Showing posts with label photos. Show all posts
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Sunday, September 27, 2009

Move to the city; lose all your heart


music/photos/quotes time!
better than happy meals.
enjoy!
p.s. still searching for a new site with music codes.
tell me whether or not the song works cos this player is really bipolar


The Rumble Strips - Girls and Boys in Love







"Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it."

~ Mitch Albom
(Eddie's wife, The Five People You Meet in Heaven)















Grown-ups like numbers.
When you tell them about a new friend, they never ask questions about what really matters.
They never ask: “What does his voice sound like?” “What games does he like best?” “Does he collect butterflies?”
They ask: “How old is he?” “How many brothers does he have?” “How much does he weigh?” “How much money does his father make?”
Only then do they think they know him.

~ Antoine de Saint Exupéry
The Little Prince
















“Being alone, it can be quite romantic
Like Jacques Cousteau underneath the Atlantic
A fantastic voyage to parts unknown
Going to depths where the sun’s never shone
And I fascinate myself when I’m alone”
~ Andrew Bird














"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales.
If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."
~ Albert Einstein
















The saddest kind of sad is the sad that tries not to be sad. You know, when Sad tries to bite its lip and not cry and smile and go, “No, I’m happy for you”? That’s when it’s really sad.

~ John Mayer


















"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What?! You too? I thought I was the only one!"
~ C.S Lewis















"Who has never killed an hour?
Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a premeditated murder of minutes.
The violence comes from a combination of giving up, not caring, and a resignation that getting past it is all you can hope to accomplish.
So you kill the hour.
You do not work, you do not read, you do not daydream.
If you sleep it is not because you need to sleep.
And when at last it is over, there is no evidence: no weapon, no blood, and no body.
The only clue might be the shadows beneath your eyes or a terribly thin line near the corner of your mouth indicating something has been suffered, that in the privacy of your life you have lost something and the loss is too empty to share."

~ Mark Z. Danielewski
House of Leaves
















“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.”
~ Jim Morrison

















Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
We ask ourselves,
Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
We were born to make manifest the glory that is within us.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
~ Marianne Williamson














"The running boy is inside every man."

~ Mitch Albom
The Five People You Meet in Heaven















"When you don't fit in, you become superhuman. You can feel everyone else's eyes on you, stuck like Velcro. You can hear a whisper about you from a mile away. You can disappear, even when it looks like you're still standing right there. You can scream, and nobody hears a sound. You become the mutant who fell into the vat of acid, the Joker who can't remove his mask, the bionic man who's missing all his limbs and none of his heart. You are the thing that used to be normal, but that was so long ago, you can't even remember what it was like. "

~ Jodi Picoult
Nineteen Minutes















"If you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down on you anyhow. And if you're trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone."

~ Morrie Schwartz
(from Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom)

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Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Dear World



Dear left ear,
Seriously, when are you going to stop ringing?
The constant beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep in my head is getting rather annoying.
Now I know you're doing your best,
and you're getting better,
but would you mind getting better faster?








Dear new housekeeper,
You're weird.
Does your diet consist mainly of socks?
Because I can't seem to find any of mine since you got here.
Actually, I can't seem to find many of my things since you got here.
Pens, headphones, headbands, bracelets, rings, tank tops – what do you do with them?
I know I'm not the neatest person, but it still drives me crazy when I can't find my things.
I know my room can be a mess sometimes, but it's a neat mess, I always know where everything is.
Until you got here, that is.

(The sad thing is, I'm too scared to confront you. Have you seen the size of your muscles?)








Dear AP chemistry,
Thank you for inviting me over for dinner.
However, next time, it would be nice of you to let me know that I'm going to be served as the main course.

You are feeding on my soul.
Please stop.









Dear dad,
Thank you for being the most amazing dad ever. I love you.
P.S. I had to go pee after I saw this old photo of you.



Never let Auntie Raja'a fool you into blow-drying your hair again.
Not that you have much left of that…
:P You know I love you.







Dear world,
Why are you so fascinating?
And why can't I drop everything and visit every nook and corner of you right now?














































Dear former incarnation of me,
I'm pretty sure you were African... or Chinese.
Because these photos made my day.








































Dear metabolism,
Admit it, I'm being really nice to you, aren't I?
I'm not eating as much as I used to, aren't I?
I'm just showing you that I appreciate you.
So please keep making everything I eat disappear into that little Mary Poppins bag of yours. Don't give up on me any time soon.
(However,I would still like to gain those 3 kgs.
My collarbone looks all anorexic-like.)









Dear somebody,
(**readers, brace yourselves, this is an angry one...)
Your endless strive to be perfect and control everyone sickens me.
It is so satisfying for me to watch things not go your way.
The imperfections in your life make me giddy with glee.
And I am so, so, so happy to be one of them.










Dear bookstore in Bahrain,
I'm still waiting for you to call me and tell me my copy of Everything is Illuminated has arrived. You told me it's going to take 3-4 weeks.
It's been 3 days.
Shame on you…






Dear readers,
Hi :)
Leave me a small Dear (something)!
Take care!




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Saturday, July 11, 2009

105 Things That Make Me Smile

Regina Spektor - Eet









105 Things That Make Me Smile
(Just to mention a few)




1. Smiles


2. Friends


3. When I'm in a movie and I find a piece of caramel popcorn in the middle of my butter popcorn


4. Sneezing when I really need to sneeze


5. Making someone else smile/laugh


6. Bubble wrap


7. Kiddie furniture catalogues


8. Flea markets


9. Reminiscing


8. Tree houses that people actually live in (I call them tree homes)









9. Old jeans


10. When someone remembers small details about me


11. Handmade gifts


12. Or just really meaningful ones


13. Comfortable silences


14. The smell of home cooked food


15. The sky


16. Old couples holding hands


17. Midnight phone calls that last for hours about the stupidest things


18. Sarcasm


19. Quotes (good ones)


20. Light


21. Tulips


22. Catching the perfect moment with my camera


23. Singing Barney songs or oldies that annoy people


24. Making a baby giggle


25. Realizing how much I love someone


26. Comments on the stupidest of my posts


27. Cheeky comments on Youtube


28. Receiving "just because" e-mails


29. Hearing a song I used to love when I was a kid on the radio


30. Hot towels fresh out of the dryer


31. Goggles (the word, the person, and the actual things)


32. Inside jokes that never die


33. Running through sprinklers


34. Accidentally overhearing someone say something nice about me


35. When a random person in the mall smiles at me


36. Cupcakes


37. Old Disney movies


38. Colored chalk


39. Sofana's dip


40. Lemony Snicket


41. Snow


42. Cheesecake


43. When something finally makes sense


44. Banksy


45. Open-minded people


46. When a baby wraps his hand around my finger


47. This:

When people say "Oh you just want to have your cake and eat it too..." F*** off. What good is a goddamn cake you can't eat? What should I eat, someone else's cake instead?

~ George Carlin



48. The Simpsons


49. Family Guy


50. This:

One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.

~ Alexander Jodorowsky


51. Learning something new


52. Walking to no where in particular


53. Campfires


54. Sleeping in


55. The smell of a new book


56. Sunlight


57. Baby shoes


58. Take-out


59. Kids that say the darndest things:


Dana, Fati's sister:
(Their housekeeper was making us chicken burgers, when suddenly Dana walked in and said...)
"Danya, your buns are toasted."



Jennah, my cousin:
(First day I met her)
"Danya, your feet are pretty."
"I'm wearing shoes…"
"I know. They're still pretty :)"
"Thanks?"
(whispers in my ear):
"Just so you know, I'm not intimate with your foot."



Zeina, my sister:
(On the phone talking to her friend)
"But biology is geometry and geometry is psychology, you see."



60. Fighting with my brother and sister about the stupidest things in the car just because we're bored witless and making my dad say:

"My next car will have two stories……"




61. Baby giraffes


62. Baby zebras


63. Baby monkeys


64. Baby elephants


65. Oh I'll go ahead and say it: Babies. When they're not crying


66. Lunchboxes


67. Ladybugs


68. Typewriters






69. Blowing bubbles


70. Creative advertisements






71. Drawing on walls


72. People who wear the weirdest clothes in public. Cheers, I secretly want to be like you


73. Photographs


74. Happy endings. I don't care if they're cheesy or impossible. I don't see a movie because I want to see an adaptation of real life; I see a movie because I want to get away from it. So bring on the sappy lameness, I really don't mind.


75. Old sitcoms I used to watch when I was a kid. Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Saved by the Bell, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Clueless....


76. Seinfeld


78. Scrubs


79. Being spoiled when I have stomach cramps


80. Being right


81. Remembering who a certain person looks like after racking my brain for ages


82. Dr. Suess


83. Dr. Pepper


84. Post-its

(a 100m wide photo)


86. Sour mangoes


87. Hand-written letters


88. Floating on my back in the swimming pool


89. Grilled sandwiches


90. The way a paper feels after it's been almost completely covered with writing from a ballpoint pen


91. Listening to my mom tell a bedtime story she made up on the spot


92. Not having to set an alarm


93. Going to bed with my sheets fresh from the laundry


94. Playing Slapjack with Alia


95. Photobooths (P.S. Fati you still didn't give me that Photobooth picture from Berlin)


96. Little kids with non-American accents


97. Chips (French fries) that are crunchy from the outside and soft on the inside


98. Adventures in Ikea


99. Vacuum lines in the carpet


100. Pretending to have a British accent


101. Writing things on foggy mirrors and watching them appear again the next time I take a bath

102. Large sweatshirts


103. These:
























104. This:





105.This:


When Love Story (Taylor Swift) meets Viva La Vida (Coldplay). Alone: two overrated songs. Combined: Something close to magical.


And I just love watching their faces. They look so happy it's kind of cute. Music at its rawest.




So that's it. 105 things that make me smile.


I now demand that you tell me (at least) 5 things that make you smile.


:)


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Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Hi


I'm sorry you missed it.





Didn't that cheer you right up though?




















They should give those out in malls.










Please buy me one. Birthday's on January 21st. You can send it in the mail. A baby Zebra is fine too. I think they're called Zeblings.








21st century Wizard of Oz.













Is that not the cutest thing?
You just went "aww" didn't you?
Admit it.









Apfffpshhhttt?




































"I just think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful."














































































Hope you're all enjoying your summer (:

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