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I had just bid my goodbyes to

lady_nerwen and was waiting for the elevator. When the elevator finally did arrive, I rushed into it, only to be made gently aware by an elderly gentleman that the elevator was going up. I rushed out ( pretty embarassed) , but the gentleman told me to get in, I pointed out awkwardly that the elevator was not going where I want it to, and he smiles and says, " Sometimes in life, to move forwards, you also have to take a step backwards." That piece of advice really gripped me and I got into the elevator. He continued, '' If you had'nt gotten into the elevator, we wouldnt have shared some pleasant time together,"' I thanked him ( really meant it) and he went on ahead as we had reached his floor.  I went on my way to home, with a very warm feeling inside and thinking whether the advice the old man had given was applicable anywhere in my life.... :)

BTW, I fell 20 this year and had tthe best bday ever!
I knew something was fishy at office when very few people wished me and everyone had this secret lil grin on their faces but did not think they would actually gather all the people, get boxes of pastries and demand a bday speech! I was really embarassed but felt really special at the same time, feels great to be acquainted with such thoughtful people.

 The best best best best bday gift was a gift voucher from Magrudy's which I got from a friend(Ray-san), coz books are always at the top slot for me! Besides the gift, the overwhelming wishes (thanks to Facebook) was awesome, felt realllllly great...though the day passed already, I am still basking in the glory of my Bday!  Even in all this happiness, the fact that I left my teen years behind and am now an old Oba - ba isn't very comforting :(

And now, when finally when university is closed and there are no more exams to bash my head against the wall, I will make sure that I meet all my friends whom I was supposed to meet from a long time and have all the fun possible! Not to forget to mention to watch all the animes ( especially the ones burned for me by my best buddy)  and dramas possible!! 

 

Some free time at last! The past few days had been sooo busy, something or the other kept coming up and there was some problem in the DVD burner, thank goodness are finally settling down…and there are some fantastic news! Finally, finally, finally after a year of roaming around aimlessly I am finally completing my higher education! Dad got to know of Etisalat Academy (it’s under Etisalat, naturally) teaching Chartered Accounting which is certified from Oxford Brookes University, initially it was limited only to locals, but now they have decided to expand and this is the first year in Abu Dhabi, Dubai had it from a long time…. best thing is, the classes are in the evening, which will allow me to work and study ! Yay, I don’t want to trouble my dad any further so intend to pay my own fees! It really feels so good, all these days were just terrible, not knowing whats gonna happen….The other good thing is, most probably, even Naureen is going to get admitted in a university in Dubai for Business Administration…I really thank Allah…

I know it will be hectic, work , uni, work, uni, but I am prepared for it , I just have to work a little hard now to secure a bright future for myself, so its ok!

Since the DVD burner is finally working, I am ready to take all orders for burning once again, so ppl, get your requests ready , lol!

I am dieing to read the book dazzling_mage so kindly let me borrow, The Historian, something or the other kept happening whenever I picked up the book…like yesterday night, I picked it up, excitedly opened the first page and a friend called up,today morning, picked it up, opened the first page, dad wanted me to do some stuff…sigh…
I didn’t want ‘The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants’ to finish! I like the way the four stories are merged up with the pants, very heartwarming and touching, the story is just about the normal things that happen, but the way its written makes it very interesting , love the way they highlight the friendship bit. Arigatou dazzling_mage ! I will be forever grateful ! Now that I think about it, its only because of her I am so entertained, she gave me all the animes I am watching nowadays, all the fantastic books…What would I do without you, dazzling_mage ?

And then, I feel so hurt by the actions of some people I liked so much…I didn’t realize I was so depressed until I wrote to my best friend and whined my heart out to her! Now I am all happy again and know I shouldn’t waste my precious feelings on a bunch worthless losers who are so jobless as to do silly kiddy stuff, thanks to her comforting and warm words…I miss her sooooo much…come back already!
Till then, class starts tomorrow, lets c how things go…wish me luck, minna-san!

This was something i wrote while in Bangladesh,thats around two months ago, since i couldn't log in all these days due some password problems,I am posting it now...better late than never!


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This was the first time I traveled alone without my family to Bangladesh and the worst thing imaginable happened. We usually travel to the capital city and then journey to the city where we live, through a bus, it takes about 7 hours. The flight we travel in provides the bus transportation so everything goes smoothly, but what went wrong this time was that supposedly I did not have a bus booking! Due to the place my dad works in, we get a staff ticket and never had to book for the bus before but seems like this time the rule had changed and they were not allowing me to get on the bus…imagine my horror! I don’t know anything in Dhaka, and the bloody man in charge just gave a damn care and told me its not his problem, I went to the authorities, argued with several officials, still there was no avail, it was horrible, they said they couldn’t bend RULES (yeah right, RULES MY ASS), like they ever cared about rules! I offered to pay any amount, anything to get on the bus but those bastards just didn’t agree, I did not know what to do. They were so mean even though the bus was quite empty. What happened next really touched me, all the people in the bus started arguing with the officials only for me! Everyone was supporting me, there was also a family friend traveling with her two kids, she was so kind, she got down from the bus with me and unloaded all her baggage and everything, all the passengers were enraged, they refused to allow the bus to start without me, this went on for like 2 hours, me explaining everyone how I never had to book before, how I didn’t know anything in the bloody place, how that this was the first time I had come alone and the passengers in the bus were in an uproar, they couldn’t leave a helpless girl alone… then a miracle happened! A man decided to give his ticket to me! He entrusted all his baggage to a friend of his and decided to stay back…I couldn’t believe it… the heat was unbearable that day, and the security do not allow people to enter the airport, and this man whom I had never seen before agreed to wait in the sweltering heat from the air conditioned bus and look for another means of transportation which, believe me, is very hard in bloody Bangladesh…



The next scene was like that of a movie (in which I was playing heroine, lol) , the man (I didn’t get the chance to know his name) got down, I thanked him like crazy, and apologized like crazy and the man kept telling me that its fine n that I am like his daughter and bla bla , as I entered the bus , everyone started fussing over the poor foreigner and I just said in a very loud choked up voice, “ THANK YOU EVERYONE” , and they just murmured stuff like how it was nothing and….it went on…lol..and it was at that moment that I could not decide whether I hate Bangladesh or I like it , as much the stupidity enraged me , the people’s unity and supportive manner touched me…I dint know what to think anymore, I was soo tired…the bus had a lot of free seats…if only they would have considered then the poor man wouldn’t have had to suffer, nor would I have to do so much…bahhhh…I hate Bangladesh !!!

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Now finally I can get back to writing my LJs and commenting! how i missed those....
yattaaaaaa....

It has been long …feels good to be back to writing!

Mom has returned from Bangladesh, sure, its great she is back and everything but sometimes I just don’t feel too sure whether I am really happy…u know...she can be really scary sometimes…lol. Yesterday, it was SUDDENLY decided that I am to go to Bangladesh on Thursday, i.e., 3rd May and the first thing I screamed in protest was “ LIKE HELL I AM GOING ON THURSDAY, WE HAVE AN ANIME MEETING THAT DAY!” Mom could only stare at disbelief at my logic,lol, so in the end whether there was an anime meeting or not, or anything at all, it WAS decided that I am to fly on Thursday! Baaahhhh, I suppose it won’t hurt if its strictly for only a week…

We had a meetup last Thursday, it was nice, dazzling_mage, angelkoh11,painaholic,Naurin, Gayle and Mohammad showed up. We viewed Gakuen Alice brought by Mage, it was really cute about people possessing a special ability called an ‘Alice” for which they are supposed to study in a special school teaching how use the ‘Alice’. The friendship between the main characters is fun, as one of them is really mean and weird. We also watched Kyou Kara Maou , seemed nice, about going to some other world and stuff. Speaking of animes, I think it was last week, I was watching the 4th episode of Nodame Cantabile , where towards the end Nodame was asked to be kissed by the perverted professor in return of a favor she asked him for and just when they zoomed in on his fishy lips, IT ENDED! I really wanna knowwwwwww…does she kiss him or our dear Chiaki-senpai decides to help?

I have started reading “the Eldest” finally, it was kind of dragging in the beginning but now it seems to be catching up, hope it remains that way!
What else? Started Read Or Die, Haibane Renmei, Summer Snow (Drama), have also been watching this documentary about the human body, ewwwwwwwwww, I , for the first time in my life saw the delivery of a baby!!! Omg!! I covered my eyes with my fingers (but the fingers had gaps between them,lol) and closed the soundbox, lol. it was horrible…I watched for the first few minute then forwarded it as the pain building up in my abdomen was immense…it was too….bad…

And…? So I suppose will write after I return from Bangladesh! Hopefully it will be one week as my mom says, but the problem here is that 1 week can be anything from 1 week to a month or worse! Ah well, lets hope for the best! Wish me luck!

Lol, seems like my pride over Bangladesh’s victory was short lived…sometimes they play like they are out to get the world while sometimes they play as though they are being forced to play!

Oh yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I forgot!!! lady_nerwen called me up again!!! It was sooo good talking to her…sniff... I miss her!
Dad came back last week but seems like mom has decided to stay for some more time as the house construction has temporarily suspended due to rain, so it will probably be another week before she comes. These few days I had done absolutely nothing but read books! Oh , I finally finished Jonathan Strange last week!!! AMAZING, BRILLIANT, SUPERB! I wish it never ended...THANK GOODNESS there is a sequel to it! dazzling_mage , please let me know when the next one is published so that I can get a copy too! Since Naurin is still in the process of reading it, I am gonna read it all over again, hhehe, I just love it…its sooo magical…waaaaaaaaaaaahhhh I want more of Strange!!
I have also read ‘Angels and Demons’ by Dan Brown and honestly speaking…it was disappointing. I finally see where the problem is with Dan Brown, even when I read The Da Vinci Code, it ended up being extremely far-fetched, streams of murder and chaos were caused due to the fascination or idea of a single person. Da Vinci Code was good, the facts, the whole symbolic and the religious connections, secret societies and their rituals, everything was thrilling, but the twist in the plot was kinda lame, it was the same case with this book too, everything was caused by a single person’s madness, it was like reading a less interesting version of Da Vinci Code, the same things happened...the worst part for me was knowing the ending even before reading it. All the same, the excellent way the codes and symbols were explained and cracked was definitely worth the read.
Also read ‘Wish Upon A Star’ , a fairy tale kind of a story with this dull American girl, who learns life is not about just living for the heck of it but actually enjoying it and living fully, once she lands in London invited by her version of ‘Prince Charming’ out of the blue. Was fun but got kind of boring with the main character wallowing in self-pity and undergoing continuous ego-battles with her inner self.
I am now looking forward to finally reading the second part of Eragon called Eldest which I had bought months ago.
Yesterday Naurin and I watched Monster House, I had expected it to be kiddy and silly but was surprising spooky! It was quite freaky and gave me unexpected shivers! Had lotsa fun watching it!
Today, dad, me n Naurin went food shopping to co-operative, picked up some comfy t-shirts from the special offer rack, hehe, bought moisturizers, tried perfumes and lotions and when we finally went to look for the stuff we came shopping for, we got delayed yet again. One minute we were following dad to the cooking oil rack the next we disappeared. Poor dad came looking for us to find us glued and getting all excited over the Japanese food section,lol. We kept getting deviated from our main goal, but yeah, in the end we accomplished our menial task of food shopping…phew!

Should I read the second part of Artemis Fowl or get started on The Eldest? Donno really…I better finish replying to all my mails first!

YAATTTTTTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!BANGLADESH WON AGAINST SOUTH AFRICA!!! SOUTH AFRICA?!!! I DON’T BELIEVE THIS!! YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
At present, South Africa was capturing the top slot and Bangladesh has defeated  that country!!!
It really is a great win, the players were excellent, they were full of energy! Their fielding was too good!! Yattta!!yatta!! gambatte gambatte Bangladesh!!!

Visited the book fair today, most of it, as usual, were Arabic books and we lost more than 45 minutes just looking for the English books! When we finally did, we were sooo tired…but what was soo annoying was they barely had anything new! Had none of the titles I was looking for! ANY! Was bloody irritating! Though what they did sell in piles were,eww,yukkkk, tons and tons of the crappy romance novel “mills and boon”,yukkk..and they were soo cheap, just abt DH 7…yuk.they also had TONS of Danielle Steele and Sydney Sheldon, god, I could puke!
Sydney Sheldon books are so crappy, its feels like the same thing happens over n over again but to different characters in a different story, there was just one book of his I really liked and that was Windmills of the Gods, surprisingly it was a very interesting read. Wow, I really drifted away from what I was talking about!
So, I ended up buying nothing at all, I donno…nuthin seemed interesting…or maybe I was too tired from intense searching amidst the inhuman crowd! They were pushing, shouting, grabbing books…where did the words like ‘courtesy’ and ‘politeness’ disappear to? Tsk..tsk..ppl!

Feeling famished, we went to SFC , bleaghhhh, the sandwich was sooo crappy! The meat had no flavor, the lettuces bitter and the tomatoes stinky! I felt like killing them but my hunger conquered over my violent side.

Then our dear Miss Naurin snaps her lil finger nail! How? She closed the car door on her finger! At first she had no reaction whatsoever, but as she turned towards me after removing her finger from the door, I could see the intense pain bundling up on her face and the pool of blood forming on the pavement from her streaming finger! I snatched her finger tightly, and literally ran home, opened the door (which was another difficult thing as the key was in Naurin’s bag and the bag was on the shoulder of the finger which was hurt!) and rushed to the bathroom and placed it under cold water, got ice and antibiotic and realized we were out of band-aids! So I rushed down, got the wrong bandage (a huge elastic thingy for fractures n stuff) and sum band-aids, and dressed the finger as best as I could with her wincing with every touch…I really dint know what to do…gave her two Panadols and now she is sleeping, I hope she doesn’t run a fever or sumthin, at least not with mom not around! Hopefully she will be fine…

Ah well, me sleepy, I am kinda proud of myself for not being a lazy goose and trying my best to update as often as possible!

Today I got the fright of my life!! At around 8 am, while I was still sleeping I could faintly hear the windows rattling and something swishing on them, the more I tried to ignore it and sleep, the louder these noises became, so I turned to look at the windows and…..I see 4 men swinging outside my window, with their hands ferociously battering the glass! It took me a few seconds to realize that they were no one but some innocent window cleaners doing their dismal job of super man cleaning, lol. But seriously, it is frightening to see weird men hanging outside ur window the moment you open ur eyes,lol.

Ahhh, a good news!! My uncle(lady_nerwen, the one with the Japanese X) who stays with us got a promotion! I am soo happy for him, so naturally I baked him a congrats cake, aunt (his wife)got him flowers, though he was very happy with all these things we did, he was showing off and was vvvvvvverrry embarrassed when we FORCED him to cut the cake,lol, we also got him a small bamboo stem plant…I am really happy for him.

And wat else…? Nothing, nothing at all…

Wow, what do I say? I have become an aunt!!! Yup, yup, my sister’s best friend got a baby girl! She is the cutest thing I have ever seen! Such an angel… and a surprisingly good baby too! Doesn’t wail much…just adorable! Holding her in my arms was such a bliss…




The AIDA opera organization which was taking place at the Emirates Palace Hotel needed some volunteers to sell their merchandise like music CDs, DVDs and programs for the show, so me n Naurin decided to try our hands on this, and it was really fun. We met some wonderful people there, but the best part was that we had entry anywhere we wanted as we had the ‘staff ID’, hehe, I really used it to its full potential, we could watch the entire opera for free(the tickets cost about 1500) if we didn’t have to attend to the stalls! Also not to forget the food, hehe, it was really good, and I was really amazed at the disposable income of the people in the UAE, some of them purchased DVDs worth 1000 or more at a time and still came back for more….
The weather here is so unpredictable, one moment its unbearable heat, the other a storm of snow (it actually snowed for 5 seconds!) and rain and then hot again! So we were totally unprepared for the chilly winds that night, ending up greeting customers with a very wavering’ go..oo..zzzz..dd eee..eeevvv…vvening’ and with the money flying everywhere it was kinda difficult but we managed! There were some people who were very keen to buy us dinner and get some free DVDs while there were others who couldn’t stop buying and giving away roses to the so called ‘bright and beautiful’ young ladies, lol, seriously there was this guy who came back three times, every time buying something he already bought and offering roses, that was soo funny and good for the business, hehe.

And…? Yesterday was fun too! Had a long tiring day, went to visit the baby at the hospital, finally went to the comic exhibition and…we met Faragh-sensei!! I was soo surprised that he actually remembered us! It was wonderful meeting him, and with him was the Japanese waiter from Samurai restaurant whom Naurin accidentally proposed, lol, but I felt like killing myself when he spoke to us in Japanese and I could not reply!! I better start studying again!! The exhibition was good, but the best part was when the manga artist Gontama called up audience and drew a beautiful and fierce dragon sprinting out of the water with a Samurai holding its reigns… and he did it so quickly with quick clean strokes…suteki…we actually chanted so many ‘khirey’s , ‘suteki’s and ‘sugoi’s, and he kept turning back to see who were these wannabes,lol.
We got his autograph and a picture, and showed off yet again with our tiny jap vocabulary.
Then we went home walking, came out again, went to Mcdonalds, had dinner, fooled around a lil bit, plotted a plan to have a friend stay over at our house which failed MISERABLY and… I suppose that’s abt it… cheers!

It seems like celebrations never seem to end in my house these days! Day before yesterday Naurin and her friend came over to our place, I put on music and before I realize it, all the sofas were pushed into a corner and I could see something move in a blur, on further inspection it was revealed to be Naurin, lol! I had a blast, danced and danced for at least 2 hrs, well, u cant really call it dancing as everyone told me I looked like I am suffering from some intense pain or sumthin!

Then yesterday was the pre-planned surprise barbeque for a friend. Organizing it was soo much fun! The best part is how dense she can get , as I am horrible at acting! The poor thing thought she would be going to Dubai, to the Mall of The Emirates! Hahahah, that was hilarious ! We were already at the picnic site waiting for her with the cakes (hehe, yup, cakeS) , balloons, masks and hats when she appeared in the distance, blindfolded by a friend, she was sooo confused,lol.
The blindfold was removed and she just stared for a moment and we started screaming the bday song at the top of our lungs, the shock and happiness on her face was soooo…satisfying, and the first words she said after she recovered? “ U BASTARDS, HOW DARE U KEEP THIS A SECRET? THANK YOU SOO MUCH LOSERS!!!” ah well , we had great fun, the food was excellent, and the marshmallows fun, not to mention the wonderful cakes and the battle of the cakes!

After finishing off the bbq we headed to a petrol station for tea where the bday girl insisted to pay so tht later she does not have to treat all of us, lol, then we went to Mina, and sat somewhere on the rocks and…u wont believe…to my great horror…SALMAN came over!!! He was being the usual brash, all-knowing, attention seeking, supposedly cool and smart Salman, so it wasn’t any surprise that no one liked him…I sometimes feel sorry for him, someone ought to tell him his negativities since he is too dense to notice it himself…poor silly soul. Well thankfully he didn’t stay long enough and gave us the pleasure of his quick departure (he must have felt the aura emanating with murderous intent,hehe)

And the day had come to end , it was really fun!

I feel so guilty; I haven’t read Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell for almost a week!! Shame on me! My eyes are really troubling me nowadays and as soon as I pick up anything to read, my head starts to ache…I think its time for a visit to the optician!

Oh my god!!! Bangladesh actually won!! The last moments were sooo tense, felt I would die ,lol, god, I screamed myself hoarse, couldn’t stop dancing from glee…gosh, that was some game, Bangladesh definitely kicked India’s ass properly,it was sooo good!! I am really happy, I donno y, as though it was me playing or something like that,lol, way to go, Bangladesh, Hats off to u!!
They won with 192 runs n 5 wickets, hehehe, LOSER INDIA!!! Sorry Indians, excuse me, I am just too happy!

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee…..its raining cats and dogs and the thunder is murderously blinding and loud!! It is totally suiting my mood which is : I AM SUPER EXCITED!! It’s the cricket match between Bangladesh and India and Bangladesh is playing soooooooooooooooo well!! India really sucked!! They could just manage 191 runs in 49.3 overs and the best players were out very quickly, whereas Bangladesh has reached 118 in 27.4 overs and lost just 3 wickets!! Wowow, gambatte, Bangladesh..yo..Bengali power…lol! I hope the match keeps up this way, I am sooo pepped up!! I never felt this way, normally I am more into football than cricket , but this time Bangladesh is really banging up India badly!! Wowow, can u believe that , now they reached 121 runs in 28.4 overs!!! Yatttaaaa…eheheheh...INDIA IS A LOSER…hahaaha..ooops I mean no offence to Indians..gomen..i am just sooo into the game!!
HOPE BANGLADESH WINS!!!

Oh my god!! I am sooooooooo happy, I know I cannot be happier than this!!
lady_nerwen called me a little while ago!!! She called me all the way from Malaysia…I miss her sooo much!! At first I was all confused, ‘umm, may I know who is this?’ and when she said who she was, I screamed out of happiness and surprise, I think so I finished half of her credits just expressing my surprise and glee , stupid me! But I am so happy…I feel so touched…she bothers so much…sniff..sniff…I misss her sooo much...kyaaaaaaa Nerwen come backkkkkkkkkkkk !! Y does it have to happen this way? Y do best friends have to suffer this way? Lol…I am feeling a lil bit dramatic…cant help it… after all Nerwen called me!!

Kyaaa,*horrified* I forgot to mention this week’s anime meeting? How could i?
After almost a month of hibernation , we guys finally had a meetup last Thursday, and it went gr888!
Who attended : Nawal, Naurin, Atashi, dazzling_mage, painaholic and salman (I know seems surprising).
What we viewed : (in order) Junni Kokki , Welcome to NHK, Nodame Cantabile and D Gray man.
Junni Kokki : Very different ,mysterious things kept happening without any explanation being offered, but was an exciting watch.
Welcome to NHK : really goooood,I love singing along with the “ purupurupururin”, lol, weird and hilarious in its own way.
Nodame Cantabile : excellent ! great for music lovers and completely hilarious, Nodame is just so dirtily kawaii.
D Gray Man : it gives off a feel of Full Metal Alchemist somehow, was veryy interesting and kinda spooky.

I know they are extrrremely tiny reviews, well, one cant say much after watching just an ep, but thoroughly enjoyed watching all of these. It was really surprising that all of us actually watched along with talking, everything was very organized, it was a success!! Yattttaaaaaaa, hope we get to have more n more fun meet ups!! I loveee the members!!

I am such a loser, i am suffering from flu and today suddenly I felt a deeepp craving for icy cold mountain dew which I had and the result? I cannot even utter a single word, my entire throat is throbbing with unbearable pain and the rate at which my nose is leaking, I doubt there will be any single tissue left in the world. Gosh, who the hell told me to give in to my craving? God help me next time!

What is it with my fascination for squeaky clean bathrooms and hot chocolate nowadays? Ok, for hot chocolate I understand, its probably that I have caught the flu bug , but what abt clean bathrooms? Aahh, I almost forgot, yattaa, mom n dad went to Bangladesh for a month 2 days ago*evil smirk* I feel freeeeeeee…but lol also kinda missing them, I am one confused person,lol! Anyway, speaking of bathrooms,I put on my cleaning outfits yesterday and scrubbed and scrubbed all the bathrooms at home and stopped only when this rigorous scrubbing resulted in deep scratches ! As if that wasn’t enough, I was at a frnds place yesterday and while combing my hair a strand of hair fell on her clean tiles! I bent to remove it when I discovered a leaking shower gel under the basin!! I couldn’t help it, reached out for a mop and started cleaning it up…my obsession dint end there either, today morning I was in AD mall and when I went to the washroom, the sinks were all yucky soapy and watery ..i took handfuls of tissues and wiped them all, was gonna do the same for the floor wen the lady who works there obliged herself with the task…I feel soo weird…lol Leaving bathrooms aside, I was in mourning the whole day yesterday, the reason? Arabella Strange died!!! I don’t believe it ! I really liked her..arghhhh, how I hate the man with the thistle-down hair! He is so vain, just does as he likes and poor Stephen and Lady Pole , I feel soo sorry for them…and the poor King? Thank goodness for Jonathan Strange, he saved the King…I just adore him and his vague attitude, that of a true magician! In case any one was wondering I am blabbering abt the book ‘Jonathan Strange and Mr.Norrell’, it’s a must-read ! There is no one to discuss it with, Naurin still has not started reading it and lady_nerwen is not here and I don’t wanna call up dazzling_mage out of the blue and start lamenting Arabella’s death,lol, though I am sure she wouldn’t mind..hopefully,hehe. Hmm..yup, I joined a Bengali anime community!! Wow, they are like real fans! Its so good to find fellow Bengalis loving anime, lol, now I will try my best to force other stuff like J-Rock/ pop on them!! Watched a few eps of naruto yesterday and I am in love with Kakashi!! He is toooooooooooooo amazing! His fight was so incredible and what I love best abt him is his damn caring attitude and the first thing he told his pupil, which was,” My first impression of you three are that…I hate you” lol that was so blunt and direct and that eye of his..i forgot what its called, sharigan perhaps? KAKKKOOOIIII!!! Aaaahhh feel so good to get these girly gushes outta me…

Yet again I had a wonderful time this Thursday. My eldest sister’s birthday is on 1st march and naurin’s birthday is on 2nd march. This time we decided to celebrate Naurin’s bday on 1st march wid frnds and 2nd march wid family. We guys celebrated her previous bdays in every possible way, the only thing we never attempted was a barbecue and so it was decided!
The only problem was that we attended lots of barbecues but never organized one and wen we did , we came to understand just how complicated things can get…
First and foremost, the meat, should we buy marinated or buy chicken and marinate it? And only chicken? Y not kebabs also ? lamb or beef? Aren’t these items too less ? y not add sausages and burgers also? But what if ppl get hungry as the meat takes time to be barbecued? We shud also buys loaaddss of snacks! Then Naurin squeals abt how its her bday and how it will be soo bad not to have a cake, and we decide to have a cake also! Then this ‘experienced’ person who barbecues often gives us a list which contains things we never imagined could be in a barbecue, like teabags and other things for making tea! …
The equipments like the coal and the griller were supposed to be brought by a friend, but please, emphasize on SUPPOSED, which means wen he arrived at the place, he was carrying only the grillers, minus the fuel and coal !!! But thnks to another frnd we were saved the torture of having raw meat as he went and got the necessary stuff.

It was total fun even though a teeny bit disorganized, I only wish everyone was able to cum!! And everyone who came, I am so grateful to then for making the evening wonderful.

I miss lady_nerwen soo much..snifff…sniff..i am so happy she is settling down well over there and doing wat she loved always luvd doing.

yattaaaaaaaaaaaaa, I got Juuni Kokki !!! at last !! I had been dieng to watch it! I am almost gonna finish Hunter X Hunter OVA 1 n I feel so nostalgic, I so don’t want it to finish , its definitely one of the best animes I have ever ever seen. Also thanks to dazzling_mage, rite now I am experiencing the ultimate pleasure reading can deliver! The book she lent me , “Jonathan Strange and Mr.Norrell “ is so rich, I don’t have any other words to describe it, everything is explained so extensively, the footnotes are excellent , all in all, it’s a brilliant book and an amazing 1006 pages long! I am soo glad, I hope this book satisfies the hungry worm in me! Arigatou dazzling_mage

Again ,the ppl who cudnt cum to the barbecue, it is nooo problem at all, really! Pleas don’t wory abt it!! Lov you all!!!

I donno whether I am being favored by the gods or its some well wisher, I am having the best time in my life! I am sure of that!
Yesterday, my uncle got invited to the gala dinner for the “education without borders” function at the Emirates Conference Palace hotel…and…somehow he managed to get me an invitation too!! I was soo ecstatic; I had been dieing to enter the conference hotel!!! It was truly amazing and wonderful experience. The architecture was so beautiful, everything inside was made of actual gold and ruby, I felt like I was walking inside a castle, with young and handsome servants (the volunteers, they were such hotties) attending to me, they actually looked royal as they wore a funny golden and black embroidered coat with matching golden shoes.
The dinner was held on the open grounds. The grounds were completely surrounded by giant screens. Upon entering my dad introduced me to the Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Doctor Mohammad Younus, who hugged me and we took a picture. I was surprised, I knew that my dad knew him and stuff but I always felt that dad was kinda bluffing, but then it didn’t seem so, they were chatting on like they were best friends or something…well, so there is one good point to be a Bengali , somehow all Bengalis turn out to be our relative, hehe.
After the speeches by the minister of higher education (eettoo….I forgot his name)and some other people, the actual events started. First there was this documentary kind of a thing they showed in the screens, around 25 minutes long, about the world and it was being destroyed, it was done excellently, with skaters skating and dancing around the ramp near the screens and performers somersaulting from above the screens. The ending was spectacular, the performers performed with fire, dancing and skipping, enhanced by the beautiful crazy laser,(it was just like the show me,lady-nerwen and Naurin went to on the National Day) the screen broke out in flames, and at the same time, the sky right above us started sparkling with dazzling fireworks, the performers all came out and danced in rhythm to the fireworks, it was superb, I dint know where to look, the fireworks went on for like 15 lovely minutes, it was spectacular, I had never attended something this grand, it was tooo good…(loss of descriptive words…).

Then there was this magic show, where the girl was slowly rotated 360 degrees in mid air and the man was put in a metal casket and dropped in a tank of water which was later set ablaze and other similar stuff, those were also fun. The acrobatics were really amusing and the violin show was energetic. The dinner didn’t taste that great but the desserts were amazing, there was everything imaginable made of chocolate, so I had obviously piled up my plate, they were yummmyyyy!!!

And so the evening had come to an end, even after I tried elongating it by hiding in the bathroom from my uncle, running away in the halls, coaxing him to take dozens of pictures in the same place in different positions…

It was excellent, excellent, excellent….~ ~I am soo happy to be alive ~ ~

Day before yesterday was definitely one of the best days in my life, thanks to Fouad-kun!!!
For the first time in my life I actually went for a Japanese show! It was a Japanese drum show by a band called”YO-SORO”, consisted of 3 male and one female. Two of them played the drums, one played the flute (who was the cutest among the guys…) and the girl played a huge Shamisen.
Their energy and stamina were amazing…the drummers were so skilled that there hands were a blur while they were drumming, one of them danced while carrying a huge drum and the music was sooo beautiful…the incorporation of the flute, Shamisen and drums was excellent ! What I loved about the show was how the music went from calm( using a light beat of the drum and the flute) to vibrant mode (using the drums and Shamisen), their work was superb, and the fact that they drummed vigorously without stopping for 20 minutes is something…

When the band went to take a 15 minute break, hehe, I just had to go and get the picture of the Japanese ambassador, he is such a polite and modest man, I just can’t help laughing when I remember how he wanted to click the picture for us with his wife,lol, and also his wife was so sweet , she was wearing a real, authentic traditional kimono…with matching sandals, she looked soo kawaiiii! We told them about our Anime group and they seemed impressed, I donno whether they were actually impressed or just polite, hehe…but it was great!

The band completed the show with yet more excellent performances, this time with the girl singing and us singing along with her, it was soo much fun. Fouad was the only boy among us 5 girls and it was hilarious to see his expressions while we were swooning at the Japanese hotties ,lol, and also while cheering we screamed ‘SUGOI’ which Fouad thought was a complete embarrassment and proceeded to hide his face, that was sooooo funnnyy!!

But the best part of the show was us meeting the band members! After the show ended they came down from the stage. Everyone crowded them congratulating the excellent performance and..and…and…kyaaaaa I got a SOLO picture and an autograph with the flute guy….he was sooo cute!! The funniest was painaholic posing next to him and telling him ‘DAISUKI” which me and Abby followed in a chorus, everyone around us burst into laughter, I suppose the flute guy was intimidated or something coz after that he quickly left.. 
We got autographs from all the members and tried to showoff as much as we could with our miniscule Japanese vocabulary. It was really a wonderful experience! I actually met “live” Japanese people! Then the ambassador tells us next month some animators are gonna come to Abu Dhabi (as we announced how much we luv anime to him), and whadya know, he asked a lady working in the embassy to email us the details of the event! Yatttaaa!!!

I am soooo happy ,it truly fun! Arigatou Fouad-kun!

The year 2006 finished off within the blink of an eye… so many things had happened…actually some of the best things of my life happened in 2006 like meeting Sensei, being part of an anime group and meeting ‘real’ people interested in anime( That was January 2, 2006, the second day of Eid, I can never ever ever forget that day, which makes yesterday the “ Anime group anniversary“ for some of the members) who later on became great friends.

Then there was Nahda School, for which I have mixed feelings, good thing was meeting some great people and the library, the bad bit was the depressing result, all in all the 8 months or so spent there were not the best in my life but not bad either.

Then as school year finished along with the mentally exhausting studies and after a visit to Bangladesh for about 2 weeks, I got to attend the anime meetings held every Wednesday in AUH mall regularly for at least 4 months until the shocking news of Sensei moving back to the US. But again that showed me just how much we members could rely on each other and loved sensei …

Then there was the increase in rent forcing us to move out of the house for a while then move back in again but at the cost of losing our room and our privacy…that was DIFFICULT , but hell, we(siblings) managed and still are coping up with intruders (mom n dad) interfering in our entertainment.

Then I got this job which was just perfect with the right money and location but luck was against me and it was gone, but it was one good learning experience, made me see just what kind of people are out there and to wat extent they could go for their own selfish reasons.

Then I get news of my best friend leaving the UAE for good and realized just how precious she is to me! As the days are nearing, I can’t stop but feel that awful loneliness begin to seep in…oh how I will miss her!!!

That about sums up the entire year for me , seems like nothing much happened but this is also the year I became 18 , officially legitimate to watch hentai!! Hehe, kidding, kidding!! Reading other people’s journal just made me realize that I have made absolutely no resolutions for the new year, I definitely have to think of some!! Well then , ja neee!!!

oh yeah, we celebrated yesterdays meetup anniversary with chocolates and cheered Sensei's name!!!

Today I was looking through all the pictures of our last meeting with our Sensei (with that adorable evil grin)and I realized just how much I am actually missing her…senseiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii come backkkkkkkkkkkk!!!
Gomen,gomen, really gomen for being selfish and unrealistic!!!
Anyway, it just occurred to me Sensei might not really be knowing what is happening during the meetings, well, first of all , it has become an all girls meet up, all the boys just disappeared (hehe, sensei might have been the attraction), basically, we preview animes in Nawal’s laptop, chat and discuss any other activities we could be doing. We decided to have this competition in Fanart and Fanfiction , we pay up Dh 5 for whatever we are participating in ,first the money was for the gift but then that got kinda complicated so we decided to award the winner with a certificate from the group and keep the money aside for DVDs for the group, so things are getting pretty interesting, I just wish we could also go for cosplaying ,but, oh well.
Do let us know wat u think sensei and ur suggestions, we really need it.

Umm, yup, cousin bro has finally gone!! I don’t wanna be mean but now I can finally watch animes and go for walks,yeaaaaaaaa!!
But a bad thing is that okaasan has gone beserk! I donno y but she is behaving beyond mean now!! Before she used to get nuts only wen we watched animes or wen going out but now it seems she gets mad with every look at us( me n my sis), Example:
She gets mad wen:
1) I am reading a book
2) Combing my hair(no exaggeration)
3) Playing with my sis
4) Watching TV
5) Switching on the PC
6) Dusting and cleaning the house
7) Etc…

So that means, whatever I do gets on her nerves, so what am I supposed to do? There is also no place to hide ,waaaaaaaaaaaaaa, doshio??onegai sumbody tasketeeeeeeeeeeee!!!
She was mean before but now it is unbelievable, I wonder wat happened to her or wats bothering her…

Aaaahhh feels good to spill this out…I only hope I am able to go for walks regularly without the interference of my mum(highly unlikely), gosh I need a job to get outta the house and away from her!!