A backdated summary

So this little holiday is over, I’m back at called to fish. Hope you enjoyed my holiday hehehe!

I got home today after a week’s holiday in Sharjah. Although I have exams at school starting Monday, I didn’t use my books much while I was there. I learnt a lot about managing a house, cooking, doing dishes and being a woman. I was taught by God also about sin and living a careful, prayerful life in Jesus. I’m lacking there right now in many respects, but I’m learning. Those whom the Lord loves, he reproves and disciplines- as he did me this week, and he loves me a lot.

I watched 4 movies, all in Hindi - Vivah, Rehguzar, Apna Sapna Money Money and Dhoom: 2. Vivah was my favourite of these 4, it showed decency and love and peace with two families who wed a daughter and a son respectively, through an arranged system. It is good when movies have positive morals and encourage the youth (or even old people, depending upon what audience is targetted). Selling sex just because it sells is shallow and corrupting… sin is crouching at the door, but we must master it. I am considering giving up on watching a few types of movies.

I didn’t shop too much, I was very happy not to bring back bags full of junk. I already have too much stuff that needs to be chucked out or given away. But I bought drawing books and stickers, and chocolate- that sounds artistic, doesn’t it? I’m hoping to get started on some of my artistic ambitions soon. And I need to work very seriously on a layout and plan for my magazine… if God willing I hope to release it before the summer of 2007.

Cricket World Cup coming up in just a few months, my cousin tells me. Big deal… lol.

I need to read my Bible a lot more. I am looking for a good reading plan. As of now I am considering reading the Bible backwards… from Revelation to Genesis? I wonder if that would work. The Bible is such a great book, so much love and so much God all through it. Always blows me away. The New Testament is a lot deeper than it seems at first reading. I’ve been seeing that every day since I became christian, 413 days ago.

2nd Lunch

I cooked lunch again today the same dal and the same rice, but it was edible again.
praise the Lord!
I made more than I made yesterday, and no leftovers YAY!
I can’t believe I have been here for nearly 6 days already, it is nearly time to go back home.

Days 4 & 5… and a bit of 6

November 19 & 20.. and a bit of 21

Dad and bhaiyya went out for work in Dubai, so I stayed home and did some housework and slept and stuff. It was nice to have all that alone time. I called mum both evenings and yesterday bhaiyya and I went out for a walk and we bought some milk and chips and yogurt, and we ate ice cream. It was fun. We tried to take photos but couldn’t get any good ones. Today some guys are over to clean up the ceiling which was mucked up from the broken window and muck which came in before we got here. It’s mostly done already, I like the way they spread plastic sheet all over the floor and put tape over the door frames so that nothing else gets mucked up. Very nice.

Dad is in Ajman right now, and when he comes back we will have lunch (I guess) and then bhaiyya and Dad will go to Dubai again. What will I do today? Maybe I will study, God willing.

100 dhs!

I just cooked my first lunch today! Yay! Dal and rice, very simple, but still edible and I dont know about anyone else but I liked eating it! lol. I took photos but this internet connection gives me a really bad time putting up photos, so I will update this whole diary with photos once I get back to India, Lord willing. I cooked lunch! YAY!

 

Feel like a woman today…

I just sent two men off to work. Doesn’t that sound cool? Lol. My dad and my brother had work today in Dubai, so they dressed up in their formal suits and ties, and I wore a plain black kameez with a plain white salwaar- traditional Indian clothes, you could say black shirt white pants – and so we all looked like we were in some kinda dress code. Colour code actually. So the two men cooked lunch and taught me how to make black masoor dal, and rice, and I washed dishes and learnt from them.

Day Three- 18 November 2006

Hmmmm I don’t have much to write about yesterday. It was a good day. I tidied my room in the morning and made sure there was place for Bhaiyya to put his stuff when he came, then he came and put his stuff (lol) and we rested for a while. We had pizza for lunch, it was yummy. They have this really cool red dip they serve with cheesy bread it’s the best dip I’ve ever had. Best non-cheesy dip that is. And they have this amazing desert which is like bread with chocolate filled in the middle, we still have some of that in the fridge. Ok after lunch and after some rest we went down to the city centre and bought some stuff for the house. Salt and spices, and chips and chewing gum. Yum yum. Then we went to watch a movie called Rehguzar, which is about an Indian who goes to Dubai to become a big man and he falls in love with a girl and he works really hard and becomes really big in no time but then he has an enemy who gets him chucked into jail and a friend who buys him a lottery ticket. Lots of mini-storylines within this big story and none of them fully developed into anything interesting, so I guess I will have to agree with Bhaiyya’s review of it: vaahiyaad picture. Lol. It had potential but it just sortof collapsed into itself, watchable but in the end it leaves you saying “huh? What was that?” lol.

 

After the movie we went to a restaurant called Kamat for dinner.

Inka exam hai, kya?

Vivah is a hindi movie which is centred on marriage and not on child abuse. There is a scene where the girl and guy meet for the first time, and they are given time to talk to each other before they decide to marry. So the guy’s sister-in-law says to them, “good luck!” And the sister-in-law’s 5 year old son says “good luck? Do they have an exam?” and everybody laughs. So cute. Not.

Day Two- 17th November 2006

Day 2 was a lot less eventful than Day 1. Still, a lot of fun.

I woke up around 8,30 and went down bought some milk and bread and chips for breakfast. Then I spent a while tidying up my room. I made room for my brother to keep his stuff when he comes, and unpacked my suitcases into my shelves. It’s nice to see my stuff organised here I love the look of this place. Then Dad and I got online and had a long chat with our relatives in Sydney, one of my cousins has just finished university there and her brother is doing a lot of the subjects which I’m doing at university. He is 6 months older than I am and Aussie universities start 6 months before Indian ones, so he is exactly 1 semester ahead of me and it’s kinda cool how it totally matches with our ages hehe.

In the evening we went to the City Centre and Dad got passport size photos taken for his visa renewal, he has gone to Ajman today for that. We had dinner at McDonald’s (India McD’s is wayyyyyy better than UAE’s lol) and after that we went to watch a hindi movie called Vivah, which means marriage. It was a beautiful movie!!! Crossing all limits of decency. Not a single indecent dress, song or scene in the movie; and what a beautiful way to spend the time between engagement and marriage. So so decent I was really inspired, lol. It just looked beautiful. If the actors worshipped God it would have been perfect. Still the heart behind this movie was just really sweet and decent and … oh I liked it so much. I love the way they all stayed so proper the whole time and still in love. And the guy and the girl lived in different cities and really missed each other the whole time while they were engaged… awww. And they inspired each other in their work and sometimes visited each other. I could go on.

Just before the movie, Dad and I bought a magnifying glass, a roll of orange tape, and a desktop clock+calender. The tape is big and orange I can’t wait to use it!

We came home after the movie and slept.

Thanks everybody for visiting and commenting at Mum’s blog. Isn’t she sweet?

Women and the UAE

Isn’t it creepy to be a woman in the UAE?

 

Day One- 16th November 2006

What an exciting day. I woke up at 6 am and was nervous, my flight was scheduled for departure at 10,30 am and Dad had already told me that we were leaving for the airport at 7,30 am. I wrote my 3^rd post about Sharjah while I was still in Delhi, then went upstairs to get ready to leave… checked a million times whether I’d packed everything, and ended up leaving my mp3 player (christian music) at home. No worries. I have my bible, and my laptop has my music