something is wrong with this world

On Saturday I ventured to the beach with Zeinah after the grand opening of Dani's Yoga studio.

Mucho free stuff of which some wasn't supposed to be free, but Dani's mom is a doll.

So Zeinah and me tackled monstrous and spluttering waves that caused Zeinah's eyes to become blood shot which led us to walk up a thousand steep steps for her to rinse her eyes out.

I took phenomenal pictures. You don't understand. So Zeinah, blog them!

That same night Samar and Tamara arrived from the lovely Canada and spent their first night at our casa. We were all tired so didn't have a blast of course, but we watched a movie and then fell asleep.

So when we woke up yesterday, we went to the pool for four hours where Heather Leith and Natalie Field joined.

But suddenly many arabs ALL WEARING CAMO joined us. I did not appreciate.

These four hours resulted in my extreme tan, sunburnt face, and brown feet. I guess when my Rainbows got wet, the dye stained my feet. And I spent 30 minutes washing my feet and the stuff wouldn't come off.

Anyways, I really just don't feel good right now so I'm going to take some medicine and sleep.

i am so so confused

i can't even type it.
it must be told in person
or over the phone]
BIZAAAREE

a long blog is in the process,

about my finishing harry potter,

so don't fear that i have fallen back down to be a poor excuse for a human

here's a picture i drew out of sheer boredom last night.

HARRY POTTER!

I'm honestly not going to take the time to explain last night. Too dramatic and bizarre. maybe in person.

But what I will tell you is I read 2 chapters before falling alseep last night, thus when I woke up I read nonstop to now rest at page 126.

There have already been two deaths. They have fazed me, but not in the way you think.

There was one good part about last night. That's it.

Also, i bonded with Toby Abdul Cripe for a day in what was supposed to be an all weekend favor to Melissa, but has been cancelled due to our busy weekend.

My mom thought I died because I was walking Toby in the dark and she drove around RSM screaming my name out her window. Need I say more?

I have another wedding today that I am unfortunately not singing at. I'm afraid however, my aunt is going to make me. I wouldn't mind but what if I didn't know the song? Emberrasing?

My earrings have arrived! They look way better in person.

So now I leave you to ponder the deep murky waters of the Harry Potter world as I go mail the RSVP for Ben Teincuff's Bar Mitzvah (he is blonde now. It's confirmed), get ready for the wedding, and indulge myself in the frothy yet delectable Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

I will cry when it ends.

rachel's requests plus boredom

first of all.

Is it cute when guys kiss you on your forehead?
hah yeah

A big poofy dress or a short party dress?
Short party dress.

What would you do if you received a long love letter?
depends who it was from

Group dates or single dates?
group is less awkward

Do you hate it when guys act different around their friends?
YES!

Are diamonds a girl's best friend?
no.

Is your hair up or down?
right now up

Do you straighten your hair?
less than i used to

Whats your favorite girly magazine?
Teen Vouge.

What's your favorite mascara?
voluminous


Do you get your nails done?
sometimes

Small or large purses?Large.

In your purse, what are your must haves?
cell phone, wallet, origins lip remedy, makeup bag

Jeans or skirts?
jeans

Do you wear clothes/shoes/jewelry that's uncomfortable?
no

Do you text message a lot?
ahahaaha

What would you do if you got pregnant?
i wouldn't get pregant. that's not even a thought to consider.

What's your favorite color?orange

Heels or flats?
flats

Did you ever cry during a romantic movie?
yes

Would you ever leave the house without make-up on?
yes

Walmart or Target?
Target.

Do you wear collared shirts?
Noo.

Do you like preppy boys?i like nice and funny boys

Are you spoiled?
isn;t everyone around here?

Do you think lip gloss is the best?
lip gloss is not as cool or poppin as they say

Do you own any big sunglasses?
i lose all my sunglasses

How long does it take you to get ready in the morning?
as long as i need

Do you like to wear bandaids?
why would you wear bandaids unless you were injured


Do you like skater boys?
ew i hate these questions.
if i liked a guy who skates, i like him,
not because he skates

Do you often wish there was something you could change about yourself?
not often


Gold or silver?
Either.

Do you like to receive flowers? yess

Do you like surfer boys?
sure?

Do you dress up for the holidays?
Yes.

Do you like to wear dresses?
yess

On a scale of 1-10 how much do guys confuse you?
not much, yet much

Do you wear lipstick?
FABRIZIA WEARS LIPSTICK

Would you date a guy shorter than you?
no guy is shorter than me

Do you like to hold hands?
with who?

What is the youngest you would date?
when im older, it wouldnt matter. now, probably not anyone younger than me

What is the oldest you would date?
i dont know.
what if the man meant to me my husband is 23 right now?

What is the first thing you notice on a guy?
FACE HAIR AND JEANS


Is it hot when guys sweat?
well it has to be hot outside for boys to sweat(:

What is the best possible feature in a boy?
Eyes and hair and smile.

Do you think you have the best friends ever?
YES.

Do you consider yourself pretty?
yes. there is nothing wrong with self confidence. i have my ugly days though


AND NOW FOR RACHEL PATLA:

addiction

as i was figuring out what to post as my title, my sister said I was addicted to the computer. I simply said, "No I'm addicted to blogging."



Hence the title.



So today I did nothing, and realized. I have not had a summer so far. I really haven't. I can name one major event of this summer so far.



1. the spectrum/yard house with Melissa, heather, zeinah and fron



Canada doesn't count. Even though it was a part of my summer, it was also a part out of my summer. In another country. Not with my friends.



Do you know what I mean? Because I'm having a little trouble understanding the above statement myself.



Well, instead of sulking about, I decided I'm just going to embrace everything I do, starting tomorrow with Jessica and Joanna/Eli & Perry. tomorrow my summer officially starts with adventures in trabuco canyon that will migrate to Lizard Boy's house that will again migrate to the convenient location of Border's bookstore. I will see you guys and embark on various adventures with you in which we will discover hidden gypsy treasures that will deviously steal. We will do this as much as possible. I'm determined.

See I understand Zeinah and Rachel and Heather. Their actually doing something. But it's not fair that I can easily do things with you guys lest I am stuck sitting on the computer and watching movies all day at my dad's.

Speaking of movies....I just finished watching Stranger than Fiction, and it was ohso good. It filled me with jubilance and I am proud to say it is on my list of favorite movies.

I respect Will Ferrel so so SO much more now.

I'm waiting for my dad to come home. So we can go to Pat and Oscars.

I really come home for the first time tomorrow.

Sleeping in my bed for 7 hours after coming home from Canada only to be awoken by a frantic mama elk does not count.

an invitation for heather plus yoga

Last night, I went to the new class they have in the dance room at my dads called Triad Yoga. I was the only girl my age there. There was an old man who got really into the breathing and a couple of 20 year olds. But all in all, there were eight people all spread out on either side of the room. And the teacher was on the end, overloooking us all. I appreciated the setup. Anyways, I can't explain the whole class to you, but Danielle Brabenders mom is opening her yoga studio on July 28th, and the first 100 guests get free discounts/memberships/classes/t shirts/etc. I'm going, and I will become a regular member of her yoga classes. Feel free to join me on ths escapade.

And, Heather Leith, I couldn't think of any other way to ask you this, but people can sing at the OC Fair, talented people like you and me(: And so I was wondering if you would like to sing with me at the OC Fair? We can be a duo. But first I have to book it and figure out what date or dates to do it, and when we are both free. Does that sound like a fun plan or what?

memories of a third grade joanna chiang

one time, in third grade, joanna sat at my table. she had this elmers glue that was galactical and sparkly and had a cool bottle. joanna was quite fond of this glue

and so was i.

i envied her for having that glue and not the plain white standard glue that most other third grade tots had.

one day, we were doing one of mrs. o's extremely fun projects, and I asked Joanna Chiang if I could use her oh so precious glue.

She simply said no.

I was so mad. Sad, even. I believe I even told Mrs. O. It was the most bizarre thing ever, yet it's a bold memory in my mind.

it's a beautiful day today

I went to Laguna Beach yesterday and actually got to go inside the many eccentric stores and appreciate them. My first favorite store was called Bubbles, a bath and body store with little aqua beads (plastic shapes with soap inside) and there were little jonjehs that caught my eye immediatley. i loved them. i didn;t have any money with me, but on my next trip i'm going to have a shopping spree.

The next place was a gallery called The Art of Wyland. You've probably seen it, it has a huge dolphin fountain in front and the gallery is mounted higher than the buildings around it. Anyways, this artist is amazing. I plan on decorating my beach house with his work. He even has a disney exhibit. Little mermaid for Danz?

It's really small but his art is phenomenal. Can you Ariel? I'm not a huge fan of the framing, but changing it would be disloyal to his work.

I must show you his other work

On a different note, Shannon Leith is doing my headshots! Yes, tis true. My aspirations are on the rise. I only hope you guys support me all the way through.

Today I have been sitting around on the laptop stumbling unexpectedly upon photography that has captured my heart.

One of my personal favorites.

probably my ultimate favorite.

This is amazing.

This is self explanatory: Joanna Chiangs modeling career.

I like this one a lot.

another bizarre personal fave. fin.

Okay, this is REALLY frustrating. Whenever I put pictures in a post, they automatically go to the top of my post and I have to drag them all the way down and then all my text gets screwed up and spaced bizarrel and aligned wrong. HELP anyone?

Alrighty, I have bad news. On Friday night, as you know, I'm going to Rokina's Harry Potter party that will be MIGRATING to Borders, except I didn't find out my mom and I were invited until today. Aka, interactions with lizard boy, Joanna(: I thought I'd be able to wake up on Saturday morning with your guys' beautiful faces camping out on my driveway. But, I have another wedding! My other cousin Shahab is getting married. Argh. So, maybe after the wedding? If it's not late. I honestly do not know. But, if all else fails, then we shall unite at last on Sunday!

I'm making a playlist of great music for my myspace/facebook. i hope it works here.

my chin is sweating. is that weird?

stop the occupation

Don't get me wrong here. I have Jewish friends. I don't hate Jewish people and I'm not at all racist. But this is the truth behind the media. The media constantly makes arabs and muslims look bad, you know it's true. But what they don't show you is the other side of things. The side that brings tears to my eyes. This video is the raw truth. It shows how my people are simply...looked upon like the scum of the earth. But we aren't the scum of the earth, not one bit... So all I ask of you is to just understand that we aren't the criminals here. The wrong doers in this video are. Stop the occupation, the welfare that the Israeli's live off of could easily rid Africa of it's poverty. But it hasn't. This is especially painful for me; I'm half Palestenian. I hope you guys see the truth now.

HARK!!

I love that word. Even when it doesn't make sense the way I use it. Tanner Cohoe as Aprhodie in Greek Mythologhy anyvun?

Alrighty, so today, my papa, my sister and I are all going to trek the 5 short minutes to the Irvine Spectrum to see harry potter and the order of the phoenix.

Obviously upon my request. I can't help myself; it's a guilty pleasure!

Enough of a guilty pleasure that drew me to drift towards the table that read "Harry Potter Fans!" casually picked up a couple of unofficial books and magazines and didn't get through all of them. But, I did find out that they are building The Wonderful Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Universal Orlando. Do you understad how excited I became?! Rewind to Danya as her grade three self, poofy hair, braces, sparkly harry potter t shirts. I always dreamed of a Harry Potter theme park. And in grade five, I thought, if they ever did make one, it would be in Universal Studios. I am a genuis! www.universalorlando/harrypotter :)

It will open in 2009, and I'm going. Opening day baby. Decked out in full Potter gear. Once a fan, always a fan.

So at Barnes and Noble last night, which is where this knowledge gathering took place, my sister went to the cafe to get a drink. Well on the tables were these little cardboard Harry Potter contraptions promoting the next book. So I stealthily took one and put in my purse. I know, I know. I just felt mischevious, ok?

It is blazingly hot already at 11:10 am. I am anxiously awaiting the moment where my papa will get up and announce to get ready. To see harry pottter. So in the meantime, I am going to order these earrings:

These beautiful starfish and elephant earrings. I went online urban outfitters before we went to Canada to decide what I had in mind for shopping while there, and I immediatley had to have these. Besides, I love starfish and elephants.

Well, come the trip to Summerset mall in Michigan and I flocked immediatley to the earrings. No sign. I was bummed out and even asked a salesperson, and they were like no, not yet. So I still had my urban outfitters shopping spree, minus those earrings. So now I'm going to order them.

I be so hot:(

renda and ayman!

cute eh?

WELCOME HOME DANYA

YES!

I'M BACK FROM CANADA!

But I'm rather bored.

I'm at my dad's house for the week,

And I fell asleep in the middle of the floor

on my stomach

in the spread eagle position.

the worst part was my step-brothaman couldn't get through

and my sister informed me he was wuite bizzared.

i have new hair by the way

you shall hear more in a post im working on about OHIO.

also, i really expect all of you on my driveway when i come back next fri.

not really, but itd be nice:)

BUT, I do indeed expect to see all of you that day and be overwhelmed by your happy presence:)

and i feel absolutely disgusting right now.

OH CANADA!

Tis true, mon cheries. I am aware that I have not blogged in centuries. Trust me, I have wanted to. But I am now in CANADA, as I have been since June 28, and I'm having a blast.

The first night we went straight to Uncle Freddie's and sat around with the family doing nothing. But it was fun. We then went to our hotel right along the Detroit River. Guess what's across? MICHIGAN! It was a pretty stinky hotel but we were literally right next to where the wedding was being held, the Clarey, now named St. Claire's center for the Arts, which is where my mom had her wedding reception and also where my cousin Renda, was getting married.

Through our window, you could see the Freedom Festival, an annual parade/carnival in honor of CANADA DAY! So, we stayed in the hotel with my cousin Dina, whose my mom's age, and her daughters Samar and Tamara who are exactly me and my sisters age. They are coming to California in about 2 weeks so you shall be meeting them.

Anways, blah blah family stuff, and I had my ipod in my ears 24 7 while i also managed to listen and respond to the questions of my family:

how's school?
was drama fun?
how old are you now?

well, let me explain. i was stressing the entire week at my dads on what song to sing. suzy cripe burned me a CD of 15 wedding songs. including some she personally took the time to explain she and papa cripe had sung at her wedding. did i mention she gave me some attached papers? So, after listening to the same 15 songs over and over, I thought, hey, why not sing Endless Love? Need I mention Austin Miller and Laura Osnes sang this on duets week? Well it was the Mariah Carey and Luther Vandross version, and my mom suggested it in the first place, so I was like, eh alright. Then I thought of separate possibilities and settled on Why Do Fools Fall In Love? as a second option. And how bizarre that this song happened to be the FIRST song Laura sang in front of a LIVE audience? The audience we would have been in? I'm telling you, I'm connected to this woman. So, Why Do Fools Fall In Love was way more Doo woppy than I thought. So finally, FINALLY, I thought "I'm going to sing How Do I Live Without You?"


So the morning we packed I downloaded it.


Anways, the day of the wedding came and my mom woke us up so darn early to go to the mall and get our hair done, where I proceeded to STILL learn the song and read the new teen vogue while the poor girl tried to straighten my hair. No one can do it as well as me, but the hair stylists do it faster. And then I spend 10 minutos fixing it.


Alrighty, so my darling hair was done, Samar and Tamara had cute updos, and my sister's hair was last. Obviously. Then Dina made us run to the other side of the mall to Shopper's Drug Mart, the most amazing Canadian Drugstore, it's Target and the Nordstroms makeup counter combined. So Dina wanted us to get eyelash extensions for her, so we did, and then we had to figure out where to get a blank CD so I could put my song onto it, and we were all bizzaredly franticizing and my mom just said Reema would have one. Reema is Renda's sister. So we rushed back to the hotel, I got my stuff on, and STILL practiced my song in the lobby. I was only 99% comfortable with the song and that clearly wasn't enough. Off we went once everyone was down in the lobby. We went to Uncle Freddie's where the ceremony was being held in front of the house with only close family members. It's called Ketbiktab, meaning roughly, read the book. ROUGHLY, it's really hard to translate certain things in arabic. It's just the whole loong, Do you accept this man? I do. Etc. But the interesting stuff happens in the beginning and end. Amen, the groom, has a bizarrely boisterous mother who is full on draped and covered in exotic linens and the whole time she has this line of people and she yells this bizarre arabic song/chant that has something to do with marriage and throws flower petals all over the place. Every once in a while, she would discreetly eat a flower petal. But I'm not done, while she chants this, Amen's brothers hoist him up and he awkwardly dances while upon their shoulders. Allow me to produce a visual:

Boisterous bizzare woman is in the blue. Find her. Alright. There is also this bizarre Arab tongue thing that I cannot possibly type. I shall say it the first thing upon my return. But it is a trill that ends with the word "eesh." As in Joanna Chiang and Danja's weird sounds. So after this bizarre event, we went BACK to the hotel to get ready for the reception. My madre changed and all I did was fix my sweated off makeup and hair. Then I ran down the halls and down the elevator to Samar's hotel room, where we frantically found a piano version of my song. Then we burned the song onto a CD. And we were out the door once again. To the reception!

Slowly, slowly people started arriving, and I hid under the table to review my song once again. I was becoming obssesive. But then again, I didn't always know the song, so it's always nerve wracking to think of forgetting the words when you learned the song in a little over 8 hours. So I kept asking my mom when I was going to sing, and who should I give the CD to, and yadda yadda, and she grew upset with moi. So then when the reception actually kicked off with some very nice speeches from family, best friends, and the groom himself. So the eating started and the food was delicious. There were 7 courses and I was full by the second. So I went around and mingled and all my familia threw their cameras into my arms and made me take thousands of pictures. And then my mom got up to ask Walid, Renda's brother/head honcho of this whole thing when I was going to sing. I got to sing after the father daughter dance and embarrassing arab dancing and stuff. So it was pretty honorable that people got to leave remember me singing. So my mom grabbed me WAY sooner than I thought to sing. And I forgot to mention, it was a surprise! Only certain people I wanted to know knew. Like my cousins. But neither Renda nor Uncle Freddie knew! And I was so excited. So when it was announced someone special was going to sing. I took a deep breath, there were over 1,000 people there! And I got up on stage. I was also worried that I wouldn't sing my OWN pitch, because hearing a different voice receptively made my brain want to sing like the singer. HOWEVER, once I got on stage and started singing, it was all my vocals and even I myself was so surprised. I had never sung so beautifully in my life! I'm sorry if I'm coming off as conceited, it's just I couldn't believe I was doing this. It was really funny because once Renda and Amen started slow dancing Amen silently mouthed "Thank you." It was awkward. But then again what isn't?

So while I sang I was quick to notice my lovely mother and sister plus Tamara and Samar all standing ridiculously close to the side of the stage taking pictures and etc. I looked at Lama most of the time and Renda but I don't think Lama realized I was even though she was watching.

I hope you guys appreciate how ridiculously embarrassing of a picture that is. I don't look that freaky when I sing. My mom emberrasingly claims that this was "caught while I was in the moment." Haha.

Alright so after I was done everyone clapped and screamed really loud and I just kinda ducked away and alllllllll my family basically trampled me. They were like OMGGGG YOU ARE SOOOO AMAZING.

But then afterwards REALLY cute guys were coming up to me and since it was loud they would politely put their hand on my back and lead me to where it was quiet and ask me all about my life...it was awesome haha:)

So it was really fun and then eventually a couple of days we went to LONDON where I did some wonderful shopping including 3 new pairs of jeans from AMERICAN EAGLE! Joanna is proud! I hope you guys are too. Oh and now I have 4 pairs because I have another new pair from Tilly's you nevah saww.

In London, we went bowling with Samar and Tamara and on our last day there (thursday i think) we went to East Park, this fun place with a water park called WALLY WORLD! That was REAALLY fun, we went on the speed slides which are so fast abd huge they hurt your back. MAMA ELKURD went on one. The two big ones are the Catepillar and Bullet. The Catepillar is all WaaAAAvvVVVy and the Bullet is so scary. It goes straight down so you have to sit very precisely and then curves at the end. We had a great time.

So THEN we came back here, WINDSOR, where we are now staying at Uncle Freddie's. Yesterday we went swimming with my cousins Rodana, Dina, and Amira at my MOMS cousins pool. Which is really cool it's the above ground kind. And before that we went to the Family Fun Center which is this giant arcade with fun games. All me and Dina did was win jackpots and play those car driving games. Then we went go carting in the back which was really fun because it was just us girls giving the guys who ran it a really hard time. But they were really fun, they go 150 mph and it's insaaane!

After THAT, we went to Lama and Dema's, we walk here every day, they live down the street form Uncle Freddie's and we watched my FAVORITE MOVIE!

MARY KATE

&

ASHLEY OLSEN'S

PASSPORT TO PARIS!

Honestly, that is the best movie ever, and I really recommend you watch it.

My favorite scene is BONJOUR, BONJOUR, OHMYGAWD.

It makes me laugh so hard i pee.

The night before we watched Accepted, which is way hilarious. We made a huge scene that night when we rented Passport to Paris and Accepted, the video stores are really cool. And Alex, my new best friend, is so hilarious. She's Dema's best friend and she's Italian but knows arabic. And I love it.

After Passport to Paris we watched the first ever season of LAGUNA BEACH! Dumb, I know, but I think it's so funny how cool they think they are. So now we're addicted and after these little kids are done watching Harriet the Spy we are going to watch it. Haha I'm in Lama and Dema's basement right now too.

So then today we went to this HUGE mall in Michigan with Dema called Somerset mall.

It's so huge, there are two sides and you have to take a skywalk to get across the other side. It stretched across the main roads! So one side is the rich store side and the other is the more substantial side:) I went on a spree in Urban Outfitters because all our relatives shower us in cash. Haha. Seriously, Urban Outfitters makes me SO HAPPY! So after that we went back to Uncle Freddie's to eat with Renda because she came back today from her Honeymooon. We saw her in the morning but it was for like 5 seconds.

So then Lama calls us and goes COME WATCH SUPER SWEET 16 THE MOVIE NOW HURRY. So back we are in the basement and after we watched that, which was so bizarre, it starred Aly and AJ, we are now watching Harriet the Spy. And now Lama just said SHUT UP EVERYONE I'M TRYING TO WATCH THE MOVIE I LOVE THIS MOVIE.

And Alex goes LAMA YOUVE SEEN THIS MOVIE MORE THAN IVE SEEN MY STOMACH.

that made me laugh soso hard.

Guess what we might see on Wednesday with Lama and Dema and Alex. Harry Potter. Because Danya even sees HP5 on vacation the day it comes out in CANADA right? Nerd.

Okay guys, that's basically my trip so far in a nutshell! I miss you so much, I got to talk to some of you today and I plan on calling you all tomorrow:) I'll now keep you updated daily and I can't wait to see you guys. 11 more days! That seems long, even to me, but I'll read sleep and eat off the time at my dads house, just looking forward to seeing you guys!

Tata for now :D

And if you read all of this, I truly thank you all