Guest Attack!!!

Yeah yeah.. so i post about people not updating then i disappear... i know i know.. I'm lazy... But in my defense... I had a friend over from back home and i didnt get much time to update... Anyways, to the people who would like me to link them, i'd love to do it too, but i'm contemplating (yay, i know long words) whether or not i should change the template or not. As some people will have noticed, there are blogs i visit regularly but havent added to me links.. If and when i decide to get something done, the first think i'll do is add the links.. please bear with my laziness people! On a different note, i have put up the fotolog so you guys should rush off and see it (well those who havent anyway) and yes i did hide the plates!

Props to Abez ji for the guest post below.. Awesome job as ever.. but this one, (to those who read her first guest post) is a continuation of it... and here's the good part.. it has not ending... yup... u guys decide how the story continues... the comment box is ur realm so let ur creative abilities rip!!! (i'd link to the previous guest post by Abez, but my archives are messed up... have to figure out how to get 'em back!) On to the guest post

"The well-dressed man with the dark moustache cleared his throat and adjusted his tie. “Ahem,” he said in perfect Oxford Compulsory, “Agent Usman, are you listening to me?”

Secret Agent Usman, who had been pushing an eraser around his desk and making vroom vroom noises, looked up and quickly said, “Of course chief, inasmuch as which, current situation notwithstanding and all that, wherein that, etcetera etcetera-“

The supervisor sighed and redirected his laser pointer to the diagram on the wall. “Current events notwithstanding, Agent Usman, your attention is needed. You only have one chance to prove yourself, and if you fail, you will be jailed for life as reprobate ice-cream thief.”

Usman sat up eagerly at the mention of ice cream. Ah yes, he remembered now, he had finally been caught and convicted as an ice cream thief, but the M-16, on recommendation of Agent Shadanov Killalotski (currently on religious leave), had given Usman the chance to redeem himself and turn his nefarious skills to good by becoming an agent himself.

So far things hadn’t been going very well. His plush office had been sealed, his limousine confiscated, and on top of that, his secretary, Ms.Sahar, had died. (again) He had been promised a souped-up,secret-agent-mobile, but so far he had seen nothing but an angry supervisor and a cute pink erasor, which looked reasonably like a mini cooper. Therefore, vroom vroom.

Usman parked the eraser and turned to face the supervisor, squaring his shoulders and doing his best to seem interested, competent, and not hungry. “Correct if I’m wrong chief…” Usman began, “But you said I would be given the opportunity to prove myself, and you said I would be given all the tools necessary to do so. So far you have given me nothing, not even a decent mission briefing.”

“Very well then,” the supervisor said, pointing to the diagram in front of him. “ Your mission, should you choose to accept, is…”

Anybody home?

Is it me, or does it seem like blogistan is deserted these days?? I've been blog hopping today and from the looks of it no one's been posting recently. People on hiatus, people leaving their blogs.. Seems like i'm the only one running around people's blogs. On another note, i'm thinking of getting a photolog maybe. I dont know if i'll be able to keep up but hmmmm.. should i go with photolog or do people have any suggestions? One of the reasons I am thinking to put up a photolog is cuz me sis Otty had asked to see pics of me car. Got the pics, juss thinking to either post 'em on me blog or go about with me camera and try to be all artsy shmartsy. Decisions decisions....

I'm tired, useless and cant move!

Well need i say more from what you read in the title of the post... hmmm... Ok here's something for you guys to try... Make a sentence which has to have the following words

Icecream (hehehe.. i wonder where that came from)
Blog (funny that word should crop up on a BLOG)
Mobile/Cell phone
Save the world

Enjoy.... Incidentally.. anyone interested in doing a guest post??

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2 fast 2 useless!

Ok, hands up all of you who have seen Fast and the Furious and not 2 fast 2 furious yet??? Right... All of you may go and sit over there and not read this... cuz this is gonna seriously dent ur intentions of watching the second installment of the awesome-cars-yet-crap movie!

Now, the first thing that I noticed was... (yeap i'm gonna be mean again) was the fact that all the dialogues for the main actor/hero kinda person were written by a 2 year old... Hmmm.. nah thass not accurate enough... they were written by a retarded 2 year old who is in love with the hip hop culture... yeah.. that sounds better.. I mean what is the deal with the word bro... Yeah a lotta people use it, but not as punctuation for their sentences!!! GAWD!!!

The cars as usual were class... Although i fail to see why he should have an EVO for the entire length of the movie as opposed to the Skyline??? I mean the skyline has menacing presence... i'll eat u and spit u outta my exhaust kinda looks... whereas in comparison the EVo and the Eclipse the other duud drove were more like... ummm.. lets have comparisons shall we... If the Skyline is an Arnie/Stallone/vin Diesel kinda thing.. then the Evo is errrr... Lio-de-i've-craped-my-pantsio... (yup it's bash Lio week on my blog).

Right.... one thing they definitely need to do is... (cuz they ended the movie like there's gonna be a third) is to find a better way of torturing crooked cops... I mean a rat trapped in a hot bucket on a big-fat-kentucky-fried-chicken eating crooked cop's belly?? PUUUHHHLLLEAAAAZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZE!! I mean cant a multi-millionaire bad-guy think up of any better kinda torture??? I mean it's probaly easier to juss make the guy sit through titanic... Twice if u wanna be really mean!!! Or make him listen to Brittany Spears! Or even worse... Justin Shiver-me-timbers-lake.

The ending of the movie was cool... I didnt know cars could fly... Although it was sooo predictable.. but well executed so i'll say yeah.. the movie's ok... Recommended to Petrol heads like meself only for the cars... If you're looking for a movie with a story... Watch the Teletubbies!

Anything but that!!!

I was flicking through channels in the evening today bored outta my head. And during this, one of my many travels of the flicking-kind, I came upon a channel which was showing Faiza's favourite movie!! (hehehe... sorry Faiza). Yeap, none other than the Titanic. Thanfully it was the last 10 min so i decided, for the heck of it, that i'd watch. It was the scene where the girl is floating on that piece of wood and Leo-di-mega-crappio is in the water talking to her. Now the water's freezing, so they're both shivering from the cold, have ice frozen on their hair. I wonder if their hair was fronzen, does that mean the snot in their noses was frozen too... cuz if it was... then in theory that would mean their noses were blocked which would increase the chances of both of them kicking the bucket anyway... Plus the steam coming from their mouths seemed more like cigarette smoke.. (i'd know) ... Now how can cigarette smoke be coming from two professional actors shooting a scene in a closed controlled environment? Well for those of you who have been wondering all this time (you guys must be SAD!) here's the answer. The director had little trained rodents sitting in the bellies of the actors puffing away at cheap old third-class desi cigarettes to keep the effect going.

Anyways... (que sentimental mushy wushy music) and Jack is telling Rose not to say goodbye and all.. "R-r-r-r-r-rose... You ca ca cant say goodbye... no goodbyes... p-p-p-promise meeee you'll survive..." Dyslexic idiot! Oh fer flip's sake man... that's the most selfish thing a person can ever do... ur supposedly in the middle of nowhere between hundreds of dead bodies floating on a piece of wood freezing ur snot out and about to croak... yet you want the poor girl to promise not to die... what pish tosh... I say that's extremely selfish on the part of Mr. Crapio and he should be shot in the head for it... TWICE! (or more times if it so pleases the audience)

Oh well... I do actually remember when i was vice-prez of the Cinema club back in cyprus... (dont ask!) We used to put on movies once a week in uni on Friday evenings i think... And the day we put Titanic.. the whole hall was packed... in fact it was sooo packed that people sat on the floor to watch it... (cheapos couldnt go to the cinema and pay to watch could thay!!!) Come to think of it, thats why I joined the cinema club... Naaa... Actually i was thrust into the position by a friend who for some reason thought i was responsible enough to do this and so on so forth... oh i'm going off topic here.. anyways.. Yeah so the day we put on Titanic... the whole hall was packed.. now the great thing about the hall was the exits were in the front and away from the glare of the screen. So if you were at the doorway looking in, no one could see you, but you could see everyone... which was fun cuz i think we saw something like 30-40 women crying during the movie... (and i kid you not) a guy put a tissue to his eye during the movie as well.... Oh boo senitmental hoo!

There is one awesome bit about that movie which i have to admit... (and in romeo and juliet as well.. the new version for anyone who's seen it) The image of Lio sinking away into the depths of the ocean was soo touching I could probably watch it a million times and still have a smirk on me face... Gawd i'm being mean today... i'll leave!

Comic Relief

Why did the chicken cross the road?

SAEED AL SAHAF - Iraqi Head of Information The chicken did not cross the road. This is a complete fabrication. We do not even have a chicken.

GEORGE W BUSH We don't care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road or not. The chicken is either for us or against us. There is no middle ground.

COLIN POWELL Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road.

TONY BLAIR I agree with George.

HANS BLIX We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet been allowed to have access to the other side of the road.

DR SEUSS Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes, the chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed I've not been told.

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR I envision a world where all chickens will be free to cross roads without having their motives called into question.

GRANDPA In my day, we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Somebody told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough.

JOHN LENNON Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads together in peace.

ARISTOTLE It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.

KARL MARX It was an historic inevitability.

RONALD REAGAN What chicken?

BILL GATES eChicken2003 will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your checkbook - and internet explorer is an integral part of eChicken.

BILL CLINTON What is your definition of chicken?

COLONEL SANDERS Did I miss one?

Who in my HOUSE?!

The above title has been inspired by my colleague at work Luis, who in turn was inspired by the Haitian dudes from Badboys2. And no it doesnt have to do with creapy crawlies chilling somewhere under the house... (although in this heat, they probably are). But instead about the people who add me on msn... I mean this is getting absolutely rediculous now... I mean i juss got added by someone again.. and i'll probably never see that person online... Its sooo weird... And juss the other day i was runnin' around blogistan and i saw this email addy on one of the blogs.. and i'm thinking i've seen this somewhere befoer.. and it wasnt on this blog... Turns out it was an email someone added me on ages ago... And i've never talked to that person... now i know who it is.. i shall be having a word with them soon. I have got a few people on blogistan who i err.. sorta talk to every now and then.. nice people, I enjoy the convos.. But then again i've got weird times online...

On another note... Check this out!!. This is supposed to be happening here tonite. When you see something like a meteor shower or watever... we should always ask for forgiveness for ourselves and the entire Ummah (which we should do all the time anyways) ... do Istighfaar and if possible pray a couple of Nafils. And although I know tons of people will be stayin' up to watch this spectacle of nature, I shall go do my 2 Rakah of Nafil, make a dua and head for beddybye. Which i should get started on now... smile people. Its Sunnah. :)

No talk? will travel

Yeap.. today I'm outta things to say, but the only reason i am saying stuff is cuz not many other people in blogistan are saying much. So to compensate for the lack of talking by others, i shall talk, though i do not have much to talk about. Hence the reason for my talking is because talking has been reduced in blogistan *thinks of more ways to say the same thing over and over*

Naaah.. I wont bore you guyz. The weather's pretty hot here Subhanallah. I mean i've been through worse... 50 degs in the shade in cyprus so no complaints. Today ammi (mom to you Urdually challenged people) said something that struck home for me big-time. She doesnt know how much but when she said you realize how much of a ni'ma (gift) from Allah food is when you're hungry. Basically everyone in the house (with the exception of me, part-time job) had gone to the Islamic Cultural Center cuz the Rabita Alam-e-Islami people were there doing their programs. Some renowned speakers had come today... Anyways, since everyone had breakfast in the morning and left and got home 8:30 in the evening, obviously they were all hungry and thass when Ammi said that. Like i said, it did hit home for me more than she can imagine.. Oh well, all i can say is Alhamdulillah for everything I have, have had or will have.

“If Allah helps you, none can overcome you; and if He forsakes you, who is there after Him that can help you? And in Allah (Alone) let the believers put their trust.” [TMQ Aale-Imraan: 160]

I'm Back

The words of the immortal terminator. Yep, saw the third movie as well and have to say, in my book, i think the direction on this was soo much better than Matrix Reloaded. In fact me thinks Ganday Larkay 2 (Bad boys 2) was better than reloaded too. (yes i know i'll probably get pelted with eggs when i leave the house tomorrow but hey, thass my opinion).

The one thing i dont like about the Terminator movies is the way they have to be teleported or transported or some other kinda ported back in time, why in heck do they have to do it naked. I mean come on, if nothing else there must be a sale at ur local K-mart... Juss grab a hawaian shirt, some shorts and a pair of flip flops for the dude!! sheesh. I loved the action sequences.... and i'll repeat what u've probably heard from everyone else who's seen the movie.. But that girl is BAD! B.A.D. BAD... Taste a person's blood and check if they're the right person... hmmm... definitely cool! Ok, one stereotype the movie identifies correctly is those people who will wake up the vet at 5 in the morning juss cuz their cat wont stop sneezing or watever??? GAWD GET A LIFE PLEASE!! And if that aint possible, lemme know i'll get you a gun and you can end it all! (ok ok.... *breathes* *breathes*... I'm calm).

One thing that is definitely cool about this movie is the fact that the terminator is given a decentish personality... I wont obviously spoil it all but he's a bit better this time around... (it's about time someone taught arnie some english!) The evergreen terminator affinity with bikes and trucks continues... and destruction obviously... hmmm... Ah yes, the hand-to-hand between the two terminators is sooo awesome and looks real even though its computer enhanced... but it still looks real (unlike some movies with state-of-the-art boo boo meow meow spending 17 million bux to do something which they could've done at 1/16th scale and made more convincing!)

Oh well, thass about it for the movie... and one more thing.. (there's columbo for u again!) If anyone doesnt like too much blood and gore, i'd particularly advise looking away when the bad terminator is in the car with the cops going to the cemetary... u'll wanna see it now cuz i've said not to, but u'll regret it later! (you have been warned)

To Mani... I know Bad boys aint out yet... but its the miracle of the internet meray bhai.. u can download the latest movies before they've even been officially launched in the US. (all u need is a good ADSL connection and ur flying) As soon as my current download finishes, I shall begin downloading a movie based on a certain video game character who's all into action and adventure... oh well.. lum dee dum.. (i didnt name names did i??)

P.S. Even though I may be physically a bit old... (mentally i'm only three and a half) but there is absolutely no way i'm 29!!! Thass how someone who got to know me fairly recently put it.. Actually they put it in a much worse way... something like 'ur old enuff to be my dad arent u?'... And besides that... I was asked if i'd keep a blog even after i got married... argh... no .. no marriage.. none of that!!! HELP!!

Whachu gonna do??

Yeah I'm back... Jazaka'Allah to all the nice people who made online duas.. and to those who made offline duas... Y'all make my day people.... and Alhamdulillah i think the eye is back to 100%. (No abez...not the blue turkish eye!)

I was watching bad boys2 last nite... Nice movie... definitely nice car chases... (anyone notice how things on my blog come back to cars, food and icecream) Hmmm... the chase in the ferrari was awesome... Man those action pichur directors got some creative minds... but where the creative minds collided was in the fact that for some reason when Martin Lawrence is about to jack an innocent civilian of his beat up ol' Chevy Sprint (or watever the chevy version of the suzuki swift is called), will smith goes get another car.... and here is where it all goes pear-shaped (wake up people, this is getting interesting now!!!). Martin Lawrence stops a silver Cadillac CTS-V which looks awesome i admit.. but then somewhere in the distance i hear a *bing**bing**bing* (turned out to be my brain.. i wasnt used to it ever registering anything i couldnt beleive it was happennin') they were beaten to the car by the chick in the Matrix.. Yeap, the exact same car used in the famous 17 million bux chase scene in the matrix reloaded was used in Bad Boys 2 as well.. Hollywood is definitely loosing it's touch!

Oh one thing though man.. those Haitians in the movie... especially the dude with the dreadlocks.. had some AWESOME musclecars... Me thinks one was a 60's Mustang, a trans-am and a Pontiac GTO.... If only i were back in Saudi Arabia... i could be able to afford the petrol on any car.. no matter how big the engine!!!

Yeap i cant believe i raved on for a whole paragraph about the same car being used in 2 different movies.. the only reason i have raved on about it is the same reason i did so a month or so ago... CUZ THEY TRASHED THIS ONE TOO!!! Man what is wrong with these guyz... couldn't they juss ask me if i wanted a car.... I mena imagine the time i'd spend clearning this one... damn... i'd scare myself.. actually i am scaring myself and probably a lota other people too so i'm gonna make a run for it!!!