be accepted
my our sins be forgiven
may our hearts become purified
may our dead be given paradise
and may our people be in peace
have a beautiful month with family and loved ones and celebration of your faith.
Kul 3am wa antum Bikhayr
Love
Naz

Help Me صومالي وأفتخر

2011-07-30T06:24:00.000-07:00

صومالي وأفتخر

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

Listen and watch this video and then read my simple request below :)

Chorus- Transliteration/translation

Somali wa Aftkher - Somali and proud
W 7anini Sayastamer - And my love is lasting
w Beladi Satazdaher - and my country will be pure /better/improved

I hope you Enjoyed the Song and The Video now id like to tell you all something, the Somali people are faced with like the worlds most severe drought and famine currently they have already been plagued with war and much other crap, they/we are tired and they need your help, they need their brothers and sisters in Humanity , PLEASE have kindness please understand that they are Muslim people and many of them will probably attempt to fast as the month of Ramadan unfurls give what you can save the children, give the mothers some ftoor. Help someone today, so that Allah may help you Tomorrow and if you really have nothing to give grant us a simple du3a that Allah makes it easy for them. Like seriously im begging each and every one of you right here whereveer you are in the world to have a heart and send something the situation is so dire and i wont even post pictures of the people because its too upsetting for me to look at now imagine those children were yours , imagine how you would feel if those people were your family, be human have a heart send some money , dont buy that one novel or that whatever people do with their money and save a child , save a mother, save a nation.

Theres many charities going around trying to colect money
in Saudi you can join Muna Abusulaymans Collection
Around the world on bloger you can visit Sis Ange's blog donations

Jazakallah Khairan
Ramadan Kareem
Love
Naz

Hard living in the west when i know the east got the best of me...

2011-06-28T12:03:00.000-07:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

I love this song, so much truth in the lyrics hope you enjoyed listening
love
naz

Reasons why Somalis are the epicest people alive

2011-06-18T12:20:00.000-07:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

Reasons why Somalis are the epicest people alive:

They are the only people in the world probably that have weddings which could best be likened to nightclub/disco slash wildest thing you have ever been to

The only people probably that would walk down the street with niqabs (face veils) pretending to be lost and asking for directions whilst putting on a fake indian accent saying something like brooderr we are looking for baagistan to random strangers. bear in mind they dont own niqabs so have mastered the art of tying sheilas to make them look like vace veils.

The only people that have two names which are designated to simply describe all members of society= All men are called Farax (Fara7) and all women Xaliimo (7alimo), those names carry waay too many attachments with them too.

They have the best pronounciation skills of english words, so much so that the word is pretty much unrecognisable however all somalis from all corners of the world understand this interesting english terminology , some few examples include

Gangiister/gangeester= Gangster
Shafarbush- Shepherds Bush
Barble - Purple
sigis- six
14- Kambayuutar ...Computer
15- Eeshiyaan .. Asian
Bigjar-picture
Geeral-Girl

and many more fascinating ones ...

Only people that can *this is referring to kids can read and write fluently English and speak Somali , however cant write a single word in somali even though somali is latin alphabet mainly written phonetically (how it sounds)..

Have two permanently staple dishes, when somalis ask whats for lunch? they dont mean whats on the menu, they mean is it rice? or pasta? ...Somalis even go and leave their houses all the way to Somali resturauts to eat rice or pasta or bariis iyo basto only to finally exclaim , my mums one is better.

Somalis dont condone such explicit dancing as booty shakes etc if its like dutty wine to english music however you can shake your behind if its niiko to stuff in somali

Somalis constantly use words like wallahi or waryaa constantly at every oppurtunity and everywhere so much so that foreign people are starting to think its probably what the capital of Somalia is or all somalis are named at birth in addition to their own names (for real in kenya they think were all called waryaa).

Only people that come out with random crazy phrases or comments like "just coz im wearing a hijab, dont think i wont smack you one"

Currently the coolest pirates happening.

For some unknown reason have Cats named after them

Only people that hold national day events or parties starting 11pm in the evening until 5am in the morning, i thought it was national DAY, apparently not.

Ah so much love
Naz

Somaliya Ha Noolato, Dadkeeda ha Nooladan , Calenkeeda walgiis ha jiro - Nabad Inshallah <3

Ana Al Khaleejiأنا الخليجي

2011-06-17T11:14:00.000-07:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

So much has been going on in this part of the world lately politically, socially etc and so many debates, and searches for freedoms from Saudi to Bahrain and all the Gulf countries , that i thought this picture and song were a more positive and optimistic summary of my feelings and the feelings of the other people here.

This is a beautiful Song called Ana Al Khaleeji which means i am Khaleeji and khaleej is the arabic word for Gulf/ or the 6 Arabian Gulf states.

love
naz

For my amazing sisters

2011-06-15T05:09:00.000-07:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

I just wanted to say that i started blogging during a period of my time where i had very good free time and i wanted to document some new things in my life for myself, during the begining a few of my friends knew about my blog and i really didnt expect to have such readership, or interest or to meet such amazing people. I didnt even start out to continue blogging for such a long time but now, ive learnt so much from so many people across the world, from the Americas to the middle east to Africa and its so amazing to know you all may you all be rewarded for your kindness, so this is a thankyou post where i thank the people that have been so kind.

As you can all see my blog looks different, the special and fabulous blog design was gifted to me by sis Noor from so sweet designs, she is a fabulous designer and a lovely person if you would like to receive some of her talented stuff then checkout her website and purchase to your hearts content.. i would like to say thankyou again that was so kind of you :)

I was also gifted with the Blue Pearl 'fellowship award' by the Kind Bluepearl she really is a pearl an amazing sister with always words of kindness and sincere advice, as well as fun conversation thankyou for getting me through some aimless early mornings at uni in grey london and discussing food with me :P and chocolates and etc and for this lovely award here is what she had to say:

SomalianArabPrincess

You always find time to visit everyones blog and leave sweet messages. In your own blog, you not only offer humor so naturally my dear Naz but you also touch on topics close to your heart, many of them concerning your arab roots.

The Butterfly award is an award ive received from a few bloggers, thankyou all so much that is so sweet of you , i definitely remember getting it from sis BosnishMuslima thankyou soo much my fellow perfume addict sweet sister, always enjoy reading your comments and your blog , so thanks for the award, now i have to think of something about me.

I love reading , travelling, and my friends and family , i think i am quiete friendly and a little bit talkative , i love to smile but i am not always smiling, i could get married to coca-cola :P
ok thats enough i think..

Like to give this to
Yaz from Perfectly imperfect
Normal is Overrated
Stef-from so much to do so little time
and
Complications

Love
Naz

The Best Week Ever

2011-06-12T08:03:00.000-07:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

Hello Everybody!

I dont know what this post is except procastination?, i am supposed to read a few chapters of the Quran to my uncle from memory in a bit when he comes, except i cant even remember up to where i was supposed to read it to nor do i know it all off by heart, and hiding wont work either probably,soo im just listening to some Quran now so that i can somehow you know i dont know either but yeah im procastinating , i think i just spelt that wrong but who cares.

Ive had such a amazing week the last week, we went away to Jeddah and stayed at my grandparents, saw my cousins went out and about did some shopping but mainly had the most fun staying at home eating ice cream and watching American movies the entire evenings when the old people went to sleep till early in the morning, or talking waay after fajr or prank calling random people :P (yes seriously ive become all grown up and everything lately it was getting boring), and sleeping late and having too much take out . by the way just so you know Kebab pizza is the nicest pizza in the history of Halal pizzas :p.

I tried some Japanese Spa thing and omg they smeelll loovely the lotions and shower gell's i bought from there, also it was just nice to see my friends and family , its like i didnt do anything that special but i had so much fun and i felt so relaxed *my sister was there - so that helped too.

The Most Special thing we did while we were there is and this is very special my visit to the best pleace in the whole entire world, jeddah thankfully is about half hour drive from Makkah * the holiest city to Muslims, where there is the Harem the House of God. And we did 3omrah (mini pilgrimage) , i was surprised it wasnt as filled as usual when we went but it was really great , i did explain in one of my other posts from the beginning of this blog there is something Magical about Makkah , its beyond peaceful, spiritually uplifting and not one single one of your most pressing worry or concerns or whatever matters when you realise why you are actually here, and what a splending place you are at, and how you are in the same building or house as the precious and honourary prophets from the time of Ibrahim *Abraham until the time of Muhammad peace and blessings of Allah descend on their souls forever Ameen.

We're back now and i miss it, inshallah i will go back in Ramadaan and so will half of the UAE people, you will be surprised how many people from UAE was randomly there when we went haha i met two of my friends from here there and i didnt know they were going.

how was your week? Enjoy some pictures of the places....

Jeddah Saudi ArabiaMosque on the Water -Jeddah Saudi Arabia
Jeddah Sky Line KSA

Jeddah Corniche Area
and then ofcourse we went to the most special place in the universe....

Love The Honourable Makkah

Naz

(Ps-Thankyou so much to everyone who gave me all the blog awards, im so thankful and your all so kind, im going to find the links to all the blogs and dedicate one huge post to it eventually inshallah but thankyou i didnt forget about them)

Random bit of advice-your family is the best thing that will ever happen to you, they are a treasure, love them, look after them and appreciate them ...and love them with all your heart and soul.

Arabic-English-Rap song from jeddah legends

سلام يا الصومال I have something to tell you.

2011-06-11T07:48:00.000-07:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

Two days ago today, the Somali Interior Minister, the man who helped clothe and feed the poor, the man who left safety and security and the peace and freedom he enjoyed in the west, to go back home and help attempt piece together the stones of a country broken, the man who couldnt stand the idea of sleeping in King Sized beds and receiving diplomatic perks, lounging in hotels of far away lands, that man was blown up in his own house by his own niece because someone told her she was going to heaven.

A year and Something ago i volunteered in the hospitals of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia where the wounded medical students, and eyes of Somalia were flown to for some free treatement after they were blown up on their graduation day.

Seeing the 24 year old son of the women who sold tomatoes in the streets of Mogadishu under falling bombs and flying shrapnel in an attempt to educate their children, decapitated and lying flat on a Saudi Bed hurt me beyond description, it brought tears to my eyes every single time and every single day i visited and brought them things just in an attempt to make them feel a little bit at home. and they surprised me every day because all they had to say was Al7amdulilah Thanks be to God, we are safe , we are in a hospital and so many do not have this luxury, they surprised me because they said they would if they could pick up their diplomas tomorrow and continue where they left off, they surprised me because they would never ever leave their country and homes burning.

And a few days ago my friend shared this song:

This is a lovely pro peace in Somalia Song by the Famous Fanaan in the Somalia and Yemen region mostly Ahmed Naaji, he has lovely songs in arabic and somali, this particular one is arabic, enjoy. I beg you be kind enough to spare my mothers land a little prayer when your done :) please.

Love
Naz

Oh dear...Men (All my Crushes)

2011-06-10T10:11:00.000-07:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

Hi Everyone! *Disclaimer i am incredibly high today

This post was going to be about something else more normal and whatnot but i just read an interesting post over at Amal's blog called the Allure of Khaleeji men or men from the gulf and why some women (non khaleeji women i presume) found them err alluring and i thought haha omg how interesting the world is and figured i should tell you about my crushes yeey you :p.

Never found khaleeji men alluring or non alluring or anything myself personally, i always figured i was going to marry one or a Somali guy or something so its not part of my hunt down list but... here is my hunt down list.

All though most girls that are khaleeji or from this part of the world are very much into the cuute dreamy bradd pitt or insert any hot guys name of western american movie guys name here i never found them to have a particular allure or mystqiue for me personally though i do admit some of them are so damn hott, though blue eyes are incredibly gorgeous,my list consisted of tall dark and Handsome.

1) Ever since the invention of bollywood whenever that was, i swear i am in love with these singing dancing , romantic crazy hot guys that feature and are found in the land of jewels , colour and flowers yes the Indian guys or Desi guys aha and one of my somali friends said shes in to pakistani guys ..maybe its a somali thing or maybe not but yess.

2) You ever seen those seriously hot guys, with the tan and olive skin and awwesoome accents when they speak english and a beaautiful language and who roll their r's and sound like theyre reciting some kind of foreign poetry? Hispanics, Spanish dudes, Italians soo awesome too haha :P

Yeah those are basically my random major crushes then there are random ones i think to a lesser extent but i cant remember them right now :P... who are your country/race crushes? and why?

Love
Naz

Marriages and Coincidences-How its all done around here

2011-06-02T15:53:00.001-07:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

Dont you just love good coincidences?, like getting a new set of clothes or bags or shoes or something lovely to wear just before eid, or your birthday or an occasion?That just happened to mee , haha i love it love it, was just thinking i was going to go shopping for some new stuff and my friend brought back from her honeymoon gorgeous clutch bag, dress, shoes , handbag and hijab , saves me that then :P haha, such a pleasant surprise. As you can see ive got more free time lately to do stuff and go places and blog so i will be here more inshallah bothering you all :P.

Meanwhile i came across this on sis Aalia's Blog and i thought some of my readers like Stef would be interested to see it , so Inshallah sis Aalia doesnt mind , its a short documentaryish about marriage here in the UAE and the region and what its like and how the youth view it, dont take it toooo seriously but its on the right track , its in arabic but for those of you non arabic speakers or for those arabic speakers like yaz who claim you dont understand a word khaleejis say :p, then there are subtitles. Happy Viewing.

Loove
Naz

Me, My Husband, UAE, Fendi love, Parties etc

2011-06-02T14:37:00.000-07:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

Hi Beautiful People :)
How are you? Lately more and more i realise whatever 'knack' i had for blogging if ever i had one has seemed to all but dissapeared , such is the life of sad medical students. :P

So let me tell you what i have been doing for those of you kind enough to care oh and big welcome to all my new followers. So basically we are moving out here (me and my husband) permanently so that means good bye too lovely london and although i love the uae and all i had some issues about moving here it will affect my whole life and a lot of stuff will change but thats life , change and all that plus it was the overall initial plan we only moved to the UK to study and when your studies you were always supposed to move back, and apart from familiarity and organised ness there is nothing substantial which could be keeping me in the UK, if i move here the idea is im close to my family and friends and stuff , muslim enviroment etc etc , my initial fear was that i am so going to miss my nucleur family but my brother is moving to the mideast too and my mum is going back to Somalia to visit my grandfather and my sister is going to university and my other sister is coming here in a couple of days hopefully (depending on how soon she passes her exams soo please pray she has one more left now and one that is currently still being marked), so since most of my nucleur family wont be in London anymore anyway i have to get used to starting again , hey should be fun i used to live here properly once a new chapter in life and all and im sure its nice to be home to not feel so foreign or weird coz of how your dressed etc etc.

Ok lets be honest my biggest problem with moving to the UAE is my husband wants to live in Abu dhabi and i lived and always visit and have family in dubai and i know nothing about Abu dhabi except one of my friends that just moved there because of her husband too and well i dont think Abu Dhabi is as cool as dubai :P, since i dont know anyone there, we are still looking for Villas oh and currently i live in between my grandmas villa and my aunts villa so this is like a holiday. Generally my feeelings about everything is that i have to "grow up" and i dont know i think growing up is seriously scary, i am a little bit lazy i like to be taken care of and i dont like taking care of things , i mean sure i can get my act together if i have to and do important stuff and all but i seriously put emphasis on the word "have to", when i run out of other options :p and now i feel like ill have to be grown up and serious more then usual and take care of stuff myself. Nah im slightly crazy i wont have to do anything special :P, except like be a proper wife who lives with her husband and away from her family, and after i graduate get a job if i feel like it which i probably because i beleive in financial independence and all however always let your husband pay the damn bills :D. Oh and by important serious things i mean like actually finding a good villa and good furniture and everything i swear i keep asking my mum and she says "well its yours" whats that mean? you used to tell me what to do , do it again. One of my friends mentioned she liked fendi casa furniture from the leading italian design house and i checked it out and fell in love , since no one hates the pieces i will definitely get some of my stuff from there , however their yacht pieces were sooo beautiful they made me want a yacht to decorate and furnish.

What else?
Random conversation with my Hubz that made me laugh last night.

Him: Heey Naz ive got something to tell you
me: what isit?
Him: well you have to promise not to kill me or hang up which is a form of killing me if i tell you
me: yea what isit?
Him: god you already sound murderous , scary never mind.
me: go on tell me
Him: M(hisname) Junior who you were hoping would be your first born son is already alive and kicking some random woman got there first.
me: oh well not like id ever name any kid of mine such a dodgy name as M (his name)
Him: pftt any kid i give birth to will be called M
me: Ya salaam now you give birth?
Him: huh? what? ERRGH omgg you eviil girl thats totally lost in translation
:p

I vote he tries out giving birth.

Anything Else?
Invited to a really cool party in about ten days Inshallah and i cant wait to go gives me a reason to splash out on clothes and crap and stuff for myself.

More=Haha i tried some weird organic facial on my face and it was soo crap, i also tried simple face wash thingy and it made my face dry
avoid.

How are you all?
Hopefully you are well
Love and more love
Naz

منى أبو سليمان..... من الإعلام إلى تصميم الأزياء

2011-05-31T14:23:00.000-07:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

الرياض - ياسمين نصر

لم تكتف الإعلامية منى أبو سليمان بمخاطبة المرأة العربية من خلال البرامج والإعلام، وإنما تجاوزت ذلك لتشارك المرأة المسلمة أناقتها أيضاً، معبّرة عن أن الذوق والتميّز لا يتعارضان مع الحشمة والحجاب. ولأنها شخصياً عانت من هذه المشكلة ومن قلّة وندرة الخيارات، قرّرت أبو سليمان أن تكون دليلاً يساعد المرأة على إيجاد ما يوفّر لها ذوقها ويرضي أناقتها، بشكل راق وعصري، فقدّمت مجموعتها الثانية لربيع وصيف 2011، والتي تضمّنت أزياء نهارية وفساتين سهرة مع حجابات للرأس، التي عرّفتنا عليها في ما يلي:

- متى بدأت الفكرة في تصميم أزياء للمحجّبات لديك؟ ومتى بدأت تنفيذها فعلاً على أرض الواقع؟

بدأت بالتفكير في خطّ خاص بي للأزياء؛ لأني لم أكن أجد ملابس جميلة وأنيقة تناسب ذوقي، وأيضاً كانت تواجهني صعوبة بالغة في أن أجد حجابات تتناسق مع ملابسي. ولذلك، قرّرت أن أعطي حجاباً مناسباً لكل قطعة في خطّ أزيائي، لألبّي احتياجات المرأة المسلمة بشكل أنيق ومميّز يجمع بين الحشمة والأناقة في وقت واحد..

- من أين استوحيت أفكار تصاميم هذه المجموعة؟ وما هي موضة هذا العام؟

أستوحي أفكاري في الأزياء من أماكن كثيرة، ولكني أظن أن أكثرما يؤثّر في ما أقدّم هو الراحة. أريد لكل قطعة من تصميمي أن تكون أنيقة وجميلة، ولكن أيضاً مريحة حتى تحب المرأة ارتداءها بسهولة وتستطيع ارتداءها مرات عديدة أيضاً، وأظن أن هذا هو أكبر إطراء لأي مصمّم للأزياء. وبشكل أدقّ، فقد حاولت في المجموعة تقديم خيارات متنوّعة ومتعدّدة تتوافق وتتناسب مع مختلف الأذواق والمناسبات، لتجد كل سيدة ما تبحث عنه، والصورة التي رسمتها في خيالها لما تريد أن ترتدي، وما الخيارات التي تشعر أنها أكثر ملاءمة لها.

- ما هي الخامات المستخدمة في المجموعة؟ وأيّ الخامات تفضّلين التعامل معها؟

أحب استعمال الأقطان المصرية والحرير الإيطالي والشيفون الفرنسي. وبشكل عام، أميل إلى الخامات الغنية بنعومتها وانسيابيتها دون أن تتجعّد.

- هل المجموعة مخصّصة لفئة معيّنة أم أنها مناسبة للجميع؟

مجموعتي حالياً تتوجّه للسيدات اللواتي تتراوح أعمارهن ما بين 25 و50 سنة، أي العمر الذي تعرف فيه السيدة ما يناسبها ويظهرها بشكل جميل، والذي تبحث خلاله عن القطع المنفّذة جيداً. وهي عادة في هذه المرحلة تهتمّ بأناقتها أكثر ممّا تبحث عن الابتكار.

- المجموعة تضمّنت ألواناً متنوّعة، فهل أنت مع أم ضد أن لكل موسم ألوانه الخاصة؟

معظم الألوان المستخدمة تمّ اختيارها كي تتناسب مع بشرة النساء في الشرق الأوسط. لقد استعملت الكثير من الألوان التي أحبها ومعظمها من ألوان الصحراء والماء، الفكرة الرئيسية لمجموعة 2011 هي التنسيق بين ألوان مختلفة من الأبيض إلى البيج ولون الرمال بكل أطيافه إلى درجات مختلفة من لون البحر.

- ما هي نصائحك للمرأة المحجّبة في اختيارها لملابسها؟

أظن أنه يجب على كل امرأة أن تتأكّد أن ملابسها تعكس شخصيتها، وأنها متماشية مع الأزياء العصرية ولكنها أنيقة وعملية في نفس الوقت، فكثير من السيدات يبالغن في الحجابات وطرق لبسها، ويكثرن من مزج الأزياء وأشكال الحجاب مع بعضها البعض وهذا يعطي نتيجة نهائية غير مرضية. ولهذا، أحاول أن أقدّم لها عدة خيارات متكاملة ومتجانسة مع بعضها البعض تساعدها في الحصول على طلة راقية ترضي ذوقها.

- وما هي فلسفتك في ما يخصّ تصميم ملابس المحجبات؟

ليس عندي فلسفة معيّنة في ملابس المحجبات، وأنا منفتحة للأخذ من أفكار كثيرة وألوان متعدّدة، إذا كان الناتج مريحاً للعين ومنظره جميل ومتناسب مع نوعية وشكل المرأة التي تلبسه.

- ما هو جديدك القادم في أزياء المحجبات؟

عندي أفكار كثيرة. وحالياً، أعمل مع نفس فريق المصمّمين المنتجين الذين يعملون مع فالنتينو في إيطاليا ليساعدوني في مجموعة ملابس السهرة القادمة.

Check out her line of clothes, its beautiful.
love
naz

Some Good Stuff For you All and Some Fun

2011-05-26T13:53:00.000-07:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

After reading amazing/Really good stuff on bloogs that are interesting reads for a Read-A-Holic or atleast Ex book a holic like me such as DesperateInDubai which is a must read if you havent yet read it very Girls of Riyadh *Another must read google it version of dubai, ive come across some over dramatized or surreal writings so i was very excited to find quiete recently Finally this new Novel/story blog titled The Arab Season - featuring Arabs and Somalis London Style i liked it because its a bit realistic ofcourse with added drama good writing and interesting story line its kinda new but feel freee to check it out im sure you will like it. might help you learn more about yemenis and Somalis and all too and some history.

Yeah Next ive for some reason been sitting here scouring youtube for cool things that i like and probably you guys havent seen , one of them includes the Song by a famous ethiopian singer which is a Somali- Amharic Language mix the song was originally a Somali song by a very famous somali singer some of my somali readers might recognise who the original singer was since i forgot her name and this is a newer version incorporating Ethiopian languages the dancers and singers are ethiopians wearing Somali traditional clothing and stuff and i found the song soo lovely their somali has a cuute accent too so lovely here it is Enjoy. I loved it because ive never heard the language of ethiopia before.

Then the Next Video is an informal Song by one of my favourite Somali Singerrs Nimco Dareen its a love song and the lyrics are beautiful if you understand and if you dont it still sounds nice haha so enjoy.

This one is either a Wedding or some event

Hope you enjoyed whatever this was
Love
Naz

The Deal With Liars.

2011-05-24T06:34:00.000-07:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

I have a surprising (to some) thick skin especially in my dealings with liars, even though i really dislike with all of my energy LIARS, i am for some reason able to listen to someones blatant BS for a very long time and they would never guess that i have guessed and seen through their lies. I know that everyone lies and no one is perfect we are humans white lies and lying to get out of trouble or something ;p but when i am talking about liars today is the unnecesary crazy complete liars the people who every word coming out of their mouth is probably conidered by most insignficant because they are so unrealiable or it is so out there.

I know quiete a few of these people sadly and i do listen to them and nod not because i dont know what they are doing but i am not really a confrontational person unless you manage to really piss me off and i would have a hard time saying to someone go the hell away you stupid liar and sometimes i listen because their imagination skills are just so damn fascinating. I think the lying habit is insulting do you really think so many people are so blind? do you thnk the person you are talking to is crazy? or stupid? Dont you think i know when you are telling me about a non existent resturaunt located in the place /street i was born and grew up in? do you think no one notices the stammers, the mismatch of information and the totally non existent scenarios?. I mean sometimes when these liars are far away they do really make my day as i sit and laugh :p , and if you are from X family i would think you would know which town X family originate from.

Those are a few of the elaborate lies , some are even more insignificant and even more unnecesary since no one asked for the information in the first place what is the need to lie about it? wouldnt it be best to either say the truth or not bring it up? i dont understand but i am kind of bored especially of the ones who lie to me looking straight in to my eyes and thinking i have no idea. I think its a sad and slightly creepy habit as well as embarassing because most people know you are lying all the time.

Sometimes you hear someone announce some new information and another person asks who told you that? and they say X person and everyone laughs and says "ohh right yeah forgget it she says anything" why do you want your words to be so meaningless? you only hurt yourself.
3eyb wallah.

So why do people do this?.

Enjoy this :P it ties in quiete nicely with the topic.

Love
Naz

Fashion Fabulous From The Gulf This Friday

2011-05-20T06:51:00.000-07:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

Women across the globe love to look good and dress up and adorn themselves with jewels and beautify themselves in the forms of makeup and clothes and jewelry and perfumes and charms and bags and and the must have , the unforgettable -Shoes.

And if you love exploring -hearing and learning about cultures throughout the world like myself you may have noticed that the most distinguished and most beautiful things that symbolise particular traditions and nations include the clothing of women- eg beautiful Saris- Diracs- and all the things women wear across the world because you see all the women in the world are frikin gorgeous.

And Muslim Women are not exempt from this , here in the Gulf Countries of the Arabian Peninsula fashion means more to most. This is because this part of the world houses women who strive to showcase their sense of style and creativity and modernity whilst keeping true to the values of their faith and combining modernity with tradition as well as attempting to prove that wanting to be beautiful is not a sin nor a shame if you just work out according to your own beleifs and values when and where and how you wish to be gorgeous. This way the women have developed a very different and unique style as well as a distinguished set of Outdoor wear and indoor wear- now the famous outdoor wear for women in the Khaleej is ofcourse is the 3abayah.
The 3abayahs are black robe like dresses worn over clothes they are a traditional garment which also follow the Islamic codes of dressing.

My Cousin is an 3abayah designer here in the UAE and she said she has witnessed the 3abayahs over the years evolve to be beautiful and representative of the individuals own tastes and loves.

Also as one phillipino reported told us "underneath the Abayah lies the most stylish woman in the world"

here are some of the 3abayah designs that exist over here so you can get a taste of what i am talking about.
So who said elegance cant be tradition friendly? Who said modern designs cant be religion friendly?. Here in the Gulf Most Abayahs are teamed with ofcourse other accesories to highlight the beauty of their designs such as bags etc and to allow the wearer to express their own individuality - Arm Candy Love is a big thing in this area of the world. Also Coloured Sheilas are fast replacing the black Sheilas that originally come with the 3abayahs because they are much easier to match with shoes and bags etc.

Indoor wear ranges from Jelabiyas to "normal clothes" - and evening party wear.
Jalabeyas look like this:

All Above 3abayah Designs are by the Same designer - contact details for purchases are as follows:

Phone:065225200 , Fax:065243020 , Mobile:506218222

, Blackberry: 21299588

Email : dar.almazarry@live.com

If you would like to know contact details of any other private designers in the UAE contact me and ill give you
contact details of my favourites.
Hope you enjoyed reading this post and
this is the song i was listening to the whole time so you might
as well listen too :)
have a wonderful Friday.

Love
Naz

The Other Side of the story- A celebration.

2011-05-15T05:00:00.000-07:00

This post is an early celebration of the independence north Somalia or modern day state within state until official recognition of Somaliland- its an important occasion worthy of celebration since after their liberation, liberation spread to the southern Somalis from Italian grip and the beautiful story began, here is the story of the other side of Somalia in pictures.
(The above pictures beautiful SomaliStars brand of hats recently launched) -The blue and the white at the front especial favourites as they are the colours of the sky coloured Somali flag.

For some reason the pictures have been made tiny thanks to blogger but the above picture is from Miss Arab world competition 09 and my personal favourite as Miss Somalia is the only Hijabi and a gorgeous one too ;)
If you click on pictures you will get a better larger view.

This picture is an old picture and slightly iconic, it shows a woman dancing to the traditional drum and dance called Baranbur, which is danced at somali weddings, todobos and celebratory events.
This picture shows girls at the launch celebration event of a new state within somalia , they are wearing the official blue and white of the flag and looking beautiful with it, the crescent moon and star are the symbol of that state as well as the symbol of Islam-random fact Somalia is the only country in the entire world with a 100% Sunni Muslim population a statistic im proud to share :)
This picture shows two girls wearing the traditional diracs pronounced dira3, evening or party wear , mostly worn to weddings and events are the ones with glitter and stuff like above and more lowkey ones are worn at home etc.
this is a pic of Henna, 7enna, mendhi and many things its called in many different languages, it is an integral part of somali culture worn during celebrations, eids, festivals etc and although somalis call it 7enna we also call it cilaan pronounced 3ilaan :)
this is also an iconic picture taken a long time ago, shows women in a room wearing traditional bedouin somali clothes called guntiinos and selling traditional desert ornaments like dhiil etc where people used to put their camel milk in.

This picture is a closer look at diracs and what is indoor wear to somalis.
As Somalis are Muslims, outdoor wear looks more like this. (probably with fringe covered)
This is again a more recent picture of Guntiinos, and one woman is wearing the somali version of an african dress.
This is again diracs- but in this picture you get a good view of the scarfs that come with them mostly worn around the shoulders, they are sheer and glittery and match the diracs.
I liked this picture because i think the girl looks lovely with the blue and white, i really think they are the most gorgeous colours ever.
This picture is from the group was is it called when its two people in a pop group duet?, ok anyways these two girls are sisters, and they sing a lot of different stuff but they also sing about somali issues and what its like to grow up somali yet so far from home, i love their song Take me home and theyre called Sweet Rush.

This picture is great because its canjeero (3anjero/3anjelo) or Laxoox (la7oo7) depending on which Lahja of Somali you speak , kinda like the somali version of pancakes and damn awesome.

This is a nice song called Dhulkaga Hooyo- or your mother land

Lots of love to Somalia, Somaliland-Djbouti-Ogadenia and all the places in the world Somalis call home.

Love
Naz

If only she could be one of his wives.

2011-05-05T14:28:00.000-07:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

آآآهٍ.. لو كنتُ زوجته

كم تراءى لي هذا السؤال أمام المرآة وأنا أتخيله يملك ابتسامتي وحده.. كاذبة امرأة تدّعي أنها تتزين لنفسها.. فخلف كل مرآة ظ.ل رجل تحلم أن تعطيه كل جمال الدنيا بوقفتها.. وكان أسامة ظل مرآتي الآتي سَحَراً من تورا بورا.. سراً يختلس المسافات لامرأة حلمتْ به زوجا.
كم راودني قلبي للجنوح باتجاه كهفه لأكون سيدة المقعد الشاغر بين حريم الخليفة.. وعندما تحينُ ليلتي أحظى بغسل لحيته المهيبة.. كان عفّرها تراب تمرغ فيه طوال ليله.. فهل يُعقل أن يكون فراش المجاه.د ديباجاً وريشاً؟
حلُمتُ بمرافقة أسامة.. هناك حيث الخطر المتربّ.ص بتفاصيله لأحتضن جلبابه الملطخ بدم. الشهادة.. ولأرافق الثواني الملقاة على كاهله انتظاراً للحاق بركب الرفاق والأصحاب.. وأشدّ من أزره كلما تأخرت تآمراً على رغباته بالرحيل.. مثلما تآمرنا عليه كافة.. جبناً ونفاقاً.
أسامة.. ذلك الفارس الذي ترجّل منذ زمن من فوق فرس الدنيا.. ولبس العمامة وامتشق «الكلاشنكوف» ودخل نفق اللاعودة.. من هناك رأيتُ قامته المنتصبة إلى المنتهى.. يُجيّ.ش الفرسان ارتدادا لصدى نساء الإسلام المنتهكات المنهكات اللواتي يصرخن وااا «أسامااااه» منذ موت غريمه في الرجولة والنصرة.. ويرتد عليه الصدى فورة ونخوة.. ويقول لمعتصمٍ: ونحن اللاحقون إن شاء الله.
كيف ستكون الحياة مع زوج لا يضعف لدموع امرأة؟
كيف يكون يوماً زوجياً بين امرأة عادية ورجل لا يَضلُّ ولا يشقى؟ ليس لديه مواعيد للذهاب والعودة والقيام والقعود والعشاء والغداء؟ ولا تدري هي إلى متى سيبقى؟
كيف يكون الصباح مع رجل لا ينام؟
كيف ستهدده بالرحيل وهو لا يخافه؟
كيف تنقلب عليه دلالاً والدلال ليس ضمن مصطلحاته؟
كيف لامرأة أن تتمنى زوجا لا يهاب ولا يمل ولا يكلّ ولا يُحب إلا الله؟
من أي نقطة ضعفٍ تأتيه وهو لا يُغوى؟
كيف لي أن أكون زوجة أسامة وأعزف على أوتار شوقٍ يتخذ مني به ملاذاً وهو لا يشتاق إلا لحورٍ لا يمكن لنساء العالمين الوقوف معهن صفاً صفاً؟
ما السبب لبقائه مع أي امرأة وقد طلق الدنيا ثلاثا؟
هل يشربُ في الصباح القهوة مثل المعْتمّ.ين بالثقافة والدين؟
أم الشاي والخبز مثل جدّي وجدّتي البسيطين ومثل الفلاحين؟
أم الشاي بالحليب مثل عادات أهله الجدد في باكستان وأفغانستان؟
هل يمكن فهم أسامة كما نفهم الرجال؟
ام أنه قلبَ مفهوم الرجولة فصار الرجال بعده أجساداً فارغة، فبات تعريفنا لهم قبله.. مختلفاً عنه بعده؟
نسيتُ في غبار الذكور المارّة بلا أثر يخلَّف... كيف أن نفس المرأة تهفو فقط لرجل ثابت الولاء.. مؤمن منتصر وفارس لا يترجّل إلا للأعلى.. وأنها بكل كيدها وإغرائها تحلم برجل لا يتأثر بطبيعتها أبدا.. ويأخذها تحت لواء أضلاعه حيث نشأتها الأولى المعوجّة رحمة منه ولطفاً.
شكراً لأنك جعلتني أحلم بك زوجاً.. وأبشّرك سنتّبع وصيّتك بالقعود، فمن أين لنا ه.مّة الوقوف من دونك؟
لقد أتعبتَ من بعدك يا أسامة.. وإن لم أحظ بشرف الانتماء ل.لقبك في الدنيا.. وعداً سأراك هناك، وأكمل حديث شهر زاد ضاقت بحكايتها الدنيا بما رحُبت.. فإلى الملتقى زوج أحلامي المنتظر.

خلود عبدالله الخميس

Ok Now tell me your thoughts on this very interesting piece of writing i loved it :D
haha
Love
Naz

الله كريم جلسة

2011-05-05T06:27:00.000-07:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

I was feeling a little bit strange/anxious yesterday and then i heard this and the lyrics were so appropriate and uplifting ive always loved راشد الماجد so there was no reason for the song to prove dissapointing and it did not. Enjoy so that hopefully the message uplifts your spirits too :)

The General Lyrics are something like:
الله كريــــم الله كريـــــــــم God is generous, God is generous He will ease the pain of the most painful wound Be patient to harshness Be patient and say “God is generous” He will replace sorrow with happiness. الله كريــــم الله كريـــــــــم الله كريــــم الله كريـــــــــم الله كريــــم الله كريـــــــــم الله كريــــم الله كريـــــــــم الله كريــــم الله كريـــــــــم الله كريــــم الله كريـــــــــم

Have patience in the face of problems.

Love
Naz

Bye Bin Laden?

2011-05-02T06:07:00.000-07:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

My cousin rushed in to my room as i lay asleep on my bed shouting Naz hes dead! hes dead! So confused i woke up like what died? My cousin didnt look upset or anything so i figured it wasnt anybody we knew and he continued omg Osama Bin Laden is dead,thats when i woke up properly i sat up and went over to see whats on the news, the revelation of Bin Ladens death shocked and surprised me i never expected it due to the level of conspiracy theories surrounding his very existence and his affiliations, i never thought id see the day where it was announced that this man who looks different in every video was dead and i dont know what it would change , im even more surprised at where he has been found a mansion minutes from a Pakistani Military Academy , i dont know when the pakistani goverment will be asked to face the music for their incredible corruption skills.

I remember the day the World trade center was attacked and all the phone lines were cut off my family sat glued in front of the television my mum crying so much as we saw people jump out of windows, as the world stared awe struck what was this? who knew? where is our family in new york? who knows? the horror of that day was engraved in the memories of millions for years to come but i personally dont remember much of it except that police lined the streets from my house to the city centre.

However the day that i remember for ever was a day given much less significance and attention to however stays in the minds of many people who lived and were in London ,UK at that time the 7/7 the bombings that came from nowhere and shook the country.

I remember waking up that morning a sunny morning and having breakfast when my mum told me she was going to Shepherds Bush to visit my aunt who lived there and that shed take the tube there. Like normal we all went to school only to notice that early in the morning half the teachers had not arrived , lessons were not starting and that we were told to watch films but not the news.

The students rejoiced that we had no lessons not knowing the real reason this was happening however our suspicions suddenly arose when we saw teachers crying and leaving , so one student stopped the dvd and checked the news all it took was a change of chanel before everyone started crying and panick took over the entire class room LONDON BOMBED the headlines screamed a succesion of bombings one after the other all over the city , but what made it even worse for me personally was where they had taken place Shepherds Bush tube station was bombed and so was Kings Cross Tube Station , suddenly a long queue of panicked students formed asking to leave or contact their families as nearly half the class room if not more had family who took the tubes to work, or at those particular places , however all the phone lines were down and parents could not contact their children and vice versa everything was totall and complete chaos.

For some reason my mum changed her mind and didnt go to Shepherds Bush that day instead she visited my friends house (my friends mum and my mum are also friends)and when my mum came to collect us from the school like many other parents we went to my friends house , when they got a call from my friends school that an anonymous person called the School and police l and said that there was a bomb in the school such a crappy and disgusting joke which led to my mother and my friends mother driving to the school in a panicked frenzy and when traffick halted the manic driving my friends mother got out of the car and ran in the middle of the highway to the school.

Alhamdulilah that was a lie and everybody was fine , ive no idea what happened to the stupid prankster but at home we still sat glued to the TV when all arrived safe because phone lines were weird and when not down really busy, but we realised my aunts family were also fine (they lived directly next to the shepherds bush tube station) when we say my cousin on tv behind the bbc broadcaster person.

I think what was so terrible about that day was the fact that 52 innocent people going to work or school, parents or children and completely civilian were forced to die for the sake of stupid ideologies no one cares about.

Another day that shocked me completely was when the Al Qaeda funded terrorist Organisation Al Shabab branch in Somalia had conducted the first suicide bombing in Somali history blowing up the graduation ceremony of Somali medical students/Doctors who were students who studied in the hardest circumstances with the least resources one of the most difficult things to learn in the world, students whose mothers sold tomatoes in the war torn streets to pay for their university and who were finally about to receive work contracts from Arab and neighbouring countries , the children who could finally bring some sort of hope to their families were blown to smitherens for god knows what.

So many people including myself have cried countless times in the name of Bin laden and also in the counter "fight against terror" yet always denied an inklin of truth, i hope things change slowly i hope Al Shabab lose funding from Al Qaeda, I hope the killing of random civilian Afghan women is stopped and the raids in poor Afghan homes in the middle of the night, i hope the pakistani taliban is stopped and the Pakistani goverment asked questions they should be asked, i hope the lies stop once and for all but ofcourse they probably wont and this is a diversion of attention from economoic difficulties as per usual.

what a stupid world
Pray for Peace people Muslims and Non Muslims and all , peace in the world one day Inshallah.

Love
Naz

The girl with the ring.

2011-04-26T14:24:00.000-07:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

It couldve been you and you and yes you and even meeee but it wasnt :'( , if you have no idea what i am talking about its quiete alright no one normally does *that was a joke* , ok as you all know by now i live(d) in London the london in the UK and something interesting is happening in the UK now and every british person and even non british people im sure do have an interest in the upcoming Royal Wedding. Theres royal wedding mania on the tv but also in the streets and everything and ofcourse a bank holiday and long weekend so there is good reason for the British people to be happy but what strikes me most about this wedidng is the general down to earth humble person the future King of the United Kingdoms character portrays and the incredibly amazing news that the blushing bride to be and future Queen probably is an "ordinary", and "common" everyday girl that just makes it all the more special and romantic how their story is like many others met at university , lived in dorms i dont know very sweet im looking forward to seeing the dress the ring and everything else from my living room :p, im wishing them well and they seem to have a very interesting guest list.

Best of luck to the ordinary girl with the very special ring, Princess Diana's ring.
What about you? what do you think of all this? have you become a fervent royalist, a interested reader? or is the royal wedding mania getting on your last nerves?
lemme know
love
Naz
Now why the hell wasnt it me? come on man.
choose your universities and university courses wisely guys :P

Loved ones and life.

2011-04-23T06:23:00.000-07:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

Hello Eveeryone how are you all?, I have not been the best blogger lately i know, its ive just been busy doing God knows what, still in dubai and having fun in general as well as sorting out some important stuff inshallah pray that everything goes well :), thankyou.

What have i been up to? The other day it was my friends bachelorate party , i missed most of it because i hads to go to another family party and get together the same day which was a lot of fun, seeing people i havent seen in a while and laughing alot then i finally made it to this one late but it was really fun and when i eventually turned up came with some baloons that stated it was a bachelorate party :P, and some funny/interesting looking cake in the shape of a corset that said "for our sexy bride" - it was fun as is everything with a whole bunch of girls and food , we had to destroy the cake a bit before offering the parents a slice :P. it looked a little bit like the pic below thankyou google for having everything :P the baloon is actually identical to the one below exact same colour and font too how cool (ill put my pics up on fb). Oh and ofcourse for the party and the wedding as is tradition the entire villa and its four faces were lit up with fairy lights , it was cool reminded me of my wedding.

A couple of days before the party we were browsing the talise spa in medinat jumeirahs spa menu and we discovered this type of massage that sounded really cool a 24k Gold Massage that sounds cool right? but too expensive to bother looking at nope not at all for only 700AED yes i was surprised too so we got that done as well and its really cool its basically some sort of organic oil mixed with melted gold and its supposed to be good for your skin and give it elasticity and all that your skin will feel softer and good and just like any massage it feels good.Then finally the wedding happened yesterday/Last night sadly i was actually feeling very very ill i have no idea what happened but i had this fever and headache and it got worse when we got to the venue with lights and loud music and flashing lights and dancing and all that, i was getting to feel dizzy so i ate food then my stomach felt queasy :P, i spent most of the night therefore just sitting next to the bride and talking to her she was panicking on the way too it was so cuute, i did dance a little bit just because i was forced to :P, but i wasnt really in to it because i wasnt well so sad considering i love weddings and stuff. Yeah other then me being ill the wedding was great the decor was great the food was delicious and the brides dress beautiful Mashallah what also was great was the hired russian dancers :P, unique or what? and now my friends off to Italy i hope she reaches safe and sound.

Advice from Fadiosis that i liked "if you see a dress that you like buy it because you never know when your going to be invited to an unplanned party!" :P
there you go
love
Naz
Ps What have you guys been up to?

The Real UAE and the Real Dubai.

2011-04-11T06:44:00.000-07:00

This is a post dedicated to the UAE and people of Emirates, its a positive post highlighting the positives of this country and the indescribable achievements, and its being posted as a positive reply to many many negative and inconsiderate comments by bloggers, and non bloggers that have either visited the country, ive currently heard dubai being described as dirty, fake, and a city with no culture.Let me tell you the truth about Dubai and the UAE.

The UAE is only 39 years old thats not even one lifetime,yet it has achieved so many things in under 40 years.

It is a beautiful country which hosts many people from all around the world, and dubai is a cosmopolitan city, which boasts nearly everything the world has to offer, its the only place in the world where you can go skiing in the sun, visit the worlds largest aqariums, see towers taller then your imagination couldve grasped , step in to the future , and live in villas on top of Islands shaped like the beautiful palm.

It is NOT a building obsessed material obsessed competition playground , but a spectacular tourist attraction, which attracts millions and millions every year, putting to good use modern technological advances and showing the world how much we can achieve in 2011 when the goverments not being lazy with the budget. And please stop complaining that it no longer looks the same as it did, as if this is a negative thing, why do you want it to have remained desert?, why would you not be happy that the people and the economy of the country has grown?, do you have so little value for the quality of the lives of emiratis because your upset that the uae doesnt look like a dessert with a guy wearing a kandoorah standing next to a camel which would be a much better photo for your £5 costing tourist camera?

Aside from physical, architectural advances the UAE has advanced on a social level quiete radically , and very fast.

Her Highness Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak Al Ketbi has won five UN prizes at the same time for helping develop the country, and introducing her literacy programme when ileteracy was at an all time high 80% but however today is a thing of the past.

The UAE has three women ministers, this is a number which other Gulf nations or even Arab nations cannot contest.

UAE is the only Muslim country where women have automatic custody rights and where you can get a Visa as a divorcee.

UAE is the only country where the Sheikhs (Royals) have open visitation in their Majilis where any Emirati can come and ask for anything they require assistance with.

Marriage age has been raised to 18 in an attempt to stop child marriages.

There is a limit on dowry or Mehr money to allow parents not to go only for the highest price giving potential Son in Law but to encourage modesty.

All public schools are free and Bilingual and all state universities are in English.

The First ever foreign students who were invited to do a project with NASA were from state UAE universities.

UAE exhibits its tolerance of other faiths and cultures by allowing places of worship for other religions.

There is a respectful Police force

The only country in the area with state shelters for abused orphaned and abandoned children regardless of their nationality.

UAE is investing billions in culture by opening 3 premium art museums in the next 5 years.

Its the only GCC country with a goverment beaureu dedicated to green energy and its research , so that it plans accordingly for like post oil times :P

The only country in region with free Aids treatement and acknowledges the need for prevention and sexual health education.

Before getting married in UAE you have to take a STD test for the same reasons as above.

And finally after all of that and many more, it is a country which prides itself on its Islamic faith and Gulf Arabic heritage and traditions, where traditional garments are still worn and even adopted by expats. So please dont come here and make ignorant comments and unfair judgements, dont say its a place that lacks culture when youve never visited our mosques, or tried the food, and dont say its fake when you have never spoken to an emirati.

I hope you guys have learnt something. :)

Post by Naz and MsHandbagAddict

يا عسل

2011-04-10T07:57:00.000-07:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

يا عسل

Love Mona Amarsha since lately, happy viewing. oh and one last song by the Saudi Legend Rashed Al Majed.

love
Naz

One day in Nazs World.

2011-04-09T05:36:00.000-07:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

Yesterday I thought it would be wise to meet up with some friends, lately ive been hanging out with turkish people :p, i met via my cousins fiance, theyre really cool actually and we have a random love for turkish soaps in common (random on my part), we get to watch dubbed in Arabic like last years turkish soaps or something so they already know whats going to happen and i get spoilers :P, dear God ive already forgotten the point of this post. So anyways i went to the Mall and i managed to eat too much french fries ;p, haha so what happened was i was slightly dissapointed with myself and my flopped excercise regime, i have no idea when i randomly developed a phobia of gaining weight ive never worried about gaining weight before in my life, which is probably weird for a girl but then again i always hated food until recently my weight is currently healthy and my height weight ratio biomass is average but you might aswell get used to eating green stuff before your fat.

Anyways to cure my depression i went and called my husband and explained to him that im going through a mid life crisis, to which he was like "you have to reach midlife before it can offer you a crisis crazy" but whatever he agreed that i should go perfume shopping to help me get over my midlife crisis (he was probably just worried i go binge eat otherwise :p, lately ive been eating like somebody whose training to be a sumo wrestler would , oh maybe i could try that as a career option) . Anyways eventually i made it to shops and the perfume that caught my eye was Chanel No.5 for like 600AED a bottle, (£100), but ok i think that would be alright if there was actually some perfume in the bottle, it was soo tiny and you cant even buy a bigger bottle even it would cost more , I ended up getting Miss Dior Cherie instead because ever since the first time i accidentally bought that perfume ive been in love with it , i actually think its amazing and smells incredibly unique, and you wont feel robbed because there is actually perfume in the bottle.
Then my friend called me and she was jewelry shopping in the same mall so we met up , and she was with another friend who i havent seen in years but have heard a lot of about , what happened was when we were younger there were as actually me and 4 other girls who were close friends, neighbours and knew eachother well but my family moved away and people grew up and other friends did things and two of the girls got married, and pretty much contact was lost except with one of those four girls and then when we did meet again after many years with too many stories, i fet like so much has changed, maybe too much, so much so that some of the girls were incredibly unrecognisable (im referring to their personality and what kind of values i thought they had), and i dont mean to judge people whose circumstances or shoes ive never been in, and whose type of situation has never arisen in my own life but i think there are some things even if they have never happened to me before i can say wholeheartedly gosh i would never do that which ive seen them do but i still think they are deep down good people in very strange circumstances , some of it being their fault and some of it being well out of their control. keep them in your duas for Hidaya and stuff Inshallah.

hmm what else is new? My sister Graduated and she can now stop calling herself a Med Student and call herself an unemployed Doctor :P, Congratulations Kaz a million times over!!!

We are having a huge dinner party involving too much good foood right about now, so m3salama.
Have a Good weekend for those of you whose weekend just started, and i hope youve had a good weekend for those of you whose weekend has just ended, and those of you in UAE whose weekend is gonna end tomorrow.

-The results of Arabs got talent was a big Fail, what on earth?, i think there shouldve been a different winner, so much talent was there and it wasnt chosen.

- Listen to this cool song by Maryam Mursal, a Somali Legend Singer, its called Fejigno which means beware but yeah for those who understand Somali, or those who appreciate good erm tunes?, enjoy .

Love
Naz

Inspirational=Awards

2011-04-04T03:20:00.000-07:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

The beautiful Bluepearl honoured me with the inspiration award , which is an award im very thankful to receive , especially from one of my favourite and most inspirational blogger sisters so thankyou soo much darling.

I think im supposed to find inspirational posts which i wrote and i am sort of at a blank here, except there is one post regarding Hijab on here which may prove useful to any sisters considering and contemplating the idea of wearing Hijab and for those struggling slightly to to come to terms with some of the challenges that come with being a Hijabi especially in the west and for non muslims wondering exactly why in the eyes of Muslim women this is so important. My Hijab

It also asks me to choose inspirational posts by other bloggers but i find this hard to do seeing as my inspiration to blog was due to these sisters whose blogs i enjoyed reading and always found inspirational, and authentic. Id like to award this award therefore to the following bloggers. :)

your basically supposed to award 10 bloggers and inform them on their page that they have been awarded and tag them , here are the awarded bloggers:

Wafa from My world and more

Amira from strangers diary

Yaz from i forgot the blogs name but justanotherpartofmypast is her lovely novella

Missdreamer

Fadiosis-from When it all started

BosnishMuslima- from Scents of Arabia

Silla -from I am Farsilla

MissHandbag addict from the most awesomest blog :p

Londoneya -from Londoneya

Normal is overated-from conceal your thoughts.

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Love
Naz

A little bit of everything.

2011-04-03T11:16:00.000-07:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

Hey Everyone! Whats up with you all?

This post is concerning lots of random different things so lets get to them in no particular order, its the 3rd of April which makes it mothers day in the UK and ive actually seen the most perfect mothers day gift , it was recently mothers day over here in the Gulf so theres still a lot of lovely mothersday centered gift bags and gift packs and cute things around but also as always theres beautiful shoes around which are my mums favourite things ever but my mums not here soo ill have to stick to wishing her a happy mothers day over the phone and making du3as for her. Love you mum no matter what, forever.
Also yeah we are still DJ searching, wedding invite organising omg you should see the pile, wedding dress embroidery/crystals choosing because shes getting it custom made and i think i am getting as excited about this wedding as the bride herself, im also looking forward to another wedding-party which i can assure you will be the talk of the town here.

What else yesterday i was expecting some guests and they didnt turn up, so i figured i was going to hang about in pjs and randomly listen to and dance to music which i seem to love to do like a crazy person when i get a phone call that some surprise guests are like 5 minutes way , (well atleast they called) and i had to actually fix my hair, my makeup, change into erm non sleep clothes turn crazy music off in like five minutes. They stayed for long but it was quiete fun one of the girls has a lot of really cool sisters Mashallah who i met before her but after we were introduced she also became a good friend of mine and we were just chatting watching tv, eating too much sweets which happens to me whenever im here, while that family was there my cousin and his wife and his family decided that as they were in the area they would come by as well so we had guests till abput 2am in the morning , i had fun but the bad thing was i ended up wearing like an 3abayah and sheila in doors for the longest time ever in heat and i couldnt randomly go up to the roof and go swimming , so when they finally left i had to resist going swimming at 2am.

Oh yeah and i also watched the Semi-Final of Arabs got Talent a day late and i swear i was about to have a nervous breakdown waiting for Najwa to decide who got through. ;p

Also i just recently discovered this really cool, webmagazine called Khaleejesque which aims to inform readers about whats "hip and happening" in the gulf region, they say

"The six countries that make up the GCC – Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar – share closely related culture, history, and values; as well as a similar future. Apart from a couple of blogs and local magazines that do cover this flourishing culture, no one has really attempted to focus on the Gulf, and we aim to do so."
so anyways i like it.

Love
Naz

Latest

2011-04-01T07:25:00.001-07:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

Hala!, Hala!, guess who is back here to the wonderful dubai, and literally having the best time except like only a few things, so yeah what have i been up 2 ?, i managed to take the eurostar to Paris from Euston before coming here to get any last minute gifts for my friends and family, for myself ;) and the last minute wedding gifts, because the coool thing about Paris is that they have pretty much the best shopping and quality in my opinion and you can find designer shops like literally on the high street and find stuff like birkin and hermes bags on a walk in basis , thats like perfect right?. Most of the pictures from Paris are on my facebook for those bloggers that i know that are on there one of my friends asked if i would post any of them here but im kind of slightly paranoid haha but most of the pictures include people and stuff, if your curious ill get the google images of the ones i got. mainly Prada handbag, a D&G clutch , LV heels and Laboutin and hermes bracelet then went to dubai, but anyways, yeah other then that when i got here, i stayed at my friends villa in dubai, we were mostly doing more preparation stuff for the wedding eg, finding a DJ haha that is actually fun but we have learnt that most of them have not heard of sticking to appointment time or even turning up, i swear i always wonder how people manage to run buisnesses in the middle east , 5 mins became One hour and ten minutes the other, so we still havent found the DJ because like its dangerous to invite mr i dont come to appointments to play at your wedding, if any of you guys are in dubai, are a Dj or know a good DJ, and can leave contact details or anything please do so, thanks :).
(this is like identical to my DG clutch except mine is purple the sequins)

Yeah we also managed to get the wedding invites and the dress fitting and stuff, then i found out that my other friend who i havent seen or actually contacted in a long time also got islamically married , her milcheh was yesterday and i didnt go but theres a girl thing that the girls will be doing for her and im gonna go to that inshallah, should be fun but because my friend spends her weekends with her husband-to-be or is because theyre islamically married already,then ill spend the weekend with my cousins at the palm villa, and since i love love, indian food mshandbag addict suggested India Palace resturaunt in Garhoud and it was great actually Mashallah <3 so thanks lovely for the suggestion and hope your having a great time in marbella.

what i like most since being here?, easy access to women only Salons ive actually really missed getting my hair done properly frequently.

thats all for now
lots of love
naz

Stylish

2011-03-22T16:11:00.000-07:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

Quiete honoured or thankful or both to have received the Stylish Blogger Award again from some very , very kind blogger sisters, such as the ultimate fashionista MsHandbagAddict i actually advise the entire human population to read her blog, and from the one and only Amira the very Kind sis Nazia and my lovely dissapeared reader who i miss Bubbli so Thankyou all very kind people <3>

So im supposed to write 7 things about myself i think, they are supposed to be interesting or something but let me see what i come up with

I am kind of pissed off at my entire family right now , this may lead to the remainder of this post being stupid.

I got henna done for the first time in a long time like two days ago and i love it, since i really like Henna i may bother trying to learn it however im very highly artisticly lame.

At the moment im drinking Fanta, this is probably a bad habit but i drink atleast one 250ml bottle of either fanta, pepsi or coke a day.

I have been involved in two slightly interesting projects which is why i have been busy and not blogging, as well as exams and stuff that i will tell you guys about soon Inshallah
I cant wait to go to Dubai in like two days and attend a wedding .

Ive developed a paranoia of gaining weight and im wondering how succesful fasting everyday for no apparent reason would be as a form of dieting though im probably better off with excercise ive never dieted in my life.

Its hot and sunny and lovely in London today.

I hope you had a good time reading this weird post, thanks for the tag and i dont want to re tag other people because im sure most of you have already done this.

love

Naz

Wedding, Spas , Dubai and Exams

2011-03-17T07:08:00.000-07:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

I think i am having "one of those days" where you know, you dont even know where to start with whats wrong and stuff, ive recently done some exams and ok out of two units, i managed to completely fail one and get the 2nd best grade in the whole year in the other one (just goes to show how weirdly bipolar even my brain is lately), as for how i feel about that? very thorougly depressed and stupid, now i have to go retake for the first time in my whole life.

In other less depressing news, remember i mentioned my friend was getting married, and i already missed the engagement and stuff however i was planning to go to the wedding and finally everything is sorted and ill be going to Dubai in about exactly ten days in order to make it a few days before the wedding :), i am looking forward to it actually, my wardrobe is suffering from lack of cool abayahs, which is funny because when i was in the Gulf my wardrobe was black so i spent the entire summer buying anything other then an abayah. I managed to find some really cool wedding gifts from London so far thanks to harrods and Mshandbag Addict who manages to give great advice on what things to buy and where to find them (always harrods) ;p.

As for everything else?, yeah the last fun thing that ive done lately is i went to the Urban retreat day spa at Harrods, in knightsbridge with my sister and oh my god it is amazing, it is really amazing and after your great relaxing treatements, and facials and massages and manicures, and whatever you request you can shop from the amazing skincare, fragrance and health and beauty stuff that they have on sale some things which are rare goodies to find obviously depending on what suits you best its a great Spa,and if you have an annoying sister who decides that she wants to get her hair done at the urban retreat hair and beauty house, that she does that before your massage and not afterwards.

My reccomended treatements are:

The Facial by Anastasia for skin

They basically cleanse and exfoliate your skin, and do a heavenly pressure point face and scalp massage for you in a warm nice room its awesome.

Then you can go to the Manicurist at Urban retreat and get your nails done, and find good hand products and I recommend the "immaculate manicure" though it will take an hour to get done, your hands will be massaged, soaked and pressed with a hot towel and oil and all dead skin will be removed your cuticles and nail beds will be fixed and your nails will get painted for you.

And if you are looking for wedding gifts for people like i was you can go and cheat and go to the bride to be's area and request a consultation, the perfumery is incredible :)

I now pronounce Harrods the worlds greatest shop

Anyways yeah thats all

Love

from

Naz

When things just happen

2011-03-15T10:38:00.000-07:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

When things just happen.

When those who are supposed to be your loved ones behave in a way where they have been anything but that, and the ones you trusted or held close to your heart become backstabbers, when the ones you went to great lengths to help incite hate and create gossip amongst the entire community and the one you welcomed in to your house is just malicious what are you supposed to do?.

You ever heard of the expression when it rains it pours? That is probably applicable to our situation currently; it always amazes me when shit happens in this family how it makes directly for the fan but what is more amazing to me is why people choose to create drama for no apparent reason? We invite someone to our house and do them many favours because we respect the person who brought them to us yet they do nothing to return the favour or even behave in a civilised manner, drama and arguments and gossiping later they are ready to accept invitations and to talk like a grown up person because her husband says so. What the hell it’s not like your presence is wanted or even valued now.

Anyways that’s just one of the weird random scenarios here, another being one relatives weird anti Islamic practice ness and strange comments he makes all the time about what people wear and eat and how backwards this makes them, and even worse comments about peoples state of affairs which are of absolutely no concern to him when these same people e.g. my aunt and my mum have done so much for him and his family but what gets to me most is we all know that Islam encourages the forgiving of people and the happy communications between people and families, that Islam encourages love and mercy and all these things and does not encourage pride and arrogance but when someone does something to you repeatedly and they offend or hurt you, when they break your trust or blatantly take advantage of you then where do you draw the line between forgiveness and stupidity?, Pride or self respect? Is it wrong to tell these people to get out of your lives if their presence increases nothing but drama nothing but problems?, if their comments are beyond derogatory ? why should you continue to communicate with them when even the greetings from both parties are insincere? does refusing to keep in touch make you a bad person?I don’t actually know.

LoVe NaZ

What about you?

2011-03-14T15:35:00.000-07:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

If I were a month, I’d be August.

If I were a day of the week, I’d be Saturday.

If I were a time of day, I’d be 5 PM.

If I were a planet, I’d be Venus

If I were an animal, I’d be a Lion.

If I were a direction, I’d be East.

If I were a piece of furniture, I’d be a closet.

If I were a liquid, I’d be a Coca Cola.

If I were a gemstone, I’d be a Ruby.

If I were a tree, I’d be a Palm .

If I were a tool, I’d be a Lipstick.

If I were a flower, I’d be a Rose.

If I were a kind of weather, I’d be Sunshiney and breezy.

If I were a musical instrument, I’d be a Drum.

If I were a color, I’d be Purple.

If I were an emotion, I’d be joy.

If I were a fruit, I’d be a strawberry.

If I were a sound, I’d be a bollywood beat.

If I were an element, I’d be The Water.

If I were a car, I’d be a pink porsche cayenne

If I were a food, I’d be Cupcakes.

If I were a place, I’d be the Makkah Ka3ba

If I were a material, I’d be Silk.

If I were a taste, I’d be Sweet.
If I were a scent, I’d be 3oudd.

If I were an item of clothing, I’d be a evening crystal embroidered dress
If I were a body part, I’d be a heart!

If I were a facial expression, I’d be A smile.

If I were a song, id be Qalbi Noora.

If I were a pair of shoes, I’d be jimmy choo.
What would you be?

Love
Naz

What do you want me to say?

2011-03-14T10:34:00.001-07:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

Hope you enjoyed that and learnt something from the general message
love
Naz

Beautiful and Moving

2011-03-11T16:38:00.000-08:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

I rarely ever post twice in one day but technically its not really one day, the date has changed :P, anyways i was on facebook doing random things and on the side advert thing i saw a an advert for something renaissance and about Somali poetry, generally somali poetry is great especially in the Somali language, there is lots of rules such as starting and finishing the entire poem with the letter you started with, so you will hear a poet deliver an entire message with every word of every stanza or verse beginning with say the letter G or S or something, and also the poetry is sung in a soft rythmic way, anywho i came across this lovely poem in part English and Part Somali so you can hear the difference, its an interesting version of the Somali National Anthem too
have a nice time watching, i really loved it and found it moving :)
cant upload the whole video to bloggr but you can see it that website you wont regret it probably

Love
Naz

My New Obsession

2011-03-11T11:10:00.000-08:00

I am now going to go and find an excuse to explain that i need to buy all of those :)
you buy it too omg PBs stuff is soo beautiful and affordable and beautiful i am in love with the bags what do you think? which do you like? ill probably be limited to one bag and one purse and some for my friend which of the above do you like if any?
let me know
love
naz

"The Secret Life of Girls Around the World"

2011-03-10T15:42:00.000-08:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

An extract from "The Secret Life of Girls Around the World",

Dear Emotional Creature:

Everyone seems to have a certain way they want you to be - your mother, father, teachers, religious leaders, politicians, men, fashion gurus, celebrities, girlfriends. In reporting my new book, I learned a very disturbing statistic: 74 percent of young women say they are under pleasure to please everyone.

I have done a lot of thinking about what it means to please: to be the wish or will of somebody other than yourself. To please the fashion setters, we starve ourselves. To please men, we push ourselves when we aren’t ready. To please our parents, we become insane overachievers. If you are trying to please, how do you take responsibility for your own needs? How do you even know what your own needs are? The act of pleasing makes everything murky. We lose track of ourselves. We stop uttering declaratory sentences. We stop directing our lives. We forget what we know. We make everything OK rather than real.

I have had the good fortune to travel around the world. Everywhere I meet teenage girls and women giggling, laughing as they walk country roads or hang out on city streets. Electric girls. I see how their lives get hijacked, how their opinions and desires get denied and undone. So many of the women I have met are still struggling late into their lives to know their desires, to find their way.

Instead of trying to please, this is a challenge to provoke, to satisfy your own imagination and appetite. To take responsibility for who you are, to engage. Listen to the voice inside you that might want something different. It’s a call to your original self, to move at your own speed, to walk with your step, to wear your color.

When I was your age, I didn’t know how to live as an emotional creature. I felt like an alien. I still do a lot of the time. I am older now. I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be OK with being different, with being this alive, this intense. I just don’t want you to have to wait that long.

Love,

Eve Ensler

Love Naz
As a belated Celebration of Womens day, i hope my readers could take something from those precious words of advice :) x

A quick post of Clarification

2011-03-02T12:36:00.001-08:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

Greetings to everyone :), id like to clarify some few things with this post, as you all know my blog was open to all readers, and all commentors , my blog welcomed people from everywhere to comment, read, follow , dont comment and read , dont comment and dont read and to not follow, this is because i thought most people were grown up and adult enough or atleast had enough of a life to realise very simple facts. Every time you switch on your moniter and click on the internet through which ever browser you are entering the world wide web, this planet has around 6 billion people , how many of those people in this information age the internet is available to i dont know but i am assuming a lot. you will always find someone to disagree with and someone to agree with however this is my corner of the world wide web yes world wide, not confined to your own little feelings or personal opinions, there are many options available to you such as simply pressing exit if you dont like what you read. my blog is not a controversial one , my posts are not political , racial or even make controversial religious statements and even if it did im free to write whatever i want on it, this blog is about my life , im very surprised that so many people have nothing to do with their lives that they couldnt find anything better to do then argue about my race or identity. I can and will call myself whatever i want, ill consider myself whatever i want and write whatever i want. Please if you dont like it dont waste my time and dont waste your time and leave my blog,im more then happy for you to unfollow more then happy for you to never recomment on my blog and i shall no longer listen to idiots hiding behind anonymous screens.
grow up, get a life and some balls while your at it
naz

Btw this blog is called SomalianArab if i want ill talk about chinese people thats none of your concern but if you have issues with either part of the word Somali or the word Arab then feel free to go away and dont come back thanks.

My life is Arab ♥

2011-02-25T07:53:00.000-08:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

Haha so this is a post about all things Arab, some of it is funny, some of it is crazy and some of it is just weird , these are the ones that i can relate to or i found funny you will know from ym erm commentary which is which.

Are You Engaged or…Possessed?

Feb 152011

Ya so last night, mom’s friend was over at our house for dinner, and after she pulls me in for that all too familiar kiss on the cheek and the “look how big you’ve gotten” line, she asked me if I found a girl yet. I go: “tant, la2 ana mesh badawar aslan..and mesh 3ayez atgawez” (ma’am, no I’m not looking honestly, I don’t wanna get married). She looks at me with this horror look in her eyes and she pulls my arm and seats me next to her. She then proceeds to put her hands on my head, then on my stomach, then on my head again and keeps running em all over my face, frantically reading verses from the Quran and shivering hysterically. Apparently if an Arab 21 year old guy doesn’t wanna get married, he must be possessed by Satan and an exorcism must be performed immediately. MLImarriage-tasticallyAR.

Lool no aunt has ever entered a house without going around asking everybody when theyre getting married, and if god forbid you say you dont want to get married, or worse you dont want children this is the mildest reaction you will ever get.

Threatened with Marriage

Feb 152011

Today, mama was complaining about how I don’t do the dishes or 3′aseel like a good 3arab girl is supposed to. When I responded that I was on break, she had a fit, telling my dad “5aleena njawizha o nu5lus minha, wallah 3′air ajeeblik 3arees o bitshoofi”. Instead of being grounded or even hit with the 7afaye, I was threatened with marriage. MLIAR.

Hahaha my mum said to my little sister, go study otherwise im going to go and get you married off, marriage is verry scary :P

My Minions!

Feb 152011

I’m the only Emerati in my school which is filled with British people. You would think I would become more English?! LA WALLA THIS WILL NEVER HAPPEN! Now they all say ‘WALLLA’ and ‘YALLA’ and more Arab words and they all went and bought blackberries and Araab scarfs!! Aaahh bless my little minions.. :) MLIAR.

Lool this perfectly describes my high school experience, by the time we left everyone knew arabic words, yalla made it into every sentence so did wallah and free filisteen badges! ;p

Pita Makes Everything Better

Feb 092011

Elyoum, I didnt know what to take to lunch. I looked in the fridge and found hot dogs but we didnt have buns, so I just wrapped 2 hot dogs in pita bread w/ msheet :). MLIAR

Hahaha i do this so frequently i forget there are buns and stuff your meant to use instead.

Ya Salaaaam!

Feb 022011

Today we were planning my cousin’s bridal shower, and we decided on an Indian theme. As soon as we told our parents, we got lectured for an hour about how Indians would never have a Yemeni theme party. MLIAR!

picked this coz i love all things indian and people keep breaking my heart telling me i wont be one :( well least im not the only one.

Sickness o.o

Jan 202011

Today, my mother attributed my headache to the fact that I don’t drink enough milk. She said the same thing about my back pain last month, and my cold two months before that. MLIAR

hahaha my mum and my grandma say this all the time , every illness in the world and fatigue is apparently caused by lack of drinking milk or "healthy foods" eg tons of arabic style food which is far from healthy.

Pure Arab

Jan 142011

Today, I found a facebook group called “I don’t go on dates, I just eat’em’” needless to say, I joined. MLIAR

Hahaha i joined this too for the same reason ;)

We7yet Allah!

Dec 222010

I’m teaching a friend of mine how to speak Arabic. And it wasn’t until 2 days ago that he figured out that walla is just short form for we7yet alla. MLIAR:)

Hahaaha ive heard so many theories on what Wallah is short for!

“Uhm…Did He Just Call You Dad?”

Dec 222010

Yesterday, my white friend was at my house and my dad came over for dinner. She knows I’m Arabian but she doesn’t really know much about the culture. Anyway, he came over, and my dad always calls me “dad,”, he says its an Arab thing…I guess so? And my friend said with a shocked and confused look, “Uhm…did he just call you dad??” Hahah, her face was priceless. MLIAR. <3

LOOOL Omg my uncle called me uncle at parents evening infront of my teacher before, i was seriously hoping she was deaf.

for non arabic speakers for us the mum will say mum to her daughter dad will say dad etc makes sense in arabic ;p

Arabs

Dec 152010

Whenever I see an Arab at the airport they ALWAYS have like 17 bags, and then of course once their bags have been checked the moms start shoving as much stuff as they can back into the bag that was over 75lb…and the dads just shake their heads. MLIAR.

Hahaha crap i thought it was only us that did that, hopefully no one on my blog works for airport bag check things ;p

My Life is Sooo Arab!

Dec 152010

So today I was in the kitchen, and my mom was watching her dramatic Arabic shows that always have to be depressing. Then I look over to the other side of me, and my dad is reading the newspaper (trying to be more AMERICAN). All of a sudden I hear about a big 3asemeh that’s going on in our house this weekend. Then my dad finishes his newspaper, and starts talking to my sister and telling her the colleges shes allowed to go to…of course my mom turns off the TV and says that wherever you go we are coming with you! MLIAR.

Hahaha aside from that being a typical scene in the house ive also been told "oh you can go anywhere you want and we will come with you".

Yelling On Skype

Dec 072010

Today, my mother found out about skype. She started talking to her relatives on it and was yelling as loud as she could on the mic, even though I told her she doesn’t have to talk in a loud voice. She still thinks that the only way for her skype friends to here her is by yelling. Her and MLIAR.

hahaha my parents just discovered skype and the yelling continues!

Moment of Love Destroyed

Dec 052010

Neharda I decided to hug my dad for no reason.. After 15 seconds my dad asks, “fee ehh?? Enti ayza faloos wala ehh?” He totally killed the mood! MLIAR.

My uncle gives me money every single time i hug him or kiss him i have no idea what got it into his head that ima gold digger :P

Yalla, Mama..Khalto Calls Everyday!

Dec 052010

Two weekends ago, I was watching “Letters to God,” with my siblings. My friend had finally managed to convince us that the movie was not HARAAM..lol..and we decided to give it a try. So once we start watching, the phone rings. It’s my aunt. My mom could’ve just talked upstairs..but NO. She sat next to us and talked for the next three hours until we couldn’t watch the movie. I wish I never gave it a try. Love ya mama! MLIAR

lool my mum does this all the time, and its rude to ask her to relocate, *volume goes up*

Support Muslim Teams

Nov 242010

Ilyom, well back in the world cup, I had a Manchester United bracelet on my arm, when my mom saw it she said “You support Manchester United?” I nodded, then she lectured me on how I should support Algeria because they are a Muslim team in the world cup. MLIAR.

hahah i was the biggest traitor in the world cup, went from Muslim teams/Arab teams to African teams/to England or something like that.

Face abook

Nov 162010

Today I was on facebook and my mom cam over my shoulder to see what I was doing. As she got closer she saw the facebook logo and read it out loud and instead of saying facebook she said face abook (meaning: your dads face). MLIAR.

Haha this one i just found funny, haha.

Remember Me?

Nov 162010

Everytime I go back home, some old lady that I have never seen in my life comes up to me and asks me, “Remember me? I last saw you when you were only six months old!” Oh yes, I remember you perfectly. MLIAR

lool omg happens to me all the time i always end up answering "oh yes aunty how could i forget".

Baba

Nov 112010

Today, I am in my room doing my homework when the phone rings. My dad tells me to go answer the phone. My dad is watching a soccer game and the phone is literally 2 inches away from him and my room is 20 ft away from the living room. MLIAR

uff this happens all the time to me too, people are soo lazy.;p

Yahood Chat?

Nov 022010

Ilyoum, I was on yahoo chat and my mom came and asked me :”shoo 3am ta3imle”. I told her that I’m on yahoo chat. She then yelled :”wle, 3am ta3imle chat ma3 I’ll yahood?? Shoo hal maskhara?” And hit me with a sha7ata before I can defend myself. MLIAR

Hahahaha this is just hilarious i can imagine.

‘Zidihu Moya’

Oct 242010

Today, the handwash finished, so I added more water to it. MLIAR

Lool omg freshies ways, no comments.

Yahoo!

Oct 242010

Today, I opened Yahoo on a tab on safari. I took a second glance quickly, and I thought it said “yahood.” I was scared they took over my browser also. MLIAR

Funny again! :)

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Sout el 7oriyah

2011-02-20T07:23:00.000-08:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

Hey Everyone how was your weekend?, Inshallah good i havent been uo to much but i suppose you all know that there seems to be a wave of protests and tensions all across the middle east lately, everyone wants a piece of the cake which holds freedom and justice and all that so heres a beautiful Song by young Egyptians called Sout el 7oriyah (horiyah) which means the voice of Freedom and if you want the English subs press cc underneath the video. Its really lovely and contains actual footage shot in tahriir square.

Love
Naz

I honestly Love this

2011-02-18T06:55:00.000-08:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

Listen to this with a cup of hot Shah/Chai/Tea and light some Bkhoor/oonsi/inscent? and maybe wear a dirac or your pyjamas like me and relaxxxxxx :)

Total pick me up Somali Love Song, ill probably be dancing to it all weekend :P
Have a great weekend
oh and Jumu3a Mubarak everyone

Love

Naz
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When finding Mr Right........

2011-02-17T02:32:00.000-08:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

I slumped on the computers chair yesterday, depressed and feeling sorry for myself that my phone wasn’t working, I fell deeply in love with my phone lately and felt very passionate about making up for all the years I have been technologically deprived of “cool” gadgets, I honestly hated phones and they have always had a home behind my wardrobe but not this one, this phone is precious.

Quickly logging on to facebook, I asked one of my friends to come on msn I don’t ever stay on facebook chat don’t know why and she is like a mood lifter, we were just talking and I explained to her that my phone was probably broken because of Karma because I like noticed some hot dude and now my punishment is that my phone isn’t working (I strongly advocate for the idea that men should be made to wear a niqab) which has been frequently suggested by some of my other friends. (Its ok no fainting please I know I’m married and my husband actually awesome but I am not blind yeah all I did was notice); p

More random and strange conversations and jokes later we got on the serious matter of the difficulties placed before people when trying to get married, and the difference in what people do look for in a potential life partner and what they should be looking for, here are some of the things people do look for.

1. Someone they like (physically) attraction is a major plus point *don’t lie peoples everyone cares.

2. Someone interesting and therefore able to hold a conversation , relaxed and you can talk to about how you feel or what you think genuinely , without judgement etc (though you might not know all this until later , you probably can assume the latter part if they are hot and hold interesting conversation).

3. Someone who obviously displays interest in you, maybe even adores you , a guy whose a hopeless romantic (though by now most girls understand that this man lives only in their minds we will stick to shows interest in you and maybe adores you ) so that the attraction is not a one way thing.

4. “Good Job” aka good money- the more designer stuff he can afford obviously the better, the bigger the house, the better the car etc (a girl is a very expensive jewel people).

5. A Muslim / A good Muslim (so maybe I should’ve changed it to what Muslim women look for in a man I hope they are looking for a Muslim man obviously most are yeah).

6. Someone of a particular race or country or caste or tribe.

Good now that we are done with the list we can dissect it (eurgh can you tell I am a medical student?) in greater detail.

!)point one I still consider a good point inner beauty is an amazing and incredible thing but sometimes hard to notice if there is no outer beauty, you must be able to enjoy looking or being near the person and being able to feel as attracted to them as they may be to you or there might be problems, everyone is beautiful so if your not attracted to them don’t waste their time because chances are they will find someone who thinks they are a beauty to behold:)

2) a very good point , considering your going to be living with this person and seeing them every single day pretty much, and its not really the same as seeing your family every day because like its alright to ignore your siblings even when there isn’t something wrong (like I can be in a room with my brother /sister in silence for hours someone watches TV someone is on computer or phone etc and there isn’t a problem) but with your husband you will have to talk to him so if he is incredibly boring or cant even bother to continue the conversation you started then that would be a problem for me.

3) I think the guy should be head over heels in love and obsessed with the girl and buy her all the amazing things in the world *something falls on head* focus naz, but yeah ok if not he should be interested in her and should be attracted to her, and therefore will grow to love and adore her inshallah so a good point.

4) point number four everyone makes out this point is very materialistic and shallow etc , so I know like the hopeless romantic in your, or those songs are singing “oh id live in the gutter with him” but er really? Come on now. Its important that the guy can afford to financially take care of the wife, or at least has something saved up for now and is working towards say maybe getting a degree which will give him a good and stable job. It is irresponsible in my opinion to get married when you don’t know what you’re going to eat and even more irresponsible to bring kids in to the world that way. Also according to Islam men are “the maintainers and providers” of women so that is his duty and since a guy can ask his wife not to work if he feels that way Islamically then she should make sure that should that happen he can afford the lifestyle she is used to or at least one not too far off . A legitimate point in my eyes.

5) a Muslim (Good Muslim) now this point there is lots of different issues with it , some people are pretty cool with the guy just being Muslim and doesn’t even pray or whatever they think they are modern and cool or something and that Islam really isn’t a big deal. And some people have this whole list of sir Mr. pious whose the most perfect Muslim ever and lets be realistic he would probably divorce you because you cant even fulfil half the requirements on your list for Mr . Pious yourself. (He has to be a hafiz, are you a hafiz? he has to have a beard. Do you wear hijab properly? He has to pray all night, you ever pray Sunnah?)) Etc though I do agree a good pious spouse should be sought, take your own advice first you know?

6) This point is probably why I made the entire post me and my friend came to the conclusion that this is a sad, sad, and disgusting and erm sad point. It shows a disregard for Islamic beliefs; it shows disrespect in my opinion, and an ego maybe. It shows a lack of understanding and brotherhood between Muslims today etc but many young people are having this problem where they are only allowed a spouse from a particular area of the world, I think this has become a problem since now we live in a much more multicultural world (e.g. I live in London and I can meet anyone from anywhere and its not the same sort of people of similar racial backgrounds here), so what kind of message does it send when you show your daughter that you would rather disregard a pious , hardworking, lovely Muslim who can please her for anything of desired race,caste,tribe etc.

I am not going to lie I don’t like the practice though I do have some arguments in defence of the people who practice it (people are always afraid of change and the unknown giving a daughter away to a family or a culture that whose language etc or customs they may not understand might seem very unfamiliar and scary and they do prefer to stick to what they know), and growing up I always knew my family weren’t going to accept anyone who isn’t Arab so I didn’t bother falling in love with people that aren’t ;p and one of my cousins left someone she was with for a very long time for that reason, I don’t think she even bothered telling the family because its like erm futile. But yeah that is a wrong point to consider when looking for a spouse and I hope that one day people will learn how to prioritise their priorities, so that everyone is able to find "Mr Right"-for them.
Love
Naz

Birthday!

2011-02-13T14:12:00.000-08:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

It was my birthday and i had a great time actually i woke up in the morning actually around 9 or something, my husband went to this place he teaches at in weekends and i was just sitting with my family and doing ordinary things , my uncle and my cousins came over and they gave me some money and gifts and stuff and i got some from my siblings and the parents. i was happy just because you know money haha.

that was nice but not terribly exciting , then later like finally my hubby came and he told me to get dressed obviously i was taking very long time aparently according to him and because ive been playing random pranks on him all week or something he decided to play a prank on me and it worked too "you took forever its too late cant go now", haha i looked pissed and apparently very funny.
we went to dinner at one of my favourite resturaunts, which was great because aside from the great food there is such great decor too as well as great company so that was fun!, after that we drove to a place i didnt recognise i kept asking where we are going but no it was a "surprise", anyways we ended up visiting this place where my cousins were staying and all my family were there, we had fun and i got like two birthday cakes as well as seeing people i was so excited to see. i took a picture of that cake but not the first one but my phones wire is nowhere to be found. after that we went home and watched a bollywood movie :) i have to do that once a week tis tradition! haha i had a good time alhamdulilah i was happy.

Gifts included jewelry a bag, a jacket/coat but mostly it was money coz these people not creative :P

Thanks to everyone who wished me a happy birthday
lots of love
Naz

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The Sweet Scent of Freedom Envelopes the Arab World.

2011-02-11T11:50:00.000-08:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

The Aljazeera Arabic signal returned to normal after days of disruption, as the Egyptian goverment /Regime continued to blindthemselves to the events happening right under their noses in tahriir square(liberation square and what a fitting name at that) and turned their attention towards disrupting the freedom of press and blaming the peoples protests against corruption on news channels.

Happy at the return of the arabic signal aljazeera is by most of us considered an unbiased and very detailed news source we sat on the edge of our seats day in day out waiting, hoping and praying that the peoples calls are heard. It hurt to think that after the loss of 300 hundred lives and the deaths of martyrs that all this could be for nothing. The chants of the people ryhthmic and rhyming unearthed and shed light to the grivences faced by ordery Egyptians every day. Anyone who has ever been to egypt will have seen under the splendour of the pyramids and the rich culture, the beautiful museums there is a different side to Egypt a broken Egypt where orphaned children sit in the streets alone at night begging for money. Where people sit in front of mosques with nothing silently listening to the quranic recitations and with so much faith and trust in God that they dont even ask for money but wait with humble patience for people to have mercy. For days those Egyptians and the ones of better fortune stood side by side , Egyptians from all backgrounds and all faiths and demanded dignity , freedom, equality, Justice.

For years the Arab world has been shrouded in secrecy, in dictatorship in a world where true freedom and true justice was unheard of (not that these values apply perfectly elsewhere but some have it better for sure), but i guess you can only push someone that much, everything will come to an end one day and tyranny will never remain permenant , good must overthrow evil at some point. After our brothers and sisters in Tunisia proved that peoples power in the arab world is not impossible then people decided they will have change and demand change and in true 3arabi style not give up until change is received.

After 17 days of following the news constantly and reading anything that had any information to do with the revolution in Egypt or hope of a revolution and regime change , i became tired almost exhausted and i slowly started feeling like this was hopeless Egypt is considered the center of the Arab world it has long been understood where Egypt goes Arabs follow, Egypt has forever been cultural and Islamic capital of the Arab world, therefore maybe changing Egypt was demanding the impossible. So when the army general announced that "the peoples demands will be met" and the news channels stated that a speech would be expected soon, the crowds had already started celebrating, the phone lines became busy and the entire world tuned in (my whole family with our cups of tea and aljazeera ) but watching the speech everyones faces fell and the dream felt so far away yet again. People swore at the tv and the crowds met Mubaraks defiance with anger waving shoes in the air and chanting ( a sign of utmost disrespect).

However the protesters persevered , the egyptians showed great unity, great patriotism and great strength of character and today unexpectedly the resignation was announced, the freedom received, the impossible achieved.

Many congratulations to Egypt you have made the entire arab world proud, i hope for change and a better future for us All the khaleej seems to be undergoing changes as arabs across the region demand freedom. Small steps big changes, and may peace and order return to Masr.

Lots of Love
Naz
btw feel free to follow me and Amira on twitter @ Nazmiirah
if you so wish

Just a thought !

2011-02-07T07:58:00.000-08:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatu

Once upon a time i had a friend who i liked very much , we spent a lot of time together and talked about everything under the Sun , i never hid anything from her I'm not that sort of person when you are my good/close friend you will know about it, ill be honest with you tell you everything , would never hesitate to help you or be there for you or bother you ;p etc otherwise you would be my acquaintance i like most people im civil with them and i try not to base what i think of someone solely because of anothers experience with them, like they say theres always two sides to every tale.

Things changed and my friend and i sort of grew apart, we werent that tight anymore i didnt know every little thing about her and she didnt know every little thing about me, once in every while we had those big catchups tell me alls , try to fill someone in on a whole months/years happenings in one phone conversation, One MSN chat or one coffee meet up.

One day we were having one of those catch up sessions when for some reason she decided to share with me some things she has kept hidden so well for so long, for some reason she decided to tell me the whole story instead of only part of the story, and she clarified for me why she did or said somethings i previously thought were odd, why somethings got to her more then got to the "average"person if that even exists.

She an amazing person who lived and Smiled through a thousand tribulations, the kind of problems i think would actually break me , would kill me , and take away my strength you would never even beleive she went through told me she had found a way to deal with the horrors of her life, and that way was by one day stopping , opening her eyes and remembering instead of trying to forget and writing about what happened , how and why it made her in to a stronger person today, and why she would help protect others from suffering in silence the way she did, her therapy was writing. Others deal with horror differently , some people place a mask over themselves in attempt to shield their heart, some people are angry, some people are tough but all have problems and all are trying to get through some kind of issue, be kind, be understanding, be gentle.

I was reminded of this because today i was reading my friends blog where she made the point of trying not to judge people at face value because you never really know whats going on in their lives, you never know what wounds lie beneath peoples smiles , you never know how good you have it until you see people that have it worse. Stop looking up and cast your eyes down once in a while itll make you say "alhamdulilah".

She had a quote which caught my attention too "Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle." (Thanks Amiira i just thought it was a message worth spreading)

xx
Love
Naz

Just Me-talk to me

2011-02-03T09:33:00.000-08:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

Hey Everyone how are you all?, i know lately i keep dissapearing i have this problem that im starting to wonder what exactly my blog is about looking through my posts i see a lot of change but then if its supposed to be a little collection of my life, then thats typical life changes, a lot of stuff has changed for me what within just two years, but this post isnt about change haha whoever is reading this will understand how jumbled up my mind currently is.

So if you are wondering:
What has Naz been up to?

Uni, Uni, moore Uni -Exams -getting worried about exams, being done with exams getting worried about results, -receiving results,-uni fees, what to do about fees-Wanting to transfer Unis, thinking about doing work -discussing with people the fact that you will be doing work eventually one day :P dreaming of getting rich and dying happy ;) that kind of thing.
Right we have established that you have no life , dig a little bit deeper and try to find something of any interest, even slight interest, you done anything you like?

Ok So my sister came down from her Uni in nottingham and if i havent mentioned it before my older sister is my best friend ever she is an amazing person and totally gorgeous, why am i talking about her? yeah anyways she is staying with us for a while for some reason (UNI) i didnt actually get to spend that much time with her yet (shes a bit ill) but we went just out to eat and the Cinema the other day and took random pictures and it was really fun, i love having her around even if we dont do anything but drink coffee and talk or have a sisters sleep over in one of the rooms with junk food and all us sisters :)

The most interesting thing in your life is your sister? wow you really are a lowlife arent you? DIG DEEP for something fun woman.

OK , Ok, fine ! Gosh so impolite, well its nearly my birthday and im obviously really looking forward to that though im old, and i know that atleast one of my siblings will write on my birthday card "one year closer to death congrats", buutt im gonna be 21 and that sounds cool, and its my birthday you know the day God did the world this huuge favour which the humans will never be able to repay and blessed them with my presence etc ;P nah im only joking so basically i want to celebrate my birthday but ill be working since its on a Saturday and my sister will be leaving back to Nottingham before my birthday so i want to celebrate my "birthday" before the actual date with my sisters and my cousins who just fled Egypt due to the latest unrest and stuff, but while theyre here we will probably go out to eat and shopping and they can gimme gifts :P i am expecting that it will be fun.

Celebrating your birthday when its not actually your birthday is STUPID are you actually doing anything on the day of your Birth you know a BIRTHDAY.

Gosh arent you a rude one kids of today *sigh* yeah on my actual birthday itd be the first birthday that i get to spend with my husband so id hopefully go out with him, and my family might do something if they feel like it or they might ignore i exist :P, if they so wish to so im looking forward to the actual day of my birth too yes!.

You havent mentioned your friends dont you have any friends?

Haha ofcourse i have friends you retard, but its been difficult for me to get to see them all the time, i recently visited my best friends house, and i love visiting them i always have a totally great time but theyve been having some weird guests staying with them and their house looked like a war zone which has been hit by a natural disaster we didnt get to even have anywhere to sit peacefully, so ill stay away until theyre more free, id love for them to join my birthday thing too, we need to hang out more.

My other friends some of them ive been finding out weird things about so im keeping my quiet distance, im not in the mood for drama.

Anything Else?
a lot of people in my family are in London from many different places and im looking forward to seeing them actually, i dont get to see them very often, i am gonna be at UCL (University College London) very soon and i have no idea why im so excited about that but i am, i got myself a work placement at a Hospital and im part of organising this event where they will be celebrating world faiths, and showcasing it when it all comes together ill show you what i achieved as head of Islamic Section ;) the rest of my life is too boring to discuss.

The End

Im happy i seemed to have gotten some new followers even though ive been dead, your kind comments on my older posts are also appreciated thanks for joining and im glad you like my blog, anyone with any questions feel free to ask me anything or even just introduce yourself if your new here.

also wanted to share a beautiful picture i got from sister Janaz

egyptian christians creating a protective barrier around egyptian muslims while they praywhat breathtaking unity-God be with Egypt during this difficult period.

Truth Is On the Side Of The Opressed

2011-02-02T15:19:00.000-08:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

I am For Justice, and For Freedom, For peace and respect, For faith and Islam, for the Happiness of mankind :) <3

lOVE
Naz S Al G

Special Guest Post

2011-02-01T09:29:00.000-08:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

Hey Everyone! Assalamu3leikum :) you were all recently introduced to my amazing friend Amira (if you wasnt scroll down a bit) :) and considering shes got am entire post i dont have much else to add as an introduction but here are some wise words from the Special lady herself :) Enjoy this exclusive post ;) meanwhile i am gonna try and get my blogging hat on eventually.

I dunno how to introduce myself so u can do that part :p

So Naz asked me to write a post for her. She said to surprise her and I could write about pretty much anything. So I started thinking about what kind of things you as her reader would like.

Fashion, funny stuff, daily life, pictures, stuff about naz.... Then I realized that there is something I could write about it. I had been thinking about it and planned to write it on my blog. It may bore you and I'm sorry if it does but I think it's something.. important. Friends, friendship and Islam. Naz is a really good friend of mine. Our friendship is something amazing. Alhumdulilah. It's like we have known each other all our lives. We talk about pretty much everything from A-Z. The one thing that brought us together? Islam.

Its amazing how Islam unites people from all over the world and this brings me back to my original point which was friendship. We all need it and we all have at least one friend but do we ever think about how our friendship relates to islam? Friends are a huge influence on a person thus Islam places tremendous importance on the aspect. Think about it. So why don't we change our friendships into a form of worship? A positive thing. Something that can go down in our book of deeds and help us receive it in our right hand. Even just making the intention with a friend that 'hey lets try to read one more ruku of quran a day and we can ask each other and motivate each other to keep it up' or even something simple like trying not to talk ill of others and reminding each other.He who guides towards good, gets the same reward as the one doing a good deed; and Allah likes helping a man in distress.[Bazzar. Targhib]

Even that intention to do something will give you ajr. I'm not saying never talk about the happenings of your life but you can also talk about Islam and how to improve your iman. Think about your current friends. Do they help you in your iman or do they help you sin?
The Messenger of Allah (صلى الله عليه وسلم) said: "The similitude of good company and that of bad company is that of the owner of musk and of the one blowing the bellows. The owner of musk would either offer you some free of charge, or you would buy it from him, or you would smell its pleasant fragrance; and as for the one who blows the bellows (i.e., the blacksmith), he either burns your clothes or you smell a repugnant smell."[Al-Bukhari & Muslim]

Remember that your true friends are the ones who will not just try to help you in this world but those who will try to help you attain Jannah. Those that don't even try to stop you from messing up do they really care about you then?
"Do they only wait for the Hour that it shall come upon them suddenly, while they perceive not? Friends on that Day will be foes one to another except Al-Muttaqûn (pious - see V.2:2) [43:66-67] This is really just a reminder for myself. I'm not trying to preach anything to anyone. Just reflect, ponder, and then tell me what you come up with.

Love
Amira & Naz

Enta Masry

2011-01-30T08:22:00.000-08:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

A Song For Egypt :) God Bless you God be With you God protect my family and everyone else there, most of my family in Egypt are like fleeing and we are expecting my cousins to arrive in London tomorrow Inshallah everything will be fine with Egypt.

Egypt and Us

2011-01-28T10:08:00.000-08:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu
Hi Everybody how is things with you all?, i have been fine and well been busy with Uni and life, my sister and her husband finally came :), and tonight my cousins coming so we are really looking forward to it, we didnt tell the parents that anyone was coming do my brother had to make up some weird excuse that he needed to go somewhere and for some unknown reason wanted my sisters company to "somewhere" haha so my parents are confused. what else? Just like the rest of the world ive been watching in awe surprise pride? at the events taking place in egypt i just wanted to express my solidarity with Egypt and the people of Egypt my whole family where here praying for the heart of the Arab world we wish you peace and freedom seriously Egypts a great nation full of great people and they deserve the very best, we hope the people know when to stop and to not endanger themselves or the peace of their country and civilians our hearts are with you.

Love
Naz

Meet the Princess

2011-01-20T14:07:00.000-08:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

This is a post of thankyou and a post that tries to honour an amazing person in my life, i doubt any words i write in this will do anything to do justice to the feelings in my heart or portray how incredible the person in question is but hey its a try at least. I met this person in unusual circumstances and i trusted them because they showed much needed kindness to me at that particular time, at first we had very guarded conversations and we talked about Islam an area of mutual interest to us both, finding she knew much more then me on many of the topics i asked her for a lot of help explaining a lot of things, Allah bless her a thousand times she helped me learn much more and always explained my queries she did me many favours and our conversations moved on to other areas and topics, we quickly learnt a lot of things about eachother and discovered a lot of similarities , we ended up talking a lot sharing a lot and she is one of my most trusted friends in the whole world, our conversations can be lighthearted funny jokey incredibly crazy that no one else would understand but also serious and meaningful, i am honestly very grateful to her for soo many things, and she is such a fantastic purely magnificient amazingly beautiful and totally talented a rare beauty to find , if more people were like her in the world we would achieve great things.

In everything she does she trusts Allah, she is such an amazing person with such a pure heartm anyone in this world who knows her has been blessed so much i really mean it, pluss with all our added weird similarities and the rare things we have both experienced we really shouldve just been twins she probably doesnt want her identity to be revealed but it would be wrong to find something so great and not share it with the world its sis Amira from Thestrangersdiary A true princess SO THANKYOU habibtii for being as great as you are <3
Lots and Lots of Love
TheNaz :)

ThankYou

2011-01-16T06:46:00.000-08:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

So in my absence it seems lots has happened in blogosphere i tried catching up with everything in my dashboard and gave up haha , but i have received two blog awards from two amazing bloggers "the most Versatile blog award" by Normal really ana? versatile? haha i had to get one of my friends to translate the word :P and the most "Stylish blog award" by the beautiful Silla thankyou both sweethearts and both awards require 7 things about me so here goes i hope this suffices for both :

for this Award apart from saying thankyou i am required to tell you all 7 things about me , which i am already finding hard to do which is why i am still writing this anyways here goes.

!) I recently got a blackberry from my brother so now i joined that massive group of people with their head down staring in to a screen or typing furiously on a phone :P finally haha i realy love it though its soo convenient for me especially because i get to talk to some of my really good friends who are far away just whenever i feel like it, isnt that awesome? no seeing if people are on fb or on msn or whatever theyre on bb :) and you can do pretty much everything else that you want to do on there too

2) I love tea soo much i like to have it with a lot of stuff so one of my weird concotions that iwill defend to the grave but will gross you out is that sometimes i get a cup of nice hot tea right and spoon ice cream on top of it and now its "ice cream tea" and it just tastes amazing like tea with cream you know like hot chocolate with cream? its amazing you should definitely try it before you unsubscribe from my blog;p

3) I am currently feeling very very proud of Tunisia :) does this count as something about me?

4)Pink, Purple, Wine Red and Blue and White are my most favourite colours in that order.

5) I think i have emotional problems :P maybe im bipolar i can be soo happy and then start worrying and get myself depressed and then i tell myself to stop worrying and get happy, anyways i think i have to go and face my problems and all that and fix it and make a change and start a fresh this year bla etc i never really make new years resolutions but ill just have to try.

6) I am looking forward to seeing Hilary Clinton on Kalam Nawa3em on MBC1 tonight at 9GMT actually, not that i like her, i think shes a good speaker and really very interesting to listen to you will begin to actually beleive what she says(but dont).

7) Its nearly my Birthday so i am looking very forward to that actually , my sister has a break so shes coming down from her university in another city and so is my cousin because they are at the same uni doing same thing around that time so that should be fun, we will continue being sleep deprived and getting addicted to coffee and gossiping :P.

I really dont know who to give the awards to but id like BosnishMuslima, BluePearl and Pearl and Fadiosis, Bitten and Jnana and Sis Wafa to have both awards though i think ive retagged people :(

Love
Naz

Update !

2011-01-15T07:46:00.000-08:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

Hello everyone the naz is back :), i am not sure how long i have been away but i do know much stuff has happened that i havent really been anywhere near my computer and neither did i have anything to type, ive been busy with exams , and my cousins came to stay over in London for a holiday and we had to take them out and show them around and stuff , it was fun the highlights was seeing a really great designer show case event in Oxford street (Dolce and Gabbana, Chanel , Swarowksi, MAC ,Tom Ford and some french stuff), the awesome sales in Selfridges and House of fraser oh and finding the best foundation ever minutes before my fainting spells (its ok im fine i just got myself really anaemic).

Meanwhile we have gotten in to a new year and i didnt manage to congratulate you guys so a Happy New Year we managed to see the fireworks in London and they were absolutely spectacular , Hope you guys had fun in your new year. I spent most of the holiday in the end watching back to back episodes of the Hills (its my christmas break tradition), the Kardashians and eating pizzas and ice cream oh and "Al3ashq Mamnou3"

I am also having some Uni fee problems, got a scholarship i dont want (crappy terms) and no better offers and soo many things to do plus exams to pass (jumping out of the window has never before been so tempting) so please pray for me or whatever and hope your all good and i think im back :)
xx
love
naz

Party with me Somali Style

2010-12-23T08:07:00.000-08:00

Hahaa YEEEY, i have no idea if you knew this or not but i was sort of dying of boredom and depression caused by studying and whatever so i needed an excuse to go to a party, and anyways my mum got invited to a wedding and i havent been to a somali wedding in quiete a while i am actually dying with excitement haha i seriously pronounce somali weddings the best ever, if you dont beleive me seriously go take a walk down the street immediately kidnap a somali and tell them to help you gate crash a wedding (Somali weddings are used to gate crashers) and then i promise you , you will have experienced something cool, so this is a feauture on Somali weddings.Ok so most Somali weddings start at atleast 10pm in the evening and the party continues in to the early hours of the morning the clothes there is almost always a live Singer and band, i have never been to a Somali wedding without that ever and there is ofcourse Food, haha the clothes worn look like the pictures Above and below they are like dresses or something they are traditional a bit see through very decorated, quiete expensive and they are called Dirac in Somali spelling pronounced Dira3 if you can pronounce the arabic letter 3ein and otherwise just Dira 'a i like them, i have been trying to find decent pictures of them for quiete a while google images is quiete stupid :P no offense to google images people.

Mostly at the weddings the bride changes clothes quiete a few times, and the bridal wear is seriously dependent on the Somali trends that season like, we have the times where every bride wants to wear the white dress so most brides wear the white dress first and then later change in to a dirac or maybe Guuntino (another traditional Somali dress) though mostly guntinoos are worn in the "todobo" party which is held 7 days after thewedding and the word todobo means seven. (btw pic below is a guntiino) Most Somali weddings are not segregated, though now more and more weddings are becoming segregated as we have or are undergoing a period of understanding our religion a bit more, and learning not to prioritise our culture, or culture garments that do not fit Islamic guidelines on covering , however i have a problem with the "segregation" of Somali weddings because they are not properly segragated anyways if you are invited to a "segregated" Somali wedding i suggest you cover anyway because there will be a cameraMAN present and a MALE singer and band, and the brides brothers and cousins will probably be around too :P people think i am slightly insane because i turn up all covered to a segregated wedding, another thing you will find is that Somali women take off their hijabs, abayahs everything at weddings and then when leaving put it all on oblivious to the fact that there was men at the wedding too.

Weddings are considered amazing events, once in a life time type things and people do go all out for them, the bigger the wedding the better, though obviously how big the wedding is depends on the amount of money that particular family have, ive been to one where the bride arrived by helicopter (i am still wondering how her hair didnt get messed up).

Oh yeah the Dancing, i love the dancing , i generally like dancing to Somali music but there is a particular Somali dance ther eare many dances but this one is quiete interesting its called Niiko pretty much a booty shake dance, its pretty good if you see people that can do it well dance it, and its still pretty good if you watch people that cant do it right try to do it because its hilarious :P, its always danced at mixed weddings and i always watch, i cant really dance it plus if i danced like that with a guy , id be dead :P haha but i am always standing there watching it until some guy or person tries to drag me into the dance floor (this always happens and cuts my viewing short). I couldnt find anyy really good Niiko on the internet but i found a decent one with a bad song haha.

There is also another traditional maybe wedding dance , called Baranbur its with drums no other instruments, its pretty much great poetry (Somalis are really great with poetry), always personalised so its probably about that particular family, that particular bride and groom etc, it is also like prayers, and compliments , and asking god to give them good stuff and all that.

its a little like this when some Students in US tried to do it, normally the buranbur singer sayer person is a proffesional with an amazing voice who does this for a living but these girls Mashallah didnt do too bad either :) since they werent at a wedding this particular piece of poetry is not about a couple but of Somalia and peace.

The last dance you just watched is not danced at weddings, its not a party dance but very traditional and i like it, its what our grandparents used to dance at night by the river Shabelle ;p

Anyways yes hope you enjoyed this Piece of whatever it was , i need to go buy some new Diracs and learn some dance moves :P
bye bye
I leave you with a Pic of Iman somali legend Supermodel and First African Supermodel :)

Arent blue and white such beautiful colours? Kudos to whoever designed the Somali flag

NabadGalyo
*bye in Somali
x
Naz

Update-Oops i just realised i put the wrong video up for buranbur before so anyone who read this post before erm sorry that wasnt buranbur u can see it now though :)
i need to stop editing this post but i love this song :D
haha

Maybe Interesting Maybe not..

2010-12-21T08:01:00.000-08:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

Helo i have been running out of titles of relevence for my random posts, anyways whats up with you all? the winter break is here and for many many lucky people that means party and funn, and low priced shopping, well probably means the same for me too but i have exams right afterwards so i made myself a really terribly evil and strict studying timetable but my family are set to ruin my plans they are randomly doing fun things and then when i try to ignore them they invite me along and i still say no, and they offer to pick me up and then i cant actually say no anymore so i go along with them and then its like "oops" thats what happened to me today pretty much my cousins are visiting from Sweden and UAE, i was trying to avoid visiting them because if i go it means i have to sleep over a whole night and day of eating and eating and talking and never going to sleep means i wont be able to wake up at 9am the next day and study until 5 haha so i took the day off today because i am going to go with them in a bit and to replace the lost study time ill not be free on sunday :( meaning ill miss my lovely late saturday night movie since i have to wake up early (yes 9 am is very veryy early).

Other then that i am also cutting down my christmas shopping because of some odd reasons, loaning someone money and i am generally poor and i am saving up for something (first time i have ever saved up for something ever ever haha lets see how it goes). btw i dont know what i am saving up for exactly my mum says its good to save or something.

Other then that it has been snowing and snowing, and i hate snow and negative temperatures so i have been hibernating, and falling in love with my textbooks drinking cappucino and doing anything to warm me up, ive even been wearing sweaters and jumpers around the house thats unusual for me, if i wear socks at home its doomsday i warn you all. No idea what has been happening in the outside world but in my house we made snowcakes and i wanna give you some :)
haha No one take this pic please
love
naz
xx

Extras- Its my cousins birthday today- wish her all the best best there is
-Ive been thinking of Opening a FB page for Somalianarab -what do you think? i can post pics (not of me) without sharing it with everyone whose on google that way so yeah whatdyu think?
-Ive got exams wish me luck
-Wishing you Happy Holidays <3

Peace to you my darling :)

2010-12-20T08:15:00.000-08:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

To Somalia with so much Love may God give you peace and rest, may there be ease after this evident hardship, may the trials and tribulations be absolution for the sins of your people, may Salaam descend to you one day
ameen
love
Naz

Special Moments

2010-12-17T09:08:00.000-08:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

I was trying to boil the kettle, and staring out of the window, the flat is on the 11th floor and overlooks much of the city, outside the window i could see almost all of London below me, White snow decorated the rooftops of all the houses and there was more white wonder on the ground, beyond the houses stood some sky-scrapers and the city was alight, beyond the sky scrapers the sky was painted red and purple and orange , it was breath-taking, behind me i could hear voices of my relatives and the tv and some laughter and the whistle of the kettle but the colours of the simple sunset managed to silence all. I was having a "wow moment", you know those moments when you stop, stare and say/think "wow Allah arent you amazing".

Its amazing because all took for me to realise whats really important in life, (faith, Allah, Religion-Islam, Peace, Health, Family) was just a sunset, suddenly i wanted to stop what i was doing, smile and pick up a Quran (couldnt do that wrong time of month but.. atleast i could listen to the most beautiful sound there is) , its amazing because i didnt post for the last couple of days because i was so worried about things so insignificant , we really do need a "wow moment" to renew our perspective.I really wanted to fast yesterday on the Special occasion of 3shoora, i hope most of you managed to fast, and i hope Allah accepts your worship and forgives you and us all ameen.

Yesterday i was talking to one of my friends on Msn and she sounded slightly distressed , and then she sent me a blog link, i was on my mobile/cell phone so i didnt really want to open the link (makes the internet all slow and stuff) but i opened it anyway i saw about two lines and then the words that made me drop my phone (thankfully i was lying on the bed so it didnt smash to pieces) "I left Islam"- it was the blog of a convert/revert who has been Muslim for years i never personally read it came across it a couple of times but wasnt a follower its just i found it so heartbreaking and sad that after finding the truth , fighting with your family over it, having faith, becoming pure as a child, returning to God , having the Love ofGod you just went back to nothing. I fully understand why people might not accept Islam to begin with what with the media stereotypes and the crazy terrorists and the lies and the thousand "behind the veil" stories haha and i can understand why people might not want to go and disrupt their lives and leave their family and maybe their job and lose friends for a journey towards a religion which seems foreign but i will never understand how after fasting in Ramadan and praying at dawn and dusk and witnessing everything you just leave?.

Once i was watching an interview with Ayan Hirsi Ali a crazy woman i actually hate, not because she left islam (that makes me just think shes crazy considerin shes Somali), but because she is a hate spreading Liar exposed by a dutch reporter *its on youtube*- anywho she was saying that "god will never forgive me so i will never stop insulting him"-point is clearly she still beleives deep down, but she cant fix it, how sad.

I have no issues with people who dont beleive in God or Islam or anyother faith, i dont think they are right but i dont mind them, i hope and pray for their Guidance. Meanwhile they help me realise and appreciate and thank God for a thousand times a day Islam- and for his kindness in making me be born from a nation of Islam to a family of Muslims - so i never had to choose between my Loved ones and my Allah.

Love
Peace
Salaam
Naz El Muslimah <3

Something Worth Seeing

2010-12-14T03:38:00.000-08:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

These are actually quiete funny spot on true but hilarious videos by a Kuwaiti Guy , you should watch them seriously haha :)

Anyways enjoy i loved his videos haha
love
naz

Girl Friends - and Guys and Weekends

2010-12-12T13:32:00.000-08:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

Hello Everyone what have you all been up2? I have been well ive had the nicest weekend haha on Saturday we had some people over , and having people over resulted in me making Samosas *yeey me*-ok fine i admit it i only fried the samosas in excessive Oil eew it looked disgusting (the oil not the samosas), haha but still thats quiete a culinary achievement for Naz trust me. However due to the greedy tendecies of the greedies (otherwise known as my male cousins and brother), i didnt actually get to eat more then one of the samosas i worked so hard to fry haha and then i got too lazy to fry some more, later though i got them back because i made everyone watch a romantic bolywood movie on MBC dubbed in Khaliji arabic instead of the normal Syrian dialect all translated stuff are dubbed with so i could make out more then half of every sentence this time :P it was really funny because MrNaz was moaning about having to watch it and he was like let me just act out whats going to happen for you so we dont have to watch 3 hours of it.

and then he was like *boy meets girl -boy is deeply in love with girl , girl is obsessed with boy-oops random arranged marriage and chaos *burts into random singing and dancing* many tragedies later true love is fulfilled *more random dancing and singing in rain* haha it was so funny oh and on friday i had a nice day too mr naz made food haha (by now you know i seem to not know the order of the days of the week):P

Ok though my most favourite day of this weekend was today my best friends Mum went to Saudi Arabia for a last minute Hajj and since she had family there she stayed a while and just came back , she brought with her such beautiful gifts an amazing skirt and top with a very unique design some 3abayahs and Perfumes but better then that was i got to see my friends i havent seen in a while because while their mum was away they went to birmingham, these are my best friends ever from since i was 11 years old you can imagine how traumatic a month of separation is for us :P, whats funny was on my way to their house i thought oh let me buy them some cake because i know an amazing cake making turkish shop called "gazientep"-wherever you are stalk gaziantep you wont regret it and then when their mum told them i was coming they decided to bake me a cake ahaha so when i got there it was like "oops too much cake" the cake they made was awesome though i brought some home.

I had so much fun hanging out with them eating and watching movies and just joking around in their room and gossiping and catching up a total lift to my mood oh and we made travel plans again haha that we dont know if they will happen but if they did itd be like heaven on earth haha we went shopping briefly too, i love them lots Allah keep them for ever and ever Ameen <3

How was your Weekend? and Arent girlfriends quiet the best ever
love
naz

Such a Weirdo-Tag

2010-12-10T07:50:00.000-08:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

I have been tagged in the Weird things about you tag by the beautiful Sis Wafa, sorry if am a bit late with the post i am master of procrastination and lazyness :P, anyways everyone who has been doing this tag has been asking their family members whats weird about them and ive been avoiding asking mine for fear they will give me an essay but when i finally gave in they werent too helpful,

*Naz to Sis*-Whats weird about me?
Sis: What?
Naz: tell me something weird about me
Sis: The fact that your asking me this question is weird about you, what a weird question

Haha

*Naz to Bro*- Whats weird about me?
Bro: I think you meant to ask what isnt weird about you
NaZ: Piss off

*Naz to Hubby*- Whats weird about me?
H- When you close your mouth your teeth dont touch
*Naz horrified*-Shuush thats a secret you retard your supposed to say "nothing your perfect".

So the stuff below is what i came up with:

I cant eat anything without brushing my teeth directly afterwards, neither can i eat anything before brushing my teeth (like some people eat breakfast first then brush i cant do that).
I am slightly germaphobic i wash my hands a lot , I generally wash a lot lol
I hate cheese and i used to hate Pizza, Lasagna and all the great foods that include cheese though now i eat those but i still hate cheese so no cheese on toast for me, no cheese eew
I have a serious obsession with black hair, like i want the darkest darkest hair ever but i naturally have brown hair what a waste ;p
When i am like sad and i feel like the worlds a terrible place and lifes not worth living , i count my perfumes and feel better :P
when i am stressed out or upset i spray myself with Perfume and feel better
I love to sing, but i never sing infront of people except maybe my sisters because they already know i am a weirdo i most commonly sing in the shower
I want to be a journalist but i study medicine dont ask me the link ive no idea either
I think growing up is very boring
I cut my hair and it grew again so now i am dreaming of getting a mohican :P i am actually joking dont worry
Oh yeah i say stuff to people and they find it really funny and i wasnt even joking i was being serious, so dunno whats up with that
i have the ugliest arabic handwriting in history my Arabic Gcse i got an A instead of A* like normal people because whoever marked it probably couldnt read it they were probably thinking "well it does look arabic" :P
I think Spanish guys are hott
I have a big love for the colour Pink its slightly abnormal
I am big time friends with my sister and one of my uncles i tell them everything weird i know
i no longer know what i am talking about so m3salama
luurve Nancy ajraam

I tag all awesome people who have not been tagged yet, and everyone who comments and most specifically Amira :D

Ohmygod Just watched a press release on MBC by the Saudi King Abdullah he can barely talk, misskeen and he said “Ana bkhair w Sa7a” just trying to make people feel better Miskeen May he get well Soon Ameen its heartbreaking to watch.

Things I find Hilarious

2010-12-07T03:33:00.000-08:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

Things I Find Hilarious!

MrNaz Suffers from a Serious Illness called MANingitis which leaves sufferers Unable to clean and do household tasks properly, Symptoms include Being a Man , more severe symptoms include being an Arab Man cure is quiete Simple and consists of a very firm dedicated Kick up the backside - Any further problems refer to Dr Naz :p

There is a space in my Kictchen where the future dishwasher that still hasnt been bought yet, will go and its small and my little brother can stand straight under neath it , it looks hilarious.
My Little brother sees me and my mum and sisters and stuff get a headscarf before praying , so he goes and gets a headscarf too before pretending to pray haha my Older brother has been trying to teach him that he doesnt need a scarf to pray with and we have just been taking pictures :P
My Algerian Friend told my sister that shes going to be an Atheist or something and my sister said "What a waste of an Arab"-i thought that was hilarious.
I Got into a fight with some random somali girl because she told me to leave her country alone because her crush was talking to me about Somalia, haha to make it better she doesnt speak Somali
My sisters neighbour reported her because she "doesnt have a soft British voice but a Rough Arabic one"
My brother still thinks hair straightners are called Hair flatterners.
My mum shouted at my little brother and he came and hit me nice.
Theres a druggie man in the street and when he saw me he kept yelling Yallaaaaa
There was a girl who was writing on her status about people speaking bad English only she had bad English on her Status-Spelling errors etc
Someone told my sister they came from Tanzania and she told me they said they were Masai, later she said "wait is that different?"

Thats all for now in Other news
Its my Older Brothers Birthday Today -Happy Birthday to you lovely hope you have a great day, year and Life etc Inshallah ♥ u

I have Exams please Make dua /pray for me

And A Happy Islamic New Year to you All Muharram 1432 Hijri -Muharram Mubarak ♥

Love
Naz

Party At My House

2010-12-05T04:51:00.000-08:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

Hey You all :)
How are you all? I feel like a total druggie lol there was a Party at my house last night and it was actually so much fun , because everyone that was there was totally hilarious, the funny thing is it wasnt really my party it was my Mums party so everyone that was there were like my aunts, and my Mums friends and stuff so i didnt expect to have so much fun but aparently my mums friends and family are totally hilarious too, i spent most of the time eating awesome food, and listening to their conversations and laughing about it, the topics of converstation were incredibly hilarious it ranged from Men to Clothes, to Men and ofcourse that was the most interesting topic.

Male/Marriage Related Topic Number one
Foreign men?/Foreign Women? that topic created a huge discussion we had those Pro mixed race Marriage aunties (i am surprised), saying its all good as long as the couple are Muslim and Practicing and if everyone marries only their own what happens to the Reverts? (Very good question seriously what happens to the RevertS?)

Then we had the Anti Mixed race Marriage aunties just pointing out language differences, culture differences and also making wild statements about why people /women marry out of their own race/community in the first place (done something bad?, and wanting to mix with people that wouldnt know?) and then general statements that why would you marry foreign men when they have sort of cultural baggage you dont have, families in law problems if you are like some alien to the persons society? (Is marriage just between a couple or 2 families?)

I actually know a real life Scenario where one of my cousins married a Pakistani guy right, or Bangladeshi (i am sorry i know thres a difference but i cant really remember where he is from exactly) and anyways his family know that in their culture once a woman gets married she lives with her Inlaws and is help for his say Mother etc and those families dont really move out so there is in one house (Cousin + Husband + Husbands Brother +Brothers wife+Kids +Mum and Dad) complicated much? so Like me personally as Naz couldnt get into a marriage where i am supposed to live with Inlaws or do things like that but then again it would be wrong to ask other people to compromise on their culture and traditions probably too on the plus side my cousin can make cool biryani now ;)

Then Conversation moved on to Arab men Vs Somali Men that was actually hilarious i was sitting there laughing my head off, who is more romantic, more respectful who is actually nice?:P
Poor arab guys were not doing so well here :P but they were getting Bonus points on religiousness and stuff.

Oh about religiousness one of my aunties said that religious women who marry "religious" men are spoon fed a lot of crap and told stuff like pleasing your husband gets you to jannah (which is true) and to "Fear God" a lot that the men take advantage of them and take all their money with them and marry three other women :O haha then there was a debate about that because there was aunty there that everyone thinks is very religious and they were asking if the above applied to her :P

Next Funny ish Topic was Arab men having an obsession with Western women aparently this is a big problem, all you western women are taking our men :O Haha let me go put some peroxide in my hair and get some blue contacts :P or not. but Haha that was funny it really pisses some people off .

Ok other then the funny topics of Conversation and Food i am such a food addict lately good God i ate Samosas and some curry thing and Rice Somali style its amazing with lots of spicy stuff and Drank loads of coke and thats it yeah lets move on to Clothes.

I got dressed up in an all blue outfit with a tear drop blue necklace and did my Hair well my Mum did my Hair, she is soo good at Hair and her Hair looked so incredibly amazing she doesnt listen to me when i tell her to Open a Salon ive never seen someone so good at something they never actually learnt or Studied it looks totally Salon Material. But with me my Husband Kept
touching my hair So it stopped looking Salon material :( and Looked more like Hair.

You know how my evening was going well eating and laughing then it started getting plain weird me and my sister had to go get some money out of the ATM Machine or Cash Machine whatever you call it and just as we got there (walking in the rain ruining my hair aparently the headscarf is not a useful umbrella), i realised i left the credit card at home *walk back nazzy* then i went and my mum was a bit dissapointed we got the credit card soon as i open the door i see my Husband there so my sisters like ok bye i am not going you two go together and we said ok, so my husband says lets take the car but i told him there was no need the place isnt far *walk in rain again bad choice* and we go get the money out of the machine put it in my pocket DOUBLE CHECK its in my pocket and then go all the way home only to find the credit card minus the money in my pocket. I had to burst out laughing so i dont cry lol my mum by then thought it was a joke and we go AGAIN to get money out of the Bank AGAIN , i swear i got robbed but MrNaz wont agree and make me feel better he was just laughing at me the whole way , he thinks i dont know where my pocket is or i "dropped it" why would i ever drop money? lol

He is like i shoudlve listened to him and taken the car , i was just trying to be nice and save him petrol just watch next time ill force him to drive everywhere, he had to get the money and put it in His pocket since clearly it wasnt meant to be with me :( i realised you know i never said Inshallah the whole time and once i said "ill definitely get it" like it was up to me so i blame it on not saying Inshallah from now on thats how every sentence will start Inshallah lol.

Love
Naz
How was your day/weekend?

Lost Voices Heard

2010-12-03T08:44:00.000-08:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

Palestine is Ours
About time we get it back

We will never submitWe will never leaveWe will never be silenced

and that is the Truth
This is not about religion
its not about anti semitism
its not about the holocaust
its not about judaism
its about freedom
its about resistance
its the hatred of occupation
its the hatred of terror
its about the fact that Israel has taken away
the right to life
the right to education
the right to safety
the right to peace away from so many innocents
the right to health
the right to treatement and to food
its because israel specialises in torture and terror
its because prior to the theft of palestine Arab christians and Muslims
lived peacefully side by side together
so dont tell us this is about extremism or Islamic
terrorism
this is purely human Rights

The Videos i forgot the order but one is the Arabic Rap by Palestinian
group DAM pretty much outlining the truths of the situation
and asking regarding the ILLEGAL occupation of Palestine
the Questions the World works so hard to blind itself to
The second Video is a beautiful collaboration by Many artists which come
from all over the world including British Iraqi Lowkey
Emirati born Iraqi The narcicyst
Irani Hich-Kas
Palestinian DAM
Palestinian Shadia Mansour
and others outlining again the same truths in Arabic, English and Irani?(persian)
Languages.
The video below this is an amazing Palestinian Freedom Dabke
Song in arabic
Enjoy
Love to Palestine
Love from Naz

Double Happiness حصنتك باسم الله ... يا وطن"

2010-12-02T08:34:00.000-08:00

As the UAE
Celebrates its National Day
Today :) 2ndDecember
and Smiles decorate
the Faces of its Residents
Our Qtari brothers and Sisters
won the 2022 Bid :)
so now Qtar is most deserving
of Celebration
and The Gulf is Celebrating
Congrats to UAE andQtar
1 2 3 Viva Qatari
Couldnt be More Proud <3

الف مبروك

♥ Happy Birthday UAE ♥الإمارات ♥

2010-11-30T10:27:00.000-08:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

We are Celebrating Again, the birth of the Beautiful country, UAE,
Haha its tomorrow but just incase i dont get to post this tomorrow i want
to wish the Amazing Emirates peace and prosperity and Blessings
today and tomorrow and all the days to come
May Allahs blessings decend over your cities, Sweet Emarat
May Allah Protect you for all Eternity
Happy Happy Happy Birthday ♥♥♥♥

My grandmother is really really Happy haha, shes going to the UAE in two days so shes
upset she cant be there tomorrow but we are still celebrating right at home, our house is all green and red , white and black very colourful, and the kids are happy too, and its an excuse to party, Happy National Day to all my Readers from UAE and all those who live there, have you any plans? please share.

Love
Naz

Battle of the Sexes :-)

2010-11-27T13:43:00.000-08:00

Not really :P
haha Today we was studying and stuff and then my cousins came over, i have no idea why but randomly someone started talking about food and cooking or something and then my cousin and my brother said to my sister, you cant cook your not a woman haha and then i came into the room when everyne was laughing and they were like can you cook and i said no my brother was like cook? naz cant make a sandwich and then they were like what on earth you guys failed as housewives so my sister said, well who wanted to be a housewife in the first place and what was the point of us studying all these years to become housewives? So my cousin was like exactly drop out then :P and stay home learn to cook, the teacher ( also a man and also on their side) was like oh dont worry theyll eventually learn to cook and clean nature will tell them :P.

Later we told them what nature really did tell us basically the rules are the man goes to work gets paid, spends his money paying the bills and taking the wife on holiday, the woman goes to work and gets paid and gets herself some cool designer stuff :P and the boys were like no you just stay home , cook and clean and serve us.Then they were like its our culture and we are not going to change our culture :P *Says boys that dont even speak their own language properly*
we (girls)occasionally threw stuff at them and i promised to get them a terrorising wife, my brother was like if naz suggests a woman to you dont ever marry her she will study you and be like "so where where you at 2:05 monday afternoon?" :P

Anyways i encouraged them to study hard so they can have big fat wallets to hand over to their wives at the end of each week/month. Later my cousin gave me some money to give to my mum i was supposed to give him like £5 back but i refused told him he should start practicing the art of giving his cash to women, whilst they spend their cash on their cool ass wardrobes but he wasnt having it, silly boy. He was trying to take it off me and he was like listen woman "hear and obey" :P, it was quiete funny he was like they have i dont know theyre stronger then us or something and my sister was like that doesnt matter, its the brain that counts so i told them we have mind power and he should get down on his knees beg and plead and then ill consider giving him his money.

Eventually he took it off me though my arm was about to break.

I just wanted to make it official that Women always Win see the cool alliteration?:P I didnt want that £5 that much add a couple of zeros and hed never have seen it :P
I hearby declare Women as the Queens of the World (with no King in place and even if he was he would have a lowly position in comparison) and Men as their Loyal Servants forever (you can all deny it until you get within a mile of your mum or wife)

(Btw no one take this too seriously all above people were just joking around)

Love
Naz

Random Update Post ♥

2010-11-27T04:52:00.000-08:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu
Hello Blog
haha I missed writing something weird here but i never had time to write anything or had anything to write, i am just going to write about what i have been up to and random things because i feel like it, i really i am in desperate need of a Maid i cant actually survive without one, anyways i didnt even know that you can get maids from the Gulf and bring them here and get them a Visa to be honest but now that i found out you can do that i am going to do it , now if you think getting a Maid in the Gulf is complicated , try getting one to the gulf then to London thats a lot of weird paperwork, I am going to get my grandma to give me one of her Maids because i like them and i know them but itd still be weird paperwork obviously.

Anyways yesterday i had a full day as a Maid :P, that didnt really go well my Mum thought that the Garage looked it like it belonged "in a horror movie", and she wanted me to clean it out like immediately or she would do it herself, what on earth my brother normally cleans the garage and he wasnt there , there was no one there and i couldnt even carry half the stuff in there.
Haha i hurt my arm and my leg in the process but i managed eventually to survive the traumatic experience, i am actually never going to say my brother does nothing in the house ever again, i felt sick yesterday, i vacuumed the whole house too , thats 3 floors of vacuuming what the hell i hate vacuming.

Less traumatic events include.
My cousins came over and stuff i get so excited whenever they come around actually they live like 2 hours away now , we used to live opposite eachother for most of our lives but now its so hard to see eachother, we watched random movies and stuff and had takeaway and then they left in the middle of the night :(, oh and my sister came back :D i actually missed her so much (there is decent cooking in the house now) :P, haha i have been learning how to "cook", still isnt working out so well i have made about 2 edible things so far, its miracilous.

Random things
- My Family are so weird , they gave me the weirdest nickname ever, i actually dont think
my nickname has any basis , and people stopped using it for ages so i thought they forgot about it, and then i was going through my cousins phone and i see in her contacts or dialled calls or something "Naz Yemeni" and i was like "who is that?", expecting her to say something like or my Yemeni friend with the same name as you and she is like "You", yeah my nickname is Yemeni i have no idea why, i dont even look like i come from Yemen.

- I have the biggest Bkhoor and Oud and Perfume Obsession ever, so i bought some Perfumes that are sort of like "east meets west", recommended by sis Bosnish Muslima on her Lovely site Scents of Arabia, i bought the Brand SOoud perfumes (i Also like the name) and i have been looking for Chick Sheikh everywhere but i cant find it even on the internet dont know why.

- It was supposed to snow today but it didnt the weather forcast is actually stupid.
-One of the doctors at Uni hates me haha
-I want fake Nails and a belly Piercing not doing either or maybe just the belly piercing
-I was looking to talk to one of my friends for ever and then finally when she comes online i miss her because i got up to clean
-My grandma (Paternal) wanted and still wants me to marry my cousin, and she hasnt given up on the idea yet, she told me if ever i get divorced :P (itz coz he is Emirati and well you know my grandma and the UAE)
-Every time i eat food i feel sick, so now i am avoiding food i feel like a involuntary bulimic and permenantly starving, might aswell start fasting.
-My Grandma (Maternal one) was a soldier,in like pre-crazy Somalia, isnt that cool?
-I just read a Splendid Post over at MsHandbagAddicts lovely blog regarding something very interesting and women related-go read it , better then whatever i am currently posting.

But before you go Listen to this Song by Lowkey- Amazing rap with deep meaning. Iraqi-Mum andBritish Dad-Lowkey talks about the truth in this song, and what his heritage means to him.

Love
Naz

A different Kind of Post

2010-11-25T02:40:00.000-08:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

I was going through my blog today right, and i notice everything in it like songs and videos are either english or Arabic , what happened 2 somaliZ? Lol i have a valid reason though, most of my readers are Arabs or english speaking people ive got like only 3 Somali readers that i know of, anyways last night was listening to random Somali songs on Somali tv and it reminded me of a couple i like the two videos below are the songs though id never be able to translate them very well, if you want translations ill do it, i played the 2nd video at my wedding :) ok the rest of the post is in Somali
love
Naz.

Intii Soomali taqaano maantey ha aqriyaan post-kaan haha already waxaa kuu soo qosley perfectly Imperfect Somali gooda, laakin maantey waa aniga markeyga, xaley waxaa fiirsanayeey Nuur on Somali tv (Universal), markaas waxaa soo gasheey hees fiican aa jeclahay laaking mageceeda xataa ma aqani lol, wexee i soo xasuusisey heesaha oo Somaliga ah oo aa aniga jeclahay , markaas saakey waxaa fiirinayey blog-geyga hal hees oo somali eh xataa ma ku jirto , thats not right, laakin its because 3arab badan aa akhriiso iyo 3 Somali oo bas lol anyways heesaha qaar oo somaliga ah aa jeeclahay aa idin tusaa, wuu ka sii darooya soomali geyga ayaamahan xaley waa ii imadey ayeeyo iyo walalkeed iyo famil kiisa , somali geyga has such a weird accent lol
ii sheeg hadaa intaa waxaan akhriseen aad fahamteyn , aniga soomaligeyga waa qatar so hadaa fahmiin its your fault :P

Love
Naz

Oh and legendary Song crazi somali guy Yusuf Halawassho his name means Yusuf lets go crazy :P
Taymoumo listen

Oh My God-Surprise

2010-11-23T09:52:00.001-08:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

Ok today i went home, it was just an ordinary day nothing special oh actually i bought some bag that ive been staring at randomly today, and i was so hungry i bought food and ate it in the street :P i am joking it, i ate it in the car i cant stand the stares , especially stares from Muslims even if you are eating something simple like a packet of crisps get over it, women eat :P.

And then i went home, i was so lazy i couldnt be bothered to take my clothes off and wear like more comfortable home clothes, so Mr Naz was like "why dont you change?, you look like your going somewhere ", and i was like "i cant be bothered" so he goes should i go get some clothes for you? and i am like yeaps so he goes and gets me a jelabiyah i havent worn in ages and i try to wear it, when i put my hand through one of the sleeves it gets stuck like the sleeve is tied into a knot, i am annoyed and i try to untie the knot and guess what, a beautiful, beautiful gold ring, with a diamond gem thingy, falls out - haha my face was like :O, i was so surprised so to double check this ring is mine i was like "Whats this?" , and he is like "I dont know, maybe a belated wedding ring?" haha
me: "You want me to wear it as a wedding ring?"
Him: "If you want to, and if you like it"
me: "I love it"
I really love it , its so beautiful haha , we never got wedding rings in the beginning because we are not really sure whether its a religious practice that stems from Christianity or if its allowed in Islam, or discouraged or encouraged or there is no opinion , basically we have no idea. But whatever i love rings whatever they are :)
I am Happy now
appropriate song

funny song
haha
and i am randomly listening to this - Random arab guy dancing and singing with Indian people in like indian type arabic song
I love it

Ok
Love
Naz

Thankyou So much -Mr Perfect :D

Seems the Pakis and The Rag Heads are worrying your dad but your dad's fave foods are curry and Kebab-War Heroes/Licenced Criminals?

2010-11-23T04:37:00.001-08:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

There seems to be a problem in the Uk currently , some Muslims burned poppies , the Media is a bit over excited we are feautured on all the newspapers and all the documentaries are about us, like imagine how boring the world would be without us, the legendary phrase is being repeated for the thousandth time "Clash of Civilisations"- Oh and aparently we want to take over the west why does no one ever inform me of the great muslim conspiracies for world dominance we have going on? anyways you know how everyone is obsessed with the X factor except me?, Even the X factor is involved this time round. Many of the viewers were surprised to hear that the X factors "Charity Choice" will be going to "War Heroes" injured whilst fighting Illegal Wars. Excuse me for saying but i dont think a Soldier qualifies as a charity Case, many people esp Muslims in armies that are terrorising Muslims keep commenting that the soldier is doing his/her job and that the politics is with Politicians and i agree thats very true but my point is whether your fighting a just war or an unjust war when you volunteer yourself to be a soldier , you know that you volunteered yourself to kill and maim and destroy, and you also volunteered to be killed and Maimed. If you take on a job whose main purpose is to kill , i dont understand how you can be the victim, i dont understand how you can have anything in common with anyone except a murderer.

I dont beleive in any war , and i am sorry but i cant differentiate between the "Soldiers" and the "terrorists", one man strapped a bomb on to himself and killed an innocent woman pushing a pram trying to take her kids to school and the other threw a grenade and blew up some iraqi woman trying to cook her lunch , such amazing difference-not. A lot of people are like "yeah but the terrorists kill innocents" thats true and thats wrong and theyre stupid but how many Sadam Husseins were there in Iraq? Its about time people admit they just went there for Oil. I personally never supported the war in Iraq obviously neither did most British people, whats the point of a democracy if you can protest and complain and vote and they still go ahead with an illegal war but i have big issues with the Taliban in Afghanistan , huge issues theyre de-stabilising the region , theyre terrorising women , theyre lying about Islam and theyre bombing Pakistan and their leader is somewhere probably safe and sound but then Again i think the same about all the "political leaders" and "Armies" across the world. Britain is in recession all our money still goes to Israel.

when will people wake up.

Thats my two cents.

Naz

Akhbarak Eih?

2010-11-22T14:11:00.000-08:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

Loving it
Love
Naz

The Miracle

2010-11-22T11:07:00.000-08:00

(Thats My Cool Somali-Saudi Flag u like it? I dO its the Oficial Flag of Nazland Now thats one cool Place right ok Read about the Miracle Now)

The beautiful Blue Pearl found me an amazing article and shared it with me, the article made me smile, made me cry and made me say SubhanAllah about a thousand times, I told my mum about it and she called her friends to tell them the story an incredible Miracle, I cant wait to share with you too.

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

MIRACLE: Allah Azwajjal gives a deaf and mute the ability to hear and speak Again!

Deaf man regains hearing during pilgrimage
Somali could not hear or speak for 20 years after bomb explosion
By Staff
Published Tuesday, November 16, 2010

A Somali man who had lost his ability to hear and speak after a bomb explosion in his conflict-battered African country regained his hearing sense while on pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, a local newspaper reported on Tuesday.

The man, identified only as Shareef, was hit by a bomb during internal clashes in Somalia nearly 20 years ago and decided later to immigrate to Britain after he could no longer hear or speak, Masdar online Arabic language daily said.

Doctors in Britain examined him but found that his condition is incurable, prompting authorities to let him stay as a “deaf-mute” refugee.

The paper said Shareef, in his 40s, has been living in Britain with his wife and four children ever since, adding that he came to Saudi Arabia along with other Somali-British Muslims to perform Haj (pilgrimage), which began on Monday.

“After going around the Grand Mosque in Makkah along with the other pilgrims, he drank Zamzam (sacred) water and went to the bathroom…when he got out of the bathroom, he heard the call for prayers,” the paper said.

“He could hardly believe what he heard…he rushed to his friends and told them what happened…they were shocked when they heard him talking.”

The paper quoted the head of the Somali-British Haj (pilgrimage) mission, Abdul Samad Mohammed, as saying he was stunned when he heard him speak.

“Shareef had been deaf mute for a long time…during our flight to Saudi Arabia, he was writing what he wanted from the cabin crew,” Mohammed said.

“At first we could not believe it….so we asked him to speak again and he did…we took him to the hospital here for examination and doctors said there is nothing wrong with him.”

Source: Emirates 24/7 News

Let's all never forget the power of Allah who grants miracles of His will to whomever He wills!

Alhamdullilah! Subhanallah!

Deserve it?

2010-11-22T04:50:00.000-08:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

I am taking a break from studying just a little one because i think i deserve it just a little, i have been procastinating for soo long that i finally did my work i have a little bit left to do after that im going to jump up with joy (until i realise i have an exam in about 2 weeks and major exams in about a month then i will just go and cry)its really not fair i am actually permenantly distracted these days
And winter always has that affect on me I get so lazy I never want to leave my bedroom , I was really looking to spending my Christmas holidays (3 beautiful weeks) just watching movies and eating and sleeping in my bed and going shopping but not too much because itll probably be snowing I like snow but only for like the first 2 days, I am such a child I go out and have snowball fights with my mum :P last time I got so sick made a “snow angel” all the snow went in my neck I got like literally so cold I got a fever couldn’t see properly and had to go home haha actually that was like 3 years ago last Christmas I didn’t even go oxford street on boxing day that’s a crime against the world of shopping but it was too cold watching the hills with my ice cream tub was more fun , why am I talking about last Christmas? Cz this Christmas I cant do nothing because I have exams right after yeey me shoot me. (I am talking about the winter holidays I don’t actually celebrate Christmas though I watch santa movies coz theyre so cool :P) because im so cheap im going to wait till Christmas to buy myself a laptop and a good phone haha (half price :P) I have no idea what I am talking about,I am sleep deprived , eating food makes me feel sick and im surrounded by papers do you blame me for being weird? No? thanks :P
Love
Naz
Oo I am a update veiledsecrets today
Want to send random love to Ms Bluepearl , MsHandbag, Amira and Silla and Bitten <3

Hello Dubai

2010-11-19T13:18:00.000-08:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

I am Going to Dubai City of My Birth, city of my Dreams, i am going Home. And i cant wait.

So I didn’t know that I was going to Dubai but turns out I am, one of my friends my really good friends from when I was little has recently gotten engaged to her very own prince charming, and sent me the tickets , no excuse not to go . I am Looking forward to it, I love her , I want all the Happiness in the World for Her, I couldn’t possibly miss her Special Day, May Allah Give them a Wonderful Life together.

Lots of Love to my Angel Mryoomah <3

Love

Naz

The Joke that Wasnt So Funny

2010-11-19T06:18:00.000-08:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

Imagine This:

Naz Laughing at the computer screen and eating a Pizza, Mum telling sisters to go Study, Sisters pretending to be deaf and staring at the Tv and Uncle using the House Phone , and everyone talking over eachother- What im trying to describe is Normal. Then uncle asks for my brothers Number we give it to him and he calls him (my brother never answers his phone), but this time Someone Answers , My Uncle says "Heloo-Isam?" no one speaks "Hello?" Someone Says "Yes?"

Uncle: "Wheres Isam? and Who are you?"
Person: "Isam? Inalilahi w Inalilahi raji3uun (Something said when someone dies)
Uncle: *Freaked out*- WHAT?
US- Whats wrong?
Person-Didnt u know that Isam passed away a while ago

You can Imagine the rest right? we all stayed crying and getting freaked out, i didnt even think anyone would be sick enough to joke about that i felt like dizzy, and like we all standing up (i dnt knw why) and crying and hugging eachother and then my brother walks in through the front door and goes "Whats wrong?"
my sister starts mumbling "i think im dreaming"
Haha and then we tell him what happened and he says he left his phone somewhere- he got into trouble and hes like "Why are u all screaming at me, you know you love me" and then my mums like "Shutup u idiot" and hes like "Idiot? and when i was coming through the door all i hear is aww my habibi".

Haha we will never live this Down.
But yeah tht "joke" wasnt really funny.

Love
Naz

What I did On Eid.......

2010-11-17T07:28:00.000-08:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

I for one had a much better Eid then i expected , i did more in one day then i have in ages lol, so i wonder how long this post will turn out.

I really wanted Henna because i get henna every Eid but i didnt manage to get it this year so that was a bit dissapointing, anyways on Eid day Hubz woke me up really early but i like my sleep so i told him to go away :P, haha i was like whatever lets boycott Eid :P it took him 2 hours to wake me up and then when i finally woke up i had to rush so i wouldnt be late for Eid Salah , shower get dressed, whatever go to the Masjid at the mosque i saw a friend i havent seen in a while and i was planning to just say Eid Mubarak to her and invite her to come with us because we were supposed to be having visitors but our visitors called us and said theyd be coming at around 5 in the afternoon so the friend me and my sisters, and hubz and bro and broz wife and all of us went Shopping. Well we actually convinced the guys that they wanted to leave their wallets with us :P. The funny thing is i thought i was going to go Oxford Street to go shopping but somehow i ended up making everyone go to Green Street in search of a Lengha :O ( a Lengha is the most amazing beautiful indian clothing thing )

My brother was like "let me remind you for the last time, You are Not Indian" :P haha and then he told the shopkeeper "Hi this is my sister she wants to be Indian you have anything nice for Her?" haha the shopkeeper prolly thought we was mad :P, lol anyways my relatives finally convinced me that since i didnt really have a lengha occasion coming up id be better off with something else so i bought tons of Abayahs and Jellabiyahs my Hubz said it was too painful to watch what i was doing to his credit card :p, so him and my brother went somewhere. (Jelabiyahs look like the images below, google images doesnt do them justice)

Anyways and i bought some Abayahs (Black dresses worn by women over clothes when outside)
and then Later we had visitors, i my cousins from Saudi and some of My Hubz cousins were coming over and my family and everything, it was actually too funny as in any gathering with more then 10 girls :P, they talked,they laughed, they ate, they sang , they danced, they gossipped, i had so much fun. we probably covered every topic in the world :P, and they brought shisha with them haha,and i triedit me the good naz tried it lol,ive never tried it before there was only one time i wanted to try it and it was a traumatic experience, i went to some dodgy place and got followed by a dodgy guy and then my brother saw and he was pissed off :s, but yesterday my sister and the crazy girls convinced me its a great idea :P , it was fun and alright not really in a hurry to try it again, bas enough.

After that we exchanged gifts,i didnt really know what to get anyone but my friend suggested creams and perfumes and stuff from Harrods and tops from the high street :p so thats what i did and they all Liked it,i got some jewelry, some Arabic Perfumes , Normal Perfumes, and some Abayahs, lol oh and we ordered some weird salty takeaway food lol.

Love
Naz

A Spectacular Sight I Promise You

2010-11-16T15:11:00.000-08:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa BarakatuhuA Muslim pilgrim prays atop Mount Al-Noor during the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca November 9, 2010. (REUTERS/Mohammed Salem)

A general view shows the Saudi holy city of Mecca, as seen from the top of Noor mountain, late on November 13, 2010. (MUSTAFA OZER/AFP/Getty Images
A Saudi worker stitches Islamic calligraphy in gold thread on a silk drape to cover the Kaaba at the Kiswa factory in Mecca< onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/hajj2010_11_15/h04_25649193.jpg">An Indian Hajj pilgrim holds prayer beads prior to his departure for Mecca at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedabad, India on October 26, 2010. (SAM PANTHAKY/AFP/Getty Images)

Saudi Arabian men ride on the newly-opened Holy Sites metro light rail in Mecca on November 2, 2010. The Chinese-built monorail project, will link Mecca with the holy sites of Mina, Arafat and Muzdalifah, and will operate for the first time during the Hajj this month at 35 percent capacity to ferry Saudi nationals who will take part in the upcoming annual Muslim pilgrimage. (AMER HILABI/AFP/Getty Images)

Saudi special forces show their skills during a military parade in preparation for the Hajj in the Saudi city of Mecca on November 10, 2010. (MUSTAFA OZER/AFP/Getty Images)
An ambulance is parked among thousands of Muslim pilgrims praying near the Namira Mosque at Mount Arafat, southeast of the Saudi holy city of Mecca, on November 15, 2010. Pilgrims flooded into the Arafat plain from Mecca and Mina before dawn for a key ritual around the site where prophet Mohammed gave his farewell sermon on this day in the Islamic calendar 1,378 years ago. Pilgrims spend the day at Arafat in reflection and reading the Koran. (MUSTAFA OZER/AFP/Getty Images)

A Muslim pilgrim holds his daughter on Mount Arafat on the plains of Arafat, outside the holy city of Mecca on November 15, 2010. (REUTERS/Mohammed Salem)

Muslim pilgrims stand on top of Noor mountain where the Hiraa cave is located overlooking Mecca late on November 13, 2010. (MUSTAFA OZER/AFP/Getty Images)

The Grand Mosque and the four-faced clock, atop the Abraj Al-Bait Towers are seen from the top of al-Noor mountain in Mecca, Saudi Arabia on Nov. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

The massive new clock atop the newly-completed Abraj Al-Bait Towers, above tens of thousands of Muslim pilgrims walking around the Kaaba, inside the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar
Muslim pilgrims circle the Kaaba at the center of the Grand mosque in Mecca during the annual Hajj pilgrimage November 11, 2010. (REUTERS/Mohammed Salem)

A Muslim pilgrim prays at the top of Noor Mountain, on the outskirts of Mecca, Saudi Arabia on Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010.

All Thanks to Boston.com

Love from The Kingdom

Love
Naz