all things China...or Chinese...whichever

my brother-in-law went jetting off to China the other week. Yes, less than a month before his wife is due to give birth to their first child! Anyway, he's back now and the baby hasn't popped out yet fortunately. He had been planning this trip for months and finally he left us with a huge shopping list from his 6sisters and 5bro/sis-in-laws. I didn't ask for anything cos i dont think i really wanted anything...and what i would have wanted i knew he couldn't get it for me...i wanted to go to China! Not that im envious that he went but that's MY country...along with Malaysia ofcourse... and i should have been the first one to step foot into that country (out of any of my family members ofcourse). Anyway, he got us so many things back from there which was very nice of him. Even though everthing is cheap over there he didn't have to bring all this stuff back for us. He got me a Tiffany&Co bracelet/bangle ...its really beautiful and am now wearing it all the time. Its obviously fake, right? but who cares cos you cant even see that its Tiffany&Co...its just pretty mashAllah.

AOB:

• have arabic test tmrw (again cos did badly last time :S)
• Sister due in 1WEEK...need to get the Moses Basket
• have holidays for 4weeks (now 3 cos i've wasted this week!)....if anyone would like to come visit me, plz feel free!
• still trying to find a job!! (more on that in the next post)

SILK ties

omg,omg,omg...just spoke to my cousin and she was asking whether her husband could exchange his GOLD ring for a white gold one, or even platinum. I couldn't remember why gold wasn't allowed and whether the reason was because of its worth , etc which would apply to white gold and platinum... anyway, think she's gonna get silver cos then she can just keeps the rest of the money and Sylhetis will think platinum and white gold are the same as silver anyway!! So this got me thinking that SILK is also forbidden for men to wear in dunya, right?! So what do men do about ties? My dad has a billion and one ties...and they're all silk...you can't get ties made from other material can u?

Since i am upset that i wont be able to go to Mcr this weekend to see the Mufti...im happy that this event is taking place in Bham. Eco- if you're not going to Mcr either, come to this!! Hopefully my sister wont have had her baby by then and i wont be busy running about for her :s

KNOWING THE MESSENGER OF ALLAH
studying the Shamail of the Prphet (pbuh) by Imama Tirmidhi

A 4-day Spiritual Journey to meet the Messenegr of Allah (pbuh) led by his grandson SAYYID SHAYKH MUHAMMAD AL-YAQOUBI

6th-9th April 2007 Central Jamia Masjid Ghamkol Sharif

Non-Residential, FREE admission

since it is bad to bitch about ppl to others im just going to write whats annoying me about this individual in my arabic class!! This isn't bitching, right, if i dont mention her name?!! well, too late anyway...may Allah(swt) forgive me.

Stoopid woman!!Who the hell walks into class over an hour late evry week and expect to get away with it?!! This woman is the type of girl (if you went to a comprehensive school) that was the disruptive one in class. She's not the class-clown...cos even with ppl like that i can laff at....she's just a woman who couldn't care less about the work or anything. Why the f*** does she come then?!! This is a free voluntary arabic course...nobody is forcing her to come!!! Finally the teacher told her off today and tols her that she may be dropped off the course cos she's so behind!! She sat next to me today...Aaaggh, she had thick-white-foundation-that-you-could-see on...bloody missed out her eyelids...what is wrond with ppl?11...if they'r gonna put on make-up why dont they put it on right?!! Then she copied my work- which i dont mind but how the f*** does she think she will learn if she doesn't do it herself? She was the same woman who two wks ago asked why i send Amani and Nabeel to a CofE school?...don't think my parents could give a toss what 'faith' school they send us just as long as its a good primary school!! Then she asked why you dont see non-muslims at 'muslim' schools....its cos they'r not of the same standard most the time!! Am i just a snob?!! Whatever....stoopid woman!

Also,...bloody bugging me...if you're the 'black-sheep' of the family....(or psycho/weirdo/middle child...whatever my family like to call me)...and everyone knows that you're strange, does that reflect badly on how your parents brought you up?!! Cos my parents are Amazing....and i think they've done a fine job but for some reason a screw came loose, so to speak, with me. My parents are all of a sudden in denial able my 'psycho-ness' and so are the rest of my relatives cos they're now looking for some stupid-perfect-family for me to marry into. Well, i refuse to put anyone thru this torture.... and if anyone blames my parents for how iv become i will just have to stab you in the heart with a very sharp icicle!

First and foremost, i would like to welcome Syra into the blogging world (her link is on the side). Now there'l be one more blog to read when im bored!! Not that her blog'l be boring...actually, if its based on the types of books she reads (ahem!) it's most probably going to be 'fairytaley' and on love and romance and things of that nature! Plus, her complaining about her degree!!

Well...i shall now complain about trying to get a job!!! Seriously, need to start applying to places again. Now i've decided that most probably i'd like to go into accounting. >sigh< ...because i'll get my qualifications after like 3years, there'l always be a need for accountants, and i can do it part-time after having my 2 kids! Banking is SO not be me...plus i get all (can't think of a word) because my job may not be halal! STRESS! what do i do? Citigroup finally rang yday! I didn't get the position- i am so gutted! even though i wasn't going to take the offer straight away cos would have had to find out if the job i was going to be doing is halal or not...i mean, what are the chances it was going to be?!! Found out that Citigroup is the biggest bank in the US and by default makes it the biggest bank in the world. Imagine me working for the biggest bank in the world.Heh! LOL anyway, wasn't meant to be! The HR woman gave me feedback and said that all three of my interviews went really well. I apparenty have very good verbal communication...i can talk about anything...and im apparently confident! But what let me down was the Case Study i had to do. My presentation was fine but the guy i had to present to said that he wanted to see more 'thought-processes' (whateva that means?!!). Anyway, good experience i guess.

Went to Mcr this weekend. That place makes me so happy. Actually rained when i got off the train...even that made me happy cos i felt i was home again! Went to Bolton to see Fatima. She's so sweet...everytime i see her she hands me over so many gifts! She got me some earrings (i now have 8 pairs of green earrings all of different shades), a emerald-colour bag (which matches my last Eid outfit) and this kurta top from India. She showed me all her outfits that she got from India- that place is amazing for clothes! She met loadsa stars from Star+ soaps...dunno who they are. And she met Diya Mirza (bollywood actress). Think i wanna go to India again...and this time Bombay. We went as a family when i was 10yrs old and at that time i was a boy so didn't appreciate clothes at all!! All i loved at that age was my Newcastle United Tshirt that i lived in for the whole holiday!! All i did that whole wkend with Fatima was eat, eat, eat!! We also went to see a film. There was nothing on in the cinema so we ended up watching Prenonition(sandra Bullock)- its a load of pants!! On sunday i met up with Fudge which was nice. Went to Kebabish and jst chit-chatted. She then had to go to work so i finally got to see the other girls! We then went to Sizzlers (new place on Wimslow Road where Darbar used to be)...it was ok. The place is done up very nice but the food wasn't all that great! Satyed up until Fajr with the girls...again just chatting away, looking for ppl on facebook, drinking tea... missed that kinda stuff!!! Hope the girls have a party before they leave!!(hint hint Syra)