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Friday, November 17, 2006

Mayoon...

Mayoon, this was the function my family and I were going to attend for the first time. We didnt know what Mayoon actually was. Fatee explained me that her friends get her a yellow dress and all the accessories to go with that dress. In Fatee's case, her friend A. arranged everything. Then everyone from the family and friends came one by one to us, applied ubtan on our face, chameli oil in our hair and also mehendi on hands. But since she had already applied

mehendi on hands, we used paan ka leaf and five rupee note for mehendi. Also, they were supposed to give a bit of sweet and do the circle thingee of the money on our heads and give it as sadqa.

It was fun, but everyone insisted we had to eat the whole piece of sweet rather than just a bit. I was full after 4-5 rounds but we had to undergo atleast 25 rounds. I guess you can imagine my situtation.

While we were going through this eating and ubtan-mehendi-oil routine, everyone else was busy with dholki, singing and dancing. It was a wonderful scenario, everyone was having fun, everyone was taking part, everyone was wishing us good luck for our future. I am sure its their blessing

s that we are having such a wonderful life, MashaAllah.

By the time we had gone through 10-15 rounds of the rasm, we started looking someone different already :-)

We had a photo session with everyone in the family. We had to pose with them individually, in pairs, with family, with friends, uffff so many pictures. They made us feel like some celeberaties, I knew this would last just a couple more days after that same old life. Sigh.

Everyone was very considerate while applying ubtan-mehendi-oil thingee untill Maryam, Fatee's sisters best friend, came to apply the stuff. She used all the mehendi available, all the ubtan left and all the oil and applied

everything on us. We were looking like ghosts *smack* We had to go and wash everything off after that. It was good coz that stopped the process all together and I was spared from eating those mithais again. Alhamdolillah.

After everyone was tired of all the singing and dancing, dinner was served. I can still remember the taste of cheese ball thingees *yummy*

I want to re-marry.

Fatee ofcourse, for all the fun :-)

Saleem Pothiwala :: 11:25 PM :: 5 Comments: