One thing that amazes me with married life is the two opposing sides that are forced into the deal. I am serious. Two families are forced into this proposal, and not two people. With us Arabs, and the rest of the middle eastern family oriented countries, you don’t marry to just be with someone you love and procreate. No. No. The entire family is swept into the deal, and their say of the outcome of the entire wedding and married life involves them more then the two lovebirds.

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What amazes me with Arabs though, that the mothers are directly involved like they are the ones getting married. I heard many horrible stories of mother-in-laws to-be canceling weddings, because of their battle with the other mother, or over stupid material things.

Why the fight?

You would think that two people would cancel the wedding because of various differences, but why do mothers have the final say to cancel the two lovebird’s wedding?

I heard a few stories, and the final result was a devastated girl that refuses to love or marry anyone ever again.

One fight I heard of was a wedding that was canceled because the mother of the bride didn’t want her daughter to pay for half the furniture for the new home. So the mom canceled the wedding.

What kind of mom is that? Ruining her daughter’s happiness because of something the bride wanted to do for her future home?

Another story of a bride who was half way through her wedding reception, got off her chair and walked out in front of everyone. The people were dancing, having a kick ass time, and the bride just walked out after arguing with her mother-in-law during the wedding reception! What kind of wedding night is that?

Yesterday afternoon, my Arab Reuters beloved mother told us of a wedding that is planned for today (Saturday), and was almost canceled. Why? The two mothers fought, and the mother of the groom wanted to cancel the wedding. The father of the groom said no because the invitation cards were already distributed, and people from all over are coming, etc. Why did they fight I wonder?

On speaker phone with mother

Mom excitedly said, “Oh my God, so and so almost canceled the wedding that will take place tomorrow.”

I said, “Why?”

Mom said, “I didn’t hear the entire details, but it was the mother of the groom’s fault.”

My brother said, “Who’s wedding is this?”

I told him who it was, and he gave a disgusting look and screamed, “OOOH! HIM and THAT little bitch!” Then my brother whispered, “that drunken bitch who spends her time in night clubs getting wasted with more trash like her and who knows how many guys she slept with, and that little guy who thinks he is all that?”

I said, “AHA! Yah!! Remember them from University? It’s funny that those people get married first! Trash find each other quickly eh? I think they smell each other a mile away!”

Mom on the line heard half the conversation and said, “why, what is wrong with her and him?”

I said, “I told you mom! There are good Arabs, and the tip of the mountain of garbage Arabs. No wonder the wedding was almost canceled.”

Mom said, “But her dad is a doctor, and they are a big family.”

I said, “So what? What does education have to do with being trash?”

My brother jumped in, “Ewwww. I hate those people. I hope they did cancel the wedding.”

I said, “Mom, go ask people you know about the details of the fight. We would like to know.”

My brother said, “Yaaaah. Stupid trash people! Why they didn’t cancel and save humanity from more trash?”

I laughed so loud. Weddings and moms. Classic tales.

However, nothing beats my story of not being wanted by them mothers because of my skin color. Ah, I wonder what God feels like doing to them because of Arab backwards mentality. Oh Oh!! I know what!

I know this one Arabic chick, who got married before she was 20 because the mother of the guy thought she was so pretty, has very light hazel-green eyes, very white, petite and skinny. Guess how the kids ended up looking? Can we say that genetics play a big role in being tan and brown eyed? How about looking more like the dad than the pretty mom?

You guys don’t understand how happy I am being single and not have to deal with married life, as I am witnessing it now with my brother and his wife, and having a little girl. My God! I have zero patience for all that. I am happy being free to do what I like with no responsibilities. I am like a bird flying around doing nothing but looking down at things. It’s more relaxing. Believe me!

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Should I move to this city? Seriously, look at the view of the city of Kelowna from barely top of one little mountain.

Yesterday was an official holiday in Canada, and everyone had the day off. Where do you think everyone was at? You guessed it, every beach in the area!

In the afternoon, we went to another town that is 20 minutes by car called Vernon. The place is gorgeous. The highway to there is right next to a lake called Kalamalka, which in Native means different colours. Something like that. So you can see multiple colours of blue. As we were driving, I snapped a couple of pictures of the lake and the amazing shades of blue.

We arrived at a beach in Vernon, and we ate lunch there on a picnic table. We brought with us egg salad and veggie & cheese sandwiches, lots of drinks, and fruits. The sun here burns your skin within 2 minutes. I usually don’t wear sun screen much, but I had to. My hands instantly turned red and I felt a burning sensation. I couldn’t believe how strong the UV rays from the sun are over here. The sand was even hotter. I couldn’t walk on the sand at all. I had to keep my sandals on. However, no humidity and the view is amazing!

Later at night, we went to downtown and we spent around 15 minutes looking for a parking spot. The tow truck drivers, most of them are Natives, had so much fun towing cars that are parked illegally. Did I mention that people in Kelowna can’t drive? They make up their own driving rules! You have to be extra careful and alert when driving around here.

So, we went to the park area where all the hotels and tourists are at. Did I mention that almost everyone in the city was there? Even from near by cities. What amazed me about last night is that I saw mostly old people, and drunk & doped up teenagers. I don’t really care if people get drunk, but little teens drunk? They were all walking along the park screaming, “Yaay Canada! Love Canada! Wohoo Canada!”

As it got darker, which was around 10:00 pm, more boats approached the middle of the lake. That is where the fireworks blasted from, and everyone wanted a front view of the action.

Like I said, the teenagers here are weird. My sister was so surprised that people around her age are a bit “weird.” She found everyone odd here. I don’t blame her. The people here are way more open, and the city is not as conservative as London. What happens if she went to Montreal again at her age now? That city is a bit crazy too!

I guess teenagers are celebrating pot country. What I noticed is that many bikers were here yesterday as well. The teenagers however were having a kick ass time in pot country. I snapped one of the teenagers that kept going back and forth with his herbal leaf flag. I guess he was proud to be high all the time.

Before the fireworks started, some drunk and overly high girl on her bicycle came by screaming, “Americans leave! This is fucking Canada day! Go back home! This is our country!” I looked at my sister and told her, “I think she was talking to you, because you are American. I wonder how she knew that?” My sister was born in USA and she didn’t like my comment. Go figure. She hates my sarcasm.

Anyways, this girl was something else. She stripped for everyone! It seems she just came from the beach and was all wet. She had sand stuck every where on her body. She kept screaming and complaining that the sand is stuck in certain cracks in her body, and she didn’t want anyone to look at her. She kept screaming, “DON’T FUCKING LOOK AT ME! EVERYONE FUCKING DON’T LOOK AT ME!” She was a drunk teenage stripper. I didn’t care really. By that time of the night, I was semi-high from inhaling all that pot. Every other person, even adults, were smoking it. Everyone knows me, I don’t need certain supplements to enhance my craziness and talking like a drunk. Caffeine is enough, but inhaling that shit made it worse!

Obviously, all this adventure scared the hell out of my sister. She kept huddling around us and kept saying, “I want to go home. I want mommy!” After the fireworks show, everyone there who wasn’t 100% drunk, got up and started walking really fast out of the park area. Hahaha!

It took us over an hour to get out of downtown, and my brother only lives 5 minutes away. The traffic was insane and so many cops, firetrucks, ambulances, and the news this morning reported that 40 people were arrested, and a boat got stolen too while we were there in that park. It was AWESOME! My sister didn’t think so, and in the car while driving back last night, I was talking so much and so hyper, she kept screaming at me and telling me to stop. I guess I scared her even more!

When we got back home, she was so scared, she started crying and demanded to go home to London. She never seen this craziness before. I told her, “Man, you live in Canada. You were born in the Western world! You think this was weird? This is normal! Get used to it!”

That was a fun Canada Day.

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I have decided that I need to share again some random visitor’s keyword searches and phrases. They are all from those that arrive to my site thinking they will get the “answer.” I will give them some answers alright! I could turn this to a monthly endeavor. Why not? So, what do I have in store for people today that I can share, but remain a decent well dignified honourable blog that your mother will be proud to read!?

The following are copy pasted search phrases from search engines to my blog, and my reply right under:

1. “how do you know if he wants a serious relationship”
He would definitely not visit this blog to find that answer.

2. “when a guy wants to make you happy”
Cliche answer, “he won’t make you ever cry!” My answer, “he will treat you like his equal!”

3. “capricorn man says he misses you”
Being a Capricorn my self, you need to believe the guy. We don’t utter a word unless we damn mean it!

4. “rebellious feeling psychological problem”
I am not sure exactly what they were searching for, but I do have that feeling all the time of being rebellious. I am not sure of any psychological problems that go along with it. However, I am sure some grad student out there is figuring that out right now!

5. “what woman should know about arab men”
Don’t even get me started on that one!

6. “what is aquarius not compatible with”
Definitely not compatible with a Capricorn. Total opposites! Stay away from us!

7. “how do you know they are the one”
Well, ask your self this, “can I stand the way this person treats others?”

8. “why do arab men keep everything from women”
Cause they are ashamed of their past, and the crap that they do every day that they know is wrong.

9. “arab men dont know how to make love”
Wow.. no comment!

10. “what arab people say about having a relation before marriage”
They say, “OH NO!! THEY ARE TALKING TO ONE ANOTHER AND KNOW EACH OTHER! THEY ARE DOING IT TO GET TO KNOW ONE ANOTHER! SINFUL!!! SINFUL!!!!”

11. “too many people are getting rebellious”
I KNOW! Copy cats!

12. “how do i know what arabs look like”
Well, we are kinda human like, with a bit of similar facial features to the rest of the world.

13. “i hate capricorns”
Why? What did we ever do to you AQUARIUS, PISCES, SAGITTARIUS and GEMINIS!

14. “what is wrong with rebellious arab girl blog”
Wow.. I can name a few problems. 1. It is run by an Arab girl. 2. It has the word rebellious in it. 3. She is totally awesome!

15. “i wana get married how long it takes to fix the papers the guy is in canada”
So the guy is importing you from back home? Bitch!

16. “the truth about arab men”
The truth is that they are mighty damn fine looking. That’s why I want one!

17. “how do you deal with rebellious people?”
Tell them that they are awesome, and they may change their minds about holding a rebellion against you!

18. “weird arab traditions”
Almost every other one!

19. “how can one be in love with some one and the other not feel the same?”
Maybe the other person has no feelings? I don’t know. It happens all the time to so many couples.

20. “what it means if a guy is always hugging you”
He is needy and you are cuddly like a fuzzy haired huge bear.

21. “how to say bitch to a girl in arabic”
Who wants to volunteer and tell this person how to say it in Arabic? Cause I don’t feel like it.

22. “how to get a job when you dont have experience”
Dude.. I can’t get a job and I have 6 years experience.

23. “why do arab girls wear too much eyeliner”
Cause we like it and we can get away with it!

24.”jobs where you dont have to deal with people”
My current job!

25. “i have realized that i just dont like you”
Me neither. What a coincidence!

26. “why do companies say they will keep your resume on file”
So when you apply to another position at their company, they will ignore you.

27. “what is the best way to break it off with someone”
Do what I did, create an online blog for that purpose.

28. “i thought the world was either black or white”
And you found out that there is a bit of grey? Didn’t you used to colour when you were little and learned that there are different gradients to each colour?

29. “what color eyes look best on arab girls?”
The common one! Brown!! Jeez.

30. ‘why do arabs gossip so much”
Because it is like a breath of fresh air to them!

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I do believe that people jinx you and envy you to the point that they could eat you alive!

Here is another story for those of you who have been seeing it is an entertaining trend for the day. I remembered another stupid story or conversation! I promise this will be a quick one because it made no sense. Some people cannot accept the way God created some things. We cannot question God’s choices in some matters, for example, physical appearance. However, some people are just plain stupid. I am talking about Arabs and yes Muslim Arabs who don’t know any better. Especially on the stupidest simplest things.

I was sitting with this Arab girl a while back, and we were just school mates, not really friends, and out of no where, she asked me this question:

She said, “Why are your eyes like that?”

I said, “Like what? Is my eye liner running or are they pink?”

I suffer from constant red eyes or pink eyes.

She said, “No. Like the shape of them. They are like real Arab eyes.”

Looking a bit dumbstruck and I said, “Ah, did you forget I am an Arab? Just like you?”

She said, “Yah, but most Arabic speaking people don’t look like real Arabs, unless they come from the Arabian peninsula, and you are Palestinian.”

This is when I knew that something bad is going to happen to me. Maybe I will get hit by a bus from the way she was talking and staring at me.

I said, “Umm, sorry to disappoint you that I look like a real one.”

She said, “Not fair that you look like one and your not even Bedouin.”

I said, “Sorry. Maybe I got mixed in the hospital or something.”

You can obviously imagine my face at that point. I was sitting talking to an Arab girl, and she had a problem with me looking like an Arab.

How dumb can people get?

Anyways, with all this talk about Arab eyes, I decided that I need to brush en up on my eye makeup skills. I have been rusty. It all has to do with being at home, unmotivated, jobless, etc. You know the drill.

I want to try one of those extreme looks!

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Warning: this is intended to be a sarcastically humorous post, but it back fired when I decided that revenge is very sweet.. oh so sweet.. like pure chocolate fudge.. hmmm!

A 102, 54, 89, 78, 54, 76 little annoying spam emails that I received this afternoon within a 4 or 5 hour time span. You can say that I should thank the almighty Lord that Gmail got a spam filter. However, I have noticed that the numbers have been drastically increasing, and a lot of those are not being caught by the spam filter, and are very dirty and horny. Don’t those spammers feel a bit ashamed to write out an email to enhance their you know, heart rate? This is my personal Gmail account people!! I am a little, how can I sugar coat this, TICKED OFF! The only way that I would get that much spam within a 4 or 5 hour time spam is if my email is publicly displayed online. With the entire @gmail.com and a href=mailto: link in big fat bolded letters on a site that gets a lot of unnecessary junk.

I have displayed my entire Gmail for my blog on here, but no actual mailto hyperlink, which many of you can easily guess or know. However, I don’t even get that much spam at all on it. Maybe 10 – 15 a day, that’s it. Well, that is not including the spam I get from visitors who ask me weird ass questions, like 5 minutes ago, I received an email that said, “Sarching for true love.” I read it and I was gonna reply with something nasty, but how nasty can I get today? I don’t want to take out my inner anger on this poor fellow. He couldn’t spell searching, and he thinks he can find true love by emailing a blogger girl that goes by the name Rebellious Arab Girl. How absurd!!

Back to my ranting and trying to solve this exponentially increasing amount of spam on my personal Gmail account. One thing I learned while studying Computer Science in University, that investigative technical thinking or searching for the easy ass solution, is so DAMN FUN! So, I decided that maybe I should do the simple thing first, and see who they are addressing the emails to, because I have 3 or 4 other email accounts that I forward to that private Gmail address. Surprisingly, many of the spam emails were directly sent to my Gmail account, and not to any forwarded emails. And no, I don’t use my private emails to sign up on stupid sites or anything. I know where I use it, and what emails I am getting from human beings!

So, I thought and thought some more. I tried to use any left over technically related thought I had regarding emails and came back with another simple solution. Why the hell can’t I just search for my email address using Google? So I Googled my entire Gmail account, and to my utter horror, I found it! I found it publicly displayed in the one place that it should not be! It was in my old work profile! How the hell was my private Gmail address displayed on my public ex-work profile? Why wasn’t my work email on there like it was? Before I left, I used the .forward file in my Unix profile account on the server to make sure that any email to my work address is forwarded to my private … Gmail account! SHIT!

It’s a private .forward file that I used to FORWARD any emails, if I got any from some person looking for me at work and didn’t know that I left that place. So, it would get forwarded to my private Gmail account, so I would know.

Ummm, why the hell did I leave that place? Why did I quit my job back in August.. Ahhh.. because they hired an idiot to pretend he was my boss and order me around. I wish he even did order me around, then I would have given him an ounce of respect as a manager. Yet, I ranted enough in the past about how much he didn’t care and is just there to collect a pay cheque, and pretend he knows a few technical terms so he can keep his job.

HOWEVER!!!!! I am not nice. So I went into his work email account to just see if the place was still in operation, and yes it was, and yes, he didn’t change his password till now (been over a year), and I don’t feel guilty at all that I read his emails. So I tried to see what the problem was and why was I getting that much junk. He was getting a lot of junk emails as well, but were unread. It’s like his email box was unread for a while. So I am guessing he is checking his emails through SMTP and keeping them on the server as unread. So, I kept going back and back to try to see when all this started.

Ahh, I then found it. He decided that with whatever money left over, he would make a new separate mail server and web server for the company. Ah.. yeah.. he is stupid. The company is broke, and he wasted his time creating a badly functioning server instead of helping find a way for a powerful company with a great concept to the Canadian public to stay operational. What’s funny, he was getting emails from his co-workers saying they are getting too many spam emails, unlike before when an actual mail filter was installed on the mail server. Like what many System Admins would do you know. . . Just a normal procedure, you know for people who do System Administrative work, you know. It’s like the first thing you would learn in Computer Science. Security! Filtering! It’s like being responsible for lives people! It’s like System Admin for Idiots. They added the idiot part because there are idiots out there! Don’t be surprised, and they are the ones that have jobs.

I don’t have a job, so I am not an idiot.

So, because he was switching over accounts and acting like he gave a shit, he decided to go into my Unix profile page, and instead of just deleting my entire profile and sparing me that much spam after almost nine months of separation from the work place, he decided to go into my hidden .forward file and copy my private Gmail account, and change my email address on my old work profile that is publicly displayed for the world to see. Instead of it being a professional site and keeping professional looking emails on the site, for credibility sake, he did that. Why was it a problem to just copy over my existing empty profile with a .forward file? The server was not hosting 1000′s of people that it couldn’t handle it. Since the server he newly created is the most unsecured thing on earth, and spammers and hackers love to see such servers, the amount of spam that is being sent to emails through this company’s site has been increased 10 million and a half times. Spammer says “Ohh.. they are displaying entire email addresses with href:mailto links. And look, they are even using free public email addresses on there.” SPAM THEM SPAM THEM the spammer say!! The site is not going anywhere, even if the company has no money, someone will keep it up just so the name is still there online.

So how pissed am I? What should I do?

I decided to be democratic with the masses. I have many many many possible solutions to this problem of receiving tasteless spam, but you my readers, my royal readers from all over the world, that helped my blog traffic be a 100 times better than my old work place’s national company ugly site, that I had nothing to do with artistically, should get a voice in the matter and answer the following poll!

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Yeah.. I need to get something to drink to calm me down. Umm, coffee!!

Updated: I am picturing how it would feel like if I hit the return button after writing the Unix command: rm * -R. Just the thought people is beyond amazing!

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