Ramadan is here!

I know I know, I'm a week late, but come on, I just started this blog yesterday, give me a break! Anyways...

Aaaaah Ramadan. The glorious holy month, best month of the year that is, yes sir. It is a time when your religious acts take on a special flavor, a special...spice. A blessed month, a holy month, a month when you pray more, give more, work more, smile more, and thank the Lord for his blessings.

However, whether we like to admit it or not, for some people, Ramadan is about much more than that.

For those of us who are fortunate enough not to be starving in Somalia, we like to celebrate Ramadan with larger-than-usual feasts. I mean, come on brother, you've been fasting all day, come on, light up a cigarette, have some dates, then sit down and eat as much as you can, yes that's right, eat until you can eat no more. Then, get up slowly from your chair and jiggle that food-pregnant stomach of yours to the couch in front of the TV. Let the misses bring you some sweet tea while you flip through the channels now offering 50+ variety of drama series, it's the season after all!
Now, after you're done watching three shows or more, tell the misses you're off for Taraweeh prayers at the mosque, and tell her to make you some dinner, you're going to be hungry later. Now, go to the nearby mosque and pray. Eight prayers or twenty, doesn't matter, at least you're praying, unlike the rest of the year. Now go back home, tell the misses to bring you your dinner in bed. Grab today's newspaper and read it again; you already know everything that's in it, but you just want to swear lightly at all those politicians. You want to swear at the NATO, at Obama, at Sarkozy, at Europe, at your Arab country, at the whole world, at the misses for bringing you cold dinner, then you swear at the bed for being too tough for your larger-than-life stomach, then you remember that it's Ramadan and you're not supposed to swear, so you ask for forgiveness and eat your dinner, then you go to sleep, but don't forget to tell the misses to wake you up in a few hours for Suhoor, you don't want to start the day hungry do you?
Now brother, wake up, you can't see more than a meter ahead but that's ok, stumble your way to the kitchen, see what the misses prepared for you. Eat what's in front of you, poor you, you must be tired from all that fasting, don't worry, it will soon be over. Go to the bathroom and brush your teeth, go back to bed, you don't have to go to work till noon anyways, two hours of hard work then go back home, you're tired brother, you need to sleep, fasting is hard in this summer heat, may God be with you! At 3pm go back home, lie down on your bed and take a nap, and make sure the misses is in the kitchen making Iftar, you want a proper meal to energize after a long day of fasting. Now sleep brother, Iftar will be waiting for you.
لا حول ولا قوة الا بالله