Haiku Moment: Jordan University of my own

After finishing the Ikebana class I went with my frineds to the northen gate and then went back to the main gate on my own. The university was wiiiiiiide with silence .. I did not meet any spirit but the spirits of the trees and for my own happiness it rained!! Few drops like a kiss particularly sent for my own forehead ... There is nothing much to say about Haiku moments , its just that they seem to last forever and the vanish with the first crack of voice.

I walked listeing to this song and saying goodbye to everything in my Uni ...




Sukiyaki Lyrics

(by Rokusuke Ei)
Ue o muite arukoo I look up when I walk
Namida ga kobore nai yoo ni So the tears won't fall
Omoidasu haru no hi Remembering those happy spring days
Hitoribotchi no yoru But tonight I'm all alone
Ue o muite arukoo I look up when I walk
Nijinda hoshi o kazoete Counting the stars with tearful eyes
Omoidasu natsu no hi Remembering those happy summer days
Hitoribotchi no yoru But tonight I'm all alone
Shiawase wa kumo no ue ni Happiness lies beyond the clouds
Shiawase wa sora no ue ni Happiness lies above the sky
Ue o muite arukoo I look up when I walk
Namida ga kobore nai yoo ni So the tears won't fall
Nakinagara aruku Though my heart is filled with sorrow *
Hitoribotchi no yoru For tonight I'm all alone
(whistling) (whistling)
Omoidasu aki no hi Remembering those happy autumn days
Hitoribotchi no yoru But tonight I'm all alone
Kanashimi wa hoshi no kage ni Sadness hides in the shadow of the stars
Kanashimi wa tsuki no kage ni Sadness lurks in the shadow of the moon
Ue o muite arukoo I look up when I walk
Namida ga kobore nai yoo ni So the tears won't fall
Nakinagara aruku Though my heart is filled with sorrow *
Hitoribotchi no yoru For tonight I'm all alone
(whistling) (whistling

"Everytime I feel like crying infront of you I hold back my tears , I am always worried that instead of giving me a hug you will give me a tissue"

One Last Treat from Amman: Rain

Maybe yesterday I was looking at flags being moved by the wind in University Street and I thought to myself: "The best moment of every year for me is the moment when it rains for the first time in Amman, so sad that I am going to miss it this year" ...

Its Amman that matters for me , everytime it rains for the first time I feel some kind of infinte happiness ... maybe beacuase its so rare and so sought after , maybe beacuase Amman is just too wonderful on its own and get even more charming when it rains ...

I thought that missing things is an essential part of being away , but my Amman gave me the treat today of seeing the rain for the first time this year .. its too early for us but yet it happened .. we ere shopping in Mokhayyam El-Hussein (Hussein Refugee Camp) and it rained .. it smelled of rain , of dust being taken away , the sound of water drops on the pavement and the view of people running and children showering under the tiny drops.

Thanks to Allah for the bless of Rain .. most of all : Thanks to Allah for being a person from Amman :)

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Wala eshy 5afafan el3agel !!

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Wala eshi!!!

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Arigatou Gozaimasu Hasna-san : Sugar support from Aleppo :)

After a long struggle trying to meet , Hasna-san and I managed to meet yesterday in the university. We had wonderful time and we talked about a lot of wonderful stuff ... What I love the most about talking to Hasna-san that she is just toooooo humble about how great she is in japanese!! She knows everything!!! 1000 kanjis ... Mashalla ... Finally I got to take my Gabageeb Gawwar with a bunch of wonderful other types of sweets (some of them did not get a picture because they were long gone when I took the picture :)

My Sugar support .. she brought me all the stuff from Aleppo .. Imagine it :Fostog 7alabi from 7alab :)

A card with a breath-taking view of Aleppo (very nice ... must take one myself sometime soon)

I have a pair of Gabageeb on my mousepad :)

ありがとう　ございます　^_^

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11 Days to go to Granada :)

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Now with Mays coming with me it feels much better , but the funny part is whenever the number of days goes less I go less believing!! It just looks like a fantasy ... Dont give me that look it really does!!

Shaving for a tree : AGAIN!!!

Workers in JU have a lot of leisure time that they fill with cutting trees!! Again they cut a wonderful tree AGAIN!!!

!!!!

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Best Times with Mays and Luggage shopping!!

I finally got to go buy my Maleta (what is in english?) ... Today I went with Mays an Rasha to Zarqa for luggage shopping and we got lucky with a nice bag . then I had the pleasure of having Iftar with Mays and her Mom in their cozy house ... it ws wonderful I had tons of fun .

I love those tiny streets , giving the fact that I hesitate to enter them alone Rasha told us to make a shortcut through this tiny street .. it looked too scary at the beginning but as we alked I found out that its too similar to any usual street and after walking for a little while suddenly the sunlight came back again and the evrything looked delighting... I love discovering a city with someone who knows it

After a very long boring conversation with the sales guy we managed to buy the bags and get out alive .. Phewww!!! God he talks too much and what kills me that Rasha answers back!! How about we let him Yack Yack untill he gets bored and shuts **!! Anyway we had a good price I think and as everyone was staring at us while we were rolling the bags in the street we said :Why not take a picture? so here are our first Spanish pictures:)

While waiting for the taxi ... God I love this picture .. i look extra cool and laid back (believe me: Im not)



Mays crunched under her bag inside the taxi (What about the trunk!!)

My bag sitting next to the driver

The space around Mays's home .. very nice and full of good energy

The view from above the fence

The sunset .. we took the picture aand ran inside to eat our yummy Iftar ... I was extremely thirsty (The sales man fault!!)

Our Yummy Iftar :)

And finally : Layali Libnan :) (it looks like a mountain of kek or s5oor rsobyye)

Us posing for a last moment picture (My dad was lost at that time trying to figure out where the house is and he was on the phone with mays's mom trying to get the directions again ... so thoughtful of us :)

When Dad and Mom came they said Hi to Mays mom and we talked for a little while about the new plan of Mays and I taking the same plane as her visa took forever and still not released yet. They were thrilled a lot ( Mom sighed in relief) (No book to read through the flight because we will be yack yacking until our jaws drop) .

When I went back home I showed the bag to my mom and family and I thought : Whats the first thing I want to pack? ??? I did not find anything better that my :Nephew!!!!!! heheeh

Suerte :)

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What is it with me and stupid movies!!!

I feel some kind of euphoria everytime I buy a dozen movies at once. I go back home loaded with happiness ... Happiness that fades when I see the movies that I did buy. Before I used to mourn for the dinar I payed to watch the crap I watched , but now I have a whole new perspective: If it was not for that dinar then I would have kept wondering forever ... at least now I know that those movies suck!! Not because Sara saw them and told me the conclusion , but because I saw them with my own eyes.





What is it with hopeless lonely workaholic women? how can they be the material for two movies that I happened to watch in the same day?!!

The Propsal: I got hijacked , coz I love Sandra Bullock and Ryan reynolds but the movie just sucks. A canadian workaholic desperate lonely monsterous woman with an expired visa who convinces one of her employees to marry her so she will get the passport. While faking the marriage they fell in love!! Black and white egyptian movie plot .

An error leads tha two best friends book their fancy weddings the same day so they fight over changing the dates .. they dont ... they fight , then they get back to be good frineds .. naaaaaaaaaaa

I hate women movies ... they suck!!!

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Now it feels real!! with the visa it feels like HAPPENING!!

And it feels even better with the good news from the residence telling me tham I am welcome to my residence even If I arrive early ... at least I know I will not have to sleep in the street .. heheheh :)

I love you Carols Quinto :)

I got I got I got it

Well I am suppozed to be going through the roof m but I am like : Naaa... Elhamdilla :)

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The Ugly Truth

This morning I went to bed too late that my system could not accept a sleeping order. S I thought why not watch one of the dozen movies I bought? I picked the ugly truth an watched it. ... Mmmm.. for now I'd rather say: NO COMMENT!!

I am done with the box ..Done and totally free

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Daydreaming of Nippon : Now!!

I have never been the timing expert , but its just weird to be daydreaming about Nippon now!! Am about to start a nice trip to Spain , for 5 months am going to be speaking the language I am majoring , but what can I do with this feeling? Suddenly my heart is cold and I am not as - sorrey to say that - interested. I am irritated by spanish language now ...

I guess , maybe when dreams are cloe to come true they just raise some kind of fear ... A kind of fear that says: whats my next dream then? ... But in spite of all of that , When I close my eyes I daydream of Nippon!!

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It looks like am going in september 27 after all .. I got a nice message from KAFD today and I am getting support :)

Best Friends Ramadan Hang out :)

Yesterday Sara and I had a wonderful Iftar party ... We went all the way from the uni to her house far far away on the airport highway .. we had some DVD shopping that ended up with me buying 10 DVDs!!!! I got one for free ... we stopped for junk food shopping in C-twon..look at our cart !!

Toblerone , Today , 3 different flavours from Danett , pepsi and gum :)

Our itar was so yummy ... Little ceasor chicken pizza ... Goddddddddddddddddddddddddd it is so good ...


My love ....

The table of señorita Sara :)

An entire coach full of my stuff .. heheh I really have a lot of tidying to do

Ashtray with the flash

I stayed there for so long ... I went home at 12 I guess ... we had wpnderful time and Aya is just amazing :)


Kol 3am wa Antum Be 5ar :)

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21 days to go to Granada :)

Just found out that my mathmatical skills - as always- have let me down .. I miscouted a day :s

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Here starts the competition :)

I have always been the kind of person who postpones things infinitely and then tends to do them in the most unexpected timings. So for the last week I have been thinking that I will take the flight from Amman to Madrid alone , so I was wondering what book will be in my company. I did not really look through my stuffed library , what came to my mind is a book I had that has a very dear story. The book is "East of Eden" written by John Steinbeck , I received this book 4 years ago from an online friend whom I have not met untill today, he heard I wanted to read it so he sent it to me with a very sweet letter all the way from Indianapolis to Amman.

Yesterday we came back from Irbid at 4 oclock in the morning, after we prayed Al-Fajer and everyone went to bed. I was dead tierd but as I layed down the question aroused in my head: where is East of Eden? I got up and looked .. and kept looking for 2 straight hours ,,,, I put down more than 2 hundred books to find it ... I found old papers , old novels , books that I bought and did not read and as I kept digging I found other books that I might read in the flight ... when I went back to bed I looked up and the book was RIGHT THERE infront of me on the second shelf. Anyway it was a good dig because I came up with the canidates , and they are :

Diwan eben Zaydoon ... Eben Zaydoon is a very wonderful andalusi poet who described the andalusi era throughout his poems to his love Wallada bent Elmostakfi who was also a wonderful poet .. Ilove this conversation between him and her , she says:

أخافُ عليكَ من عيني و مِنّي و منكَ و من زمانكَ و المكانِ

و لو أنّي خبّأتكَ في عيوني إلى يوم القيامةِ ما كفاني

In his reply Ibn Zaydoon says:

يا من غدوتُ به في الناس مشتهرا ً قلبي عليك يقاسي الهمّ و الفِكَرا

إن غبتَ لمْ ألقَ إنساناً يؤنّسني و إن حضرتَ فكلُّ الناسِ قد حضرا

Just wonderful (Sorrey: untranslatable)

A book written by the turkish scholar Harun ya7ia About the Evaluation theory .. I borrowed it like a year ago from a friend , never read it never gave it back to his owner!!!

A classical wonderful greek novel by Nikos Kazentzaki ... read it halfway once but got busy with writing and never came back to it.

Daghistan Baladi by Rasool Hamzatov ... tells the story and history of Daghistan and the area of Caucas ,,, read it half way once then got busy with reading Circassian history and methology and never came back to it.

This book makes me mad everytime I try to read it .. it tells me how illmannered I am ... I confess : I am ugly sometimes when dealing with others , and if i finish to the nesxt end if the book a sure am goin gto learn something.

East of Eden.. my english sucked at that time and going back and forth in the dictionary spoiled the novel experince for me .. i tried the first chapter today and I was very good ... only few words :)

A spanish book written by an amercan historican called Washington Irving who used to live in Alhambra and write about muslims , arabs and Andalus.

I will think ... rethink ... consider and reconsider then I will pick one to be in my handbag for one tiny flight for a plane: one big step for my sense of humanity :)

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I never get tierd

I found this page yesterday:

http://www.resa.es/tourVirtual/hoteles/3/Panoramica.asp

It has a panoramic view of single rooms in the residence where I will be staying in Granada. I have watched it 10 times so far and I can keep doing it more for the coming 25 days :)

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Haiku Picture

As always , my Haiku moments pictures are so ordinary (even ugly) ... I just take them to keep a moment in memory .. yesterday I was in the Uni and I looked around and found the wonderful place looking at me .. I love it when nature breathes in the University of Jordan ...

A picture of me by Joseph

Joseph is an artist ... I love my picture :)

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Sayourisan and my Certificate

Hanging my intelectual laundry

My reveusan certificate joined the club on my wall :)

I am happy , but to tell the truth I feel ashamed inside me. Durong the speech contest I saw students of level 3 who wrote wonderful speeches demonstrating a good grasp of the japanese language. I am still too weak ... I am repeating everything enshalla and starting as early as possible.