Posted: March 7th, 2007 | Filed under: Asides, My Life | 12 Comments »
Twenty-one years ago today, I was born. It is my birthday and I will be celebrating it tonight with my friends. But personaly, I will be celebrating my parents.
Instead of celebrating myself, I want to thank my parents for having me and raising me to be the person I am today. Every year was different. There were many good times as well as bad. Each year was a learning experience. Each year was an emotional growth.
To Dad, I want to say that he is by far the greatest man I know. A gentle giant with a soft grip on his daughters. He is a protective man, but would not stand in the way of his children. Because of that, I was the first girl of my father’s family to study in a non-Arab country. He is a loving father who sometimes finds it hard to say “no” to us. Him, is where I get my love of humor and sillyness. We share our creativity, the love of art and big gummy smiles!
To Mom, I want to say that I was wrong about her. In my early teens, I vowed to be her total opposite when I have children. Now, I am positive that all that I do for my children will be based on her ways of raising me. She is also the smartest person I know. Science, literature, history, languages, religion, art and God knows what. Her sharp methods of discipline were usually resented by me but I appreciate the outcome now. Although my friends think it’s weird, I can’t help but think “What would Mom think/do?” whenever I’m about to do certain things.
These guys did good. I believe I am a decent person with good moral values and a clear head. I am ready to face life with what I have. And since I am a work in progress, I still and will forever welcome what they have to give.
We are four children and their job as parents has spanned 27 years and that is a great acheivement.
So today, I celebrate Mom and Dad. Thanks.
P.S. I hope Real Madrid win tonight.
Posted: September 15th, 2005 | Filed under: Asides, Lists | 34 Comments »
Last update: May.13.2008
1. My grudges last forever.
2. My grudges: ignoring, disowning, no contact.
3. My face usually shows anger and disgust but that’s just how I look.
4. People say I can draw or cartoon well. I think my messages are well communicated however, I feel like my actual drawing is childish.
5. I am OBSESSED with Drew Barrymore.
6. I want to be like my father but he doesn’t know I consider him to be the greatest hero on my heros list.
7. I love technology.
8. Four years ago I started collecting watches: so far, I have only two.
9. Summer of 2006 was a great time because I went through my first milestone: I spent a lot of time with two friends from school and our relationship developed so maturely and emotionally that they’ve become my first “real best friends.” I am certain that we will be in each others’ lives for a long time.
10. I consider myself more religious than people in my age group. My extended family think I rebel against religion because I am against the separation of Islam (Shiites, Sunnis) and refuse to practice any of the Shiite customs.
11. I saw Keanu Reeves walking down a street while I was in a car with my friend in LA. I screamed for the first time in years.
12. I am a celebrity junkie.
13. I am epileptic. And I have learned to embrace this part of myself.
14. I’ve had 7-9 grand mal seizures (I think?) so far.
15. I am a Journalism major, and I’m minoring in Art History.
16. Journalism was not my first choice. I have a secret desire to be something else but I know it is impossible so I never told anyone what it is.
17. I am constantly imagining scenarios where I am deceased and looking at how my friends and family are reacting or I am in a coma and looking how my friends and family are reacting.
18. My funky glasses attract strangers to start a conversation with me.
19. I am uncomfortable with meeting new people.
20. Change deeply saddens me.
21. Thursday family gatherings are very sacred to me. I get angry if anyone is missing because I feel they are disrespecting the rest of us who are there.
22. It highly annoys me when young CHILDREN get married before they graduate from college/university.
23. Seeing people cry in real life and movies make me smile uncontrollably.
24. My writing is getting worse as I grow older. Sucks since my career will be mostly based on writing!
25. I don’t use umbrellas when it’s raining. Either way, I’ll still get soaked down to my underwear.
26. I think all Asian men are attractive (except the obvious unattractive ones).
27. Occasionally, I feel that I’m not smart enough or I don’t have enough general knowledge to be a journalist.
28. Forrest Gump is my favorite movie.
29. The Beatles are my favorite music group. I consider them to be their own genre.
30. My favorite color is red.
31. My car would never be red. It would be black.
32. I don’t want to have children because I cannot tolerate them, I don’t know how to talk to them, and I’m very mean to them.
33. I hate tomatoes and eggplants.
34. I love spinach, and learned to love broccoli and green peppers.
35. There are two people I hate with every single atom of my body.
36. When I hate, I hate hard.
37. I use to bite my nails.
38. It takes me 40 minutes just to do my hair in the shower.
39. I love cars. Especially Ferraris, SUVs, and anything pre-1979.
40. I dislike the sun.
41. I hate bees.
42. I love dogs. I want a Great Dane when I go home after I graduate. It will be hard to convince my mom.
43. I used to be a hamster breeder/seller.
44. I am obsessed with everything Harry Potter.
45. TV use to mean everything to me.
46. I am a nocturnal person.
47. I have two personalities. One for home, one for outside home.
48. I can never forgive and forget.
49. I talk to myself.
50. I was once offered weed.
51. I have never tried drugs, but I did get trippy when I accidentally overdosed on my medication.
52. I feel pain and shame when someone I know drinks alcohol or uses drugs. As if I was the one doing it.
53. My mother is the smartest person I know (mashalla).
54. I am a notorious people-pleaser.
55. I carefully plan my schedule of doing work, but I never follow them.
56. I hate going to sleep, and I hate waking up.
57. I enjoy the feeling of physical pain (scratches, cuts, puncture wounds, shots).
58. Dislocating any of my joints is my greatest fear.
59. My knee has been dislocated three times.
60. I don’t take medication to remedy any everyday sicknesses and such. I only take my epilepsy medication.
61. AB+ is my blood type.
62. I get nervous when people stand, walk, or sit behind me.
63. I am incapable of showing affection.
64. I’m cold on the outside and warm on the inside.
65. I strongly believe Severus Snape is really on the good side. I was right!
66. I feel claustrophobic in crowded areas.
67. I am extremely violent when I am alone.
68. My grammar sucks.
69. Before I liked Indian movies, I use to go with my friends or cousins just to see them and
other people cry.
70. My hands are now shaky and unsteady thanks to my first seizure.
71. My pre-seizure memory loss times have been increasing each time. I’m terrified because in some cases, people can lose up to a year or two of their memory.
72. I used to tell tall tales for fun but then people started believing them so I stopped (some still believe I spent a few hours in a Kuwaiti jail!). I need to clear that up!
73. I have many good business ideas but I don’t think I’ll get much support to start any of them because people might believe they won’t work.
74. I frequently practice Oscar acceptance speeches.
75. Dressing up isn’t my thing.
76. I have never put on make-up.
77. Foundation freaks me out.
78. Channel no. 5 is my perfume.
79. I am very passionate about European soccer.
80. I love old people. They have many things to tell.
81. When tickled, I have no control of my body. I once kicked a teacher in his privates when he tickled me in 6th grade, now that I think of it, that was very inappropriate of him.
82. I have dreams that concern the dead, death, and dying. They are not nightmares.
83. A have a recurring nightmare that I will never tell anyone about.
84. I carry a dark secret that I desperately wish to get rid of. Got rid of it.
85. I twice removed a mouse, and once a lizard from our house without killing them. I’m the only one in the household who is willing to do it (the only one who isn’t affraid).
86. I rarely clean my glasses. What’s the point? They’ll get dirty the next day anyway.
87. I’m not close with my siblings, but I want to be. Two down, one to go.
88. I like Diet Coke but not Coke, and I like Pepsi and not Diet Pepsi.
89. I truly fear no one but God.
90. I have a better relationship with my laptop then I have with people.
91. I don’t like to talk much. I listen instead. People feel better when they know they are being listened to.
92. I have big mannish feet. Size 42.
93. My hair has its own personality. My cousins even gave her a name: Boofy.
94. My father knows me so well that he made sure that the two times I came home from the US, I had grilled fish as my first meal. I didn’t even have to tell him. However, that wasn’t the case the rest of the times I’ve been back!
95. I have almost 120 DVDs in my personal collection.
96. I hope to start my own magazine in Kuwait after I graduate.
97. The physical concept of aging really fascinates me.
98. I have many first chapters of novels written. But none have a second chapter.
99. I crack my knuckles even though I know of the long-term negative effects of it.
100. I would rather die than give my family a bad name or cause any negative effect on our reputation.
101. I can’t WAIT to go home.
