Listen to your Mother!

You know I had to post this one!
Beauty advice from mothers who also happen to be doctors, models, makeup artists, cosmetics tycoons - beauty gurus of one sort or another that goes way beyond "get your hair out of your face!''
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Juha

I was reading this book about Juha and some of his tales (in Arabic) and there were some jokes that were really hilarious...

here are some of them:

سأله تيمورلنك يوما : تعلم يا نصر الدين أن خلفاء بني عباس كان لكل منهم لقب اختص به فمنهم (الموفق بالله) و (المتوكل على الله) و(المعتصم بالله) و ما شابه ذلك فلو كنت واحدا منهم فماذا يجب أن أختار من الألقاب؟

فأجابه على الفور : يا صاحب الجلالة لا شك بأنك كنت تدعى بلقب: نعوذ بالله

One day, Timur Lank (Tamerlane) asked him:

You know, Nasreddin that the Khulafa' Bani Abbas (the Caliphs of Bani Abbas) had for each of them a laqab for himself, like (Al-Muwaffaq Billah) and (Al-Mutawakkil Ala' Allah) and (Al-Mu'tasam billah) and likewise, so if I was one of them what should I choose (for a laqab)?

He (Juha) answered him at once: Your Majesty, no doubt that you would have been called : Na'oothu billah (we seek refuge from Allah)

كان يأكل بأصابعه الخمس فرآه أحدهم فاعترضه قائلا: لماذا تأكل بأصابعك الخمس؟
فاجابه جحا: لأنه لم يكن لي ست أصابع

He was eating with his five fingers, and someone saw him and (scolded him) saying: Why are you eating with your five fingers?

Juha answered him: Because I don't have six fingers (in one hand:)

:P

أعطى ابنته جرة لتملأها ثم صفعها بكفه قائلا: اياك أن تكسري الجرة فقال الذين رأوها تبكي (وهي طفلة) ياشيخ أيجدر بك أن تضرب هذه البنية بغير حق وهي لم تذنب؟
فأجابهم: إني أريد أن أريها عاقبة كسر الجرة حتى تنتبه وإلا فلا معنى للعقاب بعد كسر الجرة

He gave his daughter a jug (or any hollow vessel) to fill, and then he smacked her with his fist saying: Don't dare break this jug. The people who saw her crying (and she was a child) : Ya Shaykh, how can you beat this girl without reason and she has not done any wrong?

He answered them: I want to show her the punishment of breaking the jug so that she's careful or else there won't be any meaning of punishing her (or: it won't be any use punishing her) after she breaks the jug.

:P

have your ice-cream and eat it :)

It's been a long time since I've written, so I've decided to write something vacationy for a change...

Raspberry icecream recipe: (my favourite, after choco chips:)

INGREDIENTS:

4 cups fresh raspberries

1 and a half cups sugar

Juice of half a lemon

2 eggs

2 cups heavy cream

1 cup milk

Toss the Raspberries, 3/4 cup sugar, and the lemon juice together in a bowl. Cover and refrigerate for 2 hours, stirring every 30 minutes. Whisk the eggs in a mixing bowl until light and fluffy, add the remaining 3/4 cup sugar, a little at a time, then continue whisking until completely blended. Pour in the heavy cream and milk and whisk to blend.

Drain the juice from the raspberries into the cream mixture and blend. Mash the raspberries until pureed and stir them into the cream mixture. Transfer the mixture to an ice cream maker and freeze following the manufacturer's instructions.

and you can find other delicious icecream recipes here...

although maybe it's not vacation everywhere out there...

enjoy!!!

Yummy holidays...

we're baaaaacckkk...
exams overrr...
a whole week's half term holiday from school...alhamdullilah



...which means, of course, that we're going to update the blog more often, In sha Allah...
only one more problem left...(although there's no end to them, Alhamdulillah)...that is the dreaded reports day...
still, I'm sure I've done better than last year, In sha Allah...

...I'm writing and reading (Enid Blyton's have been passed down to the kids)...
trying to get a new magazine get going at school...

Brothers will be boys (as usual) and...
~alhamdulillah 'ala kulli haal~