Brain Washed ...

FZ50

2007-11-18T08:33:00.000-08:00

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Dear Diary #1

2007-11-07T05:48:00.001-08:00

Taken by The Pianist.

Dear diary,

Today we went to the Medical college.
We had a very interesting lecture about fitness.
They told us how bad fast food was and brought many examples on how dangerous they are for our body.

After the visit, we bought junkfood.

Love,
Fay

Pictures.

2007-11-06T05:59:00.000-08:00

Some shots I took.
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Solving the Rubiks Cube.

2007-11-02T02:47:00.000-07:00

I solved my first Rubiks Cube!! Woohoo!! el7amdillah!

These are the steps :

1- Solve one side

2- Ui , Li, U, L, U, F, Ui, Fi

3- Li, R, Ui, Di.

4- U, R, Ui, Ri, Ui, Fi, U, F

5- F, R, U, Ri, Ui, Fi

6- Ui, L, Ri, D.

7- R, U, Ri, U, R, U, U, Ri

8- U, R, Ui, Li, U, Ri, Ui, L

9- U, Li, R, Ui, L, Ri.

10- Ri, Di, R, D

11- And you're done!

I don't expect any of you to understand what I just wrote.. =P

Not really bothered to explain the whole thing, just wrote down the steps.

I'll make another post with more details on how to solve it later on.

Thank you Dan Brown for the few steps I learnt from you.

Later,

Fay.

TTFM # 1

2007-10-23T19:43:00.000-07:00

Greetings,

Today I decided to talk about one thing that frustrates me.
Seeing litter on the ground.

I don't get it, do people think it's cool to trash their country.. Is that it?

I see people throwing their litter all over the place except in the garbage!

I mean, they could be inches away from the rubbish bin but they prefer to throw their litter on the ground. What's up with that?!@

Islam encourages us to be clean and keep the places we go to spotless.
So why not take a couple of seconds to dispose of your rubbish correctly?

You won't lose anything, on the contrary, doing that is considered as a good deed if you're doing it for Allah SWT.

What disappoints me the most is when I see a teacher who's supposed to set a good example to the students, roles down the bus's window and simply throws a Pepsi can or wrapper on the street! And you can imagine a second ago she/he in class was telling the students not to do so!

wait, this is very normal, when a person advises you on something, they don't necessarily do it themselves :) ... What great examples our teachers set.

Ummah Films

2007-10-19T05:37:00.000-07:00

I was checking some videos on Youtube and I came across a video called "Distractions During Prayer by Baba Ali" and liked it, so then watched all his other videos which were very true and funny.

Baba Ali started off taping videos in a place with some of his friends, uploaded them in Youtube and now he's known all over the world and his videos are viewed by MILLIONS of people!

The thing about Ummahfilms is that Baba Ali makes videos of what he experienced and thinks about. And he has a good sense of humor which attracts people and makes them want to watch all his videos.

There are two seasons for the Reminder videos and Inshallah Baba Ali will make a third.
Too bad it's going to be the last season.
He wants to start on another project after this last season.
Inshallah it'll be as good as the Reminder or even better.

In his third season he's hoping to talk about these topics and more:
-Complaining Muslims
-Boyfriend/Girlfriend issue
-Unity
-Ritual Islam
-Communication between Men and Women (what are they really saying)
-Women in Islam

Ummah Films videos:
www.youtube.com/ummahfilms

Eid

2007-10-12T07:29:00.000-07:00

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Eid Mubarik to all!
2007

Skateboards.

2007-10-04T23:20:00.000-07:00

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My brother came up with an idea to design skateboard decks, and I decided to join.
So with our artistic skills we will draw designs on a skateboard you're going to give us.

If anyone wants a certain design on their skateboard deck they could send us their skateboard with the design and we would do it.

Until now we got five requests on designing their skateboards.
It's working out great.

If anyone is willing to send their skateboard to us contact me on:
Skateboard_decks@hotmail.com

Oh, and we expect to get paid after the job!
And If you don't own a skateboard we could buy you one and design in.
^ *Will cost more.*

Later
Fay.

Are the bugs taking over?

2007-09-14T09:43:00.000-07:00

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During the last few years the amount of insects that have become resistant to pesticides has increased and are still increasing.

*The first pesticide was elemental sulfur dusting, soon toxic chemicals such as Arsenic, Mercury, and Lead were being added. Then they started adding Nicotine from tobacco, and so on.. *

- http://www.science.com/

The first time the case of resistance showed was in the early 1900’s, when the effectiveness of Lime Sulfur to kill San Jose scale (an insect that damages fruit trees and fruit-bearing plants. ) was gone.

Through generations and generations pests are adapting to changes in their environment.
More pests are becoming resistant to pesticides everyday!
They will survive a pesticide application and the resistant traits will appear stronger in the next generation than it did in the previous.

Examples of resistant insects we see everyday are:
The Housefly, Mosquito, Cockroach, Ticks... Etc...
Not long ago, the pests would die with a single spray of piff paff. But not anymore, these days we have to spray piff paff on them a dozen times until they die.

It seems that insects have the ability to develop resistance to virtually anything that kills them.

Every year scientists are making even stronger pesticides to kill those annoying little pests..

we fear that a day would come when it wouldn’t kill just insects, but it would kill us too!

Ramadhan Kareem.

2007-09-13T07:44:00.000-07:00

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Ramadhan… A chance to improve spiritually… A chance to get closer to Allah.

1st Person: I'm going to fast in Ramadhan!!
2nd Person: I'm going to pray in Ramadhan!!

^As ironic as that sounds, I actually did hear that from some people.

The in-mate meeting with the dean.

2007-09-02T09:09:00.000-07:00

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Today was a very tiring day.
We had a meeting with the principal.. It was supposed to be a 2 hour meeting, but soon turned into a five hour meeting - 10 min. break.
And I was chosen to translate everything he says to the teachers who don’t understand Arabic. It was kind of fun, the teachers were very sarcastic.. Hilarious.

The one I called Mr. Andrews was very nice.

Mr. A: Umm, call me Mr. Andy.. It’s much easier.
Me: Well it’s okay, I find your name easy to pronounce..
Mr. A: People who don’t know how to pronounce my name call me Mr. Andy..
Me: Oh alright.. But it’s okay.. I’ll call you Mr. Andrews.. I don’t find any difficulties in pronouncing your name.
Mr. A: Umm alright..
I thought the way he kept repeating his name to me whenever I call him was strange, but then I found out that his name wasn’t Mr. Andrews.. It was Mr. Andréa..
No wonder.

They talked about many things, explained them and gave examples. When talking about our education they resembled it to food. They said: Education is like food, if you eat a lot, you get sick, and if you don’t eat enough, you won’t get the necessary vitamins your body needs.

I got a headache because of that meeting.. But it wasn't that bad.
The good thing is I missed the Arabic lesson..!

Anyway, I’m off to study.

Later
Fay.

Meow!

2007-08-27T03:10:00.000-07:00

This is my cat Whiskers.

Or you can call him Black, Lucky, Pushi, Tiger, Fluffy, Spike, or even Spot.. Take your pick..
Yes, that black and white cat has 8 names, or even more!
Somehow everyone that sees this cat has to give it a different name.
His latest name was Satan, which really suits him.

That’s him after attacking my feet.. For some reason he hates feet, he attacks any foot he sees before him :

This is him trying to steal my sock.. lol.. :

Some of you might say he’s cute.. Don’t let the looks fool you.. He’s the devil.

Later
Fay.

First Day..

2007-08-26T03:48:00.000-07:00

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Today was my first day of school as a tenth grader.
I reached to school late, saw my friends and discovered that most of my favorite teachers weren't there. The principal gave this long speech and after that we were introduced to our new teachers. I got new Arabic, Physics, Chemistry, Art, Music, and S.ST teachers..
I met the Physics, S.ST, and Art teachers.. They're not bad.

There weren’t any new students in my class. I hate that.. No one to pick on.
Anyway, the head of the English Department came to our class and explained what we we're going to do this year. We're starting SATs.. We were supposed to choose the subjects we wanted to study this year and study them only, I was happy cause I won't have to take all the boring subjects I don't want, but the principal just thought it wasn't a good idea to do that this year..
Ah well.. Just have to wait one more year.

Our Science subjects were separated at last, Thank God.. The past years we took Biology, Chemistry, and Physics together.. In one book.. Them separated would be easier for me.. I won't have to write the three in a examination paper all together anymore.
Math will be different this year too.. We'll have four different Math books.
And Social Studies, we're not having Social Studies in Arabic anymore! Wohoo!
My Math teacher will teach us Social Studies as well.

We're going to write PreSAT in January, then we'll write SAT 1 in May. I'll have to study harder this year.. That means no more 4 hours a day internet. :(

A couple of teachers came up to me today and asked to buy one of my paintings.. ( Drawing is one of my hobbies ) That's just great! My paintings are worth buying! :D I'll earn money for doing something I enjoy.. I hope I'll be able to reach the amount of money needed to get the laptop of my dreams.

Later
Fay.