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the only thing i resent is the $118 tuxedo... what a waaaaste!

sigh... i remember that! though the tuxedo was a waste of moolah.. homecoming senior year was pretty darn fun!

anywho.. since i'm always MIA on xanga.. i thought i'd come back with a BOOM..... aka picture update. i found lotsa recent random pics on the comp. enjoyyyyyyyyyy.

oh by the way.. the song ("josh naal" which means "with energy") is from the pakistani dance at central's ethnic fair... its PUNJABI.. im hooked!!


^me and my second nephew, imraan (10 pts if you can remember imraan's big brother's name aka my other nephew), when i babysat him at my sisters place about a month ago.

^nabil jammin up the tablas at the SASA show 04/01... sweeeeet night!

^me, imaad, rooma and sarah at dunkin donuts after the show on the one and only devonnnnnn avenue

^me and safa. the first of the talib-kweli-concert-selling-tickets-pictures... i swear.. that's about all i did last week lol.

^me, ziddy (ahmad), zarina

^me, zarina, ziddy

^ziddy, zarina

^yummy yummy baba ghanouj and hummos! we had arabic class at the coolest hookah/arab restaurant place in lincoln park.. called samah.. this was 2 tuesdays ago i believe.

^me, prof. batroukh, diyaa

^oOoh... mesmerized by the arab culture. that place rocks. and why is sarah giving me the look of death!?

^nussun, marni, christina..... and yeah... i think posting pics with smoke is lame so you won't find any here

^me and azza selling tickets for SJP. i should probably tell them that i can't go.... 05.12.05... U2 concert the same night!

^me, azza

^assia, ziddy, me - i can assure you we don't always look like this =)

^maged... what a good sport about being on crutches. by the way i hate the woman in the back. she randomly saw me and asked if i "spoke muslim" and wondered if it's offered at depaul.... sad part is.. she was genuinely curious... so yes, that's why i hate her lol.

^ziddy and i confused about our bill at noon-o-kebab. ok fine, maybe only i was confused. she charged 3 extra plates on there!!! but yummmmm....... food was goooooooooooooood.

^samar, me - selling tix again. the poster i made for the concert is semi-visible on the left part of the table.

^hiiiiiiiiiiiiii!

^me and mike at psa (pakistani students association) rehearsal the night before the show. we didn't feel it necessary to dress up at the dress rehearsal...

^psa nite '05!!!! opening act... that's me in the middle! great times.. this was just a couple days ago (well.. saturday)..

^hai hai!

^still dancin it up.. except that's def not me in the middle anymore haha

^holding the flag in the back like an idiot... sigh :-/

^mike (in his fashionable pakistani apparel, might i add), me, ziddy

^ziddy is happpppy

^i took this today when everyone came over. it's imraaaaan guys!!!! by now you should KNOW!!!

oh boy. it's 315am and i must go to sleeeeeeeeeeeep. not really looking forward to this week, but the week after should be money. oh by the way.. pooj, jason and sabs.. this weekend was fun! ethnic fair 2005 @ central rocked..... esp. "our" dance and the oreo sundae!! by the way lara.. ive been craving your lebanese drink all weekend... IM GONNA COME BY AND GRAB A CARTON!

till next time.. os=)

so let me describe what happened last night.  had night class from 6-9pm.  weather was bad, so i kinda hung around the student center with some peeps till about 930-945.  i then catch the 1030 train outta union station to westmont. ahmad was supposed to come over for a little.. but that never happened because of my stupid carelessness.  so i was on the phone with i dont even REMEMBER who now.. when i get to my car parked in the parking lot at the westmont train station... i back out... slowly.. with caution... and drive a good 15 seconds... seems like the whole town is asleep (it's about 1120pm).. i'm the only one in sight. AND THEN I GET PULLED OVER!!!  jeez it was almost exactly like that one scene from harold and kumar hehhe.

you know when you see a police car RIGHT behind you and you think to yourself... 'well.. the cop has to be behind somebody.. it's not like i'm in trouble. laa di daaa...' well, i remembered from my last ticket experience that that's bullshit.. so i give in to this useless battle and pull over. and suddenly turn my lights on because i realize they were off. oops.

to make a long story short, i got "in trouble" for driving with the lights off (FOR 15 SECONDS!!!!), going 14 miles above the speed limit (ON FRIGGEN CASS AVENUE WHEN I'M THE ONLY ONE ON THE ROAD)... and for driving without my license (THE ONE DAY I'M WITHOUT MY WALLET AND ANY I.D.) oh and lets not forget not knowing where the insurance card was (MY DAD'S CAR IS HIS OFFICE... IT'S HARD ENOUGH TO FIND THE PASSENGER SEAT).  it wasn't pretty.  it wasn't "my" car and my dad himself is overseas right now.  it was kind of funny though.. the cop asked exactly where my dad was and i was like shiiiiiiet.. so i tell him... "saudi arabia.. heh"... and he's like HMMMM.. and then he asks what the hell i was doing in the city so late.. and i point to my books.. and tell him i'm a student at depaul.. and lucky me, of ALL POSSIBLE BOOKS, my Arabic grammar book was ontop of the pile. the whole time i'm thinking to myself PLEASE OH PLEASE DO NOT LET HIM THINK I'M A TERRORIST! oh mann.. but anyway, since im not a shady criminal, he let me off with what's called an iBond? lol it's prolly not spelled that way.. but we are in the age of the iPod so it might as well be. it's 2000 bucks if i fail to show up to court and prove that the van is insured.. i freaked out.. but i was later consoled by several friends who convinced me that the 2000 bucks is bogus.. the judge rips it up as soon as you present valid insurance notification. IN THAT CASE WHY THE HELL DO THEY ISSUE A TICKET FEE OF 2000 BUCKS. i hate suburban police.

ahhh.. i was still pretty shaken up for a while though. EVERYTIME my parents go to saudi arabia for hajj... (well for the past 2 years at least) i've managed to score a ticket. and for the stupidest reasons. yay.

today was much better though.. rocked my english paper and bamboozled my calc exam. im suddenly happier.

PICS UPDATE!! I didn't really want to post pics up since... well... how do you condense 334 pics for a place like xanga???  But I figured I'd do it anyway to give y'all a little taste of my trip.  I wish I could figure out how to post video too, but that takes too long.  Ahh so hard to choose pics.. but these ones entail some of my favorites. ... you know, they evoke the fondest memories. ... shut up. enjoY!  OHH and I'll put up some new music up for my next post.  It slows the pics down.

^ The menu image I used for my Photo/Video DVD slideshow. Me and my "mommy" (mom's brother's wife).  "My trip to Pakistan. November 27-December 25, 2004."  And that's my name down there in the corner.

^ Boeing 747.  Chicago to Manchester, UK; then to Karachi, Pakistan.  Looks much smaller in picture, right?

^ Ahhh... what a wonderful 22 hour flight.  Don't you hate it when a whole DAY gets taken away from you like that?

KARACHI

^ View from my aunt's balcony.

^ And another...

^ Hill Park stroll after sunset.

^ Karachi's most famous medical school: Aga Khan University.

^ An outside shot of the university.

^ I found this amusing.

^ And this even more amusing...

FAISALABAD

^ "Osmaan Milk Shop." =) I pretty much took a picture everytime I saw my name on anything. IT DOESN'T EVER HAPPEN HERE IN THE US!!

^ Me and my cousin Zainab.

^ My cousin Amara and one of her lil ones.

^ The outside of our family store (grandfather and mom's brothers all work here together). Brought back about 20 outfits for the ladies in my family (aka my mom and 2 sisters) all hand made!

^ A local mosque from the view of a taxi (which by the way ran out of gas in the middle of nowhere.... jeez that happened twice to me while I was there!!).

^ Your average groom on a horse. One of the 8 weddings we went to. We got there at about 1:07am and the food hadn't even been served yet!

^ This is the groom's Mehndi (bride is not here tonight).

^ Can you tell this means they had just announced that the Chai (tea) was ready???

^ That's me leaving Faisalabad (I'm taking the pic)... all the mommies saying goodbye.  Definitely miss that city the most. The majority of the cousins are there.

GUJRANWALA

^ My cousin Saba. Stopped here on the way to Rawalpindi to see one of my mom's sisters. All in all, 6 sisters and 5 brothers on my mom's side, my mom the eldest. There's always someone in each and every city to see.

RAWALPINDI

^ My cousin Tayyab and I... uh.. I think trying to dance out of the moonroof of our car on the way to Rawalpindi. A local police officer drove by and waved at us and told us we had good taste in music hehehe.

^ Me, my cousins Bilal and Amna on the way to another Khala (mom's sister)'s house.

^Me, and my cousins Sundas, Sunila and Tayyab.

^A buncha cousins.

^ My Khala Zobia telling me to take pics of her new house to show my mom. She and my mom are exactly 20 years apart (two years older than my oldest sister Ayesha)!!!

^ My Khala Yasmeen's house. Me and my cousin Sunila.

ISLAMABAD

^ Here we are at the beautiful Faisal Masjid in the heart of Pakistan's capital.

^ A few of us cousins inside the mosque complex.

MURREE (Northern Pakistan)

^ Standing infront of some hills and glaciers.

^ Gotta love those monkeys. Once in the car my cousin Sunila had a muffin in her hand.. the window next to her was half way down.. and this monkey jumps and climbs up ontop.. and I screamed. ...the end.

LAHORE

^ The stunning Badshahi Mosque.

^ A closer view.

^ Shah-e-Qila in front of the Mosque with Pakistan's flag.

^ We checked out the main border between Pakistan and India (if you've seen Veer Zaara.. a scene was filmed there). I circled the gate of India so you can see.

^ Me and the officials.

^ Hehehhe.

^ The McDonald's there were incredible. Three floors high. Private dining areas. They even DELIVER!! But I didn't like this one because as soon as I began to give my order the cashier looked at me and asked me if I was American. I think it really is that obvious.

^ Another wedddddddding.

^ Don't I look nice.

Back in KARACHI

^ All the stuff I had to leave behind in Pakistan to make room for the new stuff to go back with me. In that blue bag are all of the sweaters I took for when we went to Northern Pak. Isn't it ironic that I need that stuff more than anything NOW and no one will ever make ANY use of it in 90 degree Karachi weather?? Still a little bitter... Ah well...

^ On the way back home. I was able to sneak back quite a bit of goods (lots and lots of food/sweets, and a tonnnn of DVSs)!!

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