Oh the memories!

OK... well SHeen Monster is not posting.. i haven't personally posted in ages... so here... have fun!

So my friends, I guess you all saw this coming. I clearly have lost interest in blogging in case you haven't been able to tell by my lack-lustre posts and banale interpretations. I guess posts don't come out as great as when they're written in the name of Procrastination! YAYYYY PROCRASTINATION! I was checking out some old posts and they're pretty darn hilarious. But all I ever blogged about was school pretty much, and unlike before, I seem to have lost that ENERGY and wackiness. I'm still on the wacky side though, trust me, just a tad bit subdued from before. Maybe I need a stress-inducing schedule to bring some life back to this place?? :P And this time I can't just go around and wipe the site off the face of the earth like I did last time. (haha!!) So you'll have to deal with an empty un-updated site for all time. :P Plus, in this way, if you lose my contact information, you always know where to go.

With that said, my blog-quitting in no way should detach me from my blog-friends. hahaha YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE. I'm still up for 2007 baybee! Dunno where, dunno how, but I'm up for it. Plus, I've noticed I'd rather speak to my online friends on the phone or in person now than online. Kinda strange how that happened, it's like I've developed an impatience for typing out my responses. AND! it's also a good sign that my online friendships have developed into real ones. hunh? hunh? :P

hahaha so keep in touch ladies and gents! Take it easy for sheezy, and live the good life inshaAllah. WOOHOO!

wassalam!!

P.S. Congrats to my buddy ziggy on becoming an official arkitect! You don't know how proud I am to now have my future house built for free. ;)

I've gone and done it again. I suffer from a bad habit called OVERpacking and not sleeping all night before a trip (Sadiya, I know you love me)!!! Not only that, I think my blog has had enough travel posts from the big T.O. that it's almost not as exciting anymore. I almost feel sorry for my blog. SORRY BLOOGIE!! So yeah anyways, here I am, in the big T.O. with zero sleep and almost ready to hit downtown and surrounding places of interest. I think I'm going to take a nap though. Our flight was at 6am and like true Rana style, we got there at 5:40. hee hee. And the highlight of my flight in... the security gaurd spoke french with me!!! and I was able to respond and he thought I spoke french so he continued to ask me questions in french until he noticed my delay in responding after each question. hmmmmmm c'etait tres plaisant!

mais ok, il faut que je dorms maintenant, toute de suite, vite vite. et puis HIT THE TOWN! inshaALlah.

possible things to do:
queen st. shopping
promised yonge st. runner shopping with slofat!
hahaha this grade 9'er just asked me to join them in their after-school baseball games! so hmm, maybe i'll do that in the next few days
Marche (Richtree)
Demetre's!
Handi
Frederick's
Lahore Tikka House
Some Thai place that someone told me about but I can't remember (falla? fulla?)
Sassafraz!! (haha good GOOD memories from there last time)
Demetre's.
Demetre's.
Demetre's!!
Harbourfront?
Royal Ontario Museum?? (free on fridays??)
CityLine City TV?? hahah too bad, i think all reservations are booked
and a CAIR dinner on Saturday inshaALlah.

Yes, this is going to be one FILLING trip inshaAllah. I wish Kiran were here though. Why she's still gallivanting in the pakiland, I have no idea. The odds of me coming here TWICE and she's still not back is very odd indeed. ODD INDEEED.

ok assalamualaikum. time to go out.

Spring Blossoms

Alhamdulillah, I’m so very happy these days and I’m not too sure why. It could be the weather mind you, it kinda makes you wanna skip around when no one’s looking… or even when people are looking. Not really a big deal. :P *skip, skip*
But I think it’s mostly that I’m just satisfied, and satisfaction is a wonderful feeling! I was speaking to a friend the other day who just turned 30 mashaAllah. She was telling us how on the day before her birthday, she woke up and proclaimed to her family, “Okay everyone, this is the last day, anyone in this house is in their twenties.”

Hahahha sounds gloomy doesn’t it? But then her mom chirped in, saying the thirties are the best time of your life! So then we got into a discussion of how everyone in their thirties are happy campers, and MOST really do claim it to be the best time of their lives. I’m sure each and every one of us have met people that have said the same thing, and I think mostly it’s because by that time, you know more of who you are, what you want, what you like/dislike, and where you wanna go from here. Even being 24, I’m a lot more comfortable in my shoes than last year, the year before, and the year before that. (With no relation to the previous post of course). And perhaps that’s just why I’m so happy. I used to torture myself for swaying more towards mediocrity than my big dreams, but I’ve given up my pride enough to realize now more than ever that success comes at a snail pace, and I’m ready and willing to take the slow ride; Even better, I’m looking forward to it!! And I’m so much more relaxed about everything alhamdulillah, despite continuous chaos. It’s not that I’ve tuned it all out and put it on the backburner, but moreso, I’m prioritizing and choosing my battles. I know what I want and that’s what I’m gonna work hard for. Sometimes I think it might be a little selfish when you’re still trying to balance relationships and make everything meld into one workable image, regardless if that workable image is merely a euphoric unachievable fantasy. But alhamdulillah, I’m comfortable enough with myself right now that I’m willing to try and attain the unattainable – that fantasy mold, knowing very well the reality of it being one rough ride. Thank God for lows that raise you higher, and highs that, well, make you high.

I’m 24 people, and I’m loving it! Who woulda thought.

Why hello there everyone. Isn't it nice to see you here? You mean, you actually still visit this place? MUAAAHAHAHA!

no just kidding. So ummm yeah, hi. I'm still alive alhamdulillah. I have about 5 minutes till I get off work, so i'll take that time to ramble about anything just to get a post up.

I need new runners actually. I've worn down the soles of my beautiful babies, since I haven't taken em off since the end of August. I'm pretty sad to part with them, but now that there's a hole at the front toe, I figure I should give them up. So I've been looking at my options and found these beauts. Who wants to help me pick them out?

There are these cuties for $80. (All prices herein are in US dollars)



And then these amazing Pumas for $160



which also come in black...



Cute Skechers - $54







And the cutest of allll paiirrssss,(although for practicality purposes I really do need blaaackkk), for $275 buckkssss, going once, going twicccce...



Yes they are rather expensive, but I can still dream, can't I? The Skechers aren't that expensive though, but it's just a question of what colour to get. I got the black initially cuz I can wear them with anything, and wear them with anything I do! I might even be over-wearing them with everything, hence the hole and worn down sole. But I still look cool and that's all that really matters isn't it.

I drooled over those beige Pumas. I used to have the nicest most beautiful Pumas, dark green fuegos, the ones with the two stripes down the side, and I remember them to this day, but that's cuz I wore them from gr. 7 to gr. 10 and I kept them in MINT condition by spraying them every week. *sigh* runnerrrsss.

Ok, I'm done. Have a nice day!

Story Time

Remember the time you got electrocuted? We were doing frictionless movement experiments in a physics lab. There were these pucks we had to glide on tables. Our table wasn't level so the puck (which was hooked up to an electric circuit that sent pulses that were recorded on the paper on the table) didnt go in a straight line so our distances were all off. We tried so many times. That was our only lab together *ever* and you managed to get electrocuted.

I'll never forget it. We were both getting so frustrated. Then, you did this beautiful release with follow through, your arm pushed the puck and lifted into the air above your shoulders in graceful triumph. Your arm was slowly brought down. We were both silent. I was in awe. I finally spoke, "Shaheen, oh my God, that was so fricken' graceful". You responded very quietly, as if you had come back from the beyond and the journey had left your body and spirits so humble from your spiritual puck release, "thanks, I just got electrocuted". Instantly we fell to the floor laughing and howling and attracting the entire lab's attention so we hid underneath our desks to continue our loud cackling. I don't remember if I've ever laughed so hard.

Good times.

where in the world is Sadaf Shaheen Rana?

she left us hangin in blog land!

i'm starting a shaheen quit being so cute campaign. also, an i miss you campaign. which is more of a sister/splinter one