One Thousand and One Nights (Persian: هزار و یک شب‎)

I enjoy reading stories, I enjoy listening to stories, and I enjoy telling stories. On Legacy's 10th anniversary party, I'll tell you a story with my feet. It's a love story between a handsome man and a beautiful woman. The story is called "Eyes like Yours", and I am going to tell it to a great audience with my golden girls clogging Toastmasters.

Being the Persian Queen, Scheherazade told stories night in and night out to her beloved Shah, Shahryar. She did not end the story, so that the king would keep her alive in order to hear the end of the tale. The next night, as soon as she finished the tale, she began (and only began) another. So it went for 1001 nights.

Scheherazade told several famous stories like, Aladdin, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor. She is beloved by the old and young alike. I wish someday I could become a story teller like her. Are you all ears to "Eyes like Yours" by Shakira?

"Oh, you know I have seen a sky without sun, a man with no nation, saints captive in chains, a song with no name. For lack of imagination, he I have seen darker than ebony. Ya he Ya he Ya la he! And now it seems, that I, without your eyes could never be. My one desire, all I aspire is in your eyes forever to live.

Traveled all over the seven oceans, there is nothing that I wouldn't give, came from Bahrein, got to Beirut. Looking for someone comparing to you, tearing down windows and doors, and I could not find eyes like yours. Oh, You know I seen a woman of means in rags and begging for pleasure, crossed a river of salt, just after I rode a ship that's sunk in the desert."

rabboussamai fikarrajaii
fi ainaiha aralhayati
ati ilaika min haza lkaaouni
arjouka labbi labbi nidai

I still remember the late evening I arrived at Holiday Inn in Lahore ten years ago. I was mesmerized by the fancy Arabian dress of the doorkeeper. I couldn't believe my eyes that I was in the Persian world of fantasy in person. The two weeks business trip was etched in my mind. There was a real world of 1001 nights.

In less than a month, I am going to put on the dazzling dress for the first time to feel what it would be like to be Queen Scheherazade telling her stories to King Shahryar. I need to polish my clogging shoes to get ready for Legacy's 10th Anniversary Evening. I can't ask for more nights, because it is the one and only Night on April the 20th!