My B-Day’s Tomorrow!

Which is when I’m holding my birthday party with my buddies. I’m turning twenty-two!

(I’m getting old………)

Hopefully, most of my friends will be able to come. I’m holding it at my compound’s clubhouse, where there’s a pool and everything. There’s mucho fun to be had!

My friends keep asking what kind of gift I want. I’m not really for pressuring them to get me anything but I asked for a book. You can rarely go wrong with books so long as it’s a genre I like. (I remember getting this weird science fiction novel from one of my friends on my 14th birthday. I read the first few lines and was like, “Whaaaaa?????!!!!”)

Yeah. So. So long as it’s not science fiction, or just naturally boring, I can read it. Fantasy is okay, but it’s not my favorite either. Whatever, I’ll leave it up to them to get me what they think I might like. Let’s see how well they’ve gotten to know me, heh heh.

Went to a Party

It was Faisal’s 19th birthday party yesterday. It was fraught with general disorganization, but really fun all the same!

Since I’m still, sadly, without a driver’s license, it was arranged for Arthur to pick me up from my house at around 3:15. However, according to situations that pertain to said disorganization, I had to leave with my family to a restaurant at nearly four (we were having lunch with one of my father’s friends) and had my friends pick me up from there. The good thing is that the party was held at Hoon’s house, which was barely five minutes away from the restaurant we were at, so no extra time was wasted driving.

But…

When we got there we realized there was no food. And what’s a party with no food? Whoever was in charge of supplying sustenance did not fulfill his (or their) responsibility. (Tut, tut. SHAME!)

The reaction to this dilemma was to dispatch a couple of the guys to grab some pizza…but Mimi suggested we go to a Thai restaurant instead. I’ve never been there before, but heard good things about it, so we all piled into our cars and headed off. (I am wary of Thai food though…I’m not a fan of coconuts or coconut milk and Lana’s experience with it in Canada was less than stellar).

Merlin says ‘Tayshons!

I got a new 250 GB hard drive! Thanks Dad!

I’m now putting all the movies and crap that I have clogging my computer on it.

And I’m also getting iTunes to update its music from it instead of the music on my computer itself.

It’s taking time, but I’m almost done.

Yay for external hard drives!

Yep…

I changed the layout again.

I doubt I’ll ever really stop doing that.

But I like this one better…not quite as white as the other one.

And now I have to get back to work.

*Waves* Bye!

Horse MANURE!

I haven’t been updating as much as I thought I would when I started this blog.

I’ll blame it on being busy.

I’ve only got about three weeks of school left, so that’s pretty exciting. The great thing is that, out of the three courses I’m taking, only one of them has a final…so I don’t have a lot of cramming to do before my summer vacation. Yay! I’m doing pretty well in everything too…though Training and Development nearly gave me a heart attack. Wanna hear why? Even if you don’t, I’ll tell you anyways…

My teacher usually writes down the lowest score and the highest score on the board before she hands our tests back to show the range of how the class did. I have taken the same teacher last semester and scored 90’s on all her tests, so I was pretty sure I did similarly on this one. Imagine my surprise when she wrote “18% – 76%” on the board.

Now I know that there was one question I could not fully answer, but I did do most of it. (She gives you a bunch of essay questions and you have to answer a specific number of them. In this case, we had to answer five out of seven. 10 marks per question). I was so surprised to see that my test had a 76% scrawled on the top. (Who cares if it was the highest grade in class? It SUCKED when it came to this subject!)

So I scrolled through the pages and realized that she gave me TWO of out ten marks on one of the questions. And it wasn’t the one I had trouble answering! (I earned 6 points on that one). The question required me to read through a list of training objectives and circle which ones were well-written and then re-write one of the badly-written ones so that it made more sense.

My mistake? I did all the circling on the separate question sheet. She had given us papers to write on that were stapled to the questions…and then a separate question sheet so we could easily read it without flipping back and forth. All she saw was my corrected sentence because she had thrown away the separate sheet!

Thankfully she believed me when I explained.

So I earned a 92% instead.

Whew…..

TIDBITS!

I’ve been trying to send a couple of cool songs to Kris through Gmail and Hotmail…but all it does is take a couple of decades to load, and then it refuses to send.

This is very frustrating. I might end up punching a hole through my laptop screen, so I’m gonna leave it alone now and try again tomorrow. *Sighs*

Anyways, MY SISTER CAME FROM CANADA LAST TUESDAY AND IT’S BEEN AWESOMELY AWESOME! It’s about time she came back on Qatari soil. (Oh. Wow. “Qatari” is unrecognized by Firefox’s Spell Check. That’s just weird…it’s what you call people who are from Qatar–how could that possibly not be in the dictionary? *Glares*)

I saw Iron Man yesterday and it’s hands-down the best and most entertaining superhero movie I’ve ever watched! The most wonderful thing about it is the fact that it has practically no cheesy lines whatsoever. This is something Spider-Man and Fantastic 4 and X-Men have been repeatedly guilty of…causing me to cringe in embarrassment-induced agony. Not fun for an avid movie-goer, I’ll tell you that. So. Yes. If you haven’t watched Iron Man yet, go see it. This is a direct order from one who is vastly superior to you, and thus must be instantly obeyed. So there!

(If you weren’t convinced by that little act…fine. But go see it anyways. Please?)

Things I Don’t Like About My Room:

—————————————————-

1. When there is no AC…it’s hot.
2. The AC, when on, is obnoxiously loud…I only turn it on at night when I can doze off and tune it out.
3. The lighting SUCKS and my bulbs need to be changed.
4. There’s not enough storage space! I have STUFF and nowhere to put them! It also doesn’t help that I have packrat qualities.
5. I have no desk or chair…this means that if I do any studying I do it on my bed. If I’m on my laptop in my room, I’m on my bed. My back does not enjoy this. Plus being on my bed makes me sleepy which defeats the purpose of studying.
6. The place gets easily cluttered.
7. I’m going to stop here.

To Lana: This isn’t to say the place is an unholy mess or anything. It’s pretty good and we’re cleaning out the closet and stuff for when you come on Tuesday. I’m just kinda mad at my room right now and feel like ranting a little.

CAN’T WAIT FOR YOU TO COME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Weeeeeekend….

Well, the weekend’s here! Woot!

And I finished my first week of the Spring semester…about five more to go!

It’s going well…I went back the day after I registered and got my schedule fixed up. (It took a god-awful long time but I managed to get what I wanted. Yay!)

I’m taking three courses: Oral Communication; Training and Development and Mathematics of Finance II. All my teachers are really cool…my T&D teacher is the same one I had last semester for Recruitment and Selection. She’s very nice, and the highest grade on my report card was for her class, but she’s as boring as watching paint dry. (Not to use a cliche kinda simile, but it’s true). I am constantly writing gobble-de-gook in my notebook and on the PowerPoint slide printouts to keep myself awake. And what’s funny is that, even though I’m rarely looking at the instructor, I almost always get answers right when she asks questions. That’s a relief for me because it means I can doodle to my heart’s content and still look smart.

My Oral Communications class is cool. There are no tests, midterms or finals and all assignments are oral presentations. I think it’d be an interesting class. I don’t mind doing presentations so long as the subject is not very complicated. (Not for me as much as for my audience…Lord knows how difficult it is to sit through a topic you barely understand just ’cause a fellow student had to research it).

Anyways, I’m looking forward to it. Our first presentation is a little childish, but it’s understandable since most of my classmates speak English as a second language. We have to talk about our favorite city for two minutes. I guess he chose that just to get us used to talking. Most of our presentation topics honestly have nothing to do with business…it’s just to practice speaking and making ourselves understood. I could do without the class, but its required and definitely an easy A, so I shouldn’t complain.

My instructor likes playing games with us too. A couple of days ago he made us play “Spot the Lie” where we had to say three things about ourselves, one of which was a lie, and everyone else could ask questions to see if they could weed out the lie. It was slightly disappointing since most of my classmates were not too creative—-most just said stuff like “I have a car” or “I have this many siblings” or “I’m graduating in such-and-such a year”. One of the students, who is in her early thirties, said she had 18 siblings, and that was no lie. (Her father has two wives, so it makes sense. Still, EIGHTEEN siblings!! Wow.) Her lie was that she was number 19…really she was number 12 or 11 or something, I forgot. When it was my turn I said these:

“I have a brown belt in Karate” (True)

“I am the eldest of three sisters” (False)

“I have had between 20-30 pets in my lifetime” (True)

When it was time for the class to vote on which one I lied about, most picked the third one. My teacher first suspected the second one to be a lie since I fumbled on a question where I was asked to state my sisters’ ages. (For some stupid reason I couldn’t BS their ages…I just said one was four years younger than me and the other three years younger than that). But when he re-read the third statement he switched. It felt good to fool the class, especially since I’m an awful liar. I told him that I indeed had two sisters, but I was the middle child. Heheheee….

Well that’s a summary of my week so far. Will update again soon! (Hopefully).