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
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
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?
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.
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 :-)
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.
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.
Monday, December 14, 2009
Khanum Hajj Khalili
Today's blog is dedicated to this special woman. Khanum Hajj Khalili is the head of the dormitories (khaabghah in Farsi) of the university where I go to school.
She's an amazing woman. She manages to look after her husband, 2 kids, house, manage the dormitories (800 girls when its at full capacity), do her MA and stay sane! She was in my English class last year and always did her homework, even with her full workload - something the other students couldn't manage. Ok, so I was a bit apprehensive about having her in the class at first, with her being a manager and all (and me not exactly being the model Qum Girl) but actually she was kinda cool. And she always knew the latest developments at the school!
Khanum Hajj Khalili always baked cakes for our class 'parties' i.e. the lessons where we used to eat junk food and play games to practise speaking English. (Yes, I got paid to play 20 questions and miming games last year!)
I will always remember the day when she pulled out the Eid card I had sent to her in 2004 - the year we spent 2 months in the dorms learning Farsi. She kept this card for 5 years! She made my day when she pulled out the card from her handbag - it was such a small gesture on my part, but meant so much to her that I had remembered her once my trip to Iran was over.
My other Khanum Hajj Khalili memory is the day when she asked me if I get tired studying in the mornings and then coming back to teach in the afternoons. I replied that I look to her for inspiration on that! She has accomplished more in her life that most people only dream of.
I dedicate my blog to this amazing woman. This amazing woman needs our prayers right now. She's in a semi-coma in ICU with advanced cancer. We pray that all those who've had the pleasure of knowing her to continue this relationship and those who have yet to embark on the journey of knowledge in Qum have the pleasure and honour of forging a relationship with this wonderful woman. God Willing.
She's an amazing woman. She manages to look after her husband, 2 kids, house, manage the dormitories (800 girls when its at full capacity), do her MA and stay sane! She was in my English class last year and always did her homework, even with her full workload - something the other students couldn't manage. Ok, so I was a bit apprehensive about having her in the class at first, with her being a manager and all (and me not exactly being the model Qum Girl) but actually she was kinda cool. And she always knew the latest developments at the school!
Khanum Hajj Khalili always baked cakes for our class 'parties' i.e. the lessons where we used to eat junk food and play games to practise speaking English. (Yes, I got paid to play 20 questions and miming games last year!)
I will always remember the day when she pulled out the Eid card I had sent to her in 2004 - the year we spent 2 months in the dorms learning Farsi. She kept this card for 5 years! She made my day when she pulled out the card from her handbag - it was such a small gesture on my part, but meant so much to her that I had remembered her once my trip to Iran was over.
My other Khanum Hajj Khalili memory is the day when she asked me if I get tired studying in the mornings and then coming back to teach in the afternoons. I replied that I look to her for inspiration on that! She has accomplished more in her life that most people only dream of.
I dedicate my blog to this amazing woman. This amazing woman needs our prayers right now. She's in a semi-coma in ICU with advanced cancer. We pray that all those who've had the pleasure of knowing her to continue this relationship and those who have yet to embark on the journey of knowledge in Qum have the pleasure and honour of forging a relationship with this wonderful woman. God Willing.
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