What Was Supposed to be My End of Year Inane Ramblings 2007.....

...Has now turned to lyrics.. I had JUST typed a long note that took 30 minutes and deep thinking.. lol That doesn't normally happen.. And I lost it!

Lesson No. 1 : Always use WinWord to type anything, notes, emails, long posts.. then Copy and Paste.. You will not lose your work! (Yet, I'm still typing it here on the FB page!)fft..

Listening to this song this morning, SunScreen by Baz Luhrman triggered this feeling and the previous long-lost note.. Why? Because I remember I had first listened to it in 1997-98..on tape.. I was 15.. And it hit me that we're in 2007.. Well, right around the end.. But yeah, you know what I mean..

How time passes.. How years go by... They just run run and run.. Years don't really look over their shoulder to check if you're catching up or not..They don't care..No one actually does really.. I don't mean to depress any of you.. Some people might not feel the same way, or some might have this feeling with other events and occassions.. But, New Year's and Birthdays do this to me.. They remind me that I'm getting older. They also remind me that everyone around me is getting older as well... My dad, mom, brothers and loved ones.

It depresses me to know that it’s been 8 years since I’ve graduated from school…3 years since I have from University and have been working for a year now..

It also depresses me to know that I’ve only gained weight and not lost any the past year, which means my resolution remains unchanged (How typical!)..That I haven’t learnt a new language, I haven’t gone to the gym, I haven’t traveled much… However, I do appreciate that I wake up everyday knowing that someone cares about me and loves me.. :)

I don’t know what your 2007 most significant moments were, but I know mine was definitely meeting my other half.. As long as it’s personal, it counts.. and it’s your moment!

Happy New Year everyone! :)

Love,

D

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My favorite parts of the song’s lyrics,

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth; oh nevermind; you will notunderstand the power and beauty of your youth until they have faded.But trust me, in 20 years you’ll look back at photos of yourself andrecall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay beforeyou and how fabulous you really looked….You’re not as fat as you imagine.

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Don’t waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you’re ahead, sometimesyou’re behind…the race is long, and in the end, it’s only withyourself.

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Remember the compliments you receive, forget the insults; if yousucceed in doing this, and tell me how.

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Keep your old love letters, throw away your old bank statements.

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Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with yourlife…the most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what theywanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 yearolds I know still don’t.

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Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll have children, maybeyou won’t, maybe you’ll divorce at 40, maybe you’ll dance the funkychicken on your 75th wedding anniversary…what ever you do, don’t congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either – yourchoices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.

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Enjoy your body,use it every way you can…don’t be afraid of it, or what other peoplethink of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own..

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Get to know your parents; you never know when they’ll be gone for good.

Be nice to your siblings; they are the best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

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Understand that friends come and go,but for the precious few you should hold on.

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Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people youknew when you were young.Don’t expect anyone else to support you.

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Maybe you have a trust fund,maybe you have a wealthy spouse; but you never know when either onemight run out.

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Don’t mess too much with your hair, or by the time you're 40, it will look 85.

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Be careful whose advice you buy, but, be patient with those who supply it.

Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way offishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more thanit’s worth.

Long Time No See

I'm not sure what exactly made me come back to this.. I think I just missed it.. I paid it a visit and read some of my old posts.. I actually enjoyed reading them! So why did I quit to begin with?

What no time? There's PLENTY OF TIME! Nothing worth writting about? Now, that's not really true.. My friend Jawaher Jewels who's able to update her blog almost everyday! Bless her, she always has something to say.

I guess I was just occupied..with life? with friends? Well, to update you on what's been going on recently.

Career -> Finally working! But I think it's only temporary, something better is coming on the way..Hopefully! What do I do? Well, I work with an event and PR company, an event coordinator is what they call me.. lol Highly funky innit? I think I'm on the right track!

Family -> Well..They're all grown up now.. Someone is almost finishing school. Someone is almost graduating from college and someone's not really sure what to with the rest of his life! lol The father is just fine.. Same old really. But I must say OUR relationship is so much better this year than whatever passed! Cool.

Friends -> New ones are around, old ones are still around..Havent eliminated anyone. YET. Might do so, or maybe I already have..

There are definitely keepers. The past couple of months were really tough on me, friends/relathionship wise, I think I lost a friend. Or should I say, she lost me?

Love -> Aaah.. L'amore. Erm..Well, let's just say it's complicated. But isn't it always? Difference is, how each of us would deal with it. You're wondering aren't you..? Well. I admit, there is some love in the air. I'm just hoping that balloon doesn't pop! :-

Me in a nutshell. Life has been good to me lately. What about you?

Tagged!

Tagged By Solidus


What will happen to your e-mail when you die?

What?! I'm gonna die?!

Did you try once to give the password to someone? If yes, what kind of relation that you have with this person to trust him/her and give him/her the key of your secrets?

Nope NEVER! But... my brother found out what it was and hung on to it! LOSER! well, no really I'm the loser for NOT changing it!!


Your famous nickname among your Friends?

Deenz, Don Don Khella, Nina (lol?) there's also Donz

Your age?

Twenty Freeeee! (23)


Your horoscope?

A Saucy Virgo


Your qualifications?

I can juggle saucer pans standing upside down while dancing to Justin's Sexy Back.. lol Hmm.. No mental picture picture please, it's humanly impossible....


Your character "personality"?

Erm..Fun loving caring naive daft cool funky crazy kind animal lover insane mature silly childish ...etc etc


What travel means to you?

THE WORLD! - Also something else, but If'd tell you, you'd shoot me... :p


Your time out of peak

Go out , Party, Internet, Read, Eat :p


What do you purchase?

- Food
- Food
- Food
- Accessories
- Food


Features taken from your dad

- Height
- Nose
- Toes
- Hair


Features taken from your mom

- Hair
- Fingers
- Eyes


The most 6 things you hate

1- Obsessing about weight loss
2- People who don't like animals
3- People who don't like reading
4- Gossiping
5- Spelling Mistakes
6- Hate (Funny this one)


The most 6 things you love

1- Cats
2- Food
3- Music
4- Guys
5- Traveling
6- Daydreaming


What job means to you

What is job? :p


What computer and internet mean to you

Connecting People!


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Confessions Of An Ex-Taxi Passenger (Pt. 2)

So yeah, remember how part one was about the various stories taxi drivers tell you? Strings of tales about them and their families.. I've always wondered how true these stories were..As much as I want to be an objective person, and I would like to believe their stories, but I really find it hard to!
I mean, why would a person tell a perfect stranger like myself, sensitive details about their lives? Well.. Because they can! Because they know I'm a stranger, I won't judge them.. And because it might not be the truth at all and they know they'll never see me again, and if they did.. I wouldn't remember..
(except for those I've taken more than once only by coincidence)..

So folks.. I started doing the same.. Telling tall tales..white fibs, whatever you want to call them.. My stories were a work of fiction generated by my imagination.. Each time my story would differ, my intentions from telling it would also differ, whether I do it to generate effection or seem like Miss tough cookie, or even just to add some excitement to the cab driver's life in those 15 minute rides..

I was engaged many times, I'd tell the cab driver about my fiancee.. If I were headed to the flower shop I would tell him I'm getting flowers for my fiancee's mom.. Thing is, these guys wouldn't just lend you an ear, but they will listen to you intensly with all their power and interest! There was this guy who was interested to hear how my friend tried to kill herself.. How I leave Jordan every summer to some country in Europe, how I'm half british, thats why my English is excellent.... I've told many stories.. Now, I'm not exactly a lier.. white lies would never hurt anyone.. And besides, it was all for the fun of it.. I got my satisfaction from the smiles on their faces the moment I step down from the car, knowing that I've made someone's day by telling them a story..

It all started one summer, when I came back to Jordan from my 3 month holiday in Muscat.. Now you should know, my memory is somewhat crap when it comes to names and directions.. So I'd take my first cab for the day, after I've just gotten home.. I start giving shitty directions and hoping that the name of the place or road would just pop into my head.. When the cab driver throws the wise-ass remark of "So..you aren't from around here, are you?"...

Confessions Of An Ex-Taxi Passenger (Pt. 1)

This might be the first post that is somewhat..."Jordanian" lol.. Because I'm gonna be referring to taxi cabs in Jordan, as I don't take taxis around Oman.. It's not a very friendly idea for women to take cabs here.. And plus, thank god for my car! :p

Maybe I should change the title.. I'm not totally an "ex-passenger" per say, I mean, I will be taking cabs if I ever go back to Amman for vacation as I don't have a car there..

Anyway, I'm sure we have all ridden taxicabs at some point in our lives, and we all know the drivers' tendencies to just chatter away with passengers (I think this happens everywhere!) and would go on and on about their lives, their golden past and the bleak future!

I've heard stories from the driver being a uni graduate with a degree in Engineering, but couldn't find a suitable job, to a driver who doesn't really own the cab, it's his cousin's and he's just helping him out and ofcourse the story of a driver with connections, related to someone in the government, knows someone who knows someone..etc..

There was this one taxi driver though, I will never forget him. He kept on blabbering and went on and on about his life and wouldn't stop asking questions about me and what I did and where I was headed.. I thought to myself, GOD please let these 15 minutes end quickly (I was headed to Jabal Amman from Dahiet Al Rasheed).. Ofcourse, I must confess that I usually do converse with the drivers if they appeal to me, I would be very friendly to them, like I've known them for ages! But this one....nu-uh.. This one, I did not like.. He was this "sege3" "damu t2eel" kind of guy, in his 30's with the sleek hair brushed back with tons of gel, long pinky fingernail (to either pick his nose with, or his ear shub3arefni!), and ofcourse the disco-tec vehicle.. snore..

Anyway, lets just say "ma a3teito wijeh", but being the nice and polite person that I am, I gave him short replies, yes and no, with my face to the window at all times, I wouldn't even look at him, but I could see he was staring through his miror..

Now at that point, I was 5 minutes away from my destination on the first circle, he's still telling me how his friend betrayed him and how macho he was and blah, when he gets interrupted by his ringtone.. Saved by the bell I thought.. All of a sudden he truns to me with this fearful look on his face and says "Sssshhhhhhhhhh".. Picks up his phone and says "Aah 7abeebti..." .. I was gobsmacked! .. "Keep the change".. I walked the remaining distance!

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For all the years I've been in Jordan, I have been in zillion taxicabs and there are ones I've ridden more than once (fate lol).. Most of you Jordanians out there know exactly what I'm talking about here.. I'm not being offensive to taxi drivers ofcourse, I'm just reflecting the irony.. After all I wasn't able to get anywhere without them! Ya3teekom il 3afyeh! :D

Ugh...Seriously..

Alright.. So this is not a serious update.. I surprisingly have nothing to blog about... Either that or it's that I have ALOT to blog about, it's just that I don't know where to start from! :os Bummer..

So Snooky wants me to blog about him.. Hmm.. I must say I was shocked to learn he was from where he was!! (I'm not mentioning the country just incase he's not up for it).. But he's not Omani..that's what you should know! He is a cool young dude..No really.. Im not just saying :p

There you go..I blogged about you man! lol..

Hmm.. Incase everyone is wondering, I'm still on my job hunt, but doing it rather "half heartedly" as Alex (Mimosa) said to me yesterday.. I'm not trying hard enough.. Because I don't want to.. I'm just waiting to snap out of this phase I'm in...or even just "snap"!

My House, Job, Cat and the Goblet of Fire

lol...Some title this is..I think it really briefs the past 2 months (Has it been that long?)
So.. Yes, I suck, no updates, no nothing, I think Ive lost my readers.. but then again, I don't blame you! I've been extremely busy with.. all of the above mentioned in the title!
First thing is first..

Most of you already know I've moved from my house.. From Al Khuwier (we've lived there for 10 years) to guess where...? YES!! Al Khuwier.. again.. lol..Well..The better part of Al Khuweir I suppose (they call it 33)
next to the mosque and everything.. Do you have any idea what it's like to move house after 10 years? Do you have any idea the amount of JUNK one could find at their own home!! My GOD! I really hope none of you guys go through moving.. Its just too painful!

In the process, I've found some long lost CDs that have fallen behind the dresser.. A poster that was on top of the closet (all this time!), Some old photo albums, a hair clip that's surely out of style now..Not to mention lots of other CRAP that belonged to either of us just stashed away for future use (lol @ future use, not 10 years that's for sure!)
Then comes the hardest part.. throwing things away! Im not sure of many of you have this habit of putting things away, although being rubbish, but you just think "What if I need to use it later on, but won't be able to because I've thrown it away?!".. And you get confused and think "should I? shouldn't I?".. So basically, at the end of the idea, you're just moving your same junk from one house to another!! fft..
I've managed to get rid of a few stuff though.. I know I won't ever be needing them!!

During this whole time of moving, I spent most of my days at work, my poor family did most of the work! :p bwahahaha! But even there, I wasn't able to just surf away on the internet, check the English Sabla or Blog..
Then end of July.. I quit! .. Yep just like that.. Idiotic as this decision might seem, I believe it was the right thing to do.. No I didn't find another one first before quitting (as I was advised by many and was rather impossible to do) I just left.. I can tell you I'm a happier person now.. I still don't know what sort of job I'm looking for, but I can tell you what I'm NOT LOOKING FOR..is something like the job I had..Not the thing I wanted to lead.

So.. Yes, Im back to being a useless bum, at a new house, with no internet.. Reminds me of the old days..Except now I have a drivers lisence, so.. it's a bit different now.. I'm not stuck at home all the time. With no internet at home, it's making it harder to check for vacancies online, so Im following the newspapers now.. But I emailed my CV to a few people I know here, some friends back in Jordan and others elsewhere, with any luck, someone is OUGHT TO find me something somewhere!

So thats that... Oh.. right ..story of my cat. You all know Boubou the cat don't you? I've posted photos of him around sabla sometime back, if you havent caught that, then that's him in the photo above!
Bless'im my feline friend.. Boubou is short for Boupender (Yes it's an Indian name, named after my brother's friend XD) and we've had him for a year now.. He's the cutest thing ever!
BUT, during out last days at the old house, he was going through this phase of "argh! me male, me pee everywhere, me mark territory!" all because we let another cat in.
So.. My dad had decided, Boubou was not going with us!! :( I tell you, that first week was the worst ever!! I cried every night, we just left the cat there! Although he's a smart fellow, but he's not used to being outdoors all the time! So he was just sitting there, in the backyard, waiting by the kitchen door for someone to let him in!! SOB! I know that, because for everyday of that week, I visited him with cans of food..
Everyday I went half expecting not to find him, that he had finally found his way out and he just left, but the moment I call his name, he comes mewoing and runnining from the back!! :( Poor baby..
That was the most depressing week ever.. "sigh"..

The week after, my dad had to go to the old house, to pick up a few things he had left in the frontyard..So I tagged along.. He gave me this look and said "I'm sure you're not going to check on the plants..You're going to see that cat of yours!" .. I just grinned.. As we entered, Boubou was there to welcome us with the loudest meows and just being all cuddley around our feet and throwing himself on the ground and rolling over and all that!
My dad was surprised to see him still sticking around.. I fed Boubou while the others were getting whatever stuff they went to get and then it was time to go.. So uuft.. at that moment I wished I hadn't gone to see him! But then my dad being "fatherly" and all was like "Okay, you can bring him over for a visit" .. YESSSS!! but then he said.. " If he has just one accident around the house though, he's going"..
err.. I WILL MAKE SURE HE DOESNT HAVE ANY ACCIDENTS AROUND THE HOUSE! Yippeeeeee!!

So.. That solved my cat's problem.. Boubou is back to living with us, no accidents whatsoever (Thank God), as long as we don't bring in any other cats! phew! :D


Now... to the last part of that title.. You know where I got that from, right? ;) Yep.. I went through (still am) this Harry Potter frenzy! I'm a bit late, I know.. but that's the beauty of it..
Let me explain: Just like when everybody went insane over The Da Vinci Code for it was THE book to read.. People who never read a book in their lives where reading Dan Brown's novel... Except for me.. I hated following that trend.. I still haven't read the book, nor watched the movie! I'm waiting for the right time.. Same goes for Harry Potter.. I've just got the books, and have spent all last week watching the movies, all four of them, a million times each! Call me obsessed, but Im really enjoying it NOW! I love Harry Potter! And after finishing the fourth part I was exhiliarated to find out there are two more parts coming out!! Yaaay!!
"Order of The Pheonix" and "The Half Blood Prince" .. Better read those two before the movies come out (2007/2008) ! :D

I've always had something against sequels..but not in this case.. I think Harry Potter is just BRILLIANT and WICKED! Also, I've thought that most books made into movies was not such a good idea..
I do prefer the books more.. but in this case.. A magical world like that needs a magical creator like Warner Bros! lol..

So.. After reading this update..How sane do you think I am?