F.R.I.E.N.D.S

A few hours ago, a really great friend of mine decided that he didn't want to be friends anymore. I wasn't even aware that was an option. I never knew friends could be un-friend-ed. He gave me some stupid reason about how it wasn't him OR me. I don't even understand half of it! I was so overwhelmed that I didn't put up a fight or anything. I just said that I deserved better from a friend and I believe I do! I mean if we were in a relationship, I'd understand how not being together would be an option, but friends?

So I started thinking. Who are my real friends? Not the ones I go out with, or the ones I went to school with, or the ones I saw everyday at work, but genuine friends. Do I have a lot of those? Who knows all my secrets? Who can blackmail me with all the criminal acts I've committed? Who understands the way I speak? (I use the words: yinshighil and yinsar, amongst others) Who can make me cry using one word? and Laugh using another? Who understands the way I see things and analyze them? Who can I play solitaire showdown till the wee hours of the morning with? This friend of mine, knew all of that and yet he decided to not be friends? HOW do people not become friends? What do you suddenly pretend like you never knew each other? Cut them out of your conversations? Cut them out of your life?

I'm very appalled by this behavior. Using the word stunned is an under-statement. I just don't understand how you can not be friends with someone? I understand fights! If you have an argument with someone and are so angry at each other that you don't even want to see each other again. That's reasonable. Yet, when there was no fight and no dispute whatsoever. Deciding to just not be friends? "Oh, it's just not working." WTH IS THAT? :(

My search for a true friend starts tonight (after the adeaters show) any takers? :P

My Kind Of Fetish

Inspired by Homer's phobia list. I decided to blog about the oddest kinds of fetishisms I've heard about. (also my favorite!) Where to start! There are so many that I love. lol
For those who are unaware of what I'm talking about:

Paraphilia is a term that describes sexual arousal in response to sexual objects or situations which may interfere with the capacity for reciprocal affectionate sexual activity. However it is important to notice that the term can and is also used to imply "less mainstream sexual practices" but without necessarily negatively implying any dysfunction or 'wrongness'.

Here is my list:
- Balloon fetishism
- Foot fetishism
- Lipstick fetishism
- Robot fetishism
- Shoe fetishism
- Spandex fetishim
- Diaper fetishism
- Copropholia - sexual attraction to feces
- Urolagnia - sexual attraction to urine
- Emetophilia - sexual attraction to vomit
- Eproctophilia - sexual attraction to flatulence
- toonophilia - sexual attraction to cartoons
- necrophilia - sexual attraction to corpses
- necrozoophilia - sexual attraction to the corpses of animals :/

That being said. What's YOUR favorite fetish?

The Purple Know-It-All

I was out with my friend X again to discuss yet another hot topic. Before we sat down, we decided to rush to the bathroom to re-apply. As we entered the bathroom a few girls were leaving so we opened the door for them. Being the typical girls they are, they just rushed past us. No thank you, not even a smile! So we came to realize how this society promotes rudeness. I don't remember the last time someone asked me to "please hold the elevator door". All I see is a hand springing in between those sliding doors to prevent them from closing. Did they not get the memo that there's a button that does that nowadays? I don't even recall the last time I heard a thank you for opening the door. I do get it occasionally from girls but never from a guy. Opening the door for you does not entitle you to my number (something they seem to not have gotten the memo about either) yet I do expect some sort of recognition for it!
When will they learn? Ya3ni it's okay for them to follow me around like cattle and throw obscene and crude remarks at me, yet it's '7aram' to say thank you when I actually open the door which is a nice gesture BTW. Sometimes I understand the lack of manners laiman I randomly hold the door open for the person behind me without even turning. LAKEN when I take the time to actually open the door for someone the least they can do is smile. La' and at one time I overheard a guy saying "hatha wana il rayal mafrooth ana ili afta7lech il bab". Okay you weren't lazy enough to say that now were you?! :(
You can tell how upset I am writing this. I wasn't even aware of this problem (maybe because I got used to it?) till my friend pointed it out today. She's completely right. I learned basic Please and thank you methods when I was 4 from Barney and his friends. Do they not have an arabic version of it? Isn't it called Morocco il sagheera or something?

On a completely different note. I realized today that my Arabic is getting better! When I was uploading the last episode of season 1 of Prison Break, the following conversation took place:

Me: This episode ought to be good since that guy what-chu-ma-call-him was killed!
X: Oh, he didn't die!
Me: F*** you?? Laish 7iragtay il episode 3alay??
X: Why did I "burn" it for you?
Me: Interesting.

Where the hell did I hear that phrase from? How did I decide to use it all of a sudden? A simple 'Why'd you ruin it for me' would have done nicely. Also, if X is reading this. I'm sure you'll get a chance to "Kill the guy's ass" ASAP.

10 things

Not all my posts can be sophisticated and interesting. (hah I've only had two) I've decided to list 10 things I hate as apposed to 10 things I love. Enjoy. (This post is a result of #8 on the hate list)

10 things I hate:
1) I hate it when I can't find my slippers first thing in the morning. As a result, I have to wait in bed till my nanny brings me a substitute.
2) I hate the fact that whenever I listen to my Franz Ferdinand CD, the streets are jammed and I can't speed. :(
3) I hate it when I overhear my mother drinking soup. *slurp*
4) I hate it when I cancel a lunch date just to have lunch at home. Only to find out that my family went ahead and ate without me!
5) I hate driving in the rain.
6) I hate it when it takes me more than 10 minutes to complete a Su Doku puzzle.
7) I hate olives.
8) I hate the feeling when no one is on msn, I have no e-mails, everyone is busy, there's nothing good on T.V, I have no homework, and there's no food.
9) I hate Susan on Desperate Housewives.
10) I hate reading a book only to realize half-way that it's not as good as I hoped.

10 things I love:
1) I love waking up an hour before I'm supposed to.
2) I love salmon sushi. -I'm in the mood for some right now.
3) I love getting in bed after a really cold shower to find the sheets all warm and crispy.
4) I love unexpectedly finding dessert in the fridge.
5) I love getting more than one SMS at the same time.
6) I love tomatoes.
7) I love snuggling up to my mother when she's swamped with work.
8) I love having lots of homework (so true)
9) I love making up odd answers to very serious questions.
10) I love making useless lists and filling out stupid questionnaires.

Are You Subconsciously Racist?

I take it we've all seen the movie Crash, no? The scene where Sandra Bullock holds onto her husband when she sees two african american youngsters walking towards her was emphasized a lot, and stirred up a bit of controversy. It does make you think doesn't it?
If any of you have read the book Blink by Malcolm Gladwell, you don't have to read the next paragraph. It was literally one of my most favorite books. It basically talks about what happens in the blink of an eye or something similar to that. He starts by explaining that the unconscious mind is in an infinite and continuous state of judging. Talking about his experiences with long hair and how cops used to pull him over and interrogate him, believing that he was a rapist because he fit the physical profile. In the book he emphasizes on racism and how we are all on one level or another racists. To prove this theory of his, he took the IAT (Implicit Association Test) which is a test that makes connections between pairs of ideas.
The surprise was that more than 80% of all those who have ever taken the test end up having pro-white associations! Which means that it takes them longer to associated good words with the word 'black'. The test goes to prove that our unconscious attitudes may be utterly incompatible with our conscious values. Does it sound far-fetched? Try it for yourselves. (I sure did)
www.implicit.harvard.edu (click on demonstration --> Take the Race IAT)

ared wagool, Are we subconsciously racist?

To Execute Or Not To Execute?

Currently I've been addicted to Prison Break. Not only because Wentworth Miller is the cutest thing there is but also, because it's been a while since I've seen a really GOOD show. I mean yes, Desperate Housewives, Lost, and 24 are all fine. Yet what I love about it is that it doesn't appeal to you in the way those shows do. It has a new twist to it basically and keeps you wanting more after each episode!
What I'd like to talk about though is something completely different. I was with a friend a few days back, let's call her X. So, X and I were having dinner and suddenly the conversation heated up after we overheard a discussion between a couple of guys about execution. My friend and I had completely contradicting thoughts on it. (I won't get into how I think execution is against every single human right and should be abolished, because apparently I'm the only one who thinks so) What we argued about was the fact that X thinks that execution should be publicized, so that people learn from others' mistakes. I on the other hand, am completely against it. I think that pictures and articles on a certain execution is just too vulgar. Honestly, everyone has the right to atleast some sort of privacy during their last hours of life. La' and what's worse is when it becomes a spectacle and il mokan maftoo7 to the public? wth is that? I'd like to hear another point of view on it.

Winrid 7ag Wentworth miller <3 akh.

Where It Starts

aah My first post.


That's about it. I'm not in a thinking mood at the moment. The only reason I decided to even start a blog of my own was because basically everyone's doing it. I was starting to feel left out!

I do have lot's of things to say though. This will not be one of those blogs where relationships/coffee and 'gezz' turn into controversial debates. Nor will it be a very highly sophisticated blog where you actually need to turn off your ipod so that you can grasp the true intentions of it.

This should be something you read before you're off to work (or school) for a few laughs maybe. An interesting debate here and there. SOME snapshots. with that thought and without further a due..

I welcome you to my blog.
7ayakum allah.