Thursday, January 21, 2010

Update on the eggs!

We can now buy eggs the same way as 'back home'. They still get sold by the kilo, but now they come wrapped in cardboard and plastic and actually survive the 5 min walk from the grocery store to home!

I photographed the label, it's translation is quite corny...



The bit on the right read "Its yolk is gold in reality"

Only in Iran

Chocolates for change!


One of the really annoying things about Iran is that when you're in a grocery store and you hand over your cash, if the change owed to you is really small, the shop keeper will sometimes give you a small chocolate or sweets instead of giving you the money. Personally, I'd rather have the cash.

Thing is though, the chocolate is usually bi-mazeh (tasteless) compared to Galaxy or Cadburys... so I have a collection of chocolates/sweets in a little dish at home. Chocolate anyone?

Barf


In Farsi, 'barf' means snow.
In other languages, it means something else! LOL

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Inna lillaahi wa inna ilaihi raji'oon...

... To God we belong and surely to Him we will return

Khanum Zahra Hajj Khalili passed away on Thursday.

Please remember her and her young family in your prayers.

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Happy New Year!

Happy (Belated) New Year!

Hope the year to come is filled with health, happiness and lots of blog-ilicious smiles :-)

Water Supply

Sometimes I really dispair at our water supply.

We're lucky to have a drinking water filter fitted in the kitchen. Qum water is salty and so you have to fit a filter, or fill up from the nearest 'sweet' water tap and then drag the cannister back home. Our filter can store 12litres at a time and takes about an hour to fill up from empty. Its quite funny trying to 'squeeze' water out of the filter. It dribbles out and reminds me of old man's pee. LOL

We're currently supplying our neighbour with 'sweet' water. Just have to remember to change the filters every now and again!

The worst thing about living on the top floor is that our regular water supply is rubbish. We're the last priority for water. So even if we're having a shower or washing dishes and someone downstairs turns on the tap, our water stops. Imagine being in the shower with shampoo in your hair, only for the dude downstairs to start washing dishes... it sucks. Not only that, but once the water comes back online, this nasty yellow stuff comes out first before the regular water. Perhaps I'm writing this in the hope that the landlady reads my blog and does something about it?!

Yesterday, the neighbour comes up to ask for water, which is cool. His cannister is 12 litres so it pretty much cleans us out of water for an hour. I filled up his cannister and even though I needed to cook, waited for a bit for the tank to fill up. (we use 'sweet' water for cooking) While I was waiting, decided to wash dishes with the Qum salty water and guess what - the dude downstairs starts using the water. So not only did he clean us out of 'sweet' water, but then cut off the other water too.

Only one more month to go. Only one more month to go.