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As I was sitting in my desk this morning while drinking my hot tea, I happened to look around the four corners of my office room, then I noticed that there are many different plants surrounds me. There were seven of them in my room only!  The eighth was a plastic flower. I don’t know why the first thing that came into my mind was to take a picture for each of them, maybe because they looked very lovely in my sight.  Anyway, here are some of the pictures that I captured this morning:

The first picture was the plant near in my window and its height is about 1.5 meters tall. It is my favorite among them all. It was added in my room since one year ago.  According to one of our maintenance staff, the company bought it for Kd 12.000 which is equivalent to Php 2,000 in Philipines.

This second picture was the plant placed beside my file cabinet.  It was added in my room one month ago and it is one of the most famous and noticebale one. Everyone who saw it said that it was very lovely. It has 1.5 feet tall and I don’t know how much its cost.

The third picture was a plastic one, I just included it in this post since I found it very attractive.  As shown, it was placed behind my printer and fax machine.  It was added in my room since 2 years ago. The flowers are really lovely and it looks real, sometimes it made my guest asked if it was plastic or real and I just answered touch it! It made my office room very feminine too.   

The plant in this 4th picture really made me laugh when they placed it in my room few days ago.  I asked the driver where did they got this plant and he said they bought it, I asked him how much the cost and he told me it was Kd 3.500 which is equivalent to Php 592.00 in Philippines! LOL He asked me why I was laughing, then I told him that this plant has no cost in Philippines, we can find it everywhere. He said it was from Holland!  Then, our GM arrived and said "WOW what a lovely plants!" that made me laughed even more (deep inside only because I don’t want to upset him, I might be fired! LOL . While watching it this morning, it reminded me of my mother’s lovely plants way back home in Philippines, she has many collections of these plants and far more beautiful than the one in the picture.

This last picture was the one placed above my file cabinet as shown, it was added in my room since 3 years ago and it grows very quickly, I cut some of its stems every 2 months.  These plant can live both in water and soil that’s why I placed some of the stems I cut in vase full of water and it grows easily, tiny roots will appear after few days.

I just want to share one of the things that am interested to do at home being a woman, that is collection of potpourris. I’ve been interested in this stuff since several years ago and I always have it in my room, in the leaving room, in my office room and in my desk as well. I like the scents, the looks and everything about it.  The picture above was my favorite one at home, not only the scents but the sentimental value on it that worth keeping for. Some of the petals in that potpouri was given to me by my hubby 3 years ago, and the other half was the petals of the red rosses that he had given to me on our last anniversary. I never throw the flowers that I had, I waited for it to dry and and put it in a vase or any container, when the scents were almost gone, I sprayed oil perfumes on it.  This is also great in bedrooms with scented candles for a romantic evening.  Potpourri last for several years especially if it is being kept in a nice way, just spray oil perfumes on it when the natural scents are gone so that you can feel and experience the romantic scene it can give you.

Eversince I bought these candles and put it in our dining table, I was always disturbed by my little Azhfaar to lit it everytime he took a glance on it.  What he likes most on it was blowing the light until it dies and requested me to kindle it again so that he can blow for the second time and so on.  This event happened every day and night since I bought it on the 1st day of Eid. Sometimes it made me think why he likes the candles so much…was it just mere blowing the light on it or it’s just because he really likes light.  While I was with him during that moment, it made my mind delve into many things, sometimes I thought that he wanted to blow the candles because he hate fires and thus he wanted to put it off. Sometimes I was thinking that maybe he asked me to kindle it again everytime he blew it because he don’t want darkness and he wanted to see the light again. Lots of things were coming into my mind. I asked him to touch it because I wanted to know what will be his reaction and he refused, it means that he knew the danger behind those lights. 

Sometimes he was very difficult to be fed, it’s normal for toddlers in his age but everytime I lit the candles, he will eat anything I put in his plate, he will drink his milk in his cup and not in a bottle and he will obey whatever I told him to do so.

How I wish that his likings for this candle will have a good impact in his life Insha Allah. By the way, we did not left him unatended with this things. He was always supervised.

The picture was taken while we were in our car with my hubby on our way to home from work one late afternoon.  The weather was not really good that day, the sun didn’t shone bright in the morning and it was almost dark even the time was still early. The attractive colors of the sky caught my attention and it remembers me of the One Who Made it and thank Him for blessing me with my eyesight for FREE to see the beauty of His Creations. Alhamdulillah for everything. I also remember the saying, "It takes both rain and sunshie to make a rainbow" since there was also a rain earlier that day and that made the sky looks that way. Had it not been the rain in the morning, I can’t be able to see that beutiful sight in the afternoon. The picture was not really clear since I took it from my mobile phone only while my hubby was driving 100kmph that time.

Life is also like that, there will be many obstacles to face in order for us to succeed. We must have to endure the bitterness of today for us to savour the sweetness of tomorrow. 

I was busy this past few weeks hence I did not able to finish my previous post anymore, anyway here I am to continue it. I know that the title of my post was "Just a Little Light Please…" but what I am writing below are the list of persons who gave me not just a little light but I would rather say a huge light that shines very bright in my life.  First of all is my everloving mother whom I consider as the best mother in the world, a very thoughful and understanding mom. Then, my father who taught me the simplicity of life and guides me the right path always. I owed him everything for what I am now.  Also, to my siblings who always there and for respecting me always as their eldest.  I am deeply honored for having them in my life. Finally, my everdearest hubby who loves me always inspite of everything (I’m moody sometimes) and our little son Azhfaar whom I consider as my twinkle star in the dark nights, he shines by waking me up in the middle of the night and said "Hug mama, hug".

Now, all I can say is I am not afraid to cross darkness anymore since I know that there will be lights that follow me always.

Have you ever experienced being stocked in a room of total darkness as a result of brown out or whatever electricity iterruptions? Or travelling alone in a dark road during an eerie night that you cannot even identify where is north, south, east or west? How does it feel? Of course all you have to wish  and pray will be just a little light for you to see what’s around you… 

The reason why I write this article was because of this picture that I captured few weeks ago in our home.  We were watching a thrilling movie one late night in the living room when one of us switched off the light and I was sitting in front of the center table with some flowers and candles on it.  When the light was off, I did not able to see the flowers anymore because the movie we were watching happened to be in a dark scene also, so I immediately grabbed a match and lit the candles behind the flowers and finally I saw the flowers as if they were smiling at me.  At the same time, I was also holding my mobile phone and I decided to take a photo of the smiling flowers.  It’s been long time here in my photo files when I happened to open it now and my imagination soared while I’m watching it.  I imagined my self as the flower and the candle light were my hubby and my family who gave me the light for me to see and feel the beauty of life.  The light they gave me is their unconditional love that gives me strength to pursue whatever endeavor that I want to undertake in this ever challenging world.   Of course I did not forget to thank the Almighty for blessing me with those incomparable individuals who lighted my world….to be continued

Staying in the 4 corners of this room for almost 7 hours a day and 6 days a week since 3 years ago made me consider it as my second room. Here, I took my breakfast when I had no time to take it at home, I also took my noontime snacks here. My office room. The room that I learned to love. The room that became a part of my life, financially. The room where I chatted with my husband almost daily during our vacant times, the room that lets my mind fly and explore whenever I had no work, and most of all the room where I exerted all my best as a professional to gain more respect and appreciations from my colleagues. While sitting here boringly right now with no work to do, I am thinking of many unemployed professionals who are very desperate in searching for a stable job, then I praised Allah for every blessings that He bestowed upon me. I can say that I am lucky to have this second room, the room with my friends around me. My friends here are my computer and the plants that brightened my day.

Ever heard of an ISLAMIC SWIMSUIT?
Check this out:

Turk takes Islam-inspired swimwear to pious bathers
Thu Aug 31, 2006 8:32am ET

By Emma Ross-Thomas

It is still a small market, but Sahin’s growing clientele is another sign of the rising profile of Islam in traditionally secular Turkey.

His brightly-colored women’s swimming costumes look like shiny track-suits with stretchy hoods, while the racier models are like catsuits with a separate overall to cover the curves.

These costumes are a throwback to the type of swimwear worn before Australian swimmer Annette Kellerman invented and wore the first one piece swimsuit in 1906. She was arrested in the United States in 1907 for wearing the one piece suit that showed her arms, legs and neck.

We always went to the beach during weekend nights and my husband invited me to bath, I really like to but I don’t want to wear normal clothes and veil while I’m in the sea, that’s my biggest problem until now. While I was browsing some internet forums, I saw that article above and I said wow great idea, this will give me a chance to enjoy and have fun at the beach. So I tried my best to browse and see the picture of the said Islamic Swimsuit but when I saw it, it’s not very Islamic I dare to say since I think as soon as it gets wet it will probably start to stick to the body, unless they designed not to be like that. I showed the picture to my husband and he did not comment about it.

If I will found it here in Kuwait, I will try to buy one and check if it will fit in the body when wet because if it will not, then my beach problem will be solved.

The question that almost all our guests asked us when they visited our home. They were referring to the flower I placed above the table. My common answer was "What do you think? touch it."

Actually the flower is not real but if you don’t cross-examine it, it really looks like a real one. Very tricky! 

Plastic or real? This is not only applied to that flower in our home, nowadays it is very hard to identify true people, even a friend which you consider as your best friend may sometimes let you think twice if he/she is plastic or real? Sometimes the person whom you trusted most was the first one to betray you, only then you realized that he/she was indeed a plastic one. 

When I was a student, people around me labeled me as snob, I wonder why because deep within me I was not that type. It just happened that I am not very friendly gal but I can easily smile to everybody whom I think is worth smiling for.  That’s the real one.  I don’t want to make good to somebody when I don’t like him/her deep within.  If I smiled to somebody, then that smile was came from my heart. Now, I don’t mind people labeled me as snob if it is true, that’s the real me.  I want to be transparent in everything and one thing I am sure of is I am not a plastic one.  I am a real person.

What about you? Plastic or Real?

Every night the horizon lights up
Swirls of pink and orange fading to blue and purple

In your very own sunset

Sunset, my most favorite time in the afternoon. Sometimes when we were vacant, we went to the seaside to wait and watch the sunset. At the end of the day when I want to take a rest, to witness the beauty of nature and ponder what this so called life to me had offered, then watching sunset is my first choice to do. The picture in the right side was taken during one of our visit in Scientific Center, I waited as the sun disappeared below the horizon to capture few shots from it, that was one of the best shots I captured that day.