Friday!

1.   People always tell me I look like       my brother, who is but a 10 year old boy version of me.. my boyfriend's sister thinks I look like Alyssa Milano  .

2.  Friends don't let friends    down  .

3.  A sunny day is perfect for     going for a coffee outdoors and taking walks and enjoying the sun   .

4.  My favorite accessory is   jade necklace boyfriend got me 10 days into our relationship and my silver rings  .

5.  If I could afford it I would     buy an iPad and travel to Amsterdam, Beirut and Paris this summer  .

6.  The cure for boredom is       Tumblr and Pinterest   .

7.  I am currently "in like" with      the gym, good music and finally(!!!!) work  . 

I have at least missed reading the questions and Lauren's answers last week! So I had to do the Friday fill-ins this week! I hope everyone has a great weekend, the weather is perfect here in Cairo. So I am sending you some of that if you are less fortunate weather-wise.

Swaps!!

Two posts!!

(Yeah, I can't believe it either)

(can you tell that I am really, really bored?)

But hey, I think everyone should be a part of these:

April's Pampered Swap Deadline to sign up: June 1st, 2011

Gracie's Happy Mail project, which is a snail mail group, and I don't know if I have mentioned this before, but I love snail mail.

Random much?

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I want to travel the world and take pictures in tiny bookstores. Tiny bookstores that have all the books you could ever dream of having- vintage copies with notes written in them.

I want to take pictures of bookstore fronts. With my bicycle parked outside, because I live in a city where it is impossible for a girl to ride a bicycle on the street (you'd get sleazy men verbally harassing you)

I tried writing 2 posts over the past (almost) two weeks, but it felt like I was forcing myself to and I hate doing that. Remember how I was complaining about work and finding no work to do whatsoever? Well, we have a new senior boss and I got to work my (not so little) butt off.

I went back to working out as well, I try to work out 5 days a week, I intend on going back to 7 days a week when the semester ends since my workout has been "upgraded" and it feels so good.

The past four short paragraphs all started with an I, does this imply that I am self-centered? Tell you the truth, I kind of am. As much as I would like to think that I am a selfless person, this is not always the case, I have learnt that some matters you need to be selfish about; for your own good.

And that was a very random post brought to you by a very bored government employee trying to waste the last 30 minutes of the work week.

Also, don't forget to smile, it's what keeps you young at heart.

Music and Haikus

I don't remember when it was that I first tried writing haikus. But I remember that it was during one of the summers I had spent in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. But, I know that I want to start writing hiakus again, and I want to be good at it.
I wrote this today, and I don't know if it counts as a haiku:

Light breeze in my hair,

You smile, as lightly I twirl.

You become the sun.

Does it? Well, it was inspired by a tweet I had written the other day that said "twirl me and I shall forever make you my sun"

Yes, twirl me and I shall forever make you my sun. And that tweet was inspired by something that happened earlier this week, or the week before;

Boyfriend and I were walking and there was this beautiful breeze and he twirled me. I smiled, I smiled as I realized how much I love him. 

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I know this sounds cheesy, but...you know? And by forever making him my sun, I don't mean that my world shall revolve around him, I mean that he's an integral part of my universe, a place where we both belong as we both exist as two separate entities- not losing the sense of who we are. And now that I thought about it, a star and a planet, because that's what we are; very different. 

It's been a great weekend. Yesterday, the lovely Hany Mustafa performed and oh does he have a heavenly voice! This song I can listen to over, and over again:

Here's a song from last night. And tonight, I am going to see Mashrou' Leila.
I haven't done that in a while and I am glad that I get to enjoy great music even though it's a very, very busy weekend.