Monday, June 16, 2008
Save Time
I was just wondering that these days people are idle a lot, so what's the need of saving more time? To do what exactly? To just waste some more time?
I don't know if you've noticed that but being a school girl, and having to listen to a 20 minutes of the morning assembly, a lot of those programmes is wastes on "saving time" and how to do that. I don't really think their purpose is to save some time for us to relax from school, it's probably just because they want us to "study" more.
It's ridiculous but it's probably just me being too attached. But I say, don't save time, take all the time you need in doing whatever you want to do. ;)
But how should I know what you should do, do what you want! That's what you should do, it's a free world!
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Fashion





Monday, June 9, 2008
Thoughts on world news
- The Iraqi Government, after dealing with the safety of the country is now more concerned about making life better for the Iraqis. So they have been doing that. I just want to applaude them for the work they do first before I start criticizing. Anyways when it comes to education I have to say something, what they have been doing is building new schools and repairing new ones. Now there are a lot of rural villages in Iraq, so what they are doing is having the people of that certain village come together to build the new school, from the people's money and the people's efforts. So now that the people have built the school, and started having students, the government will evaluate the situation. See how many students have been coming to these schools, and if the number is big then the government will build schools in that area. Now I don't know about you, but first off the people of villages aren't the wealthiest of people. These rural places suffer greatly, even more than the cities because most of the care and money are being spent on the big places, and these are the ones left behind. Plus even if there weren't many students attending there should be schools everywhere!!
- Now more on a gossip news, but concerns world issues. The actress Sharon Stone, said after the earthquake in China that it's karma. Of course, refering to how the Chinese authorities handled the situation of Tibet. Now, I understand everyone is entitled to an opinion, but saying that is very unjust because many people have suffered because of the earthquake and not just the authorities. We have to be sympathetic. Needless to say that her statment have caused a lot of anger from the Chinese people. I think she apologized or something. This is what she said: "Well, you know, it was very interesting, because at first I am not happy about the way Chinese are treating the Tibetans because I don't think anybody should be unkind to anybody else... Then I've been concerned about how should we deal with the Olympics because they're not being nice to the Dalai Lama, who's a good friend of mine. And then all this earthquake, and all this stuff happened, I thought, is that karma? When you are not nice, the bad things happen to you. And then I got a letter from the Tibetan foundation that they wanted to go and be helpful, and that made me cry... That was a big lesson to me."
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/27/sharon-stone-on-chinese-e_n_103750.html
- The Turkish authorities have officially banned Hijab in universities. Turkey is a secular country by the way. However, I don't think it is very much relevent that they ban Hijab. Isn't wearing Hijab a personal choice that women make? Why take such a fundamental right? Like having the right to choose what to wear. I really think, these issues shouldn't be decided by the government but by more by the people and what they want.
So that was my post about world-news issues, I am happy to have had such a post after a really long time of total world-news-ignorance.
:)
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Noor

Anyways, at the mean time Noor and Mohand are doing awesome, pretty happy having just got back together and Noor is starting her own firm with this annoying partner. Mohand got two tickets for Paris, they're leaving for the weekend. It's supposed to be Noor's first time away from Turkey and Mohand was determined to make Noor happy. Now Noor is about to open her new clothing line and her shop. Her work is hectic, and before they were leaving, her partner told her they needed her to stay. She tried getting out of it, but couldn't. She came home and told Mohand, they're not going because she can't leave work. Now Mohand had the whole thing planned, where to go, what to do and stuff so he was pretty upset. He left home and went to his friend. Came home really early in the morning, to find Noor just slept on the couch. She felt pretty bad about it. He lift her up and carried her to bed, but she was already awake, she apologized and told him they'll go another time. He agreed, and she suggested that they go on a tour to visit Istanbul (Turkey's capital). They go and have a great time, and the Paris incident is forgotten.
Now, Tariq is teaming up with Mohand's cousin Bana who wanted Mohand's position, she's giving him the inside on what's happening in the company without knowing that he wants to destroy the family and smuggle drugs through the company. Anyways, he pulls it off and smuggles drugs and such. Now Bana turns out to be not from the family. Her mom married her dad when she was already pregnant with her from another man. So she's not from the family. When her dad found out he wasn't her dad, he killed his wife and then killed himself. Now, no one knew this, they thought they had a car accident. But Tariq tells Bana this to turn her against her family, and now everyone knows.
Another thing is that Mohand tells Noor that he's ready to have kids. So they go to the hospital, do the tests and stuff. Then a couple of days later the hospital calls Mohand and ask him to go there. He's told that Noor can't give birth because of the miscarriage she's had and it's a long shot if they tried to have babies. Mohand is devastated. I mean he's thinking he's the reason, because he started the fight with her and he watched her fall down the stairs and he was the one opposing to having children at first. So he spends the day grumpy and not talking to her. The next day, they have a party. It's Bana's engagement party and Mohand is still upset about what he learned in the hospital. So after that he goes to his friend's house, pretty drunk so his friend calls Noor and asks her to come. She does, and finds Mohand in a pretty bad shape. He tells her to leave, but she insists on knowing what happened so he tells her that she can't have babies and that it's all his fault. She gets upset but after a while they go through it well and she tells him not to give up and starts getting treatment.
So Bana's fiance Kamil is a reporter who is looking up Mohand's company's involvement in smuggling drugs, which they aren't, Tariq is but anyways so Kamil meets up with Mohand to tell him about what he discovered. Now, being involved in such a case is dangerous and Kamil is followed. When he's sitting with Mohand, some of those mafia try to shoot kamil but the bullet hits Mohand in the leg. And he's hurt. So he stays at home, being taken care of by Noor. Now their grandfather's health is at risk because Bana found out she's not from the family, and Mohand is trying to keep his family from falling apart.
It's pretty complicated! But I mean I feel like I have to write what happens, maybe just for me to get back to it when (if) I miss the show when it ends. So let's get on with the story. Tariq, who is the evil uncle and is smuggling drugs through Mohand's family's company without their knowledge. So he wants to get out of the whole thing and make the company and the family look bad so before leaving on his flight to the US he calls the police and tells them that there's a truck at this place, which is a truck of the company's full of drugs. Then Tariq flees the country. The police finds the truck, and finds the drugs. The driver, who knows about everything, and knows that it's all Tariq's fault not Mohand's or the company's, runs away. The police arrests Mohand, the grandfather and Fajir Mohand's cousin and Anwar Mohand's brother-in-low. Because all of them are in charge of the company. Now, they're all shocked because of what happened but they go to jail, and they spend like a week there without any new evidence to bring down the real criminals. The grandfather has a stroke in prison, he's a very old man, has lived his whole life with dignity trying to hold his family together and ends up in jail. His conditions don't get any better, and still no new evidence. So now, Mohand talks to their lawyer and finds out that the only way to make it easier is if one of them confessed to the whole thing, and then the rest would go free. Bana who helpd Tariq do his plans without knowing, finds out she was helping out and the girl panics. How could she do that to a family who made her feel like she's one of them? So she's doing everything she can to make up for it.
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Me in 12 pictures!

So I found this really cool game on a blog I checked for the first time: www.kylee-p.blogspot.com It was pretty fun to do.
So here's what I got:
1. Noor, 2. day 63: french fries, 3. Oman - Old man of Nizwa, 4. Sunny Side Up, 5. Orlando Bloom, 6. Lindt chocolate milkshake, 7. Last day in Paris, 8. 4 New Flavoured Ice Cream Plush Toys from Chocolate Log, 9. Food for thought..., 10. 3 generations, 11. Joy of life, 12. Tree of Light
The concept:
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd's mosaic maker. {Since there are 12 Qs I did a 3x4 likeKylee did.}
The Questions:
1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One Word to describe you.
12. Your flickr name (since I don't really have a flickr account, I just used my nickname)
Try it, it's awesome!
Summer Readings
So today I think I drank like more than 2 big bottles of water, it's still 9:30 pm and I think I'll drink as much in the few hours to come.
Seriously, I've been drinking water like a maniac, but it's only water right? No harm can be done. Except that I drink a lot when I am eating, which is a bad habit by the way.
But it's very much inherited, my dad drinks lots of water too.
Ok, so I'm pretty jobless, should have been doing something useful today, but exams have been a drag and since there's only one left, today is just to lazy and goof around, which I have successfully done. Had a nap from 1 pm till 5:30pm. Woke up annoyed, not because of the fact that the day is wasted, but because I missed half of the tv program I watch at 5pm. Then I'm blogging about drinking too much water. I'm not such a hopeless case you see. It's life that's making me so.
It's all about to change since summer is coming. After Saturday, I'll be all happy and free as a birdie.
I wanna make this post a bit useful so here's what I'm planning to read this summer:
The Runaway Jury- John Grisham
The devil wears Prada - Lauren Weisberger
Playing for Pizza - John grisham
A thousand splendid suns - Khalid Hosseini
For one more day - Mitch Albom
The other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory
One hundred years of solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love at the times of cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
There are a few others but that's what I think should be definitely read. Any suggestions?
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Noor


What time is it?
It's time to update you guys on what's happening in Noor. There are a lot of good things happening, and since I like Noor at the moment, I thought it's a good time to fill you in. So let's pick it up from where we left it. I ended the last post when Mohand was standing at the gate of the hotel and she was leaving the hotel, he got her some nice flowers. She was headed to a restaurant where she was supposed to have a business dinner. He offered to take her to the place but there was already a car waiting for her. So he followed her to the restaurant and sat in a table next to her and kept sending her notes through the waiter, the two people with her didn't notice. When it ended he also offered to take her back to the hotel, so she agreed. He was driving back and she realized he wasn't going to the hotel but to his house. So she made him turn back and drive her to the hotel.
Now Mohand has a sister and her name is Dana, and she's married and she has a little girl. It's the little girl's birthday party and Dana didn't want her kid, Alma, to spend it at the house because it'd be dull so she made a party at Noor's place and made Mohand bring Alma over. In the party things started to look really good and that there's a big chance they might get back together. But after a few days Dareen calls, remember the one who made Noor and Mohand's marriage fall apart? Well, she's pregnant and her mom finds out so she tells her either she'll get married or abort the baby. She told Mohand that if he wanted to help her, he'd have to get married to her. Of course Mohand refuses the idea, he is after all in love and married to Noor. So that Dareen calls Noor and meets her. She tells Noor about her problem and says that Mohand is willing to marry her but he can't because he's married. Now that was of course plain lying and Noor would have realized that if she could've thought clear. But she believed Dareen and files for divorce. When Mohand gets the notification, he gets really mad and he goes to see her and asks for the reason. She tells him to stop lying to her, and tells him that she knows that he wants to get married to Dareen. Now she hit a nerve, and Mohand tells her 'Oh so you believed her just like that? Is this what you really want?'
'Yes, it is.' Noor says.
The poor guy did everything for her and tried his best to get her back but now seeing that she doesn't have faith in him makes him accept the fact. Now well, I'll tell you a little about Mohand's family. You see they live in a huge mansion. Their grandfather is really rich. And Mohand is running their business instead of his grandfather because his grandfather thought it's time he retired. So in their house lives Mohand, his evil evil mother, his father, his grandfather, Dana his sister and her husband and their girl, Mohand's two cousins and the gardener and his daughter. The gardener's daughter Nada is Noor's friend. Now Nada's father dies and she moves out of the mansion to live with Noor. She's studying medicine and is also practicing in the hospital. So one day there's an accident. And at the same time a man with his wife arrives because his wife is very sick, he asks Nada to examine her. But Nada sees Dana's little girl injured and hurries to her forgetting the man and his wife.
Anyways, after a few days it turns out that there's a man following Nada, and he is that man who came with his wife for Nada to examine. Turns out that he took his wife out of the hospital and she died. He is blaming Nada, and so he follows her to her house and tries to strangle her. Noor gets back home and sees the man trying to kill Nada so she tries to push him away but he takes out his gun and shoots at Noor and runs away. So much for a dramatic show, I know :P
Well, Nada calls Mohand and tells him about what happened and he was in his car with his mother going to a party, he instantly turns back and goes to Noor's house. He panics of course. But Noor's injury wasn't deep and so he stayed with her all night in the hospital. He even got her a little present. He was with her all the night and just is by her side and telling her he loves her. She starts to realize she can't live without him too. And the next morning when she was supposed to go home, he was with her and he told her that he's taking her home. She refuses at first but he starts saying all those nice things, how he loves her and can't live without her and all. So she agrees, half the way she hesitates. But he asks her to trust him and go back. And she does. What a glorious moment, I tell you me and my sister started clapping because we were so happy. So he takes her home, now his mother was with him and she knew that Noor was shot but she didn't tell anyone because she didn't even care what happened to Noor. She just wants them to get a divorce so that she can get Mohand to marry someone of a higher class than Noor and someone she approves of.
Anyways, they were all happy that she got back, but when Mohand finds out that his mom didn't tell them that Noor was shot, he was furious. But well, it was all good because his sister Dana makes a party for Noor. The next day when Mohand was driving Noor to work, there was a traffic light so he stopped there. When the light was green he told Noor 'Will you marry me?' And he didn't move even though the sign is green. So she was like 'Mohand, are you crazy the light is green. Please drive.' He didn't and said 'I'll move when you answer the question' So she says 'But we're already married.' So he says 'But I want us to have another wedding' So she says 'Of course.
Ahhh it was so nice. Now they're preparing for the wedding with Dana, her husband and one of Mohand's cousins, without getting Mohand's mother to find out. I really think she'll do something horrible to try and get them apart. She already did asking Mohand to choose between her and Noor because she can't live with her. So Mohand says 'Mom, if my wife leaves the house it'll be with me. So you choose.'
HE IS BLOODY PERFECT!
Oh and they're here in Dubai, Mohand and his sister and another actress in the show. There was a chance to go see them but of course we couldn't. Although we wanted to so bad. We just wanted the interview online, he looks soo handsome!

Monday, May 19, 2008
TV commercials

I'm a big critic of TV ads. I mean I comment and criticize almost every ad there is, I mean just take a look at TV -I'm guessing it's a global issue- and you'll find tonnes of stupid commercials.
First of all, the credibility of the products:
A lot of companies are trying to show that they are not making their product seem like perfect so here's what some of them do. You know those Dettol, or those cleansers which are supposed to kill all the germs. Now all of them used to say that this cleanser kills ALL germs but that's changed. Now what they do is like compare the "usual" cleanser you use and how it kills germs, which apparently it doesn't but theirs kills all the germs except one that is left. I don't want to blabber much on it. I guess you get the picture. And they also sometimes say it kills 99.9% of the germs.
There's this other ad which is on a air re freshener, Airwick, and so it shows a mouse/rat/hamster, not really sure which in her house and she has guests over, her other animal friends. And there's an elephant and now the rat is just half the size of the elephant. I commented on that and my sister called me stupid of course to comment on such stuff. But I got her thinking and she said, well if they made the elephant bigger he'd step on the rat.
What bugs me in most ads is that they show that their product is the very very best and nothing is even comparable to it. I understand that's what they need to market it but come on, some nice reasonable ads wouldn't be so bad. But those ads which make us think that these companies think we're really stupid to think that you can see germs while using a magnifying glass. I always comment on these stupid ads but my family just continues watching because they probably didn't hear me or something.
Now I think the nice ads deserve their share of this post. Like the Lipton ad which has this guy who is working and he wants to finish up a report in half an hour and he starts singing 'Tamaly Ma3ak taratara taratara' It's a very cool ad.
Another ad which is about this shower gel and soup that's called Lifebuoy, the ad is AWESOME! If you live here you've probably watched but if not then it's like this:
A little kid is coming home from school and he sees this kitten and he wants to take it home but their neighbor sees him and takes the boy to his mom and says "See what your kid did, he can get a lot of germs'. The mom says 'We teach them to have compassion on others and then we forbid them to help them. Why?'
So the little kid says in his Saudi accent 'Eeywa laesh?' which means 'Yeah why?' It's cracking up, I wish I could get you a video but I can't seem to find it on YouTube.
I know I know, I'm too attached to ads but I just like criticizing them. :D
Monday, May 12, 2008
Noor

Now, yes she is dumb and all. But they have to get back together. The guy is devastated. I don't know what he sees in her but whatever.
I know you're probably thinking I'm too attached, and that it's just a show. I mean poor her, it's only her character. I mean they could have written a better part for her. She's one of the those Goodie-Goodie people. I don't know about you, but sometimes they're pretty annoying on tv shows. Being too perect and all. I mean they guy loves her and one time he tried going to her town, and well there was this party his grandfather was supposed to attend there but his grandfather couldn't. So he went and he found about the party as well, so those who are throwing the party saw him and thought his grandfather sent him when he didn't even know about it. So Noor refused to go home with him. She told her grandmother that he came for the party not for her.
I'll definitely have a few more posts about this show, it's awesome!!!
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Obsessiveness
I know it's probably weird, I don't know if many go through this. And the example I gave is probably stupid, but it happens through these little things that don't matter. Like touching one of my teeth with my tongue and then I have to touch them all with my tongue. See I told you they happen in these things that are very silly.
It's maybe to just feel balance or whatever. It's weird, because I mean I'm not that much of a perfectionist. I can't deny the fact that I am a bit of a perfectionist but it's totally irrelevant. Or at least that's what I think. And it only matters what you think. ;)
Well, I just wanted to share this with you and maybe if you have a similar obsessive compulsive behavior you can share it with me. I'd be delighted to hear about it.