During my first month of blogging last year, I wrote a post about girgai3an, and how it has lost the magic that comes with it!

This is last year’s post -

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Saturday, October 30, 2004

Girgai3an 2004

When I got home today, I saw a huge group of kids on girgai3an near my place. My first thoughts were, “awww, this is nice! keeping the traditions.”

Then I noticed 3 things that really pissed me off!

* There were 15 kids, and 12 maids!!! (and yes I counted them)
* Four of the kids were on their mobiles!
* Three of kids were being carried by their maids!

What the hell happened to our society?!?

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Obviously, it makes sense that things get worse this year, like they always do! But to my surprise, this year’s girgai3an experience looks much more positive to me!

I was driving around in the same area as last year, and saw sooo many groups of kids walking around, and just by luck I had 87.9fm on, and they were playing old girgai3an songs! So the spirit of girgai3an seemed really alive at that moment!

Things I loved about girgai3an 2005-

  • The number of groups of kids, at least a dozen groups in the time I was driving around!
  • The clothes these kids were wearing, all the little kids with their colored darraa3as and the guys with their dishdashas and ga7aafy!
  • Some of the boys had their drums with them! (wain ayaam guwaa6y il Nido)
  • I saw a considerably smaller number of maids! Only one group had two maids!
  • The thing I loved the most was that I saw two groups with their mother with them!! That definitely was the highlight of the girgai3an observation!
  • At least two stations I heard were playing girgai3an songs, 87.9 fm playing old ones, 88.8 fm playing modern ones.

Girgai3an is such a wonderful part of our culture, I hope this lasts forever while keeping the traditions of the past!

O Allah ikhalleeeekum all to ur family and ur family to u o happy girgai3aaaning!