A night out with Miss. Eyebrows and Miss. Kon

I had an enjoyable time with a few friends that I hadn't seen in a very looong time. I don't really like spilling out names as people should understand by now, so lets call one of them Miss. Eyebrows and the other Miss. Kon (HSM: I honestlty tried to think of something better but this came to my head).

Well, being arab, they came 3 hours late (I am not exaggerating), so Miss. Hiiiii looks much better in comparison. Our time was rather limited, however we did walk to my local(ish) high street and we tried getting milkshakes, the problem was that it was 10 o'clock and the milkshake bar had closed :( so we went into Odeon to get a Ben and Jerry's, and despite it being obviously closed, Miss. Eyebrows and Miss. Kon were still excited and made their way to the counter, probably about to spend another 3 hours deciding what to order (another Miss. Hiiiii trait), then the staff had to exclaim 'we're closed!' I was pretty embarressed at this moment, Miss. Short Fuse had accompanied us and was telling me to chill out, but this is simply out of my character!!!!! I turn around and find Miss. Eyebrows and Miss. Kon, like lost children, staring at a television monitor showing the CCTV footage of one of the cinema screen audiences.

Miss. Kon: Do you know what this looks like?
Miss. Eyebrows: What?
Miss. Kon: It looks like we're so cheap to watch a film, that we're watching the people watching a film!
All: laughter

I wanted to die of embaressment at this point. There was a general trend during the day to act like chavs, so we ended up going to Burger King. Considering I came for a milkshake, I bought a milkshake, the others got various foods, but while ordering Miss. Kon and Miss. Eyebrows did what they do best: harrassing the staff.

Well, they wern't really harrassing the staff but they were acting like creepy middle aged deseprate men, I slightly felt bad for the poor guy cus he looked really shy.

Miss. Kon: Where are you from, you look arab.
Till man: *averts eyes* (at this point I left the two girls to seek solice in Miss. Short Fuse)

.......some time after harrassing began.....

Miss Kon: Majid is a nice name
Miss. Eyebrows: Yeah like Captain Majid from the cartoon (Which is actually a Japanese Manga/Anime originally called Captain Tsubasa)
Miss Kon: *motions to me* Where do you think she comes from?
FlaminDessa: No! Don't get me involved! *motions to Tillman/Majid* I refuse for you to answer!
Tillman: *averts eyes* ..........................

All this time Miss. Short Fuse was in shock as I remarked to her that the situation that was playing in front of our eyes was usually in a reverse order: a creepy guy at the till trys to chat up the customers and it ALWAYS starts with 'where are you from?'. When we had informed the two culprits about what their actions seemed to outsiders, they cracked up laughing, and seemed to enjoy this revelation of their personalites. Funnily enough, they were also contemplating harrassing the other tillman.

We were talking shit (I tend to end up doing that with friends alot) and then suddenly a bunch of girls cam into the Chav restaurant and started throwing stuff at this loner guy, and in the heat of the moment he started throwing his food at them. Now, of course the girls were rude and wrong and immature, and I don't blame the man for getting angry but all I could think was 'HOW COULD YOU THROW FOOD!!!!!!!' We all felt sorry for the guy, and once he had calmed down he did seem really vulnerable, but honsetly those b***** were really mean! Well anyway. We carried on talking shit and went home.

The End.

Manga of the Month - July

I'm sad and yet happy that I can only vent out my manga enthusiasm on this blog, writing my opinions down allows me to improve the way I present them, instead of being overly zealous (which happens while I'm speaking so I look like I'm talking jack), this unfortunately tends to scare my audiences away, even so, only the most patient of people read my manga talks on this blog, and to them, I am grateful. It makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside :D

So, time for some manga, well, I'll be talking about a series that is relatively newly started and I only finished reading yesterday. I really enjoyed it as I could relate to some aspects of it (as I will be detailing later on), but let me tell you how I got into this manga and the mangaka's works (the manga writer).

*Ahem* well, I came along the series name 'Kimi ni Todoke' or 'Reaching you' in english,.I read the blurb and thought 'this is not something I'd read' but what brought me into reading it was not the artwork, or the storyline, but the covering picture, it was of the two main characters just looking into each others eyes.... Now this little scene has been overly replayed in shoujo (girl's) manga, but for some reason this paticular picture really grabbed my attention and it made me sort of sink into the picture too.

I decided then and there that I'd read it, so I clicked onto the link for the prologue and LO! There was an example of one of the best drawing styles I've seen, simple but bold, delicate but affective, and most of all, wonderfully variable! (you'll understand me if you read it, which you won't, because not many people even read my recommendations.. or listen to me for that matter).

Well, let me get to the plot of the story, It's about this girl called Sawako, but she's accidentally called 'Sadako' as the scray girl character from the film 'The ring' (originally japanese) was called Sadako. And due to her unfortunate stereotypical appearance of a 'Traditional Japanese ghost' she's feard by her entire school, this had been going on scince elementary school when a rhumour became fact by word of mouth. (I hate it when that happens). She therefore gains no social skills of communicative skills, and her kind intentions are always misinterpreted. Resulting in an accumulated classroom fear of Sawako and her isolation.

The humour of the situation is well described in the manga, but the sadness is not ignored. I could understand Sawako's situation slightly (not to say i'm some sort of rhumoured ghost) but in the respect that I too could only start speking with people when I was 14/15, I even had no personality until I was 17. So I could relate to the female protagonist alot and it made me empathise with her too.

A word on the themes of the story must be mentioned, I'm doing a disrespect by mentioning it so late, so i'll just start now :D The romance is really cute, it is slowly drawn out and develops gradually, from a respect to a care to a deep feeling, which I assume is what's supposed to happen rather than a 'love at first sight' crap? But the importance of the romance in the story I believe is overshadowed by the indispensability of friendship. The great focus in 'Kimi ni Todoke' is the journey Sawako makes to enhance her communication skills and aquire friends, something I too can relate too and respect its difficulty.

It is a Shoujo but it does not exclude the male audience, however if you're looking for bad ass awesome fight and action this is not for you, if you're looking for something that relates to human relationships and good comedy with subtlty but not overly thoughtful, then this is for you.

I hope someone out there gets affected by this >_< I really do love this manga and give it 9/10.

A day to remember

Yesterday I spent an enjoyable time with my friends, I'd like to not spill their names out, so I'll call one of them Miss. Hiiiiii and the other Miss. Tooting :D I think more original names could be made but I simply can't think of any at the moment.

So I was devestated to say the least, when I found out that Miss. Hiiiiii would be joining myself and Miss. Tooting, 'she's going to be 3 hours late!' was what I exclaimed over the phone to Miss. Tooting, she didn't sound phased, but when I saw her the following day at Tooting Broadway station, she gave me a sort of reprimand and challenged my 'friend' material. I was then pleasently shocked to find that Miss. Hiiiiii had actually arrived only 10 minutes late!!!!!! A NEW WORLD RECORD HAS BEEN BROKEN! Miss. Hiiiiii has the capacity to be only 10 minutes late!!!! CELEBRATE PPL!!!!! I have a new found trust in Miss. Hiiiiii's punctuality. I feel 3000 steps closer to her.

But I really am glad Miss. Hiiiiii turned up, I'm even happier that she came on time! We ate hallal Italian food (I had a yummy pasta with spinach and prawns) and we talked and talked an talked I think we were there for like 2 and a half hours. Most of it was 'networking' and the other was 'talking shit' as Miss. Tooting eloquently described it. In fact alot of what we were talking about was shit. Like how Rodick (sp?) the tennis player sticks his bum out when he serves, or the debate we had about all adult films having sex in them, and other crap that I can't even remember.

I showed them my rough sketches for the manga I intend to finish drawing, and I was half disappointed half amused when I saw the fall in expression on Miss. Hiiiii's face, she seemed to be jealous that I had drawn other characters with sexy faces, while I had drawn her like a chav. I'm contemplating changing her character profile now, but I have faith that it will go well in the manga, so I'm also hesistant to change it.

Sadly Miss. Tooting had to seperate from us as she was too much in a hurry to floss her teeth (its unfair on her to explain this extraordinary motion of hers, but she doesn't read my blog, so I'll stay quiet) *evil grin*

As the trio had turned into a duo, I took Miss. Hiiiiii with me to my local park. We firstly went on this bad ass circular sort of swing that can fit two or three people perhaps, it was big enough to lie down on, so we did, and faced the sky as the swing moved, it was really peaceful. Miss. Hiiiii was too scared to get off of it actually. Then we moved to the swings, where I made the realisation that I was too fat to fit on the seat. Well, I managed to get into the seat, but now I'm slightly bruised. It was so fun swinging on the swings endlessly with Miss. Hiiiiii, it was a childhood act that I had never re-enacted with any of my university friends before. So it was really fun.

Thank you to Miss. Tooting and Miss. Hiiiiii for a wonderful afternoon, I'll never forget it!

I've meaning to do this for some time.

I have stuff that I need to get off my chest. So here goes.

1. HOW CAN EGYPT BLOODY WELL WIN 1-0 TO ITALY BUT LOSE 3-0 TO USA?????????? STUPID FOOTBALL TEAMS!!! But I have to give Egypt credit for losing 3-4 to brazil, it was a brilliant match to watch, we could've drawn or even won the match, but it was not in our naseeb.

2. Mad people: if you're trying to be drunk could you not point at me from your car window and say 'WAHAAAAAY' as if to confirm to the world that you can decipher a muhajiba woman from the crowd. It makes me laugh but not when I'm in a bad mood, so stop it please.

3. Miss Short Fuse: I request that you stop being such a slothful git and actually earn you're way for favours, rather than make me go out to the supermarkets and make your dinner the moment I get home and wash up the dishes in the sink, while you're still happily chatting away on the phone. Your presence is wasteful and insulting to life.

4. Miss Pain-in-the-ass: Please open the windows at night, I've been waking up in a pool of sweat every morning for the last three weeks, and I know you consist of zero consideration for the sick and ill, but if you could stretch that tiny bit of generosity you own, to allowing the openning of windows, then my opinion of you might increase a millimeter... perhaps.

5. Bad bred parents: listen to the people around you, despite being ass holes, you are still loving towards your children, so stop being stubborn and listen to other people's opinions, their aim is the same as your's. So stop making decisions to show your 'authority'.

6. I'm angry.

7. Miss In-her-own-world: I've given up the thought that you can act as a responsible adult.

A taste of Motherhood.

A lot of things have happened within the past fortnight. Some mad things, some happy things, and some disturbing things.

1. I went to westfields recently, that place is HUUUGE! I know I'm mega late at going there, but I honestly thought the hype around it was just talk. But it honsetly is awesome! Me and my sisters got the most expensive dresses from House of Fraiser and went into the poshest fitting rooms (sneaking in a compass) and praying; it's the best method for praying outside when there's no prayer room :D Now here comes the funny bit, there was a guy with his girlfriend and she was trying on a super expensive dress, so she came out of the changing cubicle to show him and he looked mega uninterested and just nodded his head for the sake of it, then when she went back to change, I saw her boyfriend nervously checking the contents of his wallet. I wanted to point and laugh sooo badly! But there was an actual opportunity for me to point and laugh later that day; while checking pijamas in a store Miss Short fuse tripped on a fragment of imagination or her own shoes, then fell ontop of the shop's window display's poster. Miss. Short fuse then fell to the ground and the poster toppelled ontop of her, leaving broken pieces of apparatus hanging from the ceiling. I actually stood still and laughed, along with a friend and Miss. Pain in the Ass, we all just laughed at her.

2. I've had family come over from egypt and this hasn't happened in the past 10 years or so, hence I was really excited, but the kids that accompany the adults are a bit tough to handle, what worried me was the extent of x-rated knowledge the 11 year old girl had. Excuse me, but with an upringing in egypt I had expected a limitation on society's side of things for this little girl but the damaging consequences are that this childish and still immature 11 year old now thinks she's an adult, when she still wants plastic beaded necklaces! What happened to the innocence of ignorance for our children? Why do they get to know about such things so early on in life? Why oh why are there billboards of half naked wemon everywhere you go? So when my cousin's 7 year old son asks 'is that a naked woman' and I obviously can't answer anything else and say 'yes' and he replies 'wow' I have a right to get worried!!! I'm worried for the future, like I seriously am.

3. I had a taste of motherhood the other day, it was enlightening/embaressing/aggravating. I needed to go to he library on an errend for my dad, and he told me to take the kids with me, the initial thought was 'whadafa?' but then the realisation that I'd have to use to pushchair for one of the kids (as he's pretty sick at the moment) made me think 'HELL NO!' but I resigned.... I ended up pushing a pushchair all the way down my local high street with the embaressing thought 'does everyone think these two semi-blonde children are my CHILDREN?' and I had to keep them quiet cus they got over excited for some reason, so I had to act all strict.. gah! It's hard to make them like you and be strict at the same time ya know!

4. Me and the other misses sneaked out of the house, told a lie to the adults and went to Canary Wharf!!!! OMG!!!! This is probably the biggest form of rebelliousness I have ever experienced, the thing that contradicts our rebelliousness is that it was all to buy a father's day present.. we got him Austen Reed shirts (nice shirts they have too). We ate wagamamas!! (seafood ramen yay!) We had amazing ice-cream! We saw Old Kent Road! (one less thing to see off the monopoly map) BUT WE LIED! Oh the guilt! buuuuuuuuuut! All was told the next day (good thing dad was happy with the shirts otherise I doubt he would've over-ridden our huge fat lie).

5. I've been crying alot recently, oh don't get me wrong, I'm not sad or anything, (not that I don't have an excuse to be) I just came across this rather controversial manga and it was a tragedy (stay away from tragedies ppl! they make your eyes go red and puffy) and I was really bawling! Like really crying my eyes out! like mad waterfall typed tears and arhythmic breathing that sounds similar to a donkey cry... (I shouldn't admit that). It was so pathetic! Because the ending was sooo made up on the stop! But sooo sad! And after a while I was like 'this manga is actually really crappily weird' because the male protagonist loves his girlfriend so much he'll point a gun at her O.O and say 'there was no other choice' ???? O.o Puleeease!! Spare me! >_< And the male protagonist really got on my nerves, but when you're reading manga really quickly (like what I do) you don't really stop to think 'this guy ought to be killed' because you just want to know what will happen next.

6. I have resumed eating lunches, but I just sorta eat whenever I feel like I'm actually hungry and not just eatiing for the sake of eating like what some people do when they're bored. But i must confess, there was a paticular day I remember that I had barely any sleep (for idiopathic reasons) and the rest of the day I was hungry like mad! and I just ate small and little bits of food contantly and got me annoyed because I ended up not being able to leave the kitchen except to go to the living room for meal time!!!

To Fullah and Mozzerella: dare to find spelling mistakes!!!