Dervish

Although it’s taken me way too long, Jamila tagged me for this meme.  My first response was ‘what… only eight?’ as weird and random sort of suit me.

ONE: I look after two hermit crabs.  They belong to Yasmin, but as she’s three and a half, I’m the one that feeds and waters them and moves the shells around their crabarium.  They’re funny little critters, and quite endearing for things that don’t make noises, cuddle you or have fur.

TWO: I’ve always wanted a Bajoran earring (a d’ja pagh).  As a Muslim this might be tricky as the earing represents the Bajoran religion (Muslims aren’t supposed to wear items that indicate allegiance to a religion other than Islam).  I am not quite sure of the halal-ness of that one.

THREE: For about four years, I used my middle-name instead of my first-name.  I still have my A.Mus.A. diploma in my middle name.

FOUR: I’ve stopped using shampoo and conditioner, and just wash my hair in water.  A few years ago a friend of mine told me she did that and I thought she was nuts.  But I’ve been doing it for a little while now, and although it took a bit for my hair to settle (when you first stop using shampoo your hair goes through a really greasy phrase, until it realises it doesn’t have to keep replacing the natural oils that shampoo strips) it’s settled down now.  I don’t use shampoo on Yasmin either.  It’s a battle washing her hair, and just doing it in water is so much easier.  It also means that I’m not pouring lots of chemicals on her head.

FIVE: I don’t have any photographs up in my house.  I used to, but a year or so when we moved house I’d packed them all up and made a decision to not put any back up.  Whilst I don’t follow the position that photographs of human or living creatures is haram, I do follow the “just-in-case” position.  Plus, it makes praying easy, as I don’t have to move or shift any photographs to avoid praying in their direction.  Having said that, I do love scrapbooking with pix.

SIX: I have a missing uncle.  He is/was the youngest brother of my mother, and went missing in 1974.  My family suspect that he was killed up in Timor, given the time-period and that he’d talked about going up there before he left. 

SEVEN: I have a relatively rare maiden-name. It seems to have come to Australia from Cornwall, but before that it is believed to be Scandinavian, probably meaning “boatswain”.  There is even a park named after my great-great-grandfather (I might have missed a ‘great’) in Yackandandah.

EIGHT: I love eggplant.  Especially fried eggplant in khoreshte badamjoon - mmmm yummy.

I tag: annalog, Baha’i the Way, Darvish, Dezhen, iMuslim, Lantern Torch.

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