Again, I proved another theory about the visitors of my site. I ran a poll two days ago about the ethnicity of my visitors. I know I know, it is biased and really no point in doing it, but dammit, I HAD A REASON! The reason is that I just proved that no matter how much the media makes Arabs look like terrorist and the worse people on earth, we will still be loved for who we are. I am Arabic. So what? Are you going to criticize me for what I was born to be, or for who I am as an individual? I think the latter might be a lot harder for you and you just take the easy media infested route! I know for a fact that most of you don’t care if I am Arab. Most of you know that Rebellious is just a catch phrase. Most of you come in here for one purpose, and one purpose only.

You know what it is?

Easy answer. I am just a girl who can write well and express my self in a colourful manner.

That’s all!

Anyways, so, who wants me to write another post to mock some superstitious backwards cultural mentality and send the wrath of Mona on it? It has to be Arab cause that’s what I am. Or if you want, give me an article you want me to critique for its content. I don’t want to pick. If I do pick than people will think I am biased, and I don’t want to give that impression. Not at all!

Last note: I don’t see the Disney Channel airing the movie Aladdin anymore.

Update: it’s awesome being an Arab. We came from the desert, rode camels, we can withstand temperatures above 45c and we have genies……….. BLUE GENIES! Dear God they definetly pictured us right! Geniuses!!

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However, Cookie Monster growls when he talks and I don’t see any wrinkles???

All morning long I have been eating cookies from Costco. Believe me, the best cookies are there. Go get some now and tell them THE COOKIE MONSTER sent you! The sugary cookies help me sustain the rest of the horrible day of sitting in a 10×14 room, and suffering from a back pain, again. The energy gave me some mental abilities to search for work. I have been submitting resumes all morning long. I haven’t been applying for jobs for two weeks because I was too sick to care anymore. I needed a brake from reading job ads and customizing cover letters for certain positions.

Oh well, I am going to go back to doing nothing. And nothing means NOTHING!

Updated: this is too funny! Cookies! COOKIES!!

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Have you ever had a feeling or event in your life that defined your entire future. It was the reason your life turned out the way it did, and you keep wondering, what if that moment in time never happened. What would my life have been instead?

We walk an unknown road every day of our lives. A road that has many exits, and we have an option to pick any path, but how do we know which path to choose?

I think that’s why life for some people is quite interesting, and the reason we keep going and going. It’s that unknown path, and that moment in time that we don’t know if it happened or not that makes tomorrow interesting.

Am I thinking positively or negatively here? Hmm.

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Frequently referred to as “Canada’s birthday”, particularly in the popular press, the occasion marks the joining of the British colonies of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the Province of Canada into a federation of four provinces (the Province of Canada being divided, in the process, into Ontario and Quebec) on July 1, 1867. However, though Canada is regarded as having become a kingdom in its own right on that date, the British Parliament at first kept limited rights of political control over the new country, which were shed by stages over the years until the last vestiges were ended in 1982, when the Constitution Act patriated the Canadian constitution. Canada Day thus differs from Independence Day celebrations in other countries in that it does not commemorate a clear-cut date of complete independence.

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I wanted to post yesterday, but I was not motivated to type. I just wanted to do nothing. I think I reached that level of carelessness that everyone talks about.

Everyone reaches a milestone in their life and wonder, “what have I done in my life so far?” Let’s elaborate a bit and say, “what have I accomplished so far in life that is worth mentioning?” “What have I accomplished that made a difference to someone else?” “What have I accomplished that made people happy?”

I ask these questions to my self all the time, but I don’t have an answer. I don’t know what I have done. I didn’t make my mark at all. I didn’t do anything worth mentioning.

Then I contemplated other little things that I might have done to make someone else happy, but I didn’t do anything that made me smile in return. I am really wondering what was worth this life of mine so far. Anything? Anyone?

Why we humans tend to assess our selves too much?

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Back around 7 or 8 years ago, a trend of email forwards was such an annoyance amongst friends. I used to even get forwards from people I barely knew or emailed once in my life. Yet, you are in their list. It is scarce now to find 10 to 20 forwards a day in your email box. I knew some people who specifically go to their friends face to face and tell them to stop sending them forwards because they didn’t have time for nonsense. People didn’t even have the patience to read the hilarious or obscene posts.

I knew this one Spanish girl who had a dirty sense of humor, and whenever she sent out forwards, I made sure I wasn’t in any public place.

So why did the forward trend die down?

I got some theories.

1. Junk mail filters are so stupid sometimes that you don’t even know you got forwards from emails in your address book.

2. People have less friends and more business acquaintances that they only use email for that reason and no one wants to give off the wrong impression.

3. People now a days are so into social networking and tools such as Stumbleupon that they don’t even need to forward. Just click the thumbs up button and your friends can see what you liked. It is like forwarding something interesting without being direct about it.

4. Facebook epidemic has killed people’s brain cells that they just invite their friends to add stupid applications instead. It’s like forwarding crap in a different site other than your email box. Seriously, how fucking annoying! Hence, one of the million reasons I despise Facebook.

5. Since we live in such a fast paced society, who the hell has time to read a long forward! If it doesn’t contain pictures, then really, no point in reading till you get to the 500th line till the story makes sense then laugh hysterically for 2 seconds. I can save 5 minutes of my life by either reading the last line or deleting your email.

I only get forwards now a days once in a blue moon. I don’t know if I miss them, but I need entertainment other than advertisements such as Viagra and Super Fun Pills to make you super skinny in 10 days. (Junk mail filters are not so smart sometimes. They are man made.)

In conclusion. Forwards are not so cool anymore. If you still get forwards or send them, then you are old school. You are SO 2001!

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When I was in my teens I knew people who were older than me and they kept telling me that being in your 20’s is probably the best or worst thing you can ever go through.

I say it is the worse.

Why is life so complicated when we are in our 20’s?

Life is not complicated at all, but we make it complicated because we are young adults trying too hard to shape our lives, our careers, and try to be part of society and make a name for our selves.

How do we solve our problems?

We don’t solve our problems, instead, we create another problem to cover the first one. We think that two wrongs can make a right, but life does not work that way at all.

How do we deal with problems?

Most of us in this age group are quite irrational thinkers and we try to solve problems now. Now is not the way to go about things. We live in such a fast paced society that is making us act this way.

Why are we so emotional?

I noticed most people in my age group are not only emotional, but hysterical at times. We are emotional for various reasons. We want to get married, find a perfect career, have a perfect house, have perfect neighbors, and even have perfect children. The problem with us that we look back a generation of our parents and think, well, they did it, why can’t we? Has life changed so much that the gap between thinking and the outcomes we strive for are so far apart?

I am just tired. I keep thinking and thinking and wondering why my life turned out this way. I had such different view points and future dreams when I was 21 or 22. Now, I don’t even think of tomorrow because I don’t know what to expect anymore.

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Who said that being a couch potato is bad? Life can be so exciting all from a corner of the couch. All you need is a cell phone and laptop and your life is set. This is what our world have boiled down to. I don’t need anything else.

As long as a person is reachable using any of the modern communications tools than they are set.

What you need to survive the modern world?

1. MSN or GTalk

Everyone is always online using the most popular instant messengers. So you never miss out on the latest buzz. Someone is always online to tell you what’s going on in the world.

2. Cell Phone

Your mobile number is your life. You can make it your life and only source of directly finding you everywhere and anywhere. Yesterday, I had issues with my cell phone. My Fido SIM card was dying so I could not receive or make calls or send SMS.. nothing. Those hours of agony of not being available has made me panic. What if someone called? Like now? I couldn’t even get into my voice mail. That’s how bad it was. Fido customer service were SO sick of me. Calling them 3 times last night and being on the phone for minimum 45 minutes really irritated them, and brought me joy.

3. SMS

Sometimes you don’t need to talk to someone verbally, and SMS is like chatting but quicker and it guarantees that the person will receive the message.

4. Facebook

Although I despise Facebook with all my heart and soul, it seems to be the IT way to communicate with people, and it is usually people you haven’t seen in a while. However, you are in touch with them for the heck of it, and if you didn’t add them, then they think you are a stuck up bitch and think you are all that. I guess I am ALL THAT.

5. Twitter.

Everyone needs a posse and people to stalk. I am allowing it and I like being nosy and knowing what’s up with people and what’s the latest general buzz that is going on. I care if someone is having a bad day. I care if someone is sharing a cool new link with awesome new gadgets. I care if someone is needing help solving a computer problem, etc. I just care because it is amusing to care about something that someone else is doing than real people you know. It’s social networking to the extreme.

That’s all you need.

So yesterday, I got tons of emails and people who kept wondering where I am and if I will ever go back to normal. I had to just make short blurbs on Twitter or else people thought I was dead.

What’s new with me?

1. I was interviewed a couple of weeks ago as a Geek Girl Blogger. The interview was posted yesterday.

2. My back is hurting me still, but my back has moved from a 90 degree angle to a 120 degree. It’s an improvement, yet the pain is still brutal. My dad thinks it is a great time for a vacation, and I said, “if I did ever want a long vacation, I would end up sitting on the couch anyways.”

3. I got an email this morning from a girl I met off the net and she gave me a link to a profile on Facebook from a person in Kuwait that is using my picture. I checked out the profile and saw the person’s friend list and it was all teenage little boys. Either the person who stole my picture is homosexual, or it’s an ugly girl who thought I was better looking than her ugly ass and used my pic to lure men. Don’t worry, I reported the person and I messaged the idiot to take my pic off. Why the hell you people want to steal my pics and make fake profiles? If you want to make a fake profile make a Facebook club for me! I know so many people, bloggers especially, who made their own Facebook fan page. I always wondered why someone is that desperate to be popular? I only want to be popular so I can rule the world from my couch command centre!!

4. My sister got a 92% in English writing. Guess who wrote all her essays?

That’s it for today, yesterday I didn’t blog because I was too tired and the drugs made me sleepy half the day.

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Spasm: that’s the non-scientific term of my sickness. I have muscle spasm in my lower back due to unknown reasons other than being me and we all know my luck. So I have been sitting on the couch and sleeping on it for the past 30 hours. I can’t move much. If I do walk to go to the washroom I have to keep my back hunched.

Yep, sucks to be me. So I am fully medicated. Every time I take the medicine I fall asleep. It’s like super sleeping aide. Says, “don’t drive or operate heavy machinery if taken.” Does that mean flipping tv channels is out of the question?

I feel sleepy just typing this post. For those who keep checking my whereabouts, the best solution is to just follow me on Twitter. It is easier to update it with my cell phone than write a blog post.

Also over the weekend there were two Canadian articles written about Twitter and they mentioned my twitter user name. I guess being Rebellious and a girl is amusing.

http://news.therecord.com/article/371435

http://news.therecord.com/article/371422

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My head is pounding, and I promise this is going to be a short post because I lack the ability to think straight.

The only reason I get a headache is because I think too much. I think way beyond the need for an average person to think. Try walking around or sitting in your office or just sitting trying to watch tv and just feeling a constant bang or a hammer pounding on your head.

I just don’t want to think anymore and just live life normally again.

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