happy eid everyone :)

Doesn't it look nice in Arabic? :) Happy eid to all of you.

So those of you familiar with our eid traditions know that you are supposed to buy a new thing in the eid, which when we were kids was nothing less than a whole new outfit and then tends to be more selective and more expensive as you grow up. So what did I get? (of course it's much nicer if someone else buys something for you, but.. ) Well, I figured that since I can't do anything about the technicalities of email breakdown, nor can I do anything about my occasional clumsiness, at least I went out and got myself a new mobile phone :) This is my eid celebration. I haven't started to play with it yet, maybe tomorrow will try to take some pictures, and of course I will have at some point to begin transferring all my contacts to it.

Anyway, will try to do a bit of work tonight before going to bed early. I have to get up really early tomorrow, around 5:30 am, to get ready to go for the eid prayer (of course I'll make myself a nice big cup of coffee first :) ) I know this is the only thing that will make it feel like a proper eid. Well, maybe not the only thing, there are also the "kahk" and "ghorayeba" :) yummy..

p.s. 1
hey, I can see fireworks from my window yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay :)

p.s. 2
a nice case of English-Chinese bilingualism was sitting beside me in the bus today going on the phone (in an angry voice): ".. and he was like 'wan chi tao tong bla bla' and I was like 'son wi wao chong bla bla' .." while the rest of the conversation was in Chinese. it seems that this expression is really handy. I wonder what was that all about! :)

Mai