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Hey everyone!

Hope you all had a fantastic christmas...I know I did. It went really well, and this year I decided not to get too excited and worked up about it, and I did just that, so I enjoyed Christmas Eve. The night of the 25th, though, I had a freak out for no reason whatsoever. I guess it was all the built up energy in me that needed to be let out. I think my older brother seriously thinks I'm crazy. But I'm not, really.

So, it's 7:31 AM and I'm awake, and have been so for the past 2 hours. I slept at about 1.30 with my window open and the heavy rain raping the street outside. I was so happy it finally really rained and not the pissy excuse this country's clouds usually give us. At 5am when I woke up it was still raining. It's stopped now but the street outside is all watery. I love the rain. OK woah wtf. Did I just write a whole paragraph about the rain? I'm losing it, I really am.

( MY GIFTS THIS YEAR! )

SO! it's 7:53 and the sun is like 70% up, and the sky is beautiful, filled with grey clouds and the air is cold and crisp. I love this weather. My mom, grandma, and aunt are going to Dubai today and asked If i wanted to join. I'm not sure yet. They'll be packing in my aunts house, then visitng people and stuff. Kinda sorta boring but the trip should be fun and I haven't been to Dubai in MONTHS.

Last night I went with Hend, George, Kanaan, and Lindsay to watch Oceans 12, which was such a funny movie. About 2 thirds through the movie something happens that is so out there and they carry it on for about 15 minutes and it's just so hilarious (to the people who watched it: The part with the lady, and the egg). After that, Farah and Rana were at Friday's and wanted me to go see them, and I really wanted to see Rana, cos I haven't seen her all week, but Hend got kinda pissed about it so I stayed with them and went to Chili's instead. Big mistake. In about 15 minutes the place was swamped with Choufatis fresh from univeristy. Now these people, I'm sure, are really nice, but I just wasn't in the mood to be there among all their "OH MY GAWD LIKE UNIVERSITY IS SO AMAZING" hoopla, because I want to be in university, and I've heard / seen people coming from their first freshman semester about, hmm, A MILLION TIMES? So yeah, I was feeling bad about Farah and Rana, so just ate then went home. Thank God for Lindsay, George, and Kanaan who were just as fazed about the whole thing as I was. And Lindsay don't worry I won't tell anyone about that thing that happened as I left the table, haha.

Anyway, this entry dragged on a little, sorry about that.

Ciao miao!

BITCH YOU KNOW IT I'M DONE FINALS!

And I did good in all of them. Even math, the teacher told me I've imporoved and my result was good :D. Just arabic and chemistry that's a little wonky, but....

So after the exam today me, Hend, Farah, George, Kanaan, Reema, Ziad, and Adeeb all went to Abu Dhabi mall. We had lunch then went for Karaoke cos we were feeling a little silly. It was fun as usual. Then we hung out in Seattle's Best for a couple of hours and Nadine and Livia joined us, before leaving. Hend bought 2 tiny frogs for her brother and called them Fizzle and Sizzle after me and Farah.

So now I'm planning on going to see Lamia maybe, and then go watch The Grudge with her and my brother if she doesn't chicken out cos she hates scary movies. OK she just called and we're going.

Tommorow I need to go and get some Christmas presents done so I might do that with my aunt. Also present wrapping et cetera.

I'm so happy the vacation is finally here wohoo. I still can't believe it, and I'm happy I've done OK on my finals...

Listening to Girls Aloud's album for the first time in a long time (ie, 10 days) and it's still A.M.A.Z.I.N.G.

Before I say my goodbyes, this is from Leena's journal, thought it was funky:

Everyone could use a serious boost in morale. So, If you do this... you'll get a big boost from me :) Who wants some love??

1. Reply to this post, because I would like to say a couple words about you.
2. I will also tell you what song(s) remind me of you when I hear it.
3. I will also tell you what celebrity/public [or anime/manga] person you remind me of, either personality-wise or looks-wise.
4. I will also give ONE WORD that I associate with you when I think of you.
5. We all could use a boost now and then, so steal this for your journal and make someone else's day as well. Or not. I will not cry if you do not. It is up to you

So I'm done the arts part of my finals. Ethics, English, and Arabic. Ethics was fantastic. I love our teacher. Our exam consisted of 9 different scenarious in which you have to put yourself in (for example, you are in a warehouse with a mad killer. There is TNT attached to 3 groups of people; 4 pregnant ladies, 4 comedians, and 4 scientests. The mad killer says you can kill a group of people and be set free, or wait for all the TNT to explode and have everyone die (along with yourself). Who do you choose to kill, and why, or do you let the warehouse explode?) and you had to write a little paragraph about what you'd do. Then it was just personality tests that were really fun. English was also good, the book Demian is interesting and we discussed it thoroughly and so the exam was simple, but Arabic today ripped everyone a new hole. It was just so, so, so bad. I thought I was the only one that fucked up but apparently everyone else did. Oh well. So anyway, my week is gonna be looking like this:
Today: Study Bio
Tommorow: Study Bio
Saturday: Bio test / Study math
Sunday: Study Math, Aunt arrives
Monday: Math test / Study chem, Brother arrives
Tuesday: Study chem, Other aunt & family arrive
Wednesday: Chem test, Christmas hols begin.

Also, today one of my bestest friends in the whole wide world, Lamia, arrived from Canada. I'm so excited and can't wait to see her. It's been 4 months since she went to University (Western, no less), the longest time we've been apart since I met her 4 years ago. So I might go see her today for a few minutes.

( 2004 Reviewed! )

Hey guys!

Yeah, I've been updating a lot these days. I guess it's just me procrastinating (God, I hate that word)... Finals start tommorow. I'm happy by the way I'm going, though... I'm just sort of nervous about Chem, and a little of Arabic. But I know if I put my head to it, I'll be fine. Ethics tommorow so today I'm going to finish reading Demian for English, and go over Biotechnology for Biology... Then... SURVIVOR FINALE OOMMMMGGGGG! I can't frikkin wait! DOWN WITH TWILA AND SCOUT, CHRIS FOR 2nd AND ELIZA TO WIN OH BABY YEAH YEAH YEAH! In exactly 2.5 hours the most amazing show in it's 9th season will begin to end. Bring on Survivor 10!

Today we went to a UK Universities convention, and I was really interested in the unis that were there, so I'm applying. So far I've got Northampton, Bradford, Middlesex, Cardiff, and maybe Reading. So I'll work on the applications over the christmas break and FedEx them to the good old U of K in time for January 15. I hate that University applications cost so freaking much... I mean, I payed $400CN for the Canadian universities... UK should be a lot less expensive, though.

I'm done getting a present for my older brother and younger one. Got my aunts, parents, and grandma left. I guess I'll go out on the 22nd after the exam and get them everything. I can't believe in 10 days it's Christmas. Our house is bee-oo-tee-full and ya'll have to come over and see it. I freaking heart Christmas....

I am unwritten, can't read my mind, I'm undefined... Staring at the blank page before you, open up the dirty window, let the sun illuminate the words that you cannot find.

I love that song. Listening to it now.

Ok, I guess that's it for now. I'm leaving you with an MP3 of Girls Aloud's verison of  I'll Stand By You, as a couple of people were interested in it from my last post.

Left click here

Ciao Miao

( What Will The Neighbours Say... This time? )

I'M DONE APPLYING TO UNIVERSITIES!

Well, to the ones in Ontario. I just submited my application(s) to York, University of Toronto, Carleton, and McMasters - all for marketing. I feel a little bit more relaxed now - at least that's over and done with. Still have University of British Colombia, American University in Beruit, and some in the UK to go. Will do this over the next week or so.

On Tuesday we start our 3 day Model UN conference. I'm so very nervous, but also excited. I keep thinking, I'm so bad at this. Then the other part of me says, so is everyone else. Which, to an extent, is true. Unfortunatly I got a stupid country (Nicaragua) to work with so I won't be able to debate much. Me and Mary (Bangladesh) decided to sit and talk while the other debate about the reconstruction of Afghanestan flaunting their money and power. Mary rules. Today she came to the MUN meeting in normal clothes (not school uniform) and me and george started making fun of her in a lebanese accent and stuff (it's an inside joke with her) and our biology teacher walked in and I think he thought we were hitting on her hahaha. Oh well it was still funny.

On Tuesday the first issue of the newspaper SHOULD go on sale. Excited much? I hope it all works out. CineStar were very interested in sponcering us so if that goes through it would be amazing. Fingers crossed.

Last enry got a whopping 76 comments. Unfortuantly all of them were utter crap. Oh well it will be fun looking back at that in a year or so.

Sent my christmas list to family, but it got retured when I sent it to my aunt. Will try again tonight. Muchos excited about the holidays - absolutly EVERYONE is going to be here and next weekend we are decorating our house and I just can't wait. It's also getting a little cooler here which is always good, non? Also finals are before christmas so I can have a stress free week. I want to do something special on New Years but I'm not sure yet, it all depends on what other people are doing / want to do. Don't want to think about it too much, though - I need to concentrate on raping my finals first. I need to get an 80% in everything, and I know I can, but I also know I am incredibly lazy and irresponsible with my time. They're in about 20 days so I'm gonna start studying asap.

Getting incredibly frustrated at the lack of motivation I've got towards losing weight. I just want to get it over and done with but I can't get myself to hold on for more than 12 hours. Seriously speaking here. I want to cry ARGH. Actually, I want to get gastric bypass surgery. But that's for losers, so no.

I've got a new (mini sorta) crush but she's WAY out of my league so... GET. HER. OUT. OF. YOUR. HEAD. SAMI. It's just that her voice is the cutest thing ever and she's really nice (what I got from spending about 2 - 3 hours with her) and she's also pretty but, yeah. All the girls I like are either lesbians, taken, or goddesses. GO FIGURE.

It's 11.30 pm and I need to get to sleep. I'm really loving sleep these days. Mmmmm sleep = the sex. I also love waking up at like 4 AM and going, yay I've got 2 more hours of sleep ahead of me. I actually set my alarm at 4am just to have those few seconds of bliss.

heylo my fishies!

Long time no update. I'm sorry. It's just that my computer has been screweing up for some time and I hate it when it's like that and I don't bother with it. It was literally crashing every 2 minutes. I found out that I had a load of spy/ad ware and I took them away and now the computer is feeling a little better.

My glasses broke the other day, they kinda melted in my hand. It was bizzare, really. So I've been walking around with contacts and I hate it. I hate having shit in my eye. So tonight me and mom went to the mall and got me some new glasses. She wanted me to go with the thick black nerdy look but I thought I wasn't ready for that yet so I went for the thin black nerdy look. I pull it off. Then again, I pull everything off, baby. Then we went to IKEA (viva Sweden!) and bought LOADS AND LOADS of christmas decorations. I love it.

Tonight was also Diana's 18th. This morning I really wanted to go and she really wanted me to come, but as the day went by I just got crankier and crankier and I decided not to go, also cos my eyes were not feeling OK cos of the lenses. I still heart her though and will get her a present on Saturday. Today in first recess we had a bake sale for the newspaper (which me and Farah are editors of, baby!) and made 250 DHS. Which is about $75. Which is enough for printing in color. I can't wait to get the issue out - everyone who's seen it so far has been blown away and I really feel like it's my baby. We all worked hard on it, but I was the one to come up with the idea of a newspaper, I took early leadership, and I really worked hard on it. And now it's finished and we are selling it. I'm excited and nervous but it's fantastic so theres nothing to worry about. Maybe I'll post it up for you guys if you want ;). Saleem, everyone that read your article loved it. They said it made them REALLY excited about university and that it was one of the highlights of the newspaper. Thanks!

In other news, I had a bust up with Leena (tiny_echoes) and Raina (</span>mistress_dead). In short, they were both bitching about me for no reason, behind my back. They had left their copybooks with the notes wide open though and I read first hand what they had written. It was pretty hurtful at first, but whatever, you know? I don't waste my time with so called friends. Their loss, not mine. I was reallllly hurt until I got home and I talked to people about it and the feeling was unanimous - not worth even thinking about. So my relationship with them is strictly proffesional from now on, and somehow, I really don't care.

Moving on, tommorow should be fun. I will be finally sending off my Canadian applications, will probably go watch a movie, and then I'm going to dinner with Rana et al. It's been such a long time since I've gone out with Rana properly - it's been like, just waiting for the other person to arrive at a place to say hi, then having to leave. Tommorow should be cool though. I feel really close to her for some strange reason, even though we don't spend time together. I guess it's since she's so geniune and there's never been any bullshit about her. It's like, she wants to say something, she says it. I remember when I first met her, one of the first things she told me was "can you get the fuck out of here I need to tell Farah something private. Leave us alone" hahaha.

Thanks to iTunes, which calculates your most played songs, I can now have proper Top Tens, which are accurate. This week, KELLY CLARKSON tops the charts. I love this song so much, and the video is amazing. In one part she looks so cute, then she looks like sex. Awesome, no?

( Top Ten )
( This song sums up how I feel now )

Maroon 5. At the MTV European Music Awards (18NOV04) in Rome. Representin' PALESTINE!

Hey everyone!

Hope ya'll are doing OK. I'm great. I got my computer back from the shop, and he managed to save all my photos. PHEW. *backs them up*. He did, however, NOT save my 5 GB worth of music. Hundreds apon hundreds of songs... GONE. So I'm slowly building up my collection again. I've had the computer for a little less that 2 days and already I've got 100MB of songs haha. Oh well. Yesterday we went over to Alan's house for iftar (which is when muslims break their day long fast). Obviously i didn't fast, but the food was good. Then we hung out at his pool for a while before going to a place called Layali. I hate it but everyone wanted to go so oh well. It was fun, though. Company was good.

Marina is coming back from University for a 10 day break today. Wooo! I miss her so much. Can't wait to see her. Unfortunatly all the other Egyptians can't come, and I'll have to wait until Christmas to see them :(.

Now, in memory of all the music I've lost, I've decided to dedicate this week's Rocks Sami's Socks List©™ to all the songs that, well, rock my socks right now:

Androgynous Girls - Girls Aloud - Girls Aloud. Singing about hermaphrodites. And leather clad angles. With Kimberly on lead vocals. Over an electro beat. Too good to be true? Probably. But then again, this IS Girls Aloud, and anything goes. Sample lyrics include: Pretty boys like confession with androgynous girls /
And pretty soon shit'll happen what a wonderful world / And your mom's getting younger to your daddy's delight / But he can't feed his hunger what a beautiful life.

Curtain Falls - Blue - Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's Blue. I know. I usually hate them, but like Fly By II, you just can't deny that this song is good. It's basically their goodbye song. And the whole song is them singing over a ringtone-sounding sample of Gangsta's Paradise. Somehow it works.

Jesus Walks - Kanye West - I hated this song when it first came out. But then I heard it the other day and loved it. I love the hook and the chorus singing 'JESUS WALKS! JESUS WALKS WITH ME!' and what he says is cool. And I actually like the way he raps. It's almost singing rapping if that makes sense. Kanye rules!

Teardrops - The 411 - I hated their first song, On My Knees. Their second song, Dumb, was genius. And then this comes along. It's such a classy song. I love the 411 cos they are so different, all their songs sound like nothing out there at the moment. This one is like BSB's I Want It That Way, in that it's not a ballad, but it's not uptempo, either. It doesn't SOUND like IWITW, though. It also follows my favorite song trick ever: beat the crap out of someone over a sweet, classy song. Teardrops come again / I can almost feel your pain / I never ever thought the day would come / When i would be the lucky one / to see you hurt to see you cry / gives my soul a natural high / think about the times you walked on me / your teardrops came to set me free 

Do Somethin' - Britney Spears - She should have released this instead of My Prerogative. Britney raps the verses in the most ghetto way ever, and whines through the chorus. Except when she says WHY DONTCHA DO SUMMIN!? where she sounds like those 11 year old ghetto girls wanting to start fights with you on the street. And in true Britney fashion, she screams fuck out of no where for no reason towards the end of the song. Seriously. It's like there's the music and... then... FUCK! hahaha. I heart Britney.

Vertigo - U2 - Unos! Dos! Tres! Qatores! Classic U2, really. I love it. And the video is cool.

Since U Been Gone - Kelly Clarkson-  I like this new Kelly. It's different. It's cool. Although I hoped she'd come back with more songs like Miss Independant. Oh well. This is good enough, though. It's uptempo and I love her doing uptempo songs. And the way she SCREAMS THE CHORUS LIKE THIS IS JUST SO AWESOME. The only thing I don't like about it, was that if this was on the radio, I would have thought "Whoa, cool song Avril, but since when do you sound so good?". Yes, ladies and Gentlemen, it's very Avril. Especially towards the end of the song where she's shouting more often. Still, Avril AIN'T GOT NOTHING ON MISS CLARKSON.

Wake Me Up - Girls Aloud - From the new album. This song has been described as "Something The Prodigy would die for", "Baby punk Blondie", and "an eight million BPM electro metal blowout". And it is all of these things. Oh how I love Girls Aloud. And you all should, too.

And, that, my friends, is that. Hope you enjoyed it. If anyone wants these songs, ya'll know my MSN. Unless you are Shereen, of course, as I've just sent her all of these. Lucky lady.

Hmmm... My mom has been telling me to apply to universities in the UK... I just don't know where to start. I know NOTHING. So, I'm starting from zero. Hopefully I'll be able to get some info soon. I still want to go to Canada, though. Hmph.

I watched The Butterfly Effect this morning. What a cool, cool movie. I really liked it. Farah told me that Ashton Kutcher sorta ruins the movie, but I thought he did a pretty OK job. Overall the movie was really enjoyable, a little clever (although, looking back, it wasn't really. But the concept was, I guess) and it was sorta different that most movies out.

Then me and my mom took my computer to get fixed (I'm on our other one right now). He's gonna have to delete everything... which includes family photos and music. Now, I've got all photos on a CD (bar the last 2 months or so, but we only took a few pictures then), but my music is all gone. I asked him to try and see if he could save them, and he said he'd try. Here's hoping. I also asked to have my RAM upped to 512 so that's being done too. While on our way back home enjoying the new Kylie song a little too much, my mom turned right onto the wrong road. Which means we had huge ass 4x4s speeding our way. At first I was like, whats that jerk doing driving the wrong way, then it hit me. My mom kinda freaked out but it was fun. Afterwards.

I'm bored of my mobile phone and it's malfunctioning. The ringtone starts to just beeeep, the charge lasts for all of 2 hours, and the keys are just... bleh. Even though I bought the phone in february, I feel like I need to change it. Even if, in reality, I don't. But I want to. I WANT TO GODDAMIT WHY MUST NOKIA BE SUCH FUCKWITS AND DESIGN A DELICIOUS FLIPHONE THAT'S ALSO CHEAP. I hate big coorperations for raping everyone up the ass constantly. Especially Nokia. My mom needs to change her phone so maybe I can too.

That's about it I guess. I felt like posting some photos, so here goes!

Oh, and also, this entry is dedicated to </a></a>pantherjumper's dog who was put to sleep yesterday :(.

( ON TO THE PICTURES )

Hey peeps!

It's been some time since I've updated... Don't mind me. Things were a little crazy and I wasn't feeling well at all. I'm 100% better now so all is cool.

What with Shiekh Zayed passing away and the Eid holidays, we are off till the 20th. So I've got 2 weeks of doing nothing ahead of me. I'm gonna try to study, but I'm not sure if that will go as planned.

The new Girls Aloud album, What Will The Neighbours Say?, is out soon. I am so freaking excited. PopJustice has reviewed it and I nearly pissed my pants. I'm not gonna download the album... I want to listen to it with the whole effect. I did, however, download 2 songs; Here We Go and Hear Me Out. Hear Me Out is  practically Girls Aloud doing Never Be The Same Again (by Mel C), while Here We Go is just so awesome. It's a cover of a Lene (out of Aqua) song. "I don't do sex, but I do do second base!" "Put your tongue in my ear, it's kinda queer, but fun." Woooo! Click image for review:

In other news, I totally hate it when people, partiularily non arabs, complain about living in this country/region. Seriously, if you don't like it, get the fuck out. No one is holding your hand telling you to stay here. Thank the Lord you are living in this place, because it is obviously better than that place you call home, otherwise you wouldn't be here. Don't agree with the laws? Tough shit, bitch. It's a sacrifice you make. Sure, living here is a little more strict than Jordan (where I originally lived), lets say, but I'm always thankful to the country for giving my parents their jobs, for giving me my education, for getting me through univeristy, for getting my brothers through university. And so when people bitch about it, and the arab people in general, it totally pisses me off. Seriously. Don't bad mouth the people who are employing your parents. We are obviously better than your people if you wanna live with us, no? I've just had it up till here with people talking complete and utter bullshit. Especially when where they come from, people aren't exactly a picture of perfection. Mmmkay? Mmmkay.

The following is an UNMISSABLE extract from my brother's journal. I never tire of reliving this story:

I was 12 years old, it was the summer of 1996 and my mother had only just shat Nadeem out. At the time she had it rough: three annoying boys, her husband had only recently moved to Kuwait for a job and she had just delivered a baby and then immediately began packing our entire house for our Kuwait move.

So my "poor poor" mother was changing his heavily soiled diapers and asked me to "get rid of them". What does your humble hero do? He would do what every other 12 year old confused Arab child would do ofcourse: He walked over to the balcony of their tiny apartment and threw the aforementioned "shitty" diaper at the neighbours below who were having a nice dinner outside in the beautiful Jordanian summer night.

SMACK! FLIP! SCREAM!

It landed right in the middle of the dinner table. I ran back into our apartment snickering. Five minutes later there's a knock on our door. I, sensing danger, immediately run and lock myself into the bathroom.

I hear my mother open the door and talk to someone, who sounded angry. Then I heard her say "SALEEEEEEMM!!!!!!!!" and come running down the hallway to the bathroom. She knocks on the door vigorously, telling me to "get the fuck out NOW!". I laugh and tell her no. She says the man is calling the police. I begin crying. The man, feeling sorry for my poor ass, says that he won't call the police if I come over to his house and apologize to everyone there. I begin crying even harder. He leaves, and my mother tears open the bathroom door, beats the shit out of me, and drags me by the ear to the house to apologize.

So you can imagine what the scene was like. It wasn't just white trash, it was "eating-mayyonaise-sandwiches-with-an-ugly-baby-sucking-your-fat-breasts" white trash.

My mother drags me over and I put on my sad puppy face and sniffle a lame apology. He looks at me and my mom and says: "It isn't so much that you threw the diaper at our table while we were having dinner...and it doesn't matter that MY BOSS was sitting at the table...it's just that the diaper was FULL OF SHIT, and it landed RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE TABLE...", and then he stares right at me and screams: "AND IT OPENED UP IN FRONT OF EVERYONE".

My mother now laughs when telling the story. I think it just helps put into perspective all the other crazy shit me and my brothers have done to her over the years.

With the help of Raina over the phone, I've just downloaded tons of old songs which we both love. It's for a top secret mission (for now) but still the songs rule! I'M HORNAY! HORNAY HORNAY HORNAY! Also playing I See You Baby (Shakin' That Ass) on full volume and freaking my little chihuahua Jinx out... Poor thing didn't know what to do with herself... Too much excitment.

Do NOT read BEAUTY magazines THEY will ONLY MAKE YOU FEEL UGLY. That's from Baz Luhrman's Everybody's Free To Wear Sunscreen. I love that song. Some of the things he says are SO TRUE.

I've been really busy lately. I've got Yearbook and Newspaper on Mondays, Battle Of The Bands on Tuesdays, and Model UN on wednesdays. Tommorow, since I'm short listed for security for Battle Of The Bands (hell yeah!) I've got to take a phsycological test to make sure I'm fit for the job. The big head security, standing at the corner, is 5'6", 115lbs, DIANA. Hahaha it's so funny that such a flimsy girl is head. But man she's stronger than ALL OF US put together. I love her eternally. That's in first recess. Second recess is spent interviewing miss Judith for the newspaper. So that's my 30 mins of freedom GONE tommorow. Speaking of Judith, here's the joke she told us today:
So, 2 nuns, sister Mary and sister Margaret are driving in Transelvania. So as they are going along, PLUMP a little vampire lands on their windshield. "Oh Jesus!" screams sister mary. "God Almighty!" gasps Margaret. Sister Mary turns on the windshield wipers. swip swap swip swap. Suddenly the vampire starts making a strange noise "eek eeek eek eek!". So the wipers are turned on at a higher speed. Again, "eeek eek eek eek!". "PUT ON THE WATER!" sister Margaret screams. So sister Mary turns on the water. Again, "eek eeek eeek eeek!" the vampire goes, inbetween being sprayed by the water and being wiped by the windshield wipers. "I've got it! Next time he goes 'eek eek eek eek', Margaret, show him your cross!" says sister Mary. So again, she puts on both the wipers and the water. No sooner than this is done, the vampire is at it again, "eek eek eek eek!". So, sister Margaret rolls down the window, sticks her head out, and shouts, "GET THE FUCK OFF OF MY WINDSHIELD!"
Hahaha. Hearing this from like, a 65 year old lady is PRICELESS.

I started applying to universities yesterday and kinda sorta had a nervous breakdown. I honestly wanted to just like THROW MYSELF OUT OF THE WINDOW. thankfully Raina was there to calm me down through the process. THEN I realised that applying isn't as easy as it should be. The website was complicating everything for everyone. So I sorta gave up and went downstairs and sulked some more to my parents. Then we just discussed everything and now everything is fine. I'm going to apply for marketing everywhere, but I'll also be applying for Graphic Design and/or communications at York as a backup, or just another choice. Don't want to limit myself. As Baz Luhrman said,
Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what
you want to do with your life…
the most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22
what they wanted to do with their lives,
some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don’t.

So yeah. According to my teacher, my problem with chemistry is finally solved. *cheers*. He's really cool when he wants to be.

Yesterday on Will&Grace, Jack and Karen had a crisis when all of their shows were cancelled. I feel the same. What am I to do when Will and Grace stops being played daily (which is... next week ak!). I'll only have Tuesdays (Apprentice) and Fridays (Survivor) to look forward to TV wise. KILL ME NOW NOOO AAARRRRGGGHHH etc.

We got our school photos today. I look better than I exptected considering it's the same guy that photographs us every year... "HABBY FAYACE! HABBY FAYACE! BEYYYRRFIICT!" Will post it when my scanner gets fixed (NOTE TO READERS: When you are looking for a footrest, do not, like my older brother, use a scanner for one. You WILL break it.)

That's about it.

Ciao.

PS- Remember, kids; Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it. Let's do it. Let's fall in love.

Last time I did this, well, what can I say, you guys kinda sorta SUCKED! hahaha. Let's see how well you can do this time :). Some are easy, some are hard.

On your current playlist, hit shuffle and pick the first twenty songs on the list (no matter how cheesy or embarrassing), and write down your favorite line of the song. Try to avoid putting the song title in the line. Then have your friends comment and see if they know the songs.

( Here we go! )

Woah, I just realised how much I love song #20.

Since I'm already screwed, here's a message to you...
Screwed by Paris Hilton is such a cool song. The middle eight rules. 'When yaw meet samwan jast ta have a alittle fun!' Her voice isn't all that but it's still a very fun song and she rocks my boxers.

Haven't updated in a while cos there has been nothing to talk about. Just school, school, school, and who wants to hear about that? I've finally decided on Marketing for uni, and whittled down my choices for universities. I'm glad with everything but now im panicking about applications and whatnot so I'm gonna have a talk with our amazing councellor on Saturday.

Yesterday was Livia's party in this little club in the Meridian called Chi Chi's. The thing started at 6 but we didn't show up until around 7.40, cos me and George went to buy her presents first, then went to pick up Farah, and so, yeah. The party was SO. MUCH. FUN. Everyone danced all night like there was no tommorow. The DJ only seemed to have about 5 songs that he'd repeat over and over again (Yeah, Dip It Low, Lean Back, Move Your Body) but it was all good because by the end of it we would just laugh everytime one of those songs came on after a new one, and continue dancing like it wasn't played 50 times before. Me and Diana got our obligatory mexican dancing. That girl is so awesome even though she's misunderstood, and her short temper just adds to her overall cuteness. When it was time for the cake and whatnot, it was so cute cos Livia and her aunt did this Portugese dance (she's Portogese) and everyone was clapping along and AAAAHHH! hahaha. After the party finished at around 11, me, George, Alan, Kanaan, and this girl called Lindsay (who George would not leave alone when he found out she was British "OH MY GAWD YOU'RE BRITISH?!?! TALK TALK TALK!") hung out at the mall. Then me and Alan and George came up with the genius idea of watching a movie. At midnight. We watched White Chicks, which is a HILARIOUS movie that I wasn't expecting to be so funny. I slept at the end, though. After trying to find a cab and walking all around Abu Dhabi, I got home at 3 AM and slept like a rawk. Woke up this morning with blisters all over my feet and my body was aching from all the dancing but it was worth it.

Did nothing today but mope around in my Pyjamas attemtping to finsih reading the Illiad. What a fucked up story. I've finished about 2/3 of it but I just couldn't go on. Will read the rest before bed and do the essay tommorow.

It's been a while since I've done one of these... Ladies and gentlemen... Behold... The Rock My Socks List™©

• Paris Hilton
• Lindsay Lohan - Rumors. Video. Hot Much?
• Whatcha Waiting For? - Loving this song so much. And the Alice In Wonderland-esque video rules, and the fact that she had the guts to make it 7+ minutes long is so cool. ( If you haven't heard the song, this may give you just a small idea about how amazing it is. )</font></font>
• Our ethics teacher
• Ramadan - All the yummy sweets, the shortened school timings, being invited for iftar, the week holiday at the end of it. A+ in my book!
• Kanye West - The New Workout Plan is such a hot song. And the video is pure comedy, especially the part with Anna Nicole Smith. "MA NAME IS ALAMAY FROM MOBILE, ALABAMA. I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT SINCE LISTENING TO KANYE'S WORKOUT TAPE, I'VE BEEN ABLE TO DATE OUTSIDE THE FAMILY, I GOT A DOUBLE WIDE, AND I RODE A PLANE, RODE A PLANE, RODE A PLANE!
• Hit The Freeway - (relative) Oldie but Goldie. Where is Toni Braxton nowadays?
• My aunt - The point above reminds me of her. I always listened to that song on her computer. Ah. She's coming in a few weeks and I'm so excited. My grandma is also coming with her. I feel like Christmas has come early this year. I love my aunt SO SO much it's not funny. And I miss her so so much. awwwwww.

And that concludes the list this week.

I'll leave you with unmissable qoutes from our Math/HomeRoom teacher. You have GOT to read these. Raina spends all lesson taking them down. ( Here are my favorites.  )

Today we went on a field trip. To Al Ain. Aka the most boring city in the UAE, ever. I feel bad for every person that lives there. It's like a totally different country. We first went to a museum which mainly focused on the Sumarian times. They had those really disguesting instruments that were apparently used for circumsision. This lead to our teacher talking to me and Leena extensivley about the horrors of female genital mutilation... It was hilarious. We then walked outside to an oasis, but the walk was like a half an hour thing halfway through we hitch-hiked a pickup truck and about 20 of us jumped in at the back and had them take us to the place we wanted to go. It was so funny cos we were standing and me and Raina had to keep on shouting 'DUCK!' to everyone as palm trees would smack us on the head. As george put it when we got off, "I've got tree in my hair!"

Then we went to the InterCon for lunch. The lunch itself kinda sorta sucked (but was made better with me and Hend's constant laughing and pissing everyone off at the buffet... We'd stand there and like discuss what we wanted to put on our plate thus ticking everyone behind us off for holding up the line. Hend rules) but afterwards me, Leena, Farah, George, and Hend went running around the hotel through the fire exits trying to escape stalker. After running down like 5 flights, we were like, YES WE LOST HIM! But then he walks out the fire escape.. I could've died. So we all go into an elivator and stop at the lobby, Leena pushes stalker out and closes the door and we go down to the pool and run for our lives. We eventually  lost him but felt bad and decided to tell him the truth about how he just isn't fitting in with us. We all went to talk to him but then me and Leena left Farah and George to do the honors. We all then hung out at the grassy part beside the pool for an hour or so then left.

Thats about it really.

No it's not.

What's this you ask?

It's....

( PICTURES! )

I promised!

( Pik-shars! )

Oh... And I didn't win. Sagar won, but it was expected. I came in second (well, one vote behind Hala). I'm glad I ran though... It was really fun and I learnt quite a bit about myself. I guess you just can't compete with money.

Look at yo watch now! You're still a supa hot FE-MALE!

Gwen Stefani's first solo song, What You Waiting For? is so awsome its unbelievable. It starts off all ballady, with a soft paino and her sultry voice. Then... then... then... TICK TOCK TICK TOCK TICK TOCK TICK! AH! AH! AH! AH! And the song turns into this huge electropop mess that's just so genius. And the tick tock is repeated througout the track. Remember the 'uh-ohs' in Crazy In Love? Gwen's 'Tick-tocks' piss all over them. And the whole thing is done with this really bizzare voice with lots of ahs and uhs at the end of the words. It's just awesomness personified. Download it.

In other news, today was my speech. I got lots of screams (nevermind if most of them were coming from my friends) and people liked the speech a lot so I'm happy. Now all I can do is wait until tommorow when people vote and that is that. It's sorta sad that it came down to someone buying people's votes, but Cest La Vie, I guess.

School work has been overbearing. Never have I ever worked so hard. I've been spending 6 hours a day studying, doing homework, projects, and finishing off university papers and stuff for our councler. I had a mini break down yesterday to Yasmine (Love ya!!!) - poor thing always seems to experience my breakdowns. Helene also had the priviledge of being the first person I saw after working for 4 hours on our English project. After listening to my complaining, watching me literally pull my hair out, and have an all round nervous breakdown, she told me to go take a shower. It actually helped a lot and I felt so much better after that. It's just that the whole 6 hour a day thing, for a week, with my parents away, me being really sick, and the student councel thing, and my sudden longing to be loved, it all kinda sorta beat the crap out of me. Now I know how Mariah Carey must feel. Much love to her, yo.

Parents are coming back tonight (in an hour to be exact) and Helene is gonna move out from her mini stay with me and nadeem. That lady rules... She's travelling tommorow but is refusing to leave until my parents are back home and everything is ok.

Tommorow I'm going to post a bunch of pictures of all of us in school so look out for that! I haven't posted a picutre of me here for, like, woah... A year? teehee.

One last thing. This is the current situation of my computer. I have no CD writer. Am I screwed, or am I screwed?

Damn Cable internet making me download shitloads of TV shows, movies, and music. MUST GET CD WRITER ASAP.

Thats it yo.

Ciao

Sami-OH! TICK TOCK TICK TOCK!