June Highlights!

Okay, here are a few things that happened during June.. Right from the start :D This was supposed to be posted earlier (and not as a highlight post, either) but I'm to blame because I lost the wire that downloads pics from my camera, and therefore, you are now getting a quick highlight post AND crappy Blackberry pictures :D Anyways,

Beginning of June: SUMMER STARTED :D

June 8: Nouraba7's 19th birthdaaaay! I wanted to do special cupcakes to celebrate this extravagant event, and I kept on thinking and thinking about what to do. After much searching (through final days as well!) I had nothing. I mean, I found nice ideas, but nothing amazingly special or different I wanted to do. Until June 7, at 10 PM, my head said Tetris :| Why don't I create something out of Tetris? I love Tetris, and she loves Tetris as well ever since I'd infected her with the Tetris illness (I really mean illness. At first we only used to play during breaks between lectures, but with time, we started playing through lectures of professors we don't like, then during lectures we thought boring, then all day basically -.- Even during final season, our breaks were comprised of Tetris. I hope you now appreciate my use of the word illness :D) at the beginning of second semester maybe? Anyways, we're both Tetris junkies and I thought that this was amazingly suitable. It'll be fun for me to do, and such a shocker for her I guess ;p With that, my Tetris (Oreo) cupcakes were born :')

Okay so they weren't perfect, but I only had a few hours to do the whole thing!

Then, I decided to get in touch with my artsy roots that have been dead for the past two years and use my time more effectively, that resulted in this:

Made with soft chalk pastels <3

A few days after, I had a ROAD TRIP! We went to Riyadh.. 4 hours via car. Loads of fun. NOT!

The trip was exhausting and I was only sitting! I pity my poor dad who was driving.

Ugly pic, pretty red sands :)

But while there I really enjoyed myself that I didn't wanna leave :S I enjoyed the streets, the nightlife, the hotelllll. Faisaliyah Hotel, best destination in Riyadh ever <3>so much fun that I couldn't handle myself and ate rape fish :D

Lol.. Just kidding. I don't do fish. Except very very scarcely. This was advertised in Riyadh Gallery near the food court and I thought it was very amusing. Rape fish ftw! ;p

Also, I bough World Cup memorabilia. Me and Zizo got matching shirts :D

He was uber exhausted after the Germany vs. Australia game.. 4 - 0 EPIC game!

Aaaannnd, at the morning of the day we were leaving, I got too excited and burned my abaya :( I don't know how it happened. The iron was on low. I know how to iron delicate items. I think I should've sued the hotel for their schizophrenic irons -_-

It was huge. Thank god we were leaving!

Then, a few days after we were back from Riyadh, I got baking again and perfected my very first New York style cheesecake..

T'was really yummy, except I disliked the lemon zest I put in it. Disregarding that, it was perfectooo <3>

June 28: My cousin had a pool party. My aunt -who happens to be in her last trimester of pregnancy- was supposed to make the cake, but on that exact day, she went to the hospital with Braxton Hicks contractions (Medic in me speaking. In plain English: fake labor :D) so my cousins mom was confused on what to do and stuff cuz she was busy with other things. Lucky for her, I happened to be there and made her the frosting and frosted the cake and decorated it & stuff. So this is the final product!

I decorated the cake while my previously spoken about aunt did the figures beforehand!

TODAY! June 30: I got back a while ago from Julia Stile's sisters graduation party.. Which was really fun, except that I made a huge fool of myself during truth or dare. Okay she wasn't Julia Stiles. She just looks like her. But she's prettier :D So yeh Meena, I'm declaring that you're way way prettier than Julia Stiles publicly in my blog. I hope you like this :D

For the party I made spider web cupcakes, just cuz she demanded that we wear black, for no reason whatsoever ;p

With that, June has reached its end, and tomorrow is the first of July, which means that I (hopefully) get to leave in 11 days :D That's all that happened during June though I think..

And I thought I wasted a whole month doing nothing.. ;p

P.S:

Even though I'd intended not to do this type of post again, I like it :/ Lol.. It took more time than I'd planned and it isn't so swift at all :D I think I'll be doing this again.

Change?

Okay, so, quick post since I've been very busy lately.. As you can all see, my blog is called Reemo's Tall World. I made this blog back when I was in 9th, 10th grade maybe.. At that time, the name was amusing and pretty applicable to my daily life. It still is now, except that I feel like I want to change it into something more.. Old? Lol.. Not sure. I was thinking Confessions of a Med Student, that's more suitable right now.. Yet I don't want to change it because I like the fuzzy nostalgia the original name gives me.. Change is always good though, isn't it? Ah, the indecisiveness of the Libra. So irritating. And always on minor things. Any suggestions would be appreciated :D

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Well, it's official. Summer is finally here.
Yes, as amazing as it seems, the year is over. I mean, it's been what, 9 moths since we started the academic year? NINE MONTHS HAVE PASSED SINCE I STARTED IN RCSI! I'm done with my first year in uni. Wow. That's pretty cool to think about. First year of med school: check :)
Haha, sorry I'm just repeating myself, but I'm really intrigued by this.
That means only 5 more years enshallah :D
About today, we ended our exam at 2 PM promptly, after which I rode with Noura in her car. Instantly, she hooked her iTrip and by 2:05 we were ready to celebrate! She announced this song to be pretty appropriate for our situation.. After which I declared it to be my official summer song (in my head or aloud, not sure :x)



I love it! So happy and upbeat. Haha, totally complemented the moment!!

We reached City Center by 2:15 and started our movie by 2:30. Let me tell you, Prince of Persia was very very nice. I loved every bit. I wont talk about it here so I wont ruin it for anyone who wants to watch it but it's definitely worth watching..
Aaaannnddd, after that, I was on my way to my beloved home.. Finally, a weekend with no uni on Sunday, or Monday, or any day after that for that matter :")
Anyhow, here's to a great year with the oh so fabulous Nouraba7.. We'll kick ass in JC enshallah! Oo 3ugbal 9aef our 6th year!

Moving on to my summer plans:

• Bake cupcakes.
  
• Bake big cakes.
  
• Bake cookies.
  
• Bake pies.
  
• Bake some more.
  
• Cook.
• Bake.
  

(I'll stop this now)

• Get a license.. Something I urgently need to do.
  
• Lose 15 kg's. (This has been a summer plan {and a new year resolution} for the past 5 years now :D)
• Get my room prettified.
  
• Sleep. Gotta catch up on sleep.
  
• CATCH UP ON SHOWS!!!!!!!!! I have way too many.
• Read a few books.
  

Most are pretty pointless. Lol.. Buttt.. I have a right to be pointless. For the next three months at least.. So, not a very interesting post to you guys, but to me, it's pretty intense ;)
Till next time.. x

Pro-cras-ti-nate

The war has begun, my friends.
Finals are just around the corner, with just one more months time to prepare. The war I'm talking about, though, is the one between my willpower and the little procrastination gremlins that live inside me. Frankly, the gremlins are winning. They have set up their empire long ago, and I think disturbing them with this coup of willpower insurgents might not work.

It was exactly the Tuesday before the last when I decided to stop my recent plunge in the "no studying" pool and to start prepping for finals. I made a schedule that was fairly easy to follow; 4 lectures per day will land me fully ready at May 7, leaving me with 18 days to revise once again and practice exam questions. Seems pretty simple, right?

Wrong.

I started Tuesday well, completing the 4 I had assigned. Wednesday however I only did one. Thursday I did none. Friday I did none too. Slowly I started going into the negative part of the scale and over a week later, I'm officially at -39. I'm useless. I will fix this, though. Seriously. Enshallah. Tomorrow.

I must point out that time is a major issue here. To me at least. Why is it that it runs out so quick when I need it to stretch the most? I just went back to Saudi today, and I got to my grannies house in the morning, before noon. I was in the living room chilling when I looked at the clock on the wall and said: "Okay Reem, you'll start studying at 12 o'clock. You have two hours to waste. Enjoy them.. " With a blink of an eye, it was 12, then 1, then 2. I decided to have lunch at 2 and to start exactly at 3. FAIL. I ended up starting at 7, in which I opened up the first page of my lecture, got drowsy, and opted for a 20 minute nap. Funny thing is that I'll look at the clock when it's (hour):06. Exactly. Each time. But each time, an hour would've passed. So so quick that I didn't even feel it. It's like the 6 hours that went today were in fact only 3 in my world.

Moving on to procrastination:

procrastinate |prəˈkrastəˌnāt; prō-|verb [ intrans. ]delay or postpone action; put off doing something : it won't be this price forlong, so don't procrastinate.procrastination -noun.

Procrastination is googling videos about procrastination and then watching them. Aah, procrastination. Pathological in me, it's a disease I tell you. A fatal one that I'm going to cure. Soon. slowly adapting to? (Haha, who am I kidding.. I think I'm far past adapting. I'm adapTED.)

To establish a more comfortable relationship between you and I, I'll take you through a day in my life. That way, you can understand me more thoroughly:

I have procrastinated sleeping to write this post even though I must wake up early in the morning to catch up on some studying and even though I have a migraine (but it seems like the Excedrin is working, 7amdella.) I am easily distracted by everything and anything. I mean, the first video up there isn't lying. That's how my head works. Seriously. Minus smoking a cigarette, and picking your nose. Sometimes I think I have the attention span of a goldfish. If only there were a way to procrastinate procrastination.

Is there?

Semi-rant..

Hello all,

3 and a half months went by SO quick I really didn't feel them pass!

Regarding this post, I have a little story to tell..

When I was a sophomore in high school, I'd pretty much decided that I wanted to study medicine. Hell, I've been wanting that since the 6th grade. As the days passed, and I was in my senior year, I was constantly asked by everyone what I wanted to major in. Being the only senior at that time in a science stream as opposed to my two other cousins in the literature stream, everyone wanted to know what I'm thinking of. So, being confronted with an enthusiastic 17 year old with the aim of med school would be, well, pleasant, right?

Well, people didn't think so.. And people would go OUT OF THEIR WAY just to convince me to choose another major. I've been told I'm stupid, old fashioned, and lifeless for making that decision. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but when was it ever a strangers call to judge what I wanted to do? When was it ever my call to judge what anyone wants to do? I'd never try to convince a person to let go of their aspirations or tell them they're stupid for choosing them :/ The only people who ever supported me were my parents + grandpa (LOVE YOU!), and a few other people I can count on my fingers.

The reasons these nay-sayers (tacky) would provide are:

• You can't do it.

My thoughts: You don't tell me what I can or can't do. That's up to me to decide.

• It takes too long.

My thoughts: Nothing that is worth having comes easy. I'm fully aware of the time scale for pursuing medicine, thank you very much.

• You're a stupid arse for turning down CPC, the opportunity of a lifetime that all girls would die (and drop all prior ambitions upon acceptance) for.

My thoughts: Umm, not really. I'm not that "mayta 3alaehum" as they say. Especially when being offered a major I didn't choose. Dear God, I can't imagine studying something I didn't sign up for in the first place just to be affiliated with a company of some sort, or "securing a job".. Don't I want to ENJOY my studying years AND future job? Excuse me, but if you think I'm letting everything go to work for you, you're wrong. I'm receiving the best education anyone could ever ask for and I actually LIKE the knowledge I'm learning! Besides, the more I think about it, the more I believe that studying abroad isn't all that (I'm not in a Saudi uni either so I'm happy enough (: ) If you wanna be a doctor, go for it. If you wanna be an architect, go for it. Don't abandon what you wanted just cuz you got a spot for a not so nice major (or one you didn't ask for but was put in). Because unfortunately, I know WAY too many people who did that and I sorta pity them :/

• You'll never get married.

My thoughts: You don't get to decide that, God does. Eli Allah katbah bi9eer. Even though you're studying business or whatever doesn't mean you'll get married either. Not that this is a huge issue to think about when you're 17.. So I was quite amazed when I got that.

• You'll never get a job.

My thoughts: Doctors will always have jobs (B2thn Allah). What if a huge pandemic attacks the earth and turns humans into cannibalistic zombies? Doctors must protect the rest of the population and save those who were bitten no longer than 72 hours ago. Haha, I'm kidding. But frankly, if I'm not destined to have a job, I'd be satisfied with the wealth of knowledge I gained. And there's always Doctors Without Borders, which I'd love to join from the first day I ever get to work!

• Choose something newer.

My thoughts: Like what? Jewelry designing? No comment.

With that, I conclude this brief post which seems to be more like a rant, but anyways..

Till next time! xx

:X

Ever since I'd announced this blog alive again, I haven't posted anything. And that's bad. It's just that I've been so busy, and especially in the past week I've been studying my butt out for finals on Jan 11th. I'm pretty back as it is right now and I'm really fretting on what might happen later on. I reeallyyyy want to pass :) Lol.. Hahaha.

Anyhow, we just entered the new year 2010, and I hope that it's a prosperous joy filled year to all. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!

With that, till next time!! xx

*Pic taken in Yokohama Firework Festival, Japan 2009.

I am announcing this blog alive again!! :p

Well, time really does fly.

I'm now in my first year of uni, as opposed to turning 16 in my last post.
Although I can't promise anyone that I'll keep on writing here, it's nice having my old blog back. I really do miss blogging. So now, as a first year med student, I'll try my best to post updates on what happens & what's new..
I'm too tired to think of anything now, but that'll change once I get enough sleep.
Which is something I need at this point, because I have a dental appointment nice and early in the morning (more like a few hours from now.)

To my next update, hope all is well!
xx