One of the beautiful Chinese friends whom life gave me the opportunity to get to know, and accompany them on visits to various Chinese cities, he was the first to teach me to hold those sticks, and give up eating with the oath or with the fork and the knife, especially in the presence of a family table that his wife worked hard to prepare, but I did not come out of He has one day, but the chest of the Arab kandora and the tarbosha are subject to environmental pollution, and she says that someone sprayed them with Boris, so that you can only take two steps with them to the “dobby” directly, which is the same thing that happened to him when she decided to sit in an Arab tent, and he sat down, and put The trays were in front of him, and we said to him: Five… and strike with your right hand, on that day we kept purifying the living from those trays until we were unable. He tried to convince us that eating with Chinese sticks is faster and more filling, and you can’t scatter a grain of rice before you.
Another Chinese friend I insisted that I fulfill his invitation on the occasion of the Chinese New Year, and I resolve him on the nights of Ramadan, for his grandfathers were Muslims, and he bears two names, a civil name and a family name. Family or sectarian, he was named after one of the companions, but if you called him, he might be surprised for a moment, then he remembers his ancestors to answer you, this friend I invited him once to taste him from grilled oven on Eid al-Adha in Al-Ain, and we were sitting in the Mubarraz, and in front of us was the wide TV screen, transmitting We used to perform the rituals of Hajj and prayer in the Sanctuary, so my body shivered for those praying crowds present in the Meccan court, and the crowds of the pilgrims. Fluent Arabic, and in a theatrical voice, I use it sometimes when necessary, and if necessary, taking care to stand in silence or distress, and clarity of word exits, especially when mentioning the number of two million Muslims, but the friend was inattentive and growling, and I do not know what is in his mind, so I said Perhaps he sensed the situation, read from the archives of the chests, or called for prayer This is the first who bears the name of one of the companions as well. I waited for a long time, changed the subject, and talked about another matter. Then I realized that the two million people did not mean any surprise to the Chinese, as if he entered a train station heading from Beijing, the new capital, to “Qian” the old capital.
Another nice Chinese friend, he visited me once in my office, in the days when smoking in public places was a privilege, and you really can’t object to it, before they were quarantined and isolated in glass booths, he asked me: I never used to smoke, and your office is like an oven, and I said to him: This is because of these journalists Those entering and leaving are preceded or followed by the smoke of their cigarettes, and I am allergic to its smell, but what to do, we are non-smokers a minority in this place, and we have to fill our chests with their passive smoking, so he laughed and said: I will write to you in Chinese “No smoking”, and hung it on your office door, Everyone who enters will ask about the meaning of the writing on the door, so you tell him that it is the phrase “No smoking.” He will be ashamed, and put out his cigarette immediately. The idea was good, and he walked for a week, then everyone who entered the office was the first to point out laughing at the Chinese phrase, which means “No smoking.” “As a common sentence among people is wrong, and it is linguistically correct to say that smoking is forbidden, because it is not permissible to start with an idea, what we have to do, the important thing is that some journalist colleagues were bringing others with him, to show him the phrase, and he understood that it was written in Mandarin Chinese, so that he would not be surprised if he entered an office “Professor”, who is tired of explaining its meaning to others!
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