6 Randomm!

Hmm.. ages since i updated, been on this holiday mood lol.. So anyways I had this stray cat coming over (on the right) .. and I thought it was pregnant.. turns out it was a malee! lol. Just recently 2 other female cats hv been coming over with their kittens..They're really scared of all of us.. The other day I bent to pet one of the kittens on the staircase and it jumped from a height of around 8 feet! Thank God cats land on their feet!


A sad thing happened a few days back.. one of the pigeons outside our window died :'(.



Anyways I'm still trying to improve on my cooking skills for uni..

I made a nameless pudding the other day.. :D Its a combination of different recipes.. :D lol It's really simple to make and a lovely crowd pleaser :D

1 No more Chemmmmm!

Today I was clearing a few stuff in my PC and came across 2 chem animations I'd made for my AS revision last year in March. Just thought I'd add them here :)

0 Panaromas

Salaams!
long time no blogg! there was a wedding on the way! :D had guests around and stuff!
Okayy so today thought i'd share a few panaroma photos that i've taken.. :D

A Mosque in Aleppo (Masjid Nuqta if im not mistaken)

Mosque of Bibi Zainab (A.S)

Mosque in Pangani-Tanzania

The view point in Lushoto - Tanzania

Tomorrow I'll be leaving for Tanzania.. I'll try blogging from there Inshallah! :D

5 The Umayyad Mosque

The site of the umayyad mosque has housed sacred buildings for many years. In the armanian era it was a temple of Hadad. In 1000 BC it was the temple of Jupiter. In the 4th century it was transformed into a church-The church of St. John. With the Islamic conquest in 661, the church was shared with the muslims praying in the eastern section and the christians in the western.

In 706 the Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik had it rebuilt as a mosque.The christians were compensated in return. The mosque holds the shrine of prophet Yahya who is known as John the Baptist to the christians.

The mosque was restored in the 15th century and again in the 19th. In May of 2001, the pope visited the mosque. During his historic visit John Paul II became the first pontiff ever in history to enter a Muslim place of worship. Before he went inside, the pope took off his shoes and prayed in front of the tomb of John the Baptist.


It is believed that between the pillar (as shown in the picture) and another pillar is where Prophet Isa & Imam Mahdi (A.S) will re-appear from.

North of the mosque is the tomb of saladdin.

3 Backkkk!

I'm back :D and had a wonderful time! I'll upload a few pictures soon enough Inshallah.. trouble is none of them are labelled so it'l take a while to sort them out.. :S

I finished reading "The Da Vinci Code " today...lol.. finallyyy!

"O, Draconian devil! Oh, lame saint!
was a perfect anagram of...
Leonardo da Vinci! The Mona Lisa!"

This for some reason brought me back to Harry potter and the chamber of secrets where anagrams was used.. whereby "I am Lord Voldemort" is an anagram of the name Tom Marvolo Riddle

Another time where I was brought back to harry potter was where the cryptex crashed. In the order of phoenix the prophecy in the ministry of magic breaks..
Oh welll.. getting late! laters!

5 Temporary goodbyes

Hmm.. is 1.08 a.m and I've just finished packing! lol.. leaving for Dubai & Syria in around 11 hours! I'm not really a last minute packer, but this time I had so much to do, that packing was the last thing on my mind.. Oh well atleast I'm done with it :D So I guess it's a temporary bye-bye..I'l be back on 16th July Inshallah :D

I'm taking to 2 books with me..The 1st is this sudoku puzzle one compiled from the times newspaper (I think..!) 2nd volume or something..lol.. If you'd asked me what sudoku was a year back, i'd probably have replied saying: "it's a fish!" Lol.. I mean honestly the name sounds so fishy-ish. Sort of links with "samaki" in swahili. Anyways this game was introduced to me by my 14 year old cousin-Taha. In the beginning it was frustrating not being able to actualyl get the game.. now it's a lovely game which takes my mind off anything I want to get my mind off.. lol..

The 2nd book is Da vinci code.. Just got it 2day from my friend Sabiha :D I think I'm probably the only person in the wholee of Kenya who's not read it lol..!

Oh well.. its getting lateee! I'm off!

1 A step back in time

Sometimes when we're faced with power cuts, time seems to float back to the 1900's. Nothing connected to the electrical sockets works, which means no Tvs and computers. During day-time it gets abit boring, however at night it's different-the stars shine like they never have,every sound made by the wind can be heard and we revert to candles or kerosene lanterns when our emergency lights fail to work.I'd rather during these times use lanterns than emergency lights or candles. It's not like I have anything against candles.. lol.. they're really pretty and make a birthday cake look great but I'm scared I'll knock them off or something.. okay not reallyy.. more like used to!

A few weeks back there was a power cut for around 2 hours, my dad switched on the radio, and for a moment I felt this sense of being present during the time of my grandparents.

Days later, we had a half-phase. The PC was the only electrical thing working. A buterfly landed on my PC screen and I managed to capture a picture of it.. My boredom drove me to MS paint where I changed the background colours and took more photos of the butterfly infront of the coloured screen.

P.S: All photos posted were taken during power cuts :D

2 The joys of not studying...

The joys of not studying..
So many, there are
The air, you can,
Breathe so slow and smell,
The sleep, you can
so peacefully,
The food, you can
eat gracefully
Your heart beats,
not fast,
smile you do,
constantly,
stupid poems you write,
like right now!

4 Last days

Today I went to school to return my books and meet the teachers. Later all of us mates went to buy gifts for teachers collectively as a class. I had to leave early because Furqan (my cousin) was participating in a debate. It was the finals, and I'd missed 2 of his previous debates (because of exams) where he was named best-speaker. His team won!! And our school's taking them out to lunch to this fancy indian restaurant.. (Shehnai)

In the evening I went to say my good-byes to my best friend Shahista, she's leaving for Moshi tomorrow. I don't know when I'll ever see her again. What I missed today, was giving all the presents to the teachers. Shahista filled me in on all what happened. Our Biology teacher-Mrs.Nguti was deeply touched and she said a really good prayer for all of us which moved many.. :'(

Before today I was always like "Yay! No more edexc-hell and all" and today I realised that I've always taken school for granted..Each day I knew I was going to meet my friends and my teachers.. But now there is no more school. 16 years, and its over! poof! just like that!

Right now I asked my friend Kulsum what Mrs.Nguti prayed for, and this is what she said :
"she prayed to Jehovah God and closed her eyes..so we closed too..lol n she strted prayin asking God to make us successful and help us be heads and not tails... be leaders nt followers..that wotver we touch multipliesss(sounds goodd!eh!lol)..help us in all our endeavours..and wen its the correct time...to grant us good husbands(ERM..lol..gotta say this..we all had our eyes closed but we all managed to laff kidogo...tht was funnyy..lol)that they should be God fearing so they knw we ve all cum from God...and grant us with good babies..and our wombs be fruitful..lol...and den she ended by saying tht she was glad to hav met us and tht she has trusted us to God and prays for our best!we all ended with AMEN thrice...wahwah! nice prayer indeed!"
[Source: Pasted from chat! lol]

Later on I watched the Ghana-Brazil match, I was supporting Ghana even though I knew Brazil was going to win. In the end I feel it'l be a match between Brazil & Germany, with Brazil emerging as the winners :D.

I chose this blog name because it happens to be the name of my book series I wrote when I was around 12. The books were handwritten with lots of spelling mistakes and poor use of grammar.