For CeREAL?

I keep saying how busy Thanksgiving weekend is going to be, but I decided to post it all here so that I can organize all the events going on.

Wednesday - Party (Clean House, Prepare Food - Somosas lol)
Thursday - Thanksgiving (Visit People, Thanksgiving Dinner), Night Before Eid Festivities
Friday - Black Friday (Rake in best of electronic deals), EID (Go to morning Eid prayers, help clean up hall, greet/hug/kiss people I haven't seen in months, have to deal with people coming over AND/OR going to other people's houses, clean up house)
Saturday - Chill from exhuastion, More visiting people in celebration of Eid
Sunday - HOMEWORK, Faaiza's Birthday (Do something creative?, Invade her house)

Yep, if you haven't noticed. Eid and Black Friday fall on the same day this year. So the question is, should I even bother waking up that early in the morning if I have to be up and ready (all decked out in fancy clothes) by 7:30? Not to mention, I'll be exhausted by evening time. Eid is a very exhausting day.

So yesterday morning I wake up to hear a light banging sound coming from outside/above my room. At first I thought there was some weird animal in the attic, which I thought was not good at all. After listening closer, I noticed that it wasn't coming from the attic, but from outside my window. I look outside my window to find a swarm of crows flying outside. There were like a dozen sitting on the grass in my backyard and another dozen flying around in the air right outside my window. They kept landing on my roof (the lower section of the roof, which is right next to my window) and then flying back into the air again. It seemed like they were doing flying suicides between the roof, midair, and the grass. I'm not saying I'm scared of crows or anything, but I have to admit the whole situation was really creepy. I mean, up close those birds were pretty big and black. It felt like I was in a horror movie and those crows were an omen that something horrific was yet to come.

 Leave it to Basma to distract with something as stupid as Camp Rock songs in Hindi. LMAO.

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well, let's see.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them.


1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 1984 - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold (so effing depressing T-T)
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

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So overall, I've read 17 of these, not bad.  I'm sure most of my bookwork friends of have read more.

I really want to go to my car right now and take a nap for like an hour or two.  I am so tired.  Unfortunately, I'm stuck on campus until 10 because I have a JPCS meeting to attend at 8.  Apparently there was dance practice today too, but no one told me and I found out half way through practice, so I decided to skip.  I didn't feel like calling someone up to be like, "Yo, let me in."  I don't even have access to get into the building because it's for residents.  And clearly, because I don't dorm in that building, I can't get in by myself.  Okay, I'm rambling now about stuff that you probably don't about because I have never mentioned it here before.

On a side note, did you know that there are two dark sides?  Apparently, there is a good dark side and a bad dark side (according to Steph).  She yelled at me for taking those Social Interview quizes on facebook.  Yeah, I found them annoying myself, but eventually I gave in...which is how this whole  "You just joined the dark side" thing happened.  I was originally already on the dark side (because they have cookies).  It's weird and complicated and this post is starting to make sense.

Clearly I cannot think properly due to lack of sleep.  Looking forward to the Halloween themed JPCS meeting.  Speaking of Halloween, my Accounting professor gave us goody bags with tons of chocolate inside them. <3 It was really sweet of her.  Oh, and they have these really awesome Reeses halloween butter cups.  It's hard to explain.  it's like a Reeses pieces butter cup, but when you remove all the foil and look at the bottom, it's got a jack-o-lantern on the bottom (painted? in orange).  I thought it was the coolest thing ever, especially for a Reeses fan like me.  It's my favorite chocolate after all.  I wish I could show it to you, but I can't find any images online.  I'll just have to take a picture and add it in here later when I get home.

 They got me good.  I'm referring to the House episode Brave Heart.  It caused me to jump...it was very unexpected.  Totally forgot that maybe the writers would be in the Halloween spirit.

My mom took a remote control race car that was somehow in the trunk of my car and is going to attach a helium balloon to it.  The balloon will be covered by a white cloth or tissue paper, so that it will appear as a ghost moving around. =)  Too bad I wont get to see it (It's for her work).

 If you haven't noticed, I choose not be online lately.  As soon as I sign on (facebook, msn, aim) I get an IM with someone telling me they have problem.  And because they are in a difficult situation I can't really turn them down, so for the next half hour I have to listen to them rant about their problems.  It gets really annoying after having to do it almost every day or every other day, so I started thinking WHY ME?

Are quiet people good listeners or something? Or does something about them make them seem confidential?

I mean, all you have to do is the occasional "Ah", "I see", or "That sucks" to show that you're paying attention.

On the other hand, I am online like all the time, at odd hours.  So maybe, I'm the only person they always see online and choose to rant to me?  I don't know, these people need to get a Livejournal. :P

I have some sad news. My laptop has been destroyed by a really nasty virus/antispyware program that wont let me do anything, not even open up programs.  Yesterday morning, it would let me open up folders, so I thought my stuff could be salvagable.  However, i just got a call from the guy who is working on my laptop.  Apparently, it has gotten so bad that nothing can be opened.  I really hope he figures out a way to save my stuff.  I mean, I don't even care if I lose most of my files.  I just want my music and my photoshop stuff to be saved.  Forget everything else.

And I'm upset with my dad for failing to tell me we own an external harddrive, so basically I could have backed up my stuff when I had a chance.  Now, he basically complains that I should've saved it on a 8GB flash drive or something.  Gee, dad, will you be willing to go out to the store and fish out the money to buy one for me?   Actually, I think he'd be too lazy to go to the store, but would give me the money to go buy one on my own.

i just came back from Long Island.  I really did not want to go up there when the weather was so crappy.  Surprisingly, the weather was better/warmer up there than it was down here.  We've got family friends there that throw a party once a year, and basically I have to go.  They even made sure in advance that my schedule was clear before they decided the date.  Usually, I bring my laptop, because I hate socializing with the other people at the party, but this time I had to bring a book since my laptop was under repair.  I actually made an attempt to socialize with the other girls (they are super girly).  I lasted for about 2 hours before I had to bring out the book.  And then somehow, I started talking to these other girls there, and I made friends. Yaaaaaaaaaaaay, go me!

School is pretty much going well, except for Accounting.  I hate that class.  The professor is awesome and all, but she hardly teaches the material.  Accounting is not something you can just learn on your own.  Everyone in that class is basically doing the homework by copying the examples in the textbook.  I'm bound to fail that class, and am seriously praying that I don't.  I just don't want it to affect my GPA.

Anyways, this was what I was working on when my laptop decided to crash.  It was for Amy's project.  She asked me to do he a favor, which I didn't mind since it was a fun thing to do.  It's the only thing I managed to salvage before I gave it away to be repaired.  Click the link: http://misunderst0-od.livejournal.com/2023.html

When I get sick I usually curl up into a ball on my bed and sleep under a comforter.  OR I lie down on my bed under a blanket and just do stuff on my laptop.  I just like to be left alone.  As an only child, I would find it weird if people other than my parents would try to comfort me when I'm  sick.  My parents are usually overly concerned when I come down with an illness, even if it is just a minor cold.  The last time I was sick (which just happens to be last week) with a cold/cough/sorethroat  my parents were arguing over which medication would be more affecting in curing me.  My dad with the citrusy Theraflu and my mom with the Tylenol flu.  Of course, they ended up making me take both.  Might I say the Theraflu was super sour because it was supposed to be lemon/citrusy.  Not to mention, it was for nighttime and caused me to become drowsy.  Not cool.

I don't believe in taking medication when I'm sick, unless I'm really sick.  I prefer natural remedies.  I feel like most medication for colds/coughs just suppress the illness instead of getting it out of your system.  That's just my opinion though.

I usually end up going to school even though I'm sick.  I hate missing school work or lecture notes.  It makes everything more complicated and I don't need the stress when I'm already sick.

It's currently 2:09 am and I'm still awake, though completely exhausted.  I think I've gotten about 5 hours of sleep in the past 48 hours, but that's nothing new.  Even though I don't have any classes until this evening, I still can't bring myself to get ready for bed.  In fact, I am willingly working on my spanish project now instead of procrastinating until the end (which, in this case, would be early thurs. morning). 

For once, I have a lot of interesting/funny things to talk about, but am too brain dead to do so.  Instead, I will leave you with this awesome song, which I'm pretty sure i've embedded in my LJ  before. Oh well, watch it again? 

For some reasons all these flies keep flying into my room.  It's driving me crazy.  They're huge and ugly and gross me out.   It seems like every time my room is lit up (including sunlight from the day) they fly right into my room and plant themselves on the wall.  I have to use all sorts of tricks to chase them out and then slam the door shut to keep them out.  But of course, they manage to sneak back in through the cracks.
It's not like my room is a pigsty or anything.  It's actually spankin clean and doesn't smell at all.  So then why must they always come into my room?

I introduce to you, 2 more songs. 

Lollipop by Big Bang ft. 2NE1
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and....

Fire by 2NE1



Too bad, I couldn't find high quality ones with eng lyrics.

Okay, so I just finished watching Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and for the most part I loved it.  It wasn’t all stereotypical-Chinese-action-fighting-movie-ish. Okay, I lied.  It is, but this movie is a little bit more about girl power. =]

Some parts were slow, but for the most part it really good.  I was getting all ready to give it a 4/5 rating, but WHAT THE HELL WAS UP WITH THAT TRAGIC ENDING? [sorry if i totally ruined it for you].  I am utterly disappointed because the entire majority of the movie was amazing and actually interesting, but then it has to go and have a crappy ending like that.  It’s rating has now dropped to a 3/5 (I'm being generous because i was considering giving it a 2.5/5).  Besides, it’s unfair to give it such a low rating when it’s based off a book.  You can’t change the ending of the movie when it’s based off a book.  It’s been done before and I’m sure the cult fan base devout fans will understand if the ending was improved for the movie.

Meanwhile, the internet situation has worsened.  I’m supposed to get only 1 hour of internet time. 1 hour!!! This is so unfair.  I mean, what can I do with 1 hour?  I only have time to like, watch 1 episode of something.  I’ve been pretty much been forced to constantly steal internet, but I hardly get signal from my room and it would really look suspicious if I was crouching by the stairs in order to get better signal (I’d get my laptop taken away for sure).  So yeah, life sucks. Without internet I’ve lost my will to live be social, in case you haven’t noticed.

WHAT AN A-HOLE >:(

SERIOUSLY, WHAT IS THERE PROBLEM WITH ME BEING ON THE INTERNET?  GAWD.  I know I’m addicted, but seriously.  It’s my summer vacation and I’m allowed to do whatever the hell I want to do.  Why can’t they just LEAVE ME ALONE?

*note to self: go on a downloading spree tomorrow morning so I can make batches of icons when my internet is out.

Let’s see, nothing else is new. OH, I did go deep sea fishing at some marina near Point Pleasant with my cousins.  Sunday’s weather was really crappy so there weren’t many fish out and about. The boat (Miss Belmar Princess, lol) took us all the way up to the bay areas near NYC.  I forget which bay it was.  Anyways, I was the only one to catch a fish out of my entire family (on my first try too :P).  Sometimes, I have incredible luck. 

The boat ride was very rocky, it was swaying pretty badly.  I was pretty much getting seasick – but luckily I never threw up.  After curling up into a ball and almost falling asleep on the boat, I was able to venture outside.  My cousin handed me a fishing pole/rod? and pretty much told me to lock in the line when the fishing line stopped rotating (because it hit the bottom).  It stopped so I was going to start reeling it in, but then then it started going again.  I was like, “Hmm, that’s strange.”  I start reeling it in anyway, and the guy next to me (with a better view) was like “Keep going, I see it!” And I was thinking “OMG, I actually CAUGHT something?”  And my cousin was thinking that the line probably got caught on something (I did too – we were so pessimistic due to the crappy weather and all the tangled fishing lines).  And then out it came, a giant fish (it was huge in my opinion).  It was some sort of bass, I believe.  I named it Fred (because the people next to us named the starfish they caught Patrick, lol – it inspired me to name the fish something).

The whole point of this fishing trip was to overcome my disgust of fish.  A lot good that did, I still went nowhere near the fish.  I never bothered de-hooking it, I made my uncle do it.  We let it die slowly on deck as it ran out of air.  I’m kind of glad that my uncle asked to take the fish home. I absolutely CANNOT stand the taste of fish (except Fish Fillet at McDonalds or BK).  If we brought Dead Fred home, my dad who just LOVES to eat fish, would insist on cooking him up right away.  The house would stink because of the smell of fish when you cook it, I would fee like gagging, and my heart would go out to Fred the fish.

So I’m basically sitting here and it’s 2:30 in the morning, but I’m not sleepy.  My father has disconnected the internet in a lame attempt to stop me from being on the computer for so long, but I still refuse to get off.  I seem to be finding the most random things to do even without Internet.  I can’t seem to separate myself from my laptop, even if it is 2:30 in the morning.

For the past 2 hours I’ve been blogging away about random stuff and saving drafts via Windows Live Writer.  When I get my internet connection back, all I have to do is hit “publish” and viola…it’s like I was online the whole time.  I used to think that this program was useless.  I mean, why couldn’t you actually go to the blog/journal’s site and type away?  They even have a “save draft” function for all of them.  But NOW I see.  Technically, I can do the same thing I do here, but type everything in MS Word, but that doesn’t really allow you to insert hyperlinks and do all that encoding.  Oh, and you don’t have to copy the same entree into multiple blogs.  It conveniently lets you publish the same entry into multiple blogs. YAY! 

Okay, seeing me get all excited over this simple program tells me I need to get some sleep.  =]

Oops, forgot to update LJ because I've been busy blogging.  THE SEMESTER IS OVER!! Everyone is pretty much coming back next week.  My mom is forcing me to find a job.  She pretty much gave me a one week ultimatum to find one until she's going to drag me to the YMCA to apply there.  Seriously, one week?  How am I going to get a response within one week?  I think she meant to apply to a bunch of places within a week.  So, I came up with a list of places to apply:

- FYE
- Blockbusters
- Walden Books

Umm, my plan is to pretty much scope the mall to find stores that are hiring.  (It's sure to fail).

Actually, my mom doesn't care if I get payed or not.  She just wants me out of the house.  I've been lazing around the house for almost 3 days now, but I attribute that to being sick.  Furthermore, I need to get around to cleaning my room.  (I don't think it will ever be cleaned).  

The Black Eyed Peas have to be my second favorite band of all time (Linkin Park, of course, being the first).  Yes, I love them more than I love Big Bang.

I haven't been paying attention to LJ, but then again it IS the end of the semester.  I've been bombarded with last minute tests and term papers I've kept waiting around until the last minute.  What can I say?  No matter how hard I try, I always end up procrastinating.  The end of the semester is finally here.  Thank God.  Tomorrow will be my last day of classes.  I have two finals on Monday and two on Tuesday and that's it.  After Tuesday, I will officially be a sophomore.

I have mixed feelings about the semester ending.  Yes, I'm glad I wont have to do any school work, but there's always a catch.  I no longer have a legitimate excuse (homwork) to go online and spend hours wasting my life away.  Just great.  Also, now that summer is finally here, my parents do not want me bumming around the house, which means I HAVE to find a job...or atleast volenteer at some place (like a doctor's office? pfft, yeah right).

Anyways, I will be online a lot less, which is unfortunate for me and my addiction to the internet.  It's also unfortunate for drama I've been subbing.  It's an Indian drama that I've been subbing (Kitani Mohabbat Hai/ How much love?), which is actually pretty decent for a Hindi drama (not that I've watched many indian dramas, but i know how bad they are made so I have to have high standards when it comes to watching one).  I'm actually a moderator, which gives me a position of power in this project, mwahaha.  Check it out at Viikii along with other dramas in various languages.

Statistical Methods I	T, TH, F	2:20-3:20
Principles of Macroeconomics	T, TH, F	1:10-2:10
Information Systems Essential	W	6:45-9:45 PM
Introduction to Accounting	T, TH	3:30-5:00
Spanish II	Th, TH	9:45-11:15 AM

I only have one night class on Wednesday.  Night classes suck, but this is learning like Microsoft Word/Excel, so it should be pretty easy.  I have no classes on  Wednesdays :3

Lmao, reading back at what I wrote is so amusing.   I don't think I've changed much from back when i wrote it.  Well, I probably did, but then again I changed back to my old crazy self.  Am I making any sense?  I sounded like an annoying little kid...but then the beginning of HS was pretty stressful.  People were always on our backs for everything and on top of that we had the pressure of "setting the bar."  Even college isn't that bad.  We just have more work to do is all.

Subject : Woooooooooooooooo
Date: Jan. 12, 2005
ERm...yah. Tis my first entry on this thing. O_o I dont know what to write, cant think of anything. I'm a weirdo and I know it. No one likes me and I know it. I dont care.
"you laugh at me cuase I'm different, I laugh at you cuase you're all the same"
~ Anonomous
Mwahahhaha...right...moving on.
Braindeadness! ~~~~~~~

Anyways, i feel that the world is moving so fast and im being left behind. Its moving on without me. And then there's all the stress that people have been putting on me. There's only so much that I can handle. All I want to do is to just take a break from it all, all the stress. But my parents are obviosly not gonna let that happen. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! "study study study", they say. They are gonna drive me crazy. My parents are so fricken strict. I can't do most things that other people my age can. I so fricken hate it.
I have to be a goody two shoes. And I am, but im getting tired of being one. I just cant take it anymore, my grades are falling, I'm getting into trouble for the stupidest reasons.

I cant even go on the computer anymore. My computer is my life! Without it I'll go crazy. I have to sneak on the computer.
Forums are my life...well just one forum. I'm addicted to it anyways. But its being attacked by all the n00bs and its just not fun to go on anymore. It sucks. And my life is starting so suck once again.

And BLAH >.< the midterms are coming up. I've never taken them before. I dont know what to do. I dont want to study. If there gonna give us midterms then why make us take tests and quizes throughout the year.

>___> i wish i were in a happy mood right now but yah...i dont even know what im feeling, everything's just so numb.