Still the summer
Contentment is a weird thing. You really, really want something but don't know what it is. You're just thinking, "I want ths. I want that." No matter how much you got, nothing really matters unless ur content with what you have. But isn't being content having everything. It doesn't make sense. What's being content if what most being are looking for in life will not make them feel content.
In other words, summer is coming a long really nicely. Let's see. I think we played 5 sports in the past few days. Soccer, Volleyball, Basketball, and Skating. Okay, that's 4. Oh, and videogames. (that makes 5) Halo rocks!! Dad finally brought home our rail from zafar. We ripped it up--into pieces. I smithed, feebed *ugly feeb, and lipped it. Munir made a monstrosity out of it. We summarize his actions in the following teenage clause: Munir came and ANNIHILATED the rail. Feeble, blunt, lip, smith, 50-50, and krooked. Our mini skate group was there. It was thy much fun.
Nice blog
This was an interesting blog I randomly picked up while browsing.
http://babooniethefreak.blogspot.com/ It's neat, has a lot of flavor, but seems kinda weird and , well, queer. The guy who did it was a boy. He must love RPG's.
1st day
The first day of the Summer passed, alhamdulillah. Actually, it still ddin't end yet. I feel really contented. Life is looking really bright. No tension. verything fine, still reading Qur'an, still playing outside. I am not going to waste my Summer--I hope my ACTIVE goals list works, inshallah.
So what's the first day of the eternity, we know as Summer, like? First, let's give it a new name: Square Onix Day. It sounds corney, but that summarizes a lot of it. In the beginning, I read
Qur'an My family and my friends were invited to Omar's. We watched
FF 7 and played
Kingdom Heartz; both of Square Onix's products. They are geniouses. I would have been obsessed, had I been intro'd earlier. We played basket for a while and I babysitted heba. At home, Yasir played Halo 2. Ebrahim filmed me do a nose manual and Munir did a nollie nossie. we were about to go to the park, but that's over now. Maybe tommorow. Alhamdullilah, I felt lame when today began but i feel really good now. I wish I got that feeling of everlasting contentment back, I used to have it, I thought. I think u just have to believe in Allah more. May Allah give me back the things I need.
It's nighttime and I'm blogging. Yasir's still playing Halo with neighbor. I'm listening to
Simple and Clean by Utada Hikaru. Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts, they're cool now.
I guess that ends it. See u guys and salam. *lights click off*
Let's start fresh. Um, I want to be a good skater, good soccer player, wait. wait... I'll just write down a list. Lucky for me, I have one already planned, *hint, hint*. Okay here we go.
This is what I call my
ACTIVE summer goals list
1. Be active- Wake up and pray, energize! remember, laziness is lameness.
2. Study all Subjects
3. Read whole Quran
4. Memorize Al-Maidah. (hopefully) Inshallah.
5. Film a skate part. NEW FOOTAGE <-- Zafar's footage. He's awesome. I'm gonna get a part like his this summer.
6. Do 1000 push ups.
7. Read 10 novels. I'll be happy to even finish two! I don't read much these days.
8. IMPORTANT: Be a muslim. Be yourself.
Here are things I'll avoid.
-Procrastinating
-playing videogames
-spending too much TV/PC time. Like I'm doing now. ^_^
-sta.... bla bla bla
-fearing the land *skating*
-not reading Quran, books, and studying less
-Not chilling out enough
-Get wasted *the getting lazy and not doing anything*
-not finishing the novel
-not doing ANYTHING
Summer
SUMMER IS HERE! SUMMER IS HERE! SUMMER IS HERE!
Starting the summer off
Oh, salam. Hey guess what? Summer's here. Yeah!! *ahem. Allahuakbar. School's out. Seniors threw water balloons, I love that feeling. This is Summer.
It all begins here, I hope I don't regret it like I've regretted past summers where I'd just stay at home and couch potatoe myself. What a wimp I was! Halo, that took up so much of my life before. Now it's time for sports, outdoors, friends, and okay, sorry I had to say it, didn't I... studying. I'm thinking of taking Algebra 2 this summer. Wish me luck inshallah.
END OF THE YEAR!! 1 day left.
Salamulaikum.
And now... ladies and gentlemen. the moment you've all been waiting for. It's the end of the year. Alahmdullillah . Okay, we have one more day left but still. I'm so happy, that was so quick. It was like yesterday when our school was so new. I was like, culture shocked, and now everything's done. I can't wait. It's gonna be a great summer, inshallah. Go visit Zafar, go out of town, skate park *I've wished so much to go skating this year but too many tests*. This is it, this is when it all starts.
Today was like so wierd. It was all normal in the beginning, just us getting ready for the first final exam. English class. Everything's fine. Just a regular day. We go on to the next final exam: Spanish One Test. We were smack in the middle of our test when suddenly the bell rings. No, not class bell, the fire alarm. Everyone goes outside thinking it was a fire drill. We go out for 5 minutes, that's 5 from the test, and then we storm back inside. The teachers dismiss us for lunch break. I had lunch D the whole year, but they stuck me with lunch C. Cabel and I were the only ones left of our old table. We were thinking, " where is everybody?" Back inside, I try to settle for the Spanish test. I was on number 35 when the bell rings, again!! Everyone goes outside for "fire drill" and we storm back inside. That's when we knew something was up. My teacher was so angry when we got back in. I'm like wasting so much time from the test. We settle in again and my teacher was saying how unfortunate it was for us to lose time on the test, but the fire alarm rings AGAIN. lol. It was so weird. The teacher went against the door and said, no one out! The intercom goes on someone says TEACHERS PLEASE DISREGARD THAT BELL. Senoir pranks ahahha. Many people said it was them, no one knew for sure. School ends and I finished my test. Alhamdullillah. Thank god, and yes I mean it cuz that was one of the hardest tests I've ever taken. 85 %. I'm not super proud but alhamdullillah. I was very lucky. After 2, we left school and, while we were going out, the Fire Alarm rang again. haha. What a day...
Here are some vintage pics of second last day of school.
Here's that naughty bell.
Yasir and I. Jim took the pic.
My pic and Yasir's pic.
Happenings
Great Weekend. Soccer for two day, skated, read books, and did all that random stuff.
I just want to talk about the books.
What if someone asks you if you had 3 weeks to live. Worse than that, your body was decaying from a deadly disease that took away all your little ittybitties that you took for granted, like walking and being able to breath right. that's what
Tuesdays with Morrie was about. It was a heartbreaking story of and old professor who lost all his privelages and was going to die and how he talks about life's biggest lessons with an old student, Mitch, who's got a rich and lavish life everyone envies. It's heartwarming. I love that book.
Morrie says the quotes:
"If we learn to die, then we learn to live"
"We must love one another or die!"
Another great book was the
Martian Chronicles.
I know it sounds silly. Yes, Earth's people went to Mars and started a colony there. It's really cool. Believe me. A lot of it is true. All men wants to do is see a beautiful thing and destroy it and have war. WAR on IRAQ. it rings a bell. Another thing, the story takes place in 200-2060. A NASA speaker once said, "I predict we're going to land on Mars on 2018." Well that's what he said. Oh yeah. There's this article that talks about praying in space.
http://space.about.com/b/a/256670.htm Pretty cool.
Khalid Rosli
Khalid Rosli. My name is Khalid Rosli. I am half-european, half-mexican. sike....
I have the courage to Stand. What now?
Shyness. It's a strange thing.
Everyone's shy u know, in a way. We just aren't sure or too scared too admit it or don't know that we are. it's strange. I always thought I was a shy one. Then at my school, you see all these different kinds of people who are shy.
Take a goth. That one's shy cuz you know they really don't like black, they made that up and they can't fit in so they gotta fit in somewhere. so they go all whacko and end up in this one. An emo's too shy to admit their feelings and they just say they're sad and emotional most of the time; that cuts explanations short and doesn't get people mad at them. And yes, I think it's stupid cuz no one's gonna have sympathy for someone who admits his or her life sucks. So what's the point of being emo? I used to hate those guys, now I just feel sorry for them. Not cuz their lives sucks, but cuz they don't realize how much God had already given them. I have emotin too. and I'm not emo.Then you got other people, preps, nerds, normals, and the popular. Some of these that are shy show it, while others don't. Instead they hide it and let it boil in them, which sucks cuz it can cause expolsions. I've seen people flip out before.
You really gotta admit to urself that ur shy. If not, you stay shy forever. It's like the book, Tuesdays with Morrie: everythings temporary, every emotion. They don't last, cept some. the emotions we don't want seem to cling to us and to get rid of them, we do the instinctive
Step Away From Them. Nope, Morrie said that's totally dumb. Stepping away makes things look bigger. We know we fear them, these emotions: love, hate, cuddlines, shyness, loneliness, belittlement. That why we do what Morrie does;
We wash ourselves with this hated emotion.
Only then do we realize, it's just an emotion. I hate it anyway. No dumb emotion, go away. Or, I can deal with it. It's nothing to be afraid of.
I've seen it happen before and no...
Alahmdullillah I'm muslim. Ray Bradbury, an author, said,
Faith gives the answers to all things. It really does, the doas, the things you read and also, I had a feeling that every single thing I've read had a meaning. It's like Allah wanted to show me it. I had trouble with shyness and it turns out the pages of
Tuesdays with Morrie that I read the same night talked about that . Alahmdulillah. Every single thing in life, in earth, in everything... has a purpose. I've started to realise..........................
Latest Web News
Salam.
And now......Time for the latest web news. or maybe not the latest, but anyway, here's some inetersting links.
This one's a muslim basketball team and yes, they're all girls. more inetersting is this: the are almost undefeatable. They're the LAdy Khalifs of W. Deen Mohammed High School in Atlanta. Their score: 21-1. Imagine palying basketball for for long houred games and sweating. What would it be like to play with hijabs on? Alhamdullillah this happened though, because it brought muslims into the news attention that the "muslims are terrorist" stereotype is false.
http://www.hahmed.com/blog/2006/03/16/433/In other news, Halo 3 is making its way to the top...and it'll beat PS3 to it. Birtish and Bill Gates leaked that Hol 3 the game wil be realeased next year for the purpose of outwinning the new playstation. What a plan!
People were so mad in fact, Mr.Freeman from Half Life decided to do this!
School
School was really wierd today. I felt new again, like I did at the beginning of the year. Let's see. I got a new haircut, that's new (no one cares). Then, my friend told me he would sell his autographed ball *autographed by the whole Grizzlies team* for 150$. I was like, no. No one's gonna buy that. He said, yeah. It's owrth $350 on the internet. Then he told me my english teacher, Ms.Farris was a big Grizzlies fan. I didn't know that. I was like; Cool.
Not much happened at the other classes, but when it hit Gym, something wierd happened there too. Jim and some other kids were let out of class, so they went to our Gym to play ball. It was me, Jim, and another asian versus two white guys. They looked like random nerds. They were not. we were wooped so bad, I can still feel the slash marks. Basically, they creamed us like 25-5. Something like that.
We ate lunch indoors and it made me feel really creeped out. I don't like the feeling of staying indoors. Too crowded and so many fake people around. But it was raining, we had no choice.
We came home and talked about how we got wooped and then I went to big lots to buy stuff and now I'm back home blogging. Yay. How cool. ^_^.
Nothing much
salamualaikum zeebs.
Well, nothing much happened today. I shouldn't say that. am I depressed!?! Nah. I don't know. It just seems nothing much happens everyday. I guess I need one of those Inspirational events to kick-start my life again. teenage life is pretty dull..and fake. All I can do is wait for a remedy. Maybe I should read
chicken soup for the soul.Anyway, I was watching youtube the other day when I came across Are You Afraid of the Dark. I was like, man haven't seen that in years. The last time I watched it was like 1995. Oh, the memories.
And this one, in particular had the word ZEEB. lol, what a word. I can't use stop using it.
are you afraid of the dark
What about MAGIC SCHOOL BUS. So sad, they only have the theme song, but it'll do for now.
Some things for skating
Skateboarding is just about one of the best hobbiest I've been in. I don't know what's so great about it, the friends, the feeling of being free, I don't know. But we got it going so good we have a team: The ACE team. How great. No really, it's getting better. It's not really a team, we just fool around.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=69486979
Zahir SkatingAnd this is just about the best skater (local or sponsored) on youtube. His name's Zahir.
The week ends
Bismillah
this weekend's has been kind of weary. I was looking forward to it, but now I don't really know. I was stuck at the clinic for a few hours and then we went to KFC, had a party, and watched Final Fantasy. Hey, we did a lot already. Whoa. Alhamdullillah, I just realized it too while typing. I kept paying attention to my dad getting mad at me today that I forgot how good today was. I guess it's just how complete you feel. Heheh.
hmm
I'm on at about 12 o clock at night. Yasir gotta take a test tommorrow so he's a sleep. I should be too. Well, salam, and logged out. sike!
Transworld owes me
I entered dozens, okay, just a few skateboarding prize contests where u enter a form and see if you win. I never won, but Zafar randomly sent a form online to industrial and won. All that work. gone. It was fun tho.
-Here are some art contest entries I'm really proud of.-
That's wierd
bismillah
The wierdest thing happened to me a few days ago. We were taking a gateway exam at school right? I thought it was one of those lame tests, where every story you read is either boring or stupid. God, I was way off.
Some stories were about love and friebdship, which somewhat relates. Hey.... I said somewhat. Anyway, then, smack in the middle of the test was a story about a guy who hates poetry. His name was KHALID! Can you believe it. I'm not sure if it is coincidence or soemone just likes me or what. It was kind of wierd tho, cuz I love poetry and this guy hates it. At first glance I thought it was me and I nearly talked out loud. Then again to you, it's no biggie.
Another cool thing was that there were two reviews of Ray Bradbury. One had a summary of Farenhiet 451, which as u no, is my favorite book. I said, "allahu Akbar"......... in my mind. The section also talked about great RAy Bradbury was and I agreed all the way. They even quoted that line...
Clarisse:"Is it true a long time a go firemen put out fires instead of started them?"
Montag: "No, houses have always been fireproof."
Wow. Subhanallah and even after that was a story of MArtin Luther King and Freedom. I loved it, like the test was written for me. Kinda creepy too. Well, it was a good day--that was probably the best test I took.
Here's RAy's book picture.
Hahmed.com
salam,
Hahmed.comThe name says it all. It's the hippest muslim blog around, with songs from Sami Yusuf and Outlandish. Oh be sure to chech out "MD digger" at video.google.com. Haseeb rocks. Keep up the site!
Outlandish!
Memphis
I should have done this earlier. How's Memphis. Hm... Well, it's a unique place. Actually I should say wierd, but we'll leave it at that. It's a big city, with a lot of shops, streets, sights, etc. kind of like KC. Except lamer. I always wondered; why is everything so oldschool back here? All the songs we used to like are FINALLY popular. and the jokes. I'm not really a funny guy but not a lot of people make me laugh in memphis, cept close friends. I think the funniest guy was Nabil. Back in KC, we had a lot of funny dudes. Alaa, Ahmed, Muhammed Dinn, Muhammed Nurru *especially and all those other guys.
Something that I found really weird was high school. I had a complete culture shock from it. It's totally FAKE. fake social life, fake kids, fake jokes, fake social groups. Dude, I wish people could just be themselves. Instead they smoke weed and do drugs or something else that they're not. oh, and the EMOS. I used to hate those kind of kids and now I just ended up feeling sorry for them. They said they became that way cuz life sux. Of course life sux most of the time, but emo. People think emo gives you a sense of security--It doesn't. I just makes you something you're not. I wish I could just go to all the goths, gansters, emos, preps and all that jazz and say, "Do whatever you WANT to do not something just to fit in. If what ur doing isn't what you want, then snap out of it. Being in the "group" doesn't bring out the real you, it makes you somebody else. SO BE yourself! PLEASE!"
Aside from that, there's lots of wildlife. There's tons of frogs by the lake, misquitos the size of ur palm, flying cochraoches, and brown recluses. I am so freaked out by those. We found the first one about a week ago and I was scared ever since. The internet ssaid some kid in Nashville was killed by them. I think I have arachnophobia. Now I think I know how caleb sanborn feels. but it wore down. That's good; cuz I woke up one day and saw a misquito bite on my leg and thought I was gonna die. I was mistaken, and recluses barely kill anyway.
Here's one I squashed. (before it was bug juice that is)
Out with the old
Salamualaikum. It' Khalid Rosli. Yes, it's been a long time since I blogged. (bout a year) Well, to make long stories short, I've moved away, started a new live, and this is my new blog. Yipeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
