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Hehehehehehe I just heart this pic



Kil 3am wintu ib alf 9i7a oo salamah

Bonus: Short Story Number One

When on one of my many many crusades to Dubai, I was exhausted from all the activity and used to get very very little sleep so whenever moving from point A to point B, I would take a power nap in the car. Henceforth, the "Minti7ra" nickname I got from my Emarati friend.

Tagged By Tomboy

I just realised that I was tagged by tomboy. I guess this just shows that I havent been catching up on my blog visiting.

Anyways here goes.

"list every single nickname and its variation that u have EVER been called in your ENTIRE life"

Since most of my nicknames are variations of my real name, I will replace my name with a * as for obvious reasons I do not plan on announcing my name

*a
*ana
*ee
*ooh
Zebra
Lady in Red
A7marika
Pinky Lady
Binky
Maf3oo9a
9af3oona
Maynoonah
3anooda
3anood
3aneedooh
3anoodooh
Um il 3anood
Um 3allawi
Mit5abla
Minti7ra

Please dont ask me to provide a history cos that would qualify as social suicide. LOL. PS. I tag nobody for a change.

Disappointments

I always thought that disappointments only come to people that have high expectations. Basically you expect something that might be too elevated of a standard for others and when they are not able to achieve that standard, you get the "trout" smack on the face.

Therefore, I have pretty much trained myself to always expect the worst in order to never be disappointed. This way I am always on the safe side and I don't expect regular people in my life to treat me a certain way cos they are just not important. This also means that the constant people in my life, have, with time and interaction, raised the bar and have made me get used to a certain level of treatment.

So why do they suddenly act funny and kick in with the mean-ness and two-faced-ness?? Don't they know that I know them too well for them to try something that they have done to OTHER PEOPLE that I know they don't like on me?? I mean come on. Try to be a little more original or discreet. That's a kick below the belt. Totally uncalled for. What have I done that required this kind of treatment in return??

Obviously Nobody Has Missed Me!!

I always wonder, what will happen if I suddenly stopped blogged. I was about to say died but I think thats a little bit too melodramatic. So im just gonna say "stopped blogging"

Ive been gone for over a week and all I get is one lousy comment??!!! Come on guys. Thanks a lot. Makes me feel real loved and all.

Who Can Guess Where Im Flying Off To In The Morning??

Lets see who the smart ones are?? Or the ones that I couldnt control myself and blabbed to??

Ok ok I cant help it.

DUBAI DAR IL 7AY - Here comes 3aneeda

Im off again and will be back next Wednesday.

MD - I promise to meet up with u this time. U got my dubai number. I land in the afternoon.

WOOOOOHOOOOOOOO

Customer Service My A$$

Im venting. Im allowed to vent, arent I??

WTF??!!! Whats the point of being a good and regular customer who tips well?? If every single time you call for an appointment they ask you for your name and number and who you want to do your hair??!!

Seriously!!! What happened that email joke whatever that the Pizza Hut guy asks the customer if he wants his usual order?? Fair enough, it might not necessarily be the usual, but at least acknowledge that you recognise me!!! Ive been a good and regular customer for at least about 12 years now. WTF??!!!

My 100th Post

Hip Hip Hooray

Hip Hip Hooray

Hip Hip Hoooooooooooooorrraaaaayyyyyy

Cant beleive I lasted this long. I seriously beleived that I was gonna quit by the tenth post or something.

I would like to thank my peeepo, the academy, my mother and father, the lord, my makeup artist, my stylist, my producer, and most importantly my manager Winnie who without the sale of his blood, I wouldnt be here right now.

Oh yeah and I would like to thank all the fans and the little peepoo.

MY New Blogger . . .

. . . I didnt ask for one?? What happens if I switch?? Is this a BETA blogger advert??

PDO International Market Place

Just doing a little bit more to help my cousin who works in PDO to spread the word. Its from 4pm to 8pm tonight at PDO.

Ive been to previous ones, they were pretty good. You usually get a zanzi corner with all their home cooked food and some weird stuff ive never seen in my life. Thats were Ive tried all and any zanzi food ive ever had in my life other than mandazi. LOL

Its fun for everyone and its for charity. Its a Friday, theres nothing else to do and its some good weather. Do your part for society. It wont kill u.

Mother of All Wrong Numbers

Seriously!!! How often do you guys get people calling you by mistake. But like a few calls from different people asking for the same person, not one of those one off mistake phone calls, im talking about persistant people.

This has happened twice to me. Both with my current number. When I first got back from university, I got a number that was 3adi, not very nice but not bad either and it was by random luck. So I had a problem with Oman Mobile where my sim card got fried three times in one week. And it was the week right before I go on holiday and I wanted a healthy sim card for traveling. Anyways, the final attempt resulted in me getting a sim card that was connected to another person located in Salalah. Anyways basically I could use the sim card and number for calls and SMSs and everything but I couldnt receive anything because it kept going to the original person. So anyways, I only realised this when I called my dad and he asked me whos number I was calling from.

So I went back into Oman Mobile, acted as if I was very angry with their services, blah blah blah and got a number worth 100 rials for free. It was a number that was new to the system and never used before. So I was pretty much happy and then prompty changed my broken phone that kept frying the sim cars. ;P

Third day and I get the Fat7iya calls. Constant calls for 6 months GUYS ONLY calling and asking for Fat7iya. Sometimes I got the really cranky ones that were convinced I was her friend with her phone and covering up for her. Most asked me whether I was the first owner of the number or was it cancelled from someone else. Looks like Fat7iya was giving a lot of guys a fake number!!! This was in 2002.

So now, its been three months since the "Markaz Mohd Al Hashmi" phone calls started. And its all international phone calls. From Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi and UAE. None from Oman. Today, the same number has called me no less than eight times since the morning with some sheiba dude asking for "Markaz Al Hashmi"

Me: Ga9dik Markaz MOHD Al Hashmi, la2 mit2asfa il ragam '3ala6.

;P

Its Raining Men . . .

. . . Halillujah - NOT

What is up with nice weather?? I mean seriously. It brings out all the male faces that cannot be seen all year round!!! And they sudenly get very horny. Chasing girls around the streets, whistling, winking, waving AND giving out numbers!! I must have gotten at least three numbers today!!

Not that Im complaining. LOL. There were some nice faces around that really changed my idea of the level of good looks of Omani guys but COME ON. SERIOUSLY!!!! Dont be giving people the wrong ideas about the quality of people u are!!!

Never mind!! Im giving u guys a few days to act all rowdy and "raw" and then this has GOT to stop. Seriously.

The Sultan's School Grand Reunion

Finally, they are bringing back the school reunions. I was getting bored attempting to throw mini reunions.



Anyways, finally it has been announced. The reunion will be held at school on December 23rd starting at 730 pm.

For more details sign up here

15th Asian Games - Doha

Is anyone watching the opening ceremony??

Honestly speaking Im not a huge fan of sports or anything like that but I was watching the opening ceremony cos a Qatari friend of mine called me from Doha to make sure that I was watching the ceremony and even said that they will be testing me on it later. LOL

But seriously there were quite a few embarassing moments for many people. To list a few:

1. Sheikh I dont know who Al Thani - he started off his speech in Arabic and then moved to English. Bad mistake dude. If you cant do English well then just dont. Stick to your mother tongue instead of semi spelling out words like con - grat - you - late and beebol and brosberity.

2. Majda Al Roumy - we saw that trip Majda. Good thing you have Jose holding on to your hand otherwise it would have been a nasty tumble in front of millions of people.

3. Mr. Captain of the Qatari Horse Riding Team - WOW!!!! Dude you got lucky. The horse slipped almost at the top. That was some true effort placed to get the horse right to the top. Couldve made it easier and had slip-free stuff. Well done though.

4. The whole show - im sorry. Whats with the Indian movie??

Just A Thought

Im thinking of starting a joint community blog for Omani or even GCC nationals. For what specifically, I have no idea. Just random everything.

If I do, who is interested in joining in??

A Friday @ The Movies

So since its Friday and I HATE fridays since there is nothing much to do at all, the usual trip to the cinema is carried out in order to kill a few hours of the day. Even worse, if the movie u wanna see only shows at 130pm and 930pm so the early show is the only option.

Anyways, it was a movie I hadnt heart about before but is very much to my taste. I love dancing movies. My all time favourite is Honey starring Jessica Alba.

Anywho, I meet up my friend at the cinema and we go in. First impression?? WHATEVEERRR.

Right behind us at the ticket counter is a boy of about 17 or 18 dressed in a backwards straight Ecko-style cap and an extremely oversized basketball jersey featuring the Detroit Pistons or something like that. His Ecko-im-sure shorts hang halfway down his butt and therefore halfway down his calves. Oh before I forget. He has braids. As in braids-braids that hang way below his shoulder. Not a pretty sight. What makes the image even more bizarre is that he walked in with a girl who was oh-so-NOT his sister. This girl was very conservatively dressed in a long skirt, long shirt and a shaila covering the majority of her hair.

This odd looking couple were joined by another 2 boys and one girl also dressed similary to the first girl. Fortunately the boys were so dramatic and in fact looked pretty trendy and toned down.

Of course this group were walking into the same movie since its generally a black dance movie. They, without fail, threw out a loud and random comment every 8 to 10 minutes.

What is the world coming to?? I remember when I was 17 or 18, I was already in university and when I came back for vacations, I wouldnt leave the house cos I wanted to spend as much quality time with my family as possible. And I certainly wasnt hanging out with such odd looking people. I dont get it. Your OMANI. Leave that "Yo Yo Dude" look for the ones that invented it. Cos that look soooo does not suit the "ya5i il filim wagid 7ilu ya5i" comment that followed.

Anywho, back to the movie. It was nice, but very very predictable. I didnt mind. I got bored a bit half way through but then I liked the way it ended with a final big dance routine. And of course the guy gets the girl. LOL

The highlights of the movie.




ARENT THEY HOT. Theres another pic of Mario I was looking for but I couldnt find. With him wearing this hat in the movie. WOW. :$

I am a girl arent i??