Battle In Seattle.

MUST WATCH!
It has been a while since I watched a movie that has really got me thinking, that emotionally stimulated me and made me laugh, cry, feel angry, feel angry and feel confused all at the same time.
I recommend it! Xx

Happy Diwali and a Happy New Year!

Here's wishing everybody a happy, safe & blingful diwali and an even kick-ass new year! God knows this next year has to be better than the one that just past - so an extra little prayer for that! Xx

Why blog, you say?

"Today, when we blog, about our weight loss problems and our knitting and our opinion on the presidents IQ level, we do it on the blithe assumption that someone gives a shit - even though there is a guy stuck in Baghdad that blogs, and a Washington DC staff assistant who gets paid by republican appointees for sex who blogs, and our own jottings must be dreadfully dull in comparison. Nowadays anyone with a crap laptop and Internet can sound their barbaric yawp, whatever it maybe. But the surprise is that for every person who's got something to say, it seems there are at least a few people who are interested. Some of them aren't even related." - Julie Powell, Julie & Julia.

Random conversations #2 : That's what friends are REALLY for.

Friday afternoon. Me and Nadia are online. Looking through blogs and facebook and telling each other if we see anything interesting. We are doing this because we already had a discussion about what we are getting Nancy for her birthday - and it is going to be awesome! Anyway - this was the conversation. And just so you know, names and status content has been modified, because you never know who reads your blog:

Nadia says:
oh you should go see Bonny's status on fabebook.
'I so want to do something that others think silly.. that sum think of as DIRTY.... something that makes me happy and lets my soul arrange itself again....'
i like how DIRTY is in caps
hahahha
n. says:
oh For the love of all that's HOLY!
Nadia, babe, promise me, because you love me, that if i EVER say anything like that in my life - you will slap me - right across my face - till i snap out of it!
Nadia says:
i will slap you on both cheeks

Now that's what friends are for right?
To slap you when you are being stupid and weird and to laugh at you when you fall before they come running to help you!

And having said that, I will admit to one thing - Nadia and I, we love being judgemental bitches on lazy Friday afternoons. Maybe that's why we are social outcasts together - Karma. (another story, and a long one). And I didn't really change that status a whole lot.
Here is hoping she doesn't read blogs!

Ta. Xx

A 'so not Dubai' Thursday.

Dubai Thursday's have been pretty standard since I moved out here in 2007. It's been just about two and a half years now, and Thursday's are pretty much the same routine -

Wait till it's ten. Do hair. Do make up. Dress up, and I mean DRESS UP. Put on heels. Take a cab to fancy pretentious club. Pay cab driver ridiculous amounts of money for 15-20 minute ride. Drink. Drink. Dance. Dance. Shot. Shot. Dance. Drink. Be drunk. Leave pretentious club. Talk as loud as humanly possible. Go to KFC/Moulin Dior/Reef. Eat extremely unhealthy food at 3:30 AM. Keep talking as loud as humanly possible. Either watch someone throw up or take care of someone throwing up (this has NOT happened to me so far - thank God, but has happened to some of the girls quite a few times). Swear never to drink again. Stumble home. Go to bed. The end.

Fulfilling eh? Yea, *eye roll* - my thoughts exactly.
After the first 300 times, it gets old. And loud. And boring.
Don't get me wrong, there are fun nights but you can't help but feel like the process is getting redundant.
Once or twice a month, fine. Every weekend, sometimes twice a weekend, No.

However, today was a different day. It started at 5 instead of 10!


I took the train - yes, the ever popular Dubai metro. It is pretty awesome and will be even better once they figure out the feeder buses and all the stations are up and running. It felt good! Just had my i-pod on and was reading 'Julia & Julie' all the way. Didn't have to worry about crazy drivers or parking or anything. And yes, this picture is of the real station. (Kakes, in case you are wondering).


Then met Nancy at media city (a bar called Icon) and some of her friends from work were still working though they were not at the office. While they were working, I enjoyed a drink and silence. I didn't have to make small talk or anything as they were all so busy, and it was nice. Because these days, I am NOT in the mood for small talk.

After Icon, Nance and I stopped by a place called 'Shelter'.
Shelter is a place Nancy found through work. It is in the industrial area of Dubai. It is essentially a warehouse turned into a coffee shop with heaps and heaps of magazines you can just pick up and read. It is one of the very few places that has any sort of creative or cultural activity. They have small sized shows and events now and then. We went to watch Nitin Mirani - a local stand up comedian and one of my sisters friends and a Arab-American Hip Hop artist. Both were so, so good.

Got home by 10:30 PM, made a playlist, and am enjoying some pretty kick-ass music and relaxing. This has been one of the very few non-Dubai Thursdays and I'm loving it! I wish I had a few friends to jam with to end the night, but oh well! Here is a start to trying different things. (My playlist for the night: And then you; Bulletproof Weeks; Forever; Say it to me now; This woman's worth; Never Think; Closer; Dreaming with a broken heart; If it kills me)

Good night people - have a good weekend. Xx

As John says - 'it's the brightest thing I've got'

I don't know if I mentioned this earlier but I am playing the guitar again.
Going to class and everything.
I have joined classes at my old music school - Dubai Music School and being taught by Miles Perry (who taught me earlier, when I was 10) who is amazing - I mean, the man can play ANYTHING!

Anyway, how did this come about? Well mainly because of this man and how flippin' amazing he is:

His music is AMAZING. Amazing tunes, amazing voice and amazing lyrics.
These days, a lot of my 'songs for the moment' have been his songs. And I have been wanting his 'Any given Thursday' album SO BAD, to have in my car, if ever I am stuck in traffic, to calm me down. Well, mainly because of the song 'Covered in rain' - I mean c'mon, which other nine minute song can kick THAT much ass huh? And that guitar solo *drool*, and his voice - did I mention his voice already? Anyway, so I went to Virgin Mega store at MOE and City Center and both said more or less at all Virgin stores in Dubai, all John Mayer Cd's are sold out - ALL OVER THE UAE! SOLD OUT!
But then the other day, on the way to the gym, I was slacking and stopped by the music store there, and guess what? There was ONE copy left there! AH-HA! - and its now mine, and safely tucked in my car CD player. I even laughed out loud, a smug laugh, so everyone in the store would know I got that last copy. Nobody in that store seemed to care, but I sure did!

Anyway, my point being, other than the fact that John Mayer completely rocks my world, is that I have started playing again. And I can hear improvement and how I am getting better. I just need to keep practicing. I am at about an hour a day these days. Total de-srtesselizer!

And oh! I am going to have a random guitar thought on this blog, whenever I think of something random or something strikes a chord! (Get it? Strikes a chord? I came up with that all by myself! What can I say, creativity is flowing).

Later Xx.