Heartwarming Majoring Week...III

Meeting my ex teachers!

My first aim after finishing my classes was to see my ex teachers NO MATTER WHAT! Mr. G, Mr. B and Mr. D were on the top of the list! At 11, I went to see Mr. G but could not fine him so I went to see Mr. B who was busy….Mr. D was having company…it was me and my hard luck! But I did not give up! I went to see my old best friend R who suggested walking! I agreed and together we walked around the campus. I asked her to go with me to see Mr. G. I went to his office hoping that he would be there…and he was!! After greeting, he asked us to set but I was afraid that I might interrupt but he insisted…the typical Mr. G I know. I had a conversation with him and R! Its been a long time since we had such conversation and we agreed to have coffee sometime next week…CANT WAIT!

In the afternoon, I went to see Mr. D! My dear Irish uncle! He looked busy and told me that he won’t need my help on presentations this semester! He is giving me a break though I really miss helping him with classes. We had a chat and then left. I was hoping to see Mr. B but he was not around… I won’t give up, I should see him next week!

It was a nice, stressful, full of surprises, amazing, heartwarming week! I worked hard and had fun at the same time…this is how I should keep on going in ZU! I will be fine as long as I study hard and as long as I socialize with people who I like….God bless you all who made me smile during last week and who will in the following ones.

Note: I learnt something very interesting that week! "I can't catch cold from the rain!" I never knew about that! Thanks for the guy who told me about it and the other one who assured me!

Heartwarming Majoring Week...II

The lunch, the coffee and the friendly conversations!

Tuesday was busy but the good thing is that I finish my classes at 12! I was planning to go and see teachers who I did not see for a while. I went to the ELC and greeted some teachers who I did not see for a very long time! Then I went to greet Mr. Dn! After having a friendly conversation with him, we planned to have lunch in the following day! I was so excited, it was the first lunch with a teacher this semester and who is the teacher? The kind Mr. Dn! I looked for my ex teachers but could not find them….tough luck!

Wednesday, it was the day I had the first lunch with a teacher. Mr. Dn. I had a friendly conversation with him for about 30 mins about this and that! Friends did not stop calling during that time teasing me about having lunch with a teacher. After lunch he had to run to do his own business while I went to meet my Arabic lab teacher for the first time…however, I really had fun.

Thursday, I was with my new friend A having coffee when Mr. Do passed by. After greeting him, I asked if he have time to join us! We were lucky that he did! he spent around 20 mins with us! I was so glad to start the day with having such a nice talk with Mr. Do and A. He left us soon and we run to our classes

Heartwarming Majoring Week...I

The busy first days and meeting the kind family!

A new start began on February 11, 2007! It’s the day I felt like a real official business student. I could not sleep in the night before because of being so nervous and simply coz I would go back to campus. It was a perfect first week in my first semester on majoring in business.

The first morning was stressful; I had a meeting with my business adviser about something I wanted to take his opinion about. After that I went to the coffee shop! I missed having coffee in that place. Then I had my first three classes, IT and business computing, environmental science and microeconomics…yea unfortunately I am talking it again. The first three classes showed me that this semester will not be easy at all and needs more work than the previous one.

The second day was stressful as well! I had only one class Managerial accounting and the other one was cancelled. However, something very interesting happened in the afternoon! I was on my way to the cafeteria, when I saw Mr. Ty! I greeted him and then I met his family!! His dad and step mom, a really kind people! We had such a nice friendly conversation under the burning sun in the oasis courtyard. I can’t forget how I felt meeting them! I just love meeting people like Mr. Ty’s family! People who once I see, I believe again that this world still have gentle kindness within it. Hopefully, I will see them again.

Dramas during the Break..."Snow White"

When I saw the ending of this drama, I said “It was fun”. What I meant was that I had a lot of fun watching dramas during this break and that helped it to move quickly. It was sad though, it meant that I am not going to have much time to watch more.

The last drama was “Snow White”, no no no! I don’t mean the famous fairytale we have been hearing about since our childhood, this one is a Korean drama. It was a nice one and what made it even better is that my favorite Korean actor “Lee Wan” acted in it. The first time I saw this actor, around 1 mouth and a half ago in a very sad drama called “Tree of Heaven”, I said “He is my favorite Korean, I will be a loyal fan” and when I say that I really mean it.

The story talks about a girl, Young-Hee, who loves Jin-Woo for 8 years since she met him in high school. The thing is that Jin-Woo does not think about Young-Hee more than a best friend. However things will start changing once Jin-Woo’s younger brother, Sun-Woo ‘Lee Wan’, appears. When Jin-Woo introduce his brother to his best friend…he will find out that those two met each other back in Japan when Young-Hee was working there and a little ‘misunderstanding’ happened between them. Things will start to get really interesting once you find out that the two brothers are “Playboys” but soon they will fall in love with the same girl…opps! What should brothers do at that moment? Become selfish? Become enemies or something else?

It was a good drama and was really funny and did not make me cry like “Loveholic” or “Forbidden Love”. Craziness was flowing around this drama. Jin-Woo acts like he knows nothing, Sun-Woo being so naughty and Young-Hee being so clumsy. So this is it for the dramas I watched during this break, one more day and the seriousness begin. Next blog will be the last post for Korean dramas…what make them special? and stuff

Wow! He Came to Visit you!

I miss my university and my life in a place where I consider as my home. I have been having dreams about me being on campus or stuff related to it. I had this dream the other day and it was really interesting.

I was sitting in my usual place outside the coffee shop. I was not having coffee but was doing some work on my laptop when I saw someone coming near me wearing dark pant, white shirt and black jacket. I thought that this person will go away but he stayed still looking my way. I was not thinking about looking at the person so I just kept working …when it was unbearable, I took my eyes off my laptop to wonder who this idiot is that interrupted my work. Once I saw the person, I stood up!

“Kame!” yea it was Kame a member in a Japanese band named KAT TUN and a famous actor as well. I was shocked why this guy is here. After pronouncing his name, he smiled at me! I had no idea why he was there, I am not a fan of his but he is a good actor that all what I knew. I eyed him like I am asking him to say something. I looked around to see girls giving me weird looks, nothing new about that, “Why is this guy here?” “Does this girl know this famous actor?” stuff like that

Suddenly I felt like someone took my right hand and shock it! It did not take me long to know who was the guy, it was Kame and he was smiling still shacking my hand. I was neither angry nor happy about it, I was just shocked! Girls around started gossiping and whispering to each other. Then a friend of mine Sl, who know Kame and a big drama fan, came and smiled at me “Wow! He came to visit you!”

I woke up wondering, from all the actors I know, why Kame? I am not a fan of his and I like other actors then why he was the one! I have anything against him anyway, I think its because I watch just too much drama lately…ah well, me and my weird dreams

Lonelinee Knows me by Name

3 more days to go and I will be back on campus. I really cant wait to be there because now this holiday became unbearable! It feels so empty! There is no one around and no one to stay up with me the whole night. My brother M started his second semester in the AUS last week, my little brother A started the second semester as well, dad is busy as always, granny not in the mood most of the time….

I remember when this holiday first started it was not as boring as now! Waking up in the morning and cooking lunch for the family when I am in the mood. During that, A and M discuss the latest video games and search for more on the internet. M watching Naruto the whole day, A looking for football news…he is such a huge football fan…dad coming back from work and we all have a chat about university, school…etc and granny join us with her complaining most of the time. me watching dramas and making my cousin goes so crazy over them…my other cousin tease me about how messing my hair is and my younger cousin gives me a hard time. At night, my bros cook something before a movie they plan to watch or to play a video game while me still watching dramas ….all that was happening in the beginning of this break but now it’s a different story.

Now its just so empty, its so boring to have a holiday by your own. Everyone went to schools and I am left at home. Don’t see much of my family and if I do….there is not much to say. Everyone is busy with their own stuff. I walk every night, and in the dark while feeling the cold breeze…you would feel how lonely life can be sometimes. I only get sympathy from the stars, sometimes when they wink, I feel like they are crying over me! Crying over the loneliness that surrounds me…at those times I feel like parts of the song “Loneliness knows by name” for Westlife speaks about me

Loneliness is always looking for a friend
It found me once,
And its been around since then
Loneliness is never waiting by the door
It sweeps right through
And it will never be ignored
Why? Why was I chosen?
Why am I left without?

Loneliness knows everything I keep inside
My endless thought in the silence of the night
Loneliness is the one who made me see
Ain't nobody else who can make achieve of me
Why? Why was I chosen?
Why am I left without?

Life is more
Like there would be a vacant space
The cried out tears
And the never ending maze
I found what loneliness provide
A straight within
Knowing I will find

Dramas during the Break..."Loveholic"

The fourth drama I watched during this break is called “Loveholic”, what an attractive title for a Korean drama and what an attractive storyline! I am not going to say that this drama was great; it was one of the best …because indeed it was. I can describe this drama as “TOO MUCH EMOTIONS!” the main two actors were really amazing! Especially the actress, I can’t forget how many times she made me cry…

Ok now what is this drama all about…in the first scene you will see the main guy being chased by some high school boys. He bumped into a girl who suddenly fainted in his arms! And here it started! The guy would continue running away from the bad boys and the girl would just set on the street trying to take hold of herself. In the following day, the guy was told that he will have a new teacher and guess what! The teacher is the girl who he saw in the street in the previous day.

Then heartache began, a student/teacher relationship. They will go through a lot of hear ache, suffering and sacrifice. You will see how much the guy loved his teacher….so it was not this kind of relations where a student have a crush on a teacher and then it goes away! It was real love and in every episode you will see how much he cared for her and tried to let go but could not…I could never forget when he said in so much emotions “Now when I see Teacher, my heart hurts” “I know that I can’t give her happiness for that I let her go” “I am not tired yet” “Now, I regret giving up on her. I should have told her everything and asked her to stay by my side” …. And stuff like that! It was such an amazing drama…I cried a lot that meant that it really got to me!

Through the Rain!

I am not talking about Maria Cary’s song here….I am writing about the last 2 days where I was so delighted! It was raining! The last time it rained was back on campus!! Like my granny’s sister said “It did not rain like this year for about 45 or 50 years” I just loved the rain and I had a wish to walk under it

Whenever I wanted to walk under the rain, I take this idea off my mind. Daddy doesn’t like the idea of walking under the rain because he is afraid that I might catch cold. But tonight I finally did it.

Around 12:00 am, I was in my room preparing to write a poem or listen to music when I heard the drops of rain….it were the third time already and it was my chance. I grabbed my sweater, ran down the stairs, and opened the door. For a second, I was frozen, I was about to take that idea off my mind but!! I saw myself throwing my sweater away and going it to the rain wearing only my pajamas which were not enough to keep me warm.

I felt the drops on my face, hair, arms and legs!! It was AMAZING! I have never done it before; I never had a rain shower! Whenever I wanted to go back to my room, the rain becomes stronger and held me back. I was walking and dancing under the rain and for seconds, I thought that I lost my mind. I prayed for those who I care for… I wished if they saw it raining tonight. When I finally realized that I was so wet from head to toes…I made my way back to my room.

I felt so cold and for that I had a warm shower which refreshed me. It was such an unforgettable experience but if dad caught me then I am so dead! Will I do that again? OF COURSE! If I got the chance! Now, All what I am hoping for is not to wake up tomorrow and find out that I caught cold…

Dramas during the Break "18 vs 29"

The third drama, which I finished watching early this morning, is called “18 VS 29”. This one contained romance, love and comedy… I chose this drama coz I needed to laugh after all the crying and sadness in the previous 2 dramas I mentioned.

This drama tells about 29 years old married woman who ran into a car accident and wake up to find herself as 18! In other words, her memories went back to when she was 18 as a high school student. She becomes shocked once she realizes that she married the guy who she most despised in her school. She wondered how on earth she married him! I loved the story and there were a lot of funny scenes it. In the first 10 mins of it, I could not stop laughing! The thing is just so funny.

However, it reminded me with a drama I watch last year called “Full House” which has almost the same story. A married couple who yell, tease, laugh, feel jealous, cry and comfort each other….I just love this drama…there was this one scene when she wakes up after the accident and first see he husband and asks him “Excuse me! Old man, where am I?” and you would see how pissed the husband would look as he replied “Old man! I am only 2 months older than you!” I just could not stop laughing after watching this scene…the way he looked and the ring in his voice was just so funny.

Dramas during the Break "Forbidden Love"

The second drama changed my whole idea about Korean dramas; Forbidden love and its known as Nine Tailed Fox. It was not only about this guy loving that girl who loves someone else! NO! It was a unique story. The very first drama which I see that contains action and horror within it besides romance!

I should start by explaining what the story of Nine Tailed Fox is…well, in the drama it says that there is some human living between us having a fox race! They are powerful but they live like human…they work, study and go to college but at night they are different. They survive by eating dead human’s livers. However, those who kill human to eat their livers are punished by losing their lives in the hands of the special well trained warriors!

The most part I hated was when they show those digesting senses, sometime I just want to vomit! Its not really scary but its just disgusting. Where is the love story here? When one of the female warriors falls in love with a human cop who goes after the foxes! The relation between them would become more complicated once they realize that they are enemies but at that time it would be far too late....they would be so deaply in love with each other. I loved the actions scenes, the fighting, the acting, the conflict, and the whole Nine Tailed Fox legend…one of the amazing Korean shows I ever watched.

Dramas during the Break "Smile Again"

It’s been 10 days since this holiday started and I am already missing the university. However, I am trying to do some useful stuff to pass time besides watching dramas! Yea!! Those Asian dramas are growing more and more in me! Especially the Korean ones! They are very good at making me cry! So far I watched 3 dramas! I have been starting a new drama in every 3 days…so I will write down the dramas I watched so far

The first one I watch was called “Smile again”. A story about an orphan guy, who would do anything for money, but changes once he meets the love of his life who is a bright girl loving to play baseball and later in the show she turns to softball. I found this drama not different from others I watched. But it’s the first time I see a drama which takes softball, a sport, as its main environment. Of course there was this other guy who should appear to make the “Triangle of Love”. Besides, it’s the first time that I was supporting the “other guy” not the main lead. Its not only because the other guy look cuter than the main guy, its just that he was not a bad guy! His personality was much better than the main actor.

An Official Business Student!

Next semester will be my forth and the first major semester. I don’t know how to describe my feelings. Its not like I have something against being a business student…the thing is that it was not my choice, it was planned for me.

I already studied 2 courses related to this major but I did not do great so I am planning to take them again in order to get a better grade. I wonder why I did not do well in Financial Accounting or Micro Economics…I did not really liked those subjects. The feeling that I was obliged to go to business did not allow me to my best so this is might be the reason. It does not mean that I was not studying…I was! It’s just different when you study something from your own choice and you really like.

I still remember when I received an email from the business department; I did not run to get my acceptance letter. I went there after 3 weeks when I finally realized that there is not escape from this destiny. When I first held the letter, I was not excited at all but at that very moment I knew that there is no turning back.

Ah well, I am a business student now and I will be stuck with it and be an accountant after 2 years. But when I think of it, being in business is really something and I am really accepting it. I will survive it, I know I will

We are the Champions :D

The first two days of the break were so quiet until the following night…I was sticking myself near the PC staring with a very anxious sad eyes at a very sad drama when suddenly I heard noises and fireworks! My romantic mood was ruined and the PC suddenly froze! I got up and opened the door looking at the street…then I remembered…my country’s football team was playing against KSA in that evening in the Gulf Cup

I called my cousin asking her if what I came up with was true and she screamed saying that it was true “We won!” …I then went to the second floor looking at the main street which was crowded with cars and guys singing and shouting! At that moment I wondered what will happen if UAE won against Oman and got the Gulf Cup? Well, I did not wait long to get an answer for that question

In the 30^th of January, at 7:00 pm I was having tea with my aunt when she mentioned something about the final match which I forgot completely about. She asked me to check the score through the internet and when I did… none of the teams scored any goals. When I sighed into the msn a friend of mine sent “Maryam! GOOOOOOAL!” I opened my eyes wide and ran to my brother, who was watching the match with my cousin, and confirmed it! I then went back to my tea coz I did not want to be on my nerve while watching the game.

At 7:10 pm, I called my cousin “We won!! We are the champions!” just hearing that made me run back to the TV. M, F, my auntie and I were so excited watching our football team getting the Gulf Cup for the very time! That was a moment to remember! Though it has been already 3 days but my hometown did not stop celebrating neither the other parts of the UAE! God may bless my country