7:24 PM

Hello everybody.

What's New?

I just changed the blog name to 'The Light's the Limit' and the URL is 'awesomenra.blogspot.com'.
Me and S are now Sunday School teachers. Three years ago we were students.
I'm getting more into writing my stories.
Momma is trying to lessen our computer hours. But there ain't nothing to do here, it's so boring.
S just got a new phone. I envies her. I should be able to have one already!! MY friends younger thn me already have one!!
Ummi finished her TQ class about two weeks ago. We had a party after Mom was all done sniffling and reflecting.

What Isn't New:

I have three classes tomorrow. Last week I did two presentations and the students, of course, loved it.
We went to Kohl's on Friday and I bought a pair of purple pants and a gray sweatshirt.
Ummi's new obsession is boba.

Today:

It was all horrible and gloomy and rainy today. We went to the library. I didn't get any books because they were all boring. We then went to Kinko's. Well, Ummi and H did, because me and Z went to PetSmart. I now want a pet bird or hamster.

The End.

N

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. >:)

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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!!

Might

Isn't it weird how, whenever you say might, the person thinks it will happen?

Example:

Me: I might go to the masjid tonight.
Person: Okay.
(You don't go.)

Next day:
Person: Why weren't you at the masjid last night?
Me: I told you I might go. I didn't say I would go.

N

11:33 AM

Just finished making Mexican Brownies a while ago with S. They're in the oven now, and we're just waiting for them to be done so we can make the coffee frosting. Yum!

The last week of my massage class is today! Yay! I be free!

N

Which One?

I am not satisfied with my background picture. So could you please help me out?
Should the back ground be this:



this,



or should I just keep the one I have now?

N

Pasta Comes in Many Different Shapes

Before our nap, H invented a new song. It's called, "Pasta Comes in Many Different Shapes". It goes like this -

♫♪ Pasta comes in many dif-rent shapes, shapes, shapes,
Macaroni,
Rotini,
Penne,
Linguini,
Angel Hair, and more more more more morrrre... ♫♪

Wonder why it's about pasta of all things? Well, he was singing the Yankee Doodle song, and there's macaroni in there, so it continued on from there.

He says, "I mean, pasta comes in different shapes and all, but it's got the same flavor! It's so tupA'!"
And I'm like, "Well, actually, there's gluten-free pasta, and whole wheat pasta..."

N

Time...GRRRRRrrrrAAAGH!!!

My mom says I have to start doing math now because she sees I have a lot of free time. Why do I have to do things? This is Ramadan! A time of weakness, when you use all your muscles to get up the stairs. GRR! I hate school! I want to kill the dummy who invented it in the first place! }:(

N

H's New Blog!

H apparently is being weird today, and now he wants to copy my blog. Here it is, if you dare to view it...

The Extremely Amazing Brain of H

And H wants S to make one too, called The Extremely Amazing Brain of S (or J). I would really like it if she made it. :) We would be the Extremely Amazing Brain team!

Oh, and sorry, blog viewers, if you couldn't get to my blog. Due to constant brother questions, I had to change the URL of my blog from TEABON to AMAZINGBRAINN. But that's okay. I didn't like teabon that much anyway.

N

Yay! Massaging is Ovah!

Well not yet, but it will be this Friday! I'm so happ-filled! I hate that class! I was forced to take it!

Ahem.

The 'it' is this tupA', girly, dumb massaging class that I was forced to take. The last week of it is this Friday! And I am as happy as a poor, homeless person getting a big dish of enchiladas!!! Woohoo!!!

These are enchiladas! They are so yummy!
Sorry. I'm a big fan of cheese.

N

Another Poem

Well, that last poem I made was fun to write, so I guess I'll make another one.
Right now we're making roti canai, following the recipe from my grandma's blog, Cherry on a Cake.
So let's see...what should this poem be about? Hmm...
Aha! I know!
Roti Canai! Genius, right?

©Roti Canai

Roll a ball
Of dough
Throw it
Into the oily bowl

Cling film on top of the bowl
And wait
Now it's ready!
All you have to do is fry it and
Inhale that yummy smell of roti canai!

©2012 N.F.

Ramadan Day 5

Yesterday was our last day of studying the culture and history of Islam in Indonesia, and we finished the PowerPoint presentation. It's actually really lame. I have just gotta tell you. I think today we have to start doing the country of Afghanistan. Oh my.
Oh! You wanna know something funny?
If we can't make a food that we find from research of any country, we have to make it out of clay! I mean, seriously! xD Indonesia was easy, but this...?

I hope we're going out today. I need my rocks.

Today H and I are gonna make roti canai. It's real good. For those who don't know Malay, search this up.

N

Must...Go...To...Petco...

We need to go to Petco sometime soon. Sunset's tank looks so boring without a plant and rocks, and I don't think he likes it either. Also, we need new water purifier. The old one that H gave us expired. Yuck.

Yes. Must...Go...

N