tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35137734.post8128273119466659680..comments2023-10-10T10:50:56.735+02:00Comments on Inanities: 7elwa ya balad meen, part oneSarah Carrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02146943046266549277noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35137734.post-21680497541569693922007-08-02T23:28:00.000+02:002007-08-02T23:28:00.000+02:00Thanks, Arima. How my parents met is a mildly inte...Thanks, Arima. How my parents met is a mildly interesting story which I may thrust on the world one day.<BR/><BR/>Yes return to Egypt in part 2, stay tuned.Scarrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08000921519899599070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35137734.post-48445024161738233202007-08-02T13:23:00.000+02:002007-08-02T13:23:00.000+02:00I love this post! Can't wait for part 2. I can com...I love this post! Can't wait for part 2. I can completely relate to this as my Dad is Egyptian and my mum English. I'd love to know how your parents met though and how you ended up going back to Egypt.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35137734.post-178903829997249862007-08-01T12:32:00.001+02:002007-08-01T12:32:00.001+02:00Baz: Perhaps by this rationale my soul is a sort o...Baz: Perhaps by this rationale my soul is a sort of cheap-looking yellow - also like my hair!<BR/><BR/>Anon: Thanks for the nice words :-) And interesting to learn that 100 percent genu-wine Egyptians also experience similar feelings.Scarrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08000921519899599070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35137734.post-28252010081675763632007-07-31T17:05:00.000+02:002007-07-31T17:05:00.000+02:00Love this.Can completely relate to this post, thou...Love this.<BR/><BR/>Can completely relate to this post, though i'm full egyptian but still think growing up here and not going to Egypt can give you a massive apetite for anything associated with Egypt.<BR/><BR/>Waiting for part 2 and what it was like for you to move there and adapt etc. <BR/><BR/>PS :Reading this was like reading the intro to what will turn out to be a great novel. Very nostalgic too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35137734.post-14686038062480831472007-07-29T04:06:00.000+02:002007-07-29T04:06:00.000+02:00My hair is the darkest shade of brown you can imag...My hair is the darkest shade of brown you can imagine....just short of black. Same as my soul. Coincidence?Basil Epicurushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10882946059262129059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35137734.post-62366915249838633782007-07-25T23:38:00.000+02:002007-07-25T23:38:00.000+02:00Bazzer: Well more repel than ensnare, but I live i...Bazzer: Well more repel than ensnare, but I live in hope! <BR/>But what colour did your hair end up?<BR/><BR/>Daily: Gey fel sekka.Scarrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08000921519899599070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35137734.post-87288498935637832012007-07-24T19:33:00.000+02:002007-07-24T19:33:00.000+02:00love this post - it brings back loads of memories,...love this post - it brings back loads of memories, can't wait for part two :)DailyAnticshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02962783640832074561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35137734.post-12173561279923042462007-07-24T18:35:00.000+02:002007-07-24T18:35:00.000+02:00My mother used to sit me and my brother in the bat...My mother used to sit me and my brother in the bathtub and put henna in our hair, wrap it up for four hours and forbid us to take it off. To this day, when I see or smell Henna, I am consumed with an uncontrollable rage.<BR/><BR/>7alawa...alabaster turds...cracked me up! My mother used to feed us 7alawa as well...though whether it was before or after it had fulfilled its use, is something I seem to have blocked out.<BR/><BR/>And cousin Mildred is emphatically mistaken: good taste in music will most certainly attract men...but even better, it will repel the ones you don't want anything to do with, in the first place!Basil Epicurushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10882946059262129059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35137734.post-46124600264305630102007-07-24T16:56:00.000+02:002007-07-24T16:56:00.000+02:00i can't believe ur mom made u dye ur hair. that's ...i can't believe ur mom made u dye ur hair. that's borderline child abuse! <BR/><BR/>great stuff tho. even tho i knew it before still pimp.Forsoothsayerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02765993032234113659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35137734.post-1464772779551822042007-07-24T14:44:00.000+02:002007-07-24T14:44:00.000+02:00Ya salam! *with an um kalsoum concert-style sound*...<I>Ya salam! *with an um kalsoum concert-style sound*</I>Seneferuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06156245757294970589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35137734.post-75518183413133436772007-07-24T13:36:00.000+02:002007-07-24T13:36:00.000+02:00Ya 3ammy this is part one! If you can stand the ex...Ya 3ammy this is part one! If you can stand the excitement of waiting there will be more of this nonsense to follow in part two.Scarrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08000921519899599070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35137734.post-11418354762632633302007-07-24T13:21:00.000+02:002007-07-24T13:21:00.000+02:00Thats it?! The ending seemed a bit rushed, that's ...Thats it?! The ending seemed a bit rushed, that's what changed your mind? No description of whether she was right or wrong, or what happened the next time you visited having this new perspective? This is HILARIOUS though<BR/><BR/>In her quest to have a child resembling Bjorn Borg my mother periodically subjected me to the torture of sitting under a hair dryer with one of those shampoo halo things on my head while noxious fumes drifted up from the Sun In working its way through my scalp into my brain.AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02742777702629401230noreply@blogger.com