Weekend Mood.........

It's cold this morning with the overnight temperature dropped from 24 to 13 degree celcius.... It's June and yet it still feels like April....I'm not complaining, I like it this way rather than living in a place where it's daily heat even reaches up to 45 - 50 degree C ....

Greenberry or 'toot'.

This weekend I'm not going anywhere as both izzat and mimi are struggling with their final exam preparations and the exams will only finish next week and after that they'll have a very longgggggggggggg summer school holidays , mid June till end of August.

'Toot' tree.......the fruits ......so sweet.......

I find it a bit funny to think how a four-year-old- girl, mimi has to prepare for her final exam...oral+written exams.... last week she had to memorize all her lessons orally from deen, english, mathematics, arabic , science to civic knowledge and this coming weeks she has to deal with her writing examinations which also covers all subjects taught at school. She's registered under the'tamhidi' or some sort like a 'nursery/taska' but looking at her books and lessons taught it looks more like a kindergarten. I don't really push her to really study for her exam but she seems to have been all set and well prepared for it.

Pink flowers..don't ask me the name...sorry , i don't know....

Last night I watched a programme on al Jazeera sport TV and Izzat and I (mimi was already asleep ) were laughing all thru this programme called " .......... life shots " .

same ' no-name flower ' with different colour.........

It's a tournament where the participants have to shoot the ball into the basketball net and each participant represents an arab country including Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Tunisia. Each of them have to make 12 shots from 3 different angles..the 1st ball scores 1 point, 2nd- 2pts, 3rd- 3pts, 4th - 4 pts for each angle. that means if they shoot all 12 balls into the net the total score would be 24 points.

We laughed because it looked so funny when out of 6 competitors , there's only one female took part and she's the first person to give it a shot.....she scored 15 points.... it looked so funny because she's representing a country ( this is a grand game with many judges and the indoor stadium was decorated like a disco and they even had a group of high-school cheer leaders who also performed a few 'arab gelek dancings' during the break)..but she seemed like she didn't know how to shoot the ball..so that was it, she got only 15 points...

Then all men got their chances to shoot...... we couldn't stop laughing.. all of them scored below the 15 points scored by the only lady, Diala Khalifah from Syria..... a few even scored below 10 points and oh boy ,they are tall guys...one of them is more than 2 m high.....


The final result ( they have a few rounds of shots )..that lady from syria won the tournament and went home with a cheque worth USD3000 ......

We first laughed and condemned how on earth she could represent her country when she couldn't even hold the ball correctly but with syria was the host country ,the spectators cheered and clapping their hands giving their 100% moral support to this lady....


Then the men were all 'out of place'...... looking at their masculine bodies and height they should've been great basketball players.... I don't know what went wrong , but that lady was the champion.



I remember reading a blog entry from a macho guy living in Jeddah a few days ago with the title 'Women Rule ' ......what to say , it happens again man !!!!!!


Before I pen off I just want to post a few pics taken last week from my backyard... pics of ' I don't know what flowers they are " and a greenberry tree and its fruits... the fruits taste so sweet ..........


Have a wonderful Saturday !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!