Winner Brayk

I cain't wait for winter break, bro! I'm gunna throw snowballs @ everybody. If it snows, that is.
I can't wait for spring and summer again. It's fun making smoothies and all that.

Cbox

There is a red Cbox at the bottom of my blog. Please check it out. :)

N

1:34 PM

Yeeeeerghh! H is so annoying. I wanna kill.

Anyways, here is a message for Hna. I have posted two new posts on the Poptropical Adventures Blog. Go check 'em out!

Poptropical Adventures

I Am In Terrible Pain, Though I Am Not Supposed To Be.

Yes. The title is true. Right now I am sitting at the computer writing this when I am supposed to be writing my essay, but oh well, it can wait a little. At the computer next to me, H, Ummi, Z, and S are watching Umar on Youtube. It's about Umar Al-Khattab's history before he became a Muslim. Eeekh. It's just like the movie called The Message. It's violent and it SHOWS people getting hurt and stuff. I would list the details, but they're too violently painful. Anyways, before, it showed the Muslims getting prosecuted. It showed whipping. Ugh. I hate the sound of it and the victim's cries. It's just like when I was learning about slavery in the Civil War. It looked so painful and it made my tummy hurt. It made me think of when I've been punched sometimes and stuff, and now I know it is nothing. I can say no more. If you want to find out what I am talking about, find that video on Youtube yourself. I will talk no more about it. I'm glad I could use my essay as an excuse. Bye.
N

4:40 PM

I am in a terrible condition right now. I (REALLY) need to answer to the call of nature, but I'm in the middle of an 8 Ball Multiplayer Pool game tournament. So you know.

4:43 PM

9:50 AM

Today is Saturday, *Squeal* Tonight there is a meeting at the masjid.
Yesterday, S curled my hair with  a weird tekneek she found on U-Tube. It feels real crazy now. But it's juicy and curly. And that's all.

9:52 AM

4:42 PM

Today, H made spaghetti for lunch (as always). It was wheat. H put in three beef franks. It was good. But H didn't cut the garlic  so I ate a whole garlic clove. It was good, actually. S said it was too spicy, but it wasn't/ So I was like, what're you talking bout...?

N (4:44 PM)

5:36 PM

I am bored. My tummy hurts. I just showered, so I feel good. I cleaned the fishbowl today, and I cleaned my desk. Tomorrow is laundry day. I have finished the whole of Lesson 28 in my math. Tomorrow I have to do the whole of 29, and after that, 30. Then I'll be done.
I can't believe the year is almost over!
My character sketches are doing very well.
I'm a bit too lazy to finish my story and all that.
I forgot to change my earrings. Well, who cares.

It is now 5:39 PM.

Brownies in Cups

Yesterday, S made brownies in cups for me and H. She told me that she ate one for breakfast and it was good. I wanted one too but I didn't want her to get angry at me for copying. Later, I said I'd pay her $1.00 if she made me a brownie in a cup. She laughed nervously. She said nah, I'll just give you the recipe. I said again that I would pay her, so she did it. When it was done, she told me not to touch it because it was hot. It was good in the beginning, but then it started to get sickly. And it was a bit too sweet... Eventually I finished it. Then H asked for one. He got it and paid. Me and S were drunken from eating the brownies. S drank water from the Brita to drown the taste out, and then she spit the water out on the floor for some reason. She was laughing at something. She didn't know what, though. It was hilarious. Later, mommy came downstairs, and it seems to be that she was looking in the sink, cause she saw our cups with water and chocolate in them. Then she yelled, "Eyy! Whay you guys make something and not give some to me?" Me and S were in our room at the time. We heard H blubber something, and then we heard Ummi say, "Oh." Then I was like, "Lol, he must've told mom that it was sickly."
LOL

N

Things

We just came back from the potluck at the masjid. Surprisingly, not much people were there. There were stuffed grape leaves and things like that. The stuffed grape leaves were so oily. I almost barfed. Jk. Its juice was green. not green yellow. The weirdish green. Like seri muka green. If you don't know what seri muka is, search it up. The cake was chocolate and the frosting could slip off the piece of cake as if someone just put oil on the cake before they put on the frosting. What a fake. A fake cake. haha. Anyways. That's all for today, so bye.

N

Minor Notes

You don't have to pick one of the choices I gave in the previous post. You can suggest your own. Deal? Ok deal.

The Randomness

Okay, people! Stand back! I have just thought of a new blog title! I'm not satisfied with 'N's Voice' anymore (haha, J-Ski!) so I am now changing it to something like 'N's Randomness' or 'Random Light'. But to be more creative, maybe I shouldn't put my initial in it. I just can't think of anything.
Maybe 'Lightning Strikes' would be good. Or 'The Strike of Light'. Or 'Light, Camera, and Action!' Or maybe 'N's News' or 'The Middle Voice' or 'The Second Life'.

Okay. Whatever. Pick your choice. One choice ONLY.

1. N's Randomness
2. The Strike of Light
3. The Middle Voice
4. The Second Life

Not much choices, ey? I'm so sorry.
Let me remind you that most of the time, I'm sarcastic. Don't believe everything I type. >:)

Stuff

Today we are all fasting for Ashura (except Z, of course), even though it is tomorrow. We had rice and yellow chicken.
The In the Jungle cover is 1/4 done, I'd say. I had to draw several attempts of it. My main idea for it is for Zoe, Bo, and Tommy to be swinging on vines in front, and the other characters at the bottom. I can't explain it very well, so maybe you should wait until it is finished.
Thanks to the coldness, my hands are getting all wrinkly and gray. It's nasty. Even the best lotion won't fix it. Well, it does, but only for a few hours, practically.
There is a potluck iftar tomorrow at the masjid.
I hope we get to play tennis this weekend. Last time we couldn't, because it was rainy.
Annnd...that's all for today. Please come again.

Toad Rage: Finished!

I finished my Toad Rage book last night. It's pretty funny. It's about a cane toad living in Australia that wonders why humans hate cane toads. His name is Limpy. He thinks humans hate cane toads because they are always smashing them on the road with their cars. Pop! Pop! Pop! Lol. His pile of rellies is nasty. Goliath is so tupA'*, with his sticks and all. Haw-haw. And smiling Uncle Roly. Lol. I want to get the other books in the series, but the library doesn't have them.
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*TupA' means stupid in our language, in case you forgot.

Dunno Whatta Doo...

I am so bored. I don't know what to do. I'm feeling lazy.

Please help me figure out what to do. Should I:

1. Go to the other computer and finish drawing a picture on Microsoft Paint.
2. Clean my fishbowl.
3. Draw a cover for In the Jungle.
4. Write my story.
5. Read my library book called Toad Rage.

HELP!
N

Chapitar One

Hi. It is N.

I would highly reccomend you followers to take a short visit to the Zoe and Bo Creators Blog. I have put up the first chapter of our new story there. I thought you might like to read it. Thnk you and have a normalish day.

Bye.
~N~

Eyes

Last night, S took pictures of all our eyes.  Just her, me, H, and Z.

Can you guess which eye belongs to each of us?

Random Happenings

Thursday: Pre-Eid

On Thursday, there was an akikah for someboddy's baby. Coincidentally, it was the same day before Eid. So, after all the eating and most of the people left, me, S, and some of our friends helped decorate the masjid for Eid. We put up the lights is the musalla and the hall. We put streamers over the windows. It was very hard work. While me, S, R, and Keela were doing the lights in the hallway, Keela's brother Zak came and helped a little bit. He got a sticker (goat head) stuck in his sock and he told me to get it out because he was too chicken. Then he asked me if I got henna. I said not yet. But then I saw S getting it, and so I did too. After I got it, I continued with the lights. It was hard 'cause I didn't want to mess up my henna. My hair was all messy and I had to ask Ummi to tuck my hair back inside my tudong. When we were all done, we played in the musalla. R, Keela, and Keela's sister Nabeel were gliding and sliding in the musalla with their socks. Keela's mom took a picture of us (S, me, R, Keela and Nabeel). Then, we left. We went to Albertsons and bought some food for the visitors. We got ice cream, cookies, and Go-Gurt.

Friday: Eid

I woke up like a few minutes before Fajr and I was like wondering if I could go back to sleep or not. Then, after a while, I heard the water being turned on upstairs, and so I knew that daddy was awake. Then, I got ready t'go. I couldn't find the dress, btw, so I had to be tradishunal, much to your disappointment. Then, when we were all ready to go, we went outside. Ummi told us to stand in front of the garage so she could take pictures. We were all worried about the cars passing by and wondering why ugly people in nice clothes were standing in front of a garage like poor peeps, and a ninja was taking pictures of them. XD.

So then we went to the masjid. People were fillin' up the masjid like ants to crumbs. R wasn't there yet, and Mnr wasn't either. So we sat fatly, watching people hug each other and listening to the takbir. And watching the weird, smelly kids. Pretty soon R came in. Her clothes were so JUICY. They were white and turquoise with millions of sequins. Even her socks matched.

(Unfortunately, I couldn't find my pink socks, so I had to wear my blue ones, and they didn't match at all with my pink baju krong.) Then, it was time for the salat. Me and Z went to the kitchen so he could eat, and we watched R's mom Sry do an activity with the little kids. They watched Take Me to the Ka'aba. Then they played a game. Then, my long lost friends came late for the prayer. (Their names are Nr and Hb.) Then I took Z out to the playground.

Pretty soon the prayer was over, and people came pouring to eat. Me, S, and R played at the playground and talked about henna and stuff like that. While I was waiting for Ummi to be done talking and for Abi to be finished drinking tea or something, I sat in the van with the door open and listened to a nasheed that I recorded on my camera. :D Then we went home.

Sandy's dad was supposed to come to our house so we could follow him to the farm. He took like a million years. He finally came. He led us to  place where there were millions of potholes and loads of flying dust. At the farm, nobody was there to supervise us. We took a look at the sheep and the pigs (blech!) and the chicken chickens. There was this teenage chick that escaped from the coop by a hole in the wire door. Abi tried to get it back through the hole by opening it more and saying, "Sini, sini, sini!" But of course chickens don't understand human language, and Malay at that, so it just ran away in fright. Pretty soon all the men came and they chose some good sheep. The only sheep there that wasn't scared of humans was the big black one with big horns. Sadly, we slaughtered it. I took a video of the first sheep to be slaughtered. S thought it was sick and nasty. But me, I could watch without wincing a smidgen, like I said twelve posts ago. I was planning to take videos of the other ones being slaughtered but then I changed my mind.

Finally, after sitting in the van being cold, Abu Yaz (Sandy's dad) said to Abi, "You can go now, F. You have kids." And I silently said, "YAY! Thanks, Sandy's dad." and S chuckled. So we went home, and I slept on the way.
Abi and Ummi cut the meat for a long time. I saw Ummi smashing chicken with the flat side of the knife to make it look more appetizing, as that's how they do nasi ayam in Maleesia.

Then the guests started coming after Maghrib. Auntie Saleem and Kylie came first. Kylie had a broken arm because of his daftness. Then Amunay came. Amunay is one of the coordinators for the Muslim Girls Club. Amunay left early 'cause she was scared about leaving her kids (Suheidi, Lulu, and Yasser) at home alone. Kylie played with H violently. After a while, Muhee, Hal, and Akeely came. Then Tonio, Noha, and Mstfa came. Me, S, H, Z, Kylie, and Mstfa played on the carpet. Mstfa tugged H's hair and pinched Kylie's nose. It was hilarious. Then everyone started to leave. Muhee, Hal, and Akeely left first. Then Auntie Saleem and Kylie left. Lastly, Tonio, Noha and Mstfa left.

Saturday: Post-Eid

I was the first to wake up. The living room was all nice and yellow, and everything was silent. I ate some cookies. Then Z woke up and we made bracelets. Pretty soon Abi woke up and said, "Siap Z! We're going to Chucky!" I told Z to get ready, but he said he didn't wanna go. Pala HOTAK n'kau! (That's Malay. I dunno what it means, but mommy says it and it's funny.)

I ran into my room and said to S, "Wake up, S, if you wanna go da Chuck!"
I ran into H's room and said to H, "Wake up, H, if you wanna go da Chuck!"

Next thing I knew we were in the van driving to the mall. We played at Chucky Cheeses for a bit 'cause H had a soccer game at 1:00 or something. The first thing I played was a bowling game. Then I played a football game.  I was slightly good at it. Then I put two tokens in a basket ball game that was broken and I had to ask the people to get it out.

All too soon, we three used up all our tokens. Boohoo! We fed our tickets to the ticket thingy and got prizes, then left.


The End.

5:34 PM

I can't find my Eid dress that I want to wear! And it's really nice looking, too. It's pink and red. The sleeves are pink with red dots and the skirt is ruffly and the rest is pink with red roses. I can't find it anywhere in the house!! I wore it last year and now I can't remember where it could be. I remember it lastly when it was outside with mom's and dad's laundry. So I think it is in their room. I looked in it but I can't find it. What a pity, too. If I don't find that one, I'll have to be tradishunal and wear a baju kurung that I got in Malaysia two years ago. That still fine, but I'd much rather find the dress. I wish someone would help me find it.

N

5:58 PM

1:38 PM

I'm bored. My camera is in my pocket right now. Today we went to Walmart after tennis. Interesting, right? Very. In fact...I have an idea. Be right back.


1:40 PM

I'm back with the camera USB cable. Now I'm taking my camera out of my pocket...I'm turning it on...I'm deleting some pictures...

1:45 PM

I'm done deleting all of the beautiful pictures of myself. Now I'm inserting the USB into the camera...and into the computer...everything is loading...Now the pictures are importing to the computer...it may take a while, so be patient. Catch you later.

1:53 PM

The camera is almost done. 19 items remaining...

1:56

Yay! The pictures are done. I'll upload some now...

2:02

Just finished my ice cream while selecting the pictures. Now I'll just paste them here in the post.

PICTURES!!! What a great word.

Ugh. The picture is too big. I'll have to resize it. Aarrrgh.

Firefox crashed. Now I'm on a different computer. It is 4:26 PM. The pictures are uploading. It's much easier on a computer than a laptop. Roughly about 20 more pictures.

11 more items remaining...

89 of 93...That was pretty quick!

The pictures are ready! Now I can post them here.. The first two were taken Friday night.

MASK MANIA!

 Z, the Creep-filled screaming Alien guy!

 Me, N, the Spiky Skull Kid!

 Z as Spider Man.

 H, the smelly Hulk. No difference. I can see the resemblance.

 Z as Ironman.

 H as Batman.

 Z as Walrus/Fangman/Sad Batman.

Me as Batgirl, with nostrils showing.

That is all for today. It is 6:59 PM.

I just sneezed. It is now 7:00 PM.

N

New Blog Title!

S has picked what I wanted her to pick! (Besides her nose.) She chose the blog title 'N's Voice'. That's exactly what I wanted! So sit back and enjoy the changes!

Blog Changes

I'm kind of getting tired of 'The Extremely Amazing Brain of N' as my blog title. First of all, it's kind of way too long, and second of all, brain is kind of a sick word. So what do you pick out of these choices?

1. N's Voice
2. My Voice
3. Diary of a Muslim Girl
4. Lightning Strikes
5. N's De-LIGHT-ful Diary

Use the comment box. I have no other options.

Sorry to DISAPPOINT you, H. If you still want your blog to be exactly like mine...you know what to do.

N

You Betta Read This Post! Lol. -_-

I just uploaded the pictures and videos to the computer. Here are the best pictures I found. 

 UV

 Cloudy

 UV under the bridge

Ultra-Violet POWER!!! Awesome Fish is here!

There was an error while uploading your video. Sorry.

Grr. Maybe later.

N

Inchworms!

We were out of town for ELEVEN days, not ten days. Ummi keeps telling that to everybody. But it's 11 days. I counted. Proof? We left on Friday. Then Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and lastly, Monday. Count all that and you'll get eleven. I guarantee it.

Anyway, last week on Saturday, I went with Ummi, Abi and Z to the Farmer's Market. (This was the day before I got my camera and betta.) So, like, we shopped there, and I bought cotton candy. Then we went to Shahit's store, and then we went to Auntie Saleem's house to get our plants back. Auntie Saleem wasn't home, so we raided and took back our plants. :D There were about four or three red tomatoes on my plant. I got excited when the bell pepper plant got loaded in the van, 'cause that's where I saw the two caterpillar eggs. While we were driving home, Ummi told me to look for caterpillars on the bell pepper plant. There weren't any. However, when we got home, Ummi was watering the plants, and S was peering at the big carrot plant pot. Suddenly...she found an inchworm!!! I thought it was a green grappler, because of the way it moved, but it just seemed to be another old inchworm. I looked harder and found another one! We put these two in Neptune old terrarium. Later that day, they were GONE.

Another day, I found another one. I put it in a jar along with some carrot leaves. Later I found a cocoon around it, along with some turds.

N

UltraViolet, or UV

My fish, UV, is way more healthier and active than Sunset ever was. But here's the annoying thing about UV. Whenever I come in my room to look at him, he gets all scared and hides under the bridge. Then he turns around and peeks out. It's really annoying. I've got a video of it, I think.
He's getting better and doesn't have to fast anymore, so I can feed him soon. Speaking of fasting, today I'm fasting for one of the Zhul Hijjah days.

Here is a description of UltraViolet:
BODY: Purple and blue
FINS: Purple and pink
FACE: Red
Sounds nice, huh? I still haven't settled on the name yet. My fish is a Veiltail Male.

Here's a description of Z's fish, Cloudy:
BODY: White with blue and black eyespots
FINS: White
FACE: White and pink
Beautiful, right? Z's fish is a Plakat male. We think it glows in the dark, but it doesn't.

Here's a description of S's fish, Iceblaze/Sharkbait:
BODY: Blue, red, white, and purple
FINS: Purple, blue, and white
FACE: Mottled white-ish yellow
Blagh. It's a Crowntail Male. It's all flowy-finned and fancy, like a king. No wonder it's a Crowntail. And S keeps saying it's CUTE. Huh. Even a baby betta's cuter than that old thug.

N aka Light

Evaluation, Hi-Skewl, and more

~The Speech Evaluation~

a Story by N

On Wednesday I had my speech evaluation, the same day S had to go to the High school for a test to see how much she smelled. JK. Right after fajr I had to take a bath and get ready to go. My Mammals Class was at 7 am, and it was 6:30 or so, so I had to rush. After I took a bath and all, I took my class. I was takign the second quarter of the class. Some of the students from last time were not there, but most were. Then, suddenly, the teacher was gone. Everybody was all in chaos, and, to not waste time, one of my friends became the teacher by asking the kids about their favorite mammals and all.Then, like half an hour later, the teacher came back. She said her internet just went out!! LOL. Not. So then, class proceeded, and then we had to go. I was supposed to pack my books last night so as to not waste time, but I was kind of tired, so I didn't do it. What do you think happened? Correct. Scolding. Not scalding. That would have been a possibility, though. So Ummi dropped me off at the place, and then went to the hi-skewl with S.

Fast Forward...

After the evaluation, Abi walked me back to his office. We stopped at Starbucks, where Abi got a drink for free because his birthday was two days ago. He got hot chocolate for me, and then we continued on our way to the office. Question: Why did I choose to drink hot chocolate on a hot day? Well, the evaluation room was cold, so naturally I would want to steam myself a little with the drink.

In the office, Abi passed over the Cookie Crisps cereal and said, "Here, your breakfast," because I told him that I hadn't had breakfast yet. *Sheepish* I drank my hot choc and it steamed my face and made a drop of sweat roll down my neck.

Then Abi gave me my schoolbooks, quite unkindly. :P I did some math, and then when it got boring, I read a book for Literature class.

This is how I sometimes do my math with finger food. If we have cherry tomatoes, I'll grab some and eat one after every question I finish. That's exactly what I did the with the Cookie Crisps cereal. ;D

Well, soon, Abi's phone rang. "Hi, Z!" said Abi.

Ugh, I silently thought. They's here to get meh.

(Speaking of ugh, do you wonder why some people say it like 'ukh' like the kha in Arabic instead of like gha?)

Abi finished the call and said, "They gonna be here in like faav minutes, Newr."

After faav minutes, he said, "I needa pee. Lezgo!"

Then he told me to siap. Boohoo! He put my books in a plastic bag and threw 'em in the trash. (I wish.) What he really did was that he put em in a plastic bag and kindly gave it to me. I wanted to take some last pieces of the cereal, but I didn't want Abi to say "Ehhh, Newr! Laaaa..." So we left the office and abi threw my hot choc cup in the trash, instead of the books. Boohoo!

When we was downstairs, Abi ran into the bathroom and told me to go outside and sit on the bench to wait for Ummi. I read the Redfearn book. It was kinda hard 'cause the sun was right on top of my head. Pretty soon Ummi come driving by, and beeped badly. That's when Abi came out. "Did you see yo' mom?" he said. "Yeah, she just passed by," I said, pointing for no reason at the empty road. Eventually Ummi meekly came driving back. I clambered into the front seat and put the plastic book bag at my feet. After Ummi and Abi discussed some things, we went to the high school to pick up S.

Bwahhahhaaa.

We went in a building and saw S in the first room sittin' at a desk. She seemed to be looking right at us. I grinned, but I guessed she was too scared to grin back. Who would grin for no reason in class, anyway? A weirdo, that's who. Soon S was done and she came out. When S was opening to door to go, her hands were so cold, compared to my sweaty ones.

S said she was hungry. I told her how I got my hot choc, and she said, "Lucka." And then I told her how I got to eat the cookie cereal. "Aww," she said mournfully.

When we got home, H showed us a movie he had made on the iPad about his science project. It was SO interesting.

While I made lunch, I saw some pancakes on a plate next to the stove.  I took one and kindly gave it to S, because she was hungry. After lunch was ready I yelled, "It's lunchtime!"

"Yay!" said S.

The end.

The Virtues of Zhul Hijjah

Ummi assigned us all an assignment to do for Zhul Hijjah. S has to find the ayah in the Quran about Hajj; I have to find the virtue of Zhul Hijjah, and H has to do something that I forgot. Our works are all due tomorrow, which is Thursday. So my works is here, right in my amazing blog. So there.

The Virtues of Zhul Hijjah

FASTING: The Prophet sallAllahu 'allayhi wa sallam said, "whoever fasts the day of Arafat will have his sins expiated for two years (the past year and the coming year)."

Do not cut hair or nails during the ten days if you are the one slaughtering the animal. This is for men of course.

You can recite the takbir during all the ten days, at all times, day or night until the Eid prayer.

There. Done.

Resources: http://theclearsunnah.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/the-virtues-of-dhul-hijjah/
http://www.allaahuakbar.net/eid/virtues_of_the_first_ten_days.htm

N aka Light aka Kitty Kid

Book Finished!

You needn't worry about the previous post. I finished my book and already some others, like Franny K. Stein: Frantastic Voyage and The Invisible Fran. And halfway through a Goosebumps book called Welcome to Horrorland! And half way through another book called Secrets of a Lab Rat: Mom, There's a Monster in Beeson's Lake!

So haha, you lost.

N aka Light aka Kitty Kid

I Have a Question for You.

What should I do?

1. Finish reading my Beezus and Ramona book.
2. Organize my drawers and clean up the room.
3. Write the In the Jungle story.
4. Take better pictures and videos of my fish UV who is no longer constipated.

What do you think? Put your opinion in the comment box.
...
Well, where ELSE would you put it, anyway?

N

Eid al-Adha

Eid al-Adha, insha'Allah will be next week on Friday! Ummi has an Islamic calendar, and it says just that! On my Gregorian calendar, it says it will be on Thursday, beginning at sundown. Yay. We get to celebrate it at sundown. How fun does that sound? xD Personally, I can't wait! Here's my bragging right: I can watch an animal be slaughtered without wincing, closing my eyes, or crying. But silently inside I feel REALLY sorry for the animal.

Here's a nasheed video about Hajj.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=dILMQJubax4&feature=endscreen

N, aka Light, Nurd, or Kitty Kid

A Post for S

Well, right now, S is in class, and she told me to make a post because she wanted to read, so here's the post.

I hate those skin snags on your fingers. They are extremely annoying and painful. I'm TRYING not to bite them or my nails anymore but it's addicting. Scream asterisk scream.

Orthotics are painful. Why can't everybody's feet just be the same and all have arches and no bunions?

Glasses people are mean. I want to get new glasses instead of these plastic pink ones. The glasses person I last saw said I don't need new ones. Grrrrr...

Cracking your knuckles is fun. Yesterday I went to my friend Mnr's house, and she was cracking her knuckles. Cracking your toes is fun too.

There's no more WATERMELON to eat. And my tummy is SO huge, I need to do my workout.

S thinks my fish needs to be returned. I slightly agree, but Abi hid the receipt somewhere, and so...BOOM.

The End.

New Camera and Fish

On Sunday, we went to tennis, as usual, and H had brought some water balloons for us to play catch with at the park. So we tossed them at each other, and H got the most wet. S got the least wet. I'm always in the middle. Then, H decided that we have a water balloon fight with the remaining balloons. When the balloons were all popped, we rollerbladed. Z biked with us. H rollerbladed down a hill, and I followed him down, and S stayed at the top of the hill talking to Z. Then H and I went back up, and S and H tried to make Z bike down the hill, but Z was too chicken. Then we went back to the court and timed ourselves coming down another hill. We timed ourselves with S's phone. Then we took off our blades and played at the playground. H wanted to see us hang from a bar from our knees. We timed ourselves again, and I won the first round. I also won the second round, but S won the last round. H said it was because our legs were fleshier than his. So he offended us by taking off his socks and putting them under his knees to imitate flesh. It didn't work, so haha. Pretty soon, Ummi and Abi were done playing tennis. On Saturday morning, I asked Ummi if I could buy another fish, (since Sunset died) and Ummi said, "How 'bout we buy it on Sunday. You should've told me when we were out on Friday, hari tu*!"
I meekly.
So, we went to Staples and Best Buy first, 'cause Abi wanted to buy me a camera, 'cause S burned my other one. Like a meanie. So, while Ummi, Abi, s, and Z went to Staples, H and I went to Best Buy. Abi told me to find some that were on sale. I found some real good ones, like a real nice red one and a nice blue one. I showed 'em to H, and he was like, "K." Then he went to see if the iPod touch came out. We played with the Macbooks and the iPads and computers. Then, we went to a place that had iPod nanos and head phones and things like that. That's when the rest came in. S failed at trying to scare us. I showed Abi the cameras that I chose, and it took sort of a long time 'cause Abi wanted to buy a hideous small Samsoong. (That's how he says it.) But I wanted to get Fujifilem (that's how he says it too) because my last one was like that, and I'm more used to it. So Abi got me the black Fujifilm camera. Yay! It was $86.04. What a price!
Then we left, and H was obsessed with the camera. He's like, "Cool! Can I open it?"
"Yeah," I said.
He put the string thingy on it, and then he put the battery in it, but there wasn't any memory card. H took a junky picture of us in the van. Then we pulled up into Petco. Abi told H to go to Big 5 to look for some things. Then me, S, Z, and Ummi went into Petco. Z wanted to get a fish too. He took years choosing. So did I. The yellow one that I have been talking about for years was gone, so I chose a purple one. Yellow wouldn't have gone good with my red, pink, and purple rocks anyway. So first I chose a nice purple one, but then ummi showed us more bettas, and so I took a purple and pink and red veiltail male. Z got a white one with blue spots and a pink nose. I think it was a Doubletail? I dunno. Then Z chose a 'No Fishing' bowl decor, and got some new water purifier. Then, guess what? We went to the crazy cashier again. Abi paid for everything. Then we went home. H gave me a memory card for 50 cents (he's obsessed with money). Then S helped me put my fish into its bowl. I recharged my camera, because they don't come recharged. How ruuude is that?

N

Z's Plakat Male Betta named Cloudy.

My Veiltail Male Betta named UV, or Ultraviolet. He's constipated. :( See how he's floating on his side?

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*Hari tu means 'that day'. It's Malay.

I Knew It! See How Smart I Am?

I knew the hawk moths would come out today! We came back from our trip last night at 11:23 PM. My tummy was grumbling all night because I hadn't had a hearty meal yet that day. Just sickly snacks. Like corn chips and Z's cookies. Sounds nasty, right?
Anyways, after Fajr, S told us that the moths came out. So I threw off my telekom* in joy and grabbed my grashes**.
The moths DID come out! OH MY! Squirt was pretty big, and he was on the wall. Nectaris was higher on the wall. Squishy was on the wall also, but you could only see his wing through the window, unless you looked through the window on the other side. Mine, Neptune, couldn't be seen, and everybody thought she/he was dead and didn't come out. WHY is mine always having problems? Anyway, I found it later on, on the ceiling. It was small. Small. Small! Sob asterisk sob. H kept saying the moths were SICK. SICK!
"Aauugghhh, sick, SICK!" he groaned and moaned, rolling on the ground. Not.

The Hawk Moths:
Nectaris - S's moth
Neptune - N's moth
Squishy - H's moth
Squirt - Z's moth
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*Telekom is my word for telekung, which means prayer garment in Malay.
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**Grashes used to be Z's word for glasses. He says it properly now.

Money Jokes and Helpful Advertisements

~THE MONEY JOKES~

    People in Oklahoma make lots of jokes about money. I suppose that's how they are. H says that's the fad in Oklahoma.
    First of all, we went to a place called OK Halal Meat and Grocery. There was a sign above the door that said, 'ENTERANCE'. Please. So we went in thought the Enterance, and Z didn't want to get out of the van, so me and S left him in there. He eventually came out.
    Abi ordered some food, and while the people were cooking it, we bought some things. Ummi got some seeds for honey lemon, and we saw some marshmallows that we gave to Ummi for confirmation with Abi, since Ummi is so persuade-y. Abi said 'not today' to the marshmallows, and usually, 'not today' means 'never'.
    The man told Abi that the meal was ninety dollars. Abi was stunned for a split second and then tried to be nonchalant and said, "O-kay."
    And then the man slapped his knee and blubbered about how good his joke was. Just KIDDING, bro! That would've been hillary.
    What really happened was the man grinned evilly and said, "No, actually, it's $19.00, brother."
    Haha. Do you SEE me laughing?

    The next money joke was when we was leaving the parking garage of the hotel. We had to pay to get out. So the woman said Abi had to pay seventy dollars. I think. I can't remember. Yeah, so that's what happened because I tend to have such a bad memory sometimes.
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~HELPFUL ADVERTISEMENTS~

    As you may know, every hotel has a TV in it. And with us, we always watch TV in the lame hotels, not the big fancy ones. I wonder why?

    Anyway, after Abi's conference in Oklahoma, we went back to Dallas for Ummi's Public Speaking Workshop for Sisters. So while ummi was attending it one day, and abi went there too, me, S, H, and Z were left in the hotel. So we watched Discovery channel like good kids. Some ads came on, of course. 

There was this really helpful ad called, 'Insanity.' It was a workout ad about fatties that did the Insanity workout and got muscle-y and thinner. It was crazy. It was a really long ad. But it seemed real helpful. I could use it. (DON'T SAY ANYTHING, JS AND H!) 

Another ad was about T-shirts. It was called Try Custom Ink. It was awesomely cool. You could design your own T-shirt and order one or a thousand T-shirts, and all for free. That got me to thinking about Zoe and Bo T-shirts. :D

Another ad was about a face cream called Proactiv that took away ugly face spots and aging marks and things like that. It looked pretty helpful. Not only to JS, though. XD

The Busy Day - and the Interface

This Post Is Ten Days Old. But Read It Anyway.

Sunday, September 23, 2012
THE BUSY DAY

a Story told by N

    Sunday was a busy day. First, we went to tennis (and left John at home). It was fun. The only thing I mostly do there is rollerblade around the court picking up tennis balls. After H got tired of playing tennis he wanted to go climb a tree, so he did. After he got down he tried another tree. He found a nice big thick stick (like his head). He told me to climb it first, and when I tried to, someone came to us with her frilly brown dog. Well, actually, it was a puppy. The owner said the dog was only a few months old. So we petted it, and then the owner went away.

    We continued to climb the tree, but I couldn't, so we went to another tree. H found a silly streams spray can and tried to spray it, but it was clogged or jammed or something, so he tried breaking it open with his 'staff'. The can was pretty strong, and after H whacked it a few times, it sizzled. But nothing came out. Then he got angry and hit it real hard, so much that it broke the stick (LOL). Then we played baseball with the can and the broken stick pieces. Then we gave up and went to the playground. We played something (I forgot) and then pap said, "Challo!" (That means 'Let's go!')

    So after we all stunk up the van with our sweat, we went to Unidad Park, which H calls Wooden Park, which is probably H's most b'loved park in the world. We played Obby Course, we swung on the swings, and then we went on the dreaded tire swing. First, H and Z went on it, and I pushed them. Then, Z got on, and H twirled him till Z did his scared cry. Then, I got on, and H twirled me, but Z didn't get out of the way, and my feet were sticking out, so his big old head got kicked by me. H was like, "Z!!!!!! I told you to get out of the wayyy!" Then it was time to go.

    It's really scary when H's angry, so watch out. He can dig his never-clipped nails into your skin and make you have flat, painful-peel scabs.

When we got home, JS was bathing. It was nine or ten AM, and we were going to the soup kitchen at eleven, so we had to get ready. After we were ready, John and me, we went to the kitchen where H was eating a sandwich. He was sitting on the counter greedily eating a PB & B sandwich.

    We brought the plate of sanwiches in the van and devoured them to death. Then we got to the soup kitchen. Joycie was there, and bald ol' Nubby, and I think Dr. Iqb was there too, I don't know. He was like, "Ohh, the whole family's here! That's nice!"

    So First, we badly made ham sanwiches, and then we wrapped them up. We were working with a girl named Kym. She and mom became the best of friends. Then we served the people. I was assigned corn, but then changed to Tray person by mean ole' Beck. I didn't like it, so mom switched with me.

    S did dessert, and H did watermelon. I did the sandwiches. And just how plain sad is that?

    After all that, the animal shelter person, Jn, was supposed to pick us up at 1 o'clock. We saw her through the window. S said bye to Kym and then we ran out.

    Jn said, "Wow, you guys do a lot of volunteering! I mean, this soup kitchen, the quilts, and the animals..."

     Jn's friend Glo was there too, apparently. Unfortunately.

    There was an open house at the animal shelter (which I'll just call SHAS now), so there was a cookout, sodas, and cookies. Plus more dessert. Oh, and fruits. Including STRAWBERRIES. YUM.

    We (Jn, S, Glo, and me) looked at a few dogs, and Glo and Jn talked to some people, which was apparently very boring and made my feet hurt because I had to stand there in my orthotics which is painful. Then we went to go see the cats. There were some nice new ones, and they were all shy and nice.

    Then went to a hut outside of the cattery, which contained the kittens. When it was finally our turn to go in, we went in (obviously) but Jn didn't wanna go in because she couldn't see no nothing.  So we were left in there with a staff and Glo.

    The kittens weren't quite kittens, they were like teenagers or something. The two boys were gray tabbies, and the girl was black. S and I went in there and petted them till they died. The girl wasn't very active, though, and she was kinda wild.

    We finally left that place and went back to the front to eat some. Then we left.

    There's this thingy, that you have to collect cans to save the animals or something. Always after Jn takes us to SHAS, she takes us can scouting. A lot of people in my location drink Bud Light, apparently.

    Jn gave us snacks and healthy soda. Lemon Lime Blue Sky Soda, cookies, Health Bar, Annie's Bunny Cheddar Cheese Crackers, and something else that I forgot.

   Glo talked too much and says she saw a can, and sounded disappointed when Jn said, 'No' or 'It's too far away'. They FOUGHT. When they both left the car, me and S remained, and I said, "Oh my God." And S said, "I know right? Old woman fight!" And then she laughed nervously.

    We finally were done scouting and Jn sent us home. Rudely.

~THE END~

Next story coming up in a few seconds...

~THE INTERFACE~

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~THE INTERFACE~

    I hate the new Blogger interface. It's messy and not neat, even if those two mean the same thing. It's all hideously white and orange, and hideous. It's so unorganized that I even forgot to to put labels on a post because I didn't know where they were. I mean, seriously, bro.

    What were you expecting this story to be about? Seriously. It's barely even a story, because I think I'll end it right now.

    Bye. See ya later.

Yay! It's My Birthday Today!

Today is October 1st, and today I am the age that is equal to 7 x 2. I am in a hotel right now in Oklahoma City. We started traveling on Friday, September 28 and went to Dallas, TX for a class by Omar Suleiman. The class was called Behind the Scenes. We got there for free Friday. Only me, H, and Abi were taking it, because apparently S had to study for her class or something, and Ummi was too busy with her class. So apparently some people have a lot of classes going on here.

Anyway, the class was kinda boring but Omar Suleiman made a lot of jokes at least. H and I drew a lot in our books, which made Abi scream, but at least some of the drawings were relevant. On Sunday, which was the last day of class, we left. We left right after the class ended. Well, we left after we had our last pee. Oklahoma was three hours away, which is quite surprising.

After the long, terrible three hours in the van, we got there. Our hotel was called Sheraton. We have to go to OK City (it isn't really okay at all) because Abi has a conference there. While waiting in the van for Abi to get our room, we saw some weird people out the back window. I saw a smelly kid peering into the hotel, and there were some weird dancing people. Somebody took the keys of a woman's car and drove it into the parking garage.

The beds are white and the bathroom is white, and the sink is too high. There is orange shampoo, yellow conditioner, yellow bar soaps, and white lotion. Very descriptive, right? Yes, well, anyway, I must tell you how my birthday went.

At somewhere around 3:00, we left the hotel. We had to be back at 4:00 because of Abi's conference. We went on a water taxi, and the tupA' water taxi driver asked the passengers if they had an October birthday today. Ummi stared at me meaningfully, but I don't like to talk muchly, so I remained silent. :D But a smelly person on the taxi named Angela had an October 1st birthday, so good for her. When we went under a bridge, the driver tupA'ly sang the birthday song along with the other tupA' passengers.

"Happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday to you!
Happy BIRTHday, undear unangelic Angela,
HAPPY birthday TO YOOOUU!"

After the tupA' taxi ride, we went to a souvenir shop. I bought some earrings for me, myself and I. And S too. S got lame ol' silver butterfly ones, and I got big, dangly blue and purple ones with a silver star on each. Then we went to peachwave, a frozen yogurt place. There was a thingy for that if it was your birthday today, you got to get a 16oz cup of frozen yogurt for free. And the weight didn't matter. So isn't that great? Yeah, so S and H told me to get a lot of frozen yogurt since it was free and all. I got what I thought was enough, but they told me to get more, so I hesitantly did. And then, I got loads of toppings. I got strawberries, white chocolate chips, Rolo candy, Skittles, rainbow sprinkles, and strawberry sauce. How good does that sound?!

Anyway, here's where something really eventful happened. They (mom, dad, S, H, and Z) left me in that place to finish off, (and who told me to get a lot?!) and I left the gift bag with the earrings in it in there! We were already walking back to the hotel when I suddenly remembered. So I gasped loudly and everybody stared at me oddly. Well, John and H did. So I told them the problem, and then John told mom, and then dad walked back to that place with me to get it.

So yeah, that's how my birthday went. Mom was playing Montezuma (a game like Bejeweled) on the iPad, and H and Z were playing with her, and then suddenly, mom lashed out at H because he was being annoying.

"Ahh, go a-WAY lah! I'm gonna play by myself. You're not helping!" :D

Then me, Z, and H surrounded mom helped her, but she didn't appreciate it. She said, "Okay, you all be VERY quiet. And don't mention any colors or you will distract me! GOH!"

So we tried to be quiet, but somehow H managed to say something, so the punishment was that mom played another one. But we all couldn't help ourselves, so mom played another one. We managed to
stay quiet and finally it was Z's turn. Then it was my turn, and then H 's. He didn't play Montezuma, though. He played Jetpack Joyride and Fruit Ninja.

Oh yes. When it was my turn, mom chased H and JS around the hotel room with her spit. Mom - a human goat? Correct.

A few hours later, dad came back for his conference, and then Maghrib came, and dinner, and now I'm on one of the white beds typing this post on the iPad.

N

Squishy Gets To His Senses

Squishy finally burrowed, I think on Saturday was it? Maybe. Or maybe was it Friday night?? Yesh. Whatever. Who cares?

There are dark green turds all over his terrarium. Seems to me he found a good place already unlike Nectaris and Squirt.

Bye-Bye Diarrhy and Nectaris and Squirt

Nectaris and Squirt burrowed last night, S says. (Nectaris is S' hornworm and Squirt is Z's.) Now H's is the only one left. He made a terrarium for his caterpillar (who I'll just call Squishy from now on) today. Then he smellily went to go bathe like a smella. S and I went out to get some dirt.
I got called to put the food away, so while I was doing so, S & H were setting up the terr. for Squishy. Then H had to go to Joomah.

Squishy was in his terr., but he didn't burrow right away. He just went crawling everywhere daftly. I gave him a leaf. What a greed!

Also, I saw Nectaris and Squishy come out of their burrows and burrow somewhere else. I was wondering why, and then S later found out that they sometimes come out to find just the right place.

Neptune hasn't been doing that, and there's a high probability that he/she has already found the right place...or died.
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Oh yeah, and I've been keeping a journal for Neptune. It isn't much. It's called N's Hornworm Diarrhy. (In Honor of Caterpillar Turds.)

This is mainly what it says:

MONDAY NIGHT

8:43 PM - Just cleaned out jar from turds. Now it's eating a little.
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TUESDAY MORNING

7:54 AM - Sleeping.
12:21 PM - It woke up and now it's eating its tomato!
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WEDNESDAY

7:40 AM - Leaves and tomato all gone. Trying to escape. Just gave it some tomato leaves.
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THURSDAY

IT BURROWED! I guess that means bye bye Hornworm Diarrhy.

Burrowing. How Sad.

This morning my caterpillar burrowed. ISN'T THAT SAD?!! It wasn't even big enough!!

H and S thought it escaped, but I dug in the terrarium and dumped the dirt into a cardboard thingy that used to be a cardboard drawer. I finally found my caterpillar!! (I named him/her Neptune, btw.) I let my caterpillar crawl around a bit, and I even put it on S while she was having her class and it fell on her thigh. No, she didn't scream. H would've, though. He's a chicken.

Terrariums

H finished making the terrarium today. S and I transferred our hornworms from jar to terrarium. My terrarium was an old cardboard shelf, with some modifications by S. H made a real nice one with windows on the sides. And it was big.

First, we went to the backyard to dig up some good dirt. S piled it up in the terrarium. Then we went back inside and out to the front yard to get some leaves and decorations. And to plop the caterpillar in. After we were done with everything, we sat back and admired our work. Then we took the terrariums in and put them in the sunroom. H's still didn't have a terrarium to go in, so like a few hours later after all that, we took H's caterpillar out of its jar and let it walk around some. Then, S got called into the house, so I remained out. Our room is the closest to the front yard and its window is next to the door. So I could see S in our room through the window. S told me to put it on the window. I put it there and it started crawling. Then Abi came back from work and saw the caterpillar on the window.
"I hope you guys don't get rashes from touching it," he said rudely.
"We won't get rashes," I said.
"Oh!" he said surprisedly.

So that is the story of the terrariums.

I Thought It Was Dead.

But it wasn't.

The inchworm inside its cocoon is now turning brown. I thought it was dead, but S said it was just a chrysalis or something. I faggot.

More Bugs

Yesterday, I lifted up one of the pots in the 'garden' and found millions of cockroaches, plus a white one. I was like 'whaat' and dropped the pot. I also found two eggs on the bell pepper plant.
I later found out that white cockroaches re not albinos, that's just what they look like right after molting.

And as for today, S gave the caterpillars tomatoes and now their turds are red and shiny. I even found a dark green turd a few minutes ago.

Inchworm, Tomato Hornworm, and Turds.

I found an inchworm yesterday in the 'garden' after watering the plants. It was crawling on a rock. I picked up the rock and lingered around a bit more in the garden in case there were anymore caterpillars around. There weren't, so I went back inside.

H thought the inchworm was just another tomato hornworm but obviously he was wrong. First of all, it didn't have a horn, and second of all, S said that newly hatched tomato hornworm are white or yellow. This inchworm was green. Third of all, tomato hornworms have big heads, and the inchworm had a pretty small head.

Later that day, S found a thready case around the worm. "Oh cool! It's making its cocoon!" S said. "What? Really?! That's awesome!" I said. No wonder it had been moving its head all day.

Also, I found out that my hornworm had turds all over its jar. The turds looked like small blackberries. Seeing them all piled up together was disgusting. I felt like barfing. Ugh. You should've seen it. Get this, I even saw a turd come out of the worm's tocks! It came out and then the slit closed up, quite primly. Yuck. Shortly after that, I found it sleeping, and two turds were stuck to its feet. "Sedapnya tidur, dengan turd turd lagi," said ummi. (Find the translation on Google translate, if you are so inclined.) Later, before abi went to the masjid for Isha, S and I went outside to dump out the turds. S said they looked like little grenades. XD

Ummi said we should have a diary about the caterpillars. So I got my nature journal and made one.

The worms are quite interesting. I can't wait to put up the pictures and videos!

N

3:01 PM

So I was looking at the last post that I made and didn't know it existed and so then I thought I have to make a new post about the awesomeness of myself and all...

What's new? TOMATO HORNWORMS, that's what! Ummi found some yesterday b4 we went to tennis and H came to the van to tell us and me and S thought he was joking...that will go in a different post. N's News.

N

3:03 PM

Random Stuff

Things I hate.
I hate Puritans...and I hate Elizabeth George Speare's book. And I hate HSI. I have to read a smelly book about life among the Puritans. (It really is smelly!) I hate decimals, fractions, and dumb old people in word problems. I hate H. (He's good 1/2% and bad + annoying 100 and 1/2%.) I hate essays, science, and SCHOOL. And I hate big smelly dogs and small smelly dogs.

Things I don't hate.
Cake, cream cheese, cats, kittens, puppies, live classes ABOUT THINGS I LIKE (don't get thinking), gardening, tomatoes, Eyewitness DVD...and there's too much to list down here.

Sew, What's New? Um......nothing. Bai.

N

Toes These Days.

I just came back from my foot appointment and they said it was healed. They were like, wow, that was fast! And we just surgeried you last week!!

Carrot Top.

Today I pulled out a small carrot from the 'garden'. H screamed and said I pulled it too early. Ummi said to cut off the top of the carrot and put it in water. And give the rest to Z. How sad was I to know that he gobbled up that carrot and didn't even say it was good. Just kidding.

Blah.

Foot appt today at 3:30. How sad. BOOHOO!

YOU Choose.

What post do you want me to make next? Ambord.

Options:

• N's Knowledge
• N's Narrations
• N's News

I still have that post in progress. heh. It's about something weird called Cheese Ensaymadas and Eid Cookies. Weird...

:P

Now It's BOTH OF THEM!!!

I had my appointment today for my toes. I recently found out I had an infection on my right and left big toes. So today, when it was my turn to go in, I told the nurse I had infections again and she was like, "Really? Seriously? Dang it!" Then she said, "You know what this means, right?" And I said, "Yeah."

It meant SURGERY again.

I braced myself. JK. I hate it when they give me the shots.

Blood spurted everywhere, and the doctor laughed evilly, snapping the scissors together threateningly.

...

Not really. The truth is, I saw BLOOD. Dark red, coming from my toe. Then, they took the scraping tool and scraped all that nasty stuff from my toe. Then they put cream on and everything, and stuck wooden sticks with fluff at the end, in the corners of my toe. Then they cleaned my toe and I was good. My tummy still hurt though from the shot.

I got down from the chair and put on my shoes. I felt a little wobbly.

Z in the other room got straps, and it appears to be that his feet are worse than mine. Yehoo! JK.

~Eid Mubarak~

Assalamu Alaikum. Eid Mubarak to all.

N

New Things

You would think I haven't been putting up new posts because nothing interesting happened to me lately. Well, you're wrong. I have millions of news and posts to make and they mostly include baking, and I am taking years to put the pictures up because they are on this one computer and I rarely get to it, plus the pictures take YEARS to upload. Anyways. To the real news:
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My sister cut my hair on Wednesday in the sunroom. I was like sweating real badly during the whole process, and I had to sit still, which I am not good at (and I thought I was). So S turned on the fan, so that was good. Then H came in and turned up the speed of the fan. Thanks so much H. Anyway, S followed this tutorial on how to give someone a layered cut. It was about this annoying Chinese (I think) guy giving a layered cut to this woman, and the background song was all sickly and the man talked too much.
And today S cut my mom's hair and fixed mine.
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Ummi has banned me & H from saying BLEEP and BEEP and BLEEPING and BEEPING.
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Today S and I made Biskut Bijan and Dixie Pixies. If you dummies don't know what those are, use Google. And yesterday H made these weird brownies with chocolate icing. Yum!
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I have a post in process 1/4 done.
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I can't wait for Eid!
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N

CurrClick

I'm taking classes on CurrClick for my science. I just finished one session about dragonflies and damselflies. Here is the website.

CurrClick - Curriculum and Classes in a Click!

Pizza!

On...Monday was it? Yes, it was Monday. H had wanted to make pizza, so we did. S and H did the dough (w/o me) and let it rise. After an hour I think, H took the dough out and then we all started putting the sauce on and the cheese. H was rushing 'cause he had to go to the masjid, so his pizza was extra-hideous.

The dough - doesn't it look prim?

H kneading it.

H's horrible pizza, pre-baked. S wanted to put too much cheese.

This is a short clip of H kneading the dough.



The more beautiful pizza made by me and S.



Classico Traditional Pizza Sauce.



Me holding the cheese over the sauced pizza.



Cheese sprinkling time.



Almost fully cheesed.



The finished product - beautifully cheesed by me.



H's pizza again.



Our pizza baking in the oven - we added a finishing topping of tomatoes.



The finished pizza.

And H made more pizza today. He got filmed by S. His show is called Hammy's Kitchen. His pizzas were the most horrible things ever! And he and S greedily dibbed on the best cheese sticks!

N

Judging

Today we went to the masjid for S' judging.

First we went to the post office to send a package to Grandmy, and then we went to the library to pay a fine for Z's tupA' book, and then we went to the masjid. I was sweaty.

So first we prayed Asr, and then we went to the classroom. S went first, with Surah Al-Mulk. She got a few mistakes and hesitated in some places. But mom, she was worse. She hesitated too much, and needed to be corrected in some places. She was doing Surah Maryam.

When she was done we left immediately. At home we listened to a lecture by Omar Suleiman about Laylatul Qadr and took turns playing with playdough and taking notes.

N

Potluck, Fish, and Cake

I have three posts to make today. One for Saturday and two for Sunday.

(PS: The title obviously says Potluck, Fish, and Cake. The words 'fish' and 'cake' just don't sound right together. It sounds nasty.)
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~The Potluck~

On Saturday, there was community iftar, as always, and that was the night I THOUGHT they were gonna announce the winners. After Maghrib I thought they would announce it, but no. So we ate our iftar and all, and it was really good! There was serving this time because usually when people take their food by themselves it's so slow. And there were less people this time because the Pakistanis had a party. So yay! The quietness. I didn't know there were so much Pakis.

S told Sandy that we brought a smoothie (made by me of course) and then Sandy was like, "Dude. Where's the smoothie?" So I showed her where it was, and she asked me what was inside it, and I said, "Blueberries, yogurt, soymilk, and lemon." So she drank it, and she was like, "Wow, N! This is so good! The lemon makes it so good!" Then she blubbered about how she used to hate lemon and all. And then, GUESS WHAT?! Mom showed me off to some of her friends named Myr, Joycie, and Umm Yaz. She told me to get the smoothie and some cups. And so I did, and then they were like, "You should make a smoothie shop called 'N Made It.'" And I'm like, ":D." Then Joycie looked at me and said, "I love your scarf. It really brings out the creaminess in your skin. You know, the lilac color." I was wearing a light purple tudong. Everyone went like 'Awww'! Well, mom and Myr and Umm Yaz did, but S and Sandy went like "Mph!" and "Hahaha!" Then mom said, "You're embarrassing her!" But Joycie said, "No, really! I wish my skin was like that." Then it was dessert time. It was oreo cake, I think. Then it was Isha time.

Sandy asked when they were gonna announce the winnahs, and I said, "I don't know, maybe after Isha?" And when they didn't, I thought, 'maybe after tarawih, then?' But no. Then I thought, 'Fine, maybe after witr.' And no.

So I asked mom why they didn't announce it, and she said, "I think it's 'cause they're waiting for the women."

Apparently the women's judging was on Tuesday, so bleep.
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~The Fish~

On Sunday we went shopping. Abi said we had to go shopping before the last ten days of Ramadan. Before we went we were like 'should we go or not' and then I asked mom and she said, 'Haa, boley lah!" So we went.

First we went to Petco while dad went somewhere else, I forgot.

S and I immediately went to the betta fish place. I went to where the rainbow rocks were, but they weren't where I saw them last. So I just went to the betta bowl decoration aisle. S said she wanted to buy a skull, but mom was like, 'ish, jangan lah!' S had olso said she liked my plant, so I got to choose a plant for myself. I was just about to get one when S changed her mind like Z.

"Actually, I'm going to buy my own plant."

BLEEP.

She took a very long time choosing. Then she changed her mind again! BLEEP x 2.

So I took a nice red silk plant, and a blue bridge. Then after I walked out of the aisle I noticed the rainbow rocks. I took the last pack of red, pink, and purple rocks.

S, apparently, got a castle for her fish to swim through. Then she got the water purifier. Then we joined mom and H & Z in looking at the other pets. We looked at the mice, the birds, the chinchillas, and the kittens. The kittens were so bleeping cute and so were the chinchillas. And of course mom thought the dumb old guinea pigs were cute. *BARF*

When we were done browsing we went to go pay. The cashier man was very odd. He was jolly.

"Hello! What've we got here today?"

"Hmm, I'm gonna wrap this up in a bag so it doesn't break." (Wraps up the bridge in a plastic bag)

"Would you like to donate a can of food to help the cats?" (Picks up a can of cat food and swings it around)

"Thank you, do you have a Petco card?"

"Thank you, have a good day. Hello sir, what do you..."

LOL.

So after that was done with, we went to the hated Ross, and then the disliked Marshalls, and the hilarious smelly Big 5. H needed cleats for his soccer. In a certain place mom found fresh shields for H. S was laffing like cra-Z about them. So much so she was even laffing after we left the store.

At home before Zohor, S got my bowl cleaned and decored. First she took the fish out, then the water, then put the gravel on a tissue to dry. Then she put in the decor and poured some smelly apple cider vinegar on it. Then she put in the water, and then the purifier. Then my fish's bowl was done. It was Fish Kid's turn. Fish Kid aka Iceblaze aka Sharkbait.

Sunset on the bridge.

S did hers and then when it was done we went to go pray. I made waz and when I lifted up my right leg to wash my foot, my best knee banged into the sink counter. I noticed later on in the shower that I got a bad bruise.

IceBlaze and his castle.

Sunset's bowl is beautiful now. ↓



H claims he told me to buy the bridge. Well, he didn't. I chose it for myself and that's that. I'm the one with good taste here.



Staring in rage at each other.

Here's a little video I took of Sunset biting my finger. I always make him bite my finger before I give him food. It's a little trick S invented.

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~The Cake~

That same day, H wanted to make sponge cake with fruit and cream. He got into a little argument with mom about folding. :D

So after dad came home from Shahit's store with the berries, H started the cake.

"Who wants to help me?" he said.

"Me," said me.

"M'kay."

So while he got everything out, I went to go look at Sunset. Suddenly H came in my room and said, "C'mon, Nar, let's go make the cake!"

I followed him to the kitchen in most grudge. He started making the cake.

Sifting the flour.

S holding eggs over flour.

(fast forward - I don't want to tell all about how we made the cake - I forgot anyway)

...I remember using the hand beater to make the cream. It required patience and it hurt my hands real bad. Then I remember H pouring the strawberries in a bowl and putting them in the fridge because he left them out too long and they melted.

Then the cake was ready, and it was too short (thanks to H's geniusness), so S made another one. Then it was frosting time. H decored the first layer with cream and the strawberries. Then he put the other cake layer on top and started frosting the whole cake. It was very messy. Then he decorated the top and the base with the remaining strawberries. It looked wunnerful. Then he poured the remaining strawberry sauce over the cake.

The end result.

Then when it reached Asr time, we woke up mom and prayed asr, an then we went downstairs and H said to show mom the cake so I showed her the pictures I took of it. She said to give it to the bleeping neighbors!! >:O I was like, shouldn't've showed her the pictures!

So H was sent out with a plate of cake to give to the neighbors. But they weren't home, so yay! XD

When it was time to break, H and I ate the cake pieces that were meant for the bleeping neighbors.

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Well, those are all the stories for today.

N