1:39 PM

Yea, nasi ayam for lunch! Whoopee!

It was very spicy. Well, only the chili sauce. But at least it wasn't TOO spicy for my intake.  The chicken was moderately good, and the veggie - blagh.  It would've been better if Mom did not hog all the mushroom for the broth. I mean, whoever heard of that? I've heard of mushroom soup (which I heart intensely), but mushroom BROTH? C'mawn, man, I'd rather eat mushroom brethren. XD
Anyways...oh yeah! I was talking about the veggie. Well. Mom told me to cut carrots. Then she said, "So basically you just choose your veggie you want to cook." I silently screamed, "I DO NOT LIKE CARROTS IN MY VEGGIE!" I don't like crunchy carrots. I only approve of soft, cooked carrots. Annnd...we didn't have Zergut. So my veggie was kinda nasty. As for the greens - huh! They were FLOWERS. And there weren't enough. Hmph - chicken bok bok choy is better. And the rice was just fine. All yellow and all.
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Hey! Guess what! It's 1:47 PM now.

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

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.

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 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...

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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

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

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

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

My Smoothie

Apparently mom took pictures of my best pink smoothie, sooo...

This is the ONLY picture though, so stop crying. Oh and also, I made another pink smoothie last night, and I was planning to add my secret ingredient but I didn't want mom to see it. The secret ingredient was chocolate ice cream, because raspberries go great with chocolate. In my opinion, of course.

Oh & BTW, Joycie called this morning @ like 6am and told us to look @ the rainbow outside. So we did, and mom took pictures of the rainbow & told us to get Z because he 'likes' rainbows. So S had to go in the house & wake Z up. Z was apparently still sleepy & smelly. Mom was like, "Look, Z! Rainbow! Rainbow! *fake gasp* Haaa, rainbow, Z!" Then S said we could look at it better in the front yard, so we went.

This is it in the backyard. There was a light rain coming down for some reason.

Joycie said there were double rainbows, so we tried to find it. Then mom finally found it. It was faint. Mom said Z likes rainbows but then S said now he's gonna hate them forever. LOL.

This is it in the front yard, and if you look closely you can see the double rainbow.

Then after Ummi was done looking at the rainbows she took like a hundred pictures of the plants. Literally.

My tomato plant now has 19 small green tomatoes growing on it. I broke off all the yellow leaves.

My BEST t'mato plant.

N

Unwrapped in a Smoothie Dilemma

Yesterday while we were waiting for Maghrib, me and Z watched Sweet Secrets Unwrapped with Marc Summers. We took turns listening to it with the headphones because the loudspeakers don't work. Then S came along. *SCREAM* We watched all the sweet secrets and then S wanted to watch Paula Deen. Paula doesn't have a deen.
H cut chunks of cheese for us to break our fast with. Mom had told me to make smoothies, and that's when the dilemma began.

~The Smoothie Dilemma~

Ummi told me to make smoothies so I did. I got raspberries and strawberries from the chest freezer in the garage. I got the blender out and everything. Ummi said I had to make Z's first. So then I piled the berries in the blender and then started pouring in the soy milk. But, the getah couldn't be found, so the milk spilt everywhere. *SCREAM*

***A few minutes later after calling Ummi from her exercising***

"Ayyayyaaa..." says mom.

"The rubber thing is gone." I say.

"Alamak..." says mom.

"Abi likes to take all the parts away," continues mom.

"Well..." says me.

(Mom opens a drawer and finds a different kind of blender, a hand blender.)

"Haa, use this," says mom. "It's a hand blender."

(I silently sigh with relief and pour the berry+soymilk mess into the cup, and then mom hand-blends it up. It turns into a nice pink glob of gluten free smoothie.)

"Haa, get a cup lah!" says mom.

(About to get a cup until - )

"Eh, actually I thought you were going to add his yogurt?" says mom.

"Emm..no," I say.

"Eh, letak lah!" she insists.

"M'kay."

(I open the fridge and get out his nasty soy yogurt. I take a spoon and spoon it in. Then mom blends it some more, and now it is finally done.)

"Haa, pour it into a cup and give it to Z," says mom.

(I pour it into a tall green cup and place @ Z's place @ the dining table.)

"Haa, Z! Your smoothie! Go get a straw!" says mom.

(Z goes 'n' gets a straw, and I start making our smoothie.)

(I pour more berries in the cup and blend it. I add our yogurt. Then it is done. Another pink glob. It's really globby and doesn't slide a bit when I attempt to pour it in a cup. So I take a spoon and spoon it in. Then I try to slurp it up, but the globbiness makes an effect on me trying to drink it. It is not very sweet, but good enough.)

(H drinks the smoothie and I think he sorta kinda likes it but he insists on adding sugar next time.)

That is the end of the smoothie dilemma story. I am going to try and make another smoothie today, this time with a little sugar. Oh, and I forgot the flaxseed.

N

Motabak

Today S and I are gonna make murtabak for the masjid's community iftar tonight. And maybe next week we'll do pizza...
H has to go shoppin' first.