‘Id Mubarak!
Well, it is ‘Id-ul-Adha (festival of the sacrifice) today.
It’s kind of bitter sweet because we were supposed to be making Hajj this year (and basically this is what Hajj commemorates).
But anywayz, I did kurbani this year for the first time!!! Since this is the eid that commemorates the sacrifice, not only does one do sacrifice if one makes Hajj but also if one is able, one makes sacrifice at home too.
Well this year in our Jamaat we have no animal sacrificing (first time I can remember) so we bought shares in Guyana. Generally when you have a share, you take a third for you, a third for friends and a third for the poor. Well, our share in Guyana will go all for the poor. Thank goodness! Because i don’t want to listen to people making me eat beef because it’s kurbani and calling me hindu because i don’t really like beef; i mean, how would you like to be called muslim if you don’t eat pork?? I mean, it doesn’t have to be beef, does it? It can be lamb! I eat that!
So…today is December 31st…
Well, animals aside, from my end of the planet: Happy New Year, to you and your family. May “2007″ be the best year ever!
Tonight everyone is suppose to go out and celebrate the beginning of the New Year over here: fireworks, music and junk-food. Me, I’ll probably go to bed early. I’m doing some volunteer work over the prison tonight–part of my graduate studies–so I’ll take it easy.
Maybe, just maybe, I’ll throw some “oven-ready” Pizza in the microwave oven, and see how that turns out??????? :D
Comment by Thomasso — Sunday 31st, December 2006 @ 7:27 pm
Mmm Pizza.
My parents are at the neighbours!
I don’t know if they were invited for ‘Id or for Old Year’s! :)
Thanks and same to you.
Comment by Lilandra — Sunday 31st, December 2006 @ 7:56 pm
i get called muslim all the time for not eating pork.. lolz.. i usually just roll with it :D
Comment by The TriniGourmet — Sunday 31st, December 2006 @ 8:31 pm
But, do you get called Muslim by your fellow Jews?
I got called Hindu by Muslims at functions as a little child. Can be very traumatizing. (Well, I didn’t used to always eat other people’s meat either because it didn’t taste as good as mom’s or was in fact much worse and oily.)
Comment by Lilandra — Sunday 31st, December 2006 @ 9:53 pm
nah boy dread! that’s hardcore! I thought it was coming from people outside your community! Are you allowed to slap people up? At least give them a wikked cut-eye! I’ll fight them for ya :)
Comment by The TriniGourmet — Sunday 31st, December 2006 @ 11:52 pm
Well, right now I’m anti-social so I don’t see them.
But I remember them.
People outside are fine…I mean…I’ve been asked if I’m hindu so many times (well…most remembered…at work and before that in Caracas (many times!!!)).
That’s fine…it’s educational :)
I really wanted to strangle those adults growing up tho.
Comment by Lilandra — Sunday 31st, December 2006 @ 11:55 pm
i beginning to think you and chennette is some kinda double agentz with all these place namez you keep mentioning … :P
anti-social is the new hott btw :)
Comment by The TriniGourmet — Monday 1st, January 2007 @ 12:10 am
oh HAPPY NEW YEAR :D
Comment by The TriniGourmet — Monday 1st, January 2007 @ 12:11 am
Double agents???
LOL
I’m not the ever-travelling Chennette…I only go Guyana…very boring.
I went to Caracas for a week in between lower and upper six with a bunch of other school girls (mostly from south). It was…interesting.
Multiple people asked if I was hindu (stores etc). One of the guys tho, when he found out muslim, he was like ah! and turned out and pointed out the masjid…it’s kinda huge and towering (noticeable from everywhere?) and he seemed quite proud of it :-)
Comment by Lilandra — Monday 1st, January 2007 @ 12:14 am
I’m going crazy. I just went to your blog and saw a google recipe search post and now it’s gone and I didn’t get to read it.
Sneaky!
Comment by Lilandra — Monday 1st, January 2007 @ 12:16 am
Argh! It’s from November! How did I even see it on the front page???
Comment by Lilandra — Monday 1st, January 2007 @ 12:17 am
hee i have a script running that pulls an old post as the second entry on the homepage … that’s why you’ll see it titled “From the Archives” ;) Good way to give new life to old stuff :D
A masjid in venezuala :) whoulda thunk :) i last went there in ‘87… it was startin to slide into a kinda violent vibe :( love the arepas tho :D aiaiaaiaiaaiai :D hot and buttery!!!
Comment by The TriniGourmet — Monday 1st, January 2007 @ 12:22 am
i thought i was the only homebody :D like you and chennette not fetein either :)
Comment by The TriniGourmet — Monday 1st, January 2007 @ 12:23 am
she does rotating archives…quite cool, but I haven’t figured it all out yet :-)
Lilandra is a double agent? Hmmm, maybe that’s why she always wavers between furtively changing settings on someone else’s computer (OR actually changing the OS every single day!!) to refusing to even hear a question if it has to do with Windows…sigh…
but yeah, I will cook the beef twice, like last year, and then save the rest for when sister the elder runs out and I will just transfer it to her freezer.
Comment by Chennette — Monday 1st, January 2007 @ 12:23 am
oh, yeah, I am so a homebody…especially since i have to go to the office today (later), on a HOLIDAY
but not thinking of that now, too stressful
Comment by Chennette — Monday 1st, January 2007 @ 12:24 am
o.O
dey makin’ you work :**(
Comment by The TriniGourmet — Monday 1st, January 2007 @ 12:31 am
@TriniGourmet:
ooo script is good!
Sounds like a cool idea. If only more people visited my blog they might look at other things…so neat!
Masjid in Caracas:
http://www.travel-images.com/view.shtml?venezuela24.jpg
http://www.art.com/asp/sp-asp/_/pd–12024424/sp–A/Mosque_Caracas_Venezuela.htm
This was in…’96 I think…It was hard. I had to be vegetarian!
CHennette: I don’t mess with other people’s computers unless they ask me to. Windows sucks (for me anywayz). What settings have I changed on yours? Added a password to your profile for security??? Added my own firefox profile so I wouldn’t login and mess with your mail?
We’re homebodies. We have no life. We’re boring.
Comment by Lilandra — Monday 1st, January 2007 @ 12:47 am
I meant the old Compaq…every day I’d put it on and there’d be a new version of Linux…I am not denying it made me more aware of the world outside Microsoft, but since when I have to be the parents’ tech support? I am their letter writer!! I can’t manage both jobs, particularly from foreign.
I know I ok’d it – you get rattled every time I suggest hacking or appropriation of other people’s computers…hmmm…wonder why…
Comment by Chennette — Monday 1st, January 2007 @ 1:47 am
Because you insult me!
I am mom’s technical support.
You are dad’s!
Comment by Lilandra — Monday 1st, January 2007 @ 1:52 am
As Salamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullah
Eid Mubarak from me, too. May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta’ala accept this years sacrifices and especially those of the Hajjis taking a journey of a lifetime.
Was Salam
Muhtaj-e-Du’a
Comment by True Life — Monday 1st, January 2007 @ 8:00 am
Linux is hott…
but
MacOs is THE hott
Comment by The TriniGourmet — Monday 1st, January 2007 @ 12:21 pm
@True Life: Jazakullah and ‘Id Mubarak
@TriniGourmet: Thank you for linking to macgourmet in that old post of yours. I want it now! But to find all my recipes to put it in!!!
Comment by Lilandra — Monday 1st, January 2007 @ 2:50 pm
how come you put a ‘ instead of an E – ‘id? :)
nuff props on macgourmet :D but aiaiaiaia i have over 700 recipes in there now and barely scraped my collection :( daunting… but it’s really worth it :D
Comment by The TriniGourmet — Monday 1st, January 2007 @ 7:30 pm
Pronunciation…um
To more closely mimic the arabic letters/pronunciation.
It’s not just a flat eid sound but it’s…kinda gutteral letter…so…
Sometimes I don’t bother write it like that! :)
Transliteration is hard
Comment by Lilandra — Monday 1st, January 2007 @ 7:48 pm
i hear ya :D it’s like the H in hanukkah isn’t an H :) but an help i’m choking get this bone out my throat sound lolz
Comment by The TriniGourmet — Monday 1st, January 2007 @ 7:50 pm
Hehehe.
Is that why it’s sometimes Ch or H when people spell it? :)
Arabic has like two H sounds…one’s breathy (and they write it with a dot underneath I think) and one’s just an H I guess!
Comment by Lilandra — Tuesday 2nd, January 2007 @ 12:11 am
the (take a breath) HHHHHHaa and the Haa :-)
and I think in different Arab countries, their gutturals might sound different
Comment by Chennette — Tuesday 2nd, January 2007 @ 12:32 am
Duh! It’s called accents! :-p
Comment by Lilandra — Tuesday 2nd, January 2007 @ 1:10 am
lolz word lilandra :) take the CH in BaCH (like the composer) and then say CHanukah :D lolz
Comment by The TriniGourmet — Tuesday 2nd, January 2007 @ 3:30 pm
:)
Comment by Lilandra — Tuesday 2nd, January 2007 @ 11:03 pm