Dodo: October 2006

...And The Lord Said Unto John, Come Forth And Receive Eternal Life...

...but John came fifth and won a toaster.

Mom came back last night, and these are the spoils of war :) Guess we'll be having a binge-inducing Halloween-fest :P

Loveless Lovelorn

*this is an email my friend sent to his ex, ie not my own words*

"hey..
sheno
i say ensay
oo sheno stop dreaming about u ?????????????
u make it sound like i cant live with out u
oo i dont know how u think
kela metnaqeth el kalam etgolen la nkalem ba3ad bel fone
ba3dain lema kena bel jam3eya
u were gonna come to me
and say hi oo neg3ad 5 mins say hi o tamsheen
it wasnt all about ur pic that was with me
u probably would have forgotten about the pic after i c u anyway
and both u and i know it wasnt about the pic u really wanted to stay for
few mins and see/say hi to me and go.... OK ?

and u dont deserve me, true
because ur a god damn liar
when you said that you loved me
and i said the same thing
u didnt deserve any love from me
cuz ma etqadreen
and u dont know what love is and u can say it to anyone!!! ok !!
and when i saw u bel jam3a oo gelt la3at chabdy or bazawe3 cuz i remembered
u saying i luv u then etsaween ely saawaity with the 6af maltech ely chenech
ma tadreena meno .. 7araka 7aqeera
u made me sick to my stomach walla el 3atheem !! sej i got sick
oo when i saw u la3at chabdy when u tried to hide ur face madre hide urself

so im just sorry to have wasted my time with u it was all for nothing
u didnt even deserve one day to be my girl.
u make me sick and u dont even have the decency to apologise.

so just have fun in ur stupid world.
bye.
abdulla.

P.S girls are also liars and playah BIAAATCH"

Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush

Did someone come off the Ramadan detox a little too fast? Saw this wreck on the first day of Eid, on our way to grandma's place. It was right in front of the KU Science Faculty.

A heart for all my blogger pals, with a kiss on top :*

عــيــدكــم مــبــارك

Just a few videos of my cousin. Enjoy while I'm away for 3eed!

Out Of Bounds

Fragile, seems I opened up to quick and all my dreams were woken up
I slowly lost my fight
with every single man a river cried

I had no sensation, completely numb I felt no satisfaction
I thought no one could ever get me high again
I swear I was not looking

I've waited so long, I thought the real thing was a fake, I thought it was a tool to break me down
you prove me wrong again

If love were liquid it would drown me in a placeless place refine me,
in a heart shape come around me and then melt me slowly down
if love were human it would know me in a lost space come and show me,
hold me and control me and then melt me slowly down, like chocolate

Tastes so good my hearts been mended, who'd have thought it would?
an empty bed and still I won the catch, a man who I love and who loves me back

I've waited so long for love to heal me, so I'd feel it, thought it wasn't real and then you came
you prove me wrong again

If love were liquid it would drown me in a placeless place refine me,
in a heart shape come around me and then melt me slowly down
if love were human it would know me in a lost space come and show me,
hold me and control me and then melt me slowly down, like chocolate

Come here, zoom in, catch the smile
there's no doubt it's for you and I'm addicted tonight

Just one look boy to mellow it out
just one heart here to save me now
your candy kisses are sweet I know
hold me tigiht baby, don't let go

Chocolate- Kylie Minogue

I think I might be on the right track to finding out why no one hits on me, or why no one flirts with me, like they do with other girls.

Funny. When cruising down "The Love Street", or the Gulf Road, you're most likely to find boys chasing girls up and down the streets in their cars. Except me. I could be smiling my ass off at a bunch of boys and they'd never say a word, let alone notice me. Very strange. Especially when we all know Kuwaits' boys and how freaky/kinky/horny/desperate they are. Wait wait scratch that, ALL boys are horny freaks of nature. So why wont ANYONE chase me, when I know full well that they'd go to the co-op and hump a frozen chicken if they could only muster the guts to do so? Heheeheheehhehe, am I uglier and more offensive to a horny boys' hyper testosterone disco than a frozen co-op chicken, or what? Maybe I'm missing an arm or a leg, and I just never knew it? Hmmm....

There've been some events that occur while I'm with my sister, which should've given me a clue, or shed some light, as to why I don't attract male attention. Like, a few years ago while vacationing abroad, and standing in line to go on a ride in some theme park, a Kuwaity girl approached us, and proceeded to chit chat with my sis, all while totally ignoring me. All of a sudden the girl turns and looks at me while talking to my sister "awwww how adorable, look at your little sister (meaning me), isn't she the cutest thing?". What was funny, is that I think I was about 18 or 19 at the time, my sister was 16, and this girl, we later found out, was 14. Hahahhahha isn't that a hoot! A kid, 5 years younger than me, thinks I'M the baby in the group. *Rolls eyes*.

This happens all the time. People mistake my baby sis for being the older sis, and I'm mistaken for the baby. I can't get into a club without showing some sort of ID, and still the bouncer would have a hard time believing that he wasn't looking at a fake ID, while sis just struts in without having anyone say a word to her.

This year while we were shoe-shopping in Germany, some Emarati boys came over and started to flirt. The problem was, they weren't flirting with ME. It was like I wasn't even there. Yeah, I was very pissed at the time. I really didn't understand. I still don't actually. It doesn't matter anymore though coz I've got a man in my life now who's worth the world to me, and everything else doesn't mean squat. Anyways, back to my story. My sister got one of the boys' emails, and they still talk on MSN every now and then. She told me that he wouldn't believe her when she told him that I was the older sister. Hehhehehhe. Yeah the boy thought I was a kid too, even though it turns out he's the same age as my sis.

The other night while we were at Maki, some of my sisters' guy friends happened to be there too. After we left, one of them sent my sister a message, and their conversation went along the lines of:

Boy: "Hey Noona, I see you're out with your kid cousins".
Sis: "That's my cousin Kokito and my sis Dodo".
Boy: "But I thought your sister was older than you?!".
Sis: "Yeah that's her. She's my big sis"
Boy: "LOOOOL AYSHAAAAY (trans: whatever). You're pulling my leg aren't you?!?! Why does she look like such a kid?!?!? Awww, she's such a baby!".

What does that tell you? Sad.

When The Cat Is Away...

...the mousees run a muck.

Yesterday my mother left for Germany along with my aunts and uncles to visit my ailing grandmother. One of my cousins decided to sleep over at our place, 'til his mother comes back, since Big Cousin Dodo has a car, and a yellow Shabab card, "and can take me out where I want whenever I want".

I slept in today. Woke up around 7:30, to the sound of my cousin banging on my door "come on wake up I want to go out. Come on wake up I want to go out. Wake up come on I want to go out. WAKE... UP... I... WANT... TO...GO... OUT... NOW!!!"

Apparantly he'd been going at it all day, and I just didn't hear it coz I was so out of it. Baby sis took him to the Mishref Fairgroud, where they go-karted 'til fotoor

Dear Lord have mercy. There's nothing half as annoying as a whining 10 year old kid who's used to getting his way all the time. The kind of kid who, if he doesn't get what he wants, will go all teary eyed and threatens to call his mother to complain what a bad bad bad cousin you are. The last thing I want to do is have his mother worrying about her kid. She's got enough to worry about at the hospital with my grandma. A3ooth billah mn ilshay6an. Allah la yiblaany with kids like that.

I showered and got dressed. Of course, baby sis had to go all out with her clothes, since mommy dearest wasn't around to tell her off about her skanky fashion sense, and force her to change into something more "modest". Her royal highness finally felt she was ready to present herself to the general public, and she finally showed up and we left the house at about 9. Went to grandma's place, said hello and sat down with the folks for a while, and left for Marina Mall at about 11. Finally reached Maki at 12. Sat down and num-nummed 'til 1.

Now I don't carry cash, to try and minimize my thrifty spending. So I payed using K-Net, and left a tip on the table for the waiter. He was uber friendly and very helpful with the menu and stuff. I was almost out the door when my cousin came running after me shouting "DOOODOOOOOO you forgot your money on the table!! Here, looooooooook!!!", all while franticly waving the money in the air infront of everyone. LOL major embarrassment.

Unfortunately, some people aren't worth taking out to a decent restaurant. Really, they don't deserve it. After 3 Fusion I's, 4 different types of maki, chicken teryaki and a plate of shrimp tempura, they were still unsatisfied, and demanded that I take them to Mcdonalds :| Yes people, from Maki to Mcdonalds :|

Ohh and what's with cars that decide to caravan in gangs, in the middle of traffic? 5 mini-coopers blocking the road, driving side by side, and honking their horns, with their indicators flashing, and stereos blaring. Ufffff!!!

Although my mom had given my sister some money yesterday, while leaving ME high and dry (she was pissed, remember?), baby sis, of course, expects and demands that her outings be paid for, in full, by me. Even though she had money on her, she couldn't even cough up 750 fils for a kids meal. Stingy bimbo. Yeah I'm complaining. Just coz im the Big Sister, Big Cousin, doesn't mean they can milk me dry, even when they (mom and sis) know that I'm mga76a (dirt poor).

Mommy hates me :( Jaxx, start your little mashroo3, ASAP :(

Random Blondness-ness

Today was one big fat, miserably blond "moment". I met up with a friend to get myself a new phone number (been meaning to change the one(s) I have for a long long loooong time...), and seriously showed how useless and retarded I am with money (something along the lines of not knowing how much I'm paying and almost getting ripped off, if it wasn't for my buddy hehhhehhehe yil3an om ilfisheela, malat 3al wayh).

While we were cruising around and about, we saw this:

Hahhahahhahahhahaha waaay ya ba6ny shino hathaaa!!

Hmmm yeah. So I was supposed to be home early, to drop my mom off at the airport. Teehee. I got home around 12:30. She'd already left, with a taxi, and left a message with my sister for me. Cussing me out would have been an understatement. Anyways I called her, and managed to get to the airport on time to bid her farewell. She was pissed to say the least. Cham kilma mn ily y7ibhom galbik. Oh and it was in public too. Infront of all the people waiting in line to enter the departure lounge... My aunts and uncles also made me feel like a lil piece of poopoo. "Waaaaal, min wain 6al3a intaaay? Mta a5er mara shefnaach? Mn 4 wla 5 sneeeen? Laaa malich 7eg yayatna ilma6aar al7een, laish ma tiyeen ilsinna ilyayah?!?!"

Pfffft. Family members can be serious bitches sometimes. Weeee3!

Paws

Who's gonna be my date then?

Hunny, I'm Home

I guess you could call it Karma, or a sign, or a cosmic and weird omen.. well something along those lines.
My power adapter died on me. See, it was a sign that I should stick to my hiatus. I was forced away from you guys, and I sure as hell missed you lots :*
Yeah so I've been running around all those so called mac resellers. None of them sold adapters, except Mac City in Shuwaikh. They tried to fix my broken adapter (the copper fibers came out of the magnetic part), but in the end they advised me to bury it and hold a vigil over its short existence. He will be missed *sniff*. A short sermon, followed by a charity sale will follow. All donations are welcome, and will go towards the "Adaptor Cruelty-Free World" foundation. The new member of my mac family cost me an arm and a leg... well not really, but still, 35 KD is way too much for an adapter, no?

Ilmohim, the few days that I'd been away gave me a chance to "focus on me" LOL. Basically, I got round to cleaning my room :| It is now deemed an unpolluted, environmentally safe, virus/fungi/insect/disease free haven. You can get off my back now Purg, pffft :| And I'll show you some pictures once I remember where I stowed my camera :|

Quick Hiatus..

...while I gather my collective muses for an emergency meeting to decide on a new course of action.I need to load up on the creative juices, which I'm seriously running low on lately. Toodle- doo!

College Of Arts...

... this time you've really gone and outdone yourself. Bravo!

Oh Yal Azrag... Tikarfas Bil Ma6ba5

While we're still on the topic of politics and Baba Marzouq (Al Ghanim, mo int :P).

Let's rewind a little, back to the Parliamentary elections.

My grandmother was "lucky" enough to have her name pulled out of the hat, and was given the opportunity to seek medical assistance abroad. Now we all know that not all of those who got this opportunity really needed the medical help, and many took it merely as a chance to go on an extended vacation outside Kuwait. One of those people who are "abusing" the privilege is my grandmother.

About a decade ago, she went for a much needed spinal disc replacement operation (sorry dunno the technical term, excuse my ignorance). So when the elections came up this year and the medical boom became rampant, she was probably one of, if not THE first to go forth with the "legal" procedures; the documentation and so on.

She thought changing her artificial spinal disc would do her a world of good, and a change of scene would be a plus. It was NOT a necessary procedure. She was doing well enough without it.

She went into a coma for about 3 weeks after the procedure. When she finally came round, she relapsed when she realized that she'd had a Laryngectomy (google it), was in the ICU, and saw all the machines she was put on to keep her alive. She was put into a drug-induced coma to calm her down.

Before the operation, she couldn't wait for the whole thing to be over and done with. She was probably more excited about it than a kid visiting Disneyland for the first time.

AFTER the operation, she couldn't stand my aunts, who were accompanying her. She would scream and yell, blaming them "for what had happened to her" .

"Kila minkom, intaw shino sawaitaw feeny?!?!?!"

Keep in mind, it was her own decision, her own idea, to go for the operation.

Now my gripe is this: who's to blame?

Do we blame it on the doctors who performed the operation, for not psychologically preparing her for what would happen after the operation?
Do we blame them for not telling her what to expect? I'm sure that if she'd known all this before, she wouldn't have followed through with any of this.

Do we blame her children for not talking her out of it, since they knew very well that she didn't need the operation to start off with?
Lol they wouldn't have missed the opportunity to go to Germany for a few months, no matter what. If she ends up dying, I doubt they'd be able to forgive themselves, especially since they know she died blaming them for the ordeal.

Or do we blame the election campaigns, for making everyone feel that they are entitled to a vacation even there was nothing wrong with them?
Or making it seem like child's play, when instead they should've been making those who apply understand that medical help is serious business?
Or for making people believe that medical attention in our country is inadequate, or for making them feel like they actually DID need to fix themselves up because something was REALLY wrong with them?

Or.. or.. or or or or?!?!?!

I don't blame the election campaigns. Some people truly need and deserve the help that they're getting.

But still, really, who's to blame?

Turtle Rape Footy Match

So it just ended.

Did anyone else bother wasting their time by watching the match? If you did watch it, dont you think it looked an awful lot like this?

They could've at least given us the benefit of the doubt, played a clean game, instead of "being nice to us" and letting us off so easy. LOL, 4-0, Brazil x Kuwait... are you fucking kidding me?

LOL and what's with the cheesy little musical number? Granted it was all lip-syncing, but they could've at least learnt the words instead of looking so damned pathetic... No comment on the tracksuits though.

ROFL.

At least we got one positive thing out of the big bucks baba Marzouq paid. Aaaah yes, Kaka's glorious *prepubescent* abs... ummmm hmmmm ummmmmmmmmm.

Oh yeah and a good laugh...

Thank God I'm not fasting chan 3looooom!

Ma agool ila allah yir7am ayamik yal Ashwal...

Wedd's Dog Bosbos

....for a lack of anything else to post....

-Chirsanski is sexy.

I Hate Money

I hate money. Truly I do. It's a mutual feeling I guess, or else how do you explain it being so damn repelled by me? Why else would it seep through my fingers easier than quicksilver?

I hate money, and it's hate for me seems to be much more acute during Ramadan. Last night while queuing at the local Mcdonalds drive-thru, a young Indian boy came up to my side of the car and just stood there with his little Puss-In-Boots eyes. I couldn't help but reach for my wallet, and out jumped 2 KD's. For the life of me I can't turn these people away, I just feel bad about myself. You'd be surprised though, coz if anyone else was telling me that they'd given in to those nitwits, I would've given them an earful on why it's wrong to give them anything, coz they're only encouraging and pushing peddlers yada yada yada yada. Sadly I don't practice what I preach.

When the Philippino worker came up to take our order, I couldn't help but order everything my grease-and-slime-clogged arteries desired. I got the Up-sized 2 cheeseburger meal with coke, and an extra 2 cheeseburgers with Big Mac sauce (kila minik ya Sty 5alaitny adminhom). I ended up paying around 5 KD's for a fun-filled binge-night out at Mickey-Dee's, coz being sweet ol' generous lil me, I had to be a stupid show-off moron idiot and pay for everyone else in the car. Even though I knew very well that I could not afford all this tifilsif. Not including the 2 KD's for little Puss of course. Oh yeah and gas for spinning all around Kuwait all day. And night.

It might've been less than 10 KD's, sure, but think about it. An average of 10 KD's per night. Times that by 30. 300 KD's a month, ON ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! NOTHING! 300 KD'S FOR A FEW CHEESE BURGERS!! And I haven't even started talking about the other things I cough up for on a regular basis.

In my previous post I told you about my splurge at the accessories fair. So lets say I payed 45 KD's, yesterday alone. My allowance is only about 20 KD's a week!! I seriously need a crash 101 course in being frugal, coz it's not funny anymore, and my irresponsible spending is getting out of hand.

Why do I spend the way I do? It brings me to my other arch nemesis - shopping! Yes, I HATE shopping! I hate going into shops and walking out of them without having bought anything! It's not because I WANT to buy anything, but it's more like "oh I don't wanna disappoint the sales person, they were so nice and it looked like they had high expectations that I would leave with a purchase. I'd feel really bad if I just left without anything. Might as well buy something". And it's like that with EVERY shop I walk into. So I try to avoid shopping and shops completely :| But as soon as I'm out of the shop, I realize what an imbecile I've been with my money. I feel stupid for giving in like that, especially when it finally dawns on me that I CANT EVEN AFFORD ALL THIS JUNK! Too bad it always sinks in moments after I've pulled out the plastic...

Money sucks :|

Ribbons And Pearls

Today promises to be very eventful. To start, I over-slept and was in a mad rush to get to school. I couldn't find anywhere to park as usual when I got there, so I ended up dumping my car on the pavement closest to the school's main gate. Thank goodness Dr Balqees was late, and I got a chance to catch my breath. Later during class I discover that I'd forgotten both my mobiles. Bummer.

Anyways, after class, me and the girls decided to head down to Fahaheel, where one of the girl's sisters was having a Ramadan accessories fair. Of course, that would mean that I would have to skip my semantics class. It also meant that I'd be their ride. I can't even afford to buy gas at the moment.

It was rather easy to get to where the fair was being held (I know my way around Fahaheel pretty well :P). The goods were gorgeous, but I'm dead broke. Ended up dishing out KD 35 for a set of earrings, necklace and bracelet. They were worth it I suppose, and I couldn't risk seeming stingy in front of the girls, especially since everyone was buying, so yeah. Peer pressure's a bitch. Oh well. It's Ramadan after all. Everyone's gotta come out of the month with a lighter wallet. And it's not like I need any more "things" to fit into my room. I LOVE black pearls. I'm still thinking about where to store the stuff i bought. Humph. If you're looking for Ramadan accessories, from Dararee3 to girge3an, to earrings and necklaces and Bukhour and stuff, I recommend the place. Their stuff was absolutely fabulous.

I was in a gizzing mood, so I decided to take the Gulf Road, on our way to the 2nd ring road. Did a lot of eyelash-batting, cheesy grinning, and all-round goofiness. Dropped one of the girls off at her place, and headed back home. Allahom Inee 9a2im.

We might all meet up later tonight and head down to Salhiya complex. Yes, it looks like I'm gonna zero my bank account pretty soon. I think I might even have Sohoor at Hashi, who knows? Really do my balance in.
Anyways, I'll keep you posted. If we don't end up going out, I suppose I could get cracking on trying to organize my room, coz i promised Purgs and stuff. We'll see.

Laters

Thank You Jacqui!!

I think I died and went to blogger heaven. Jaxx, I cant thank you enough!! Heck, I don't even know how to thank you!! You've made my blog look fricking GORGEOUS, all the way from the Mark Ryden header, to the background color, down to the display picture, I swear this is the most beautiful template I've ever laid my eyes on!! Mashkooora sooooooo much, I love you to bits :*** Tislamly eedich wallah :">

This is a clearer image of the header. I'm totally in love with it! Doesn't it remind you of my room? :p