My very first Meme...YAAYYY!!

This one i got from aisha's blog who in turn got it from huda's blog. and it couldnt be more perfect as its about books. and books and more books :) i'm going to do it differently than the original ones coz i dont want to any impose limits; so here goes:

My absolute favourites: i am a die hard romantic, who still sees life through rose colored glass-atleast most of the time. the only thing im truly cynical about is money. so its no surprize that my favourites would mostly be romantics.

Gone with the wind: read it once and you will get hooked. it is one of those truly romantic novels written in a time when chastity was coveted not ridiculed, and it details the journey of a remarkable woman; remarkable not because she was a perfect woman, an ideal wife, mother, sister and daughter but because she was neither. she was far from perfect but she fought hard and overcame enormous obstacles. another reason is Rhett Butler; i have three men who in my life stand on pedestels; he is one of them. i lovvveeee the character. the movie to be is the most acurate representation of the novel which is quite rare. i always picture vivian leigh as scarlett and clark gable as rhett when ever i read it.

Scarlett: it is the sequel to gone with the wind; she gets the man and goes to ireland, what more could i want?? :)

Love story: this is a fabulous book in the sence that it is an out and out romance but doesnt have an ounce of obsenity. it is also one of the cult books of the 1970s. how can i help but love Oliver Barrett IV!! he is another one of my men on pedestals. this book came highly recommended to me by none other than mama; i think she is more in love with ob than i. she had already told me the story before i even read it but that did not make the read less enjoyable.

Oliver's story: this is the sequel to love story. i read this one before i read love story and i loved it for what it was. it is an amazing book. erich segal has a tact for writting which is so clever so sharp yet there is no crap to be found, no beating around the bush for no reason; he is such a natural writer than you cant help but fall in love with the book.

Must reads:

Boy-tales of childhood: this a true gem. it is Roald Dahl's autobiography and is completely hilarious. it is full of pranks played, punishments received, growing up, schools everything he experienced in his life; incidents which make a

wonderful story. this is a book everyone should read no matter what their age.

Out of the dust: this is all in prose and one of the most beautiful things i have ever read. it is one of those kinds of books which make you want to think that you reallly are previlaged and that when mum says look at those less fortunate than you she really is right.

Howls moving castle: its really funny how i got my hands on this, one of my sisters friends was disposing it and she got it to see if it might me nice. it turned out to be completely fabulous like an amazing presecessor to Harry Potter. i cant nderstand how any one could bring themselves to through it away. btw i read it ages before the movie was made.

Harry Potter: i lovvvveeeee these books, all six of them. i have read them so many times i know them by heart. we are so hooked on to this (me, my sis and bro) tht my sis actually wrote this examm type quiz of the first four books an dmade us solve them as a part of game, it was bloody long and she even marked them. thts how crazy we are!! Lol! :)

i think im going to stop now; its long enough and has taken me absolute ages.

i tag Omie, Ghazal and the Karachi mutant.

O, my bro, how I love thee!!

how can i not love him, he drives me up the wall sometimes which is plenty of times but he does such things at times and so spontaneously no matter how pissed off i maybe i just start laughing and the anger goes right out the window. like this morning; we got out of the house at 7 am and got to Jumeirah at 10; completely insane (arghhhh!!! Hate traffic want Ramadan timings back!!!); all he was thinking about the entire way, and very loud, was how he had made a major mistake by not coming through rolla (a way to get to dubai from Sharjah) and instead taking al wahda (another way to get to dubai from Sharjah) and I had to listen to this stupid rant every 15 seconds, no amount of shouting and swearing was shutting him up until I threatened to douse him with my cafe latte which was quite hot and then he goes

rolla is nice
whoever doesn’t come from there
will eat mice

tht doesn’t make any sense but it made me laugh; a lot!

Thanks O, my bro; you are the best even though I don’t say tht often J

EID MUBARAK!!!!!

its finally here!! EID MUBARAK to every one celebrating eid today and an early wish to everyone in Karachi!

Very Interesting

i was trying ot find some pics from google regarding eid, although i didnt find any pictures worth posting i did find this article on wikipedia called chand raat of Karachi. i would neve have believed i would find mention of gulf in wikipedia!! nice naa, the article is below:

Chand Raat (Urdu: چاند رات, Hindi: चाँद रात literally means Night of the Moon) is a typical term found among Hindi-Urdu speakers of Pakistan and India. It is referred to the festivity celebrated on the eve of Eid.
Chand Raat in Karachi is a moment of joy and festivities. Families and friends usually have a get together on the last day of Ramadan (Ramazan in Urdu/Hindi) to break the last day of fasting. Once the fast has been broken, people gather on rooftops and other open areas in order to spot the new moon and signal the arrival of the Islamic month of Shawwal and the day of Eid. Everybody is enthusiastic, and once the moon is sighted, congratulatory remarks are exchanged among each other with wishes of "Chand raat Mubarak" (Have a blessed night of the new moon) or "Eid Mubarak" (Blessings of the Eid day). Women and girls gather to decorate their hands with mehndi (henna), sweet dishes are prepared for the next day of eid, and the last rounds of shopping for the Eid Day are also carried out on this day.
City streets wear a look of festivities with streets and shopping areas brightly decorated and malls and markets remaining open till late at night. The joy and energy of this night in Karachi are usually very contagious and can be compared with Christmas eve in Christian nations.
Places to visit in Karachi on Chand Raat include Tariq Road, Hyderi Bazaar, Park Towers Clifton and The Gulf near Teen Talwar, Clifton.

And in true karachi spirit, i present an absolute gem

Happy Birthday Mama!! e

Yesterday was mums 42nd birthday; yet another year passed in the life of the woman i love with all my heart, who is my best friend, the person i learn most from, take most seriously and who is not only my bestest friend but also the best bitching companion a girl could wish for!!!

Happy Birthday mum, mama, ammi, ma mimi, mummy, friend. :)

with love, your sabbo rani

Which of the X-Men am I??? hehe

You Are Jean Grey
Although your fate is often unknown, you always seem to survive (even after death).
Your mind is your greatest weapon, literally!
Powers: telepathy and telekinesis, the ability to project thoughts into the mind of others, communication with animals

WOO double HOOOOOOOO

blog patrol rocks!!!i just discovered i got a visitor each from pakistan, canada and america, how COOL is that!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Addictions

ever notice sometimes when you start something no matter how tired or bored you might be you just cant get to stop...its like every particle in yr body is willing you to do it, whether u r in class or at home or even in the library...thts whts been happening to me since yesterday morning i dont remember how i came across jammie's blog but i couldnt stop, read the entire thing yesterday and today have been drifting across these

khizzy

kAy

and jammie's other blog

insane...stupid...misdirected...dont know whts going on, but something definately is...

G do u now these people? i have a feeling u might coz they are from IVSAA as well

inspite of everything i still love this crazy addiction...you cna knw so much about people and find links to people you may even know...

anyone notice the new look of my blog... i love beta!! life is so much easier!!!!!!!:)

the only drawback of beta is tht i cnat use it from home as the connections too slow for it to load so no blogging next week coz ill be offffffffffffff!!! finally a six day break!!! but as soon as i get back im tagging people... so get ready..

happy bunny or rather happy confused bunny

what did i Do??

this is both a reproach and rhetorical question... what did i do???? as in i havent read anything for the econ quiz thts in 5hrs and 40 mins and what did i do.. as in what the hell have i been doing for the past 2 hrs?

yesterday was a good day after many crappy days...we went out bought stuff :))) always a good thing but in my case the bestest thing coz i got new lenses; my old ones had finished and so i thought ill have my eyes checked again and get new ones; i had a feeling that my prescription had changed again but i had thought only a little bit, but i was soooooooo wrong it shot up from R-7 and L-6.50 to R-7.75 and L-7.25. i actually asked the optician how long before i go blind!!!

any hoo what to do cant revert it so have to live with it...wht else oh yeah i was just telling my mum tht i hadnt done anything which would make it shoot up so much and i got the age old rely back layt kee ghantoon kitabeen parho gi to aur kiya ho (translation: if you will lie on your stomach and read for hours what else do u expect to happen) so i told her i am not the only person in the world to do so to which i got YES U R!!!! go figure...i think she's still pissed off from teh time i asked her not to talk to me, actually everybody, until after i have finished a book and because of my never ending addiction to them. i know tht was rude but wht can i do?? everytime i would be engrossed in my characters' plight someone would start a conver with moi, which is no doubt interesting but i cnat concentrate on wht they are saying at all which makes me want to ask them to repeat themselves which pisses them off; wht can i do??

but all in all no matter how much i may crib about my parents and no matter how much i like my independence i would be unable to survive a day without them, i just wish their faith in me keeps fast and that i never severely disappoint them.

i love u mama and abba!! :))))

Gimme a break!!

I got an email yesterday which was a repeat of about the controversy of the KFC thing, (them not using real chickens) an I was like really people take a look around you, kfc changed their name from Kentucky fried chicken to kfc so they must be using genetically engineered chickens and has nothing to do with the word fried??!!! The first question I ask is why the hell would someone invest thousands to dollars to create a brand new organism and that too a fast food chain just so they can have meatier chickens?? Do ppl know how much time, money and effort it takes, for someone to even consider doing something of this sort would be a complete WOMBAT! We are constantly reading about how McDonalds is changing their menu to accommodate more healty options because of the growing obesity in America………has anyone out there ever heard of “Super size me”?? and if there was even a shred of truth to this rationally speaking this would have been in the paper, the media would have had a field day and KFC would have been shut down by WHO. And think about this as well, if these genetically engineered chicken did in fact exist how in the hell have they been smuggled into all the countries where there are KFC outlets with being detected??????? As nothing of this sort has been done to date people using a bit of the fluff in your skulls and stop forwarding such crap!!

Now lets rant bout etisalat hehehe; yesterday I was trying to access the gossip page on msn and guess what………it was blocked!! I was like what?? Since when has etisalat taken it upon itself (as a community friendly organization of course) to shield us from the daily shenanigans of Paris Hilton? What could have been on that page that had to be blocked? I am really curious to find out. Or did they just have nothing better do so they just blocked it for fun?

There are just a few more days to go for eid, I just cant believe how Ramadan this year had passed so amazingly quickly; it was just plain weird.

two words: disjointed.............dysfunctional

look what i just found, there is actually a peta website called kfc cruelty.com and another one which is called www.openrescue.org . and the pics on it are just plain gross!!! eeewwwwwwwww

Today is the day

this is an optimistic one folks
i feel really good today, maybe its the influence a huge bouquet of roses and lilies has on my unusual diposition or the fact that last night was amazing, fantastic, just.....plain great for lack of a more enthusiastic word..i'm almost in a dancing mood today, maybe its that even though i woke up after 4 hours of sleep to go back to work just coming back and seeing my flowers made my day. i dont know why i love flowers so much; i'm quite crazy after them and not any particular ones or immense quantities either a single flame of the forest make me smile and when i see the trees in bloom i feel ...good, weird..but nice and ever since because of the new park they removed all the flame of the forest trees from the bridge coming to Shk Zayed i have lost my fasination for the road. i used to love it when in summer you would come out of the tunnel and all around all i could see was a riot of red..amazing. it can even have something to do with the fact taht the radio has been playing fantastic songs all afternoon and my room is just perfectly cozy..ahhhhh:)
the flowers are currently residing in my electric kettle coz i have no place big enough to keep them in temporarily as im going home today...I FINISHED THE INTERNSHIP.....:):):)
although i not just happy coz i finished work coz i enjoyed every bloody minute of it and hopefully..fingers crossed..ill be back there in six months, but now i have a whole week off and i can do what i want no strings attached..yayyyyyy
so getting back to last night we went to i.e. S, S, O & N and me which make three Ss, Almaz by Momo. i know it sounds like a totally daft name and it doesnt look like much in the beginning and i though we were going for shisha and i couldnt understand how this chic palce in the MOE would have shisha indoors, anyhoo so we are led to the shisha lounge and the bloody place is packed, we are standing outside waiting to be let in when....drumroll please im told only ppl over eighteen are allowed in and im like huh im twenty so then then they ask for the id which i thankfully had
so we are seated really cool place blasting arabic and turkish music, took a little getting used to but after like twenty minutes i was enjoying it, we were there for like four hours, having coffee, shisha, desserts..the best thing probably was that the waiters were dancing, smiling, talking to people, singing when they wanted to which made the atmosphere really good and the fact that there were some cute guys around did not hurt either.. ;) the highlight were the birthdays which were being celebrated, the song would instantly change to Abdul Kader (cheb khaled) which i happen to love, a parade of waiters would come in singing, dancing clapping, take the cake around the whole lounge before finally getting to the right table.. reaallly gooood .
This after the night before's experience at Japengo in madinat souq this was like oh wow..
dont have any pics otherwise would post, so am posting one of the net; hmm somehow the image isnt coming on..anyhow thts all folks
go visit the place and invite me when you go ;)

Will this be my life???????

Sometimes you listen to a song for the first time and its something that you can actually understand and you start enjoying it and then the words hit u; and i mean hit you not physically but emotionally and hit you hard. this is one of those; probably the only one that ive ever heard which has put something ive being thinking about seriously for a while into some serious prespective. i just hope that this will be nothing more than a serious deja vu moment or a sign and not turn out to be the story of my life.

Its called Whered you go and its by Fort Minor feat. Holly Brooks and Jonah Sons Matranga

Where`d you go?
I miss you so
Seems like its been forever that you`ve been gone

She said somedays I feel like shit
Somedays I wanna quit and just be normal for a bit
I don`t understand why you always have to be gone
I get along but your trips always feel so long
And I find myself trying to stay by the phone
Because your voice always helps me to not to feel so alone
But I feel like an idiot, working my day around a call
And when I pick up I don`t have much to say, so

I want you to know its a little fucked up that
I`m stuck here waiting, at times debating
Telling you that I`ve had it with you and your career
Me and the rest of the family here singing

Where`d you go?
I miss you so
Seems like its been forever that you`ve been gone
Where`d you go?
I miss you so
Seems like its been forever that you`ve been gone
Please Come back home

You know, the place you used to live
Used to barbeque with burgers and ribs
Used to have a little party every halloween
With candy by the pile
But now you only stop by every once in a while
Yeah I find myself just filling my time
With anything to keep the thought of you from my mind
I`m doing fine and I plan to keep it that way
You can call me if you find that you have something to say
And I`ll tell you

I want you to know its a little messed up that
I`m stuck here waiting, at times debating
Telling you that I`ve had it with you and your career
Me and the rest of the family here singing
Where`d you go?
I miss you so
Seems like its been forever that you`ve been gone
Where`d you go?
I miss you so
Seems like its been forever that you`ve been gone
Please Come back home

I want you to know its a little messed up that I`m stuck here waiting, no longer debating
Tired of sitting here and waiting and makeing these excuses
For why you`re not around, and feeling sorta useless
It seems that one thing has been true all along
You don`t really know what you`ve got till its gone
I guess I`ve had it with you and your career
When you come back I won`t be here and you can say

Where`d you go?
I miss you so
Seems like its been forever that you`ve been gone
Where`d you go?
I miss you so
Seems like its been forever that you`ve been gone

Please Come back home
Please Come back home
Please Come back home
Please Come back home

Try as u might life will always come back to bite u in the a**

its late but i have had a really good day!!

and so i have to share, i just got home, read a reaaaallllllly long and really nice comment from O, combined with the CD thts just amazing!!i OFFICIALLY love fort minor now especially petrified, thnks O the CD is great. in answer to the questions i havent heard any of the songs you mentioned but ill try to download them, as we discussed today the ronan keating version is a total ad for jumeirah. REVPas and student CP hahahaha...lol :)
so wht i did tonight, got together with O, S and L went for dinner to fudo, great service, good food. then went to lotus one which was a dud except for the swings and finally scarletts, my most favorite heroine, whose namesake is a complete DUD..the music wasnt good and there were no free tables, but its the company tht counts and had lots of fun inspite of all tht. on a complete high right now, will look like death warmed over tomorrow morning, so wht new abt that.
gotta go, the beds calling, dont wanna go to work tomorrow, just 6 and a half hours till i have to get up!!!!! :( why oh why do i have to get up tomorrow.. oh yeah and R got back yesterday, just keeps getting better and better..

anyhoo
good night to who evers up..

Ranting in ....3...2...1

ok so i havent said anything in almost a month so this is going to be long, long, long. it is also going to be full of typos coz i so dont feel like checking anything. this week has been eventful, found out some ppl think of my dept as the dungeon and are also unfortunate enough to be stuck in it. i mean seriuosly its only the boss tht you allow to make you miserable, coz there isnt anyone else to bother you. so dont take things so seriously, i mean please let me live in the office, and by live i mean live and peacefully coexist. coz living is wht ihave been doing lately, in the office that is. two nights in a row i have come back at 10 pm. imagine staring at excel worksheets from 9am to 10 pm. arghhhhhhhhhhh. and its not just me , no one bloody leaves the office to go home.
went to the Bahri bar in mina salam today with the boss, her treat, and had a fab 1 and a half hr. the place was great adn the music was fantastic.
my latest music obsessions are iris-goo goo dolls, big yellow taxi-counting crows, cant fight the moonlight-leann rimes
girly i know, coz i am one
so what more, except work, oh yeah, o's college masla solved will inshallah be seeing him off to malaysia in june :) but we will all miss him, alot! found out that the bloody, graduation gown, which we have to buy, cost bloody aed 275, for something which will rot for life in the closet. wht the f**k! cant we atleast pretend to be in a normal college where students go and not the likes of paris hilton, tht combined with the ball dress, shoes and haircut will result in the most expensive night in my life. and i am sure in two years time i will have to paying double the cost. seriously the academy motto should be join now for a career at the top so you can paying back your debts. so whts more, yup just got a msg from the other O, who is leaving for Jordan. have a good time man and keep me updated.
thts it i guess so when i next get the urge to vent it will all be here.
listening to: we are the champions-queen
reading: little women-pathetic, i know, but ive got no choice!!
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

EVIL, EVIL, EVIL BLOGGER

OH MY GOD!! SERIOUSLY!! am i dumb or just misdirected that i wanted to make a new blog template from scratch. not only was i so not able to do that coz i wanted it to look like a design student had done it but i wasnt even able to edit my current template. so with deep remorse, regret and a severe and now throbbing back ache as well as stomach ache developed from not eating dinner till now, i now officially GIVE UP.
i do such moronic things sometimes. and the above the the simplest example. who am i to change something when it doesnot want to be changed. how can i when it is not bloody meant to be. i so wanted to do a nice template but seriously the help websites need to be translated for me. maana i am not a computer geek but i am not a complete dodo either. but in this instance i so compltely proved my self wrong.
on top of it all i so not want to go to work tomorrow. i just bloody dont. so there.
getting back to the template rants, i made out the whole format to edit my links and to add my fav sites but it seems blogger has edited those parts out so now i cant do that either. dont ask me how or why i would believe a soft ware to be against me but i swear it is. or i just cant see anything now.
on a happier note, yes happier i spoke to everyone today and even got visited. jab bhi allah deta hai to chapad phad kai. agar thoda thoda deeday to i guess i would be more satisfied but even so thank you god. it was like suddenly my prayers were answered.
Anju babe, here are some blogs you might enjoy reading coz i read them everyday. have to put them in this way instead of the nice list i had created. sighhhhhh.... a tear falling slowly (not literally though, im still the cold bitch), so here goes sobia- she is the chick with the punju mil, bee amma -whose shituation you will identify with, rehtwo-who i started reading today but the title is fantastico, diligent candy-what can i say, ghazal's-my friend in pak, and finally osama's and omar's who i do enjoy reading when they POST!!
i think this is more than enough coz if i keep on going and i can i will be waken up by my boos in the morning-just like today.
and please put in a comment if you are reading, anyone can not just bloggers, coz id like to know who reads my rubbish.
sleepy time..bye

completely hopeless and clueless

i am so wishing changing a template was as easy as excel. have been working on it so much nowadays am sick of it and by it i mean excel. i tried to change the blog using sobia's advice here but it doesnt seem to be working. i have just left it at the first step having been able to change the back ground but not the columns and now it is left at the first step which was to change the template to minima black. not only tht for for some WIERD ASS reason my index is stuck at the bottom of the page. ARGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! just now discovered by inability to type "the" keep writing "teh" for some reason. anyhoo my back is now broken, wishing i was at home so some one could give me a massage but no two more days. until then cribby me!!
must sleep now coz i have to wake up at 7:15 tomorrow so that i can keep snoozing the mobile for 45-50 mins until i know that i dont wake up then i will have to walk to work in the bloody heat. great motivation eh...!! just posting now no time or motivation to splee chack, me lard forgive me.
hehehehehhe
completely delusional..................

Hmmmmm.

a truly accurate picture of the world we live in.

1 day left...and then back to the grind

so now thts its coming to an end i wish i could extend my lazy days, the days which start with my mother's voice telling me is high time to get up and then switching on the tv in bed to watch yet another rerun of the Gilmore Girls. now its just tomorrow after which i will head of to my first day as a corporate intern. and with it i will fly away from the nest for two months and am taking enough stuff with me to suffice for a year. but thts me. it also means that now i will miss home like crazy and will go to bed on an empty stomach just cause i dont feel like food and not cause there's nothing to eat cause where food is concerned there is always plenty. mama makes sure of tht. continuously.
hopefully work will be satisfactory and they will treat me like a normal human being, able enough to carry out small tasks adequately and independently and not like some imbecile who just stepped out of kindergarten!

DEAN'S LIST!!!!!

YAHOOOOOOOOOO!!! HURRAAYYYYYYYY!!! although i got my result a couple of days back did not get the chance to post it. am so happy. i thought all my exams went crappy but actually my gpa went up a tiny, little bit. even though i am estatic! cause this means three semesters in a row on the list i.e. three out of the four taken so far. gpa attained 3.39 for the semester and cumulative 3.35.
YES,YES,YES..!!!