U.S Open Coming Soon!

The U.S Open Tennis Championship starts Monday and I'm sooo excited. I can't wait to watch good tennis matches again! Hopefully I'll find the channel that is showing the tournament..hehe

I'll be keeping you up to date on what goes on....but until then, here's a picture from a one-on-one match between tennis champs and rivals, Federer and Nadal which took place on the streets of Manhatten as an exhibition before the tournament.....

Lets hope we see them both in the finals for yet another awesome final!!!!!!

Kabhi Alvida Na Kihna

Well, to be honest, I wasn't so excited, almost anxious that it wouldn't be nice, but Kabhi Alvida Naa Kihna turned out to be a good movie. It is the story of a married man and a married woman (Shah Rukh Khan and Rani Mukerji) who try to help each other with their marital problems but soon fall in love with each other. O ba3dain it shows you the problems each one of them faces with their husband/wife (Preity Zinta and Abhishek Batchchan) and family (Amitabh Bachchan).

6ab3an 6weeeel o ybachi :P o yes I shed a few tears...(but thats just me I cry in almost all movies!) My mum and my aunt were probably the only two people in the showroom who were laughing their heads off ("9ij filim hindi...ma yista3'non 3an ilmu6ar!" "umbay! ilcombars nafis-hom illi yargi9oon nafis-hum illi yamshoon bishwari3!") UGH! 3a9iboni! How could they not like it? It was a good movie...If you've seen it please tell me you liked it! :P

6al3a

Hey you guys! I have nothing better to write about so here are some pictures I took while my mum and my sisters and I were on our 6al3a yesterday:

We went to Pizze Hut

First of all we ordered some appetizers:

Salad

and nachos

Oh yes, then we had pizza

(Pepperoni and cheese with mushrooms)

PS Not my favourite topings but you have to compromise in order to please the majority!

Today, Inshallah, we're going to the Indian movie Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna. We don't usually go to Indian movies, unless they're blockbusters or something, and this one ought to be something since the showrooms were full up till today since Saturday!!! Do you like Indian movies? And if you've seen this ine please tell me what you thought :)

Street Musicians

They play in the street, at the corner, round the bend. In the rain or under the sun, they strum their strings, they beat their drums. They sway their bows across their hearts, they sing, they do their thing. People pass by, most hear but they don't listen. I take a moment and sit by the curb and I try to figure out what the musicians are trying to say. I hear no words but I feel the meanings coming to me within the music. Sometimes I feel hope, sometimes it's fear or remorse, other times it's love but most of all it's just pure passion. I hear it in their music, I see it in their eyes, and I feel it in my soul. I find that I have so much respect for these people and how they can say so much without saying anything at all. I put a penny in their box knowing that I will never need words to understand what they are saying. Music is the language that they use.

The Road to Karachi

I just finished "The Road to Karachi", a novel by Kuwaiti novelist Haithem Boodai. It is the story of a group of Kuwaiti sailors that face aroller wave while at sea...
The plot of the story was good...but the characters weren't developed so much. The translation was very bad...there were so many mistakes but you could get pretty much everything. If you maybe buy the Arabic version it would be different. To put it in a couple of words: If you've time to kill go ahead and read it.
It does give you an insight of what our grandfathers mighthave faced on those challenging sea quests, and there were also some good descriptions of the rice plantations in India.....
I will now go on to reading the compiled short stories from the same writer and I'll tell you about that when I'm done.

New Books and More Movies

Hey there! I popped into Virgin last night and I bought two new books. They are both by a Kuwaiti writer: Haithem Boodai. One is a prize winning novel titled "The Road to Karachi" and the other is a compilation of short stories titled "The Palms". I wanted something to read and I thought "Hey thats something new, lets try this out" So I'll read them and I'll tell you how it was....

I also watched quite a few movies this past week...
Alive (starring Ethan Hawk) A movie based on the true events of a plane carrying a rugby team and their family and friends which crashes in the Andes mountains. They story shows how they fight for survival and how they find God in that isolation. A touching story I thought. Good movie.

Pride and Prejudice (starring Keira Knightly,Matthew Macfadyen) I don't think that this story needs introduction (grabbing long cane just incase) It is only one of the best love stories EVER! LOL Anyway, it was fun watching this version although I didn't like as much as the BBC one starring Colin Firth (swoooooons) I thought I wasn't going to like this Mr. Darcy but he wasn't bad...at all! Oh yes, and I don't see why Keira was nominated for the best actress oscar for this role...she wasn't THAT good?! Oh well..! Watch it :)

Poseidon (starring Kurt Russell) A huge ship is turned over by a huge tidal wave on new years eve. The people who were in the ballroom are safe in the sealed air-bubble that it is, but for how long?! A group of passenger decide to take action themselves and head up to the surface. Hmm, it was OK.. A few "how did that happen?"'s and "where did that come from?"'s :P I would say a good TV movie but I can't because it had some amazing scenery and cool shots and stuff...

Just a Little Something...

This is just a little something I wrote the other day. It is based on a dream I had earlier on this month. I'd appreciate your comments on my writing, here goes:

I was walking down the road and it happened in a flash. There was no sound at all, no one was around. The bullets came at me so slowly, I could see them with my eyes but I can't do anything to stop them coming my way. They enter my body one by one, cutting into my flesh and burying themselves within me. I could feel them inside me, hot but cold at the same time. At first there was no pain, no pain at all, just silence and I couldn't believe what had happened. It must be a mistake. I must move on and get home but my feet won't move an inch. I look around, I look for help but I am alone with this body that feels less like my own with each second that passes. This body pierced with bullets. I look down at my shirt, it is stained with blood, blood so dark, so hot. I lift my shirt up to examine the wounds. They don't look so bad, just bloody holes in a cold body. A searing pain shoots right through me, it reaches every nerve in me, every single one. I finally feel the pain. It's so unbearable, I fall to the hard wet ground. I finally feel the pain but somehow it gives me a sense of comfort deep inside. I am somehow watching myself lying on the ground, in that dark road, all alone, with no one around. How is this happening? Why is this happening? It doesn't matter, a voice within me says, it is finally over. I won't have to feel anything anymore, because your bullets drained me of my blood, they drained me of my soul, they drained me of my life.