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Its been ages since I posted something here, I have been busy and now I dont know what to write. But anyway my life so far has been just spent at Uni, I have been working on some group projects since December till today, and just my luck I have been placed in a group whereby two of the members dont do anything, so the rest of us had to do extra work just to cover their parts. And since then, I've been having sleepless nights just becoz of work and other things.
My mother just said how 'stressed' I look, and that I should sleep and relax. I dont understand it, im trynna explain that if I want to pass I have to do the work at night coz I have other stuff to do, but I dont know.

Eid and New years just came and went. I didnt do anything exciting, but then again I dont celebrate new years, and for eid, I think its only fun if your a child. I went out with friends but then it just felt like a normal night that we usually go out. I feel that celebrating new years or birthdays is like celebrating getting a certificate from school saying you have achieved 100% attendance. People think I'm weired but its true why celebrate a new year? or a birthday? So what, your a year older, I mean you didnt achieve anything to celebrate. Maybe if you wanted on your birthday, thank your mother for giving birth to you, pray and thank Allah for giving you life, but going out and feeling excited and getting presents its just silly. I read somewhere that Ali, the Kalifa said "why celebrate a life that gets shorter?"..I think this is so true, every breath we take, physically ages us, and makes you get nearer to death, so why on earth would someone feel the need to celebrate this. New years si the same, your celebrating a new year, okay cool...Maybe I am weired or I dont know, but the only thing I celebrate is Eid, and achievements I do or good fortune that comes my way. People still give me presents for my birthday, and I only take it coz you know, its rude to refuse gifts!...

I have discovered a new rapper, I dont usually listen to hip hop or r 'n' b anymore, coz really its just commercial music that repeats the same thing over and over again. I prefer indie or old skool rock or 1960's pop, yeah im sot of a hippie. But there is this rapper called IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE, and he has to be the best rapper ever, even better than the 2 pac and biggie ppl say r great.
If you have a chance, listen to his lyrics or just read them.. I think he is Muslim, but he is from Latin America and he is very very political, he seems to be challenging all the accepted facts in life, especially politics.
I dont usually like seeing live acts, but I would give anything just to see and speak to him. Actually there are 3 'celebrities' i would do anything to meet, that included immoprtal technique, maya angelou and Napolean, the rapper turned muslim from the outlaws. I dont know why, but I LOVE black american men that convert to Islam. My mother gets scared when ever I say this, shes like, " erm errm waxa kuu fiican inaad..(ok ill give up I cant write Somali!), but she basically says its better if you get married to a Somali man, coz then you can "understand" each other, and plz dont bring an ajinabi in my house. I dont know why Somali ppl dont like their daughters marrying men who are not Somali. I know a girl, whose family disowned her coz she married a white guy even tho he is Muslim, they dont even speak to her anymore. Its just sad, coz that guy is a million times better than any Somali guy she could have had. Anyways thats another story.

I guess thats all I'll write for now, Inshallah I hope Allah accepts my duca, there has been something in my life that has been hurting me since I was 13, and Ive been dying for this to go away. You know when ppl, see you, and they think something of you, but they really dont know how f'ed up your life is, and you wish you could give away ALL of the things ppl admire of you just so you could get that natural 'thing' many ppl seem to have, I know many ppl are worse off than me and that I am better off than millions of ppl.
But Allah, plz, plz, plz, remove this and inshaallah I hope no one ever experiences this like I did..ameen.

okay..ill jst sign off..have a nice day ppl

Sign this if you reeeaaaally luv me!!!

Well, if you read my previous post, you would know about a guy who is interested in a sort of 'arranged marriage' with moi, so like all them celebrities, I decided to draft this pre-nuptial agreement...I still find this silly and I think if I give this to him, that would scare him, and make him leave me alone. Anyway I got some inspiration from a "woman's magazine", and I'll give this to my future husband.

To whom this may concern,
Here are my most pressing Maritial requirements, mark them well and ignore at your peril!!!


Consummation
Intercourse shall be deemed necessary every other day, (well if its good enough for J Lo). Sex strikes shall not be grounds for dismissal (I'm a socialist you know), but they shall be grounds for hiring of temporary labour while we get the arbitrators in. If we get behind on the four-time-a-week-rule, say I'm watching LOST or something, missed sex shall be held in arrears, upon which I shall require it 17 times in one day. I know its alot, but it will maintain the fiction that we still fancy each other as much as we did when we first met. However, you are allowed to wear an eye mask and call me Beyonce.

INDISCRETION
There is a one off fine of three million for every infidelity, though I shall choose which currency this is in, depending on how insane with jealousy I feel when I hear about it (like if its some old boiler in the back of a van). there is a discount if you break off half way though and go "I cant do this!!" " I love my wife!!", But its not a big discount. If I have a sex scene as part of my work, (this iS not likely what with not being a film star - but say I had to work for Clinton or something), I promise not to enjoy it. In the likely event of a break up, you MUST ans were media enquiries with the line "She goes off like a volcano in the sack!" Yes I know its a bit 80's, but I read it in a Jilly Cooper novel once and thought it sounded cool.

MONEY AND HOUSES
I take possession of ALL houses. Well all house, OK, all fl ate (apartment). You can have ONE cupboard to keep all the stuff in that you cant take back to your parents house (before i forget, you have to spend the full decade following our break up, living with your parents. Ha!) I require, 62% of all money earned on each day of the week, apart from Sundays, where I know for a fact, you don't do anything!.

HOLIDAYS AND LIFESTYLE DEMANDS
Even after divorce, you still have to accompany me on holidays, where the station is far from the hotel, until such time as I pass a driving test, or you die. During the week, your only allowed out when I'm going out anyway - and you cant come home after me, (Ill be cross) or before me (you might guilt trip me). You need to get home exactly the same time as me, but your NOT allowed to call me on my mobile phone to find out where I am (that would be annoying). I guess you'll just have to hide around the corner or something.

OFF-SPRING
If I go through all the trauma of child birth, and then it ends up being a boy, and looking just like you, with exactly your temperament, then you need to go through an equal ordeal for something that you get no benefit from whatsoever. Like I don't know, a bungee wedgie, like they do on Jackass.

WEIGHT MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
I require you to look shit-hot on days when we're going out, then gain a HUGE tummy for days when I'm feeling slightly insecure and need reassurance than only I'll ever have you. This means that you'll have to gain and loose weight very quickly like Oprah. But no binging. That's just horrid!

STAFF
That would be cool - We're not allowed those cute ones in aprons though.


Must sign here................

Working abroad

I cant wait for Friday, its gonna be the end of the semester and the day I hand in all my work in. All this week, Ive been doing noting but reading, but today I thought I'd stay home all alone, and have the house to myself, when just as I was about to turn the sound my music up (btw I listen to this cool New York based online station called

www.krock2.com ), some woman with her child decided to visit us. And since my mother wasn't home, I thought she'd just go, but NO, she wanted to stay and chat with me, and I didn't even know her. But anyway she stayed till about 1, and came around 9am.

Anyways I managed to finish the last of my coursework, when my mother came to my room and said that some Somali man and a Sheik are gonna come to the house latter on, and that he asked her if he could marry one of us. I just started laughing, coz I never thought something like that would happen, and my mother said yes to him. So all she wanted was for me to come down and say Hi, but when he did come I decided to take a shower, I mean I find it silly parading around for some guy, even if you just saying Hi, he will be 'assessing' if you'd do as a wife.

Anyway when he left, He asked my mother about me, walahi this is funny coz I've never seen him ever, and he wants to get married. I know this is the halal way, but still I think If I'd get married it will be some guy that i got to know first, not just someone looking for a wife. And anyways I'd like to graduate first and at least earn my own money, travel and buy my own house before getting married.

I've been trying to look for jobs abroad like in USA or New Zealand or the Caribbean. I haven't told my mother yet, but I bet shes gonna freak out if she finds out Im planning on going away for a year after Uni. She thinks because Im female and black n Muslim, that something 'bad' would happen to me, but dont millions of single girls travel alone every year, and its not like im going to some remote country, it would be to learn more, see different people and also get experience so I could get a really good job latter on. Im soo bored of being in London now, I find it tiring and very dull, I think London is nice to get an education but not to live if you like peaceful surroundings. Inshaallah hopefully things go well for me and I get that job abroad, it would be nice also living alone and growing as a person, because now I still feel like a child coz Im still living at home. I really cant wait, I think New Zealand or Trinidad would be nice....

Ramdon stuff about my life

The past few weeks I havnt been sleeping well, and I'm feeling so tired and dead, sometimes I just wonder why Im doing all this. I think I have some sort of insomnia because I go for periods of sleeping well, then a couple of weeks I only get a couple of hours sleep. I'm a bit scared now, that Im one day gonna wake up and see my face all wrinkly with bags and all that, actually writing this is making me feel sick. You know my greatest fears in Life is being broke, getting wrinkles, physical pain and death. Ever since I was young like 13, I've been on some sort of diets, doing yoga, exercising and using millions of beauty products, facials going to spas. And now I'm like nearly 21 and Im still doing all this, but Ive calmed down on using make up, well apart from mineral organic make-up. My mother is always saying to me how I could have bought a house or car with the money i spend on pampering myself, but dont you think its much better to look good and be broke than have a big house and be not so good looking.

Anyway my routine is like this: I go to the gym everyday for 2 hours, I use organic face cleaners, natural oils on my face and body (jojoba oil, evening primrose oil, castor oil, vitamin E oil and virgin olive oil). I drink 2L of h2o a day, eat all this fruits and 'rabbit food' and once a month chocolate or crisps. I used to put on make-up, but since there is no one to impress now I dont use any, but if I would it would be mineral make up, its like 100% organic. I also take supplements, I think I got enough to keep a small drug store in business for a year lol, but I dont know, I do all this and im still not happy with how I look, AND on top of all this I dont sleep well. I feel like its all going to waste since if you worry and have sleepless nights, your skin would be bad.
Another thing I live in London which is bloody cold all the time, and I read that in cold countries ppl age faster since our skin is constantly vibrating inside to keep warm.
I seem to be spending a lot of time on the London underground and this is some scary journey. I just like watching all the people on the tube, sometimes I just stare at some woman just analysing her face, she probably thinks im nuts but just looking at the women, those that dress nicely/expensively and then you look at their face and see them with bad skin, bags and they are half asleep just makes me pray that I win the lottery or find meself some rich old man, coz I really wish I dont become like them. I mean although they are independent, rich and can buy anything, they always seem tired, sleepy and have wrinkles or bags and I think whats the point?

I swear even though Im doing Engineering, If i find a man thats rich enough like earns over £100K, I'd drop everything and become a house wife. Yes a house wife, that would be my ideal life, living in a hot country married to a rich older man but not old as in wrinkly old, like I dont know 6-10 yrs older, and yeah just staying at home sleeping well, and not working like some freak. And no Im not a gold digger, Im studying and have some money, but ohhh darn it, I cant explain but I'm not a gold digger. Knowing my luck I'd never find a guy like this and yea he has to be Somali, and ummm knowing Somali guys the highest they earn is not close to that, so yeah I guess I'd have to be working, but Inshaallah I'll work as an Engineer in the oil industry, or biochemical industry designing drugs...ooohhhh what fun!

"Its not enough to win...others must fail" ...

Every time I read something or hear someone say anything interesting, I have to write it down. I have this little book I carry around with me, just so I can write things down. The other day, I was kinda bored and just browsing through it and I realised I couldnt read some of the stuff I wrote, coz sometimes while Im asleep, and I think of something, I just wake up and scribble it down, so im gonna write them here..yes I know Im crazy, but its sort of like a habit I cant stop now.

Anyway here are some of my fav stuff Ive read or heard people say, most of them are sort of ironic or have a dry sarcastic humour to it, which is why I like them.

"Its not enough to win..others must fail" - some article from The London Paper - I think this is going to be my new moto in life ..lol

"Marriage Is the first step towards divorce" -

"In GOD I TRUST, EVERYONE else, polygraph, DNA sample, two-forms of I.D. and three references.."

"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." -- by Albert Einstein


"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity - Martin Luther King Jr. "

"Who kicked a hole in the sky so the heavens would cry over me?Who stole the soul from the sun in a world come undone at the seams? - OASIS

"I attempted to save the world, and lost myself."

"The Greatest sophistication is simplicity and to understand that is Sophistication, "

"IF LOVE IS THE ANSWER,COULD YOU REPHRASE THE QUESTION ?” - some advert on the tube

""I hustle words and pimp sentences" -

"If life gives you lemons, Throw them at the person who gave them to you and take the oranges you wanted in the first place"

"I shall die, but that is all I will do for death" - I find this really funny lol


"I was flabber gasted, never has my flabber been so gasted"


"Marriage is not a word, its a sentence "


"If you slit my throat, with my one last gasping breath, I'll apologise for spilling blood on your shirt" -


"Most people think that life sucks and then you die. Not me, I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remanted, you owe £10 million in medical bills, but you work hard for 35 years and you pay it back and then one day you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralysed, you have to limp around the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool, but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to talk and then one day you step off the curb and BANG!, you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe..."


okay I better stop now, I think I wrote a essay there..but ohh well!

My family

I swear my family is driving me crazy. I think we are the most dysfunctional family ever, its like we co-exist, just tolerating each other. I sometimes wonder if we are the only Somali family like this. Well we have never actually met any of our cousins ever (well except for some old women my mother grew up with), but I have never met any close member of our family thats about my age. Another thing we havnt met any of our aunts and uncles, my mother said they all live in Somalia and the USA. I always feel out of place among other Somali people, since they all have large extended families and millions of cousins, and we dont even have one:(..ohh well.
I think thats why we always seem to argue and stuff, coz we are in each others facing all the time, we dont even act like how other Somali people do. Some of my Somali friends keep on saying im "fish n chips" or acting "white", just because I dont like what they do. I mean I wish I could like what they do, like going to weddings, Somali partes or them Shisha palaces. Every time I go out with them, I have to force smile and fake laugh coz I'm not enjoying all that. I don't even know what I actually enjoy most, but its not that.
I don't know, and on top of all this, my sisters and brothers are driving me up the wall. Its like every time I come home, tired, just wanting to eat and sleep, theres an argument over some little silly thing, and until its settled, they are screaming and shouting like freaks. If this doesn't happen, then one of them has entered my room, and taken something I need or one of my sisters has worn an item of mine. The sad thing is, they keep on doing this because they know I dont do anything about it, I just get angry for a minute and then the next minute I'm helping them wit something or giving whatever they want. All my other sisters are so not like me, its like they remember every single favour they done for you "ohh remember I gave you £1 last year" or something silly like that, and they dont seem to be able to say sorry if their in the wrong. My younger sister would never ever say sorry even if you had a gun to her head, she calls it "pride" not saying sorry, I have to be the one going over to say sorry for something she has done,s o she can start speaking to everyone again.

Anywayz I'm planing on going to the states next year after I graduate, so maybe things will change.

The Weekend -

This is my new favourite song by The Perishers - the lyrics are so true and its kinda sad I can actually relate to this, I guess ohh darn it..never mind!, Im too tired to type, and my computers skills are not that good, so the next best thing to listening to the song is just ummm reading the lyrics. enjoy

You don’t know me, But I’m sitting next to you
Every morning on the bus or on the tube
You look tired, would it help to hear me say
Don’t you worry, Friday’s not that far away?
On the weekends, We try to get our share
Of excitement and of fresh air, Trying to forget Who we’re gonna be, When the alarm rings On Monday morning.
If in the evening, All you do is watch TV, Cause your too tired for anything else, You’re just like me.
Just remember, As you struggle through the day, Relief awaits you,Friday’s not that far away.
On the weekends, We try to get our share Of excitement and of fresh air, Trying to forget Who we’re gonna be When the alarm rings On Monday morning