It's 11:30

And I can barely see the computer screen through the slits of my eyelids that are open.

My English teacher wanted our project to have subtitles for everything said in the play. And she wanted it tomorrow. So we accepted and did it.

My Math teacher wants seven problems of sine, cosine and tangent solved. I did that.

My English teacher also wants a writing assignment, 100 words, to be handed in tomorrow. I did that as well.

My Arabic teacher wants a writing assignment as well, 300 words. But I'll do that later.

Add to that we have Chemistry, Biology and IT quizzes on Sunday.

Ah, and my report card (or shahadeh, as you may call it) will be given out tomorrow. Oh, dear.

And my body needs a rest. I must go do that, now.

I hope I won't have nightmares about that Mary girl ghost thing I saw today on Criss Angel Mindfreak.

Eww, creepy stuff.

Nighty night.

Some Things Around My Desk

My desk is a horrible mess, and I don't know where to start. Hmm, let's see.

My Perfume



Adidas, 2006, Special Edition, Victory League. I put it on at mornings before school and by the time I'm at school there's no scent left. What a disgrace of a perfume.

My Calendar



This was a gift from our school. I never look at it and I usually forget to tear off the days as they go by. Yet another waste of space.

My Dictionary



No, this is not any ordinary dictionary. This is a rhyming dictionary. Instead of giving you the meaning of a word, it gives you the words that rhyme with it. Useless now since we don't do anymore poems.

My Headphones



The solution to boredom. I need these for my mobile to do all sorts of things. This thing has smearings of hot chocolate, and I have no idea how they got there.

My Books



For dummies, my favorite series of computer books. I learnt both Flash and C++ from these books, whereas the PHP book was too bad and so I ended up learning it online, and I forgot about Visual Basic, although I might start it again in the summer.

My Microscope



Broken, damaged, lost. All that applies to some piece of this microscope. Sad really, it was a good device while it was still intact.

My Storage



This thing has so many names - usb, usb drive, flash, flash memory, flash disk, pen drive, pen disk. This thing is still useful though, even though this was bought at the time 1gb had just came out. I think it was around 80JDs.

Now that I've shown you my desk, how about your desk?

American Inventor: Bladder Buddy

American Inventor is a show that is aired on MBC4, but originally American. It offers a one million dollar prize to whoever can present an invention of their own.

To do so, they must get four judges approval.

Sometimes, some really abnormal and hilarious inventions come in to the judges. This is one of them - the bladder buddy!

A Hectic Thursday

I came back from school on Thursday, tired and wanting to relax, when my mobile rings.

Its my friend, asking me if I want to go out today. As helpless and tired as I am, I tell him I'll see if I can.

You see, all my friends find life at home the most boring place to be. They actually have computers, Internet, satellite and usually even game consoles, but they can never make those things enjoyable.

I only have a few things but find life at home perfectly perfect.

After a few minutes, which was plenty of time for me to consider the twenty two million considerations I must put into mind before even thinking about the actual thoughts I would think about going out, the mobile rang again.

I accepted, surrendering to the anxiety and jeer pleasure of staying at home, add to that the tiredness I had from a week of enduring school.

My parents weren't in, neither the mood nor had the energy to take me out by car, so I decided to walk to my 'very close by friends home'. Here, close by means a bit over two kilometers.

The weather was great and so I actually enjoyed the walk. It didn't seem so long. Actually, now I think about it, it was a bit long.

By the way, we didn't do anything that exciting at the mall. Other than being kicked out twice by the single celled security guards, then begging our way back in.

And that was how I spent my Thursday.

How did you spend your Thursday?

Multi Tasking

My computer is having a fit now as its probably running the most number of programs in its life.

It all goes down to me having to edit (with my friend Omar), an English play that will be submitted to the ministry's competition. Our role in this play is the animators.

And what a hard job it is. I've just finished doing this horribly long movie beginning, thankfully the rest will be the play that was recorded on camera.

I insisted that the animation be done on Flash, since he had wanted the terribly simple and basic movie maker. I got my way, and he was thankful that I did when he saw the result.

I think I was going for a word-scrolling like beginning, all words that point to global warming, somewhat like the Jawwal advertisement on MBC.

I still have to do lots more homework, and it's already nine-thirty. Its a rough night for me.

Wish me luck.

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Zain The Thieves!

I was sitting on my computer, when my mobile rings. A message. From Zain.

More spam? If only it was more spam.

بناء على تعليمات من وزارة المالية تم خصم 1د من رصيدك لدعم الجامعات

You thieves! You pigs! You greedy pigs!

I PAY TAXES BY MY SELF! I DON'T NEED TO PAY FOR COLLEGES WHO ARE PAID BY THEIR STUDENTS!

I WANT MY MONEY BACK!!!