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Rainy Tuesday

The weather in the UAE has the weirdest mood swings I've ever seen!
A normal day can start off being sunny, then converging slowly to being cloudy, and gradually going back to being sunny again. But it doesn't end there; all of a sudden, the weather could take a sharp turn into being sooo windy you can barely walk from A to B. Finally, it could totally catch you off guard by raining, with a duration from five to fifteen minutes! (Yes, people. Believe it or not, it does rain here.) Oh, and let's not forget the occasional fog, which is definitely an unwanted guest.
So in short, when you come to the UAE, it's most likely that you experience the four season in one week. Heck you can experience them in one day! Sub7an Allah!

So, I had an 8:00am-class this morning, and only three of us showed up five minutes before the class. We started tempting eachother to leave and force the professor to cancel the class, since it's raining outside. (Madri shdakhal el mu6ar bel maw'6oo3 ;P) After convincing eachother, we decided to stand outside the classroom and dismiss the rest of our classmates. (walla 6la3at mo hayna eli weyay; bedoon thekr asami heheh) To tell you the truth, we were hoping that the professor himself wouldn't show up, you know, because of the rain.

Well, people don't always get what they hoped for. The professor showed up a few minutes after 8:00. We were four students by then, and around six or seven were standing outside the building. So, we started explaining to him that many of us are stuck in traffic jams, because of the rain. (la 9ej, this was true) The professor finally decided to cancel the class, and substitute it next week with one of our lab hours. Fair enough. We're not complaining. He even asked the four of us to come sign our names on the attendance sheet; perhaps it's for some bonus points? Heheh la a9adeg wayed ;p

I got to mention that this week has been the week of canceling classes for this professor. On Sunday, class was canceled because the professor had to go out of town, for a conference, I guess. Yesterday, our lab session was canceled because the lab instructor lost his voice. Hehehe 7aram, bas we were lucky enough :P

I think this is as good as it gets with this course. So I'm not gonna get my hopes up so much in the future!

3omrah Ma Tebakhar .. !

I know I haven't posted anything lately. So I thought I'd post a drawing whilst I finish up the draft of my next entry.
Enjoy :)

Foggy Monday

As I walked out the door to my car this morning, all I could see was ... NOTHING! The weather was sooo foggy that all you could see was a blank sheet covering the whole view. Mashalla! London mo el Sharjah ;P ... But I can't say I really liked that scene.

Let me rewind back a bit:
Yesterday, while I was still recovering from the flu (since last weekend!), I decided to take Panadol Cold & Flu. What I didn't know was that taking these pills makes a person soOoOo dizzy, and the problem is I took two pills at around 1:30 pm. It was only one hour later when I started seeing circles, stars, rectangles ... you name it! So I slept at 2:30pm and woke up at 7pm, had dinner, surfed the net for a while, took two more pills at 10pm and went straight to bed! (Yeah, I'm that crazy).

Now, going back to today, Foggy Monday. I guess the real effect of those pills didn't show up until today. True - I woke up feeling better regarding my soar throat and light fever, but I felt sleepier than ever. Let alone having to wake up at 7 am and dealing with this heavy fog. I don't know, it felt like all of my energy was being sucked out by this gloomy weather. Well, I thought it was just me who felt that way. During my 8 am-class, almost everyone looked the way I felt! Hehehe wallaaa chenna rasheenna fleet! (Usually, we do interact with the professor and solve problems with him, believe it or not! :P) Towards the end of the class, the professor gave up and decided to just go through the problems instead of asking us to solve them for him. Lo nadri chan sawaina chethi minzeman :P

Anyways, so we went through the day sulking and dragging ourselves around from class to class. I almost slept in two of my classes, one of which is impossible to sleep through because of the overly-active professor mashalla 3alaaih 3aini 3alaih barda hehe

Yaalla ... Tomorrow will be a better day ... Enshallaa :D

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toxic-honey -- Thaaaanks a lot for helping me out with inserting the shoutbox :D

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Hasta Mañana !

Shoutout .. ! ;P

Bedoooon Muqaddemat ..

Just wanted to give a shoutout to:

- My Cousin elli nawwarat Dubai, even though masheft'ha ella gabel latsafer beshwayya ;p bas enshalla en3awe'6ha next time .. eL 7emdela 3ala eL Salama :*

- Mi Hermanas -- Good Luck in AUK :* .. And Good Luck Chillin' in Da House ;Pp

- Cousin Dee -- Shedaaay 7aailech , methel mattefaQna :) Miss yeew

- Cousin DilDil -- Layaleena? Banat eL Reya'6? Hi5? Zahbay el majallat 7ag el dawam heheh

- Ferrero Roche -- Good luck with that report Allaah y3eenech :)

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F2O ... Out !

Jaberna ..

It was Sunday, at the break of dawn. January 15th, 2006. Cell phones across Kuwait haven't stopped ringing all morning, filling inboxes with text messages carrying painfull, but inevitable, news:

"El Shaikh Jaber tuwafa.."
"3a'6am Allah Ajerkum.."

Sudden as it was, nobody could believe it. I sprang out of bed and switched on to KTV. It was true.

Wa Ra7al Ameer eL Quloob .. Jaber eL A7mad eL Jaber eL 9uba7 ..

During the early hours of this painful day, a miracle was born: a website that opened its doors to all Kuwaities as well as non-Kuwaities to share and forward their condolences to eachother and to Kuwait. Within one day, this forum was filled with loyal members, expressing their grief for the loss of Baba Jaber. Today, www.Jaberna.com is the proud abode of 6,180 members, and still counting! Mashallah! Allahuma zeed wa barek! ..

I recently joined the team of Jaberna.com, with a section of my own to display my work. (Click here to go there). The section, called "Ma3ra'6 eL Awfeya2 eL Fanni," contains sub-sections for the artists that Jaberna.com had adopted. Take a look at the works of the artists and designers - mashalla shay 3ajeeb!
I'd like to stop right here and thank someone who gave me this great opportunity of displaying my work online, and not only in any forum, but the forum that carries the name of our beloved Shaikh Jaber, may his soul rest in peace. "Yateem Jaber" -- thanks for the encouragement and support. Also, Abdullah Al-Ghunaim, the owner and creator of Jaberna.com -- great work! The Kuwaiti people are thankful for your efforts and talents.

Please read the following du3aa':

رحم الله الوالد الشيخ جابر الاحمد الجابر الصباح .. اللهم اغفر له وارحمه وعافه واعف عنه واكرم نزله ووسع مدخله واغسله بالماء والثلج والبرد ونقه من الذنوب والخطايا كما ينقى الثوب الأبيض من الدنس اللهم يسر حسابه وأبدله دارا خيرا من داره وأهلا خيرا من أهله وزوجا خيرا من زوجه ، اللهم نور عليه قبره وأمدد له فيه مد بصره وأجعل أول منازله من الجنة ، اللهم ألهم ذويه الصبر والسلوان وأخلفه في أهله بخير

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Finalmente ... !

eL Salam 3alaikum .. Hello .. Hola .. Namaste .. Ciao .. Guten Tag!


I finally finally decided to start my own blog. It's been a while now since I went back and forth, making up my mind whether or not this really is worth my time. Well, the only way to find out, I thought, was to give it a shot. So here I am!

Let me give you guys, who don't know me, a brief intro:
I'm a Kuwaiti girl studying Civil Engineering in the UAE. I'm an artist; I draw cartoons and have started my own T-shirt designing business (Click Here to view my website). No connection between the two? Well, before finishing high school, while I was on that famous cross-road of "deciding on my future," I chose to segregate my hobby of drawing from my academics. Do I regret it one bit? Not at all! Akhraat'ha esmi Muhandesa hehehe :P Plus I still draw; actually I've developed this hobby now and am using it a lot -- t-shirt designing, participating in forums, drawing for magazines, and more.

One of the main reasons for starting this blog is to actually interact with people, especially those of you who have questions or comments regarding my drawings or t-shirt designs that you find in my website. So, don't hesitate to any comments. Another reason is to just get things out of my system: thoughts, ideas, incidents; sometimes you just need to talk, or write, about almost anything that pops in your mind. 3adi faj'aa telgon topic malah 3elaqa eb shay, bas ba6alle3 7arreti bel ketaba heheh so get used to it from now :P .

Yalla I'll end this here.

Hasta Luego !