Something Nice Happened to Me Today...

TrulyMadlyAmanda said:
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that's weirdly opposite to london: the good dancers rarely arrive before midnight, then stay til the bitter end (2am), then food at HK Diner. that's how a lot of us ended up teaching...the london scene hours were incompatible with a 'proper job' lol.

the market has since expanded to cope with demand, and now SOS, the Boston and Pexava start and finish early...though it's notable that the best dancers still tend to arrive and leave late relative to the end-time of the nights.
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But when you got to thinsg eraly in the morning as well? That is why tehey invented teh afternoon siesta. ;) All sensible countries have it. For eaxmple, in Goa, India everything closes from about noon/1pm to 2pm/4pm. Then they reopen for another couple hours. Perfect for late night dancing. Studies ahve also shown thata short nap in teh middel of the day is very beneficial....
 
sagitta said:
That is why tehey invented teh afternoon siesta. ;) All sensible countries have it. Studies ahve also shown thata short nap in teh middel of the day is very beneficial....
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unfortunately, england is very far from being a sensible country in many respects, lol. a siesta is not the norm...think of all the being rained on one would miss out on... ;) when i first started salsa, i used to wake up at 8am, go to my management job, finish work at 5pm, sleep til 7pm, do two salsa classes 7.30pm - 9.30pm, then social dance til 2am, go out for food/hanging out til 3am, asleep by 4am and repeat the same cycle daily. that's only 6 hours' sleep per day...i used to have long lie-ins at the weekends, but basically it was exhausting.
 
nice things which happened today:

1) discovered the joys of deep-fried omelette... :eek: nom, nom, and low-carb, but perhaps just the tiniest bit high-fat/calorific. hopefully danced it off. :cool:

2) being poured a generous scottish measure of 7-year-old havana club rum with diet coke and ice by my lovely bellydancer friend...whilst chatting with lovely people on her balcony

3) discovering a brilliant young dancer, with a world-class super-soft and buttery lead. :cool:

4) the cleaner coming and removing a thick layer of cairo dust from everything. :D
 
TrulyMadlyAmanda said:
unfortunately, england is very far from being a sensible country in many respects, lol. a siesta is not the norm...think of all the being rained on one would miss out on... ;) when i first started salsa, i used to wake up at 8am, go to my management job, finish work at 5pm, sleep til 7pm, do two salsa classes 7.30pm - 9.30pm, then social dance til 2am, go out for food/hanging out til 3am, asleep by 4am and repeat the same cycle daily. that's only 6 hours' sleep per day...i used to have long lie-ins at the weekends, but basically it was exhausting.
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so jealous of this. of course the grass is always greener. ive been unemployed for a year, just job searching and getting the benefits, which is depressing in a way but nice in others.. for a year now I've been sleeping in, having leisurely days and going out dancing from 10-1, occasionally staying out later to dance or go for breakfast and what not.. I'm directionless and confused but having fun.
 
not so much nice, as ROTFLMAO funny.

cairo driving and traffic have a well-deserved reputation for craziness and you see so many mental things everyday, that reversing for a mile down the motorway, or worse, seem perfectly normal.

tonight on the way back from salsa, saw a convoy of 3 cars weaving all over the road at 60mph, with guys hanging out of the windows nearly horizontally. "wedding" remarks the taxi driver, blandly.

2 minutes later, im almost breathing again, when we pass 6 people - SIX - on a motorbike. wait for it - the two in front are children under 10, next the father (driving whilst letting the kids pretend to) then the mother holding a baby in her arms, then one more child at the end. zero helmets. yikes!
 
I just wrote a letter to the moderators of SF, and they are not going to be happy about it, but it does make me happy that I got this ******** out of my system.

YaY
 
lolita said:
I just wrote a letter to the moderators of SF, and they are not going to be happy about it, but it does make me happy that I got this ******** out of my system.

YaY
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Sometimes we all just need to vent and a letter sent privately is way better than publicly spewing stuff all over the sf boards. Well done.:)
 
i was in a very modern fast-food place in cairo, high up with a great view of a very modern, busy street, with lots of shiny offices, international cafes and traffic. was watching the world go by, when amongst the taxis, mercedes, fiats etc...

...trots a horse and cart. more correctly, a cart drawn by one big horse, and one tiny donkey next to it, half its size. so far, so fairly normal by cairo standards. but on the back of the little cart was a whole garden...

the cart measured about 2 metres square, and was completely full of 8' tall palm trees and other green pot plants. :D

unfortunately, the other something nice has a mildly unhappy ending, lol:

i was in same fast-food place having given in to my fiteer craving (fiteer: imagine a pizza made of layers of thin pastry which is like a cross between crepe, filo and flaky pastry, and can be filled and topped with either sweet or savoury yummy things. only about 3,000 calories a pop, dont worry, lol).

i ordered fiteer with cream, jam and nuts, and specifically asked the waiter in good arabic, which he repeated back to me, not to let the kitchen do me any kindnesses by adding anything extra, because i dont like some ingredients. (if the waiter, or the cook, thinks youre attractive, or polite, or may be in possession of a v*gina, he'll give you extra toppings for free as a chivalrous gesture).

my delicious fiteer arrived, piping hot. jam and cream and a light dusting of icing sugar on top: check. maybe theyve forgotten the chopped pistachio nuts, but i can live with that. but no....the nuts were inside the fiteer. along with - wait for it - custard and desiccated coconut and a shedload of extra sugar. my pheromones were just too strong to repel the unwanted additional toppings, lol.

so, the fiteer-related something nices were: 1) fiteer...nom, nom, nom and 2) serious attempt at kindness. mildly diluted by having to apologetically send the inedible uber-fiteer back, and wait for a new one. which came without nuts. by then, i couldnt stand any more long-lashed stares of adoration, so i got it take-away, and it was cold/slightly rubbery by the time i go home (though god knows how with an air temperature of 32C, lol).
 
No with cream and jam and nuts it sounds amazing, but add custard and coconut and sugar on top of that, it sounds like dessert overload lol
 
lolita said:
"That" tastes RIDICULOUSLY good
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seriously! you have to eat it - it's nomilicious! :cool:

lolita said:
Unfortunately you won't. They have the Moroccan equivalent which is called "missamen". The taste however is nothing compared to Egyptian style Fiteer.
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Egyptian food is some of the best in the world, imho. i keep hearing that Lebanese is better, but so far havent found it to be true (only exception is the mohallibeya in Marouch on Edgeware Rd, which is really fine and delicately flavoured with rosewater)

wonderwoman said:
No with cream and jam and nuts it sounds amazing, but add custard and coconut and sugar on top of that, it sounds like dessert overload lol
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i dont like dessicated coconut. :( the 'super'-fiteer they kindly brought me was like....imagine an english trifle, which normally has jelly (jello, to you yanks, lol), with cake in it, then custard, then cream. that is yummy...now add dessicated coconut, jam and table sugar....overkill.
 
a really great first private lesson - an intermediate leader actually freestyled for the first time in his life. to music, lol. ;) :cool:

just to add to 'the fiteer diaries'...

ordered 2 today (i know! im evil - but plan was to put 3/4 of each in freezer):

1 x minced beef
1 x nutella

i asked 3 TIMES please not to put ANYTHING else on them AT ALL...

so the minced beef came with half a kilo of cheese inside, and...

...the nutella came swimming in - ready for it - milk. plus honey and nuts, too.

there's a yummy dessert here called Om Ali, which is like a bread and butter pudding, sometimes made using fiteer pastry instead of bread, or you can get om ali fiteer, but that's nothing to do with what i ordered. oh well - at least i escaped the coconut today. and am currently enjoying the sunshine and the food in the land of fiteers... :cool:
 
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