Does anyone really give a flying ducky how long a clothing company has been in business. It does not improve the quality of your clothes, the style of your clothes is whatever every other store is selling and you look like a pretentious asshole for printing 1996 on all your t-shirts. None of us care that you've been in business six months or since sixteen-fucking-ten. Kudos, if you have been business since 1610, it still does not mean I'm more likely to buy your clothes over the dude who starts in 1996.
What the hell is wrong with the people at Hollister? Have some pride in your work. You don't have to make the store so damn dark that we can't see what we bought until it's been paid for and brought out of the store where people stand just a few feet away from the exit to see what they bought. Is it because you don't think I'm willing to walk right back in and return it once I realize the rip along the left side of my pants makes me look homeless as opposed to cool?
If I buy a pair of jeans for a hundred bucks and then buy the exact same cut of pants from the exact same store at the exact same time in a different colour wash, would it not be safe to assume that it's the same price or at least in the same price range? Then how the hell did guess charge me a hundred bucks for one pair of jeans and then 200 for the second pair in the exact colour. Usually clothing stores offer a discount for the second pair, not the other way around. When I went to return said pants, I was informed that the two hundred dollar monstrocities are "green" jeans, which roughly translated means made out of old jeans. Now, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong but: 1-EEWWW 2-Shouldn't they be cheaper? 3-Since when are cotton, wool and polyster bad for the environment? 4-EEEWWWW.
Now to man this up a little. Why is every employee at Best Buy a friggin idiot? If you claim to work in the cameras department why would you try to convince me that a Canon SLR camera is not as good as a Canon point and shoot camera? Idiots. This is why you shop at places that are on commision. At least they make a point to have actual product knowledge.
zQ
p.s. quick and easy. like your MOM!
July 29, 2008
July 15, 2008
116th - Big Boy Pants
I had my Blond Moment of the Day pretty early today. I was shaking my Star Bucks Frappacino [Shaking it well, I might add], when I realized my swing was a little wild and geographically too close to my face. Right after this realization, I hit myself in the face with the bottle. I think there's going to be a bruise.
Technically, I first sold out when I bought the iPhone a few months ago. Now I've officially sold out by buying an iPod. I wanted like a 40gb one but those don't exist anymore so instead now I have 80GBs in which to store my MASSIVE digital music collection [which is now somewhere near fifteen entire giga-bytes]. In conclusion, you win Steve Jobs. You're a bad person. I would like some explanation to one thing though. I like the new non-shiny and non-gross front side, which isn't as prone to finger prints but why is it that after six generations of iPods, Apple still doesn't realize that nobody likes the damn chrome on that back. My iPod is less than three days old [most of that time was spent in it's box and sitting on my table since I didn't get a chance to really play with it] and the back of it looks like I sandpapered it. Only people like Judy could keep this thing looking new. For those of you who don't know Judy, she is among those people who leave the protective stickers on their electronics years after they've been outdated.
A few days later - It's the following week to be exact that I'm now continueing this. You'll be glad to know, I got a very minor bruise which is now gone. *glee*
NOT A SPOILER - Holy cRAP! Dark Knight was INSANE! I think everyone I know has seen it by now except for Ani [who sucks], Judy [who has no sense of urgency] and Shiv [who lives in one of the richest areas of the world but still aren't important enough to get good movies on time] and Anoop [same reason as Shiv]. Me, Momes and Amaan went to go see the midnight show. We showed up at around 9pm and were like 50th in line. Amaan wanted to come at like 11. Once we got seated and were waiting, I hear this, "So, I can't beleive that Red Bull isn't red!". It's also not made of Bulls but that seemed of little concern to you, did it?!?! I was pretty sure my ears were going to start bleeding.
Now for serious talk. If you don't care about the inner workings of my life, feel free to skip this paragraph. One: I'm getting the distinct feeling that I'm being ex-ed out by certain people. I don't really care all that much because it makes any potential exodus I may make much easier but I'm failing to see a reasoning for it, which is what concerned me. Am I being ex-ed out on a set of false assumptions or have I done something to offend that I am unaware of. I've never been subject of such a bitch-move before. Two: I haven't been sleeping well these past few weeks. I can't come up with any reasoning for this. My sleep habits had been getting gradually better. I was also informed that my "Weird Factor" as it's elegantly called by Nomi, could be directly related to my sleep patterns. Now this brings up a whole new line of questioning. If my sleep patterns change, will my personality change. Will I like the new me I'll become without much choice or do I chose to continue as I am in hopes of retaining who I am. What to do? And so on and so forth. Three. As many of you know, I've had a theory these past few months that has been harping at me for some time. I have a feeling we're going to find out that I'm not just imagining it in the next few months. Now, moving along.
Sunday morning, I had the distinct impression that someone had killed me during my brief sleep. I woke up to find that I couldn't feel most of my body and then went on to discover that my head was turned 100ish degrees. I didn't know my head could do that. It hurt. It still hurts.
It occurred to me this weekend, I never threw my Socks Party or my Challenge Day or did the Qlympics thing or use my Wonderland Season Pass even once [I haven't even gotten the ID made. Maybe I should just sell it off, no?]. I'm depressed now. I'm going to go get an everything bagel with garlic cream cheese and a Vanilla parfait.
Be good.
zQ
p.s. If you have any of my books/comics/movies/clothes/etc, I'd like them back please.
Technically, I first sold out when I bought the iPhone a few months ago. Now I've officially sold out by buying an iPod. I wanted like a 40gb one but those don't exist anymore so instead now I have 80GBs in which to store my MASSIVE digital music collection [which is now somewhere near fifteen entire giga-bytes]. In conclusion, you win Steve Jobs. You're a bad person. I would like some explanation to one thing though. I like the new non-shiny and non-gross front side, which isn't as prone to finger prints but why is it that after six generations of iPods, Apple still doesn't realize that nobody likes the damn chrome on that back. My iPod is less than three days old [most of that time was spent in it's box and sitting on my table since I didn't get a chance to really play with it] and the back of it looks like I sandpapered it. Only people like Judy could keep this thing looking new. For those of you who don't know Judy, she is among those people who leave the protective stickers on their electronics years after they've been outdated.
A few days later - It's the following week to be exact that I'm now continueing this. You'll be glad to know, I got a very minor bruise which is now gone. *glee*
NOT A SPOILER - Holy cRAP! Dark Knight was INSANE! I think everyone I know has seen it by now except for Ani [who sucks], Judy [who has no sense of urgency] and Shiv [who lives in one of the richest areas of the world but still aren't important enough to get good movies on time] and Anoop [same reason as Shiv]. Me, Momes and Amaan went to go see the midnight show. We showed up at around 9pm and were like 50th in line. Amaan wanted to come at like 11. Once we got seated and were waiting, I hear this, "So, I can't beleive that Red Bull isn't red!". It's also not made of Bulls but that seemed of little concern to you, did it?!?! I was pretty sure my ears were going to start bleeding.
Now for serious talk. If you don't care about the inner workings of my life, feel free to skip this paragraph. One: I'm getting the distinct feeling that I'm being ex-ed out by certain people. I don't really care all that much because it makes any potential exodus I may make much easier but I'm failing to see a reasoning for it, which is what concerned me. Am I being ex-ed out on a set of false assumptions or have I done something to offend that I am unaware of. I've never been subject of such a bitch-move before. Two: I haven't been sleeping well these past few weeks. I can't come up with any reasoning for this. My sleep habits had been getting gradually better. I was also informed that my "Weird Factor" as it's elegantly called by Nomi, could be directly related to my sleep patterns. Now this brings up a whole new line of questioning. If my sleep patterns change, will my personality change. Will I like the new me I'll become without much choice or do I chose to continue as I am in hopes of retaining who I am. What to do? And so on and so forth. Three. As many of you know, I've had a theory these past few months that has been harping at me for some time. I have a feeling we're going to find out that I'm not just imagining it in the next few months. Now, moving along.
Sunday morning, I had the distinct impression that someone had killed me during my brief sleep. I woke up to find that I couldn't feel most of my body and then went on to discover that my head was turned 100ish degrees. I didn't know my head could do that. It hurt. It still hurts.
It occurred to me this weekend, I never threw my Socks Party or my Challenge Day or did the Qlympics thing or use my Wonderland Season Pass even once [I haven't even gotten the ID made. Maybe I should just sell it off, no?]. I'm depressed now. I'm going to go get an everything bagel with garlic cream cheese and a Vanilla parfait.
Be good.
zQ
p.s. If you have any of my books/comics/movies/clothes/etc, I'd like them back please.
July 7, 2008
115th - The sleeping
I returned from a week in Tennessee. It was loads of fun. There are a ton of pictures. However, my camera went in my bag and pretty much stayed there for most of the trip minus three occasions, all of which were while driving. I thought I'd share some of those with you.
photo [below] - this is about three hours into our drive to Tennessee. Asmar [sleeping] drove the first part of the 12ish hour drive.
photo [below] - Junaid hit this position as we were backing out of the driveway. He didn't change position for hours.
photo [below] - a little while later.
photo [below] - eventually, the other two got tired too.
photo [below] - Revenge is sweet.
For some reason there are no photos of me sleeping or Haider sleeping or Momin sleeping. There's no good reason for this. Momin's got a good reason because he was awake for all of it, but I know I was asleep in an awkward position in the front seat. My neck keeps reminding me. ust nobody thought to take any photos of it. Teehee.
Had a couple pretty messed up dreams - the contents are unimportant but one of them ended in me running back to my car saying, "Ohshitohshitohshitohshitohshitohshit..."
In the past week, I've eaten so much junk, it's insane. I solemly swear that from this day on, for the next few weeks at least, not to eat at McDonalds. No part of my body is thrilled about that. But yea, so much junk. Ooo, also, there's a sub place named Charley's which was realy good. Pity, I only got to eat there once, but that was good eating - Hey, I just found more photos on my phone. Let's see if any are worth posting. . . there are some photos in there worth posting but now I'm feeling lazy. So, that'll happen some other time.
zQ
photo [below] - this is about three hours into our drive to Tennessee. Asmar [sleeping] drove the first part of the 12ish hour drive.
photo [below] - Junaid hit this position as we were backing out of the driveway. He didn't change position for hours.
photo [below] - a little while later.
photo [below] - eventually, the other two got tired too.
photo [below] - Revenge is sweet.
For some reason there are no photos of me sleeping or Haider sleeping or Momin sleeping. There's no good reason for this. Momin's got a good reason because he was awake for all of it, but I know I was asleep in an awkward position in the front seat. My neck keeps reminding me. ust nobody thought to take any photos of it. Teehee.
Had a couple pretty messed up dreams - the contents are unimportant but one of them ended in me running back to my car saying, "Ohshitohshitohshitohshitohshitohshit..."
In the past week, I've eaten so much junk, it's insane. I solemly swear that from this day on, for the next few weeks at least, not to eat at McDonalds. No part of my body is thrilled about that. But yea, so much junk. Ooo, also, there's a sub place named Charley's which was realy good. Pity, I only got to eat there once, but that was good eating - Hey, I just found more photos on my phone. Let's see if any are worth posting. . . there are some photos in there worth posting but now I'm feeling lazy. So, that'll happen some other time.
zQ
June 17, 2008
114th - Kampf um das Bett [Updated]
Before we go on, I'd like to take this moment to thank Sarah and Nadia for violating my bed by leaving their nasty and used nail polish stuff on my bed. Cotton pads with smudged nail polish and what have you. Also, for spilling tea on my bed sheets and doing a horrible job of cleaning it up. You're lucky I don't actually sleep there. Otherwise, I'd be pissed.
Every couple of months, The Battle for the Bed takes place and it is due to this event that every couple of months, I end up sleeping on my floor in my room for about a week. This is that week. Here's a photo of where I've been sleeping lately. It's actually kind of comfortable.
photo [above] - Yup, this is where I've been sleeping. Fun story, see the green Quran on the second shelf. Yea, A copy of Lust by Simon Blackburn was sitting on top of it. Not sure how appropriate that was. It's all been taken care of since then.
Fun News - Some of you may remember me bitching up a storm about how I couldn't for the love of all things cheesy, figure out how to get music on to my iPhone. Friggin thing drove me up the wall. Wanted to smash it on the floor, put it in a blender, shoot it into outer space, set it free down stream in a canoe, perform the opposite of an exorcism on it, gift it to the Dali Llama to see how quickly he loses his temper, and other such horrific things that would result me coughing up another ridiculous amount of money for a new phone. So yes, I finally got it to work. Not the way intended by those assholes at Apple sufficiently so that I can get what I want on there. Good start to the day
[Updated] I'm adding this paragraph in because Shiv msged and commented on how useless and uninteresting this blog was. So here's the reasons why this blog is useless. Nothing interesting has been happening here. Momin, Asmar, Sacha, Haider and Shivs are all missing. Amaan is gay and MIA as are his peoples. Con's on a clubbing/drinking/drugs sort of binge lately and that's not my scene. Judy's cool. Ani's parents are being a little weird and I don't know where Andrew has fucked off to lately. So yea, this blog is as interesting as my life has been. I go to work, I eat, I go home, I paint, I watch a movie, I sleep on my floor. That pretty much sums it up. Oh, and I've been sit for like three weeks now. In conclusion: Eat me, Shiv.
Night shifts at work begin tomorrow. Looking forward to that. Throws your entire week into disarray. You still wake up at all the normal times but because of the time you've been falling asleep, you kind of zombie around the house until you go back to work and then repeat. That'll be going on for the next month or so. Look forward to me being weirder than ever before.
By the way, I need an easel. Really badly. I've been working on a painting for Bigby's room [I'll post pictures once it's done. It's so adorable you could vomit] and it's on the floor and it keeps picking up things like dust and hairs and it's really hard to hover over areas while working areas in the middle. Hadia, HINT HINT.
Ending off with this photo I stumbled upon while rummaging my computer. Contest. Guess what Caboose is looking at. I guessed her parents doing something non-parental like.
Be good.
zQ
Every couple of months, The Battle for the Bed takes place and it is due to this event that every couple of months, I end up sleeping on my floor in my room for about a week. This is that week. Here's a photo of where I've been sleeping lately. It's actually kind of comfortable.
photo [above] - Yup, this is where I've been sleeping. Fun story, see the green Quran on the second shelf. Yea, A copy of Lust by Simon Blackburn was sitting on top of it. Not sure how appropriate that was. It's all been taken care of since then.Fun News - Some of you may remember me bitching up a storm about how I couldn't for the love of all things cheesy, figure out how to get music on to my iPhone. Friggin thing drove me up the wall. Wanted to smash it on the floor, put it in a blender, shoot it into outer space, set it free down stream in a canoe, perform the opposite of an exorcism on it, gift it to the Dali Llama to see how quickly he loses his temper, and other such horrific things that would result me coughing up another ridiculous amount of money for a new phone. So yes, I finally got it to work. Not the way intended by those assholes at Apple sufficiently so that I can get what I want on there. Good start to the day
[Updated] I'm adding this paragraph in because Shiv msged and commented on how useless and uninteresting this blog was. So here's the reasons why this blog is useless. Nothing interesting has been happening here. Momin, Asmar, Sacha, Haider and Shivs are all missing. Amaan is gay and MIA as are his peoples. Con's on a clubbing/drinking/drugs sort of binge lately and that's not my scene. Judy's cool. Ani's parents are being a little weird and I don't know where Andrew has fucked off to lately. So yea, this blog is as interesting as my life has been. I go to work, I eat, I go home, I paint, I watch a movie, I sleep on my floor. That pretty much sums it up. Oh, and I've been sit for like three weeks now. In conclusion: Eat me, Shiv.
Night shifts at work begin tomorrow. Looking forward to that. Throws your entire week into disarray. You still wake up at all the normal times but because of the time you've been falling asleep, you kind of zombie around the house until you go back to work and then repeat. That'll be going on for the next month or so. Look forward to me being weirder than ever before.
By the way, I need an easel. Really badly. I've been working on a painting for Bigby's room [I'll post pictures once it's done. It's so adorable you could vomit] and it's on the floor and it keeps picking up things like dust and hairs and it's really hard to hover over areas while working areas in the middle. Hadia, HINT HINT.
Ending off with this photo I stumbled upon while rummaging my computer. Contest. Guess what Caboose is looking at. I guessed her parents doing something non-parental like.
Be good.
zQ
June 9, 2008
113th - Like all other musicals, but Evil!
Let's get the cuteness out of the way. Here's sleeping Bigs. This photo by baby standards is old. He looks different now. Today's photos are brought to you by my iPhone. Photographing random shit since 2008.
Evil Dead, the musical - Went to go see it on Friday night with Judy and her friends from I don't know where. Show was wickedly hilarious. Her friends were kind of awkward but nice enough. The show was wicked, definitely worth seeing [especially since tickets aren't all that expensive] and it's not conventional theater/musical fare. It's more chill and relaxed. I wanna go check it out again and get splatter seats next time.
photo [above] - That's for you two for leaving me here all alone and lonesome.
Wow. Spoke about feelingd and everything. Upon review, this blog sucked. I think I'm losing my touch. Ending off with more cuteness.
zQ
Evil Dead, the musical - Went to go see it on Friday night with Judy and her friends from I don't know where. Show was wickedly hilarious. Her friends were kind of awkward but nice enough. The show was wicked, definitely worth seeing [especially since tickets aren't all that expensive] and it's not conventional theater/musical fare. It's more chill and relaxed. I wanna go check it out again and get splatter seats next time.
I am currently enjoying my favorite afternoon at work snack. A vanilla parfait. Go ahead, I'll wait a few seconds while Momin chuckles to himself. Jerk...
Photo [above] - Look at the size of the can of Red Bull in my hand!
Photo [above] - Look at the size of the can of Red Bull in my hand!Lately, I've discovered Mountain Amp - The Red One. Which is pretty awesome. It tastes like liquefied candy with the most bitter aftertaste ever. The only downside is, if you do happen to throw up about twenty minutes after drinking it, everything is redish. The people who see you vomit will be more concerned than needed.
photo [above] - this is one of them accidental photos. My cell phone camera switched on for some reason and my cheek against the touchscreen took this photo. If you're not noticing it, you suck.
Faraz is married - Well he was married last week but now he's done done. So congratulations to Faraz and new wife, Shazia. None of who's relations and well-wishers read this blog. I was invited to Walima [The last day] and I must say, I was so impressed with the way it was organized and planned out. I'm guessing more of the kudos goes to Planet Arubia. Side note - Faraz would be Planet Arubia's older brother.
photo [above] - This butt belongs to...
photo [above] - This guy. True story.
photo [above] - This butt belongs to...
photo [above] - This guy. True story.You would think with Mome and Shiv, both out of the country I'd be elated and free to gallivant in my own crapulence and do and buy whatever I want. Tis not the case. I miss them! As much as I can have entire conversations with them without them needing to be present, it's just better when they actually are. No, this is not some sort of snub to my mates here. You're all good too. So, Shiv and Mome...
photo [above] - That's for you two for leaving me here all alone and lonesome.Wow. Spoke about feelingd and everything. Upon review, this blog sucked. I think I'm losing my touch. Ending off with more cuteness.
photo [above] - I lied. Ending off with the gayest couple known to man.
Be good or you know, fail epically.I was at Kelsey's with Caboose [That chick giving Shiv and Mome the finger] and I see these guys to the right of me. They were like this for like 20 minutes.
zQ
June 2, 2008
112th - Not to Blog
In what scientists are calling, "Pretty Gay", it's been discovered that blogging makes me sad. DISCLAIMER. We're about to talk about feelings. Yes, my blog is light hearted and entertaining and on a whole different level of awesome than lesser blogs. However, behind the scenes, there are a ton of blogs I write that I don't post because they tend to get more serious or personal or you know, about various bodily functions and fluids. This is why I sometimes don't blog for weeks at a time because all the stuff I deleted out of the post is now stuck in my head.
I've recently been accused of speaking with a tone of 'know-it-all'-ism. Apparently, I have a tone when I speak. Is there any truth to this? This saddens me. I'd like to think I give off a vague humble and shy sort of projection...what? No takers?
Two [Three now] days ago, I had a Total Perspective Moment. It was kind of strange and made me feel at the brink of anxiety attack and then i threw up [food poisoning, not anxiety] and then it was over and I felt awesome. It wasn't so much the world telling me I'm awesome it put things into, you guess it, total perspective. It was a good think. I feel motivated and my mind feels clearer than it has in months and I'm feeling happier than I have in a whiles now. I don't think that's the point of perspective moments.
This is a rather picture-less and uneventful blog - I know. I apologize. This was just to let you know, I'm alive and relatively well. More well than I have been in a while now. I shall be blogging properly later this week, possibly after watching the Evil Dead musical this Friday.
Bye, for now.
zQ
I've recently been accused of speaking with a tone of 'know-it-all'-ism. Apparently, I have a tone when I speak. Is there any truth to this? This saddens me. I'd like to think I give off a vague humble and shy sort of projection...what? No takers?
Two [Three now] days ago, I had a Total Perspective Moment. It was kind of strange and made me feel at the brink of anxiety attack and then i threw up [food poisoning, not anxiety] and then it was over and I felt awesome. It wasn't so much the world telling me I'm awesome it put things into, you guess it, total perspective. It was a good think. I feel motivated and my mind feels clearer than it has in months and I'm feeling happier than I have in a whiles now. I don't think that's the point of perspective moments.
This is a rather picture-less and uneventful blog - I know. I apologize. This was just to let you know, I'm alive and relatively well. More well than I have been in a while now. I shall be blogging properly later this week, possibly after watching the Evil Dead musical this Friday.
Bye, for now.
zQ
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