I hate packing...

12 more hours and we will be on our way to the land of enchantment. Where the heck did that come from anyway? Apparently they just made it up. *gosh* what losers...

Deferred

Yesterday CAIR-AZ sponsored a Red Cross Blood Drive at ICC. ALhumdulilah it went pretty well. There was a steady flow of donors, although a few were deferred for differnt reasons, including myself. Apparently my hematocrit level was too low to donate. That means i don't have enough red blood cells. Oh well at least I tried. (Unlike some people who are too scared of needles...no names... but starts with a B and ends with a K.)

Later that night I went out to dinner with BK, HH, SH, F, A, and M. We went to Cafe Boa on Mill. I never knew tempe had cute restaurants like that. It reminded me of the time HS, AF and I went to that restaurant in Newport, RI. Our waitress kinda sucked big time. But she made it up when she took a couple pictures for us at the end. The food was great. According to HH they have THE BEST Italian food ever. They also have Live Jazz music which HH was a little too excited about.

After dinner, I finally got to ZA's grad party which I was supposed to go to originally. Got there right after they cut the cake. Said hi to a few people and left. ZA looked gorgeous mashaAllah.

Today I went to VS's house for dinner. I decided to wear my falestini thoub. SN wasn't gonna come, but i convinced him and told him to put on his thoub also. Then I made him wear a kuffiya and took some pics.

$25,000 Muslim Wedding

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Scene of the Accident

As we were working on finishing up the activities for this weekend, HN decided to test out the 'potato sack'. All was well until he came crashing down INTO the wall. (Literally!)

Caution! Graphic Photos Below!

MF looks on in awe seconds after the crash .

The scene of the accident.

Officer WA securing the scene.

**Photos courtesy of RA and her new camera**

MABROOK!

Off we go...

Just got home a little while ago from the MAS Youth Center. We were finishing up last minute stuff for the camp. We leave tomorrow at 9am inshaAllah. Its gonna be lots of fun insahAllah! We will miss everyone that couldn't make it.

Now I just gotta go figure out what to pack :( Hopefully i'll make it to bed before I have to wake up!

Hope everyone else has a great weekend!

Salaaaaaaaamzah!

Innocently Dumb

After BK and I finished at CAIR, we stopped by the bank before going to dinner. As we were leaving the bank....

Innocently dumb white guy: Heeeeeey... Where are you guys from?

BK and RN: (look at each other in confusion)

BK: (Abruptly) Shes from Tempe and i'm from Pakistan.

Innocently dumb white guy: (looking at RN) Are you Pakistanian also?

RN: No.

Innocently dumb white guy: (waving his hand around his head) I was just wondering since you are wearing those things on your head.

African Muslim Guy who is standing behind the white guy: Its because they are Muslim.

BK: (not having heard the Muslim guy properly) Huh?

African Muslim Guy: Are you Muslim?

BK: Yes.

African Muslim Guy: You wear it because you are Muslim.

BK: Oh, yes.

White Guy: (in a stoned kinda voice) Oh so you wear it because you are muslims?

(BK does her Dawa thang)

We walk out.

I think we were both really out of it and the whole situation came to us as a surprise. But we couldn't stop laughing afterward.

Macho Men Vs Chaiya Chaiya

For those of you that missed Armaan and Urooj's Weekend of Wedding Festivities, you can catch a glimpse of some of the performances thanks to KK and You Tube.

Boy's Debka



Village People



Chaiyya Chaiyya



Enjoy!

Meebo

SaltySarah asked what Meebo was. Some of you may have seen the link on the side, and some maybe have even clicked on it to figure it out for themselves. But for those whom are too lazy or just really don't care, I tell you.

Meebo is an awesome web based messenger thingy. (ya very technical) Basically you can sign into Google Talk, AIM, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, and ICQ from this website without having to download a single messenger. Its great for work when your not allowed to download anything and its not already on the computers. If you register for a meebo account, it will log you into all the screen names for the differnt messengers at one time.

First of the Season

After work I was waiting to get picked up and was literally being blown away from the wind. I felt a few sprinkles and as soon as I got in the car it started pouring! I love AZ rain. Days like these are what makes the summer heat bearable. (i'm sure a lot of ppl will disagree with that :P) I was going to blog this when I got home, but the power was out. Not sure what time it came back on. I went out to dinner with Atifa, Azra, Rawa and Huda. Alhumduilah we had a good time. Now its late and I need to sleep since I didn't get to last night. Damn summer school!

Out Sick

I'm sick. I've had a headache since yesterday, my whole body is aching, I just found out I have a fever, my throat hurts, ,and I’m all stuffed up.

On top of that I have a bunch of homework due tonight for cursed summer school. Please make dua for me.

Crisis!

As Atifa was researching Kuwait's marriage scholarhip that I told her about, she came across this article, ِIs Celibacy becoming a curse to Arab society? by Yahya Al-ous.

"...the crucial question is: What is the percentage of men and women who have chosen, by their own preference, a celibate life over a married life, and what are their reasons for this? The answer to this question is elusive, as many young Arab men and women state that marriage is no longer the essential thing that it was for their mothers and fathers, and that they have chosen a single life for many reasons. This may be a reflection of the extent of the effect of Western societies upon those of our own without our youth being consciously aware of it."

I'm going to relate this to not just Arabs, but all Muslims, and especially those in the West. Muslims are already a minority in the west, but we are growing rapidly. I'm not sure about the US but, in Europe, the population is actually declining. This is due to less and less people getting married, and those that do get married have very few children if any at all. On the other hand, for Muslims it is very much reccomended to get married and have children. I think that one day Muslim will become the majority in the West if non-muslims continue to not have children. But unfortunately it is apparent from the article that today's youth are taking on a more western attitude that marriage is not nessesary. This indeed is a crisis.

We must all do what we can to end the crisis!