Entrepreneurial Sense July 31, 2009
Posted by jewaira in Film & Ads, Inspiration, Lifestyle, Links, London, News, Women.5 comments
Lauren Luke started off on YouTube doing make-up tutorials. She did amazingly well that she now has her own make up line. Her YouTube is the most subscribed to in theUK
Here is her Web site; Make Up by Lauren Luke
Double your pleasure July 26, 2009
Posted by jewaira in Film & Ads, Humour, Husbands, Life, Links, Love.31 comments
What if our wedding zaffas were this fun?
Brigitte Bardot look-alike July 24, 2009
Posted by jewaira in Film & Ads, London, News, Women.15 comments
Sexy Sausage Ad July 24, 2009
Posted by jewaira in Film & Ads, Food, Humour.13 comments
UK listeners complained about this suggestive smoked sausages ad by Mattesons on the radio recently.I wonder if there are any studies that reflect who enjoys eating sausages more? Men or women? Age? Ethnicity?
Debatable July 22, 2009
Posted by jewaira in Life, London, Motherhood, News, Opinion, Relationships, Women.16 comments
When I read the headlines on the front page of the newspaper, I didn’t expect it to be the Independent but rather one of the newsy tabloids that grab readers’ attention through such provocative titles.
The first thing that came to mind as I read the article was: if you are going to be stupid enough to engage in an affair, shouldn’t you at least use birth control and be extra cautious?
And then there was something about the report that didn’t sound right:
“She became pregnant the following year and worried that her elderly husband – a member of the Royal Family of Saudi Arabia – had become suspicious of her behaviour, she persuaded him to let her visit the UK again to give birth in secret. She feared for her life if she returned to Saudi Arabia.”
If her husband was suspicious, he would have not allowed her to travel period. Saudi Arabian or not. The woman had the freedom and mobility to travel and to meet with her lover.
Yes, the woman may have been married to an elderly member of the Saudi royal family but everything has a price. Let us not perpetuate the notion that all Arab girls are forcibly married off to geriatric millionaires and live a miserable life. Many marriages are ones of convenience especially between the elite and wealthy families. Indeed, I have posted previously specifically on young girls who seek wealthy older men in the controversial misyaar marriage.
This woman was granted asylum for having an adulterous affair and bearing an illegitimate child with a British man (some Arab forums dreamily imagine the stereo-typed British man to be blond and blue eyed but the majority of British in London these days seem to be of Southeast Asian descent. Indeed, the said non-Muslim boyfriend could be a Christian of Arab descent, a Buddhist of Chinese descent, a dreadlocked gentleman of Caribbean descent, or indeed even a redheaded be-freckled Anglo-Saxon. Anything is possible.)
So after she fled to the UK, and delivered her baby she petitioned for asylum because she feared being stoned to death.
It seems to me like a roundabout way to gain her “freedom” by involving an innocent baby who will bear unnecessarily the haphazard mess the mother has made with her life. Why should a child carry the burden of their parents’ irresponsible behaviour?
The day after this article was published, another one carried the headline: Ten Saudis seek asylum as Princess is allowed to stay
If the woman in question was not wealthy, or was not a Saudi woman but a Saudi man, would the British court have also granted asylum?
Freezing your eggs for Mr. Right July 14, 2009
Posted by jewaira in Health, Husbands, Life, Lifestyle, Motherhood, Polls, Women.29 comments
Lucy Edge writes a poignant account of her struggle to conceive and how she finally had to accept the fact that she would never have her own biological children. Like so many other women, Lucy was career oriented and put off thinking seriously about settling down or starting a family until it was too late.
“……In my 20s there’d been a lightness of touch in my office affairs (the odd kiss and cuddle behind the filing cabinet), but by my 30s my relationships were tinged with desperation.
I hadn’t found him, and I was worried. Yet, I refused to prioritise the man-hunt – the idea seemed so old-fashioned.
When I was 36, my ever-thoughtful stepmother suggested I freeze my eggs to give myself the chance of ‘an ice baby’. But I didn’t – something I bitterly regret.
Not only is it a rather expensive procedure to go through for the sake of an insurance policy, but it involves confronting the possibility that you might not meet the man of your dreams before your eggs ‘run out’.
Few young, single women can contemplate that thought. But take it from me: if you’re young, single and not in a position to have a child, you should consider it. Those eggs will remain as young as you are today, and one day they might be your only hope.
That terrible reality became increasingly clear to me after I met David and our effort to get pregnant naturally yielded no results.”
Egg freezing ( Oocyte cryopreservation ) is a way for women to preserve their fertility till they are ready to conceive.
the notion of grasping at non-realities July 10, 2009
Posted by jewaira in Poetry.22 comments
Emotions
as fleeting,
as precious
as gold dust
slipping through
cupped hands.
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Simple words,
Complex world.
Searching for truths
Unearthing paradoxes
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a sliver of light
at the silver lining
disappears
as stubbornly
unyielding
as the clam
in my hands.
Laviators: the new Mile High Club July 8, 2009
Posted by jewaira in Humour, Links, News.13 comments
tired July 8, 2009
Posted by jewaira in Blogging, Inspiration, Life.5 comments
I’m tired,
very tired and I can barely keep my eyes open but it is at precisely these moments that creativity is alive and it frustrates me when I close my eyes and story after story is unveiled in all its tantalizing details but I am immobilized and getting up to type would be a crime because at that moment so many stories are lost and so I remain immobile trying not to regain consciousness and….
who suffers the consequences of lucid dreaming and….
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tattered pages from my notebooks.
Zubeida July 5, 2009
Posted by jewaira in Poetry.8 comments
Zubeida was a free swimming zubeidi
and that is a kind of fish;
Zubeida couldn’t swim with others in her school
because her scales were black silver
and the others were silvery white
They gleamed and shimmered
glinted in the sun
while she stood out like an ominous
mistake silvery black
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Zuleikha sat with her paramour
not realizing he
was dabbling with another
on the side,
like an hors d’œuvre
a plate of hummous
into which he dipped crudités
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Husun Yusuf
the girls all
clambered to the dance floor
and trotted
to and fro
each wanting to
outshine the other
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Zubeida loved Zippity
who hummed
Zippity Doo Dah
early in the day
rinky tinky tinky
till late at night
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Rico gave her
a crystal tear drop
a memento
in remembrance of her sacrifices
and her faith.
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Zubeida & Zuleikha dipped
silver scoops
into pale pink
balls
of icecream
and parted raspberry lips
to roll
raspy wet tongues
around the icy cream
cold dessert
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Zippity told
Zubeida
of his desire
to gnash into the strip of silk
and separate the black from the white
and dip rose flavoured tongue
scented with rosewater
into the unparted lips
and hold them there
for a Variation on
Eternity
in several Movements
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Do you enjoy going to weddings? July 4, 2009
Posted by jewaira in Kuwait, Life, Lifestyle, Opinion, Women.40 comments
Do I enjoy going to wedding parties? Sometimes.
My enjoyment depends on several factors I suppose. The main factor is whether or not I am in the mood. If I am in the mood, this is enhanced by a luxurious trip to the salon where I am pampered, primped, and prepared for the event. Most women tend to do this.
If one is married, sometimes the husband is puzzled and asks if his wife intends to outdo the bride. But then the same husband awaits the end of the party in anticipation to feast upon his dolled up wife (but mostly she is not in the mood after being squeezed into an evening gown, sometimes a corset, and having feasted on the wedding dinner comes home with a bloated belly and swollen feet from prancing about the dance floor in high heels for the duration of the evening.)
Sometimes at weddings the music is great. There are special bands or artists that highlight the evening. The entertainment in itself is something to look forward to.
But what if the wedding music is so-so and you have a huge ballroom with tiered seating on either side – the bride’s side, and the groom’s side. Imagine each side cheering when their celebrated loved one turns up (or booing when the other side shows up) No, of course that doesn’t happen but of course weddings are notorious occasions for women to turn into vicious creatures where no detail is left without scrutiny and nothing is left being subject to criticism and appraisal. That’s just the way it is.
Rare are the occasions one attends when there is real joy in a wedding celebration; where everyone is genuinely happy for the bride and groom and their families; where no one sits back and compares, or takes notes, or where no one evaluates the party and whether it measures up to “the standard”.
I have been to lavish wedding functions where no expense was spared but the relationship fell apart within months. I once went to a wedding where two sisters were getting married, and the sight of the two handsome men with their lovely brides caused me to break down and sob as I remembered a young relative that had recently passed on. They both divorced some years down the line. The worst wedding party I attended was when the bride came and the groom never showed up due to some family feud. She didn’t care though. She danced the night away. And less than a year later she was divorced.
There are legendary wedding parties, where the best of everything is provided, but will their marriage be the stuff of legends?
Here is a couple that celebrated 70 years of marriage recently – in a relationship that was successful despite the mother of the bride who forecast it would not work and did not speak to her daughter for 2 years.
I suppose what I am really getting at is that most of our weddings these days are done for pomp and show and do not really involve the essential happy side of a marital relationship.
My 2020 Kuwaiti vision July 4, 2009
Posted by jewaira in Kuwait, Life, Lifestyle, Opinion.17 comments
My 2020 Kuwaiti vision (incomplete version):
1) Houses that can be completely submerged underground in the event of adverse weather conditions such as sandstorms or simply horrid dusty weather
2) A complete changeover to solar energy by the domestic sector
3) All residences and businesses must have covered and protected parking to minimize exposure of our cars to the elements. (preferably subterranean)
4) Every citizen and resident in Kuwait must plant a tree on their birthday no matter what their background. It is a simple gesture of thanks to our environment in this tax free country. If they cannot plant a tree in their residence (because they live in a flat) they can commission those responsible to plant one in a public area.
5) Every residential area has its own recycling centre to dispose of unwanted items and to sort rubbish
6) Every residential area has a compost dumping centre for biodegradable waster
7) Every residential area has a waster water recycling centre where water is purified and recycled for further use
8 ) Enable more people to work from home where possible to reduce traffic and increase efficiency. People receive salaries and promotions on work done.
9) Increase the utilization of robotics in cleaning and maintenance jobs. One operational person can do the work of 10 to 15 people.
