Jummah

Today is Friday and in Muslim households goes as Jummah. This by far was the best day of the week for me.
Since I was young child Jummah preparations started on Thursday night my sister and I would take our bath and having very long hair and it being night my mommy would have to blow dry our hair, I thought blow drying hair was the worse thing under the sun even worse than veggies.
Jummah in my house meant you wore your best or if you had anything new then this is the day you wear it, not only do you wear your best you eat the better.
A Jummah morning, usually starts with and Islamic radio station playing loud throughout my house, my mom does the cooking its always an Indian dish, we get up, have breakfast (nothing heavy, since we have a wonderful lunch ahead of us) we then each hit the showers and the men folk leaves for the Jummah prayer. While the men are away, the ladies tidy up, set the table, make salads, desserts and then we also go and pray but in the comfort of our house. When the men return we have a family lunch and my dad will tell us what the Friday lecture was about. Sometimes dad will bring a friend home, then the rules change, my mom is in hijab so we will have our lunch in at the kitchen.

My favourite Friday lunch meals are; mutton Biryani, carrot halva, and daal and rice. After Jummah lunch since I have retired parents, we just laze around and chat.

When I was studying fashion designing I missed Friday lunch and it was always a sad feeling between 12-2 knowing that was Jummah lunch time at my house, but I survived and now it's my younger brother's turn as his 1st BA at wits and even thou the foods always good there is always the empty seat that makes us appreciate the times when he is there

Me after Jummah lunch

jummah evening on my way to meet people

Who went Umrah (visited Saudi)

One of my favourite cloaks with a pleat detail

Sea food Biryani thanks to my amazing sister

Salad, we love our salads

biryani my mom made when we in CPT

 

Another beautiful salad

 P.s these pictures were taken on all different Jummah's

Drizzle's are enjoyed best on summer days
Aaqelah Salojee

 

So this will be my 1st post and I am thinking about whether my blog will be success or not and how will I really know if it is a success also how will I go about promoting my blog how will I get readers interested in what I have to say and having a mind that overthinks everything I've to conclusion that it will be a success because I do know how to how to get people up and excited about things weather it be to play dress up or an actual event  and one way of making sure it does is to advertise to anyone and everyone.
 I hope my personality will reflect on my stories as I am one very hyped up girl, who seems to always have a wonderful time weather it be with my siblings or friends.
I would love this blog to inspire lots of young ladies in the working environment or at home or studying. I love feedback as it will help me grow and be on target as to what people are thinking and feeling.

So lets get to know me...
I am the 2nd born of 3 kids and I am always asked if I have middle child syndrome? The answer is ... I myself do not know is it a real thing? Is it something someone made up and it stuck around and every time we come across a child that is the middle child, we ask that question so we can break the ice and make conversation? Well, if you are the middle child share your light on whether such a syndrome exists or not.

Having a sibling who is older then me means I can always have someone I can seek advice from and find out how bad of idea something really is before doing it and having a younger sibling means I have someone who I can be in charge of and pretend what I say is law (even if he doesn't think so) it also means I have 2 people around me that are always there to have a laugh with wither it be we Facebook stalking or watching Goredie Shore its people we are with our whole lives we are comfortable around them and no matter how mad we get at each other 2 mins later we are friends again.

I am the sibling who wears everyone's clothes wither it be my brothers button down jerseys or my sister shirts if I like it, I will wear it and even though they get angry they always forgive and let me do it all over again.

I do believe that the first friend I ever made was my sister and I made it a life long mission to copy her in everything especially in the color of clothing she wears.

I never knew how to share until my brother came along for some reason he always wanted what I was playing with and being an older sister for once I always gave in but it also meant I had someone to back me up when my sister would come around and tell us "I Told You So" after we broke something or made a mess

And that dear reader is a bit about me even though it doesn't give much as to who I really am it is a piece to the puzzle that makes me.

Every storm starts with drizzles...
Aaqelah Salojee

from left to right me Aaqelah, younger

 brother Zack, older sister Bibi Ayesha.

My sister and I are both wearing dresses

that I designed and sewed.

My sister and I at life in Hyde Park Corner

Zack on his farewell day and me with no make up what so ever

zack and bibi looking for his results in the newspaper

zack and I in CT on new years

bibi doing my make up for my graduation

zack then bibi then me