5th September 2006 - Day 3

Its 1:30 am and Sana & me dont want to sleep in our cabin ...
cause something bit me and now i have this big dana on my back ...
and Sana's like 'i dont wanna sleep in this room, i dont want that 'thing' to bite me as well'
so we went to the lounge with our pillows, chadars, backpacks and something to read ...
we were reading and i dont know how and when i fell asleep but i woke up again at 3:00 and Sanawas still awake .. i can NEVER stay awake for too long . im always the one who would go to sleep first at a slumber party *blush*

khair we got up and talked for a while and we thought lets go to our rooms and put our bags back atleast and when we got up we saw this weird crawly thing ... which looked sort of like a mixture of a cockroach and a spider and we both freaked out and left the lounge ...
but now we didnt know what to do ... and when we tried opening our cabin room .. Tahera Baji had locked it and gone to sleep so we couldnt go in ...
soi we knocked on Roshan Aunty and Shahnaz Aunty's room it wasnt very early just about 1/2 hour left for Fajr ..
so we woke up Shahnaz Aunty and told her ke go pray Namaaz e Shab ..youll get thawaab ...
and she went after insisting tht she should go and lt us sleep for a while :D

After Fajr we went back to our own room and went to sleep cause we were assured that the spiderish cockroach was what bit me and now it was gone
we woke up pretty early even though we hadnt slept the whole night ... and went to have breakfast and the ship started hilling a lot i started to feel real dizzy ... but i sorta didnt give it importance :P
after breakfast we went and took a few pictures ...

buri baat ... no ones commenting on here :(

It was soon Namaaz Time so we did Zohr Asr in Jamaat and went upstairs for lunch ... After lunch we had a dars with Maulana Uncle.. there were really few people and he explained what a rivayat is and how its made and everything ... hes into history so hes really good at explaining that stuff ... so it was good *nods*
after the dars we went out on the deck and daddy's like "lets have a majlis on the deck" so we went and called everyone and had a choti majlis on the deck... the weather was good too ..

The majlis got over at about 5:30 and there was still time for Maghrib and we wanted to go on the main deck (the Titanic one) and we couldnt go without permission, so we took the captains permission and me, Sana & Tahera Baji went on the deck and it was sooooo nice all we could see was water and it was so pretty! the wind was really pleasant and we took pictures too :D
it was getting dark and was almost time for maghrib so we thanked the captain and went back inside to pray Maghrib.
after 15 mins we went to the didning room for dinner and we sat with Maulana Uncle and had a discussion aout The Da Vinci Code. He didnt say much he just said that all the facts about Da Vinci's painting and the secret organisation etc were true. when i asked him if Prophet Isa (AS) really got married he said ke theres nothing in the Quran stating whether he got married or not or having kids. he said ke its possible he couldve gotten married.
then we had a majlis in the lounge. I went to sleep after that

A tiny boat! :]


Maulana Uncle


The Deck (NOT the titanic wala :P)

Majlis on the Deck

The Moon and the water <3


from the lounge ka window

just water

going down the stairs to the titanic wala deck

view from the titanic wala deck ... it was SO awesome! <3

the front of the ship

Titanic deck :P i dont know what you call it lol

Safety First

4th September 2006 - Day 2

I wasnt really feeling sleepy after Fajr so i decided to get some 'peace and quiet' (:O)
so i took my book and went outside on the deck to read it ... the weather was really pleasant so it was nice and the wind was blowing too :D
i read for about an hour then i started feeling sleepy..
when i went to our cabin everyone was sleeping and people were sleeping on all four beds (Sana, Tahera Baji, Shahnaz Aunty, Zakeeya) Shahnaz Aunty had shifted to our room for that night :/
when i knocked on Roshan Aunty's room no one opened it ...
and when i went to mummy & daddy's room ... they were sleeping & the two top bunks were empty but i didnt feel like sleeping on top ...
so i went to the lounge (aka namaaz room) and went to sleep their while sitting on a chair and put my legs on another chair :D
i dont know how long i slept but yeah i decided to go to mum & dads room and slept on the top bunk

i woke up pretty early for breakfast and we started doing tayyari for Zakeeya's party ... decorating the party hall and everything ... dressing up etc.
Zakeeya wanted to come with us but i told her to stay in the room cause the ship crew was chacking for cockroaches :P
...
We got ready and told everyone to sing Happy Birthday when she came in ..
we dressed her up in a pretty pink dress saying that you can wear a pretty dress today cause its your birthday... but we cant have a party..
everyone was waiting at the entrance with cameras and she was all confused "why is everyone taking pictures of me? 0.o"
when she entered no one san happy birthday everyone was aaraam se having their lunch i got soooooo upset .. D=
but when she came inside and saw all the decoration and the cake she got SO surprised ... and she was all OMG!!! hehe :D
After everyone had lunch ... Shujaath Uncle and Raza Sirsavi had written a few shaurs for us which they recited :)

later we cut the cake and gave out the goody bags ... and all the close ghar wale people took pictures and opened the gifts she got ...
we sat their till about 4:30 something
she was really happy and hyper the whole day :P

We (Sana, Me & Zakeeya) were really tired so all three of us had a pretty long nap ...
woke up in time (well sorta late) for Maghrib namaz ...
after which we had dinner
then had a majlis in the lounge/prayer room. Maulana Muntazar Abbas (Maulana Uncle) recited a majlis on the benefits of ziyarats and loootttss of stuff about ziyarah ...

tis was a good day ...

Pictures!!!

The decoration (teh work of Muneer Uncle, Babban Bhai, Roshan Aunty for blowing the ballons, Tahera baji & Sana)


The excited Zakeeya (Biiigg grin :D)


Zakeeya reciting Dua E imam E Zamana (AJTF)


Shujaath Uncle


Raza Sirsavi


Zakeeya and her cake


Muneer Uncle :D :D


Babban Bhai :D :D


Zakeeya with her dada

Wassalaam!

3rd September 2006 (Day 1)

We were leaving to Kerbala today and everyone was so excited! and there was so much chaos at home before leaving!
i woke up at 12 aaraam sei ... cause i had ironed my clothes and kept everything ready the last night. We left home at about 1:00 PM
This time Zakeeya was coming too and she was really excited cause she would get to see 'What dadijaan always watches on Al Anwar TV' :D

When we got to the port everyone was there and there was lots of kichkich :/
some people were even asking questions like 'Do our ears hurt in a ship like how they do in a plane?' *!!!*

Me, Sana, Zakeeya, Daddy, Munir Uncle, Raza Uncle & Maulana Muntazar Abbas ...
went in last cause i had to wait till my bhabi came from school (to the port) to see us off

At around 4:30 everyone was in the ship waiting for getting their room keys ...
Me & Sana got our room real jaldi so we went and rested for a while ..

Our cabin :)
We started feeling hungry and dinner was at 8:00 (sooo late :/)
so we had Shami Paratha and chips :P

In a while it was time for Maghrib .. so we did Namaaz, Had dinner & went back to our rooms
After Zakeeya went to sleep we started preparations for Zakeeya's surprise B'day party the next day ...
twas about 11:00 when we started packing the goody bags ...
we didnt do it in our room though we went to Roshan Behns room cause the roomate was getting disturbed by some noise and she shifted to our cabin and we had to do our work in Roshan Behns room :)
It took real long to do it ... we finished it around one but we didnt sleep till 2:30-3:00 cause the noise was disturbing us too ...
I went to sleep earlier than Sana though .. we were together the whole time .. after all we're best friends :D

Leaving

Salaaam!

We're leaving for Iraq in less than 12 hours InshaAllah! *wub*
I can hardly wait ... !
(*wonders why Blueberry isnt blogging >.> i even told her to blog :O*) --> i wont delete this till she does :D
btw .. aik zabardast good news hai
This uncle opened a Net Cafe in out hotel
and now i can blog from there!!

Later,
My next post will be from Kerbala :]
Wassalaam.