just as i thought, this year would definitely be time of change for both me and the people around me. two days ago my sister Ava and my bro in law Pravin got placed into her residencies. Pravin is going to be doing neurology at cleveland clinic in Ohio and my sister is going to be doing family practice in Erie, PA. Since they didnt get placed into the same hospital they are considering selling their current home and finding a house inbetween the two states. While their living situation will be much better than their current situation in Rotations (they move to a different hospital or state every 3-4 weeks)-- the downfall is they will be stuck in their spots for the next 4 years. Its going to be very hard working 80 hour shifts as a resident and having a 90 mile commute (hopefully that wont happen). I wish the best for her and her hubby. They will both be graduating this Spring!!!!
i also found out my roommate just got into an exchange program located in Tunisia. There she will teach English to others and learn Arabic at the same time. She will also have the opportunity to travel around the country a little bit. They choose her based on her ability to speak French which I think is ridiculous. I will miss you Sonia!!!
Earlier that day I also found out I got accepted into the design program at concordia university. I was so excited bc ive working on this literally day and night for the last 3 months --but overall Ive been pursuing this for the last year and half.
My cousin Sahar is also moving to Montreal at the end of this summer. I just found out shes taking a year off to work and learn French. This works out better for me :) bc now she will hopefully have time to help me out.
Today I found out that one of my good friends may be moving out of the country.. :( this is really disappointing but hopefully she can stay for as long as her situation allows.
Last Monday my aunt opened her new office in the downtown area of Maple Lawn.. Shes still in the process of getting her business together but hopefully I can work their during the summer..
On side note:
Ive been taking a lot of time to reevaluate all the relationships I have in my life. Bc Ive been changing a lot myself -- the people in my life have also been switching.
one specific situation has been bothering me. unfortunately no matter how long youve known someone .. sometimes when friends take different paths in life its hard to relate or keep something up that seems unreal. Its very very hard to be in this situation especially if youve known someone for that long...bc they automatically have high expectations of you and of the friendship. How do you tell someone you dont want to be friends with them??.. just bc you are so completely different that its hard to enjoy your time with them.. you cant!
and if the person continues to somehow repeatedly pop up in your life.. what does this all mean?? are you suppose to learn something from them or affect them in some way?? really, after a while of noticing these situations .. they really arent coincedence. inshallah god will give me the understanding for what to do!
once again, this year has already been going by really fast! but it just keeps getting better and better.. and im really excited to flip into the next chapter of life :)
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Monday, March 9, 2009
Mulah Matchmaker
The Mulah takes on a whole new role.....
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2009/03/05/iran.love.mullah.cnn
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2009/03/05/iran.love.mullah.cnn
Friday, March 6, 2009
Top 100 Sites in America
http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_sites?cc=US&ts_mode=country&lang=none
Check it out!!
Check it out!!
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
gum + butts
Smartstreets-Smartbin: Public Chewing gum bin and cigarette bin, Highlands, Scotland (UK)
detecting problem + finding solution = good design.
It takes America a little bit of time to catch on to common sense =)
http://flickr.com/photos/27940402@N06/2612347313/
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Linehan Trip
Once a semester i go on a school trip through the linehan program. every fall we go to ny for a day and in spring we go to dc. The trips usually consistents of us going to an exhibit in the morning and some sort of show or performance at night. For the most part all the trips have been pretty cool (and usually very expensive)... but they fully cover our fee which is awesome =). Since i am aware that students often cancle their tickets, I take advantage of this and ask to bring a friend with me (they get fully covered too since the tickets are all prepaid).
Some of the places we gone in the past were the Guggeinheim museum, lincoln center (twice), MOMA.. and etc
To this day the best performance ive ever seen was edward sissor hands at the kennedy center. the technological devices they used in their theatre really combined the digital world with reality.. i dont know much about theatre but ....the fact that they had my attention for 2.5 hours with the characters barely speaking was absolutely amazing.
anyways back to saturdays show.. we went to first Smithsonian American Art Museum. the first thing we did was grab some food in there really nice cafe. basically this museum originally consisted of one building. then decided to expand the musuem but they didnt want to knock down any structures .. so what they did was connect the two buildings by adding a "roof cap"
inbetween...for the area that would be an intersection i guess? you really felt like you were outside bc you could see the fascades of the two buildings facing inwards....
anywho after we walked around the museum ,we took a cab to M street in georgetown..ate at Miss Saigon. really good vietnamese food :) if you guys want to check it out.. one of my favorite places. they brought my food out in a clay pot
so we chilled in downtown for like 2 and half hours then took a cab back to Kennedy Center. The cab driver that picked us up was freaky as ishhhh. He was playing slow love making music really loudly in his car.
Between us four girls we were VERY very uncomfortable with this middle-aged guy. My friend sitting next to me, kept pintching my leg the entire time. Lol one of the girls had to sit in the front I felt bad for her :/ lol
So eventually we go the Lincoln Center and we were scheduled to see a jazz performance at 9:30pm. To be honest im pretty ignorant about the music scene but one the guys we saw was a multi Grammy winner (Ernie Watts saxophone). There was a native american string quratet and a trio with piano, bass, and drums. The singer, kurt elling, had really great presence on stage. he kinda sounded like micheal buble to me..lol but that could just be me.
Considering I dont really listen to jazz music at all, i was really blown away.
The best part of the night was seeing the Lincoln Center's exhibit called Arabesque: Arts of the Arab World. Let me tell you, these guys really went out all out. Of course what they were presenting was biased, but they had collections from 22 arab countries ( i didnt even know there were 22 arab countries?). This included performances of music, theatre, dance (mainly guys), in addition to a film festival, literary events, a souk (market), and a lot more. lol they even had a harem bed in the middle of one of the galleries (it was suppose to function as a bench for people). There were a few clothing displays for royalty and the common attire, from back in the day. The gift shop was filled with calligraphic t-shirts, arabic comic books, and a lot of other random stuff.
Some of the places we gone in the past were the Guggeinheim museum, lincoln center (twice), MOMA.. and etc
To this day the best performance ive ever seen was edward sissor hands at the kennedy center. the technological devices they used in their theatre really combined the digital world with reality.. i dont know much about theatre but ....the fact that they had my attention for 2.5 hours with the characters barely speaking was absolutely amazing.
anyways back to saturdays show.. we went to first Smithsonian American Art Museum. the first thing we did was grab some food in there really nice cafe. basically this museum originally consisted of one building. then decided to expand the musuem but they didnt want to knock down any structures .. so what they did was connect the two buildings by adding a "roof cap"
inbetween...for the area that would be an intersection i guess? you really felt like you were outside bc you could see the fascades of the two buildings facing inwards....
anywho after we walked around the museum ,we took a cab to M street in georgetown..ate at Miss Saigon. really good vietnamese food :) if you guys want to check it out.. one of my favorite places. they brought my food out in a clay pot
so we chilled in downtown for like 2 and half hours then took a cab back to Kennedy Center. The cab driver that picked us up was freaky as ishhhh. He was playing slow love making music really loudly in his car.
Between us four girls we were VERY very uncomfortable with this middle-aged guy. My friend sitting next to me, kept pintching my leg the entire time. Lol one of the girls had to sit in the front I felt bad for her :/ lol
So eventually we go the Lincoln Center and we were scheduled to see a jazz performance at 9:30pm. To be honest im pretty ignorant about the music scene but one the guys we saw was a multi Grammy winner (Ernie Watts saxophone). There was a native american string quratet and a trio with piano, bass, and drums. The singer, kurt elling, had really great presence on stage. he kinda sounded like micheal buble to me..lol but that could just be me.
Considering I dont really listen to jazz music at all, i was really blown away.
The best part of the night was seeing the Lincoln Center's exhibit called Arabesque: Arts of the Arab World. Let me tell you, these guys really went out all out. Of course what they were presenting was biased, but they had collections from 22 arab countries ( i didnt even know there were 22 arab countries?). This included performances of music, theatre, dance (mainly guys), in addition to a film festival, literary events, a souk (market), and a lot more. lol they even had a harem bed in the middle of one of the galleries (it was suppose to function as a bench for people). There were a few clothing displays for royalty and the common attire, from back in the day. The gift shop was filled with calligraphic t-shirts, arabic comic books, and a lot of other random stuff.
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