TAG

I'm 'it'. I used to love that game as a kid and I guess its really no wonder. Any game that had objective running in it I was all over. (Running just to be running never appealed to me.. probably the reason I hate the cool down rounds we have to run after tennis practice.) I must have played every single variation of tag known to humankind but my all time favorite was 'freeze tag'. Dont bother asking either, cuz I have no idea why it was my favorite.

Remember how, when playing with a group, there was always the kid that every loved to tag, but was usually abandoned by his teammates? I was never that kid, least not that I can remember. At times I would feel sorry for whoever it was though. Didnt stop me from tagging 'the kid everyone loved to tag' or being party to leaving that same kid untagged (freeze tag) for nearly the whole game.

That's the memories associated with the word for me, but this post is supposed to be about the 'electronic tag' I recieved. So four. That's the number of bloggers that came to mind that I should choose one of to write about. La Doctora, Bookworm, Katheria and RAG.

Of all the blogs I read, those 4 stood out. Like the semi-finals in a tennis match, the last 4 standing. BW gets an automatic disqualification on accounts of being 'the Federer' or if you dont follow tennis and dont know who the hell Federer is or what he means in the semi finals of a tennis tournament, then in plain terms BW was the obvious/typical choice. I hate typical when it comes to something I'm doing. 1 down (gomen BW), 3 to go.

LD, fine piece of blogging she had going. Unfortunately something went wrong and she decided to toss it. The tag rules mandate 'members only' - exclusive. No blog, no entry. 2 down, 2 to go..

K, I'd love to write about. I love her blog. Its part of my morning ritual - to go read it I mean.. Come to think of it, its part of my evening and afternoon rituals as well and late night after evenings, and early mornings before actual morning, lol like I said, I love to go to her blog. Sorry K, as much as I love ur blog and thoughts, LJ is kinda on the 'banned list' and the back door has been locked otherwise I'd have smuggled u in ;) Oh wait.. U dont use LJ anymore, hmm, I just checked ur blog. Can't make out wat it is. Hmm, it could be wordpress. Rules said Blogger or Wordpress. I know what blogger layout looks like without even seeing the address. I dont recall ever seeing a wordpress blog before, so it's very possible urs could be wordpress and I just not know that. (Somehow I've shifted from speaking about u to speaking to u. Note to self: I need to put that shifting in check. I do that when I'm writting stories also.) Ah what the hell, the possibilty of ur blog being a wordpress blog is just as high as the possibilty of it not being WP. There, my choice has been 'divinely' made for me =) Ok, choice made I need to go back and read the rules again, see what I'm supposed to write about my chosen one. (I had intentions of making this a two parter but it seems there isnt a need anymore ;) )

Alright, so I'm supposed to talk about the things I like and dislike about K. Hmm, lots to like and not much to dislike ;) I like that she likes animals. She isnt a mainstreamer. Likes random and spontaneous when the occasion calls for it. Understands things that most ppl dont. Smart, funny and blogs on mood. Oh! I didnt mention that she likes video games and cats as well! Aside from all of that though, I think I love her blog most for the effect her posts have. Happy, sad, angry, excited.. no matter the mood of the post I always feel like her words reach out and make you feel those things with her. I can't honestly say I've come across another blog that did/does that. This coming from a blogaholic. I've seen a fair share of them, from the funny and interesting blogs to the 'sadly pathetic keep u coming for more only out of curiosity' blogs. Maybe in a few years time when I am promoted to an authoritive position of blog connoisseur with a fancy title (hey no one calls 'sommeliers' alcoholics =P) perhaps I might know a few more bloggers of K's stock. But until then, my vote's on her ;)

That was actually easier than going with my orginal plan, when I cant make up my mind about something, I wait. Then the first thing that comes to mind, I do the exact opposite. Those first 4 were all pretty much disqualified (RAG because he's a resident and I only know him as far as stalking his blog - plus imagining the reaction one of my fave residents on Grey's would have if they randomly received an E-tag, well let's just say it was unnerving lol.) so that left me to choose from whoever came to mind afterwards. Ruby Woo was the winner of that round.

So this is the part where I tap 5 others to don the members only jackets. Let's see... Ruby, K, Drunk 'n' Gorgeous, I'd tap BW but she was already tagged. Hmm, I can't think of anyone else that would respond to a tagging much less want one. I guess that's what I get for being more of a blog stalker than participant..

For the Love of Gadgetry

After finally upgrading my old blogger template to the new layout thingie all I can think of is why the hell did it take me so long..

Admittedly I've become some what obsessed with the gadgetry in the layout upgrade. Now whenever I come to post I find the urge to mess around with the gadgets and widget things completely overpowering.

I've managed to justify my latest additions by means of giving them a legit purpose. They are simply for "psychomotivation". I mean given my love for making lists and crossing things off of my lists I think this would work wonderfully, least for the reading, writing and memorizing parts. The watching list was just a guilty urge with no real justifiable reasoning behind it.

I ought to get moving. I've got a real life to-do list which includes securing tickets to the screening of an arabic short in the DIFF and buying a 'turkey' for dinner tomorrow..

3ed Mubarak you guys!

MSG

I came across an interesting blog today. For those of you who are into medical things or loved Grey's Anatomy (I'm in the latter category ^^) it's a pretty amusing read. Both blogs are done by the same guy. The first one Creating the Godcomplex was done when he was a med student. The second blog (The Chloroform RAG), which he calls the continuation of the first, documents his time as a resident.

Anyways, I leave you with these goods to enjoy ^^

6 Habits of Highly Effective Bloggers

Lol, the group that presented today and made their presentation into a mock live interview brought a book along with them. The girl who played the part of the manager flashed it briefly and gave us a quick overview of it. When she had flashed the book I caught a quick glimpse of part of the title which I read "6 Habits"..

I had heard of "7 Habits" and I had seen one called "8th Habit"... but never before had I seen "6 Habits". I couldn't see the full title from my seat so I memorized the author's name and resolved to look it up as soon as I layed hands on net.

That's exactly what I did too. Turns out the book was called "6 Habits of Highly Effective Bosses". Lol I should have known, it's a management class after all.

So anywayz when I googled the title it came up with an interesting blog with a post titled: 6 Habits of Highly Effective Bloggers. My interest was peaked so I read on. It was a really interesting post and I just thought I should share it with you guys =)

In other news; I took the much dreaded IT exam today...surprisingly it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I only had to leave one question unanswered which was : how to make a bunch of little boxes inside of an existing small box (cell rather).. I was stumped on that one =X

Everything happens for a reason..

I honestly don’t understand how one could be sitting perfectly relaxed not doing anything at all (Wallah, who ever heard of someone getting injured doing nothing?!) – unless one counts “getting holy” as doing something – and then suddenly BAM. I still cringe remembering the disgusting popping sounds my knee made that night after it locked and refused to straighten. That’s happened plenty of times to my elbow and all I had to do was force it straight, it’d hurt a bit but after a few minutes it’d be back to normal again. Naturally I figured it’d be the same for my knee. I forced it straight and continued to pray but then the next time I went down and came back up it locked again. “What the hell?!” ok I figured I’ll have to straighten it again… I was very much convinced it’d go away after a while so I kept praying. It continued though and each time I got up it was the same thing, only problem was each time I forced it straight it made more noise and hurt more and more. I nearly cried out once, that’s how much it hurt. Of course that would be the time I had decided to leave my phone home and so I was feeling pretty worried. I got up a final time and this time it really felt like it’d be my last, my whole leg from the knee down was on fire. I decided to go home before the pain got worse and I couldn’t walk home at all. It was fine walking home. When I got home it seemed fine also. I sat and drank juice and figured maybe it passed whatever it was. It was kinda late by then and I went to go to bed. Out of curiosity I kneeled on the floor to see if whatever was wrong with my knee had in fact gone away. It didn’t hurt going down. I was pretty relieved thinking whatever it was really had just been a passing thing. When I went to get up I found out how wrong I was. My knee locked again and as I tried to stand up the pain that came from it was the worse thing I can ever remember feeling. I was fortunate to be right beside my bed cuz I fell over and fortunately it was onto it. The rest of that night I couldn’t move an inch – without moving the pain was so bad I had to bite my lip most of the night and got no sleep.

It was just my luck that the next day was Friday and none of the docs were open. That meant I had to wait till Saturday to go. Friday was pretty hellish. Just trying to get to the bathroom was a nightmare. Only my sister and I were home and I really was craving Fettuccini – which she has no clue how to make. So I made it while hopping around the kitchen on my good leg.

Saturday evening I went to an orthopedic doc in a hospital in Jumeira (Dubai). He took a look at it. He poked it once (or twice maybe) with his finger. Said it didn’t look that bad and I could come back for an MRI and sent me home with a bag full of drugs to get high on till then. Mother’s friend recommended an orthopedic specialist doc who she said was really good and she had been to him before. He scheduled me for an appointment the following Tuesday. Between Saturday and Tuesday I learnt how grateful one should be for the ability to walk (ha, one could learn lots at uni if they just stop and think a bit – especially when one has classes scattered all across campus!). By the end of my uni day Sunday I had learnt a new definition of pain. I had been offered the use of a wheelchair there but my pride wouldn’t allow it – not while I could still force myself to walk even if I was practically hopping..

Tuesday finally came, the doc was all the way in Jumeirah (a different doc) – I say “all the way” this time cuz my appointment was at 12, smack at the time of hideous traffic on Shaykh Zayed road. We managed to make it up there on time but were late due to the receptionist’s inability to give proper directions (“Every thing happens for a reason” ;) I got to see where lots of cool things were due to her fault.. like the Dubai ladies club =D). Anywayz, this doc used to have a practice in the states. He was pretty high class and did a thorough examination of my knee and asked a bunch of questions about it – he said he was building “history” about the knee. He x-rayed it (though nothing showed up on the x-ray cuz the injury is a soft tissue one.) prescribed physical therapy and some anti-inflammatory drugs and told me to rub this cream on it every night before sleeping and wrap it with a bandage. He said do that for 3 weeks AND stay away from tennis (T_T) during that time. After 3 weeks I’m supposed to go back for a check up. If it still hurts he’ll do an MRI and most likely operate on it (which would mean more time away from tennis T_T).

My knee still hurts a good deal (I guess I shouldn’t be surprised since I’ve been forgetting to take the pills) but the worse for me is not being able to go to tennis. I feel pretty badly about it but one thing keeps coming to mind, this post on an interesting blog I read whenever I have spare time on the net. It’s very true that everything happens for a reason. Sometimes one of the hardest things to do is to remember that. I guess this couldn’t have happened at a better time. It’s exam time and I really wanna do well this time around – not only just for the satisfaction of having good grades but if I don’t get good grades I can’t change my major at the end of this semester. I was feeling deep fear over the two exams I had this Thursday that just passed (a week after I hurt my knee) I had been studying the whole week and even managed to seriously cut down my net time (a feat I thought impossible). I usually have tennis on Wednesdays and the coach doesn’t like to let me off for studying (though she lets the others off!) and if it weren’t for my knee she would have had me out there playing tennis taking up precious study time. Thanx to my knee I got a lot of studying done that Wednesday. “Everything happens for a reason” It makes me feel a bit better about missing out on tennis when I think that at least I got to devote my full attention to studying…

Cupcakes anyone?

I have alot of time to kill at the moment.. I don't have a class till 11:00. It's really boring using the net when no one is online!

Check out this blog, it's really interesting in a cupcake sorta way lol.

Yesterday I unexpectedly found myself with the car and the sudden urge to play PS2. So at 9:00pm I stopped off at Baskin Robin, picked up some sherbert for my friend and drove out to her house (she lives out past shj uni across from the horse club, I'd say 3 or 4 miles from the Ladies Club where I was) I took the airport road (which is really more like a highway) and was really surprised to see they finally realized that the "written" speed limit should be 120 kph (140 is the max you can now do when the limit is 120 without getting a ticket) on that road. Of course that one lone sign only appears after interchange 5 so technically the speed for the rest of the road before that is 100 (means u can do 120 without getting a ticket).

The lights were off in most of her house and her room was completely dark except for the light coming from the TV. It was really relaxing playing PS in the dark. She has tons of games and though there was already something in the PS (when I walked in the room the game intro was playing) I couldn't decide what to play. In the end I asked her what was the game that was playing. She said it was Kingdom Hearts (or is it Heart, no "s"?). I think she said it's a disney meets Final Fantasy game. It looked interesting so I played. Unfortunately I didn't have much time to stay cuz I knew it wouldn't be long before mother would start calling and I couldn't exactly say I was there cuz mother would have 10 cows and a goat if she knew.

My friend has this really cute cat. I remember when she found it last semester and called me over from uni to see it. I have pics of it when it was a kitten..actually it still is a kitten just bigger than when I first saw it. I also snapped some pics of it last night. I'll upload them when I go home inshalla.

I guess maybe I can take this time to do my IT homework....

Let's Be Friends

I LOVE IT! Great blog with a great idea... capture those moments that one usually witnesses but never has a camera handy to snap and save as proof. I'm going right now to add it to my links list over there =D.... there was something else I was supposed add over there hmmmm.

Useful tip

Lately Blogger has been acting pretty retarded whenever I go to post a comment on other blogs.. heck it even happens when I go to post a reply here on my own blog. I get a comment all typed up and hit the publish button and suddenly a "Page Cannot Be Found" error page comes up and when I hit "back" my comment has disappeared. Usually I get frustrated and just give up. The other day the idea occured to me to highlight my comment, copy it and then hit publish. Most times that error page still comes up but then I just hit the back button and paste my comment back in the box and hit "publish" again and it works.

Just thought I might share that with u guys, nothing more annoying then seeing that error page after u done finished a comment.

OMGWTFBBQSAUCE!

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad got a blog! Seems like just yesterday I had lumped him in with the rest of the world leaders that needed to start blogging and *BAM* I came across the article in the daily rag about his blog.

Nice of him to make his blog available in English, Arabic and Farsi... There was an icon for French but it didn't work. I guess that means that at some point it will be available in French as well.

Guess when I have some spare time and am dying from boredom I'll go over and read a few of his posts...

For now I'll return to my beloved Gankutsuou. I'll just watch a couple of eps then crash.

Almost PHinisheD

I'm in L-O-V-E.... "Almost PhinisheD" is exactly what I had in mind for my blog. To record day to day experiences in the university - and of course there would be plenty to write about because one just can't mix with that amount of varied people day in and day out and not have something to write about. It'd be impossible PERIOD.

Blogs are a good thing.. Creative way to let off steam. Schools and universities should suggest (not make mandatory cuz anything forced on a person no matter if it's enjoyable or not becomes bothersome if one knows they have to do it or face the consequences.) all of their students to keep a blog as means to let steam off and get frustration out of their blood. Heck the world leaders should all get blogs... Bush, Saddam, Blair, Olmert, Kim Jong, Ahmadinejad....world peace would be at hand here!

In the end boys will be boys though and to do something CIVIL like writing off their steam would be too effeminate (yeah that's the worst thing a HUMAN could be, so instead it's better to blow the sheemot out of innocent people just to prove one's worthless existance. Maybe it's insanity but I suddenly have the urge to go celebrate the World's quickly approaching end with a bottle of FIZZY bwhaahhahahaha!)

Hmmm I reckon it's time to suppress the inner El Hazard... As for Almost PHinisheD, it has become an object of my admiration and inspiration as a blog. Even the name (totally creative) puts hearts in my eyes!

Amusing

Came across a site this afternoon that greets it's visitors with:

The reader will kindly forgive any tendency to rough language or behavior on the part of the site owner.

Then it goes on to quote:

"Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."

Might i add it was an American MilBlog (Dear God, I'm seriously off topic here....But then again if i mention that the american military pays for college for its soldiers then maybe i'm not OT after all. Ha Ha, not that it really makes sense to join the army in hopes of getting a free college pass. One would be lucky to make it back from Iraq, Afghanistan or any other US military excursion alive! Seriously i would not risk my life for Higher Education....if that were the case I'd prefer ignorance! )

Let me shut up though before Post Highschool goes Deep Political.....

(and for the record, I hate politics!)

New Blog (Damn fast, eh?)

I was going to make an off topic post about a certain corolla that pissed me off the other day when I realized with the amount of sheemot that goes on out there on the roads of Sharjah alone I'd end up with quite a few off topic posts (heck probably even more than the main topic itself !). So I decided to make another blog for that topic alone.... One could probably write a book just on the things they see and experience out there on those roads!

On the Roads of UAE