Patriotism

When I was small we used to decorate our house with Pakistan flags on Independence Day and watch the flag hoisting ceremony on television with a sense of pride. As I grew up and learnt that we belonged to a sect that had been declared as non-Muslims by the constitution of the country I became disillusioned. I learnt that people from my community were persecuted, jailed and even murdered. My father was an honest and highly skilled officer of the Army but was not promoted because of his religious beliefs.

Three years ago we moved to Dubai for a better life for our son. I’ve taught him to answer ‘Pakistan’ when someone asks him where he’s from. He knows that his grandmothers live in Islamabad. He knows what the flag of Pakistan looks like and that the language spoken there is Urdu. But that’s about all. He was only 8 months old when we moved here so he doesn’t remember anything.

It makes me very sad to say this, but my husband and I both don’t feel any patriotism towards our country. If we had the opportunity to get the citizenship of another country we would take it. Anything for a better life for our son.

Other entries:

1. Daily Prompt: I Pledge Allegiance | Under the Monkey Tree
2. Wishing my home country Malaysia, Selamat Merdeka | littlegirlstory
3. Daily Prompt: Country | Books, Music, Photography & Movies : my best friends
4. Canada Sucks and I Don’t Want to Leave : I Pledge Allegience | thanks for letting me autograph your cat
5. Duncan the Sushi Roll #5 | Neva Samaki
6. No country should exist | Phelio a Random Post a Day
7. Daily Prompt: Pledge Allegiance | Motherhood and Beyond
8. Daily Prompt: Country – What Country Means to Me | USS Hornet (CV-12)-A Father’s Untold War Story
9. Daily Prompt: I Pledge Allegiance | The Lint In My Pocket
10. Pledge Allegiance | Flowers and Breezes
11. Pledge | A Good One
12. Daily Prompt: I Pledge Allegiance « Mama Bear Musings
13. There Are Better Things Than Patriotism | The Jittery Goat
14. Canadian post card | DCMontreal
15. Daily Prompt : Being Indonesian? I am deadly Proud of It! | bambangpriantono
16. 158. Questionable Allegiance | kevindeisher
17. Country | Rebecca Barray
18. Daily Prompt: I Pledge Allegiance | I really just pretend to know stuff
19. Daily Prompt: Country – Our America by Shannon Holloway | IF I ONLY HAD A TIME MACHINE
20. Country | The Nameless One
21. A small stitch from the fabric of Canada | Patchwork Ponderings
22. We agree to celebrate our life… | Vampire Maman
23. Daily Prompt: I Pledge Allegiance | Likeness Of Something
24. Two countries | Life is great
25. #Patriotism in #Murica | floatingsheep
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27. Daily Writing Prompt: I Pledge Allegiance | Charles Ray’s Ramblings
28. Daily Prompt: I Pledge Allegiance « Vicariously Poetic
29. Daily Prompt: To pledge allegiance and mean it | SERENDIPITY
30. The Death Of National Pride | Liars, Hypocrites & The Development of Human Emotion
31. My Country……(wp daily prompt) | Daily Observations
32. Of thee i sing | contrailsonmyheart
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36. Editorial: Reflections of loyalty on a holiday weekend | The not really news blog
37. DP Poem: “Pledge Allegiance”… One Nation Under God!!! | The Abuse Expose’ with Secret Angel
38. Daily Prompt: I Pledge Allegiance | The Daily Post | The Blogging Path
39. Republicans are more patriotic than democrats | The Flavored Word
40. Britain Sucks – But I’m Still Proud Of It |Daily Prompt: I Pledge Allegiance | Quinn Harkness
41. the patriotic call of the mightily dollar | The Seminary of Praying Mantis
42. Letter to My Soldier | anniethinksabout
43. I’m Canadian Eh! | Along Life’s Road
44. Crazy for the Red, White, and Blue | A Day in the Life
45. Daily Prompt: I Pledge [Corporate] Allegiance | My Atheist Blog
46. Daily Prompt: I Pledge Allegiance all My Life to the Magic Colours, Red, White and Blue | Phoenix Flights
47. “I Pledge Allegiance” | Relax
48. England, My England | Life & Times
49. Daily Prompt: I pledge Allegiance ~ To Know the Meaning | For the Love of Images
50. Allegiance Breeds Bias | Cheri Speak
51. Cuba: An Introduction | The Life NomadikThe Life Nomadik
52. A Canadian in America | Amy Warren
53. Daily Prompt: I Pledge Allegiance! | The Geeky G4mer
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56. Daily Prompt: Our Country ’tis of Thee | One Starving Activist
57. Ideals And The Standards Of Love | Wise Counsel
58. Daily Prompt: I Do Not Pledge Allegiance / Country | @ The West Gate
59. Daily Prompt: I Pledge Allegiance | BulgingButtons
60. I Pledge Allegiance — No, This Is Not the Same Post | Resident Alien — Being Dutch in America
61. Daily Prompt: I Pledge Allegiance | LADYBOY PROMPT
62. Love thy neighbour. | Forlorn Hope: A Diary Of A Broken Heart
63. Am I really very patriotic? | Rob’s Surf Report
64. What does loyalty really mean? | Legends of Lorata

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea

I have had many opportunities to take some nice shots of the sea such as of the Celtic sea from the Brittany region in France, the South China Sea from Langkawi, Malaysia, and the Andaman Sea from Phi Phi islands in Thailand. The sound of the waves crashing on the beach always has a calming effect on me.

However the photo I’d like to focus on is a little more personal. It was taken on our holiday to Maldives on a dolphin watching tour. As both my husband and I don’t know how to swim and the boat was really rocky we were afraid to let our son go out in the front part of the boat. However the man on the boat was kind enough to take my son out and I’m glad he did because he got to see dolphins in their natural environment.

 

Pingbacks:

1. Shadow Self | Broken Light: A Photography Collective
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29. Weekly Photo Challenge : Sea | Hamburg und Mee(h)r
30. The Sea – A WordPress Photo Challenge! | Life in the Foothills
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32. Weekly Photo Challenge – Sea | Chittle Chattle
33. Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea – Tranquil Deserted Beaches | IF I ONLY HAD A TIME MACHINE
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Sneaky

The Daily prompts are very useful because thanks to them I manage to post something every day. OK it may not be award winning, but at least some people like it. I’ve been responding to the Daily Prompt regularly ever since I discovered it, even though sometimes I have to be a bit sneaky and write something other than what was asked for (A little Absurdity).  (The really sneaky people are the ones found at the top of the pingbacks list with totally unrelated stuff!).

As a mother I have to be sneaky a lot of the times just to get things done. OK that itself was a sneaky statement. Let me be more honest. As a mother of an energetic and demanding 3 ½ yr old I often have to sneak off to blog, write, nap, heck even to go to the toilet. Somehow he always knows where I am and what I’m doing. Isn’t it supposed to be the other way round??

While I’m writing this my son has found me in the study and is now undoing his father’s shoe-laces. I’m not stopping him because well, he’s not bothering me is he? Sneaky huh?

Other entries:

1. Sneaky Questions Require Sneaky Answers | Eyes Through The Glass – A Blog About Asperger’s
2. Daily Prompt: | Under the Monkey Tree
3. Daily Prompt: Sneaky | Books, Music, Photography & Movies : my best friends
4. Daily Prompt – A Little Sneaky | Kate Murray
5. Thoughts on Blogging | We Live In A Flat
6. You Prompt Me [Daily Prompt: A Little Sneaky] | unknowinglee
7. Daily Prompts; Aren’t Perfect, That’s The Bloggers Job | The Jittery Goat
8. To prompt or not to prompt, that is the question… | The Rider
9. Clowns To The Left of Me, Jokers To The Right | JuSt ViSiTiNG THiS PLaNeT…
10. A Little Sneaky | Geek Ergo Sum
11. Daily Prompt: A Little Sneaky « Mama Bear Musings
12. Daily Prompt: A Little Sneaky | Motherhood and Beyond
13. Nothing wrong with a little nudge in the right direction | thoughtsofrkh
14. Just a spoonful of prompting can make the writers pen note down, in the most delightful way! | The life of T
15. sneaky is as sneaky does | wannabepoet
16. On Prompts & Writing | The Temenos Journal
17. Rolf Harris: maybe he was tying down more that just his kangaroo | DCMontreal
18. Sneaky: A Prompt About Prompts | suzie81’s Blog
19. A Little Sneaky | Shilpa Sharma Online
20. Sneaky | Hope* the happy hugger
21. Those Hokey Writing Prompts And Why I Need Them | Bright Tuesday
22. Daily Prompt – A Little Sneaky | Joe’s Musings
23. Daily Prompt: A Little Sneaky | Of Glass & Paper
24. Daily Prompt: A Little Sneaky | The Daily Post | The Blogging Path
25. Daily Prompt: A little sneaky but more than a bit odd | SERENDIPITY
26. “A Little Sneaky” | Relax
27. Daily Prompt: A Little Sneaky | Chronicles of an Anglo Swiss
28. Daily Prompt: A Little Sneaky | College Girl Dai
29. Sleepers, for me, always WAY more fun than flashy or fancy. | Lord Aoshi’s Latest Finds
30. Delicate Revenge | shame
31. A Little Sneaky | The Nameless One
32. How about them Daily Prompts! | Everyday Adventures
33. Daily YouTube Find-30/8/13| Football Skills | The Educated Illiterates
34. Daily Prompt: A Useful Creative Writing Tool | The Silver Leaf Journal
35. Get Your Sneak On! | An Upturned Soul

A little absurdity

The last song I heard,

Was on the radio.

It was a bit absurd,

That too in Urdu.

Don’t remember at all,

What it was about.

So how do I recall

The third line? I doubt.

Oh Daily Prompt!

What do I do?

Do I write about

Something else for you?

Write for minutes fifteen,

To show some good speed,

Something serene,

For all of you to read.

Others who fared better:

1. Need for Speed | Mara Eastern’s Personal Blog
2. Daily Prompt: Can’t Drive 55 | The Lint In My Pocket
3. Daily Prompt: Can’t Drive 55 | Under the Monkey Tree
4. I’m Just Livin’ By My Own Feelin’s | Eyes Through The Glass – A Blog About Asperger’s
5. Can’t Drive 55 – I told you ’bout all those fears | Geek Ergo Sum
6. Daily Prompt: Can’t Drive 55 | MyBlog – solaner
7. Whats your speed? | Books, Music, Photography & Movies : my best friends
8. Daily Prompt- Dancing With a Bear | readingwithafeather
9. Hop on the Back of My Bike | Daily Prompt: Can’t Drive 55 | likereadingontrains
10. They got nothing on you, baby [Daily Prompt: Can’t Drive 55] | This is ME, you know.
11. Oh, All My Friends Are Turning Green [A Vignette/Flash Fiction] | Ramisa the Authoress
12. Who else is going to bring you a bottle of wine? I can’t drive 55… | The Rider
13. Thank you | A Teacher’s Blog
14. Eu vou juntar as avenidas / I’ll gather up the avenues | Never clip my wings
15. Daily Prompt: Proof Through The Night | One Starving Activist
16. And the parking lot was our first date | Motherhood and Beyond
17. I Can’t Help Myself | Tony’s Texts
18. Daily Prompt: Can’t Drive 55 – ‘Cause I’ve Got To Be Free | IF I ONLY HAD A TIME MACHINE
19. I can tell by the way she lows | mostlytrueramblings
20. Daily Prompt:When our friends talk about you all that it does is just tear me down | For the love of sharing awesomeness
21. It’s Our Party We Can Love Who We Want [Daily Prompt: Can’t Drive 55] | unknowinglee
22. Daily Prompt: Can’t Drive 55 (We Can’t Stop by Miley Cyrus) | Amelie Lockhart
23. Caught In A Landslide – Daily Prompt | Linda Long Writes!
24. “Can’t Drive 55″ | Relax
25. Daily Prompt: Can’t Drive 55 « Mama Bear Musings
26. Now You’re Playing With POWER! | Lord Aoshi’s Latest Finds
27. Daily Prompt: “No Matter What You Been Through” | Creative Mysteries
28. Have You Ever Seen A Show With Fellas on the Mic With One Minute Rhymes That Don’t Come Out Right? | Not a Punk Rocker
29. Akeed ragaa w law bainy w baino blad – 5 min stream-of-consciousness | I Didn’t Just Wake Up This Morning with a Craving
30. 156. I Knew Before You Got Home | kevindeisher
31. On Fire | Hope* the happy hugger
32. Nothing You Could Do | The Jittery Goat
33. When I Leave this World, I’ll Leave No Regrets | Beats of Pieces
34. I just run back to you…. | dawnyhosking
35. Daily Prompt: And in the dark I have no name | Winding Road
36. WE RUN IN THIS TOWN | ayimas
37. Daily Prompt: So long, it’s been good to know yuh … | SERENDIPITY
38. Daily Prompt – White Jet trails across the blue sky | Joe’s Musings
39. Eat Your Fruit Loops in the Dark | A Day in the Life
40. there’s no one quite like you, you push all my buttons down | wannabepoet
41. We Can Learn To Love Again – Why No Relationship Is A Waste Of Time | suzie81’s Blog
42. Out for all that I can get | mentalrollercoaster
43. Daily Prompt: Can’t Drive 55 | Chronicles of an Anglo Swiss
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47. There’s nothing you won’t do for money? | Blognovic’s Weblog
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49. Beauty I’d Always Missed With These Eyes Before | The Laughing Nanny
50. Daily Prompt: Will your bachelors of arts help you get by? | cinnwriterblog
51. I Grab My Pen… | An Upturned Soul
52. EAR WORM – TRY A LITTLE TENDERNESS | Emotional Fitness
53. How strange that I don’t know you at all. | thealiciacook
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55. All I Have Needed Thy Hand Hath Provided | My Bipolar Life
56. Time is made from honey, slow and sweet | I Dream of White Rooms
57. Can’t Drive 55 | The Nameless One
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60. You Were The One | Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Happiness
61. Soulache | shame
62. Daily Prompt: And she’ll say I’m in love with a beautiful man that I don’t hardly understand at all | Reinvention of Mama
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64. Daily Prompt: Today I Heard You Say Maybe it’s Okay | Heron There & Everywhere
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70. Would it change you? | Life & Times
71. Speed | Northwest Frame of Mind
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73. Shady and a tempered dame | Everyday Adventures
74. ♪I know you can feel it, I miss you just a little too much♪ » My Life, My Way, My Words

An Asian bride

The last time I felt like a superstar was nearly 10 year ago on my wedding. My clothes had been designed by myself; the cloth and embroidery carefully chosen and then hand embroidered by skilled craftsmen. My hair and make-up was done at a salon by a lady who had been more than 20 years in the business. I wore antique gold jewelry embellished with peridots specially designed to match my clothes. I didn’t have a movie made but there was a photo session with my husband. I remember the photographer told me to pose with my hand on my husband’s shoulder but I refused as I was too shy. On the reception I sat on a stage with my husband while all the guests looked on. Of course the bride is the star of the evening with everyone talking about her clothes and how she looks. I really enjoyed all the attention and the admiring looks.

Pingbacks:

1. Daily Prompt: Ready for Your Close-up | Under the Monkey Tree
2. I’d like to thank Y’all! | Randomlyabstract’s Blog
3. Shattered dreams | contrailsonmyheart
4. Ready for Your Close-up | Geek Ergo Sum
5. Get Read For Your Close Up. | Sister Hood
6. Ready For Your Close-Up: Mr Men | suzie81’s Blog
7. Daily Prompt: Superstar | Books, Music, Photography & Movies : my best friends
8. Cast the “WHAT”? | Phelio a Random Post a Day
9. Daily Prompt: Ready for Your Close-up | littlegirlstory
10. Casting Call [Daily Prompt: Ready for Your Close-up] | unknowinglee
11. The CB Conspiracy | jennifermarshcurtis
12. “Ready for Your Closeup” | Relax
13. Dicaprio Outraged, No Kenton Lewis Movie | The Jittery Goat
14. A Hero Resting | The Ambitious Drifter
15. Daily Prompt: Street Superstar | Amelie Lockhart
16. On living the dream | The Magic Black Book
17. Superstar? | Life & Times
18. Daily Prompt: Ready for Your Close-up | Alastair’s Blog
19. Daily Prompt ~ Superstar! | Misifusa’s Blog
20. Supernovae | Maggie’s Stories
21. Daily Prompt: Ready For Your Close-Up | College Girl Dai
22. Are You Free Mr Braff? | Tony’s Texts
23. i am a superstar (cause the daily prompt said i was) | wannabepoet
24. Ready for Your Close-up: Red Sprites Over Nebraska | Khana’s Web
25. Oona Chaplin | vicbriggs’s Blog
26. Daily Prompt: Ready for your Close-Up | Chronicles of an Anglo Swiss
27. Daily Prompt: Close-up/Superstar | A Taste of Morning
28. Daily Prompt: I’m ready for my close-up. Where’s Mr. Demille? | SERENDIPITY

Motherhood Award

You are receiving an award –- either one that already exists, or a new one created just for you. What would the award be, why are you being honored, and what would you say in your acceptance speech?

I’m finally being recognized for my unpaid 24 hour on call job as a carer, teacher, nanny, driver, nurse and much more. My husband and my son have created the Motherhood Award just to thank me. I guess Mother’s day (one day in the whole year, c’mon?) just wasn’t enough.

The award itself is made of pink cardboard and red ribbon, drawn and colored by my son and cut out and written by my husband. The prize that goes with the award is that my husband will take care of my son for the day, while I go for some pampering at the spa, ice-skating (which I’ve always wanted to do but never managed to), a few hours of shopping for something nice for myself, followed by a dinner at a fancy restaurant where I can dress to kill.

For my acceptance speech I’m just going to say “Thank you for realizing I needed to be appreciated.”

Ok now I’m off to make my husband read my post 🙂

Other entries for this Daily Prompt:

1. Realisation Dream (Daily Prompt: I’d Like to Thank My Cats) | Amelie Lockhart
2. Daily Prompt: | Under the Monkey Tree
3. Speechless [Daily Prompt: I’d Like to Thank My Cats] | unknowinglee
4. Headless Horseman’s Victory | Books, Music, Photography & Movies : my best friends
5. Daily Prompt-Writing Will Help Me Win | readingwithafeather
6. I’m so honored | Right Down My Alley
7. I’d Like to Thank My Cats | Geek Ergo Sum
8. Cygnets (Daily Prompt: Victory) | photo potpourri
9. DP Challenge: Victory; the Water Villages of Ha Long Bay, VN | Travels and Trifles
10. Daily Prompt:I’d like to Thank My Cats | Motherhood and Beyond
11. I’d like to thank… | thoughtsofrkh
12. Daily Prompt: I’d Like to Thank the Fans | One Starving Activist
13. Boomer! | Andante Cantabile
14. 153. The Scotsman Wins | kevindeisher
15. The art of accepting blogging awards | The Novice Gardener
16. Youth Triathlon | It’s a wonderful F’N life
17. A Small Victory | The Ambitious Drifter
18. Daily Prompt: I’d Like to Thank My Cats (and Dogs) | littlegirlstory
19. Such A Pretty Trophy | Maggie’s Stories
20. Daily Prompt: Acceptance Speech – Belladonna on the stand | alienorajt
21. My Award | The Nest
22. Professor Dudley Worthington’s Lifetime Achievement Award (short fiction) | The Jittery Goat
23. I’d Like to Thank My Cats: How Not To Accept An Award… | suzie81’s Blog
24. Burke Revisited | clarior e tenebris
25. Daily Prompt: I’d Like to Thank My Cats | Venti Means 20
26. I Deserve That Trophy | Shilpa Sharma Online
27. Daily Prompt: I’d Like to Thank My Cats.| Beauty is on the inside Award! | Isabel MissV
28. The reward would be an award in itself. | Hope* the happy hugger
29. Thank you Mr Bear… | notsinglebutnothappy
30. A Standing Ovation… and Silence. | An Upturned Soul
31. Daily Prompt: …and the winner is ME | mommy&everything
32. Daily Prompt: I’d like to thank my coffee maker. | M. L. Trefry
33. Daily Prompt: I’d Like to Thank My Cats | Chronicles of an Anglo Swiss
34. Daily Prompt: I’d Like to Thank My Dogs, Husband, Friends, and All Benign Deities | SERENDIPITY
35. Daily Prompt: I’d Like to Thank My Cats | Sued51’s Blog
36. Daily Prompt: I’d like to thank my cats | Exploring Utah with MS and Apples
37. Victory: A Dedication to All The Survivors | Mind My Mind But…

A Surprising Act

When was the last time your child surprised you? An act of bravery or kindness perhaps?

Please comment on this post with your memoirs.