Unexpected Surprise

I almost forgot I have a blog, I was so busy in house(we painted the second floor preparing for something mysterious), mosque(see summer plan I), along with the here & there things.
As the usual days grandma was praying Al-Dhuha nearly at 11:15 am, my aunts & mom was in the kitchen, my father was at the office, my brother Mohamed was gardening, me, my uncle & my brother Hareith was watching an action movie(means; Slater, kidnap, rubbery, explosions, J.C. Van dam, guns & hot chicks).

Nearly at 13:25 pm the door bill rang I rushed for it but my brother forerun me, it was my older aunt family, I went greeting them & asked my cousin(she is the sweetest engineer fresh woman, if there is such a thing): " what's the occasion?, it's not that normal thing that you all come at Thursday!!?", she stung my waist & said" thanks god its not your house, or else I'd never come!" I replied & really thought of pulling her hair & make her scream" well you'd save a great deal on me", that why I like her cause she is like the sister I never had, following dinner my other aunts families came I really thought their was something wrong, cause such gather we only used to see in pigrams.
The hall we was watching movie at turned into a bee comb, each & every tongue was moving( policy, makeup, marriage, qeishbee a kind of talking on others in their absence mainly a bad thing), I realized their was something unusual every body was looking toward me & giving that smile( its really something that bothers & discomfort able), I was talking to my cousin(a professor at medicine) so it obviously was a perfect combination, my mother called me so I excused my self & went to her, she wanted me to buy her a beverage for the huge party being held inside.
I went to the nearby markets & bought a SPRITE I like it so much, I went back their simply was no body at home " well am I in a wrong house?, no that is our car i`m at home, but were was every body?", lost in this questions I gazed at my family coming out from the guest & bedrooms singing" happy birthday to you G." I said to my self :" cut the crap, have you people got nuts? I'm not a kid any more", I admit I felt my self lost, shocked, & a kid once again.

I enjoyed afternoon with my family, yet I felt there was something messing, I noticed that every body enjoyed it with the person he loves, I wish she was there I wonder what would she possibly brought me if she was there, cause I really thought about what I would give her I didn`t come out in any thing( I thought of giving her my heart but I remember it already hers).

I`m now 20 years old officially, which means I finished my second decade having a bunch of dreams yet didn`t come true, being a teacher in my college among the most, write the pharmacology book I already started research about, go to hajj, buy the land I dream of( I'll mention that later), build my own design house map on, get married ( I found her its just a matter of time before I get my regular job that would aid me to propose for her, I'll make her the happiest wife on earth & if that is already been set by Allah that every body is meant to die, I'll be so grateful to die knowing I'd spent my life with most perfect woman on earth & to die in her arms is my good thought of death.)
Next time it'll not takes that long to write you about my youth center because I got permission to photograph it.
See you all!!?? Next time
Ghaith Agha Al-Taie

summer`s plans

Hello, I intended to write this blog at the end of june, at the end of suffering & at the end of my challenge, well I had to travel to Syria once finished exams not for entertainment, but for fixing my grandma, she is now O.K. which is the thing I was praying the nights for.
July may be the start of a new thing, yes it’s the start of summer & the traffic jam of plans, this summer (inshallah) I'll do the following:
1. My mosque`s competition for memorizing Quran
2. The youth center activity & most of all my volley & soccer teams
3. Reading at least 15 book, about my specialty for sure
4. Ramadan & what can I say about that, first comes first
5. My gym, I want to keep been in shape
6. The seniors of the medical college summer`s activity, i`m a member of it
7. Learning how to drive, I don`t know how yet :)
8. drawing which is yet hidden, buried & unrevealed talent of mine( see my other blog mypoemsandpaintings.blogspot.com )
Chapter I : The Quran competition
Besm Allah alrahman alraheem (in the name of Allah most gracious most compassionate), my mosque was among the first of those who started the idea of the summer's Quran competition by the creative assertion of my sheikh " Ghaneem Al-Eithan", I can remember that me, my brother & other kids of my neighborhood was among the first batch in this competition, surely I took the first place among my fellows, then my brother & Mahmood son of the sheikh came third, this was nearly from eleven years ago & it was about juza`a amma :) .
*My mosque "Seddeq Rashan" is one of the largest mosques in Mosul, that after graduating two batches, this competition spread all over mosques in Mosul, in this summer just as the last one I'm a teacher (a sheikh شيخ غيث بعيد البلى) for the lovely kids of my neighborhood, that summer I haven't found much great deal in teaching them, taking into account that they are the children of a professors & doctors.
*I find my self now talking about my students, Hareith is a blessed kid, I find a great interest about him( he remembers me my self at his age) he is so clever kid Allah save him, he is actually the best kid in my group, sometimes I see him pushing people in the raw to stand praying by me, sweet kid ha?!!.
*Now lets talk about my impressions, first about Harieth, I found my self with a feeling I admit I was afraid of at the beginning, I felt that this kid is closer for me than a student, I loved him as a son, that is it …… nothing to add.
The other thing is that I'm a teacher after all, finally I tried the feeling of being a teacher, & I found it a cool thing, passing your knowledge to the other is like achieving the infinity, & the poet says:
Stand for the teacher in honor he deserves, the teacher is almost a prophet.
*Finally, I'll try to keep pace with the latest to write in the blog & I may even share you the graduation ceremony if I been allowed to tape it.
Best regards,
Ghaith R. Altaie

Opening my heart

It`s really a thing that burns ,kills & definitely more fatal than death.
I`m talking about something i`ve been through today, something that shocked every cell in my body even the dead ones got back a life, got shocked & continue being dead.
What i`m saying is that when you are a feet close from someone that you consider as a part of your soul, your perfect person & even more precious than your life, yet you feel that there is a barrier stronger than you both, thus your only choices is to stand in killing silence or just walk away (as I did today), which is the thing that breaks every part & compartment of your heart.
Far in time in my childhood, my early grow up, even in the first year in college i`ve never been a believer in love, I only thought of it as a joke & silly thing, but wind flows against the sailor's desire, once in the first times in college accidentally I saw that girl, that eyes, that face from heaven & that smile, I really felt in love with her & then I discovered a lot of things about her made me even believe in her & really said to my self well that's her my other half & my future queen ;-).
It`s all about time , i`m at the edge of a tough situation & most complicated time of my life( no one can envy my situation), when I suppose to concentrate on my dream (i`m a senior of my grade) which i were, until i incorporated the idea of marriage & my fears of loosing the person I loved, because when this may happen(Allah forbid) i`ll never get married again because (when god gives you one heart so you may donate your heat to one person or else you are not a human).
Today I past by my love, I never had the ability to look into her eyes(I already did something wrong before a month) & I thought that she might be mad of me & their might be a tension if I tried to make a move, so I tried to finish my purpose fast enough that I won't disturb her & then left the college to my cousin's argumentation,(by the way I couldn't resist not to look at her, what can I say she was simply & without any pretending the most beutifull, sweet, & attractive pharmacist today).
Finally all what i`ll do is to keep my heart beat for my love H. & try to carry out my summer plans, along with praying to god for making my two humble dreams comes true….Amin,
Yours,
GHAITH

After exams & Summer`s arrival

Salam for any body reading;

- It has been a month I can describe as a nightmare not a days, we( the mosul pharmacists) took the final examinations of the second course, it wasn`t that hard but it was long & tedious, although it seems that tough challenge but the exams for me was a piece of cake & an opportunity to achieve closeness to my dream.
Each day in that exams I was full armed with information & my pencils was jumping from eager to write on the exam paper, all that & there was something missing it was indescribable feeling just as I lost something (god I miss her).
- The day past yesterday an carriage of fish was carrying a 2 tank rockets did explode on a crowd in the eastern part of mosul (Al-Maidan area), my cousin happened to be there he was severely injured by a flinders in his head & we heard that 15 others were killed, would this be the situation forever?, & when this so-called government would be formed?, so many questions but who to answer?.

- A huge event is been held out there, can you take a guess what?; yes, it's 2010 world cup in S. Africa (hooo Africa !!!), yet we are (Iraq) not there, because dear Qatar eliminated us from the qualifying, so I'm Italian (azzurian) in this world cup as i`m always all my time before the world cup exactly juventusian.

Italy has came out in a draw in the first match against Paraguay, but they would show their best against New Zealand & Slovakia,& reach the finals & win the cup again after four years from their trophy in 2006, even if J. Boffun is absent from his back injury in the opening match.
-I say ; i`ll miss everything about the college, i`ll miss the hall, the laboratories, the friends, studying ,professors , & most of all my happy memories & that feelings I was newly to feel(really I miss her), & that old building that graduated every pharmacist in mosul due to our moving to the new building of pharmacy college of mosul.

-My eagr now after finishing the 2nd year is to finish the next three years super fast, after being a step closer to reach my dream to be a teacher in pharmacy BSc, then continue my road to master degree MSc, & my optimum dream PhD degree.
ان شاء الله بلا سلف على الله
See you next time soon….
Yours
Ghaith

My River

It's been a long time since I wrote the first blog, I'm sure you're interested about my blog title.
There is in fact a river even if it was yet a branch of Tigris does pass by our house, it does cut the west coast of mosul & flows by our door step ;-).
We used to call it Al-Khusar, which is in fact an old river as a branch of Tigris from the time of Assyrians, but the modern expansion of Mosul, & exactly at the time of Ahmed H. Albaker our third president near seventies ordered that the rubble to be excavated & it banks to be build & to be well decorated, at that time you could see a beautiful drawing at the sides of the river palms, pigeons, cupid & my picture!!!(just joking ).

Near the nineties era at that time of the economic blockade, our government faded, our community broken,& the people turn savage looking for eat, at that time our subjacent building turned wrack , less attention paid for our river, so dirt & garbage at both side of the river accumulated, so the bank turned waste.
Now let's come to the bad news, at the top of one bank, that correspond to my house, at the same era, during the 30th assault on our country the general electricity sources was bombed, so people tried to provide them self with electricity by building electricity generators at several part of our quarter among these was that nightmare in front of my house.
Here is some side effect of this generator headache, insomnia, chronic anger & most important of these is that it did block the sight of river on me I really hate this generator.
Now let me tell you what Turkey did, it did block the water sources by building dams on them, so they reduced the level of water in our drainage & in my lovely river , now the banks seems dry as desert from the bridge up.

At last I want to share my lovely daily feeling, when I wake up daily & open my window on that lovely view of water flowing down there, its really a blessing thing that you live by one of Allah's wonder in this life even if it was humble as my river, really enjoyed writing this time see yah next time.

About me..

I'm a 19 years old boy from Iraq ,Nenavah ,Mosul ,my name in Arabic means rain & my father's name means spring ,so I'm rain of spring (mercy), I'm a student in the college of pharmacy at the university of Mosul ,I'm a Taie not a tie :-) , its my family name our title ,I live away from my parents actually in my grandpa's house along with my grandma & aunts but I visit them at each week end , I love my neighborhood & my mosque "Seddeq Rashan" from which I used to start & terminate my day ,I used to read a lot of books whatever my hand felt on poetry, religion, comics & lot to remember , but once I applied to pharmacy I got a fever with my specialty I started to expand my knowledge in pharmacy so as to leave every thing behind & addict pharmacy, my closest friend now is a mobile borne e-book "Goodman & Gilman's pharmacology" I finished it once & never sick of it ,I know this website far ago ,but I've inspired to start writing by a fellow collogues of mine who is an blogger from a long time , she was a great source of inspiration for me since I applied to pharmacy & an example for me to follow since then , well it seems that this is the beginning of my blogging life ,I'll start to share my days with you I'll share my happiness ,sadness ,my emotions ,my silly jokes , my successes & my …… ,well I'll not say it because I don't believe in it.