Okay, soo...

Hellooooo from sunny Californiaaaaaa! I take that last post back :D Entirely. Lol. HAHA.

The whole thing is that on the day my parents left to New York, I got an email saying that everything was resolved and that I could go. Now, on that day, after numerous calls from the parents (from the plane!!), I finally got their approval for me to come with my brother. Right after that, I rushed like a maniac to pack whatever I could (it was 8 PM and it was a total fail. After I'd actually got to New York, I'd realized that I'd forgotten half of the stuff I needed!!! GRRRR :@) and book tickets for the next flight at 5 AM!! That was a fail as well :) and I had to have my uncle go to the agents office to get us some tickets. Anyhow, after all of that was over and I had my tickets, I was off to the airport. Keep in mind that all previous events occurred in about 12 hours or so.. And well, 16 hours later I was in JFK international airport! New York was AMAZING. I cannot stress that enough. Everything about it was extraordinary. The streets, the cabs, the hotels, the lights.. Aah, beautiful! We stayed in a hotel in the middle of Times Square so the area was always always busy with people!

The huge Forever21 screen.. FIND ME ;p

I only had two full days there before we left to California.. First day was random sightseeing, Museum of Modern Art, walking through 42nd street, Avenue of the Americas, etc and by the time it was 7:30 PM, we went back to the hotel to get ready for Wicked the musical!

It was a comedic musical with a pretty story <3

Second day, I was on Good Morning America amongst the waving crowds :D Hahahaha :p

Their studio.

Sam Champion.

Yet again ;p

I don't know how to get the full episode of that day, but if you're interested, it was on July 15th. The rest of the was spent on 5th Avenue (FUN!!!) and again, at 8, we were going to Phantom of the Opera..

Now that was SPECTACULAR! Beyond amazing, beyond beautiful, it was basically indescribable! Everything about it was just too good. This is one musical I'm definitely going to again! The music was magnificent (cheers to the supercallafragalisticexpialadocious orchestra!!!!), the effects were incredible.. JKDHHJKSHKFJ! Lol.. I'm pretty sure you get the idea by now ;p

With those two swift days gone, we headed to Los Angeles, California!!!!!!!!!! YAY!

Flight from New York to California was good, and as an added bonus, Cindy Crawford boarded the same flight before us ;p So we had her on the plane with us :D How cool? She looked stunning!

In Los Angeles, the first few days there were spent in Downtown LA where I attended a fashion show and picked dresses for the store & stuff. We also saw Inception (best. summer. movie.) and basically just walked around the city.. The weather helps. It was very very cool in the middle of summer -emphasize: middle of July- to the extent that you may need to get a jacket on at night <3>

Next day, we went to Universal Studios!!! WOOT!

That was loads of fun. Very very exhausting day. I'm not going to go through it because this post would be a gazillion times longer and you'd kill me..

Finally, I'll end this post with:

Because nothing says more than that <3

P.s: Please disregard my grammar mistakes (if any) and my excess use of the word 'amazing' :p I'm in a rush we're going to Rodeo Drive :D

My Delightful Summer

I'm currently writing (typing, actually) from Biella, an Italian cafe/pizzeria situated right across Virgin on the first floor of City Center in Bahrain. Today, I fear, has been a very very disturbing day for me.

8 hours and 53 minutes ago, I found out my fate for the summer.

I'd been planning to go the States ever since last November, marking each day off my -mental- calendar. As the academic year came to an end, I grew more and more excited. CALIFORNIA BABY! I haven't been there in forever and I desperately needed a booster shot. Planned take off day: July 11th. My god I have been waiting for this day since the 29th of December to be exact :D Anyway, back to the initial story.. My fate for the summer: spending it in good old Khobar. No States (for overpowering reasons we have no control over.) I've been maintaining my mental & psychological state fairly well since that had been announced. For the past 9 hours, I'd been acting pretty damn good. Sure I was sorta gloomy -and who wouldn't be after finding out something like that? But nonetheless, I'd been semi-normal.

My parents decided to go to Bahrain and tagged me along. We saw Toy Story 3 which didn't help in making me feel better contrary to what I believed its effect would be, because it just reminded me of Disney Land and Universal Studios, both in California. Where I'm not going. I'd become idle. And amazingly, not hungry :S I'd gotten a popcorn and a Coke for the movie, and didn't touch either until my mom asked: "are you fasting today Reem :S?" After that I forcibly had almost the entire bucket & chugged down my Coke. I think I thought that nothing was worth anything anymore. After the movie we went around shopping for stuff (with me being utterly uninterested in everything) and eventually we came here to have dinner. Being the gloomy uninterested apetiteless person I am, I barely spoke a word while deciding on what to eat. After a little chatting we ordered -I was obliged to order something or else my parents would've gotten extremely pissed at me. I got spinach and ricotta ravioli.

As we waited for the food, my parents started talking about their trip and travel plans. I just held the menu (yes, I did keep it even though it was far past ordering time. But in case I wanted a drink, since I opted not to get one) and read it. Again and again and again. I'd practically memorized it. Just so that I wouldn't have to take part in their conversation, to block them out. Their discussion was upsetting me and I couldn't -and wouldn't- tolerate it. 42 times of reading the menu later, cover to cover, I can now work as a certified Biella waiter :D

The food arrived, and I have to say, it was very good. Delicious. After 2 tempura prawns, one pizza slice, and 2 ravioli's though, I couldn't have anymore. And that's very alarming for a person like me :) minimal eating at a restaurant -or anytime, for that matter- has got to be a warning sign for something gone wrong. But I couldn't. I just couldn't. I tried forgetting about it and enjoying my time, but it just wouldn't happen. Aaannnddd, as I resumed writing this post in the car, my mom started complaining about my bad attitude and constant bbm use today -the latter being not true, I had my phone shut off the whole time we were in Bahrain. Most likely she meant my use of it in morning and afternoon..

Anyhow, I just wanna go to sleep and wake up realizing that this was all just a dream. Or a false reality. Or a hallucination of some sort. Unfortunately, waking up tomorrow will only make matters worse, as that means my summer days are ending and I'm not going anywhere. After all my planning, my hopes, my expectations, my everything for a half a month in Los Angeles and half a month in New York, it's all over. And its irreversible. It really is over. I have to suck it up till this summer ends, uni starts, JC 1 and 2 are over, and 11 months later, my summer starts again and I MAY or MAY NOT travel anywhere. Again. No London, no States, no Japan, no Lebanon, and no Turkey. Yay. I know I should remain positive and crap etc etc, that this isn't the end of the world.. But you're not in a position to judge me -.- so I'll exert all the negativity I want for the next year until summer '11 is here! Boo ya! Therefore, I'm sorry wall in Saks Fifth Avenue advising me to "think about smiling at everyone I pass on the street today because I wont believe how contagious it is." I just can't find it in me to do that today (or this month). Though I'd usually love doing so, my optimism has officially depleted.

10 hours after I'd found out my fate for the summer, the frustration and disappointment inside me are playing it up and are finally inducing me with a migraine.

As if I need one right now.

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