Well, technically our Lebanese cookbook said the rolled up Baklava is called Asabieh. We actually made a very thin Baklava (the phyllo was very broken up so…) and a tray of Asabieh.
The book also said Greek style is walnuts and Arab style is pistachios so…I guess this is Greek style.
Here they are (click on the thumbnails!):
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This evening as we were breaking fast we were also watching a certain person on a certain tv station.
For some reason he started talking about a hadith. He said that the Prophet Muhammad, Salallahu alaihiwasallam, said “Don’t waste water! Not even if you’re on the banks of a river!”
Then he proceeded to explain it to his brothers and sisters, that, you see brothers and sisters (and i paraphrase), see the extent of this hadith because, “how can you waste water on the banks of a river?” and he laughed his little laugh.
*blinks*
People will say I am a bad muslim, saying things about my muslim brothers but…but…LOGIC!
*sobs*
I hope if you know that you can waste electricity even if you live in a nuclear power plant!
Well, here you see my sister admitted to being an entitlement princess and interrupting my Ramadhan Blog, but I shall recover and at least salvage some and post some of ‘Id.
‘Id means festival and ‘Id-ul-Fitr is the celebration at the end of the month of fasting. It is the first of Shawwal.
For this holiday we prepare food!
So our food menu is (trini style) Barbeque chicken, lamb biryani, lamb kibbeh, falafel, spicy potato and gruyere cheese balls (unless someone donates monterey jack cheese to us), green salad (for mom). Maybe some vegetarian rice.
And the sweets menu?
Baklava and Asabieh, Basboosa (which I’m sure the people at grad school called Harisa), fake Nantakai (made from gulab jamoon recipe), carrot cake (from a box), sawaine and halwah.
Pictures shall follow!
If I have time maybe I’ll make CHOCOLATE HEARTS OF DARKNESS!
But the Asabieh is coming out very mmmmm.
Guess what I’m breaking fast with!
Well today is Divali!
So Happy Divali to all Hindus.
And thanks for the roll-up saheena!
To curb my computer craving, I have decided to donate MONEY to some favourite Open Source Software of mine every time I start seriously thinking of buying a computer or some suped up thing I don’t need.
This doesn’t include mom’s desktop (which I’m starting to believe will never be bought) or replacement parts or maybe an additional stick of RAM or a TV tuner card.
It does include things like a gratuitious mac mini or an iMac G5 with iSight that somebody posted on a list I’m on or an oqo for which I have no need.
This will either make me stop craving these things because I’m “saving money” or I’ll go broke donating all my tiny sums of money to various projects.
I already have the first one lined up. Of course…I always intended to donate to them because…because…it’s one of my absolute favourite things to use…I just hadn’t gotten around to it.
So…here goes the penalizing.
Oh, I think I may allow myself to dream but when it starts becoming more than dream and putting it into action I will stop myself and start adding on to my “debts”.
Yeah and money doesn’t have to be alot because I don’t really got alot…worse since I earn in TT$ and converting that is headache!
When I finally installed the new processor and realised that one of my sticks of RAM was bad, I was then faced with updating my installation of Debian.
So, I happily apt-get updated and apt-get upgraded and…
Got a new kernel.
So rebooted.
Noticed lots of error messages.
Noticed that my wireless card wasn’t coming up.
Realised I was booting into console mode as X server wasn’t configured right.
I tried dpkg-reconfigure but that didn’t work.
I tried apt-get dist-upgrade but still problems.
Note, when I booted into the old kernel the wireless card worked and it didn’t have all the fatal errors with other modules not loading…but still no GUI.
I tried asking for help on #debian.
I figured oh well until I had time let me try a new OS as I always meant to…Fedora Core 5 in spite of being told FC6 was coming out in 2 days. I wasn’t going to overwrite Debian…what’s the point in that? How would I learn, right?
But FC was being too stressful…downloading all those updates. I realize I dont have patience for non-Debian based distros.
So I reinstalled Knoppix (FC was trying to overwrite the Knoppix install). I updated, upgraded and dist-upgraded my Knoppix.
And then…I mounted my Debian root partition and copied /etc/X11/xorg.conf from Knoppix to Debian and fixed Grub to see Debian and not just Knoppix.
And…I had a GUI!
Still no wireless and still loads of errors but GUI!
It was a weird GUI because of course I think it was thinking it had all the Window Managers that come with Knoppix so I got logged into a failsafe terminal and then…installed fluxbox and aptitude.
Then I copied all the installes from Knoppix downloading and previous Debian downloading (maybe this is bad) and did an aptitude upgrade which…proceeded to uninstall stuff. It didn’t install stuff. I was confused. So I reinstalled udev and rebooted and then did an aptitude dist-upgrade which installed stuff. Of course, for some reason my ethernet card isn’t getting an IP address by DHCP but…I was able to manually input one and connect to the internet (as I’m using the box right now to post this). Lots of errors still but at least one problem sorta solved…I have a GUI and am now install gnome.
Later on I will try to figure out what’s up with the kernel. Maybe I should reinstall it or something. After I stop getting those errors then maybe I’ll see about the wireless…or maybe find the config stuff that keeps loading my wireless module.
I don’t know…
But my sister agrees that copying Knoppix’s xorg.config to Debian is cheating. Yes…she understood enough of my woes to get that.
What next!
Class!
Not a new one!
So, now I can run tests on the harddrive and … well go tell people that my harddrive is under warranty so please replace it.
If I can find the receipt of course.
