7 reasons the 21st centuary is making you MISERABLE

i find this quite enlightening. its really hits home. i assure you read it, you'll have a different on things.

http://www.cracked.com/article_15231_7-reasons-21st-century-making-you-miserable.html

25 Steps to a Healthier You

i was doing my science project when i stumbled upon this article at HowStuffWorks.com. i clicked on it because recently i've been feeling kinda unhealthy....or something. These are really great simple tips that are easily applicable. Enjoy!

1. Follow a balanced exercise program. A brisk 30-minute walk while enjoying the sunset will burn 1,500 calories per week -- that's 78,000 calories a year! Cardio is great for your heart and lungs, but add a couple sessions of weight training to tone or build muscle.

2. Schedule family fitness time. Play basketball, chase a Frisbee, or hike the hills together. You'll be getting closer to each other as you shape up.

3. Invest in a jump rope. It's a great workout anytime. Set a goal of skipping rope for ten minutes per day and watch those love handles melt away.

Working out with a training partner is a great way to keep both parties motivated.

4. Get a training partner. Knowing that someone is waiting is great motivation to get on with it. You'll also have a ready-made spotter.

5. Exercise in water to relieve stress on the joints and back. Check out the aerobics programs at your local pool and go aqua -- the wave of the future.

6. Get active at work. Walk around outside on your breaks. When in front of a computer, sit up and pull in your abs.

7. Eat more frequent, smaller meals. It is better to eat six small meals a day than three large meals. The smaller the meal, the less your stomach will stretch.

8. Hydrate with water. Drink at least eight glasses of water every day. This does not include coffee, soda, or fruit-flavored drinks, which have extra calories.

9. Don't pollute your body. Avoid tobacco, excess alcohol, and illegal drugs. These are bad for health and can also inhibit weight loss.

10. Always eat a good breakfast. Skipping breakfast is a method of dieting for many people. But studies have found that people who eat breakfast are actually less likely to be obese.

11. Start cooking healthy. Stop frying your food and opt for roasting or grilling instead. Frying only adds unnecessary calories to food.

12. Enjoy every morsel of food. When eating, chew food slowly. Relish it and pay attention to flavors and taste. The longer you chew, the fuller you'll feel!

13. Be an early riser. Start your day early. Rising with the sun helps reset your body's clock. This builds better sleep patterns so you're energized all day.

14. Be sun smart. Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer. Sun exposure increases your risk, so when you're in the heat of it, either cover up or slip, slap, slop on a high SPF sunscreen!

15. Stay emotionally in shape. Poor emotional health can weaken your body's immune system. Don't ignore what's going on in your heart and mind. It is healthy to acknowledge your emotions.

16. Keep your teeth healthy. A common cause of tooth loss after age 35 is gum disease. Keep your teeth and gums healthy and free of plaque by brushing and flossing every day.

17. Eat five or more servings of fruits and veggies per day. Keep fruits and vegetables on the front shelves of your refrigerator so they are easy to get to when you reach for a snack!

18. De-stress your life. Stress can cause or aggravate many health conditions. So, don't sweat the small stuff!

19. Know thyself. Knowing your family's health history can help you stay healthy. Many diseases are hereditary and preventable with early screening.

20. Look after your mental health. Depression is a serious illness that needs to be treated. It's not your fault, so you shouldn't be afraid to talk to a doctor for help.

21. Get a good night's sleep. Lack of sleep causes stress on the body. It increases cortisol and insulin, promoting fat storage and making weight loss difficult.

22. Ladies, perform regular breast examinations. The best time to perform a breast self-examination is the week after your menstrual period, when breast tissue is less tender and swollen.

23. Take a nap. Many have commended the benefits of a good 30- to 45-minute nap a day to keep refreshed and lower stress. Try it -- it doesn't mean you've passed your use-by date!

24. Open your lungs. Sing your heart out! It doesn't matter what you sound like! In the shower, in the car, or wherever you are, sing out loud. It's a great stress reliever. (or read quran really loud with all ur heart and soul in it!)

25. Take time to enjoy your life. While it's important to do a good job and take care of responsibilities, life is also meant to be enjoyed. Loosen up! Laugh at yourself, and play as hard as you work!

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS:

Helen Davies, Marjorie Dorfman, Mary Fons, Deborah Hawkins, Martin Hintz, Linnea Lundgren, David Priess, Julia Clark Robinson, Paul Seaburn, Heidi Stevens, and Steve Theunissen

Careers Choice

ok my teacher, Miss Zeinah, told us to look into a range of different careers that we would like and she gave us a worksheet to do.

here are some of my answers:

List some of the factors influencing your choice of career possibilities for question 1. For example it may be personal interest and skills, influence of family or desire to be wealthy:

Visual Arts, Design and Crafts: I absolutely love art and creative things. I like painting, and drawing and computer art and editing so if I become a graphic designer I could put those skills to use.

Teacher: I just think of how much reward a Islamic Studies teacher would get, teaching children Islamic knowledge year after year, and I think, Wow!!!!! I wanna get that much reward!!! But if I don’t become a Islamic Studies teacher, I would become a English and SOSE teacher, because I really enjoy these subject and I think I’m pretty good at them. Also Art, because I love art and painting and making stuff.

Pharmacist: Even though pharmacy is a boring job, I find it a bit interesting, like all the medicines and stuff, but you have to study for 4 years and get a high mark in VCE *groan*. Oh well, at least it pays ok, and you can choose your hours. My dad is a doctor so maybe I could work with him too.

How have your ideas about what you want to do in life changed over time? Explain:

Well, since my dad is a doctor, I saw that people really respect him and stuff. My dad is a really social person, and he talks about Islam everywhere even to his patients and he always tells me stories about how he gave da’wah to a person and how that other person wants to know about Islam. So at first, I wanted to become a doctor so could help Muslim women and be respected. But then, my dad started telling me how stressful it was and you cant have your own free time, then I sort of lost interest. I could become a gynecology specialist for women but meh. I really wanted to help the Muslim community though. So being some type of doctor is still on my list, but now since I told everyone I want to be a doctor, my family expects me to be. *sigh*.

I wanted to be something I liked and could apply my skills to. I thought of being a scientist but I wasn’t particularly interested, and also a dentist, but who wants to look at teeth all day? I loved the Space and the planets and astronomy, but I wanted to be something that would help the community I live in. I also though of being an author or editor but I don’t want to stay cooped up in an office, so maybe writing stories and poetry would be a hobby. I also love anime and manga but its pretty unrealistic if your not Japanese so that’s still a hobby. Also filmmaking and photography but that will always be a big hobby. So I thought of any other ways to integrate art into a job and being a graphic designer is one.

My heroes of school are my Islamic studies teacher from Minaret College. Br Abdul Salam (Grade 5 and 6), Br Omar (Grade 7) and Br Fadil (Grade 7). I learnt so much Islamic knowledge from them, that I still practice today and so many stories that I tell to everyone, and I think “I don’t even see them anymore but they are still getting the reward”. Br Fadil only taught us for 2- 3 terms but I learnt so much from him. He was a young dude and he was pretty fun, and we could ask him anything about Islam. He was just teaching at Minaret for one year because my principal requested him to (I think. He graduated from Minaret by the way) but he was studying to be an engineer or something. So yeah, I wanna be like him, teach for a few years and then go with another career (I don’t wanna stay in school my whole life).

And that’s it. A whole heap of things influenced me.

Oh yeah! And before I forget, I was in indecision about going to alima or not, but in the end I didn’t, because when you go to Alima it’s a life decision, though its very useful. And all my family friends and stuff ask me “So when are you starting your Alimi course?” and im just like “Errr…soon.*cough*”. As you can see I don’t like being pressurized into doing something.

Wow that was long. Sorry I rambled.

"5 centimetres per second" : a Movie Review

My good friend Jannat, who is officially my movie provider, gave me a movie called “5 centimetres per second” by Makoto Shinkai (everyone says he’s the new Hayao Miyazaki). The title may not sound like much, but I assure it’s a movie worth watching. It’s a bittersweet movie about life, fate, true love (not crappy romance) and it’s so stuffed with meaningfulness I was choking on it. This anime film has the most heart-wrenchingly beautiful animation and plotline I’ve ever seen, and probably will see. I can’t really explain the storyline, because it’s so slow-paced (you have to have patience to watch this movie), but here we go:

Episode 1:
There's this guy named Tataki and a girl named Akari and they are best friends in primary school. But then Akari has to move schools, and they both start sending letters in following year. Finally after a year, they meet again. But they cannot be together forever as they want to be.
Episode 2:
Now Tataki has moved schools to an island on the coast of Japan. A girl named Sumida loves him, but can never tell him how she feels because he is always “looking somewhere beyond me”. It seems that Tataki cannot forget about Akari.
Episode 3:
Now Tataki is older, working. His heart still yearns for what can never be his, but finally one day, he realises, that he has to move on after a brief encounter with a married Akari. Then there’s a nice music video, which is really good, but the guy who sings it is just werid.

After I watched “5 cms per second”, I felt funny for days. It just gives you a feeling, which I simply cannot explain. And I’m sure if you watch it properly, you will too.

Heres how to watch it properly:

1. Watch it in a very quiet place with quiet friends or relatives, who do not make childish comments in between the movie or will say “Boring”. It just wrecks the whole mood.
2. Watch it without any snacks or loud crunchy thingos. As I said any unnecessary sound will wreck the whole setting.
3. Watch in one whole go, just stopping in between the episodes. Do not fast forward a single bit, especially the end.
4. I’m not exactly sure if its in English now, but it has subtitles to it, so you better read meaningful things pretty fast.

So if you want to relax with unforgettably brilliant, beautifully presented scenery of a masterpiece, “5 cms per second” is definitely the movie for you.

Warning: This movie is DEFINITELY NOT for action lovers. only because its so extraordinary.

its so extraordinary in fact i even made a poem about it:


 A sunlit moon
A breeze on the flower field
cherry blossoms
Floating down like snow
at 5 cms per second
Life is like surf
Nothing, growing, crashing
A bullet train passes by
A bin filled with unfinished letters
A fair taint upon the heart
To behold the impossible
Words we'll never say
Text messages we'll never send
Look beyound the forever sun
See beyond the objective life
The only feeling left behind
is something which cannot
be explained


- RMG taz

btw, i did the picture with screen shots and i blended them all togther. nice isnt it?

Procastion- I'll Do it Later

pro·cras·ti·nate Audio Help /proʊˈkræstəˌneɪt, prə-/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[proh-kras-tuh-neyt, pruh-] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation verb, -nat·ed, -nat·ing.
–verb (used without object)
1. to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
–verb (used with object)
2. to put off till another day or time; defer; delay.

I'm supposed to be doing 4 projects. But i just cant be bothered. Procrastination

First i slept until 9:00am. Then my mum had to go to Talim, but i said i had 4 projects to do, so she left me to it. First up: Decision chart. make it colorful and such. Next: Deforestation project for Science Week. I did pretty much everything, except glue it together and print some pictures. so i hopped on the Net, but first: time to download something. Yes, Im obsessed with downloading stuff, especially anime. so i type in all these different anime's and finally settle on downloading this Alice 19th acting thing. Then, i start looking for deforestation pics. it takes a lifetime, coz in the middle of it all i went on myspace to read Tara's bulletin, and hotmail, and some weird random sites.
so finally i get a few pics i print them, go to the kitchen, eat a half muffin, go to my room, quickly cut them out, and position them on the poster. but i realise i need more pics to cover those plain spaces so off to the comp again.
this time i go to Tara's blog, while waiting for this pic to load, and also i go to www.onemanga.com to read Emma. but i close it coz i know i cant be distracted. i get a few deforestation pics and also some naruto pics, coz who wants to waste paper, print them, eat the rest of the muffin, go back to my room, cut them out quickly, then position them on the poster. its looking good. but theres a HUGE gap in the middle, so i suppose i'll have to write something. i draw the heading ("What the Big Deal about DEFORESTATION?") on some orage paper and postion them on the paper. now ready to glue everything on.
but first, back to the comp to see how the download is going. Its finished!!! i put it on my USB and watch it and laugh, and while I'm at it watch Fushigi Yuugi, and put another download on Friuts Basket episode 1.
go back to room. admire unglued work. then open the glue stick and find : IT FINISHED!!! dammit. oh well, leaving that aside (it took 3 hours including the additional stuffs) i do my Arabic Hw. But i read it and dont understand a single thing, so put it back in my bag. Have lunch. (takes 1 hour.)
3:00pm now.
Go back to Computer. read Emma. Read a fanfic. Yay! 93% of Fruits basket is finished. then write this blog. and i still have to do my "Great Explorers: Columbus" essay. oh man. Who can be bothered!!!!

seriously i'd rather re-read Emma and my book and i wanted to make a cake. *SIGH* oh well i guess i'll just have to do that later.

I wanna Dye

<<<----- apparently that Rhiannon. my friends friend. fancy seeing her on photobucket!



Yes, i wanna Dye!!!!!!!

my hair that is.

i have shoulder length, split ended, messy black hair. Its not pretty. and i know that i wear hijaab and all that, and no one gives a hoot what i look like, i still wanna change my hairstyle. It just makes you feel good, knowing that you look good, and thats a good thing right? well, ive been looking at some hairstyles on the internet and i really like Ashlee Simpsons layered cut.

And theres this really awesome style called "Scene" or better known as "Emo". Im not an emo but i like the whole black spiky thing with highlights.


i really want red streaks or tips in my hair like this lady. i know its expensive and hard to put in streaks yourself but, you know....i just want to!!!

and also a HUGE fringe!!!!!! but not bangs, coz it will make me look babyish.



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War Sucks

war
warred, war·ring, adjective –noun

-	a conflict carried on by force of arms, as between nations or between parties within a nation; warfare, as by land, sea, or air. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/war

My definition:

War: noun;
a complete waste of time, lives and metal.

Ive just watched Pearl Harbor. Its a pretty good movie, but sad. Ive just realized much war sucks.

Seriously, bombing a Pacific paradise at 7.00 am and losing 1300 lives, and not to mention sleep, over it, is a big deal. I mean why cant we all just get along? Why do people have to fight?

i suppose its just the way of the world. Its a food chain. We all want to be on the top. so we kill the competition, and rule the world for ourselves. but is there really any point?

Now to answer that, we have to get to the heart of the point. How did world war 2 even start?

well one day, on 1st of September 1939, some guy named Adolf Hitler and his cliche of Nazis declared war and attacked Poland without warning. Why? because apparently the Polish raided a little radio station in Germany. But the Polish didn't do it. the Germans pretended and staged it. This crazy Hitler guy just wanted to start a fight, because he didn't have enough territory and he needed $33 billion to repair all the damage done in World War 1. Well dude, you wouldn't have to repair anything if you just accepted that most people weren't blue eyed and blond haired!

and so the stupid war began.

By September 3rd, Britain and France were at war with Germany and within a week Australia, New Zealand, Canada and south Africa had also joined thew war. America was (i think) the last to join the war by bombing bit of Japan (The Doolittle Raid).

But others say it started with Japan invading Manchuria, a state in China in late 1931. But the actual invasion of China began in 1937. Japan wanted to take over Asia and the Pacific. The US didn't like this idea, so they stopped trading with Japan. so since they didnt have enough supplies to last them even 2 years, they bombed Pearl Harbor to keep the Air Force out of Japans way. Unfortunatly they did it 30mins before actually proclaiming they were gonna bomb Pearl Harbor, and so Honolulu wasnt ready for an attack. apparently Admiral Yomamoto, who lead the Japanese fleet, regretted this fact.

in the end, The war stopped with the use of godforsaken nuclear weapons and more than 60 million are dead and most of Europe and Asia were down to dust.

Ok so back to my ani-war ramblings. Sheesh!! If people cant just live in their own space and let the others live aswell, how the hell are we ever gonna live peacefully? So much time and money and people gone to waste over some guys who wants a bigger palaces and power.

if i had my way, i would stop the other stupid war in Iraq and wherever there is a war, and make a huge fire and chuck all the tanks and bombs and guns and nuclear weapons, melt them down and make a huge spaceship and explore the universe. and for every gun thrown into my Big Bad Fire there would a tree planted, so as to counter the carbon emmisions coming from it. Then we'll all join hands and eat Biriyani and muffins and thank Allah for what he has given us, then plant a few more trees and eat more Biriyani and my retarded muffins. Also all the countries in the world will help the other countries who dont have enough money to live properly.

See? Ive got it all planned out.




::::....::::....Ahem Ahewm. Im really sorry if theres anything wrong in my Quaker speech about war, like maybe the dates or something, and if u could give me a message if they are so i can correct them. thanks for reading! Anyways watch Pearl Harbor, its a good movie.....:::::.....:::::



"A brilliant man would find a way not to fight a war"
Admiral Yamamoto
Pearl Harbor