so pathetic!

Well I guess Quebec, Canada is slowly becoming a second France regarding the hijjab, I’ll give it few years and Muslims will not be allowed to wear hijjab in school and other places, hopefully the rest of Canada will not adopt this silliness. This is so sad and pathetic!!! Seriously who makes these stupid rules! Safety aal!! Yroo7o ywalo…3an jad toz feehom...I feel bad for these kids!! Finally a smart ass found a reason to justify their banning of hijjab, o lets blame it on saftey. pesssshhhhhhhhhhhh..on them!

I feel very sad because we practised so hard," 11-year-old Bissan Mansour, who wears a hijab, told The Canadian Press on Sunday. "We pulled out for a useless reason."
The team has been practicing the Korean martial art for three years, and some members have won medals in competition. The team said on Sunday the hijabs -- which five of its six team members wear underneath their helmets -- have never been a problem until now.

Right before the competition in Longueuil, the team said a referee told them to either remove their hijabs or leave the tournament.

"In the past few years we used to compete, and there was no problem," team coach Medhi Sbeiti told CTV Montreal. "What's the problem this year?"
International referee Stephane Menard said on Sunday that the decision was made for safety reasons, and that it came out of a referees' meeting in Longueuil earlier in the day.

Menard told CP that the hijab isn't included under the equipment allowed under World Tae Kwon Do Federation rules.
"We applied the rules to the letter," he said.
The feat is that part of the hijab could come loose during a about. Taekwondo involves kicks and throws.
The team is made up of six girls between eight and 12 years old, and is affiliated with a Muslim community centre in Montreal.
Team member Batoul Atwi told CTV Montreal that she was angry and disappointed after she and her teammates were sidelined at the Raymond Mourad tournament.
Tournament founder Raymond Mourad said he wanted officials to let the Muslim girls compete this time, but his pleas were ignored.

"They should have let them fight," Mourad told CTV Montreal. The girls withdrew following the decision. A boys team from the same centre also withdrew. The $35 tournament fee each member paid was reimbursed.
Tournament founder Raymond Mourad wanted the officials to let them compete, but he couldn't sway them.
"The kids who came today, we could have let them compete and warned them for next time," Mourad said.

Other controversies
Sunday's incident marks the second time in recent months the hijab has been the centre of controversy at an amateur sporting event in Quebec involving pre-teens.
In February, an 11-year-old Muslim girl from Ottawa was asked to remove her hijab at a soccer tournament in Laval, north of Montreal, due to safety concerns. She refused and her team pulled out of the tournament.
And a Montreal Muslim woman recently complained that she was forced to choose between her hijab and a job as a prison guard. Authorities also cited safety concerns in that case.

Debate over "reasonable accommodation" of racial, cultural and religious minorities surfaced several times during the Quebec election campaign.
It has become such a hot-button issue that Premier Jean Charest has former a committee to study it.

Spring is here, it is really here! 3an jad!

Ok so the grass is still brown and the trees are just twigs and there are no flower in sight...but for the first day in months I have gone out without a coat, without putting mitts and hats on the boys ...just put shoes on go! I felt so light! But now that I do not have my jacket hiding the few lb I have gained over what has got to be the worst and longest winter in the history of the few years I have been alive...I even heard birds singing when I got up this morning! Yay!

Yesterday it reached +20, a big change from the -20 we have been having for soo long! The kids and I went out for a walk to the grocery store, a nice 15min walk. Hubby picked us up and we went to the park. What a difference from last summer, the kids are really growing up. The two of them were on the big kid swing, but of course bolbol had to eventually go on the baby swing because I wanted a turn. It was so nice playing with the kids. Last year I had to walk with bolbol on the play set and would not let him go down the tall slide, this year I just stood on the side and was with him only when we had a sliding race. *Sniff, sniff* my baby is growing up.

Today wasn't that nice, we were planning on going to the tiny Saskatoon Zoo, but hubby decided to shampoo the carpet, so the kids and I went shopping.

Ok seriously this bad, I came on my computer with a purpose right now. I was planning on doing my assignment. I had it all planned out at night, I even got up and got some paper and wrote down my points and I just have to elaborate on them to make a 750 word essay about a woman who goes through midlife crises and eventually commits a suicide, now I have lots to say about it but I just do not feel like it…and those damned taxes, hubby keeps on reminding me to do them, like I have forgot, they are haunting me, damned procrastination, it is not fun anymore

It is none of your business

Why do people make it their business if a woman wears the hijjab or not?? It goes both ways.

I always hear about how women in hijjab are treated badly. At stores they are not helped, at the malls they are stared at, some have been even spit on, and yelled at. Many see the hijjab as a sign on oppression, which is not! I have heard people being told you are living in the west now you do not have to wear a scarf. This was told to American converts who have lived in the states all their lives.
Even after told that they chose to wear the hijjab, and were not forced to wear it by her male relatives, some still make it their business and will not let it go. It is a piece of cloth for god’s sake; it is on her head not yours. Why do you make it your business, let it go for god’s sake! If it is a hot summer day, she is the one wearing it and if she is hot, it is her problem not yours! Just let it go!
I not understand why people are so bugged by this; they should be used woman covering their heads by now, since there are Muslims everywhere.

The same goes for hijjabis. I do not wear the hijjab; sometimes I am not the most modestly dressed person in the world, but still nowhere near Britney Spears outfits. It should not be anyone’s business whether I wear the hijjab or not. I have not really had any problem from Arabs, many of my friends cover and we still hang out and we are good friends. But I have met few reverts who will not have anything to do with me because well yeh I do not wear the hijjab. And who is to say that a person in hijjab is better those not veiled?? I know many girls who wear the hijjab that do not pray or fast; they just wear it because everyone else is or because their parents want them to.

I was reading a forum and one girl said how she wants to scream when she sees Muslim not veiled and blah blah blah, and how annoying it is blah blah blah…well seriously relax! What is it to you?? It is none of your business really whether I chose to show my hair or cover it. My head is mine, and your head is yours, you do what you want and I’ll do what I want, and we all answer to Allah. And im so sick of older women telling me that I should not be wearing what I am wearing, and then they go to say how they used to dress like that when they were my age but now regret it, that is just annoying. It does not make me want to go throw out all my short sleeve shirts and buy a more modest wardrobe, so really there is no point to their advice. La tahdi man a7babt, ina Allah yahdi man yasha’ , and who knows maybe one day inshallah.

I won, I won, nay nanay nanay neeeeeeeeey

I really hate placing bids on Ebay because I get too anxious while waiting to see if I win or not. So I only buy things if they have the buy now option. But today after looking all over for a leapster Pencil learn to write all over the stores and online stores in Canada, I decided to place a bid. I told zozo that I am not getting him any more cartridges khlas he has six now, that is more than enough these thing are expensive. This morning he comes to me and says

“Baba gave me money to throw in the wishing fountain at the mall yesterday and I wished for pencil learn to draw game for my Leapster, I hope my wish comes true soon, how long to you think it takes, I put lots of money not just one because I really want it to come true fast”

How can you say no to that?? So after giving up on finding it in Canada I placed a bid on Ebay, and his wish did come true! I hardly ever win any bids :)

Home sweet home!

We got back home last night; we had a good time in Edmonton.
We left on Sunday morning, hubby wanted to leave at 9:00 am…hahahhahahahahah, yeh right…I had to pack, dress the boys, get them breakfast, have my breakfast, take a shower, do my hair, makeup, get dressed, make sure the apartment is tidy enough, I really hate coming home to a messy home. Now I do not know, but I think I did great, I woke up at 8:30 and was 100% ready to go by 11:00am!

Our drive was eventless, we chitchatted, I read a book “pride and Prejudice”, which I am loving so far and do not mind writing few essays on it. We stopped for coffee and smoke four times! I had four cups of coffee in seven hours! But it was ok; I like stopping at rest stops here and there. We got to Edmonton at 8:00 and were so bad, the sun was in our eyes and we could not see a thing so we got lost. We finally made it to the hotel and I have to say I made a booboo!! The hotel sucked!!!! We like nice hotels, with nice room, but this one was sucky, we wanted to leave but then decided it is not worth it and since we will be out all day next day and leaving the day after we decided to suck it up and stay. Next time I will do more research before booking the hotel!




We went to Edmonton mall the next day, but not before driving all over Edmonton because we got lost. The first time we ever really need the GPS and we leave it home! Thankfully it was hubby’s fault this time. Hubby lived in Edmonton for five months you would think he knows his way around but he doesn’t! we finally make it to the north, went to an Arabic bakery and got manakeesh for breakfast. I found an Islamic store beside the bakery so while hubby bought manakeesh I went in and bought a 3abaya, I have wanted one for a while but have been too scared to order one online. Anyways so we finally make it to Edmonton mall, and I was in shopping heaven! Hubby and zozo went to the play area, which is huge! Bolbol was sleeping in the stroller and I had the whole mall to myself. I have been shopping at Saskatoon’s tiny malls for a while so I loved being in a huge mall! I shopped until I dropped, for five hours I was shopping while hubby and zozo played. I walked through the whole mall, and it is a huge mall, my feet were about to fall out when I was done. I could not buy any clothes for me, since I was feeling fat and I would have cried if I tried anything on, but I did buy two pairs of summer shoes, clothes for the kids, and I even got a great deal on kids shoes I bought two kids winter shoes for $14, now that is a deal! After shopping and playing we met up with friends and had dinner together and off to bed at 12am.


The next day we checkout, the first time we are ever out of the hotel by 10am, we are usually still getting ready to leave by 11:00. We went to the Arabic food store, and bought all the Arabic foods we do not find here in Saskatoon. And once we were done I have a dumb moment! There is an Arabic sweets store next to the Arabic grocery store, so I asked hubby to see if they have mamoul madd, YUMMMY! So of he goes and I decided to throw some of the garbage in the car out. And I grab the keys just in case zozo decides to try driving the car. While my hand is in the garbage can getting ready to throw the stuff away hubby come out and yells SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMM….so I got startled and I threw everything out of my hand, yes including the keys! I tell hubby I think I threw the keys out, but all he cared about is whether I wanted the mad with dates or walnuts. I say walnuts but the keys are in the garbage, we’ll deal with it later he says. But I am trying to get them out of the garbage when a nice Sudanese guy passes by and asks what is wrong. I tell him about my keys and he helps me open the garbage can, which is closed very good to keep the homeless people to go into them. Finally he get it open and take the garbage bag out, and thankfully it is almost empty except for few Tim Horton’s cups and the stuff I threw out and of course my keys. So I get them and when hubby come out he asks are the key in the garbage and I say nope they are in my pocket. So phew! That was the end of that; I do not have to live with the teasing for few months or maybe years. Remember the day you threw the keys in the garbage? Well thanks to those nice guys I will not be hearing thatJ

Our drive back was very tiring, it felt so much longer than the drive to Edmonton and my back was so tired. I was glad to finally get home. But we bought so much bread; some of them did not fit in the freezer,I spent an hour organizing the freezer over and over, we can not buy iceceam for a while now!

Now I have to start planning for our next trip to Vancouver, and booking hotels along the way.

off to our mini vacation

So tomorrow morning we are going to Edmonton.. I know it is not the carribean, but I am actually exited to be getting away for few days. I have had the worst winter ever! We had sooooo much snow this year, and in Saskatoon snow means me staying home for few days untill the roads are driveable...and since it snowed at least once every single freakin week, I have been house bound for a long time. I even gained NINE pounds! Damn it! I have never gained this much weight when not pregnant in few months. I have been depressed and stressed out, so it nice to get away.
Hubby left his laptop at work, so we will not have a computer for THREE days! But I am glad, I have been spending too much time online so it will be a nice break.
Of course the main reason for our trip is still to buy pita and Arabic groceries. I think I will buy Jameed and make Mansaf, any tips on how to make it?? I have never made it before and have only eaten it three times.

Damned procrastination!!!!!!

Seriously there has got to be a cure for this!!!! Maybe some pills one could take?? OR maybe, just maybe if I stopped checking things online when I should be doing my jobs, I may be able to get things done!! NAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH, there has got to be a better solution, some pills sound good.

So taxes are due in about three weeks, and so far my progress so has been:
-Get the invoices box out of the closet
-Sort the receipts, throw out things we do not want to claim and put everything in labelled files
-Open last year’s excel sheets, save it as taxes 2006, erase last years numbers, and the sheets I will not be using this year.
-Bought quick tax for business and ink for my printer!


And then I have an assignment to do, everyone has handed in their assignment 3 and I am still researching assignment 2! Damn it!!! I have everything in my head, I even did the whole essay on To room nineteen what every paragraph will say while I was in bed last night, when I come to put it on word I get distracted by other stuff on the computer.

But it all has to wait right now because I have a chocolate bar to eat and nails to do, then some shopping and back home to find time to do my two current top priorities.

I hate tax time!!!