Things Mom Will Never Say.

I am sure all of you already have a list going on in your mind as soon as you read the title. This post had been lying in the draft for  a long time. The longer it stayed the list grew longer - so before the list becomes a never-ending list , here are a few things you will never hear a mom say, and that's a promise.

• If everybody else is doing it I guess it's okay.
• You know, when you get down to it, I am your cleaning lady!
• Forget about your homework. There'll be plenty of time to do it later.
• If you don't stop crying, I'm going to cave and give you anything you want.
• Keep the door open! We need to air-condition the neighborhood.
• Just because you live under my roof doesn't mean you have to listen to everything I say.
• You are right. You don't have enough clothes. Here's my credit card. you'd better go shopping right away.
• Just because you were too sick to go to school today doesn't mean you can't hang out with your friends now.
• If you can't say something nice about a person, text it.
• I'm not doing this for your own good. I'm doing it because I feel like it.
• To tell the truth, I can't really tell when you're lying to me.
• When you get there, you get there. No need to call.
• You know, I really do care who started it and yes, you have my permission to end it.
• Those starving children in Ethiopia? They wouldn't eat this either.
• Don't worry about getting up on time for family breakfast time,. You were awake too late last night.
• Let's wait and see if your socks pick themselves up first.
• Actually, I am made of money.

Having said that, I do understand (well most of the times) why the above never happens but, that shouldn't stop me from trying. Now, should it?

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Reading now: Hetty Feather

Hetty Feather is a really emotional sort of book that takes place in the Victorian period about a girl named Hetty Feather who is abandoned as a baby. She goes to a foster hospital and gets a foster family whom she loves a lot. When she turns 6, her happiness is threatened because she has to go back to the foster hospital. But she is even more shocked after finding out her family is not actually hers.

When she goes to the hospital, she suffers a lot as she hates it there. She makes friends in the hospital but, she makes enemies too. She tries to look for her mother. Can she find her mother? Well thats for you to find out.

This book is really interesting and almost made me cry at certain times. It's written by the very talented author Jacqueline Wilson.

All Jacqueline Wilson fans need to read this.

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Apologies...

I know I haven't written in a while - no excuses are good enough. However, I do owe an explanation -
so here goes.

Since my last post:

• School is giving us loads of homework. 
• My swimming is important to me and my coaches are tough.
• My music exams keep me glued to the guitar.
• Since I have managed to make some friends in the neighbourhood, I enjoy my time playing. cycling and generally goofing around with them.
• Lately, the weather has changed - and we have had family picnics and BBQ's.
• My baby brother has started making 3 word sentences, so I love to spend a lot of time with him and hear the funny pronunciation.
• Weekend mornings are on the beach.
• We have had friends and family visiting us.
• Sleepovers with friends take up one day of the weekend.
• Had a busy time during Halloween, Diwali.

The list could go on and on. However, I have made a conscious decision to write at least once a week.

Thank you for being there and reading and coming back often.

Annoying Advertisments and Stupid Chain Mails

Have you ever seen one of those ads that say 'shoot the duck' or 'how many balls are bouncing', maybe even ' You won a new iPad 3 ' ? I'm talking about ads that flash, blink an vibrate. Others expand, pop open a window and play a song or video. These ads seem to come alive with no warning or invitation. What about those e-mails that say stuff like 'Pass on to five people or you will be cursed with bad luck' or something like ' if you pass this on to 8 people $20,000,000 will land on your roof '?

Yea? Well, so have I. These drive me up the wall ! Everyday, people make new advertisments which are completely mindless ! The chain mails just keep popping in my mailbox...Sometimes chain-mails freak me out so much I end up passing it on.

I always thought about making a 'stop chain-mails' mail so that everyone realizes how annoying they are but that goes completely against the point!

I have been so conscious clicking ads and making sure I deleted all chain mails after I found out clicking ads might get a virus and that chain-mails are created by hackers that hack you computer/laptop/ phone/ iPad/ tablet...

I don't know about you , but I really hate these things.

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Learning Arabic

Being in an Arab country, I have to learn Arabic. Even though I have been trying to learn Arabic for 6 years, it's still extremely difficult for me to understand.

I'm guessing this happens to everyone who's trying to learning a language. The feeling of complete confusion and baffleism.

Well, today I did something I thought I would never be able to do. There was an Arabic Reading Test for the beginner students. I was one of them, even though people from my class can understand the language with only 2 years of learning. Honestly, I wasn't very confident on acing the test. But the next thing that happened was a stroke of Bad Luck.

"Would you like to b first, Sheneni? He was calling me. You see, Mr Ahmed (Arabic Teacher) has the habit of calling me Sheneni instead of Roshni.

I was a NERVOUS WRECK! But, as I was standing there, I got it. I knew which letter was which and how to say what! I felt as if the 4 years of arabic finally came to my senses. I passed the test with flying colors, but unfortunately, I need to complete 2 more levels until I can finally read Arabic.

So everyone out there learning a new language...I know how it feels!