Pedestrian Is Just Another Word For Speed Bump

He did it, betches. He made history.

2008-08-16T23:44:00.004-04:00

He won his 8th gold medal in one Olympic game, and also broke the world record.
Making him the worlds bestest swimmer. Ya digggggg? ;)
I cried.

Also, this is post number 200 for me.
Great timing.

I know he is over there in Beijing walking on sunshine, cuz I am, and I didn't even win shit.

Peace, love, and swimming y'all.

What I've been up to (more or less)

2008-08-13T15:05:00.012-04:00

1. Olympics

IS MICHAEL PHELPS A BEAST, OR IS HE A BEAST?
OMG. I can't even express the...the...PASSION :P That I feel for him right now
He makes me....proud. Such a great swimmer. Such a gorgeous body. Ugh.
He makes me want to start swimming again. It's been about 5 years since I last swam competitively. Never won any...only ever got bronze, lol. But it was good fun. Plus, I had awesome legs because of it, hah. Too bad that I'll probably never be able to do that again; unless for some reason we move back..?

USA gymnastics team act like a bunch of frat boys. They seem soo...douche-y. I miss the Hamm twins.

My best Olympic moment thus far has to have been, the 400m swimming relay.
Jason Lezak suddenly gets a surge of energy and in the last seconds and passes the french guy ( Bernard, a.k.a TRASH talker ) to win the gold. I screamed so loud. It was such an awesome moment in swimming history :)

2012 Olympics will be in LONDON.
I AM SOOOOO GOING TO BE THERE, BBS!
MARK MY WORDS ;)
I mean, I won't even have to pay for a hotel.

2.Work....sucks and is starting to really BORE me. As soon as I find something (which I hope will happen soooooon!) else I am quitting.

3. Tysons..Been here enough times to last a life time

4. Georgetown

BEST NACHOS EVER. NO LIE.

5. The other Boleyn girl. This is a effin' good book. I'm kind of surprised. Didn't think in a million years I'd enjoy it this much. Sex, money, mistresses, illegitimate children, status, beauty, lies, , and everything else in between. Drama. Beautiful.

6. Five Guys.
I've been eating here waay too much. Almost as much as I've been eating pizza ;)
MMMMMMMMMM.

8. Missing appointments.
Yeah...I've missed about...1..2...3! 3 appointment's in the past month and a half.
Not cool.

9. Movies. Have seen: Wanted, Dark Knight, Journey to the center of the earth, Step Brothers, and yesterday Pineapple Express ( Superbad was better, btw); last movie I saw it with my friends before they left back to Riyadh :( Their flight left at 6 pm this evening. ..I hadn't had that much fun with anybody all year. Back to my normal routine I guess, now...

Also, my cousin tells me that I'm going to have "so much fun" at college this year.
I beg to differ.
As September 2nd gets closer and closer, the more scared I get.

Another also, I bought the new Jonas Brothers Album yesterday. I can't decide if that is something that I am ashamed to admit yet or not. I can't fight this sudden obsession...!
Whatever.
They make me feel 14 again :)
On the real though...it's all about Joe for me. If he wasn't in the group, I probably wouldn't give a shit about them. Nick is cute. Kevin is...meh. But Joe?
Pure animal attraction :">

Yeah...nothing too interesting here...just thought I'd update this dusty thing :-p

..but she's just like a maze, where all of the walls all continually changed..

2008-08-06T21:34:00.002-04:00

Tidbits (for lack of a better name..)

2008-07-23T16:33:00.006-04:00

A few days ago I sat down to eat a slice of pizza on my fifteen minute break at work (I can't stop eating the pizza. Help.) As I'm sitting there struggling to find a way to effectively chew the pizza down in my metal-ridden mouth - it can get pretty ugly :p -, this little kid, about 6 or 7 runs up to a guy that is sitting a few tables across from and goes

"DAD. THERE'S A TERRORIST IN THE BATHROOM."

The dad said something to him that I couldn't hear, he probably told him to stfu because I know he must have been embarrassed as loud as that kid was. And they get up, get their plates up, and start making their way out of the food court.
Whats even worse is the fact that I just knew that he was probably referring to a Sikh.
And sure enough, about 30 seconds later, I see an Indian looking guy in a pink turban coming from the direction of the bathroom.

What the eff?

I don't think Terrorists wear pink, anyway.

And then, same shit next day.
I was waiting for the bus at the metro station.
This older lady (Muhajaba) sees me standing waiting for the bus. I was wearing a scarf that day so she comes towards me and smiles; I smile back. She trys to talk to me in English - which isn't too good :) So she asks me if I speak Arabic. "Yes". Then she asks me a few questions about which bus she should catch. She sounded Egyptian, and she also sounded like she didn't know too much about catching the metro..she probabaly just moved here.

So our bus comes. (She was getting on the same bus as me)
The doors open up, and she is trying to get on even though people are getting off.
General rule is, you're to wait until the people who want to get off of the bus get off before you try to board..but she didn't. And I'm guessing that was because she didn't really know any better.
But the bus driver flips out anyway.

"EXCUSE ME. YOU HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL THEY GET OFF, BEFORE YOU GET ON THE BUS."

Fair enough. She understood that and backed down off of the stairs..
But the bus driver isn't finished

"THIS IS AMERICA. I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU DO IT WHEREVER YOU COME FROM, BUT THIS IS AMERICA, AND THIS IS HOW WE DO IT HERE!!!"

Ummm, again...
What the eff???

First of all, she was old enough to be your mother. Learn some God damn manners.
Second of all, why was that second part even necessary!? She backed off of the stairs as soon as you told her to. That was suffifcient enough...so what the hell is your problem.

And not to to mention that there were about 15 people in line behind her, and a whole bus full of people now looking out the window at her. How effing humiliating. When it was my turn to get on I honestly had half a mind to ask him "Was that really necessary???"...I had some where to be though, and I was already half an hour late..didn't feel like getting kicked off the bus or whatever. And I know thats hardly an excuse...

Anyhow, the old lady ended up not riding the bus anyway. It was the wrong one.

But God, he pissed me off.

The first incident happened in Maryland
And the second in Virginia
Both would be incident that I would expect to witness on like...a roadtrip down south.

/unpleasant mood

Now the fun stuff.
I've started reading Twilight...Just finished Rebel Angels (Great read!).
I've been hearing alot of Twilight hype recently, so I bought the book about a month ago.
And theeeeeeen, I came across a link that was to a Twilight movie trailer. I didn't click the link, because I didn't want it to ruin the book in anyway possible for me. But the movie comes out ..November? I should be long finished the book by then.

So far I'm liking it! It is ~not~ the next Harry Potter, and I don't know where people are getting that from, but it's still pretty good.

I'm just pissed off because even though I refuse to watch the trailer...I can't block the images of the characters that play Edward and Bella from popping up on every other website I go to. I wish I had started reading it before the trailers and etc started coming out because now, Whenever I imagine Edward Cullen in my head , I imagine Robert Pattinson...and I don't like that because I feel that it's a forced image :p I wish I could have formed my own image of him in my mind instead of the Hollywood casting pick image. He's not bad looking or anything.. He played Cedric Diggory in The Goblet of fire, and he had the whole wild-weird-hot thing going for him:p But still..I regret not reading it before now. Oh well!

Side note to the handful that still read my blog - I know I have been really lazy about updating my blog and I havent really been commenting much on blogs in the blogosphere. I do still read them, but I've been quite busy lately. But don't take the not commenting as a sign of me not visiting and reading..because I still do :-D

EPIC

2008-07-18T23:03:00.005-04:00

I DARE any other comic book movie/actor/actress/villan/hero/whatever to top this.
Had me gasping, and shaking through the whole movie.
It was that good ;)
I'm getting goosebumps thinking about it now.
Heath is a beast. I swear.
He was so spectacular that I had to keep reminding myself through out the movie that "this is Heath Ledger!". He transformed himself into The Joker so well that it was ridiculous.
What a way to go out, eh?
Definitely an epic last performance.
I smell an Oscar nomination. Oh yeah ;)
In fact, if he doesn't get one, I will be outraged.

Now, excuse me while I go through the movie in my head once again.

Yes. I wore this to the screening. What?

yay!

2008-07-15T23:31:00.002-04:00

thanksssssssss!

Sorry?

2008-07-05T23:17:00.005-04:00

Marcus, I'm sorry for saying what I said. I'm sorry for not knowing that you had friends who attempted suicide. My "excuse me while I go and slit my wrists" comment was out of place. But so are your "retarded" and "gay" comments to tell you the truth.

Hajr...I'm sorry for..heck I don't even know why I am apologizing to you. You need anger management. I was on time and where you told me to be at 3 o'clock. You were an hour and a half late. Me - 1. You - 0.

E., I'm sorry I wasn't home to wish you a a happy birthday on your wall. So I did the next best thing - sent you an SMS. I'm sorry that you didn't get my "Happy Birthday" msg for some reason, and I honestly don't know why. What can I say - technology is a bitch sometimes, ain't it? I can't really make you believe me, so I hope you find a way to get over it, and forgive me.
If it helps any, I feel like shit..

Wait..wait...come bacccck...!

2008-07-03T19:59:00.003-04:00

So missing pretty good opportunities seems to be the story of my life.

I went up to my soon to be (inshallah) university this fall to just..walk around and explore.
The campus is pretty huge, so it was a needed expedition.

We go into the student union building, and as we are grabbing a couple of maps (myself, and my friend-cousin-sister like-person I've known forever) a girl walks in we look her way and she smiles at us, hesitates for a bit and then asks "Do you know where the bookstore is?". She's obviously new. Just like myself.

I look at person I've known forever person, and she looks at me, then we both look at the maps in our hands and see that it is downstairs and tell her so. She smiles says thanks lingers a few secs and is on her way.

If you're wondering what the opportunity is, well that was it. See? It went by so fast I'll bet you didn't even notice it. (And if you did notice it...then I'm way worse off that I thought I was :p)

Instead of just telling her to go downstairs, I probably should have said something to the extent of, "Oh, are you new?? I'm new too...Whats your name?....etc".

But of course I completely miss the golden chance.
And I realize all this a few seconds after shes gone down the stairs.

Argh.

There you have it
Your dose of the day for the socially challenged soul :)

Of marbles..

2008-06-28T00:23:00.004-04:00

If you have seen Men In Black, remember that scene at the end of the movie - the camera zooms out of New York City into the sky. It continues to zoom out of the United states, and then the Earth, and then our solar system, then our galaxy (the milky way), and then a bunch of other galaxies within the vicinity of a vast dark looking abyss, and then it keeps zooming out until it "emerges" I guess you could say, from a marble. Where galaxies were seconds ago, are what look like thousands or millions of micro golden specks. The marble is on the "the ground" with alike looking marble. A "hand" then comes out of no where is shown fiddling around a bit with the marbles, then it swiftly picks them all up and throws them into a small sack about half way filled with other marbles other than the ones that it just picked up from the ground and dropped into the bag.

"Wtf", right?

That scene always reminds me of how insignificant we all are. Humans. Earthlings. I mean, I'm not giving Steven Spielberg all of the credit for that, because I've always felt insignificant, but I'll give him credits for reinforcing the feeling :p

Some would think this feeling is a good thing. I know I do...sometimes.
It makes you put things into perspective. Especially when people start feeling arrogant and superior..
But at other times, I feel that it ain't so dandy.

You see, I start thinking, "If everything I do/everything about me is so insignificant, will it hurt if a I do a few things that I'm not supposed to, religion wise? Y3ni, figuratively speaking :p I'm literally nothing more than a speck of dust, inside of a speck of dust, in a marble. So lets say I slip up a few times...or even more than a few times...or even if I slip up and do things that I shouldn't every moment of my life. And I'm not even talking about anything that would harm others.

In the larger scheme of things, does it/will it even really matter? ;/
(That was more or less of a rhetorical Q, but if you feeel like answering it, go for it ;p )

Nothing is really that big of a deal.
What do we strive for? Success, and acceptance amidst other specks of micro nano specks of dust? lol.

Also, if this isn't proof that aliens/other life forms exist outside if the earth then I don't know what is :p

The Mosaic Tag

2008-06-26T23:07:00.004-04:00

This is the mosaic tag that has been going around.
Mra cute! :p I was *tagged* by Dandoon ;p

Rules are the following:

Put your answers to the following questions into the search field on Flickr.com and choose your favourite picture from the first page only and create your own mosaic here.

1. What's your name?
2. Your favourite food?
3. Your High School?
4. Your favourite colour?
5. Your celebrity crush?
6. Your favourite drink?
7. Dream Vacation?
8. Favourite dessert?
9. Your dream job?
10. The thing you like best in this world?
11. A word that describes you?
12. Your nickname?

If you feel like being tagged by this cuteness - knock yourself out! ;)

I give you my finished mosaic:

Note: Questions were not answered in order :p

;*

2008-06-25T19:39:00.000-04:00

Boycott the pizza

2008-06-23T00:10:00.004-04:00

I'm trying to figure out how to start this post off. Got to get into the Taq-o-bell "groove" again ;)

So a few things have happened since I stopped blogging a few months ago.
1. I got a job.
2. I got rejected from a university.
3. I got accepted in to a university, and accepted the offer :D I only applied to two, which was kind of dumb on my part, but I got lucky and got accepted into one of them, so i guess that doesn't make it that dumb anymore.
4. I re-activated my facebook for some reason :S
5. I made my first new *friend* since moving here :O Well, I think? We're still in the beginning stages, so who knows, we might get bored of each other and stop speaking 2 weeks from now. Yeah, I know, pessimistic much? =)
6. Discovered online karaoke. OH YEEAH ;)
7. I've finally finished unpacking everything in my room :(

And thats all I can remember right now.

Also, I'm kind of scared I might start putting on weight.
I eat pizza for lunch every time I have to work.
What if I "blow up", and can't lose the weight. That would be tragic.
One thing about myself that I am actually happy about is..my body type.
I CAN'T LOSE THAT.

No more pizza for this enchilada.
Where are my granola bars.

:)

2008-06-19T03:30:00.001-04:00

"Sometimes people put up walls not to keep others out...but to see who cares enough to tear them down." - Anonymous.

It felt so wrong..it felt so right..

2008-06-09T22:51:00.002-04:00

So here I am again!
Apparently it's difficult for me to actually stay away from this blog..
It seems like about once a year a so, I get the urge to leave it and..move some place else A'3ayir jao shway :p And ultimately end up back here. Hmm.

I doubt anyone still read this thing, so back to square one, lol.

So I'm going to start this off by doing Rawr's tag.
I kinda sorta asked her to tag me :D Yjooz.

So without further ado;

The Rules:
1.)Link the person(s) who tagged you.
2.)Mention the rules on your blog.
3.)Tell about 6 unspectacular quirks of yours.
4.)Tag 6 following bloggers by linking them.
5.)Leave a comment on each of the tagged blogger’s blogs letting them know they’ve
been tagged.

It seems like I've done this tag like 65236 times before, but whatevs! I'm not complaining! Not like I have any other ideas for posts right now ;) Ok. So ummm, lets see:

1. I notice a lot of details (mostly very useless details that others don't notice) and frequently miss the bigger picture.
2. I have trichotillomania. Not too severe though..
3. I fucking hate it when I call someone, and they're on the other line, and I have to call them back.
4. I feel naked without mascara. I don't go out without it on.
5. They way I talk (in English) changes depending on the ethnicity of the person I'm talking to :p I can't control it.
6. I have animated conversations with myself at the bus stop every morning. A few times people have walked up on me and I didn't notice, while I was having conversations. I felt dumb.

And thus, the tag has ended.

Adjourned

2008-02-29T01:29:00.004-05:00

Training Wheels

2008-02-23T06:50:00.004-05:00

You decide that you're going to do something and you do it. Even though you know you parents won't approve ...
It's not anything necessarily bad. It's just something don't particularly like.
You have fun with it, and love every moment.
A lie will be told about where you were, and what you did - to protect the truth.
They believe it, and don't suspect a thing at all.

So during the aftermath of it all...why do you feel that itty bitty pinch of guilt.
Why the hell do they have us trained so well.

Picking and choosing

2008-02-18T16:18:00.004-05:00

There just too many things that I'd like to try. Would like to do, and there just aren't enough hours in the day to do them all.
So out of the mere feeling of being overwhelmed, I end up doing none of them.

I want to edit some of my photos, and post them on flickr.
I want to join flickr technique group and actually participate in the discussions, and try out the posted photoshop techniques.
I want to finish my presentation.
I want to learn how to use photoshop good enough that I could design my own templates, and other things..
I want to be able to finish reading a novel in no more than 3 days, and then move on to the next.
I want to take up more hobbies, like painting, and scrapbooking.
I want to do more artsy stuff. Small stuff. DIY stuff.
I want to go to museums, and exhibitions.
I want to cook more.
I want a part time job.
I want to finish cleaning up my roooom.
I want to start sewing classes. (Went to register, class was full. I was too late.)
I want to be able to read over lessons before going to class.
I want to start studying more than 1 day before the exam.

It feels like life is just passssiing me by, while I just sit and watch.
Unproductiveness bites.

*sighs*

fetishes (some are temp. some aren't.)

2008-02-18T00:24:00.009-05:00

1. Bangs
2. Nylon magazine.
3. Ellen Page.
4. Tay Zonday. "..Build a tent and say the world is dry, chocolate raaaain.."
5. Making lists :-S
6. Not following through on made lists.
7. Daydreaming and getting lost inside my head.
8. Applesandmustard 's youtube channel.
9. Wearing two pairs of socks.
8. Frosties.
10. Models! :O I blame Bravo.
11. Obama (if you haven't already noticed, lol.)
12. The world, and traveling it all. (Still don't know when that will ever happen.. It's never far from my thoughts though..)
13. Flip flops
14. Collecting crap; like movie ticket stubs and coke bottles..
15. Taking pics of food. Of course.
16. Wasting time. Like now.
17. People, in general.
18. Fairytales.
19. Trench coats!
2o. Staying up late; not going to bed before 1, yet not doing anything productive.

21. .....to be continued.

"..dont dodge and mumble, smile and rumble!.."

2008-02-13T09:52:00.011-05:00

...Aliyah's wise words. Write them down.

-Well isn't this just fantastic. A reason to harass pregnant women in airports.
Just lovely..

I guess we can never underestimate how far these fear tactics will go.

So on top of being bloated, hormonal, suddenly overweight, all stretch marked up, and a bunch of other weird bodily and mental things, they now have to worry about people thinking that they're terrorists! :D Great..

-I met a boy who reminds me of Travis McCoy. *sizzling sound*

- I've finally finished reading Memoirs of A Geisha. A year after starting it! Not because I'm that slow of a reader but because I don't really sit down and just..read. I'll read on the train and while waiting for the bus. I started it back in Riyo and as you know, there's no metro or bus stops there so I virtually never read it. Anyways, I'm happy I'm done. Promised myself I wouldn't keep starting other books unless I plan to finish them all. So one at a time :p I feel like I'm living up to my "read more books" resolution. Kind of.
Any how, I wasn't too impressed with the ending.
It would have been better if Sayuri didn't get The Chairman at the end. Because then she would have gotten owned =)
Happy endings really ruin a story sometimes.
It was still a very great read though.

The whole Geisha business is just messed up. A bunch of very well paid..whores? And the men that they served were just perverted :-S Dr. Crab. The minister. The General. Each one more gross than the next.
I think my favorite thing about this book were the endless (literally) metaphors.
There was a metaphor for every single feeling, or thought, or scene. Really brought more meaning to the story.

Now! Time for me to watch the movie :D

- Wtf is up with Kanye's new video?!?!? :| I think I like it though!

I know there's no point to this post, but when is there ever :p
I'm trying to update more frequently

Over and out.

24°F

2008-02-11T15:59:00.000-05:00

- Barack won a Grammy?! Loool. This just keeps getting better. In fact, it's becoming a little too good to be true. Uh-oh. :-S

Won't be voting in the primaries since apparently you have to register at least 30 in advance to be able to vote. Fuck that! How come I wasn't informed before hand?! Oh well, at least mom gets to go vote :|

Will he win Ohio and Texas???
We will know all too soon..

- I was having some trouble with my math, so I asked my math professor to explain some stuff to me. He told me to come with him to his office. We got there, and he explained the problems to me, and then we chatted for a bit, and he asked where I went to high school. I told him Saudi Arabia, and he was all amazed and whatnot. Then he was like "I have something I want to show you."
Me: "Erm....ok? =/"
So he digs in to his file cabinet drawer thingy, and pulls out this blue box and there's this little K'aabah picture on the outside. Inside of the box is this K'aabah snow globe with beads inside (You know which ones I speak of. All the little shops near the Haram sell them.) Then he goes "One of my friends brought this back for me when he went on The Hajj." Then he paused for a bit; "He died a year later"
Me: "Oh.." *confused look as to why he told me this?* + *sad "oh shit, that sucks" look*
Him: "Yeah it was really sad. He was such a nice guy. He had 12 children. I only met one of them. He was so happy after he came back from Hajj. It was like the highlight of his life."
Me: *trying to figure out what to say to that* "Yeah..I've been on Hajj. Went about 4 years ago."
Him: "Oh wow. Must have been pretty amazing, wasn't it?"
Me: "Yeah...it was.."
After that I thanked him for the help we said our goodbyes, and I was off.
I think this was the most interesting/weird part of my day..
I couldn't tell you why though..

- "The return of the King" was on TV last night. I caught it in the middle, and I just had to finish watching it (Even though I had Spanish test today. I have the feeling I did quite bad on it, too.)...I've never read the books. At the end when Frodo goes off into the sunset with Bilbo...where the hell do they go?! Do they go and die together? Is the sunset a symbol of them going off to heaven? I mean, with Frodo going on about how he "had to leave" the shire because some wounds never heal.....so yeah I've been trying to figure that one out...

Sorry but...

2008-02-08T19:11:00.001-05:00

[ Superman ]
Originally uploaded by м

...this is just ridiculously hot!!

LOL!

I'm inspired

2008-02-06T00:35:00.000-05:00

Yes the fuck we can, bitchessssss.

Hopefully, I'll be registering to vote this weekend.

Lost for words...literally

2008-02-03T22:37:00.000-05:00

I'm supposed to writing this 4 page essay that is due by Wednesday. It was initially due by Monday, but the professor decided she'd take her time putting up on blackboard. I hate blackboard, btw.
I mean, it shouldn't be our primary source for assignments, you know?
Give us what ever we're supposed to do in class, and if someone loses or forgets what it is...she/he can check blackboard...fery simble!
It was supposed to be up by Wednesday night, and it wasn't up until Saturday morning; so of course she had to give us extra time.
So here I am lollygagging.
Made my rounds on blogs.
And it seems like this one book in my bookcase is looking at me begging to be read.
I must admit, it's very tempting. I've had the book for about 2 years now, and I've never read it. All of a sudden I have this sudden urge to.
Just like I felt like I had to watch the Super Bowl. (I was rooting for the Giants, btw :p)I'm not even into American football. I liked the commercial where they remake that Godfather scene when he wakes up with the horse head in his bed, instead there's a bunch of oil and the front part of a car. LOLZ.
It's like now that I have something to do...all of the things that I could have done when I had nothing better to do are coming to mind. Annoying. Annoying. Annoying.

So basically this essay has to be about the themes of three short stories "Girl", "The Story of an Hour", and "A&P". All of them are pretty interesting so I guess thats a good sign.
I wrote out an outline; it's not great but it's a start. Even found a few websites that can help.
Everything is here looking right at me, but I just can't start :-S
Basically all I have to do is put the ideas together, yet....it's soooo hard to start. I just can't.
This is also the same kind of feeling I get when it comes to applications; all I have to do is fill in the blanks and send them off.
But it's like I'm scared to start.
Maybe it's some kind of phobia.

Song of the now

Public displays of affection

2008-02-02T01:52:00.000-05:00

..make me sick.

There were too many of them this evening.
To my right.
To my left.

In front of me on the train.
BEHIND me on the train.

Get a room, and stop making the rest of us feel so lonely.
Sheesh.

shot of random.

2008-01-30T15:31:00.000-05:00

- Oh how I love thee!

-During class discussions, I often wish I had more opinions :-S After reading over something, people will add their input and conclusions, and what not; but I never seem to have any?! :-S
I just sit there listening to everyone else thinking "Oh, wow. Interesting". LOL.
Hmmm..

Adios...

Hung up

2008-01-27T23:49:00.000-05:00

I've been listening to this song non-stop for the past 2 weeks; and I have no plans of trying to stop either.

I think this is my favorite music video.
It's hot. And there's so much emotion in it. Get hooked if you aren't already =p

Also, for the fable, I decided to go ahead and use the food eating contest; but I changed the food from chicken wings to miniature apple pies :-D A bit more classy, no?
The guy's name is Chad (the hare) and the girl's name is Blythe (the tortoise ;)
Thanks for all of the suggestions, though :-p Lool.

Lessons in...

2008-01-23T20:25:00.000-05:00

I don't like Spanish class much.
Had my first lesson today, and I can tell already.

It seems like everyone has some kind of background in the language; like they took it in high school before.

The professor speaks waaay to fast.

And I'm still confused about the "esta","estas" "estan" thing.
Meh!

I think I need some type of crash course book because our textbook is waay too complicated.
(Spanish for dummies? *wink*)

Math,

The professor seems really sweet. But we only had one lesson, so I'll see ;-p
I hope calculators are allowed this semester...
He had a wedgie that I was dying to pick.

(Random thought: It's annoying how so many people claim to have OCD all of a sudden in recent days -_-! I'll bet you didn't know what it was before "Monk" came out.)

Literature was weirdly the most interesting class.
The professor reminds of a girl that I once knew. Well actually, I still know her.
Same eyes. And I've only seen those eyes on two people in my life - the professor and the girl :-p
Also, the professor seems sort of stuck up; but in a way that I can tolerate ;p

Anyhow, we talked about fables or short stories. She read a few to us.
The one I really liked was by some guy named Somerset Maughum - "Appointment in Samara"

A certain merchant in Baghdad sent his servant to the market to buy some provisions. A little while later, the servant returned looking white in the face. In a trembling voice he said, “Just now in the market place I was jostled by a man in the crowd, and when I turned I saw it was Mr. Death. He looked at me and made a threatening gesture. Please lend me your horse, because I want to go to Samara where Mr. Death will not be able to find me.”

The merchant agreed and lent the scared man his horse. The servant mounted the horse and rode away as fast as the animal could gallop. Later that day, the merchant went down to the market place and saw Mr. Death standing in the crowd. He approached him and said, “Why did you make a threatening gesture to my servant when you saw him this morning?”

“That was not a threatening gesture,” said Mr. Death. “It was only a start of surprise. I was astonished to see him in Baghdad, because I have an appointment with him tonight in Samara.

HAHAHAHA. OWNED!

As an assignment, we have to re-write "The tortoise and the hare" and modernize it.
Same moral; (slowly but surely wins the race?) just in a more modern 21st century setting. We can change the characters and everything.

I thought about writing one about two contestants at a chicken wing eating contest. The tortoise would be this petite little female, and the hare would be this huge multi chicken-wings-eating-contest-award-winning-guy. The rest is pretty obvious. Looool.
I dunno, though. I guess a food eating contest isn't the best choice for a literature class :-p

Oh, well. I 'll see what else I can come up with before it's due. :-p

Why am I so stung by this

2008-01-22T23:46:00.000-05:00

:(

Makes me wonder when my time will come =/

Brownie and Cinnamon Buns Ben & Jerry's

2008-01-19T19:46:00.000-05:00

...Cause that's what I'm currently eating ;p

Moving on, it's really annoying when people text me for no reason. They have nothing to say, yet they text me, and being the polite and nice person I am, I always reply back.
This one girl texts me like, at least every other day, asking "What are you doing?"
When she first started doing this, I expected that maybe she wanted to know because she wanted me to do something with her, and she was trying to see if I was busy or not..
So I text back and tell her.

"Eating"

"Just woke up"

"At the bookstore"

"Cooking"

"Peeing"

etc, etc.

Now it's just annoying.
So I texted her yesterday asking her if she wanted to go with me to the movies today.
She replies back "Just me and you?"
I reply "Yeah. But if you want to tell someone else to come along, I don't mind!"

and I waited for her to reply back all night to say yay or nay.
But she didn't :-S

Then this morning I texted her again saying "So are going with me to the movies or no?"
Still; no reply. So I went alone, lol.
What I don't get is, why the hell do you bother me so much with your text questions, in a way that seems like you *might* want to do something, and THEN when I text YOU and actually want to go out and do something, you don't reply!!!?

So anyways, I as I said, I ended up going alone.
I've always thought it was really sad when people go to see movies alone =/

Went to see Juno. Finally! ;) It's like one of the most adorable flicks ever.
You're able to love every character in this movie. There isn't one character that I disliked.
And Juno's endless one liners are golden. Haha.

Memorable quote:

"In my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person will still think the sun shines out your ass. That's the kind of person that's worth sticking with."

Awwww ♥ I waannnnnnt.

(They serenaded each other this song @ the end *_*)

Snow turns me on!

2008-01-17T17:35:00.000-05:00

Sorry, but I couldn't resist the temptation!
Had to make a snow post! (It snowed today)

*siiiiiighs*

The male duck swimming behind the female duck, so it wouldn't have to go through the slush first. HMMMMM -_-

Oh my God.... SEXY!

*drools* *_*

An attempt to make a snow angel. LOL.

"Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove."

2008-01-14T23:48:00.000-05:00

random title. nothing to do with post..

- Registered for the Spring semester this morning. Was much more simple than it was last semester! This semester I'm taking another math -_- , Spanish, intro to mass media, and literature and advanced writing 1. I wanted to do 5 courses so I'd have 15 credit hours, like I did last semester, but my adviser advised me not to ;-p I don't know how excited I am about these courses. None of them are the courses that I had in mind at the end of the first semester. The only subject that didn't get replaced is math. And yeah, I hate math, lol.
The literature class sounds like it'll be interesting?
Intro to mass media seems like it'll be a bit lame, lol.
Spanish? Hmmmm. Well languages are always fun aren't they?
Anyhow, I hope I don't have too much difficulty with anything.
I know one thing though; i'm definitely not as excited as I was at the beginning of last semester!
Alas! The novelty is wearing off...

- Disney is finally making an animated movie with a black princess. Woohoo! It's about time!! Apparently this news is kind of old, but I'm just finding out, lol.
There's been: A blonde, a red head, a brunette, and Snow white (she had black hair, so what does that make her?). An Asian, an Arab, and a Native American.
There's even been a Gypsy for crying out loud. Loool.

The movie is titled "The princess and the frog"(google it). It's set to come out in 2009. Me excited.

(Yep! That's her!)

- There's this burger king commercial that shows how people react when they've been told that the whopper has been discontinued. "The Whopper Freakout". It's Hilarious. I've always openly declared my hate of BK (except for the chicken fries), but after seeing this commercial a few times, I started craving for one like mad. I finally gave in and got one today. Advertisers are evil. It's like once you watch their commercials you're under their spell. So much so that you'll and eat something that you don't even like because they tell you that you should :-S There's a video of it on youtube. The guy's reaction at 00:58 is pricelessss. Little drama queen! Lol. I think it was in that instant that my whopper craving started :-|

- I watched Persepolis (The animated movie about an Iranian girl's life growing up during Islamic revolution) this past weekend. Amazing movie. Loved it. It has a perfect mixture of comedy and seriousness. There was this one scene where Marjan (the heroine) is at an underground mixed party with her friends, when suddenly the bearded men in suits turn up. The girls try to hide the guys before the men in suits get to their apartment.; but they find them. The guys run out of the apartment and up to the roof trying to get away. There are about 5 of them. So one guy keeps running and leaps off of the edge towards the roof top next to the building, and makes it across. The others follow his lead and make it across; except for one. He was the last one and the men in suits were very close. So he runs a bit then leaps. But because he doesn't gain enough momentum he doesn't make it to the other roof top, and falls to his death.
Sound familiar any?
I don't usually cry during movies, but that scene had me shedding tears.
Definitely one of my top movies of this school year.♥

(Lol.)

I remember back in elementary school I was wearing a hoodie one day, and because it got warm, I took it off, and tied it around my waist. A teacher saw this and flipped out. She was like "Don't tie your jacket around your waist like that!! You're imitating the kufaar! The west! It has a bad meaning! Take it from around your waist at once!!".
What the fuck??? After that incident, it was like our thing. Whenever we felt like being rebellious, we'd tie our jackets around our waists ;-D I actually signed a form for misconduct for that once =/
We traded "The babysitters club" books and The backstreet boys cassettes and such between us like crack. We were also very good at finding nifty places to hide things (Random classroom bag checks. Lol.). Ahhhh..those were the days.

Song of the now

I eat, therefore I am

2008-01-10T00:27:00.000-05:00

W/flash

Without, lol.

Cooked for the first time in like, 4 months :-D
Chicken Parmesan, Ha!

Hehe. I'm pretty proud of how it came out.
Took long enough to prepare.
My legs were killing me. Cooking is hard work :-|
I started at 6:30 ish, didn't finish until..10:30?!
"Preperation time: 40 mins." Pfffft. Yeah, whatevs!

Heck, I didn't even want anybody to eat it after all of that work!
I just wanted it to sit there. Looking pretty.

If it rains on your parade... break out the slip n slide!

2008-01-08T02:10:00.000-05:00

(extremely random title; I know, lol.)

It's funny how you sometimes find comfort or solace in the strangest places.

A couple of hours ago I was feeling kind of down. My mood a lot lately (I've been pretty emo, lol. Can't help it though...). I had a lot on my mind; thinking about a lot of stuff. I couldn't even blame my mood on pms =p

So anyways, I signed in on msn messenger to see who was online and if there was anyone I felt like talking to. None of the people that I chat with often were on.
I saw one friend online that is more or less a sister to me. We go way back. We met as kids back in Riyo. In recent years though, we haven't been as close as we were a while back. Hardly saw her at all these past 3 years. Only like twice a year during formal gatherings. Then we'd disappear from each others lives again. I check out her display picture, and it's a picture of Kingdom Tower, lol. She just moved to the states this year as well and she misses Riyo just as much as I do. We've chatted a few times but never for that long. Usually really short convos.
I double clicked her display name and commented about her display picture ( I just had to! =p)
and we started chatting; and it really made me feel soo much better.
With her, it's always about her love triangles and guy drama.
For some weird reason her rants made me perk up a bit?? It was "just like old times" as she put it.

Simultaneously, I started chatting to this guy that added me a while back; but I've never really had a conversation with. Nor do I know him personally, really. But anyways, he was really sweet, sarcastic (the good type of sarcasm), and girly! Haha. He claimed that he was "kinda cute" and that guys always hit on him (I smell a pretty boy! Ka-ching!). Also, that his "cuteness" was a blessing from God. LOOOL. Yep! Quite the humble one.

But yeah, these two handfuls worked wonders for me tonight.
And I'm fucking grateful.

I'm also grateful for scones. They're amazing. God bless the person who invented them.

Some movie randomness, and other.

2008-01-07T00:49:00.000-05:00

-I'm dying to see this "Juno" movie. Looks amazing. I don't know the exact details, since I still haven't seen it, like I just said =p But it's supposed to be about this teenage girl (Juno) who accidentally gets pregnant. Ratings for it have been really good; and it's made a bunch of money.
Definitely going to go see it. Just don't know with whom yet =p

-Left facebook a few days ago. Well, deactivated my account ( I can always reactivate it again and everything will be there just as I left it). Feels gooood. I waste way to much time there; plus it depresses me to see all my friend's statuses and wall posts and pictures, and whatnot of them all together having fun and/or meeting new people and enjoying themselves! I don't want to see any of that. I know thats pretty selfish but I can't help but feel that way. I won't be going back any time soon, I don't think. Although I did reactivate it today...but just for a couple of minutes. I found out that my step dad has an account there! ((what the fuck???)) So I reactivated it to block him and his friend list (LOL) just in case.
Small update: How to quit Facebok. (Hilarious.)

- Watched Marie Antoinette (with Kirsten Dunst) the other day. Yeah, I'm kind of late! Came out in 2006! But whatevs; never got around to it until now! I was expecting it to be pretty bad...but it wasn't??! It was entertaining; but at the same time semi-educational, I guess. It starts off with her being traded over to the french royal family, from her home in Austria, so she can marry the heir to the French throne; so an alliance could be formed between the two countries, and in time, she could help make decisions with Austria's interest in mind. She's really young at the time; and her husband (after the wedding ceremony of course) doesn't want to have sex with her ( Looool). How weird? I would think most of the times its the complete opposite =p
Anyways, the costumes in the movie are a.m.a.z.i.n.g. !!! And the hair. And the food. And well, everything. Welcome to the good liiife =p One of my favorite scenes from this movie was when Marie Antoinette is trying on a bunch of different clothes and shoes they show a pair of purple converse sneakers in the background. The director explained that this was to show that she was just a ordinary teenager.

The movie also has a cool soundtrack!

- Rufus Humphrey (from Gossip Girl) is a total DILF. I love this show, and I watch it religiously.
I don't know how any son with a father as hot as him would ever feel comfortable bringing their girlfriend's or whatever around. Not to say that the dad would try to make a move; but who wants their girlfriend crushing on their father?? 'Cause I know if I was Serena I would be ;) How can you cast a father that is that hot!

Speaking of TV shows, when is my Ugly Betty coming back!!? :(

- Finished 1 and 3/4 essays =p I have to write 3. Have a bit more of the 2nd one left. The 3rd one of going to be a combination of the first two :-| Registration for uni is supposedly this Friday (??). Yeah, I'm not even sure. But hopefully I'll have all three done by then.

- My sleeping is really messed up and I don't know how it happened. I've been waking up at like....4 o'clock, for the past few days. Weird.

- Pirates of the Caribbean has officially become my Favorite movie trilogy. Bought and watched part 3 (At world's end) this past weekend. My favorite character is a tie between Davey Jones and of course Captain Jack Sparrow =p I loved the whole Calypso/Davey Jones love twist.♥ The pirates on aboard The Flying Dutchman also made me really hungry :-S I hear there will be a part 4 (*yay*) to the series; but Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann won't be in it. (Double *yay*. They're both annoying. Especially Elizabeth :-S). So it'll be all about Jack Sparrow ;-D I feel kind of cheated that the DVD only had 2 deleted scenes, though. Limited edition!

- I wanna run away to New York City ;-)

Happy New Year

2007-12-31T23:44:00.000-05:00

I guess a lot has happened to me this year.

The biggest thing being "Goodbye, Saudi. Hello America".

I made a lot of new friends in the first half of this year, and during the 2nd half of the year I got separated from them all. Old and new. When we first moved here, I missed the new ones a lot. Now, more than anything, I wish I could see the older ones. I don't think it is even possible for me to meet anyone that had as much in common as we did.
I don't know when I'll see any of them again.

We moved back to the US after living in K of SA for 13 years.

I became a lot more moodier this year, I've noticed. So have others.

I've had braces this entire year. (Can't wait 'till I get them taken off!)

My nephew has officially become my favorite person in the world.

I think I've matured a lot this year.

There's a lot I hope to accomplish in 2008. To name a few:

-Top priority is to stop procrastinating.
-I'd also like to get my driver's license.
-Eat healthier, and become more healthy in general.
-I'm hoping that my new schedule for this coming semester is more flexible so I won't have classes everyday. Then I'll have more time to do other things.
-I want to sign up for sewing classes! There's a place near by that offers them. I'm going to give that a shot.
-I'm going to do more reading this year. Start and finish reading more books.
-Read more Qur'an.
-Stop losing my glasses =/
-Read more Arabic books so I won't start forgetting it! I wonder if I can order Arabic novels on Amazon? At any rate, I'm definitely aiming to keep up may Arabic blog.
-Get a job! Or an internship.
-Stop dwelling on me missing life back in Riyo would probably be a good thing to do. I'm not saying that I should forget it (And it's not like thats possible anyway!). But I won't be going back anytime soon. So I guess it's time for me to start accepting that.
-Try to be more outgoing; hopefully I'll make new friends by this time next year.
-Try not to lose myself and forget who I am.
-Seize more opportunities instead of letting them pass me by.
-Become more independent.
-And last but not least, keep on wandering down the road of self discovery.

Happy New Year everyone.

P.S. Happy birthday to my blog.
My (2nd?) blogiversary. ;)
I started it on New Years Eve, 2005.
(^_*)
I had Haloscan comment boxes (they're sexy as hell!) back then though, so as I look back at the really old posts, none of the comments are there :"( I had such fond memories in the old comments. I think removed the Haloscan comments and switched to the normal blogger ones some time ...last year?
Happy Birthday bloggi al7abiba <3

An open letter

2007-12-30T07:32:00.000-05:00

Dear parents,

There so so much that I wish I could say to you. I just don't have the guts to.
For fear of being called disrespectful. For fear of you accusing me of hypocrisy. And for fear that you really won't care of my opinions; which you usually don't.
How dare you, may I ask, have an attitude with me because of the so-called "too much time" that I spend on the internet? Most of the time spent is staying in contact with my friends; it's not like I have a booming social life at the moment, and even if I did; I'm positive that you'd find something wrong with that. I've canceled many previous plans of going out just because I didn't want to have you down my back. There will always be something found wrong with anything that I like and enjoy it seems; unless it's something "Islamic" and even then! If it's not something that follows your same theology or opinion or whatever, then it's deemed wrong.

You know, I'm sorry that I'm not the perfect little Muslim daughter that you'd probably like to have. I'm sorry that I'm not interested in reading that Islamic books that you try to push down my throat form time to time. I'm sorry that don't really enjoy going to Mosque with you. I'm sorry that even though I try to wear Hijab just to please you, it still isn't good enough for you.

What was the point of me ever being the "good" kid? I do what I'm told for the most part. Teachers never complained about me. I stayed out of trouble. I like to think of myself as a pretty respectful person. I have never cursed at you. I've never done anything that you should feel ashamed of. Yet in return, all you do is find things to complain about.

Well you know what? I'm fucking tired of it.
I'm 20 years old. Must I walk around the house smiling and gleeful when I'm in no mood to smile or feel happy, just to make YOU feel better?
Reality is, I'm pissed off. A lot. And I have every right to be.
I feel like I have no control over my life. It's always everyone else telling me what to do. How to act. What my opinion should be. How I should feel.

It's not fair. I often find myself asking now more than ever "Why couldn't I have been born a male?" I think the male version of me would have a much better life.

If I'm not mistaken, when you were my age, there was no one telling you how to live your life, nor were you very religious. So why such expectations of me?

You do not know how badly I want to be out of the house, living on my own, right now.
Hopefully, I'll have my chance to. Maybe not very soon, but at the same time sooner than you think. And if you think that it'll be because of me getting married, then I think you have another thing coming.

Do I sound rude? Sorry.

I think I'll stop right here.

NC, essays, Sweeney Todd, and sheesha.

2007-12-28T03:00:00.000-05:00

It feels like this post is overdue even though it probably isn't.
I feel like I have an obligation to update this bitch! Haha.

Let's see. Hmmm..

- I just got back from North Carolina last night. Well, technically the night before last. But I'm up at odd hours so it still feels like it's tonight when in actuality it's already tomorrow? Yeah.
Anyhoo, we (my mother, nephew, aunt, aunt's foster kid, uncle, cousin, and I. My brother was supposed to show up, but he didn't of course. As usual -_-) went down to see my grandmother for Christmas. Nothing too interesting happened. The most exciting thing I did was probably the movies; my uncle wanted to see The Great Debaters. OK movie, but I was expecting better..

I did learn one thing, though - I really dislike North Carolina. The town my grandmother lives in anyway. Blekh. I won't be going there again ANY TIME SOON. It's so dead =/ I seriously felt as if some of my senses had been cut off while I was there. And when we got back home, it felt like they all of a sudden got turned back on.
It felt great.

- Writing college admission essays is a bitch (I'm trying to transfer next September) :( What is it exactly that they want to read about you? And how do I know what it is that I need to say to grab their attention? Bull.

- Went to see "Sweeney Todd" today! 'Twas pretty good. And cute for some reason.
I find grinding people up and serving them in meat pies cute. Yeah.
But really, I loved it. Good movie - and not just because Johnny Depp is in it.
I'm one of the few females that does not find him hott. Ha!
The guy who played "Wormtail" in Harry Potter, and Alan Rickman who played Snape in Harry Potter both played the parts of villains in Sweeney Todd. That was a plus in my book.

-I'm dying for Sheesha at the moment. Craving for it like mad. And it sucks.
Which reminds me of the times we spent on Phaty's roof back in Riyo. Most of the time we'd all share one. Looool. I've been told that isn't very healthy.
Sheesha along with 2 pints of ice cream and 7 spoons. Aaaah...bliss.

(In Phaty's roof room)

(Outside on Phaty's roof. It was really chilly that day, haha.)

*goes into depressive 'i miss my friends' mode for the 80th time this week*

Heh.

2007-12-18T22:27:00.001-05:00

And they're back (the dreams)

2007-12-15T14:11:00.000-05:00

I'm in an apartment, on one of the highest floors and I look down, and I see this guy with sunglasses on, holding a child's hand approaching our apartment building. Even though I'm up really high, I can see them quite clearly. A few seconds later, there's a knock on my apartment building door, and someone answers it ( I don't know who). I'm in my room, and in walks Djimon Hounsou (!!!) with a child. The kid was a kid that I know back in Riyo. But in my dream he's blind.
I see him, and I start crying because apparently, I had taught him Qur'an (??) and I hadn't seen him in years. We then hug, and he gives me 3 little pieces of paper; one of them has a grant on it. I don't remember what was on the other two, but I think they were both positive.

Then they both turn around and leave.

The end.

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2007-12-12T20:25:00.000-05:00

NEW YORK (CNN) -- A Muslim man jumped to the aid of three Jewish subway riders after they were attacked by a group of young people who objected to one of the Jews saying "Happy Hanukkah," a spokeswoman for the three said Wednesday.

Friday's altercation on the Q train began when somebody yelled out "Merry Christmas," to which rider Walter Adler responded, "Happy Hanukkah," said Toba Hellerstein.
"Almost immediately, you see the look in this guy's face like I've called his mother something," Adler told CNN affiliate WABC.
Two women who were with a group of 10 rowdy people then began to verbally assault Adler's companions with anti-Semitic language, Hellerstein said.
One member of the group allegedly yelled, "Oh, Hanukkah. That's the day that the Jews killed Jesus," she said.
When Adler tried to intercede, a male member of the group punched him, she said.
Another passenger, Hassan Askari -- a Muslim student from Bangladesh -- came to Adler's aid, and the group began physically and verbally assaulting him, Hellerstein said.
"A Muslim-American saved us when our own people were on the train and didn't do anything," Adler said.

Adler pulled the emergency brake and the train stopped at DeKalb Avenue station, where police came on board.
The 10 suspects, ages 19 to 20, were taken into custody, said Brooklyn district attorney spokesman Sandy Silverstein.
Askari was first handcuffed alongside them, but he was released when Adler told police he was not an attacker, Hellerstein said.
Alder was treated at Long Island College Hospital for injuries that included a fractured nose and a cut lip that required several stitches, while Askari suffered a black eye, Hellerstein said.
The suspects are to appear in Brooklyn District Court on February 7 on charges that include assault, attempted assault, menacing, harassment, unlawful assembly, riot and disorderly conduct, Silverstein said.
The New York Police Department's Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating the incident, and will determine whether the suspects will be charged with hate crimes, Officer Philip Hauser told CNN. [source]

(Here's the video)

Awwww, finally something positive about us!
I demand more of this, and less teddy bear rioting.
Seriously.

Hassan, you don't know how much you've just done for our PR.
Hats off to you, man. I'm so proud. Really.

And btw, a shout out to the lovely Mochness!
Happy Birthday, hon!

Love you.

Snow! Hey oh

2007-12-05T15:26:00.000-05:00

Writing my moniker in the snow like the deprived desert person that I am. I got a stare.

Hungrily taking pictures whilst waiting for the train. I got a few more looks; but phuck them! Ha.

Cutting my photography class final presentation photos.

Acting deprived again =D This time on a Potbelly sign. Bam!

Popping this virgin snow's cherry with my sneaker, whilst waiting for the bus.

A trash can...with snow on it's rim! ZOMG.

Home.

On another note.
We had this activity in class today where we were supposed to anonymously write down a positive and a negative trait that we've noticed about each of our other class mates.
Then we get to read what everyone wrote.
Some of mine:-

"+Quiet. -Needs to interact more."
"+Seems intelligent. -Needs to be more outgoing."
"+Nice, quiet, sweet, her own individual, unique, different. -Needs to speak out more about her ideas and thoughts."
"+Good listener -But quiet. Too quiet."
"+Quiet, observative. -Unexpressiveness ( are those even real words?). Express yourself with volume to be heard by all."
"+Very quiet -Needs to open up more."
"+Open minded. -Reserved."
"+She is always quiet and very polite. She alomost never misses the class. -She needs to respond sometiems to be more open; she never talks"
"+Very sweet and calm. -Needs to be more open, though."
"+Very quite -English needs improving."

Pfffft. Yeah, OK. When you learn how to spell >:D
(I think people subconsciously believe that my English "needs improving" just because I'm a transfer from Saudi.). That being said, I admit my English isn't perfect; but it isn't something you would notice by talking with me a couple of times =/
And that being said, I think I know who wrote that one. We aren't friendly.

Anyways, I obviously have a problem. LOL.
Thing is..I don't really know how to fix it...

I described this one guy as "charismatic" (Which he so is.). I got a kick out of it.

Shamaghs & Kefiyahs

2007-12-04T01:50:00.000-05:00

I love how they've become a fashion statement here.
Everywhere I go, some person has one on. Mainly the black and white Shami ones.
Even though I have an assumption that most of the people wearing them can't even show you where Palestine or many Arab countries are on a map ;) Maybe I'm wrong.
But still, it's cute.

Funny thing is though, I would never go out in one (well, not on my Hijab days).
I'd be too scared some person would think that I'm some anti-Israeli terrorist or whatever.

I still haven't bought one. Been thinking about it, though.
To me, if you wear something like that, then it shouldn't just be a fashion statement.

Like, when I first saw a person in one, I was like "Oh wow, a Palestinian struggle supporter".
Then I noticed that every other person seemed to be wearing one.
And there was no way in hell that that many people were. Unless I'm wrong =)

Hmmm..I wonder how the Jews feel about this current "fashion statement"...

This is the kind of shit that pisses me off

2007-11-28T20:02:00.000-05:00

The title pretty much speaks for itself. No real need for an introduction.

A few minutes ago I was on facebook (as usual), and some how I came across some group called :

صور البنات في الفيس بوك..silly girls

(the Arabic bit translated means "girl's pictures on facebook")

The creator of the group obviously means the silly pictures that are widespread in the Saudi network. She saved and gathered a bunch of them from people's profiles and put them in a group. If you aren't familiar with these so-called "silly" pictures, just browse the Saudi network a bit and you'll find and array of girl's shoes, feet, hands, hair, backs, legs, arms, and anything else you can imagine...just hardly any faces.

So I see this group title, and think, "Hmmm..this will be interesting, lemme check this out".
I clicked to see the groups' pictures and a bunch of thumbnails came up. Most of them were pictures of manicured hands, and shoes with feet in them, lol.

As I was scrolling through the pictures, I came across this one picture - here lemme show you:

Of course this picture is just like the dozens of others that were in the group.
Except this hand obviously belongs to a someone thats black =)
As soon as I saw this I just knew that the comments were going to be brutal.
I clicked it. Read through them.
My expectations were met!

A few of them:

"shoofo a6raaf akmaamha msawya ya3nee 7a66ah almaas mgallad... il7een hathe moo6'at il 3abayat 3ind il sha3'alat il 7abashyyat???"

- Looks at the fake diamonds at the ends of her sleeves, is this the latest fashion for Abayas with the Habashi maids??? (i.e. because she's dark skinned, then she's a maid.)

"اللي ذابحني انها مبسوطة بعمرها
كل شوي تصور يدها المخملية

عجايب هالناس"

- What kills me is that she's so happy about it. Every time I turn around she's taking a picture of her black velvet hand. Amazing.

"في مقولتيييين يناسبون هالصورة::
1- ياشين السرج عـ البقر
2- العبدُ عبدٌ ولو قُلدَ بالذهبِ
وانا ادعو جميع الجهات المعنية بحجب حساب هذه الفتاة .... مراعاة لنفسيات المستخدمين
لوووووول
"الله لا يبلانا بس

- Two quotes fit this picture: (Saddles don't go on cows) and (A slave is a slave, even if he has been put in gold). And I call upon all sides to block this girl's account...in consideration for the psychological well-being of other users. Looooool. May God not afflict us with such.

والله العظيم كسرت خاطري اكثر صوره احس ربي بيحاسبي لو حشيت فيها عشان هو واحد من 2 ياانها عميا او انها فعلا عميا "
ماتفهم ماتحس والله فيني غصه تعبت نفسيا
"الله لا يبلانا ويعجل بشفائها

- I swear to God. This picture is the most heart breaking out of all of them. And I feel that God will judge me if I backbite her because it has to be one of the 2; Either she's blind, or either she's blind. Doesn't she understand? Doesn't she feel? I swear I feel like choking. I'm psychologically sick. May God never afflict us with such a thing, and may he speed up her recovery. ( Is this idiot trying to sound...righteous?)

" مدري من لاعب عليها"

- Who tricked her into thinking that she has nice hands?

" yel3an om yaddaha ma teste7y et9awerha..."

- Curse the mother of her hand. Isn't she embarrassed to take a picture of it..?" (Lysh tsta7i ya zift?!)

...

...

Poor girl doesn't even know that her picture is there. Or what they are saying about it.

This isn't the first time that I've come across such crap in the Saudi network.
But it just pissed me off so badly this time, that I decided to vent.

And in all honesty, that's nothing compared to some of the shit that I've heard or had to put up with in school on a daily basis and in public places. And what's so ironic is that every since I can remember, we were always taught ( لا فرق بين عربي وأعجمي إلا بالتقوى) . But outside of the classroom..no one ever really applied it.

----

End of venting.

Goodnight.

much shit to do

2007-11-24T23:37:00.000-05:00

...OK. So I was just reading Rawr's last post. And it did a good job of reminding me of all of the crap that I still do, and have not started on yet. Procrastination levels have reached an all time high. This MUST stop.

A "rough" list of things to do:

- Interview 5 people by Monday for my communications class. Short interview.
- Read chapters 6 - 10 for political sci. We're supposed to read them before each class, but...hardly anyone does that. Meh; laziness never pays.
- Study chapter 3 and 4 of math to re-take quizzes (having a difficult time with that. As usual.)
- Write an essay about my experience whilst traveling US airports during the Holidays (?! I don't have any experience...). Due Tuesday.
- Write 3 uni admission essays. ( I really hate those. I mean seriously, what exactly are you supposed to write?)
- Find at least 5 more subjects to take photos of. By Monday =/
- Finish editing photos. Also by Monday.
update
-Interview someone (anyone) and write a biographical essay about them.

...volunteers? ;)

Might not seem like so much, but really, for me it is.
The procrastination must stop.

Song of the now:
The world at your feet - Embrace

Woohoo!

wishlist item #2

2007-11-23T00:06:00.000-05:00

It also plays virtual piano and drums.
Awesome. I want.

Song association!

2007-11-21T02:01:00.000-05:00

Every time I hear this song an image of Rasha playing her air drums (lol) pops up in my head. RHCP are her favorite band. Anytime we hung out with her, they'd be constantly playing in the background:

..And every time I hear this one I think "OH MY GAWD; HANNAH!!", lol. The lyrics of this song pretty much...sum up Hannah to me! Haha, amazing. And of course the British accent is a plus. Ironically, she hates Lily Allen :

I miss them insanely =]

On Sylar and being average

2007-11-17T17:36:00.000-05:00

So I know that I'm not the only one that watches heroes. Amazing show.
I was thinking about something earlier today, when suddenly Sylar came to mind; one of the shows most infamous villains.

Why is he so bad?

Well, Sylar's thing is this - He wants to be special, and different. He sees himself doing bigger things than fixing watches. He wants to do and have things that no body else can do or have, and he will stop at nothing at all to get them.
So basically, through out the show, he goes around murdering people to take their powers and make them his own.

Pretty vicious, huh?
Up until recently, thats how I viewed Sylar; a vicious cold-blooded monster.
Actually that's how I still sum him up but in a different light.

My opinion is this - when you think about it, many of us have a Sylar like persona inside of us. Some may have it stronger than others, but the point is it's there.
Who doesn't want to be special? Different? Extraordinary?
Who wants to go through life seeing their self as just average?
We all want to be special in some way. Sure, most of us wouldn't turn into cold blooded murderers to achieve that, but I bet we'd do some pretty darn ugly things if we were promised greatness. How many people would you step on to get to the top?

I guess this post came to mind because as of recent (like the past 2 days!) I came across something that I REALLY really want, that isn't going to be easy to achieve. But I want it so bad that think I'd do anything to be able to have it. I don't I've ever wanted anything as much as I want this; in my life.

Elzbda; Sylar isn't so bad after all. He isn't that different from the "average" person....

wishlist item # 1

2007-11-12T23:26:00.000-05:00

I don't care if there are "better choices" out there.
This thing is friggin' cute!

Well can I atleast rub up against your legs?

2007-11-09T23:28:00.000-05:00

it's [officially] cold outside

2007-10-29T22:59:00.000-04:00

A dead squirrel. Froze to death (I presume!). I was waiting for the bus to come at this spot for about 15 minutes. He didn't budge once! His head was in a hole in the ground; he was probably searching for acorns, lol. R.I.P Mr. Squirrel.

Song of the now:

Until the end of time - Justin Timberlake

a lovely bedtime story

2007-10-24T21:46:00.000-04:00

(3:59 AM) Connecting throu: and ill tell you a story
(3:59 AM) taqo: LOOL
(3:59 AM) Connecting throu: the truth about zues
(3:59 AM) Connecting throu: the God
(3:59 AM) Connecting throu: he was a dumbass
(4:00 AM) Connecting throu: and this devil tells him that the reason that he's impotent is because he's pregnant
(4:00 AM) Connecting throu: so zues is dumb and believes him
(4:00 AM) Connecting throu: and he asks the devil for a cure
(4:00 AM) Connecting throu: so the devil tells him to take of his clothes and lie down on his stomach
(4:01 AM) Connecting throu: and he puts aa cork up zues' ass
(4:01 AM) Connecting throu: and the devil leaves anf bangs zues' wife
(4:01 AM) taqo: LOL
(4:01 AM) taqo: aha
(4:01 AM) Connecting throu: 2 weeks pass and zues is still on his stomach with a cork up his ass
(4:01 AM) Connecting throu: and his stomach is moaning and all
(4:01 AM) Connecting throu: and the devil is just banging his wife
(4:02 AM) Connecting throu: and this squirrel comes and sees zues
(4:02 AM) Connecting throu: and see's the cork
(4:02 AM) Connecting throu: and squirrels are curious
(4:02 AM) taqo: lmfao
(4:02 AM) Connecting throu: so the squirrel goes and removes teh cork and zues shits everything out
(4:02 AM) Connecting throu: he gets and is like wtf?
(4:02 AM) Connecting throu: and he see's the squirrel all covered yp in shit
(4:03 AM) Connecting throu: os zues picks it up and says " i love you baby"
(4:03 AM) Connecting throu: -the end-
(4:03 AM) taqo: erm
(4:03 AM) taqo: nice
(4:03 AM) taqo: LOOOL
(4:03 AM) Connecting throu: yeah it is
(4:03 AM) Connecting throu: i read it in a comic
(4:03 AM) Connecting throu: theres another crazy one
(4:04 AM) Connecting throu: teh real story behind little red riding hood
(4:04 AM) taqo: save it for 2mrw
(4:04 AM) Connecting throu: thats a good one
(4:04 AM) taqo: :p
(4:04 AM) taqo: haha
(4:04 AM) Connecting throu: ill save it for later though
(4:04 AM) Connecting throu: yeah thats a good idea haha
(4:04 AM) Connecting throu: have a good day then
(4:04 AM) Connecting throu: :)
(4:04 AM) taqo: u too
(4:04 AM) taqo: ;)
(4:04 AM) Connecting through culture, celebrating diversity. is now Offline.

Sleep well ;)
*tucks you in*

Say what...??!!

2007-10-21T22:56:00.000-04:00

After reading briefly from the final book, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," she took questions from audience members.
She was asked by one young fan whether Dumbledore finds "true love."
"Dumbledore is gay," the author responded to gasps and applause.
She then explained that Dumbledore was smitten with rival Gellert Grindelwald, whom he defeated long ago in a battle between good and bad wizards. "Falling in love can blind us to an extent," Rowling said of Dumbledore's feelings, adding that Dumbledore was "horribly, terribly let down."
Dumbledore's love, she observed, was his "great tragedy."
"Oh, my god," Rowling concluded with a laugh, "the fan fiction."

[source]

Omg the fan fic is right.
I mean, seriously. Isn't all of the "twincest" enough as it is?

Besides, really why was this necessary now? After the series has ended?
It's kind of annoying. "I've always thought of Dumbledore as gay" my ass. I'm not buying it. There were never any real hints throughout the series. Sure Dumbledore was never really connected romantically to any females; but still! I (and i'm sure others) thought that was because well, he was about 150 YEARS OLD! -_-
I think she's done this to...maybe sell more books? Since i'm sure many gay men who never gave 2 hoots about Harry Potter will now go out and buy the whole series. And not just gays, but, people in general will be shocked and will want to read about the great gay wizard :p
Or maybe since being Gay is kind of the "cool" and "in" thing to do recently ( don't deny it you know it is) she thought she'd add this little tidbit to make herself a bit more "in" ? Man, I dunno. W0w. Mind boggling, I swear, lol. Was this little revelation important at all? Was this necessary, Jo?

What a little sensationalist.

Anyways, this is obviously big news to me.
Did Harry or anyone else know about his sexuality?
And if not, I wonder how Harry would have felt about all of those hours he spent alone with Dumblekins..since we all know that Dumbledore had a "special bond/thing" for Harry ;)

And I wonder if Dumbledore by any chance had a little thing for Snape as well?

Personally, I never thought of Dumbledore that way, so this is a bit disappointing to me...
I'm re-thinking many events that occurred on the book now..

The Butter: J.K. really needs to stop going into such details. Just leave our imaginations to do as they please. Gosh.

OK. I'm just going to wrap this up now.

♥

2007-10-19T14:05:00.000-04:00

A tag, and a bit of randomness

2007-10-14T21:41:00.000-04:00

Was tagged by Pinkish to make a list of my favorite blogs.

Since the list that I have to the left are all Favorites, the blogs that I'm going to list now aren't going to include those. These are blogs that I mostly lurk around without commenting :"> Hehe.

Pink is the new blog (guilty pleasure =p sue me)
LialyQ8
Life in my wormhole
Cixousianpanic
Post Secrets (but of course!)
KevJumba - video blog ( I *heart* this guy.)
Cory Kennedy (Another guilty pleasure, lol. I mainly enjoy looking at the photos.)
Twenty
Ammaro
Saudi Jeans
Ananyah

Moving on,

I have a midterm tommorow! Still haven't finished studying. I'm really just not in the mood to. I expect to do really bad on it. And that isn't a good thing since I plan to transfer next September. I don't want anything lowering my GPA. Bleh. I hate how lazy I am sometimes. I really do.

Today was the 3rd day of Eid. Speaking of Eid; mines really sucked.
It's so different from Eid time in Riyo. I regret ever complaining about any Eid that I spent there! My Eids there may not have been "ideal", but they were better than nothing ( literally ).
Now that I come to think about it, they probably were pretty much "ideal", it's just that us (referring to myself, and my peers), always found something "wrong" or something to complain about, lol. I mean the least that we did during Eid time in Riyo was go see the fireworks (which were really cool, regardless of what the naysayers think.)
And not to mention seeing all of the close family friends that were pretty much more family to me than any of my so-called "relatives" will ever be..
And just plain seeing everyone around dressed up, happy, and celebrating is heart-warming, too.

Anyways, Ramdan was over way to quick. I only prayed Tarawee7 like, once! I feel like I wasted so much time. And really regret it. I really wish I had read more Qur'an and prayed more =/
One of the main things that I really missed about Ramdan in Riyo, was the fact that you could hear several Masjids around you at once, all praying Tarawee7 prayer at once. It's so beautiful. That more than anything else would make me want to go pray.
Hopefully I'll be more prepared next year.

But some positive news is: I'll finally be able to order something from the Starbucks that they opened up next to uni (during ramadan -_-) tomorrow morning. Can't wait! Hahaha!
I'm thinking of trying new Pumpkin Spice Frappuccino.
I'm assuming they'll stop selling it after Halloween =p I was tempted to try it yesterday night; but I got the Orange Cream Frappuccino instead. ( It was yummy, btw!)

Speaking of cold drinks, it's starting to get chilly. (Yay!)
In fact, right after my post of complaining about the current weather, it cooled off..
Quite ironic, eh?

until next time xoxo
hehe.

kil sana O entu 6aybeen =*

2007-10-11T20:52:00.000-04:00

Eid Mubarak
Originally uploaded by Awais Yaqub

global warming sucks

2007-10-09T21:19:00.000-04:00

I was looking forward to actually having four seasons this school year, since we moved back to the US. One of the only things I can say that I was really excited about.
I love the desert and everything; but it's nice to have change (weather wise) once in a while, you know?

So here it is, almost mid October. Shouldn't it be like, a bit chilly?
It still feels like friggin' summer time!

I was also looking forward to some snow this year.
But now I'm starting to get a feeling that that isn't going to happen...

hmph.

I'm actually thinking about going green. Seriously!

i'm fucking disappointed in you.

2007-10-06T15:54:00.000-04:00

More over, I think I agree with some people when they say steroids should be legalized, seeing that everyone uses them nowadays...

Then it'll be fair.

i miss my dreams.

2007-10-02T21:33:00.001-04:00

...and I literally mean that.
It seems like all of a sudden, I've stopped dreaming.
When I go to sleep..I don't have dreams anymore. And this has been going on for the pass year!
I want them to come back.

It's kind of weird. I wonder why I don't have dreams anymore..?

I haven't been very active in the blog universe lately.
Due to the fact that I'm working on a 5 pg. paper for a class ((well I'm supposed to be working on it, though most of the said working time is wasted on things that have nothing to do with my paper. Still, not being so blogospherly active makes me feel like I'm doing something right.)). Wow. Let's see if I successfully pull this one off.

"...the greatest thing, you'll ever learn.."

2007-09-25T01:13:00.000-04:00

So I watched the season premiere of "the bachelor" tonight. I don't usually watch such shows, I never really find them interesting. I'm not sure what intrigued me to sit watch it tonight.

Hmmmm...maybe it was the hot bachelor. Just maybe :-p

Anyways, it amazed me how many women were on that show dying to impress him. Wanting him to like them. And the way that they acted in order to get his attention. All of them in search for "Mr. right" to live happily ever after or whatever.

It's funny how far some people will go for love, I guess.

I mean, I personally can't fathom the idea of myself going on a TV show, and competing with over 20 other women ( and humiliating myself in the process) for some guy. A.k.a Mr. right. Is it really worth it? And seriously, do the marriages actually work at the end? :-S

There was once scene in the episode where this one woman came and sat down with him, and told him that she had "webbed toes"...

Wtf? Was she supposed to impress him by that? Was he supposed to be turned on?

She then proceeded to take off her shoe and actually show him. LOL!

Another woman got on the floor to show him how she could bend herself into a pretzel like form. ( with both of her legs behind her head. her back on the floor. mind you, it was a dressy cocktail party kind of thing.) =|

...I guess she wanted to show how "flexible" she is....?

WAllah, I felt embarrassed for them, while I watched, lol.

Is being in love really all that? And can a reality TV show really find your "soul mate" ?

I just don't get it..

wtf is a kosher/halal date

2007-09-22T15:09:00.000-04:00

i always thought "kosher" or "halal-ness" was a meat (and according to some, a dairy) thing..?
i guess not, lol.

i hate myself for this

2007-09-20T15:23:00.000-04:00

I hate assignments that have to be presented orally.

I HATE THEM!!!

I hate standing up in front of the class with everyone staring at me.
My hands start shaking. My voice starts quivering. My throat goes dry. And I forget what I was going to say.

Today was my 2nd time. I sucked worse than I did the 1st time (if thats even possible).

I HATE THEM.

It's the worse feeling in the world, to me =/

Help me God :(

something i stumbled across...

2007-09-15T02:35:00.000-04:00

TCK

..also known as "third culture kids".

it's funny. because while reading through it, i could totally relate. i felt like whomever wrote this was talking about me.

i never knew there was an actual term for this, lol.

"refers to someone who [as a child] has spent a significant period of time in one or more culture(s) other than his or her own, thus integrating elements of those cultures and their own birth culture, into a third culture"

"TCKs share some common characteristics amongst the subcategories such as multilingualism, tolerance for other cultures, a never-ending feeling of homesickness for their adopted country and a desire to remain in close contact with friends from their adopted country as well as other TCKs that they have grown up with."

"Many TCKs take years to readjust to their passport countries and often suffer a reverse culture shock on their return to their ancestral culture. This is due to their having lived in many countries away from home and acculturated to adapt to these new cultures. This leaves them with a bit of everything. Compared to their peers who have lived their entire lives in a single culture, these TCKs would have a globalized culture. Many choose to enter careers that allow them to travel frequently or live overseas." -- Kinda why I chose journalism, 'cause then i'd get to travel!

"There is a growing number of online resources to help TCKs deal with issues as well as stay in contact with each other. Recently, blogs have become a helpful way for TCKs to interact. The unique experiences of TCKs among different cultures and various relationships at the formative stage of their development makes their orientation to the world different from others. However, this also makes it difficult for them to have in-depth communication with those who have not experienced similar conditions." :(

"Some of them come to terms with the tremendous culture shock and loss that they have experienced. They gain a broader understanding of the world through their varied experiences, while others spend most of their adult life trying to come to terms with those same issues."

"Many Third Culture Kids face an identity crisis: they don't know where they come from. It would be typical for a third culture person to say that he or she is from a country but nothing beyond their passport defines it; they usually find it difficult to answer the question."

"Third culture kids grow up in a genuinely cross-cultural world. While expatriates watch and study cultures that they live in, third culture kids actually live in different cultural worlds. Third culture kids have incorporated different cultures on the deepest level, as to have several cultures incorporated into their thought processes. This means that third culture kids not only have deep cultural access to at least two cultures, this also means that thought processes are truly multicultural"

"Third culture kids develop a sense of belonging everywhere and nowhere."

"While third culture kids usually grow up to be independent and cosmopolitan, they also often struggle with their identity and with the losses they have suffered in each move. Some may feel very nationalistic toward one country, while others call themselves global citizens."

"Divorce rates among TCKs are lower than the general population, but they marry older (25+)" (Mom, are you reading this?? Back off =] )

Wiki's entry about it is pretty long.

There's even a TCK seminar - which I missed. hah.

Anyhoo, I felt like I just had to blog that.

I'm hungry. And I'm tired...
I think I'm having oatmeal (with lots of brown sugar on the top *drools*) for su7oor :-D
Tres yummy.

pure beauty

2007-09-12T23:59:00.000-04:00

...just look at her. Wow.

Oh, and

Ramadan Mubarak!
كل عام و أنتم بخير

Make the most of it!

first week (di dum...DI DUM)

2007-09-03T23:50:00.000-04:00

So I know that this post is waaaaaaay way over due. I think I've been kind of busy ( i think) =/
My first day wasn't as bad as I expected it to be =p 'Tis true, I am quite the drama queen, lol. But I did have every right to be! First day I woke up early, had to catch the metro. It was the 1st time I caught the train alone. I was quite nervous about that, since I usually have a couple of friends with me. So I got to the train station, paid for my farecard, and headed up to the tracks.

Boy was it crowded :|

A friend of mine had instructed me not to stand too close to the edge of the platform. A week earlier while she was waiting for the train to come, some person standing right next to her just all of a sudden threw her self out in front of the train, trying to commit suicide :-S So yea..I stood back =p

It was around 8:30 when I got to the platform. And even though it was crowded, I thought to myself "Well, I'm still kind of early. My first class doesn't start 'till 9:30, and the train is really big and long, so I'm sure there will be plenty of room." about 2 minutes later I saw the train coming. as it came closer and closer...I realized that I would probably end up standing for the majority of the ride -_- Which put me in a really bad mood. Especially since I was carrying a shoulder tote type bag. It really hurt. I've been carrying that bag all week and it's just plain torture hauling that thing around on my shoulder all day long. I ordered a backpack on Friday. Should be arriving Tuesday or Wednesday. I have never been so excited about getting a backpack in my life, lol.

So after about an hour long train ride (train had a few delays that morning), I finally arrived. My first class of the day was photography. I think that was the class that I was looking forward to the most. Anyways, my excitement was literally murdered after sitting through the first half hour. I mean, the professor could NOT get any duller =/ Maybe future classes will be more interesting.

After that abomination of a class, I had a communication class (haha, you know I need it.). The professor is reallllly sweet. I like her already! Her name is Olive. She's British :p lol. Can't get enough of you brits! Ha! It's like everywhere I go you guys follow :p ( 4 of my closest friends are british, yes.) Gimme a goddamn break, will ya? =p We havnt really done much in her class yet (was supposed to have her today, but labor day weekend.), but it seems like it will turn out interesting. There's a Moroccan girl in my communication class. Useless bit of info right there.

Those were the only 2 classes I had that day.

On my 2nd day, My first class was intro to political sci. Man, did I feel like the village idiot there! LOL. It seemed like everyone knew so much more than me about current events and politics and what not. Well maybe not everyone, but quite a few. I just felt really silly there, lol. Why the hell did I sign up for it? I don't know how I'm going to pass this one :-S Though I must say, it has to be my most interesting class at the moment. The discussions (that we've had so far) really keep you interested. The professor requires that we read the post before each lecture. I guess that'll help. We're supposed to have a debate about immigration coming up....? It's our first assignment....? Wtf do I know about immigration? :-S God help me =/

2nd class of the 2nd day was a journalism class. pretty intersting class as well. This professor also requires that you read the post daily and bring it with you class....

Thing is, when are we supposed to have time to do this when we have classes that start at 9:30 am everyday?

Last class of that day was math.

Yea, I harbor very hateful feeling towards math, so there's not much to say about that one. lol.

All in all, it seems like i'm going to have tons of work this year, contrary to last year =/ Which maybe hard to get used to, since basically did absolutely nothing last semester....

Another thing, people aren't that friendly in any of my classes...I'm dying to meet people, but no one really seems interested =/ That kinda sucks....

I need to get to bed. Have to be up by 7am tomorrow morning.

P.S. Sean Kingston needs to die :D That song is getting annoying.

begining.

2007-08-26T22:57:00.000-04:00

I start Uni tommorow.

I'm so scared =/

Wish me luck.

"If you don't get lost, there's a chance you may never be found."

2007-08-19T02:36:00.000-04:00

a tag from mademoiselle missy ;p in which i'm supposed to post 8 things my readers don't know about me :

*I hate wearing socks and shoes. It’s flip flops for me whenever I get the chance! I wish I could go barefoot more :(

*The majority of my thoughts…I think them in Arabic (Arabic isn’t my mother tongue, neither do we speak it at home.)

*I believe in Aliens…like really believe in them. I blame Will Smith. And Steven Spielberg.

*I also have a thing for fairies. When I was a child, 4 years of age, I saw one flutter across my room. I swear to you. I’ll never forget.

*I hate eggplant. It reminds me of some type of insect…I’ll only eat it when it’s Baba Ghanouj (i.e. I can’t really tell what it is). So basically, I like mushy cooked insects…instead of whole ones. LOL.

*I look extremely young for my age. No one ever guesses I’m over 16 =/

*In real life have a very bad temper. =) It shocks people when the “bitch” within comes out :( So when I initially meet people…I keep her in.

*I wish I was somebody else. Like…that Cory Kennedy character…

*In 2^nd grade there was this girl that would always bother me. So one day after we got out of class she shoved me a bit. I came after her, and she ran. While she was trying to get away her shoe came off. I was so pissed that I took her shoe and threw it so hard…it landed on the top on the building.

Needless to say…she never saw that shoe again. She cried and cried (LOL!) and told anyone who’d listen (teachers) that I took her shoe and did something with it. She was really tripping out! Little drama queen. It was just a shoe =/ She made it seem like I had murdered her twin sister or something. And anytime someone inquired about it, I gave this really innocent look. But I was LMAO-ing inside :p I got away with it.

After that incident…she never ever spoke to me again. The same chick added me on facebook a couple of months back, and we’re cool.

I wonder if she remembers? Hmmmmm (^_^)

I tag: Mocha, Juju, Agnon, Goldfish, Oreo M., Sexy Cow, Pinkish and Cynical Fish..

Good luck..this took me long enough. Though I doubt many of you will actually do it...I hate tagging people -__- Those were the rules, however. You in return must tag 8 people, haha.

things i miss #1

2007-08-13T01:35:00.000-04:00

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karaoke nights.

“Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.”

2007-08-09T01:47:00.000-04:00

Lately I've been feeling like I'm on this never ending roller coaster of emotions. Sometimes I feel bad for some of the emotions/feeling that I have, but I really can't help it. I hate the idea of my friends making new ones. It sucks being here with none of my friends, whilst they're back in Saudi and elsewhere moving on, meeting new people, and having fun, and what not. It really bothers me. I don't think I've ever felt so alone.

I bought this "Postsecret" book today. It's the 2nd book of the collection. Do I love it? Abso-fucking-lutely. lol. I felt like using that word.

I also hate it when your parents are so uptight about everything, that you can't even be yourself and have certain opinions when around them. That has to be one of the most annoying things ever. I wish mines would accept my choices in life.

Maybe you should just let me decide for myself, you know? Instead of imposing a certain way of thinking and life on me all the time. It's not very good for the soul :/

Also, I'm getting really tired of my current music...was going thru my library today, and just about every song annoyed me :/ could only listen to a few seconds b4 switching! I need new music. Hmmmmmm...

Uni registration. 2oth of August. I'm not VERY excited....but I'm kinda excited :p Not because I'm pressed about starting. It's just I really have nothing else to day these days.

Ok...maybe I'm a teeny bit excited about starting my journalism courses?
I hope their as interesting as I'm anticipating them to be..

Because if they're not? That'll just be a...bummer :/

2007-08-02T00:49:00.000-04:00

I LOVE "HEROES".

and

oriental flavor.

(lol. how did they come up with that anyway? oriental flavor. haha.)

'Tis all for right now!

finito ;D

2007-07-25T20:41:00.000-04:00

SPOILERS AHEAD!!!

So I just finished "DH" a few hours ago, and boy was it something! So many new discoveries.
I didn't think that it would end so good. Guess I was wrong! I'm kind of in shock about this being the last book....I really don't want to end. I (and i'm sure many others) have become kinda emotionally attached to it...No more theories or rumors to discuss with other Potter fanatics. There won't be anymore "Harry Potter and the....." books to look forward to anymore. Ahhhh...all good things really DO come to an end! I don't think there will ever be any saga/series quite like it...

I loved Neville Longbottom (which I always have!), but I especially loved how his character came out in DH. It was like a complete transformation. From insecure and timid Neville, to brave and confident Neville. He rocks my socks :p

It was so weird how much lots of things transformed in the DH. Like, the ministry of magic for instance. It was like overnight, the whole ministry turns over to the dark side. It's kinda shocking actually. Especially during the beginning of the book! Y3ni, the ministry did act a bit funny during books previous books, but nothing like the sudden change of sides in DH. The Ministry of magic was going around calling people Mudbloods for crying out loud :| Locking up muggleborns for stealing people's powers :-S I know that the ministry was under Voldemorts control, but still - shock worthy!

SERVERUS SNAPE. Ahhh. I basically hated him through the book, until the end, when you find out his little "tale"... Gosh man, I never thought I'd end up loving him so much!

Learning about Dumbledore's past with Arianna and Grindelwald was also very cool.

I loved Potterwatch. LOL. That was probably one of the funniest bits of the book. You can always count on the twins and Lee Jordan to make you laugh =)

I was surprised when I found out what the "Deathly Hallows" were, though. In my head I had this feeling that it was a place..the Tale of the Three brothers; genius.

Harry and Voldy's duel at the end was just so....good :|

I wonder what became of the Malfoys at the end? Did they get sent o Azkaban? Did the any of the Death Eaters turn good? How could any of them be forgiven, after all of the damage that many of them caused? And how could anyone ever trust any of them again? And what about the thing that was supposed to be revealed about Lily Potters eyes? I have a LOT of questions I'd like to ask JK :p

Theres just so much that I want to say about this book! My God! I can't type it all out! :| I need someone to discuss this with! :p A long, good, face-to-face discussion is what I need :| I'm still hyped up.

OBSESSED AND PROUD.

Long live The Boy Who Lived! :*

i want my DH :|

2007-07-21T10:53:00.000-04:00

I was googling Maya Rudolph from SNL ( the one that does the Donatella Versace impression :p ) , kitha, just for the heck of it, and I found out that this singer, Minnie Riperton was her mom! I was very surprised to say the least. No wonder Maya has such a good singing voice! Like when she does certain skits on SNL she'll sing, and sound really great. And what's cute about it is that this song was dedicated to her new born baby at the time - Maya.
I just loved this video so much, so I blogged it ;D

Anyways, I still haven't gotten my "Deathly Hallows" yet. I'm pissed.
I was supposed to go to the midnight release party thingy in Silver Spring, but I didn't get to. My dad ditched me :

I just hope I get my book today...so I can have it before we go out of town on Sunday! I have it all planned out....

UPDATE!!: I got my DH. I'm up to "The Wedding" chapter. YEEEEEEEEEY! ME HAPPY!!

Showers

2007-07-17T13:06:00.000-04:00

Ok, so ummm...what is about them that make us want to just burst out into a song and sing our hearts out? O_o

I LOVE IT!

order of the phoenix

2007-07-15T19:17:00.000-04:00

Best Potter movie yet.

The acting has considerably IMPROVED. Emma watson is still annoying...but not as annoying as she used to be ;p

I LOVED Luna Lovegood.

Gwarp was really cute :| I'd always imagined he'd be quite ugly...

And Umbridge was spot on. i LOVED hating her.

I'm no movie critic, but hey.....thumbs up!

CAN'T WAIT FOR THE BOOK!

Speaking of which...I should probably re-read Half blood prince before starting Deathly Hallows. Hmmmm...maybe thats what I'll do this week. During the "waiting period" ;p

Denial, Dubai and other random "shit"...

2007-07-11T18:20:00.000-04:00

I know that this post is waaaaaaay over do! I've abandoned my blog for some time now...and I kinda feel bad about it :|

So ummm....I've finally made it to the states. 1st summer ever that I really don't want to be here..Most likely because I know that I won't be heading back to Riyo for the year. So there's no rush for me to have fun, like usual. I have all the friggin' time in the world..
Funny thing is though, in my head, I think that I'll be going back when August rolls around. I'll go back to psu; to lab C with my friends, order chicken fries, and just goof around all day long. This whole move thing isn't going to really hit me until September.

Dubai wasn't bad. It could have been better, though. Last time I had more fun, probably because Jay and her mom were with us. My parents are pretty boring to be with.

the pool that i didnt get to swim in -__-

alien!

dhow

getting my stalk on. HAHA. I shall have one...someday.

yummm!

OK. i don't know what this was doing in a emirati antique/souvenir store..

Speaking of parents - I got into a bit of shit with them a few days back. Literally.
Long story short, I accidentally sent my step dad an sms that was supposed to go to a friend of mines. In it I txted the word "shit" - they had a cow :| I couldn't believe it. They like, blew it completely out of proportion. I got screamed at and was indirectly called a "hypocrite". Mind you, I'm 20-fucking-years-old.

Oops. Did I just say the F word?
Shame on me.

Anyways, I'm still in disbelief about the whole ordeal.

I guess that's all for right now. I'm still dead tired form the trip :| Not really in the mood to type anything else right now.

I guess I'll just sit back and relax and see how this summer unfolds..

*sigh*

So I guess it's goodbye?

2007-06-22T11:42:00.000-04:00

It's funny how folding up clothes and boxing them up, brings back so many memories. Well, for me at least. Packing really makes one realize what they're leaving behind. Things that one might not necessarily want to leave behind, but is more or less forced to because of certain circumstances.

I've always been the type that never really showed feelings or emotions.
I don't like to. Doing so makes me feel vulnerable.

But right now, at this wrinkle in time, I don't feel like I need to hide anything.
I have no reason to feel vulnerable.

I hate the fact that I'm leaving my friends...

I hate having to start all over again.

I hate the fact that I'm leaving behind people that I've only known and grown close to for one term.

I'm scared. I fear what I don't know. And all I've known for the past 13 yrs of my life is K of SA.

People are quick to tell me that I'm lucky, and how cool it is to be moving back...
But what people don't understand is...I'm not just going for college or whatever...
I won't be back for summer, or spring break.
And I won't be coming back after I graduate.
My life won't be here anymore.
Ever again.

And you know what scares me the most? What sends an ice cold chill down my spine? The idea that I'll lose contact over time with the people closest to my heart, whom I value the most. The idea that I'll forget them, and they'll do likewise with me. The idea that our bond and love for one another will slowly become weaker, until it finally vanishes.

The people who understood me.

The people who helped shape me and make me into the person I am today.

Sure we all claim to always keep in touch and never ever forget each other...But will we really?

forever ever?

This goes out to all of you guys. My friends. The people who looked past my shy, timid, quiet, and innocent looking outer shell, and got to know my weird, wild, loud, freaky, fun, and at times bitchy inner core.

To all of you who make me feel so hated yet and so loved, every single day, lol.

To the people that make me laugh day in and day out.

To the ones that were there when I needed someone to talk to.

To the ones who got me in touch with my "inner" sexuality ;p

To the ones who accepted me for me.

To the ones that I've wasted so much useless and "unproductive" time with ;)

I love you.

I love you.

I love you.

I love you.

I love you.

I've tried to type out exactly what I feel for you guys....but don't think that's achievable...
But anyways, emotions aren't meant to be written down or typed out - they're meant to be felt.

You feel me? :)

I love you.

p.s. Please don't forget me.

INCIJALUW

2007-06-07T19:17:00.000-04:00

this is how the inside of my brain looks right now.

no joke.

thus, I am not fit to update my blog like a normal person.

seriously. i'm all jumbled.

I really can't think straight. way too many things on my mind.

soRRy. lol. =/

p.s. I dare you to figure out what the post title means.
go on. I DARE you.

parental harrasment

2007-05-18T09:10:00.000-04:00

Ok, so how come I'm just finding out that turning 20 automatically makes you need to get MARRIED?

There I was, sitting in my bedroom, innocently, googling different artists, so I could find the album art for my "legally" downloaded music, when my mom enters my room giggling.
And for some reason, I had a feeling that I knew what she was about to say.
"Tehehe..A family just called, they have an older son-"
"NO."
"But I didn't even finish saying-"
"NO. I know what you're about to say, and I'm saving your breath for you - No thanks."

Long story short - The mother kept on talking, and I kept on saying "NO" for about 10 minutes.
She got pissed off, and went to complain about me to my step dad, (who boldly told her that "if she said no, why are you still discussing it with her?!" HAHA), and I got pissed off because I felt like I was being harassed.

No meas no :-S

No, I don't want to know anything about him.
No, I don't want to know his name-I honestly couldn't care less.
No, I don't want to "see" him.
No, I will not "communicate" with him!

No.

I'd also like to mention that I hate it when parents think it's cute to play matchmaker.

Seriously, back the fuck up! :|

This incident literally ruined my day. Not that it was that great to begin with, but still.

Why do these people assume that because you're a girl, and 20 years of age that you're just waiting around to get married.

what is up with that.

I don't like the fact that I am not even ONE WEEK into being 20 yet, and already I have my mother trying to pressure me into something that I don't want...

20

2007-05-14T13:45:00.000-04:00

"Live as long as you may. The first twenty years are the longest half of your life."

Robert Southey

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Girls go to college to get more knowledge. Boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider...

2007-05-12T16:15:00.000-04:00

(hehe...we used to sing that as kids. doesn't have much to do with the post.)

I could REALLY do with one of those right now. Like really. I took this pic last summer. "Phish food" at the bottom. "Strawberry cheesecake" on top. Heaven in a cone. That's one thing I'm definitely looking forward to this summer. Or shall I say, this year ;p

My procrastination levels have reached an all time high recently. To the extent that we actually thought that I had MISSED the application deadline. This is really bad. And I really dont get the whole WES thing :/ I need to get down to business.

So anyways, I've been looking at/seeing A LOT of male model pictures these past few days. And I've decided that I want to marry one. Y3ni, if nothing else is going the way I want in life ( 'cause it sure isn't at the moment ) at least I can have the dream guy to wake up to every morning. Preferably Chad White (V).

I have a FRIGGIN' RESEARCH PAPER DUE THIS WEEK. I'M PISSED BECAUSE THIS IS THE 4TH TIME THAT I'M TYPING THIS BIT OF THE POST OUT SINCE BLOGGER KEEPS DECIDING TO MAGICALLY EAT THIS PART OR THE POST EVERY TIME I POST IT.
Anyways, we pretty much got an open field of what we could do our research about. So I thought I'd do something that a) I found interesting b)Had a lot of facts c) was pretty captivating d) I absolutely adore e)That other people like/find/interesting/adore too. So in the end...I chose pizza :D Who doesn't like pizza? Plus, some of the facts are pretty darn cool.

For instance, did you know that:

1. Pizza only became popular in the US after soldiers brought it back with them from WW2. ( I always thought that it was the Italian immigrants that popularized it, not war!)

2. It took over 2 centuries before inhabitants of the European continent started consuming tomatoes (i.e. putting it on pizzas) from the time that it arrived from the new world (i.e. America) because they were believed to be poisonous. (LOOOL. How cute.)

3. In Italy there's an actual law/bill to safe guard the traditional Italian pizza that specifies permissible ingredients and way of processing? Only pizzas that follow those exact rules can be called a traditional Italian pizza :D (M9adgeen ;p)

I should be working on this paper RIGHT NOW, since I have to hand in some of it tomorrow. Instead I'm online lolly-gagging. Go figure.

A friend suggested that I order a couple of pizza for my presentation, and give out slices to the listeners.

Yeah. Whatever. lol.

I haven't been eating properly either. I'm feeling like my iron is down really low at the moment (I'm anemic) . Like its at an all time low. My lip keeps getting this funny tingly feeling in it. It's weird. I think it's due to low iron. I keep getting told that I should eat lots of green veggies. I hate green veggies with passion. I can't even remember the last time that I even ate any kind of vegetable :/

I miss the days when my mom used to pour a table spoon of liquid iron into my orange juice in the mornings. It would turn my juice into this brownish-orange color, and changed the taste a bit. I hated it.

And another thing. I haven't been studying this year. Like, AT ALL. How the hell am I going to get back into the groove of studying next school year when I have not done anything this year? It's disgusting. What am I to do, what am I to do.

On My To Do List:

Get a goddamn life :/ And stop spending so much useless time online.

p.s. I TURN 20 ON THE 14TH !! (in a day. OMG. I am SO not ready for it :| )

My lip gloss is poppin'...

2007-05-04T19:29:00.000-04:00

I searched the word "lip gloss" on youtube, and this came up! :|
Who'd have thunk that I'd get this lucky!

A huge chunk of my love for lip gloss has been forcibly taken away from me.
AND I CAN'T GET THIS DAMN SONG OUT OF MY HEAD!

When life get's confusing...just smile and nod

2007-04-25T09:49:00.000-04:00

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this did it for me.
oh my god.
can you even show me VA on a map?
just stop it.
please?
you want to mourn the death of another human? then by all means, do so.
but stuff like this is just annoying.

bl 3rabi - maluh da3iiiii.

we get it. you're "in touch" with ~~Western~~ American culture. you are "cool".

now,

stop trying so hard.

GOSH.

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.

2007-04-20T06:17:00.000-04:00

I'm starting to think that moving back might be pretty cool and interesting. Maybe it's time for change in my life. Being stuck on pretty much the same routine, with the exact same people for this many years can NOT be healthy. I never thought that I'd be saying or feeling this but - friends change. A lot. People change a lot period. The bond that you once thought existed, just isn't there anymore. Maybe I need to meet new people. Start over from fresh again (LOL. I hate that phrase, it has always scared me :|) It seems like all of my school friends, or "close" friends have been slowly drifting away from each other for some time now. We have absolutely nothing in common anymore. And it's not me, I haven't changed that much at all. (which might not be a good thing, on my behalf) It's them.
Anyways kilaha 3 more months, and I'm out of here.

Which brings me to another issue. I'm tired of AQ preaching.
STOP FORWARDING ME EMAILS ABOUT HIJAB, AND WEARING "BAN6ALOWN".
WTF, DUDE :| Y3NI MN JD TARAAK ZAWAD'TAHA!!

The "ban6alown" issue is too dumb to be addressed. Even on my blog.

But who said that I wasn't planning to be a mu7ajiba when we move back?
And if its the WAY that I plan to cover that you don't like, well then that's your problem, not mines :) I think that you should just be grateful that I plan to, because frankly I don't have to at all, if I really don't want to. But you keep annoying me with those forwards, I will seriously consider not doing it.

I'm not going to anything that I feel like I'm being forced to do.

And no offense y3ni, but the LAST person that I want to talk to me about hijab is a MAN for god sake! You haven't covered a day of you life, and you think you're going to tell me how I should cover?

LOOOOOL. La ykthar bs ;)
The only exception is the Rasool, pbuh.

Am I wrong for feeling this way? (rhetorical, tra.)

I think not.

beauty in the breakdown

2007-04-13T19:14:00.000-04:00

So, let go, so let go

Jump in
Oh well, what you waiting for?
It's alright
'Cause there's beauty in the breakdown
So, let go, yeah let go
Just get in
Oh, it's so amazing here
It's all right
'Cause there's beauty in the breakdown

In the breakdown
'Cause there's beauty in the breakdown
The breakdown

So amazing here
'Cause there's beauty in the breakdown

for a while, I thought the "beauty in the breakdown" bit was meant for something to do with a "break-up"...and now I'm starting to think that it doesn't. maybe it means just a "breakdown" in general. any type. it makes more sense that way. and thats it.

maybe you just need to hit rock bottom before you can actually start living. before you can actually be content and happy about anything. before you realize how beautiful life is and that it's not worth it to waste time worrying about people or things or anything else.
you realize all time you've wasted on things that don't deserve it, and then after, you start chasing after the things that DO deserve your time.

hmmmmm.

beauty in the breakdown :)

when is mine.

Video of the week

2007-04-09T11:31:00.000-04:00

Adorable ;*

not that anyone cares but..

2007-03-31T12:42:00.000-04:00

-just got my braces tightened. got the rubber band color changed as well. lime green.
everytime I go to get my braces tightened - I put on tons of lip gloss. I like to. And then when the orthodontist is fiddling around in my mouth, my lip gloss gets all over his gloves. HAHA. So they have this smeared pinkish ring around them. It amuses me. By the time he's done, there isnt any lip gloss left on my lips. Amusing, really.

-I remember when I was in grade school (and middle school) when they'd come around to our class rooms and announce that there was going to be an "open day" soon. we'd get SO excited. to the point that we wouldn't even be able to pay attention in class the week or few days prior to the "open day". It became more like open week. lool. How cute is that, eh?

-I'm just updating for the sake of it.

-American standards: I'm pretty spoiled. Saudi standards: I'm not spoiled at all. I keep trying to explain that to my parents. Hey, it's not my fault I was brought up here!

-So making a cross word puzzle isnt as easy as I thought....I need help *_*

-Vanessa Carlton. I hate that bitch. But at the same time...I wish I was her for some reason ??! WHICH FURTHER PROVES - that anyone who hates you, or tries to find something wrong with you, wishes they were you, or wish that they had something that you have. Oh, and I'm in love with this lame song by her. *shrugs* DON'T JUDGE.

- I had something else I wanted to type..but I forgot what it was. Now I'm utterly PISSED. Argh. I hate when that happens.

I guess that's all for right now. Ciao!

words. musing. me. 9:50.

2007-03-30T15:21:00.000-04:00

empty.tired.lonely.thoughtless.blank.drained.giggling.dirty.
feel like going for a walk on the ocean shore.
procrastination.blankness.
overwhelmed.mentally whipped.hating to think.prolonged brain freeze.nervous.curious.unsure.insecure.nostalgic.distress.confusion.regret. can't concentrate.dragging on.

late night musings

2007-03-24T00:47:00.000-04:00

- I cant get the song "all good things" out of my head. Ever since I watched the video on youtube the other day. I've been humming it ever since. It's kinda annoying since I claim to hate the song. Maybe it has some sentimental meaning to me?

- I've been really lazy with my blog lately. That's partly why I'm writing this post. Too many things on my mind - I think thats the problem. Funny I say that, when one of the main reasons of a blog is to write down your daily thoughts. lol.

- There's This girl that I thought was really cool in high school, who is with me in uni now.
Now I just find her really annoying. FUNNY .

-First time in my life I'm getting the highest grades in my class, and I don't like it one bit. Its weird.

- Hannah says:
thats just gross
taquitta says:
LOOOOL
taquitta says:
:|
taquitta says:
YUMMY
taquitta says:
ID LOVE TO JUST JUMP IN IT AND ROLL AROUND WHILST EATING
taquitta says:
:D
Hannah says:
hahaa
Hannah says:
but ew
Hannah says:
its like 5arooff
taquitta says:
SO?
taquitta says:
u think u too good for 5aroof???!!
Hannah says:
gross, i havnt had 5aroof for 9 years now
Hannah says:
loooool yes i do actually
taquitta says:
zag
Hannah says:
maybe if it was strawberrys and cream and lots of hot guys around the edge then i might join u rollin
Hannah says:
haha
taquitta says:
EWW
taquitta says:
then it would be all sticky
taquitta says:
y33
taquitta says:
kasba aint sticky
Hannah says:
this will be all oily
Hannah says:
yes it is
Hannah says:
7obi they cook it with oil
Hannah says:
y3ne u would get oily
Hannah says:
cream is cool
Hannah says:
it would be fun
taquitta says:
eww
taquitta says:
id love to roll around in kabsa m3 a hot emirati
Hannah says:
ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Hannah says:
hahahaha
Hannah says:
ur just cute
taquitta says:
loool
Hannah says:
im sure there are 459383904809 hot emirati's who'd want to do that with u
taquitta says:
HELL YEA
Hannah says:
HELL YEA BABY
Hannah says:
CENSORED
Hannah says:
CENSORED.

due to that fact that I was threatened to be sued, parts of this convo have been censored.
LOL.

LMAO. what were we smoking.

- Tommorow is Nada's birthday. Its being hosted in the computer lab....hmmm. CAKE.

- "Hollow" - Submersed.

- Happy Birthday Reema! :**

the chase is on

2007-03-17T16:10:00.000-04:00

Ok, this is extremely random and weird but -

You know how you watch a TV show, or a movie, or whatever, and there will be a scene of a few scenes where some one is running for their life, or getting chased, or hiding from someone.

Yea,

Have you ever fantasized about that being you?

Didn't it feel good?

-

Apparently

2007-03-16T13:29:00.000-04:00

So apparently people think that I'm judgmental.
And apparently, thinking that something is wrong - makes you judgmental.
So even if I *do not* think that I am better than anyone in any way at all, and I *do not* go around preaching to people, but because I might think that something is wrong - that makes me judgmental.

So in other words, standing for something, apparently make you a judgmental person.

pfffffffffffffffffffffffft.

I'm so tired of people.

Do whatever you want to do - I honestly don't care. (wallah)
But don't make me seem like I'm wrong for not agreeing with/liking what you do.

Just like its ok for you to parade around and be proud of whatever it is that you do - I bloody well have the right to hold my opinion that it isn't right.

Thank you

Annoyed Taqo.

loaths/likes

2007-03-14T09:13:00.000-04:00

This is sorta a tag/meme thing.
You get assigned a letter - then you have to type out your likes and loaths all begining with the letter that your were assigned.

Which proved to be quite difficult ( hence all of the dumb things listed)

Leave a comment telling me you want a letter if you want to be assigned one (",)

Likes:

1. T.V
2. Tawny Dean.
3. Tacos.
4. Thanksgiving style dinners.
5. Thai green curry.
6. Train rides.
7. Tropicana.
8. Turquoise/gray eyeliner.
9. Time wasting.
10. Tufa7teyn.

Loaths:

1. Tickling
2. Teeth sucking.
3. Toe jam.
4. Thomas the train Engine. ( I REEALLY LOATHED THAT SHOW AS A CHILD.)
5. Turshi
6. Typical acting people.
7. Three's company.
8. Traffic Jams.
9. Tragedies.
10. Taking things for granted.

-

Ryan Gosling

2007-03-11T18:12:00.000-04:00

So, umm...*scratches head*

When did he become hot? :|

pan's labyrinth

2007-02-28T07:11:00.000-05:00

I need to see this movie :|

My 100th post, and the year ( '06 ) in review....

2007-02-23T16:47:00.000-05:00

....according to moi.

Yea, I know we're already well into '07, but so what. I felt like doing this = D

"Favs" of 2006

1. album released-
-A fever you cant sweat out.
-Food and Liquor.
-Continuum.

2. song released-
I was infatuated with "Dance, Dance", and "Build god, then we'll talk". Not to say they were great songs or anything; but I just couldnt get them out of my head.

3. new candy/sweet-
Rafaello ( O hal ya5fa al 8amar ?!)

4. new food-
Om 3li.

5. new drinks-
Strawberry Daiquiris.

6. New restaurant-
Macaroni Grill :D

7. new gadget-
Zune. ( i waannnt )

8. new friend-
Too difficult!

9. old friend-
....

10. family member of the yr-
Sara.

11. person-
Not one person. More like a group of people. Bloggers.

12. cartoon to watch-
Kids next door.

13. movie released-
-V for Vendetta.
-Talladega Nights.
-Step Up.

14. T.V. Show-
Umm... I dunno.

15. Book you read this year (doesn't have to be a release of the same year)-
"The Alchemist"
"Wicked: The life and times of the wicked witch of the west" (still in progress : )

16. memory-
Summer.

17. achievement-
Graduating.

18. moment in your life-
Didnt really have any "great" moments.
My life isnt that interesting. Seriously.

19. moment in the world (like in the news or on a TV show)-
See above.

No.

Actually, on 2nd thought. This :

Poor thing.
Man, I luv this picture. I just wanted a reason to blog it. So feisty.

20. place you visited (any place even if it was the toilet)-
The UAE.

21. Game released (if you're a gamer)-

...

22. color of the year-
Hot pink.

23. thing you bought-
My Cyber-shot. *siiigggh*

24. present you got-
My laptop.

"Worsts" of 2006

25. album released-
hmmmm.....

26. song released-
Stars are blind.

27. new candy/sweet-
Skittles gum :S

28. new food-
Those chicken sandwiches that the pinoy lady at college sells. N.E.V.E.R. AGAIN :

29. new drink-
Date Juice.

30. new restaurant-
Chilis! That was a no brainer. lol.

31. new gadget-
That Creative mouse that I bought. It only lasted for 2 weeks : I paid 150 riyals for that piece of SHIT.

32. new friend-
I'm not saying any names......

33. old friend-

...

34. family member of the yr-
My dad.

35. person-
Kramer.

36. cartoon to watch-
Lilo and stitch.

37. movie released-
Superman returns.

38. T.V. show-
Still Standing.

39. Book you read this year (doesn't have to be a release of the same year)-
"Uglies"

40. memory-
I cant remember.

41. moment in your life-
Getting accepted into AUS.

42. moment in the world (like in the news or on a TV show)-
The war in Lebanon.

43. place you visited (any place even if it was the toilet)-
The bathroom in Amo Hamza. Ewwwwwww.

44. Game released (if you're a gamer)-
...

45. color of the year-
Brown.

46. thing you bought-
Again, that mouse.

47. present you got-
An ugly jean bag.

Others…

48. Do you have any regrets?
Many...

49. If there is anything you could've changed about yourself in the last year it would be…
Trying so hard to fit in and be liked by everyone. Being nice to everyone.

50. If there is anything you could've changed about the world in the last year it would be…
All the killing, hate, and blood shed, I guess.

51. Anything new you did/tried?

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kawiiiii.

52. What was your New Years resolution? If you had one, did you stick to it?
I didn't have any new years resolutions.

53. How much longer do you have left in the yr in hours/minutes/seconds (if it already passed give it as a negative value…I feel like I'm in physics
class!)
There ain't NO WAY....

54. What would make 2007 the best year ever?
If everything goes the way that I have it planned in my head. ( acceptance, college, social life, self image, etc.)

:)

to all the haters

2007-02-18T12:28:00.000-05:00

Bring it, bitch. BRING IT.

i'm anti-valentines day

2007-02-14T17:09:00.000-05:00

_

On a lighter note....

My "valentines day" did rock actually.
I spent it with *gasps* girls! Had a blast too.
The most fun I've had in a while.
And we totally pigged out.

in conclusion,

I don't need a man to make it happen
I get off being free
I don't need a man to make me feel good
I get off doing my thing
I don't need a ring around my finger
To make me feel complete
So let me break it down
I can get off when you ain't around
Oh!

p.s. The guy that works in "Lush" is uber hott :|
If you live in Riyo - Check Him Ouuuut.

Yea, I know.
This post makes no sense.

But when do they ever.

:)

2007-02-12T06:52:00.000-05:00

-

The itsy bitsy spider went up the water spout.

Down came the rain, and washed the spider out.

Out came the sun, and dried up all the rain.

So the itsy bitsy spider climbed up the spout again.

-

5 things that you (probabaly) dont know about me

2007-02-05T08:48:00.000-05:00

1. I have this freaky "fetish" for pretty boys. It seems like every guy that I find hot, is (in some way) pretty. And in a lot of cases, prettier than most girls. Until recently, I was in total denial about my so-called fetish. But alas...I have accepted it.

Fazzaaaaa333. A55 3leeh bs!
Ya zeen el zeeeen.

Cillian...you can push me up against a wall annyyytime you like, hun ;)

2. I HATE carrying handbags or purses around with me. I find them absolutely annoying. I keep my money in my pockets most of the time. So it's kinda awkward when I'm at a store, and it's time for me to pay for something; I have to like open my abaya all up, stick my hand in my pocket, then pull it out. And hope that I pull out the right amount, or I'll have to do it again, lol. (yea, yea...how interesting, right?)

3. Ive had 3 step siblings. Zaid (whom we called "lil Zaid" because my big bro was called Zaid as well), Naeema, and Aliyah. Naeema was crazy. She scared me. I liked Aliyah though.
Havent seen any of them for like 11 yrs. But there was that one time when I thought that I saw Aliyah in Old Navy one summer. She was pushing around a baby. Meh. Didnt say hi to her though. And I think that I saw lil' Zaid running across the street to a corner store one summer too.

4. I was responsible for the death of a turtle. I indirectly crushed it to death. Don't ask.

5. I used to have a bladder problem as a child. I wet my bed until I was well into my 11th year of life. But my parents got help for me. One of my worst fears is that I'll relapse, and have an "accident" once I'm married :| (NOOOOOOO.)

If you've read this; consider yourself tagged.
Oh and ESPECIALLY Ren ;)

I can't cope

2007-01-22T23:42:00.000-05:00

I got 2 teeth extracted yesterday.
It was freaky. I mean, I didnt feel any pain, but it was still really freaky, weird, and kinda sick to me. It made think of some sort of torture. You how you read about people getting their teeth pulled out as a form of torture? Ofcourse their mouths arent numbed prior to it, though.
But still. I'm psycholigically scarred (a bit) from the whole ordeal.
I got 4 shots in my gums, then she got out this thing that looked like a wrench, stuck in my mouth, and started forcing my tooth back and forth with it.
Why couldnt I have been but to sleep?
I wasnt crying or anything, but I was petrified!
And the Doctor and nurse actually thought that it was funny :|

"Taqwa mr3oobeh. Hahahahahahaahaha"

Well, yea lady. I'M HAVING MY PRECIOUS TEETH RIPPED OUT OF MY MOUTH.

Hmmmm....I think that I'm getting way too emotional about this.
This is surprisingly very difficult for me to get over O_o

...My teeth were just pulled out of my mouth with some sort of wrench.

Thats just wrong!

I need some tea to calm me down.
But surprise surprise, I cant have any. I'm not allowed to drink anything hot.

hmph.

My mouth still tastes like blood.

And anyways...why couldnt I get both of my teeth back? What does she need the other tooth for?

I dont want her doing black magic on me.

2007-01-16T20:08:00.000-05:00

Ba ba da da

LOL.

He's hot.

Thanx tyler.

and btw....

2007-01-15T14:40:00.000-05:00

FUCK limewire, and bearshare.

excuse my french.

g'night :)