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huevos

Gone are the days when those rowdy children blurted, huevos! (eggs) to anyone who got a zero in his or her exams or lost in games they played. On anything that you lost or failed, you were called...

Started in Dinazad • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: childhood stories, food
multiplicity

There are some things and events on my side of the family that my husband clearly remembers. Just the other day, he recalled the TV interview of my dad at that time when he was acknowledged as one of...

Started in Dinazad • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: legalese, alter-ego, bonding, alter ego, women's rights
i love my husband week

So syrrupy and so corny! I know, but I can't help writing about my husband. It is just very convenient. This is a happy time for him because all the kids (not anymore, really) are here together once...

Started in Dinazad • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: alter-ego, bonding, alter ego
splendido

My husband has fallen in love with Taal, the cold mountain with a lake and an active volcano in the middle. This is where the Splendido, the golf and country club is cocooned. He just had discovered...

Started in Dinazad • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: alter ego, childhood stories, food, travel, golf
waterloo, bournemouth

A conversation like this comes up now and then.MEEZA: Where is 'waterloo'?ME (remembering the battle movie): It was where Napoleon Bonaparte lost. It was his last battle. Rod Steiger was Napoleon in...

Started in Dinazad • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: bonding, alter ego, movies
as i see it

The first time that I went to Saudi Arabia, I was struck with many things, one of which is the stark difference betwen the Saudi women and the Asian Muslim women. The Saudis called us Asian looking...

Started in Dinazad • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: taqwah, hijab, women's rights
secrets of happiness

What makes you happy? I don't mean the euphoric-manic, fleeting, on and off feeling but the kind that's peaceful, serene and permanent even in the midst of troubles and misfortunes. I learned late...

Started in Dinazad • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: silver lining, happiness
hari raya cookie

The kueh mor is the ultimate cookie for me. The most jaded eaters say that it is on equal footing with the best brioches and turrones of the world. This little cookie is even more "godly" than the...

Started in Dinazad • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: food, hari raya
legalese

Every now and then I get this kind of mails in my inbox and I'd like to save this one here - for posterity."This is from a book called Disorder in the American Courts, and things people actually said...

Started in Dinazad • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: legalese
maestro, maestra

Near the door of my room where I hold my classes there is a poster (not my making - it was a product of a reading project launched in school) which reads "If you can read this, then thank your...

Started in Dinazad • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: teaching