10 January 2006

Eid Mubarek (=Blessed Feast)

So, today is the 1st of 4 days that Eid Al-Adha (Feast of Sacrifice / Greater Eid) consists of. And today's daylight was bothersome, and the reason was not this army or that helicopter, this bomb or that bomber; it was the kids!

The kids, I hear wonder and astonishment, and maybe someone would get Al-Jazeera'tic and give me a share of shouts! Yes, the kids... As it seems, all of them all over, have decided to buy one thing with their Eidiya (Eid money), which is, fireworks, for hours and hours, since the sun rose over this neck of the woods, the voice of bang-bangs have not stopped...

I could hear the Al-Jazeera'tic dude blabbing this: "Well, those poor kids, they need some nice time, with all their suffering from the 'occupation' and violence and...".

Hmmm, how nice, so they take a break from violence and "occupation" by blowing sound bombs, right?

This reminds me of the story I once heard about a policeman who took a leave-of-absence to chill down and relax, a couple of hours after it began, he went out to chill out, stood outside his police station chatting with the colleagues!

If that made any sense, then the kids' sound bombs, and fake weapons, I may confidently add, would make sense!

More later, my friends!