Well, “us”, here, means me n Waqas
Ramdhan, along with its blessings, brought a whole new schedule of activities, as it does every year.
As I am observing the longest rozey of my lifetime, so far, 16 hrs it is, time has suddenly run short. Before Ramdhan, we used to kill time, watching TV, browsing, FB and all that stuff. But, as the Ramadhan has started, we dont even have enough time to sleep.
The day starts at 3:30 AM, when we leave our beds with half open eyes. Parathas, eggs and tea, in the same order. Yougurt gets its place as a side order. Sometimes, left over curry from dinner also makes its to the table. We hardly make it to sehri-end time, although we are improving on this as the days are getting shorter.
Namaz etc takes it to around 5:00 AM, when we kiss the beds again, only to get up at 8:00 for office. I take half-an-hour break at lunch time, instead of normal an-hour break, and use the remaing half-an-hour in evening to leave early, so getting some touch of Ramadhan-in-Pakistan
On my way back home, I am nowadays reading Princess by Jean Sasson, which I borrowed from office’s collection of novels. I get sleepy again by the time I reach home, so, quite naturaly, immediately after reaching home, back to bed again
for a short nap of around 30 minutes.
In the mean while Waqas gets back too, and we offer Asar, before starting to prepare for Iftar. If some meal is already cooked, we are quite relieved. We normally cook once and eat that for 2 days. So we get a day’s break from cooking. Iftar is normally fruit-chat, fruit-juice and samosas. Sometimes, we do some ehtemam as well e.g. French Toasts
yes French Toasts at Iftar. Try it, its fun. MUF is coming over this weekend, and we expect some home-cooked pakoras as well as some Rooh-Afza-and-milk kind of stuff, provided that we get hold of Rooh-Afza. So… delicious iftaries ahead
We are also planning to go out for Iftar over the weekend. Notting Hill Carnival is another attraction over the weekend, might go there as well.
By the time we get done with dinner, its time for Isha/Taraweeh. Although the time is 10:00 PM, we have leave around 9:40 as the mosque is a bit far. We return around 11:40, and after a bit of chit chat, get back to beds around 12:00 AM.
And another day starts at 3:30 AM …