Why do Arabs hate us?!!!! Gosh, I feel sick!

I couldn't help but cry this morning when I saw the News of Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein being hanged... I will not delve into whether He was right or wrong becausethe principles of those have changed in these days... but I was so humiliated to see that they hanged him on the first day of Eid Al Adha... I just want somebody to tell me and on the record why this day in particular was chosen... makes me feel sick...
The feelings I had were unprecedented, I felt bad, really bad... and when people were greeting me with happy Eid today, I was feeling really depressed... Bravo America you did make us fell bad, oppressed and clueless... Bravo!
now, I keep reading opinion articles by American thinkers, politicians and ordinary citizens, all headlined with "Why Do Arabs Hate Us?" they ask the question innocently and analyze and analyze and analyze... I hope that now they have an answer! is there any clearer reason...
Gosh, dear American Administration: Thanks for helping your people find the answer...

And dear Arab Nation: "happy Eid"

Jordan Business status: ONLINE

finally!

Jordan Business Magazine (for which I work as news editor) has launched its website! the URL is:

www.jordan-business.net

hope you enjoy it.. It is really a good read (and I have 3 stories in there :D)

A warm soul..

... Is it cold
In your little corner of the world
You could roll around the globe
And never find a warmer soul to know...

Bernie Taupin, Elton John
Ice on Fire

Of birthdays, busy moms and THE right tabbouleh

Today is my son Abdel Aziz's birthday party... He turned two on Dec.6, and the party is being held today because I was busy with the ICT forum... :(

Everyone from my husband's family and my family is coming and we cant just mince enough parsley for Tabbouleh... (which has no cucumber, lettuce or anything like that... only parsley, some tomato, borghol, lemon, salt and olive oil... why people add so many other ingredients is something I cannot quite fathom... The other day, I had Tabbouleh with RED CABBAGE in it... what!!???)...

We decided to have a cozy party at home... I don't like birthdays held at fast food restaurants and cafes... the nice thing about a birthday is the family gathering and the joy of bringing people together to have fun... not bringing 50 crazy kids with their boring moms to a restaurant and spend your time smiling to complete strangers who in turn spend their time talking about their husbands and mothers-in-law while your are helplessly trying to prevent kids from hitting each other, and quite not succeeding in that...

And because I am a working mom and I still want people coming today to eat a lot of yummies, I thought I should seek help. So we are doing the Tabbouleh at home, my mom will cook some fried Kibbeh and yalanjee and my mother in law is doing some pastries and mou3ajjanat... and we will buy cake and desserts...yummy... this made both ladies compete to make some nice stuff and the ultimate beneficiary is us all...we love it when my mom and my mother-in-law compete... very HEALTHY and YUMMY competitions. :D

God, kids just grow fast... and i am trying to enjoy every single moment of this... kids are such a blessing.. Thank God for them...

Happy Birthday Abboudeh!

Shut up Jordan Planet

And so we did... after all Khalidah needed to do something so that everyone listens to everyone during yesterday's meeting... Wedad's civilized attempt to have names written on a piece of paper was not successful and Khlidah knew she had to be tough to be able to have some control over the chaos (see, who said Saddam Hussein was wrong)....we were just too many and Nimer and Jad both had headaches and ran for peace somewhere else...
It was nice to put a face on everyone's blog.. unlike their blogs, some people were really quiet yesterday... and some were talking non-stop... mmm...(I was very nice and quiet as always :P)... whatelse, qwaider apologized for his victims and apologized for his future victims, so everyone, beware, qwaider is coming...
We missed all the secret people on the Jordanian blogsphere: Mala2e6 (we had a long conversation that she is a he not a she...) and Khalaf (we really wanted to know who is that guy on the donkey)...
I really wanted to see Iman and abu Shreek...
but above all, i missed Naseem Tarawneh the most... wish u were here pal...

Secret after-meeting

Khalidah (of course, who else) had a plan B.. and some of us, notably sweet Shaden and Ola, 3ashe2at al jamal 7ala, lactose intolerent Moey, mowaffaq qabbani, Opairah, qwaider and um Al Yomn followed her lead to Wild Jordan cafe to have some nice conversations about qwaider finally getting engaged, itoot, my kids, m7ammad 3ali klay and MANSAF... qwaider also told us about the secret place for that yukky, yummy kabab... ya3! heheh

So it was really fun... looking forward to the cookies night at Rebecca's (sorry fellow male bloggers, u can't come!)

:)