Ramadhan Karim!!! (Ramadhan Mubarak)
Oh wow... this is hard :P
There are a few differences between Ramadhan at home and ramadhan here in cairo - Though the first few im gonna mention arent even regarding cairo in particularly. Basically while we were in college - fasting consisted of staying up until 4 am eating and partying... crashing at 4 am and waking up at 4pm - to sit around a while and crib about who was gonna get us food (whcih invariably someone did) so sit and chow down at around 5. Classes? What classes :P
Here its pretty harsh... i cant wake up at 4 am to eat because it totally kills my timetable... so instead before going to sleep around 2 in the morning or so me and Kent chow down (Kent = my canadian roomate who is also fasting... but more on that later) we go to sleep... i wake up around 9 o clock to head to the office at 10... now this is where the difficult bit starts. Firstly... i walk to the office in the cairo sun.. which isnt particularly pleasant... to ride up an elevator 15 stories that crawls insanely slow while at the same time has absolutely no ventillation... by the time i reach the office im parched... then i gotta sit down for the next 6-7 hours and WORK. Now THATS something i am SO not used to... trying to concentrate over 6-7 hours without any chai or water really gets to you... especially if the work your doing is creative - lethargy doesnt really help at all. Food is not the issue... hydration and caffiene is the issue :p
As for Kent hahahaha hes a charecter. My canadian born and bread friend has never fasted a day in his life... and i guess he wants to see how far he can push himself... interestingly enough - hes placed ME as his guage - he says hell fast as long as i do.. because supposedly... im the "pro at this fasting shit" :P SO hahahaha im inclined towards the idea of keeping it up just to see if this white white WHITE (the whitest man iv ever seen actually :P) man can actually pull through this purely on strength of will. Honestly.. hes impressed me already.
BUt aarrghh.. wqquarter to five shoudl have left the office a while ago.. so im gonna head home to cook some food for my iftaar... itll prolly be a combination of left over fast food mixed with whatever fresh i can find in the kitchen... yeah yeah im a regular gourmet shef :P
Catch you guys laters....
oh oh oh on the plus side me and kent are always trying to find new places to eat.. so yesterday for iftaar we found this beautiful little lebanese place which was absolutely aweSOME... interestingly enough what we call seekh kabebs back home are called koftas here... weird na?
hmm oh.. and im practically the only individual on my FLOOR whose fasting :P
There are a few differences between Ramadhan at home and ramadhan here in cairo - Though the first few im gonna mention arent even regarding cairo in particularly. Basically while we were in college - fasting consisted of staying up until 4 am eating and partying... crashing at 4 am and waking up at 4pm - to sit around a while and crib about who was gonna get us food (whcih invariably someone did) so sit and chow down at around 5. Classes? What classes :P
Here its pretty harsh... i cant wake up at 4 am to eat because it totally kills my timetable... so instead before going to sleep around 2 in the morning or so me and Kent chow down (Kent = my canadian roomate who is also fasting... but more on that later) we go to sleep... i wake up around 9 o clock to head to the office at 10... now this is where the difficult bit starts. Firstly... i walk to the office in the cairo sun.. which isnt particularly pleasant... to ride up an elevator 15 stories that crawls insanely slow while at the same time has absolutely no ventillation... by the time i reach the office im parched... then i gotta sit down for the next 6-7 hours and WORK. Now THATS something i am SO not used to... trying to concentrate over 6-7 hours without any chai or water really gets to you... especially if the work your doing is creative - lethargy doesnt really help at all. Food is not the issue... hydration and caffiene is the issue :p
As for Kent hahahaha hes a charecter. My canadian born and bread friend has never fasted a day in his life... and i guess he wants to see how far he can push himself... interestingly enough - hes placed ME as his guage - he says hell fast as long as i do.. because supposedly... im the "pro at this fasting shit" :P SO hahahaha im inclined towards the idea of keeping it up just to see if this white white WHITE (the whitest man iv ever seen actually :P) man can actually pull through this purely on strength of will. Honestly.. hes impressed me already.
BUt aarrghh.. wqquarter to five shoudl have left the office a while ago.. so im gonna head home to cook some food for my iftaar... itll prolly be a combination of left over fast food mixed with whatever fresh i can find in the kitchen... yeah yeah im a regular gourmet shef :P
Catch you guys laters....
oh oh oh on the plus side me and kent are always trying to find new places to eat.. so yesterday for iftaar we found this beautiful little lebanese place which was absolutely aweSOME... interestingly enough what we call seekh kabebs back home are called koftas here... weird na?
hmm oh.. and im practically the only individual on my FLOOR whose fasting :P
dude! you're having so much fun! me jealous!
anyway - party on, and have a great ramadhan!
Posted by nida | 10:58 PM
man your spellings are BAD!!! hahahahaha
Posted by mina | 10:49 AM