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!

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

My daddy.

Okay so one thing I don't understand is how exactly my dad is still able to do his headstand... not to mention hold it forever... then reenact it three times while I attempt to take a picture. Especially since his daughter could never do a headstand, not including teddy bear stands of course.

:)



and here's the talent being passed on and skipping a generation.

Sometimes I feel like writing and sometimes I feel like sleeping. Sometimes I wish I could magically lose 30 lbs again and sometimes I feel like sleeping. I can always imagine myself doing everything I wanted to, but when it comes to putting it into action, I don't move. I feel like sleeping. Even though when I imagine myself, I also hear a voice in my head that says, 'YEAH! GO! MOVE! THAT'S DEFINITELY REASONABLE.' But I just feel like sleeping. So instead of writing out a post of things that I'm concerned with these days, despite starting off on the right track, (Sometimes I feel like writing...), all I actually complained about was what I really had on my mind, this tired monday morning.

Ipod Flea

Though you might enjoy this one.