enthused

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 22:02:07 GMT

miami Z list celebrity sightings

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:52:22 GMT

unfortunately, i didnt see any real ones. i dont know if the below mentioned even count. 2 different kinds of the same fug.

anchal from antm & midget mac from i love new york

because i could use one right about now...

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:16:09 GMT

yummy.

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:02:48 GMT

jared: lets give it a few minutes

i think it's working

come on yard

COME ON YAAAARRRDDDD

Amber: yard?

jared: have you ever seen Short Circuit 2?

Amber: yea

are you trying to say "yaar"

jared: is that what he says when he is trying to bring johnny five to life?

Amber: cause if so, you deserve the white person of the year award

jared: what is yaar?

Amber: yep, you get teh award

jared: oh give me a break,

Amber: yaar means friend in hindi/urdu

its like dude

come on yaaar

jared: wow, i didn't think that movie was smart enough to do something like that.

wow, i feel like a cracker

i'm still here

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:02:10 GMT

i'd like to think that people actually read this, but i know only zainub does, so z, this one's for you!

i only have like 3 more weeks here in miami which is sad, i really like it here. we went to key west the other weekend and it was so much fun. we went waverunning all around the island for 2 hours. the water was green and clear and 80 degrees. at one point there were a family of dolphins swimming right next to us. paradise, i swear. but yea, if you guys are ever in miami its definitely worth the 3 hour drive to go up to keywest for a day or two. all the restaurants are in victorian houses (i love victorian houses). the town has a lot of character. so after playing in the water we went to mallory square for the sunset, its rumoured that you can see a green flash right after the sets. it was cloudy around the horizon though so we didn't see anything. after dinner we went to the bar, sloppy joes, thats supposed to be the happenin place to be. so this band was setting up when we got there, and of course they looked typical EF's (emo fags). pretty much pete wentz times five. so yea, we were expecting a really interesting show, considering half the bar was filled with 40 to 50 yr olds (no idea why, and they were all wearing ohio shirts?). anyhoo, we were pleasantly surprised when they started playing because they were a cover band (thank god). it was tons of fun though, i wish we had time to go back, dont think its gonna happen though. we also went to hemingways house which was neat. his house wasnt huge but it had a huge yard and tons of cats haha. i'll upload the pics to my picasa sometime today.

damn i always think of interesting things to post on here but when teh time comes i blank out. so i'm downloading the waitress, that one keri russel movie where she's a pie maker or something. yea i know, total chick flick, what can i say. ok this entry is turning to crap. see zainub this is what happens when i force myself to update the lj! hopefully next time will be better. later fags.

awesome audi commercial

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:56:48 GMT

stickin it to lexus.

30 Things you need to know about Alton Brown

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:23:14 GMT

#1. Alton Brown grinds his own peppercorns. With his teeth.

#2. Alton Brown's chili cheese fries are healthier than raw carrots. Even after he adds the bacon and lard.

#3. Alton Brown brushes his teeth with wasabi and gargles with pickle brine. But still his breath smells like lemon merengue.

#4. Alton Brown can boil a three-minute egg in thirty-seven seconds.

#5. When Alton Brown was born, he collected the hospital slop they'd left for his mother and made it into an zesty, appetizing goulash. The dish fed the entire maternity ward for a week.

#6. In the first, as-yet-unaired episode of Iron Chef America , Alton Brown single-handedly defeated an all-star team of Bobby Flay, Cat Cora, and Hiroyuki Sakai. The secret ingredient was 'whimsy'.

#7. Alton Brown doesn't reduce sauces. He demoralizes sauces.

#8. Alton Brown prepares his fugu blindfolded, with one chopstick and a plastic spork. Alton Brown ain't afraid of no chump neurotoxin.

#9. Alton Brown's blender has four speeds: 'stir', 'mix', 'frappe', and 'plasmify'.

#10. Alton Brown can split a pineapple in half using only his pinkies. For coconuts, though, he has to use his thumbs.

#11. Alton Brown knows where capers come from. And he grows his own, on a Chia pet in the pantry.

#12. On Rachel Ray's show , she shows people where to eat for less than forty dollars a day. When Alton Brown eats, people pay him.

#13. Alton Brown slices ham so thin, it can only be seen using an electron microscope.

#14. Some knives can slice through a tin can and still cut a tomato. Alton Brown's knives can slice through a Pontiac, and still cut a tin can.

#15. Grown men have been known to weep for joy in the mere presence of Alton Brown's vinagrette. His hollandaise sauce can kill a man from sheer ecstacy at forty paces.

#16. Alton Brown can eat just one Lay's potato chip. If he ever bothered to eat food he didn't make himself, that is.

#17. Alton Brown once got carried away slicing carrots, and julienned his cutting board. Undaunted, he sauteed the splinters in olive oil and spices -- and they were delicious.

#18. Every Burger King Alton Brown has walked into has immediately closed forever -- try as they might, they simply can't 'do it his way'.

#19. Alton Brown can pair a wine with any food -- including hot dogs, ice cream, raw eggs, Alpo, sawdust, and soylent green. It's people!

#20. Alton Brown's cakes don't rise. They ascend.

#21. Some meats are so tender, they seem to melt in your mouth. Alton Brown's meats are so tender, he's had entire turkeys vanish into thin air.

#22. Alton Brown's no saint. But if his chicken Kiev cures one more kid's leprosy, the church will reconsider the evidence.

#23. Alton Brown doesn't whip potatoes. Alton Brown's potatoes whip themselves, if they know what's good for them.

#24. Alton Brown's other car is the Wienermobile.

#25. Alton Brown's show is called 'Good Eats ', because 'Multiple Shuddering Mouthgasms' didn't play with the network's target demographic.

#26. Alton Brown's freezer operates at minus-twenty-seven degrees. Kelvin.

#27. Alton Brown once prepared shrimp gumbo for a cooking competition, using only salt, water, canned Spam, and a packet of Arby's 'Horsey Sauce'. He took second place. He would have won, but one of the judges was allergic to shellfish.

#28. Alton Brown can fit three hundred and forty-two cookies on a standard-sized baking sheet. Without any touching.

#29. When Alton Brown slices onions, the onions cry.

#30. Alton Brown was once asked to participate in a blind orange juice taste test. He was the only person able to successfully identify the brand, style, vintage, temperature, pH level, distance to the orchard, age of the grove trees, and the names of the workers picking the fruit. Including the one who needs to start washing after bathroom breaks.

ps. no i did not write this, but i wish i did, not gonna lie.

best show EVAR.

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:28:59 GMT

lolz.

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:09:16 GMT

we were going through old pics yesterday and found this from when fati was at davis, apparently written at the library, 3rd floor, where we spent many an afternoon.

good times!

feel like balls

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 02:24:21 GMT

fasting really took its toll on me today. last night we all went out to south beach for al's birthday and got back late, around 1 (yes i know thats not late for normal ppl, but its late for grandmas like me). anyhoo, i stayed up another hour in hopes that it would help me sleep in (lately i've been waking up at 9 on the weekends). unfortunately, mik woke me up at 10 because we had to go pick up our barrels. so we go to ft lauderdale to pick them up, but obviously they won't fit in our car (3 barrels, 4 ft tall) so we emptied them all out into the car in the scalding heat and humidity. when we got home we made many trips up and down 2 flights of stairs to get all the stuff in our apt. then we spent another 2 hours or so putting everything away. my pretty towels got all mildewed in the barrels so we had to do 2 loads of laundry. our stupid machines take 8 quarters per wash/dry so thats 4 freaking bucks for a load. ridiculous. anyhoo, after going to teh grocery store and salivating over everything it was time to cook dinner. it was biryani night. i'll tell ya something, cooking biryani keeps you on your feet for a long time, so its prob not the best idea to make it whilst fasting. i was completely exhausted afterward. after dinner we made brownie sundaes... cant get much better than that. so now i'm sitting here, watching what women want on tbs with tons of clothes lying out on the floor drying (cause the loads were too big so the clothes were still kinda damp after the dryer). i'm contemplating whether or not to start up my netflix again while i'm here. xtorrent doesn't always have everything... but it does have most stuff. i'm excited about the hella season premieres this week. w00t. thats about all thats going on here. oh one more thing, they are opening a chipotle here finally. it hink it should be done early next month. step back qdoba, the king is arriving soon. ok dudes, i'm so effing tired. i'm going to sleep so well tonight....

miami!

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:03:19 GMT

wow its been a month. and quite a lot has happened in that month. lets summarize:

- went through a hurricane
- left the island a week early cause of the whole no power/no water situation because of the hurricane which sucked a bit
- spent a wonderful 2 and a half weeks at home
- moved to miami for 3 months

and here i am! i must say, i am definitely taking a liking to this place. we havent properly been out to south beach yet cause meeks had a test yesterday so he had been studying, and now ramadaan is starting so its gonna be a lot of staying at home. i love where i live though. across the street from our apartment is this place called miracle mile which is like 4 rows of university ave (palo alto). so many cute restaurants, cafes, boutiques, etc. its super convenient, esp since we only have one car here. also, i had been getting used to walking everywhere from being in dominica so this is a nice transition. i'll post some pics once i take more cause we havent been out much since i got here. we haven't even got our barrels yet (we threw a bunch of our stuff into barrels that were shipped from dominica to here via cargo). so here's the deal, all the barrels are here but customs is being ridiculous and won't release the barrels until EVERYONE shows proof of passport. its not like you can show them ur passport and they give you your barrels. quite homo, if i do say so myself. anyhoooo, i cant wait for everyone to visit in october! my brother is coming oct 13th weekend for a couple days and them everyone and their mother is coming the following weekend so that should be very exciting :) i'll try to update this thing more often but as you all know -- my life isnt very exciting. i guess i can make up stories. ok back to work!

yea yea i know its been a while

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:49:21 GMT

sorry i've been caught in a rut of laziness. and i havent been doing ANYTHING exciting lately. mainly because meeks has been having like 2 tests a week. this weekend should be fun though. we plan to go to secret beach on saturday. its a really small beach that you have to kayak to get to. so thats the plan, if it doesn't rain of course. its been raining a hell of a lot lately. so thats another reason i've been doing a whole lot of nothing. the same schedule:

- wake up at 7, go to gym, go to grocery store
- shower, start work at 9
- take my lunch break at 3 and cook dinner during it
- get off work at 6, eat dinner and watch seinfeld til 7
- another shower (yes i'm aware i shower a lot, but the water has been consistently hot lately which is very nice, so i take advantage of it)
- watch more tv, drink chai
- possibly read before bed

the weekends consist of:
- watching tv/cooking

yesterday night we went out for dinner to this chinese place called brothers. i gotta tell ya, i'm not a fan of chinese food except for chow mein but sesame chicken is the shizzle. ridiculously delicious. the china man's chicken nuggets. money indeed.

well, 10 more days and i'm on a plane back to the states. we have an overnight in puerto rico so that should be fun. the hotel we're staying at is in connected to the airport but hopefully we'll taxi out and get some grub at least. i really hope they have a book store in the airport cause i want to read a thousand splendid suns. k2 mailed it to me though, so hopefully it gets here before i leave haha. THANKS KAMRAN! right now i'm reading last exit to brooklyn which dullah and fahim got me with a bunch of other goodies before i left. its written by the guy that wrote requiem for a dream so its pretty out there. i'll let you guys know how it pans out.

i know i've been posting a lot about books being made into movies and there's yet another good one happening. its called my sisters keeper by jodi picoult. apparently camerion diaz is gonna star in it. its a good read so if you guys are lookin for a book you should check it out. and don't be fooled by the name, its not really a chick book.

not much else goin on my friends. we get our barrels on thursday so i'll start packing then. the barrels will get shipped via cargo to miami and then we can just pick them up when we get there, instead of moving all our stuff back home and then to miami a week later, which is pretty sweet considering meeks has to ship hella books which cause a problem wiht our luggage weight limit.

man, i really want a huge glass of milk!

trippy illusion

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:40:11 GMT

i straight ganked this from ryans blog. anyhoo, for those of you who haven't seen this -- the lady seems to be spinning clockwise but after looking at it for a minute or so she starts spinning counterclockwise. it took me a while for my brain to flip it, so be patient! i really don't get it, cause its not just that she starts spinning the other way, but the other leg is lifted as well. see for yourself --

note to self: never take hot shower for granted

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 01:15:19 GMT

today i got my first hot shower in about 4 days. it was the most wonderful shower EVAR. its weird because the water always seems to be cold when it rains out here, which is confusing because i really doubt the water heater is solar powered. anyhoo, i will never take another hot shower for granted (as long as i'm out here at least haha)

well to continue from a couple posts ago about the banquet -- we didn't end up going. reason being, my clothes didn't show up. the banquet was last saturday.. and when did my clothes come? MONDAY. they were one day late. and whats worse is that the package had come earlier that week and they just didnt tell us til monday. oh well, wasn't meant to be.

the weekends here have been getting more and more boring. maybe theyre just becoming more lonely. i'm really looking forward to coming back to the states. i'm not horribly homesick, but i probably will be in a couple more weeks.

well, on a lighter note, the avocados here are ridiculously large. have you guys seen an avocado this big in the states?

our friend here said he got one that was even bigger than this one. ridiculous.

ok friends. sleepy time.

soooooooo

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:55:39 GMT

i saw my first snake today. it was outside the laundry room on the step. it was prob like 3 feet long but realllllllllly thin, like how garden snakes are. it was black with yellow spots. apparently the snakes here aren't poisonous, so thats good to know. our landlord was telling me that she stepped on one when she was younger and it bit her. so when i told her i just saw a snake she totally flipped and wanted to go home, lolz.

well its tuesday now and i still havent received my package with my clothes in it. the banquet is looking less and less promising. oh well, i still have 3 more days to get it, we'll see how my luck (or lack thereof) is. not much to report in the past couple of days. we were going to go this place called "secret beach" on monday after mike's exam but we decided to go in a couple weeks instead. the weather has been pretty crappy lately. lots and lots of rain. we'll prob go to blue bay sometime this week so yayyy i get my pina coladas :)

so we have cable here but its stolen from the states and because of this sometimes channels wont work for a while (i'm guessing because they were caught stealing and it was shut down) but then they start working like a week later (i'm guessing cause they steal from another state). so today i was saddened to see that vh1, mtv, cinemax, and the travel channel weren't working :( at least i still have TLC and the other movie channels. i miss the food network :( we don't get that here at all.

ok friends, time to cook dinner. menu for tonight: keema chawal!

weeds.

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:37:25 GMT

if you don't already watch this, then start! season 3 starts mid august so you have a good month and a week to catch up on seasons 1&2. mary louise parker is the main character, what more could you want? they have lots of actors as guest starts too. you can check out season one here.

in other news, i'm a total gimp. i went to the health center on wed to schedule an appt (been having abdominal pains). anyhoo, i go in, schedule my appt, and on my way out of the office i twist my foot. i ended up cancelling my appt anyway cause i figured they were just gonna tell me to take some advil, so basically, i twisted my foot for absolutely no reason at all. its not too bad though, not swollen or anything. just hurts when i walk. hopefully i'll be good as new by the end of the weekend. i got black snake moan off a friend so i'll watch that this weekend. i downloaded running w scissors and watch it on wed. stupid movie. i also downloaded because i said so. i know i know, its a horrible movie. sometimes your just in the mood for a horrilbe lame movie with mandy moore and lorelai gilmore though. naw meaannn?

there's not much else goin on here. there's a banquet on saturday for 4th semesters but i dont have any nice clothes here. so i had my dad mail me some like 3 weeks ago and the package still isn't here :( so yea, if it doesnt come this week i guess no banquet for me. meeks will have to go stag, and i'll be a loner at home. what sucks is that, the package is most probably here at their mail office of whatever but it takes them hella long to actually send it to the school. theyre hella lazy and theres nothing you can do about it. sucks.

i want a pina colada :(

two down, two more to go.

Mon, 02 Jul 2007 21:48:10 GMT

this weekend was pretty calm. no more 6 hour hikes. instead we went out for a friends birthday sat night. instead of going to the regular blue bay, we headed toward a restaurant called "heavens best". i'm glad we went to this one cause the menu was 909809x better than blue bays. however, there were two drawbacks with eating here and not blue bay: no dinner on a beach patio and most importantly, no pina coladas! (yes, virgin, i havent gone wild here). we did have milkshakes though! they had 2 types - french vanilla and fruit salad (wtf?). i'm guessing fruit salad here is like tutti fruiti back home. i played it safe and got the french vanilla which was quite delectable. here's a group pic -- it was shauns birthday, the one to the right of me. theres a couple more at the end of this album.

i'll prob post soon, i get wed off so i'll be pretty much doing nothing. w00t. smell ya later!

lovely bones.

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:48:17 GMT

so i'm rather excited that this very good book is being made into a movie, by none other than peter jackson.

whats even MORE exciting is that the parts of the mother and father are being played by my recent favorite, ryan gosling, and the hot mama rachel weisz.

the role of the main character, the daughter that gets riznaped and murdered, hasn't been cast yet. lets all hope it doesnt go to dakota ballzning. i'm thinking it won't cause isnt she doing a rape scene in another movie she's working on? a 13 yr old kid can't do 2 rape scenes, thats just ridiculous. anyhoo, this movie comes out in 08 sometime. its a real good read, so pick it up if you have a chance!

revive

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:51:18 GMT

i love this stuff. i don't care if fitty cent owns in. I LOVE IT.

too bad i can only get it from this chinese restaurant here called bobs. also, its 9 EC here for one. thats like $3.50. is that normal for one thing of vitawater?

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:48:25 GMT

3 days after the hike and my legs are still killing me. at least i can walk today without looking like a COMPLETE gimp. saturday and sunday were the worst. i had to hold on to the walls to walk around. ridiculous. sitting down and standing up were a feat (sp?) in themselves. but even with all the pain, the hike was def worth it. it entailed going up 980989809809 steps and climbing on stones and crossing brooks (which i fell into almost every time), walking through ruffage so you could hardly see what was in front of you. i hella needed a machete :) it was fun though, we went with a fun group of ppl. and the 2 ppl that started when we started ended up being really cool too, so that all worked out.

when we got closer to the lake there were a bunch of tiny streams of hot water that were sulfur concentrated. let me tell you a little something about sulfur. so you know how in pakistan sometimes it smells like rotten boiled eggs? thats what sulfur smells like. i dunno why it smells like that in pakistan though, its either sulfur or sewage. in the case of boiling lake, it was sulfur. it took freaking forever to get there but it was crazy to see a huge boiling lake. they were telling us that someone fell in a couple years back and got ridiculous burns all over their body. they were lucky to have survived. anyhoooooooo... click here for the pics. and there are a few short videos below!

here's me walking like a tard through the jungle. i'm walking like that cause we're on slippery stones, and you all know how i have zero balance.

here's a 360 view from about halfway there

here's us about an hour from the lake

this is when we get closer, you can see the steam and the bubbling

here's al about to throw this big rock into the lake but he hella gets yelled at at the last second. he was sad. all he ever wanted to do was throw a big rock into a huge boiling lake

alas... boiling lake

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:22:18 GMT

so tomorrow i'm going on a 6 hour hike through the mountainous rainforest to reach boiling lake. dominica is a volcanic island so i guess this lake is near where the activity happens. its all kind of sulphurous or something. well hopefully i even make it up there. the last time i went hiking was mission peak about 6 years ago and i only made it halfway up hahha. so the rest of the weekend is pretty much gonna consist of me and the bed and a lot of ibuprofen. here are some pics i found on the net of the lake and places on the way up there. i guess theres a lot of hot springs on the way up the hike.

the hike starts at this place called titou gorge which is a waterfall that goes into a cave. if you watched pirates2 its that part where they are on the cannibal island and in those round cages and the cage falls into this cave with water in it. but yea, i'll take lots of pics! hopefully its not raining cause when it rains it poooooooours. ok i'll update this thing on saturday or something to let you guys know how it went. bye!

fried green tomatoes

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:38:40 GMT

so for some reason i always thought this movie was about huge monster mutant killer tomatoes. apparently, i was very wrong. i watched it for the first time last night and there were no monster tomatoes, but instead, just like the title says, there were fried green tomatoes. who AM I? just thought i'd share that thought.

one month!

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 20:19:41 GMT

4 weeks ago today i arrived in jurassic park (aka dominica). i must say, it went by pretty quick. 3 more of these to go. not much going on these days. i finally started watching heroes earlier this week. if you haven't seen it yet and have some time, you can stream it in really good quality and on a decent sized screen (bigger than youtube size) on joox.net. 2 more episodes to go!

in other exciting news, i will be making this sometime this weekend:

(thats choc fudge frosting) i've made funfetti for the past 2 weeks and decided to switch it up. i'm sure this cake mix and frosting have been sitting on the shelf at james store for 5 years now, oh well.

so i don't know how many of you are fans of "beauty and the geek", but sanjay from last season goes here. i see him at the gym just about every morning. the funny thing is, he looks nothing like this (what he looked like on the show):

he actually looks quite hip. i'm sure for that show they just find normal guys and geek them out and give them a script. he said some pretty silly shit on the show though. the girl said something like "getting booty" or something and he's like "you mean like pirates?" and she's like what are you talkign about? and he's like thats what booty is, its like pirate treasure. and she's like no booty is ass and he was hella like surprised and flabergasted. yea i just said flabergasted, what are you gonna do about it. anyhooooooo, gonna finish up my work and then heading to bali's for dinner (the indian place here) GARLIC NAAN MMMM. i must say.. the naan at this place is better than shalimars. the food is quite ballish though. ok bye!

gooo iguana!

Wed, 30 May 2007 01:59:03 GMT

i was bored the other day so i took a video of this iguana running around. they run so funny and so fast. almost like it has something stuck up his butt or something. at the end he hella falls into a ditch (well it looks like he falls but it was probably purposely). silly iguanas. and yes i know, i have a ridiculous laugh.