I’ve always wanted to try Awtar’s food because my uncle recommended I try their breakfast but I’m not a morning person so instead I insisted on trying their food for dinner. I ordered grilled chicken and Rami had the mixed grills. We had lentil soup, Fatoosh, Taboulah and ‘Humous Beiruti’ for starters but I didn’t like the fact that they came in small portions. Nevertheless, it was so tasty. The food arrived on time and fresh from the oven.

I wish there were other restaurants out there with such excellent delivery service. I wish I had taken a picture to prove it.

Not only that Chika thinks it’s cool too.

I haven’t had any luck yet in finding a housemaid. Yesterday I checked out offices in Hawalli, I was so disgusted. It was a basement filled up with so many recruiting offices, there were so many young ladies sitting on the floors, some looked so sad, some stared at us, and others just looked ill. What a somber place!

On many forms I flipped through there were pictures of housemaids posing in their employer’s home, bedroom or living room, sometimes holding the employer’s baby?? I was left in dismay for the rest of the day. I couldn’t believe what I saw.

I didn’t know until today that many agencies can send a representative to your home or working place with the forms. There’s still hope and it’s final I’m never going there again! 

[Song of the Day]

Yesterday for dinner Rami got us yummie Fatayer from Batriq. I kept thinking of their logo and all the trouble they got into with McDonald’s or was that a rumour? Nonetheless, I kept thinking to myself why shop owners here in Kuwait name their restaurants, stores, hair salons after movie titles and characters?

Why can’t they just make one up? It’s more creative than copying something other people have already done. I remember when the movie Titanic got released I saw many shops a few months later were named after that movie. Never would I be able to appreciate movie titles on shops …  

I was on the phone with my co-worker and I was telling her how much I was feeling ashamed of something, she replied:

“Don’t be ashamed at all. I’m proud of my disabled brother even if people say he’s nuts! Actually I love him even more now.”

P.S. I want to add this: Song of the Day.

The other day I freaked out when Hassan broke my Sennheiser wireless headphone, but  I didn’t pat him on the hands or shout at him, I just got up, fixed it with cellotape. So I thought why get angry over nothing. It’s still working.

Some days I feel like being a super housekeeper, I’d get out my broom, sweep the floors twice, dust all the surfaces and mob mop the floors three times, once with Dettol, once with Softy Lemon scented floor cleaner and finally once with Downy diluted in water. Then to top that, I’d lit a candle.

Other days like today I just can’t keep things in order, I’ve had some real problems with my babysitter, she’s always been enforcing her ideas upon me every since I got her. She has simply become a pain in the neck. I’ve always felt I can’t talk back at her because I needed her to take care of Hassan while I’m away at work. I feared she would hurt my baby one day but I’ve had it with her now. Now she wants to leave. I’ve given her a choice to stay for one extra month and she’d have pay her ticket from her own salary or I could find her another home she can work for an extra year. She wants to go with the first option. I quickly agreed.

In the past year I’ve had her, I couldn’t really trust her, she was just so nosy and rude to everyone. From day number one I made her feel welcomed, just like a sister and if I didn’t like something I’d overlook some matters just for the baby’s sake. I don’t know why I put up with her for so long, maybe because I thought about her little daughter. I wouldn’t want to be in her shoes so I gave her many chances because I’ve never lived away from my family, and I wouldn’t know how it feels.

Number one on my list now is to find myself a new babysitter, I’m clueless what to get this time, I’m thinking a Sri Lankan. I hope this time I’d have better luck. 

My baby had 6 very loose and watery bowel movements yesterday so I had to take him to the Doctor and she told us he probably has a viral infection. She prescribed him an anti-diarrhea medication which I chose not to give to him just yet so as to let his body fight the infection, but I did give him the other fluid thingie she prescribed and she also recommended I buy a lactose free formula for now. He didn’t like either of them so I decided to dilute his formula only.