A happy and blessed ramadan to all the muslims sisters and brothers of the world.
Please Remember the people affected by floods in Pakistan in your prayers in this holy month. May Allah take away their pain and sufferin. Ameen
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Pakistan Floods
image taken from vancouversun Please my only request from you is remeber these people in your prayers. May Allah have mercy on us.
Monday, August 2, 2010
Jeddah Part 4, RED SEA MALL
One of the many mnay new malls in Jeddah, the one i Love to go to is RED SEA MALL. Its beautifully made, caters to everybody's need in every department and is fun to roam around.
It has a food court, Danube, designer shops local and international. A very beautiful aqurium, a place for your kids to have a little fun. A water show as well.
This time there was a tower on the ground floor. I couldnt find the details of the tower, Like how tall it was and all that but it sure was nice.
What was different about this tower was the material out of which it was made of. Here is a closer look
It had all thoes lanterns, beautiful tiles, fountains. Most of the shop were selling local dresses, spices, jewellery. I found one shop that was selling handcrafted turkish thing. WOuld ahve loved to buy the whole lot. But it was kind of expensive. But it is worth a look. Colorful and pretty.
It has a food court, Danube, designer shops local and international. A very beautiful aqurium, a place for your kids to have a little fun. A water show as well.
This time there was a tower on the ground floor. I couldnt find the details of the tower, Like how tall it was and all that but it sure was nice.
What was different about this tower was the material out of which it was made of. Here is a closer look
All used pepsi cans. Isnt it cool. I wish they would have put a board up explainin how many tins were used and all that. Oh well, maybe next time.
This time around there was another new thing there. On the third floor there was a new part opened up, ANDULSIA. worth a visit. It was beautiful. A little old city glamour in the middle of a modern 21 century mall.
It had all thoes lanterns, beautiful tiles, fountains. Most of the shop were selling local dresses, spices, jewellery. I found one shop that was selling handcrafted turkish thing. WOuld ahve loved to buy the whole lot. But it was kind of expensive. But it is worth a look. Colorful and pretty.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
That's called negative journalism
I wasnt going to post anything in between my Jeddah posting, but i just had to. I really really get angry when I see the media trying to play with our minds with negative journalism. I hate it actually. I mean this is the second time I have seen MSN reporting news in kind of a really bad light. The first time was here. I dont even know if the news about KSA was even true or not. I mean in journalism its all about the headline insnt it?? (not a journalist so i dont know for sure) . Most of us read the headlines. Some of us will go on to read the news and but just a few of us willl actaully understand that their actually is no relation of the heaadline to the story.o So most of us will make an opinion based on that headline. For example. today i saw this headline on my MSN page WHAT'S IT'S LIKE TO HAVE CHILD IMPRISONED IN IRAN? what would be your first thought about this. OH! they really are barbarians, imprisoning children , OH GOD!!! or something on the same lines. But indulge me and click here to read the full story about the CHILD aging 31, 28, 28. Since when are we calling middle aged people CHILD. yes the story is a little sad as these hickers were captured for no apparent or told reasons but please have the headline say what the story actually is.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Jeddah, Part 3 Fantasy Stationery
When we were growing up Jeddah and Ksa in general were also growing up. So we didnt have much to go around. Yes we had the Abhur and the cornich and AL-Baik ( cant forget that ). But Jeddah has definetly come a LOOOONNG way now. With the BIG malls, Great eatery, fun cafe's the list is endless.
Among one of these places is Fantasy Stationary (rawail Maktabat). It basically is for kids. From 3 to maybe 12. When I first visited the place i was sooooooo jealous of the kids now enjoying in Jeddah. I mean we didnt have anything like that growing up. It actually is a fun place. Its Beautiful to look at. For adults, There is a Boutique, Very nice clothes may i tell but with hefty price tags. There is a furniture shop. And of course a Stationery.
The buiding has three floors. You will find the stationery in the basement. The boutique, furniture shope and gift wrapping center at the ground level. On the First floor there are many activity rooms, 2 party halls.
The First Floor activites are mostly fro children 3 to 6. They have an art room, Craft room, Sand room, Kitchen ( childern were actually cooking with helpers ofcourse), Profession Center with fire engine, an ambulance. Each activity was individually priced ( ver very reasonable). parents or nany were not allowed inside the activity room but the rooms were visibly by glass walls. so you can actually see what your little ones are upto. What i liked about these rooms were that eevrything was child sized. like the frniture in the arts room, craft room and kitchen was small. realy small so the kids could handle them themselve.really nice.
NO good photographs of the rooms because taking pics was not allowed. sorry
The top floor has Activites for a little Older kids. The activites includes fishing, Go carting, somekind of a shooting gallery, which looked awesome.
Among one of these places is Fantasy Stationary (rawail Maktabat). It basically is for kids. From 3 to maybe 12. When I first visited the place i was sooooooo jealous of the kids now enjoying in Jeddah. I mean we didnt have anything like that growing up. It actually is a fun place. Its Beautiful to look at. For adults, There is a Boutique, Very nice clothes may i tell but with hefty price tags. There is a furniture shop. And of course a Stationery.
The buiding has three floors. You will find the stationery in the basement. The boutique, furniture shope and gift wrapping center at the ground level. On the First floor there are many activity rooms, 2 party halls.
The First Floor activites are mostly fro children 3 to 6. They have an art room, Craft room, Sand room, Kitchen ( childern were actually cooking with helpers ofcourse), Profession Center with fire engine, an ambulance. Each activity was individually priced ( ver very reasonable). parents or nany were not allowed inside the activity room but the rooms were visibly by glass walls. so you can actually see what your little ones are upto. What i liked about these rooms were that eevrything was child sized. like the frniture in the arts room, craft room and kitchen was small. realy small so the kids could handle them themselve.really nice.
NO good photographs of the rooms because taking pics was not allowed. sorry
The top floor has Activites for a little Older kids. The activites includes fishing, Go carting, somekind of a shooting gallery, which looked awesome.
Apart from these Great activites The Place has some Water fun as well. Well some is an understatement. It has a BIG water park with it. It has seperate pools for the kiddies, A wav maker. BIG slide. and lots lots of FUN. Good way to cool off in the summmer.
My kid was a little small to try any of these activities. But if your kids fall in the age range please do go and enjoy, Its fun, Educational and fun again.
Jeddah, Part 2 AL-Feroze
We LOVE to eat. and more than anything i LOOVE to eat out. One of the places i always go to when in Jeddah is FEROZE. Its a Turkish restaurant. Its not expensive. And its really reall good.
It has three branches in Jeddah that i know of. One of them is on Heraa Street towards cornich.
Other restautrants i love to go which caters to my Labanese and Turkish taste buds are
AL-Wazzan (available in Khobar as well)
Khayal (Labanese)
All these restaurants are reasonably priced and lovely to eat at. They taste good and are light on the wallet as well.
Feroze has a long list to choose from.
I love the bread they serve, But ask them to bring it fresh.
I am a Kabab lover, but their grill is equally tasty.
If you ever visit, do try their sizzler.
Iron, they used to serve bigger glasses. But maybe the recession is getting to them as well.
Anyways, Its a fun and fullfilling expereince. Do enjoy with your family.
It has three branches in Jeddah that i know of. One of them is on Heraa Street towards cornich.
Other restautrants i love to go which caters to my Labanese and Turkish taste buds are
AL-Wazzan (available in Khobar as well)
Khayal (Labanese)
All these restaurants are reasonably priced and lovely to eat at. They taste good and are light on the wallet as well.
Feroze has a long list to choose from.
I love the bread they serve, But ask them to bring it fresh.
I am a Kabab lover, but their grill is equally tasty.
If you ever visit, do try their sizzler.
Iron, they used to serve bigger glasses. But maybe the recession is getting to them as well.
Anyways, Its a fun and fullfilling expereince. Do enjoy with your family.
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Jeddah, Love it!!!! Part 1
My first time around in KSA was spent in Riyadh and Jeddah. The part in Riyadh was not that much and we were too young to remember. But i do remember Jeddah. I Love Jeddah. I dont know why??? Maybe because i spent my happy childhood there. Maybe because all my memories are from Jeddah. or just simply put Jeddah is the best. I mean the BEST. dont get me wrong I really like Khobar as well. But I am IN love with Jeddah. Its colorful, its loud, crowded, overflowing with cars, and the roads are narrow but i still love it. I love the Malls, i love the street Fashion, I love the eatries, basically i love the fact of having sooooooo many choices.
I was there a couple of days ago. I planned to stay there longer but my trip was cut short by someone's lack of planing skills. I wont name the someones's name. But I am free to say anything about my better half if no names are named. hehehe
Anyways, whenever i go to Jeddah since my first exit from KSA i have some rituals. I visit all the places that have special meaning for me. Like the place i grew up. The mall that was near my house. Go to corniche in sunlight. eat shawarma at the old place, see my school. Its after all that i normally do all the new stuff. But unfortunately this time it was a little different. I couldnt get to my rituals and just did the fun stuff this time. Here some of the pics
Corniche
Flying car near corniche
Old building in Balad (restored)
Another old building
LAnterns, they look lovely at night
A masjid near Balad
A Ship themed restaurant(under construction)
never what it is. near Tahlia
Coming soon more posts of Jeddah at its best.
I was there a couple of days ago. I planned to stay there longer but my trip was cut short by someone's lack of planing skills. I wont name the someones's name. But I am free to say anything about my better half if no names are named. hehehe
Anyways, whenever i go to Jeddah since my first exit from KSA i have some rituals. I visit all the places that have special meaning for me. Like the place i grew up. The mall that was near my house. Go to corniche in sunlight. eat shawarma at the old place, see my school. Its after all that i normally do all the new stuff. But unfortunately this time it was a little different. I couldnt get to my rituals and just did the fun stuff this time. Here some of the pics
Corniche
Flying car near corniche
Old building in Balad (restored)
Another old building
LAnterns, they look lovely at night
A masjid near Balad
A Ship themed restaurant(under construction)
never what it is. near Tahlia
Coming soon more posts of Jeddah at its best.
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