The Heart Attack Grill

It's a fact - Americans love to eat. They love food. Especially junk food with so much fat that gets to a point that looks gross and they adore HUGE sandwiches. It's a disease. Bad for the heart, makes you obese and ugly. Apparently, Americans know how bad fat is for you and your heart and that it precipitates on the inside of the arteries which can stop blood from reaching the heart, causing death. So that's why when they decided to make the greasiest, biggest, ugliest hamburger i have ever seen, the called the restaurant the Heart Attack Grill as if they were doing their part of raising people's awareness that eating there might cause heart attacks. If people do get heart attacks, it's not their fault, the didn't make them eat and they made a point that their burgers are deadly. YA RIGHT! It's just scary how big these burgers are.Their burgers are so bad and they know it that their waitresses wear nurses uniforms. And it's no joke, Americans eat that much. But look at me, not Americans eat this much, stupid people eat this much. So sorry to ever healthy American.

Biology becomes fun - Anatomy of the eye

Miss Reem, the bio teacher, took us down to the lab. FINALLY. After all those weeks of waiting for the eye sheeps to arrive, they did. And so we went, lab coats and smiles of excitement on.

We were actually given tools to bisect the eyes ourselves. Every 3 people got an eye and it was the funnest experience in my life! It really felt gross at the beginning but at the end, you couldn't get enough of putting the needle through the eye.

Those pink things were the layers of fat around the eyes and the black stuff is the pigment in the choroid which helps to trap light and the transparent sol is the viterous humour which helps to refract light and the lens and the suspensary ligaments are in there but they're hard to see.

And we really saw it. We saw the lens and the iris and the ciliary bodies and the suspensary ligaments and the viterous humour and the choroid. So it really made a difference to actually see the insides of an eye. Instead of just looking at the neat picture of the eye in the book, we got to look at this which is way cooler than theory. By the way, that little transperent thing beside "the eye" is what's left of the lens after falling into many hands.


Sorry if i grossed someone out. BUT THAT WAS FUN!!!

Going crazy with chemistry

Mr Abdessalam. The Chemistry teacher. He is now the most wanted guy among students for acts of complete idiocy and awful teaching. Over 1.75 meters tall with matted dirty black hair and little eyes behind glasses slipping down the nose. His most noticable feature would be his awful grin that goes from ear to ear. It looks like somebody cut his mouth open. Just like the Joker in Batman.

No seriously if you find this guy anywhere in your neighbourhood, beware because you would be looking at a criminal that doesnt know how to teach chemistry. This guy just comes to class with the biggest grin available for sale and gives us 35-page summaries of things we never took. Then he says that it will all be explained in the near future. Then he tells us his boring plan in teaching. And he just drones on and on and never finishes.

Then, when he finnally starts to explain the lesson, he forgets that mankind invented a board to write on, especially in chemistry class. He just talks chemicals and acids and bases and substances. He keeps talking (without writing, as though he were chatting with us) about with chemicals are reactive and which are inert and which ones produce what when reacted with others and through all that he expects us to absorb what he is saying and understand that.

On top of that, he has the worst jokes ever. He thinks he's funny but after he says something stupid, the only one with a smile on their face would be him. If it wasn't rude, everyone would just boo him out of the class.

And we have a chemistry quiz on tuesday. Nobody knows how to pass it and i don't either so this post is just a place to vent some of my anger in.

No but seriously, if you see him anywhere just call 079 - 555 - 1215 ( please don't call because this is a random number that may belong to someone).

Parkour

Although many people don't know what it's called, they do know how it looks like. Everywhere in the world, in TV commercials and posters, parkour is present. By defenition, parkour is getting from point A to point B in the fastest and most efficient way possible. It involves jumping from very high places, and from building to building, in cool and fast ways. It involves climbing really high walls. It involves being partially aerodynamic and being fast and rolling. But it involves jumping alot. That's why i vainly thought it was a monkey sport with no meaning. Untill i actually tried it out.
Parkour isn't the easiest sport out there. Nor is it the safest one. But it sure is cool. When you do parkour, you get this feeling of ecstasy and freedom. You feel like you're leaving the world behind you and just focusing on how to land safely on the ground. You can't take being good at parkour for granted. It takes lots of practice. And you can't expect yourself to be safe and sound in the air. Something has to go wrong.
So yesterday, me and my friends went to Al-Hussain park after seeing that there were some ideal places to practice parkour in. We spent alot of time trying to do parkour moves and learning new ones . And surely, lots and lots of things went wrong. My friend Khaled landed on his back after a 2 metre high jump all becuase he got his leg caught in the wall he was jumping off. Ouch. I fell on my knee on a ramp and it still hurts. That hurt. I got several cuts and bruises and my hands became numb and i became sweaty and my clothes became filthy and my bones became heavy and my eyes were hard to open because of the sleepiness and my stomach was killing me because of hunger but my blood was full of adrenaline because of the excitement and fun i was having. Although it was frustrating at times because there were jumps i couldnt do that looked so simple. Adding to that, I barely slept at night.
So what i'm trying to say here is that, although parkour isnt the most popular or safest sport around, it's a hell good and fun sport. There's nothing to lose in learning how to do it. Bruises will fade and cuts will clot and heavy bones will become light and sleepless nights will become nights full of good dreams. Eventually.

Prison Break season 4 ep 8

Tuesday. It's the day i come back from school and go right onto the computer to watch the next episode of the almighty TV series, Prison Break. Actually, Prison Break is what keeps me going during those boring, dull chemistry and physics lessons. Whenever i get fed up with forces and ammonia and sulfuric acid and magnetism and speed of reaction and all that shit, I remember that there is a fresh, new episode of Prison Break waiting to be watched. So the adrenaline starts flowing and I cheer up. Especially when me and Khaled Al-Shareef talk about it. It's as exciting as a TV series can get.

So yesterday, I stormed into the empty house to find the computer on and waiting. Without hesitation, i type in www.cucirca.com into the address bar and press enter. Then, I look for the eighth episode on the list of episodes and i find that it's not there. What a disaster. I felt completely devastated. And now I'm angry at stupid fox for showing the preview of the episode which gets you all excited and then just not showing it all in the sake of a stupid presidential thing. Presidents can wait. McCain can wait. Obama can wait. Palin can wait a bit untill she can show off. It's time for Prison Break. I guess we'll just have to wait another boring, dull, 7 month, annoying, never ending week. It's just ridiculous!
But at least there's a soccer game today. I hope England wins!!!

Weird and rediculous quotes written on my friends' notebooks

This is gonna be a really short poste;

• When i see you, i know the beautiful of the world.
• Together we grow up should never depart

What i get from the first one is that you're what makes the world beautiful and the second one just tells me that we'll grow up together and we'll never split.

God knows what else is out there in the part of the Arab world that wants to be like America

Amazing Stats - Post #3

I'm a, you can say, avid reader. I like to read books, magazines, articles, blogs and everything with letters in it. And to look at these stats is kinda disappointing.

• 58% of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives.
• 42% of college graduates never read another book after college.
• * 80% of U.S. families did not buy or read a book last year.
• * 70% of U.S. adults have not been in a bookstore in the last five years.
• * 57% of new books are not read to completion.
• * Most readers don't get past page 18 in a book they have purchased.
• * A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
• * A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
• * A New York Times bestseller sells 250,000 copies.
• * On average, a bookstore browser spends 8 seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15 seconds looking at the back cover.
• * Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14 minutes reading magazines.

Amazing Stats - Post 2

This post is related to cereal. Yes i know, i was amazed to find such a webpage in the fist place;

• Americans buy 2.7 billion packages of breakfast cereal each year.
• If laid end to end, the empty cereal boxes from one year's consumption would stretch to the moon and back.
• The cereal industry uses 816 million pounds of sugar per year, enough to coat each and every American with more than three pounds of sugar. The cereal with the highest amount of sugar per serving is Smacks, which is 53% sugar.
• Americans consume about ten pounds, or 160 bowls of cereal, per person each year. But America ranks only fourth in per capita cereal consumption. Ireland ranks first, England ranks second, and Australia ranks third. 49% of Americans start each morning with a bowl of cereal, 30% eat toast, 28% eat eggs, 28% have coffee, 17% have hot cereal and fewer than 10% have pancakes, sausage, bagels or french toast.
• In terms of dollar value breakfast cereals are the third most popular product sold at supermarkets, after carbonated beverages and milk. Cigarettes are the fourth most popular item followed by fresh bread and rolls.
• In 1993, more than 1.3 million advertisements for cereal aired on American television, or more than twenty-five hours of cereal advertising per day, at a cost of $762 million for air time. Only auto manufacturers spend more money on television advertising than the makers of breakfast cereal.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go have some cereal.

Werid Stats - Post 1

• It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. Smile, it's alot easier than frowning.
• A baby acquires fingerprints at the age of 3 months
• A sneeze can exceed speeds of 160 Km/H
• A beetle has over 300,000 different species.
• An elephant has four teeth
• A cow has four stomachs
• A giraffe has 7 bones in its neck, just like a human
• The armadillo always gives birth to twins
• The tongue of a chameleon is almost twice the length of its body
• A newborn kangaroo measures around 2.54cm (1ins) in length
• The brain uses a quarter of the bodies oxygen
• California uses more gas than China
• The stock market has lost 7.1 % of it's value on September 15, which is about $4 trillion dollars in value
  

School's daily routine

At about 6 am: I reluctantly get up from my warm and beautiful bed to get into my blue carrefour-type uniform and hurriedly grab a Nutella sandwich.

6:15. Waiting for the bus to come in front of the building with my brother talking in my ear, for which i am not in the mood and too sleepy to reply. The bus comes at 6:25

6:25 - 7:15. Sitting in the bus on the seat directly in front of the door which is annoying because you have to hear the engine and everyone coming into the bus while trying to sleep. You can also faintly hear the bus-driver's rantings and ravings over the rumble of the engine.

7:15 - 7:30. Sitting with my friends talking about everything about anything and sometimes arguing about which soccer team is the best (obviously Manchester Utd. Qais thinks it's Chelsea. What a retard) or frantically solving homework that we were too lazy to do at home or was too hard to solve alone. Occasionally, if there is a quiz, we'd revise it.

7:30 - 7:40. The worst part of the day.الطابور. This part of the day involves standing in lines to do daily morning exercises and sing ridiculous anasheed while being to sleepy to feel what's really hapenning. Then we have to read Quran and stand for the National Anthem and then we'd get yelled at by MR.Ramadan sometimes and then we'd trudge up the 50 stair staircase to the IGCSE section. Then the first lesson starts.

7:40 - 2:10. Get bored to death with never-ending lessons like physics math biology chemistry engilsh arabic IT and that's about it. The lessons seem to go on for ever themselves and after each lesson there is another never ending lesson where we have to write and make up excuses for not doing homework and try to talk to our friends without getting caught and trying to remember what quizzes we have next week.

2:10. Allah finnally bestowes his mercy upon us and allows time to go on so that the bell can ring. You would see me frantically putting my things away and thinking " astalavista school. untill tomorrow" and running towards the bus.

That's what happens to us everyday in school. I think prisoners should be sent there as a way of torture without physical abuse. It's just unbearable