Bummed Out, Totally!

Why? Here's Why ...

Today is day five of my sickness. What happened to me?! Well, for those who were outta touch, came in late and for those who dont know what i am talking about, my temperature is 102, my muscles scream in protest everytime i try to move a lil and my voice box isnt reciprocating, meaning i cant TALK!!! Im being given so many drugs n capsules after each meal that the meal sometimes looks like an appetizer, as if the insane number of drugs constitute the main course! It has been hell, especially the throat pain... i cant do two of my favourite things in the world without inflicting blinding pain on myself! Thats Talking and Eating!

Sickness and misery makes me refrain from my favourite things. I sleep im my bed only at night. Spend all my day sleeping on the living room couch. But ofcourse now my bedside table, which was formerly crowded by foodstuff and candle-stands, is now replaced with tablets and syrups. Just so you would know, if someone offered me a freshly baked garlic bread doused with cheese, i wouldnt even touch it! AND talking about 'sleeping on couch' reminds me of a dream i had just before i woke up to write all this. I was in the Star Wars movie, Anakin Skywalker standing right across the Jedi Council. I walk up to him and tell him that i love Star Wars. He says "No Missy, i dont think so. I can see it in your eyes that you dont like Star Wars." Darn! i said to myself and ran up to my brother (who also happened to be there) and asked if Anakin can read minds!! And i woke up. So much for getting into Anakin's goodbooks! Never mind anyway..hes not much of an eye candy..

Im so bummed out! Totally! i wanna scream, talk for hours, perfect my gluttony. I want to go out, watch the Pirates movie and grab a pizza and 4 portions of garlicbread. I want to make PJs on my brother and embarass him. I want to try on my new pink floral top, jeans that i slashed off myself with a surgical blade.

But all i can do right now is communicate through sign language, read The Godfather, sleep for hours, take soups n french toasts, listen to some soothing music and do jumbles and crosswords from the days paper! Im listening to just one song for three days now..thats 'Khamosh Raat' from the movie 'Thakshak'. Amazing song! I have also watched two awe-inspiring documentries...all about it in the next post.

Bookworming!

01. What is the total number of books you've owned?

50 sumthin

02. What are the last books you bought?

Kill And Tell by Linda Howard
Strangers In The Night by Linda Howard (Asif got them for me)

03. What is the last book you've read?

Five Point Someone by Chetan Bhagat

04. What are you currently reading?

Jurrasic Park by Michael Crichton
To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee

05. What are the 5 books that have meant a lot to you or that you particularly enjoyed?

Mr.Perfect by Linda Howard
I totally enjoyed this one..i would be laughing out REAL loud while reading it.The cocky and brash comebacks by Jaine Bright and Donovon and o'course the list makes it absolutely hilarious.. its not the kinda book that means a lot to you or anything..its just pure whacky fun!

To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
It is significant for me. The way Atticus raises Scout and Jem, the innocence and compassion of the small town kids...I love the small town setup. I can just picture myself in Maycomb County lazing around and spending the day 'running around wild' (As Aunt Alexandra would put it) like Scout, Jem and Dill. Scout and Jem are a lot like Arshi and Asif. I wish we had a Boo Radley next door :)

Miss Beatty's Children by Pamela Rooks
The Compassionate character of the main protagonist, her spirit and faith in her effort to help all humanity is amazing.

Shampoo Planet by Douglas Coupland
Douglas Coupland's rocking second book about the Generation X of the 90s.

Life Is A Roller Coaster by Ronan Keating
A painfully honest book full of hilarious anecdotes and events of various chapters of Boyzone's Ronan Keating's life. From growing up in a small backwater town to headlining with U2 at Point Depot.

06. What are the 5 book characters that have meant a lot to you or that you particularly enjoyed or relate to?

Jaine Bright from Mr.Perfect - She is all that i myself am. smartass, audacious, brash, outspoken, funny and cheeky. She truly attacks life instead of just letting it pass by as Donovan puts it!

Ryan Oberoi from Five Point Someone - Im just as chilled out, unruly and careless. And yeah, he turns out to be the loser in the end! So fits to the T.

Tyler Johnson from Shampoo Planet - I love his ambitions, his way of looking at life, and world, and the way he wants to be "THE MAN" for his hippie mom.

Atticus Finch from To Kill A Mocking Bird - A perfect father and a model human being. He's frank about life's harsh truths. Doesn't wrap his children into fairy tale blankets.

Astorre Viola from Omerta - An unassuming, fun-loving, whimsical character hiding a deadly and calculative persona underneath.

07. What book(s) caught your attention but you never had a chance to read?

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Shining by Stephen King
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

08. What book(s) that you've owned for so long but never read?

The Beach by Alex Garland
Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery (and i am never gonna read it)
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Generation X by Douglas Coupland

09. Favorite Reading Spots?

Reading in the lamp light on my bed with foodstuff next to me!

10. 5 favorite authors?

Mario Puzo
Linda Howard
J.K. Rowling
Harper Lee
Michael Crichton

Sketchy Findings

I raided my old closet this morning and found a couple of my 'special' books which had loads of sketches done by yours truly. Lots of supposedly pretty faces in there but all the noses are off-centre, most of them are very mediocre by my standards. There is also my most favourite one of a horse, which i did when i was 12. I found this picture in Ahlan Wa Sahlan, an in-flight Magazine for Saudi Arabian Airlines. As for this pretty lady I dont really remember where i saw her, might have been a comic book for all i know! Check em' out.

Summer TimeKiller

To be frank I haven't been busy. Not at all! I use the computer for almost 2 irregular hours(not at a stretch though)everyday. I ain't really a blog writing kinda person...I do wanna write though. No complicated world philosophies in here so I'm just gonna pen in what I have been doing!

I have been working on my appearances lately. I am taking anti-oxidants to improve my skin, I am dieting and exercising to tone myself up. More on my fitness contrive, I invested in 5lbs weights to work up my arms. Just when I thought its all getting pretty serious and working out fine, I gave in to a loaded plate of fried-rice!! I'm such a 'rice' person. Just cant let it go. I'm trying...

I have handled,or rather endured, a lotta things this past week - a bad cold, asif's repeated threats to kill me if I touched his iPod(which by the way I AM using right now), a very brainsick and paranoid 'butterfly'(as she calls herself ;)), a tiresome and dreadful movie called "The Shining". I also have sort of spiffed up my room...It now has chimes and scented candles which looks pretty romantic and definitely girly! I have been watching a lot of movies too. I saw Elizabethtown two weeks back and then all week. Amazing movie with an even more amazing soundtrack. It also helped that I'm crazy about Orlando Bloom.

Orlando Bloom. A guy I love for more than one reason. I just wish he had a different name and a lil less breathless voice and I would give him a perfect ten. It sounds so dumb when you say that aloud..Picture this, "Hey Orlando, how you doing?!" If you try and give him a shorter name you are left with Orlie. Now that is more silly. What kind of name is that for a hottie like that? It sounds like the name of some country, hey wait, it IS the name of a city. There you go. Point proved! I guess the names Will or Josh will suit him better. What say Orlie?!

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That Certain Female

Now who wants a cookie!!??? That is the name of my blog??? Dang it! Why cant I think of anything better, something more creative with the simplicity of a genius. Clearly I ain't one! So here goes...

I wanted to write about this really cool book I read, but my brother insists that the first post should be about myself. This sort of gives you an insight about the kind of person that I am.

I know what I want to do but then go with what someone else instructs/advises me to do. This helps too because half of the time I don't know what I want. And I get easily distracted. One moment I'm going with the flow and writing what all comes to mind and in the next I'm singing the chorus lines from 3 Doors down's Kryptonite out loud. Hey, that reminds me about the Superman Return's Trailer I saw earlier this month. Man!! Blew me off! All my 20 years on this planet and I was never really into super-heroes. I do remember watching Batman (1989) and this animated series called Bionic Six, but that was all there ever was. Ok now back to writing about myself.

I'm just way too normal. I love books, music, movies, gossip, Cosmo and I'm your regular 20 something. Truth be told...I hate being so normal. I always wanted to be 'different' n do things 'differently'. There have been instances when time and again I was told 'hey, you are different'. And it really lifted me up, not that I needed to be lifted up. I have this inherent ability to be 'high' at all times. In high spirits. Like I'm in love with life itself. Its incredible!

I love reading. It helps me unwind. It soars my imagination and takes me to a different world. I love it when something I read cracks me up, when something makes me think about how things are rather than how things ought to be. I'm not all that philosophical. I cant think by and large...I have this mental vacuum at most times (maybe that explains the perpetual exhilaration).

If I give names to all the chapters of my life, they would sure as hell be song titles!! Music has always played a very crucial role all my life. A song takes me back in time. Reliving any moment of my life is just a 'play' button away! I couldn't say the same about movies. I just drift through them, soaking a little and enjoying all of it.

Nothing I write about myself can be complete without a mention of my friends. Being as affable as I am I cant help but make a lot of pals. Though I can't say I'm an open book which I do seem to be. No one knows me inside out but myself. One person comes close enough and that's Safi. She's my best pal. We have been best pals for 8 years now. The best thing about her is that she doesn't get judgmental about you and gives you the best piece of advice. She isn't emotionally clumsy like yours truly. Then there's my brother Asif. He's your average geek. We have the same interests and we spend most of the time together. We go shopping(mostly for books), movies, watch sitcoms n make fun of each others blogs. Javed or Jaee as I call him is another best pal. The guy is a total freak. He can knock your socks off with his Irish, British, English and Aussie accent and instant knock-knock jokes. The dude is making snowmen in Zurich as I write this post. Now comes Shaaz. We were best of friends for roughly 6 months. He was a male version of myself and we got along real good. He is presently settled in Dubai & I'm sure doing good for himself. Nouman Mohammad Khan aka Norman Malcolm Tyler is another great friend. He's one amazing rocker guy and an awe-inspiring writer. The rest of the gang is HUGE. There's Sid, Aashi, Azzy, Asma, Aisha, Ayesha, Deepa, Raushina, Ali and a whole lotta names!

Now about the person I love most. Arshiya. Arshiya Tarannum. Yup, myself. If I were to think of myself color-wise then I would be white and pink. White for me is peaceful, serene, truthful, pure . Pink is for love - unconditional, pure, ever-lasting. I ask a lot of questions and when someone asks me one I give back another one instead of an answer! It is annoying but fun too. I can be earnest or cunning to the core ;-). I love singing and humming to myself. I don't care about people. I choose to be a closed book. That's cryptic stuff so don't dwell upon this one. I am irreplaceable and indispensable.

"All in all what I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction." Chuck Palahniuk sums it up for me!!