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Shrimp Fried Rice

NaMaan — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:52:55 GMT

This dish is carefully crafted under the guidance of my guru chief Moni. Recipe is copyright protected and I can't disclose.

Btw It was YUMMMMMMMY and I enjoyed it with orange juice :yummy:

My first American Wedding

NaMaan — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 05:08:55 GMT

America is teaching me a lot. The very basic thing I learned here is KISS. For all the people who are smooch-deprived and wondering if I am talking about a real kiss, well KISS stands for 'Keep It Simple Stupid'. In America and especially in California simpler the better.

Steph and Scott got married. There wedding was a unique chance for me to experience that how simple weddings can be. I been the youngest of all at home, have played important role (Labor role :( ) in my brother and sister's weddings. And I know how intense it can get both emotionally and physically. It is very easy for us desiz to change a joyous moment into an intense exercise of emotional stress. But I think thats how we roll.

Anyways, so this wedding was at Anderson River Park near Sacramento River. The benches near a gazebo were covered with white cloth with few napkins. The bride was standing at one corner of the park fixing her makeup and she was like 'hi Neumen - dude you look good in short hair' :smack: She complimented me before I could. I told her I better go put that gift there and will see her later.

The groom was fixing the gazebo with ribbons. I was shocked to see him in shorts as I was expecting a more formal dressing. In the meanwhile priest arrived in his cowboy hat. I asked him where the whole ceremony will be and he started looking at the trees. Than he was like ... Ok so we'll have the ceremony between these two oak trees. People from groom's side will site on the right and from bride's side will sit on the left. And I was thinking ... wow that was pretty easy, wondering how big of a issue it is back home when it comes to decide how the stage will look like.

The ceremony was suppose to start at 2 but got delayed by 8 mins as groom was trying to find the place in park to change his clothes. I saw him running towards restrooms, topless with his pants and shirt in one hand and tie in another. :smack:. Even during the vows there were giggling and smiling. After about 15 mins we were done with the whole ceremony and ready to eat. Bride and groom had their first dance. Cut the cake and splatter it on each other�s face and than smooch and all :D

Later they went off to change into more casual clothes i.e. short and tshirt and old ladies started dancing in the middle. Oh well they offered me and I couldn't say no (humain tu allah moka da) ... it was fun. They somehow knew all about me and after hugging me they were like 'no no u don't have to tell us, we already heard a lot about u' :D ... Very nice ladies indeed.

The grome was BBQing for the guests and few of his friends were helping him out. It was already mentioned in the wedding card that its going to be a Potluck. So we had variety of dishes there. Everyone enjoyed a good conversation and a nice feast.

I like the simplicity and casualness of whole event. Everyone was just happy and less bothered about being formal.

These are few images from the event. :D

Crowd and vows :D

Dancing Ladies. Later I danced with them :D. The on the right was gooooood :D

Left is groom's side and on the right bride's side. Btw everyone brought their own chair :D

The couple ... :D

Expensive Milestone

NaMaan — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:29:20 GMT

Finally I got it ... with Schwarzenegger's sign on it :)

No its not just an autograph by that famous actor but he signed it as Governor ... and its not just an ordinary piece of paper but light yellow color diploma for my masters. Yup now I am a masters of computer science ... finally.

Pretty costly though. When I look back now I see a huge pile of things that I sacrificed for this piece of paper. My country, family, friends, emotions, youth, innocence, a peaceful life, all yummylishious food that my mom use to cook for me ... and tons and tons of other stuff.

Trust me its really not that easy to leave everything for this piece of paper. I am not really sure if holding it right now can bring me back all that happiness that I left for it. I barely felt a smile on my face. Now my brain is running around and trying to find the answer for the question ... Is it really worth it ??? ... and seriously ... I don't know the answer to it.

But well now I have a reason to finish off my second masters and try to find the answer of this question ... ''is it really worth it? '' ... yea ... thats gona be my last try ... after that i'll quit doing my masters ... promise :D

Life is hella crazy thing to be in ... Seriously ... :)

Pray for me pals.

Nothing But Truth!!

NaMaan — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 05:33:24 GMT

Yesterday Sam was angry at her bf. I tried to calm her down but she said something. I might not be able to forget. She said:

You know, first you like them, you date them, then you fall in love and then you stay for too long so now you can't stand their bull****s so you only keep them around for money.
you will see, someday it will be the same for you but you won't keep them around for money, cuz u r man. You make the money. You will keep them around to bear children and mother ur children and sex.
hahaha

yea, you don't want to hear the truth
but i tell you truth!

NOTHING BUT THE ****ING AWFUL TRUTH!

Pointlessness

NaMaan — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:05:15 GMT

Another semester at its end. I can feel its dying breath and dropping heart beat. My another friend is leaving me, with some good some bad some mixed memories. Someone who you can't hold on to forever, or it will turn into a cancer. Will eat up my whole self and future. But anyways my dying friend good bye to you. Better leave me with some good grades or else ... umm ... I'll just replace you. With a better, younger and prettier new semester. Yea thats how cold I am ... :devil:

In the meanwhile I guess my job will be my only source of inspiration. Though I am planning to work on few other things too, but might end up justifying my laziness with some lame excuses. How strange is that sometime we are even answerable to our own selves too. Here goes my freedom down the drain. Screw freedom. All our lives we try to find happiness in slavery. We don't even deserve freedom.

I am just anxiously waiting for my new friend. Lets clean the white board and write something new on it.

New Semester and I

NaMaan — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:46:01 GMT

It is here. Long awaited. Will take 3 classes this semester. InshaAllah my goal is to take that last class from CS department and get over with my first degree. Second one will take some time. Specially now its getting interesting and thrilling.

I had two classes yesterday. Back to back. Pretty interesting. Few old and few new faces. The highlight of very first class as always was the introduction. Tells a lot about the people who you are sitting with and sharing this experience. I don't know I always feel little bit nervous before it and good after that. Yesterday I started like ... Hi.. my name is ... and I am from Pakistan and I did my masters in ... and now this masters ... working on research project ... and I hope its gona be a great experience.

I always had two type of reactions to my intro. One is shocked and other one is a huge smile. Yea you got it. Huge smile from my friends and girls :wink: ... and shock from the rest :D ... even that HOT TALL blond girl showed me a huge smile. Rather now whenever I go to class, she smiles at me. She has a TALL boyfriend or I guess they are together. Might be wrong. Did I mention that she smiles at me :D

Anyways, I have very warm and nice people with me in the class. Old but nice. Pure americans. Very wise and warm. It might be education that made them this way. But still I like them.
So this time again its going to be a very knowledge intensive semester. Tons of reading and tons of writing. I think I should start eating Badaam more often. :D

May Allah help us all learn more and increase our knowledge. Ameen.

Nadia sigh

NaMaan — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:33:10 GMT

I am in Loveeeeeee ... *faints*

:wub::wub::wub:

My Fingers ...

NaMaan — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:35:16 GMT

They are hurting :bummer:

I played it after so long. My left hand fingers got soft and now it hurts. It will take at least a week before tips get hard enough and I will start enjoying it, instead of doing 'ouch 'ouch' after every song.

I know I need to work on it. But I am happy that some old practice payed off. They were moving by them selves. Almost same as when I type without looking at keyboard. It made me happy. :yahoo:

Salute to Mr. Bill Epps for being such a nice teacher and made guitar so easy to learn :salute:

Time

NaMaan — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:50:21 GMT

Such a strange and powerful thing. Just changes every thing. Emotions, Faces, Relations, Pain, Happiness, Life ... everything. But i guess mostly personality. No matter how strong or weak we are, it just changes us to a complete different person. At one moment we feel like dying and same day, same time next year we are all so normal and at peace. But off course with a vacuum that covers the whole cause of being alive.

We are just cruel. To us, to others, to whom we love and to whom we hate. No matter how close we are to some one or how far we are. By the end of the day its time that rules our passions and decisions.

No wonder we are so weak.

Supercuts

NaMaan — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:53:22 GMT

I opened the door and entered into that dream world. She was such a true beauty. Blond hairs, perfect face and big eyes. My first thought was that I wish she could cut my hairs. God listened :)

First thing she asked me was 'How u pronounce your name' ... How cute ... she doesn't wanted to offend me. Than she flipped her hair and looked right into my eyes and asked 'how u want your hairs' ... cute na ... :) ... She was very swift, clean and expert. She had such a smooth hands as i can feel them over my neck and smell so nice. I wish this dream could last more then 15 mins :bummer:

and than i payed at the counter and dive back into the real world :D

Moving ...

NaMaan — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:17:54 GMT

1st was the day to move to my new apartment. We gona be 4 fellows to live there. Its such a tiresome thing to do. First i booked UHaul online, than confirm it by calling them. Than i called my friend to help me move my stuff. He was kind enough to do that. Nice fellow. I found that turks are very mysterious people. Very much lost into their own world, but always ready to help you out and very sensitive people.

Anyways, it was a long day. Moving all stuff and fixing them up in new apartment. I was so freaken tired and sore. But finally now i m in new apartment. The next thing will be to get PG&E, Water and DSL. I hope inshaAllah that be done soon.

No matter how difficult time is, it finally overs. Thats the best thing about time :)

Baked Fish

NaMaan — Wed, 28 May 2008 07:59:43 GMT

Don't hve enough courage to post on main forum ... so posting it here .

Its Fish baked with Bell Pepper and potato :D

PS: Recipe provided by Princess Fiona :salute:

Plz lie to me for once ...

NaMaan — Mon, 19 May 2008 04:58:11 GMT

... that its over ...

Guitars Hurt

NaMaan — Sat, 03 May 2008 01:47:40 GMT

Close u'r eyes and fall back in time. Feel those loving memories that u ever had. Let u'r mind float like a petal in the gust of memories. Let this soul fly out of this statue. Let it be a messenger from the past. Just let it be ...

I like it ... but why ?

NaMaan — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:15:00 GMT

Now a days i like this gazal. Neither i drink, nor i love anyone in THIS way. I don't know why. I tried to figure out, but couldn't :(

App bhee enjoy karain