Sleep

Getting up in the morning, for work or off day, can be both refreshing and exhausting. How do older people wake up early while us young ones don't even care to consider waking up early as a daily routine? Sleep is such an interesting phase of everyday life. The body moves around all day, thinks, acts, gets exhausted while doing so and usually at nights the lights are turned off and the train to either dreamland or nightmares is caught.

Have you ever woken up from sleep and felt tired? I do many times and people tell me something which I don't agree with. They tell me that I sleep more than I should. I know there are certain amount of hours for different age groups to sleep, I've heard of the minimum hours of sleep one should get but never heard of maximum. My own age's minimum hours is between 7 and 9, I think I sometimes get more and sometimes less. On weekends its definitely more! maybe around 12 hours. I must be one of the few people who remember their dreams, well at least they are remembered for a longer while in order to have the time to note them down.

Getting back to the waking up exhausted topic, in my opinion it has something to do with what type of activities one goes through in dreamland while asleep. My thoughts are bizarre right? I'm not arguing about it but that's my opinion. You're free to leave a comment about it!

It is good to dissolve in the little fantasy world which exists only in one's imagination and comes to life when the lights are put out and consciousness is given up for a few hours. It is an escape from the daily life: one of the escapes from the problems of the real world! Sleep is such a sexy and attractive stage of everyday being which no one can escape. It also extends and makes one's imagination get to work in any kind of twisted way it wants. The uncontrollable imagination! the feature which comes built-in with homo sapiens!

Food

Today's topic, food. I got lots of thoughts about food. Kinds, flavors, cooking methods, everything!! Everywhere you go there is a different kind of food item available. One thing I like to do when on vacation is discover different kind of flavors right at home or go around wherever I can to taste different things.

Oman. Just in our lovely country we have so many varieties of flavors, spices, methods, and preferences for food. I would divide Oman, food in view, in two parts. Seafood and Meat. By seafood its obvious I mean everything coming out of the sea like fish, lobsters, crabs, prawns, squids, octopus, etc. By meat, of course lamb, beef, mutton, chicken, etc. There are seafood lovers as well as meat lovers. It is surprising to see though that there are very less vegetarians! Most of veggies are Indian people. its shocking to have not met even one Omani vegetarian in my entire 22 years of life!

Coming back to meat and seafood, there is a competition between both lovers. But there is one more class, my class. we eat and love all kinds of food let it be sea or meat, food is food for me or *us :D. Just one condition though, food should be Halal by Islamic standards or else be rejected by us. I call myself all food lover, but still strangely enough I hate eggplant. I just can't see myself eating an eggplant, never. Aside haram items and eggplant I could eat almost anything. I can't eat shellfish (prawns, Crab, lobsters, etc.) because of allergies, I love to eat shellfish though. Sometimes even though knowing the consequences I have enjoyed my meals. Consequences you ask? I get feeling like my eyes are on fire and after a while they become as big as lemons, very funny to see but I suffer!

One of my hobby is to taste different kinds of food. I have tasted and enjoyed so many cuisines, German, Italian, English (omelettes!), Pakistani & Indian (all over Oman), from Bilad (villages/hometowns of Oman), Mexican, Spanish (mmm yummy Tapas and Paella!!), Greek, believe it or not but you have to believe Russian, etc. A lot of different flavors have reached the taste buds of my tongue, but over all I would not give up Majboos with FilFIl and Shu'a, the best there is!