Nothing exciting’s been happening lately… I went to Saint Louis, Missouri the during Spring break to visit family. ‘Twas fun. That’s about it really.
I didn’t really do anything exciting during the trip. Other than seeing my family (aunt, cousins, etc) who I haven’t seen in like a year. And the airplane ride.
I just love going to the airport and being in the airplane. It’s so much fun. I just hate it when the airplane rises though. I get all dizzy. >.< I always have to hold someone's hand while it rises. XD The rest of the ride is nice though. Looking out the window, listening to music and seeing the sky and the clouds and the world underneath you. It's nice. ^^

There’s so much shit I’ve got to do too. I have to finish up the new layout, I have to add a bunch of writing/songs I wrote and stuff to the writing page, and make this website more better. But I’m barely able to find the time to do it because I have so much stuff going on in my life at the moment. And my mom doesn’t consider “web design” a hobby. Whenever I’m on my laptop working on this website, she thinks I’m playing games and on Facebook and stuff. -.-

I went to Maryland on Sunday for a party/get-together thing with a bunch of my closest friends. We’ve known each other since we were very little so we’re really close. From like age eight. The whole time we were just talking and hysterically laughing over stupid shit that other people most likely won’t find funny. No, we weren’t high. XD It’s just that… when I’m with these people, everything is 100 billion times funnier and I can just laugh over anything. It’s a nice stress reliever. Laughing… And not just like “haha” but I mean like “HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHFSDFHDSFDFDSFSDF!!!!!!!!!!1111!1!11!!11″. Laughing hysterically. Up to the point where you’re not making any noise at all, shaking really hard, and not being able to breath. Like you can feel a six pack coming.

It was nice. Hanging out with close friends and just acting crazy and laughing over random things is a good therapy and distraction. It’s the best feeling in the whole world. Makes life worthwhile despite all the shit that happens in it. I just love laughing.

BRB!

I turned 18 on le seventh of December! ^^ LEGAL!!!!!!!! But barely anything’s gonna change cause I still live my parents under their roof so I gotta wait til college. >.<

I’m on winter break right now. Mom went to Texas for the whole week to visit our family so I’m just here with my sister and dad cause we didn’t have enough money for another ticket. Sucks. I really, really wish I went. I always have such a blast being there with my family. That’s the one thing I look forward to each year.

It’s that moment when I’m hanging out with them, laughing till my stomach hurts, not caring about anything at all. I don’t care about school, parents, money, life, broken hearts, anything. What I’m saying is that, It makes me forget about life and distracts me from everything even when I’m at my weakest points. It’s just the people around me. And right now I feel like I really need them. It’s what keeps me stable.

Anywho, my mum’s bringing me back a bunch of stuff from there. Clothes, jewelry, money, etc. Thank God I have so many relatives living there! ^^ The very best way to get things for free is to smile sweetly at one of your relatives and quietly remind them that it’s almost Christmas, your birthday just passed, and there’s this AWESOME thing out there that you’d love to have and well, you know… *nudge nudge wink wink* XDDDD

Not much has been going on lately except for school and work. Working at Hot Topic is pretty fun actually. It’s not hard at all. All I have to do is greet customers and stuff. It’s kinda awkward cause sometimes I forget and tell the same customer something twice… Derp. XD

ALGEBRA 2/TRIG IS DRIVING ME INSANE!!!!! In fact, I went to my counselor and asked to drop it and switch to Functions. Turns out I don’t need Algebra 2/Trig to graduate. ^^ Seriously though, my math teacher sucks. SHE CAN’T TEACH FOR SHIT. She just gives us a bunch of worksheets and tells us to do everything ourselves. She even told our class (her exact words) “I’m too tired to teach. You guys should just teach yourselves.”

And yeah… That’s it. XD.

I’m glad the election’s over. I’ve been getting so sick of all those election ads and politics in general. It’s everywhere! On Youtube, on TV, everywhere else on the internet, Government class, etc etc. It’s always like, Mitt Romney, Obama, Mitt Romney, Obama, Mitt Romney, Obama! Gosh it’s driving me crazy! >.< I can't watch a Youtube video without having to go through an entire political ad. Plus my dad and sister are obsessed with politics so it's always playing on the TV. -.-

Hurricane Sandy did its damage here in VA. Well, not really. It wasn’t that bad, to be honest. Guess we were just lucky that it didn’t hit us. And I got Monday and Tuesday off from school. ^_^ But oh my goodness freakin gracious, the wind was crazy. 70 miles per hour. We bought all this extra food and shit the night before and my mum actually made us sleep downstairs in the living room.

Bought Green Day’s new album, Dos. It was good I guess. Just a bit slow. My favorite songs, I’ll have to say are Lazy Bones and Ashley. Nightlife was just plain weird. >.<

Three days late from posting my next blog entry, but whatever. Screw it. I think it’s okay to be at least 3-5 days late without any notice before people start getting mad at you for not updating. That should be the limit.

Last night on YouTube, I was watching theme songs of old TV shows I used to watch as a kid and God the nostalgia was like killing me. Hamtaro, Pokemon, American Dragon: Jake Long, Trollz, Yu-Gi-Oh, Kim Possible, Mew Mew Power, Dragon Tales, 90s Nickelodeon stuff, Sagwa (I doubt anyone remembers this. It was a show about this Chinese cat that came on PBS). I know it’s weird how I still remember all these shows but I have a really freakishly vast memory. My earliest memory is from age 3.

I never cared about anything during my childhood. I was always happy no matter what. I don’t know if bad things happened and if they did, I just ignored them/didn’t let them affect me. And I have much more responsibility now than I did before, you know. I remember getting up every single day, with no responsibilities, no hardships in life, not having to worry about anything, etc. Getting up at 6 AM every Saturday mornings to watch cartoons. Fun times every single day. It was heaven. *Sigh* I miss being a kid.

This whole entire weekend has been pretty sucky for me. Pretty much all of it was spent getting yelled at by my mum who’s been on my case lately. It started while we were in line at this new Asian/international food market that opened up near my house. My mum started shouting at me. She got angry and yelled at me about being “weird”, anti-social, and immature. Psh, typical mom thing.. -_-

And today she threw a random party/gathering/get-together thingamabobber at my house. She invited a bunch of family friends and it was pretty fun I guess. I got to see my friends. In the beginning before the guests arrived, she spent the whole time yelling at me and my sister about cleaning the house, washing the dishes, etc because the party was stressing her out too much. xD

Question: What TV shows did you guys watch as a child?

NOTE: Some pages are messed up looking right now such as the “Fun Stuff” page and the “Drawings” page and I don’t have time right now to fix the because of all my homework and crap but I’ll get to it soon during the weekend. Thanks for your patience. ;D

Why is it that I always pretty much only listen to old music? And I don’t just mean classics but also embarrassing stuff that nobody listens to anymore such as 90s boybands, Teddy Geiger, Jesse McCartney, Destiny’s Child, etc. It’s quiet embarrassing, actually. I pretty much don’t even listen to new music anymore. Whenever somebody’s comes up to me and says “Hey Malhar, do you know the song *insert new popular song that comes on the radio all the time here* !?!?”, I always end up feeling like a total idiot because I’m like “Uh, no. o_o”. I’m strange.

Anyway, today in AP Psychology the teacher took our class on a field trip. Guess where? To the girls bathroom. LOL Even the guys had to go inside. They felt so awkward. xD She took us because she wanted to demonstrate one of her analogies about how the flushing of multiple toilets in the bathroom stalls are like neurons. It was rather funny though. I mean, imagine a class of thirty kids, girls AND boys all crammed up inside the girls bathroom being taught about neurons. XDDD

Let me just take a few seconds to vent out my school/teacher complaints about my two worst classes ever. Chemistry and math. Predictable, really..because knowing me, I absolutely suck at anything involving math. Although I am rather extra pissed this year about it. Being bad at a subject is one thing, but.having a bad teacher teaching it is a whole other thing. And that’s exactly my problem right now. My chemistry teacher is way too (for the lack of a better word) “teacher-y”. You know what I mean? He makes us do too much work, is too much of a “rule nazi”, too much homework, too much papers, etc etc.. -_- I mean, if you’re gonna teach an extremely difficult/boring class, at least have a fun personality and try to make the class fun!

The only class which I can say that I enjoy is creative writing and art. :D Creative writing is pretty fun in general and my teacher is also one of those really cool and chill types.

Salutations everybody! Due to school coming soon, I’ve been shopping like crazy. In fact, I have officially bought the most coolest hoodie in the whole entire world. No joke. :D And get this: 50 dollar value for just 20 dollars including the shipping and handling from Ebay! It’s coming from Hong Kong though so the only downside is that it’ll take 11-23 business days to arrive. -_- Which explains why I’m so impatient right now. It’s a Pikachu hoodie with a Pikachu hood. It can be used as a halloween costume too.

I ordered two Young & Reckless t shirts online and a Nintendo Entertainment System Game Controller messenger bag from Amazon too. I also purchased a pair of real military black combat boots for just 30 dollars on Ebay! You know, the kind that army people wear. They were originally much more expensive but since I bought them from Ebay they were much cheaper.

This is why I love online shopping way more than regular shopping or going to the mall. You can find cooler stuff for a much cheaper price. The only downside is the shipping and handeling cost and not being able to try stuff on. I actually pretty much hate going to the mall. Too many people, the music is too loud, and I feel way too pressured to buy things there. On the internet I can just take my time. There are no people to bother me, no pressure, no loud music to distract me, etc.

I also had my senior pictures on Wednesday, August 8^th. At first when they handed me my school ID, my picture sucked. Maybe cause it was so small I guess. And plus the guy never told me when to smile and just took the picture so I’m just doing this weird half smile/half frown thing. -_-; The other pictures were okay. Not gorgeous but not drop dead ugly either.

Anyway, it’s also Ramadan and since I’m Muslim I’ve been fasting (not eating and drinking for nearly the whole day) praying/being religious (trying at least xD) every single day for this whole entire month so far. The good thing is that I get a lot of money during this time of the year from my parents/aunts/uncles/other adult relatives. This is the reason why I have finally acquired enough money to buy a new iPod. ^_^ I have been iPod-less for months and months and months which is pretty sad because I’m one of those people who can’t live without music. >.< There are also a lot of parties during this time so I've been going to at least one party each weekend. On Saturday tomorrow I have to go to another party. And on Sunday there are 2 parties during the same time so I can only attend one. :( One of them is at my friend's house and one of them is at my house. My mom's making me only stay at my house long enough to say hi to all the guests then I'm leave to go to my friend's party.

Well, that’s all that has happened so far since my last entry. My school’s about to start soon on the 27^th so I’ll have way more things to blog about in my next entry. So until then. See ya!

I am glad to say that something actually fun happened in my life! :D July has been great so far except with a few shit happenings here and there (including what happened 2 hours ago) but it’s all good. My two aunts and grandma came to visit from Texas and we’ve been out and about since. In fact, we even took a trip to New Jersey and New York City. Good times. :3

We took the bus from the DC Union Station which was a very long four hour ride. Thankfully they had free wifi so my laptop kept me busy. Very laggy connection, though. The bus drove through Delaware and Maryland including West Baltimore which was probably the most ghettoest place I have ever seen. Seriously, broken down houses, projects, and liquor stores EVERYWHERE! It was interesting though. Seeing what the real ghetto’s like. Also, an old lady ended up falling out of her seat when the bus braked really hard. The driver had to pull over to go help her.

My trip to Morganville, New Jersey was amazing. We have relatives there so we just stayed at their house. First night there we had frozen yogurt at Rita’s. The next day we went to the Boardwalk in Atlantic City. It was amazing. There was a beach right in front of us, gazillion shops, the mall (The Pier Shops of Caesar) and several casinos. In the mall there was this epic water fountain that had a “Water Show” every hour. Basically the water fountain would dance with different colored lights and music. It was insanely epic. Watch for yourself! :D At the end of the day we went to gift shops and ate funnel cake. Yummy! :D I ended up buying a hoodie that says “Cool story bro. Tell it again.” XD

Day two we went to New York City and do I really need to explain more? It was awesome! More crowded than usual though because it was the Fourth of July. People, people everywhere! We went to the 10 floored Macy’s which was so monstrous in size and jam-packed that it was practically impossible to shop there. As well as the humungous Toys ‘R Us which had a Ferris wheel and the M&M store. And in Times Square, we went to my most favorite Forever21 store ever. It had 3 levels, is open 24 hours, and believe it or not, it was CLEAN! Organized, no mess whatsoever. I bought myself some blue green skinny jeans. During the evening we had chicken and rice at a little kiosk outside and frozen yogurt at Pink Berry’s.

The next day we left and took the bus back to the DC Union Station. We arrived home by metro. So yeah that’s the major thing that happened since my last entry. Aside from the fact that I got a third ear piercing on my earlobes right above my second one.

A new painting which I made in art class sometime in September/October 2011 has been added to the Paintings section. Now this is probably one of the best paintings I’ve ever made. In fact, it even got hung in the school hallway. It stayed there for pretty much the whole school year. Check it out! :D

School ended on Friday last week so I’m officially on Summer vacation which means I have much more time on my hands to update this site and change the layout. So I’ll be getting to that sometime soon. This is so nice, you know. No school, not having to wake up early, having the whole house to myself, staying up ’til 6 AM, not having to care about how I look, etc. And I don’t have to worry about putting on make up every morning. xD

I’ve been drawing, playing my guitar, and playing video games throughout whole night. Fun stuff. I’m saving up my money to buy a Nintendo3DS which I believe is about 160 dollars. But first I have to buy a new iPod. My old one which was an 80GB silver iPod classic (about 4-5 years old) has unfortunately, reached the end of its life. I took it to the Apple store to see what the problem is and to see if they can fix it but they were hardly any help at all and the stupid guy just told me to upgrade. I think he was just trying to make money.. -_- So now I have to buy a new iPod classic. I’m not sure if they still sell 80GB one because all I’ve been seeing on the markets are 160GB classics which cost about 230 dollars. Grrr, so many things to buy. >.<

I have 30 dollars right now and a box full of 50 dollars worth of change that I’m gonna take to the bank to convert it to paper money. I’m not sure what I should buy with it. Either a new keyboard for the piano lessons my mum’s gonna put me in this summer, or a new iPod. My mum said that I should buy a new keyboard with it instead. What do you guys think?

I also broke my phone this week. I was washing the dishes, and of course being iPod-less, I decided to use my phone to listen to music while I get the job done. My phone got wet and suffered from a bit of water damage so now my phone doesn’t work. -_- Thankfully we still have a one year warranty so we won’t have to pay for a new one.

Also I’ve been watching a shitload of movies. First, The Runaways which was a biographical movie about the rock band The Runaways starring Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning. I also watched Sid and Nancy which was a biographical film about Sid Vicious, the former bassist of Sex Pistols and his relationship with his girlfriend Nancy Spungen. And last night I watched SLC Punk!. An independent comedy/drama film which was hands down, one of the best movies I have ever seen. EVER. It was sad, too. Very touching. I suggest watching it if you haven’t seen it yet.

My dad bought a new laptop yesterday so I can finally start blogging again! :D It’s a Dell Inspiron. My old one was also a Dell Inspiron but it was around seven years old and you know how seven years is actually like 7 billion years for a laptop. I seriously hate the fact that I’m the type of person who’s always behind on technology. Everyone has an iTouch or the latest iPod generation. I still have my four year old iPod Classic which was famous in 2008. I still play with my GameBoy while everyone else is playing with their Nintendo 3DS or whatever latest generation is out. I’ve also had the same keyboard (the instrument, not computer keyboard) for literally 15 YEARS. It finally died in 2010. Going out and repeatedly spending your money on the latest generation of something every 2 months because the one you have is suddenly out of style seems so stressful and hectic to me, it’s not even funny.

I’m also grounded. My last report card sort of sucked so my parents decided to punish me. Hard. I can’t hang out with my friends and I can’t go on the computer unless if I’m doing homework.

I saw Avengers yesterday. It wasn’t THAT good. I mean, don’t get me wrong or anything, it was good. Great, actually. Just not THAT great as people were making it out to be. Like it was the next best thing since sliced bread. I personally thought that the best part was after the credits, all the way at the complete end where they were all eating tacos or something at a restaurant. xD That is why I never leave until the credits are over.

Also, right now for the past hour I’ve been visiting sites that I used to play on when I was little. I’m pretty sad because most of these sites are gone! Does anybody remember Millsberry.com? Or Postopia.com? Or Pokemoncrater.com? They shut down! Makes me sad. T_T Thankfully Neopets.com is still here. If they DARE shut down Neopets.com, I am seriously going to kill someone. And Club Penguin officially sucks now. Officially. Remember how you had to become a member to buy clothes and decorate your igloo? Now you pay to become a member to do almost EVERYTHING. It sucks.

Guess what else? I’m currently in the process of updating this site so expect a ton of changes coming up. Perhaps even a new layout sometime next week. I’m also working on a tutorial section too so keep checking back for that. I also update the Websites page and added a ton of awesome websites to the list.

Sup guys. Not much has happened since my last entry. I’m on spring break right now for a week so I haven’t been going to school. So far it started out great. Going to sleep at 5:00 AM and waking up anywhere between 1 to 3 in the afternoon. It’s nice. I have the whole living room area to myself while the rest of my family’s asleep. There’s no noise, and only peace and solitude. I usually watch movies or draw while chatting with my friends. Unfortunately my dad found out that I was staying up so late and freaked out about it so since yesterday he’s making me go to sleep at 12. Although I stay up in my room til around 3 AM. Still though, it sucks how he won’t let me stay up. He thinks it’s bad for my health and what not. But seriously, I’m 17 years old. I can handle staying up that late. I don’t even get sleepy that often. Plus it’s better to do it now since I’m young cause when I’m older I’ll have work and won’t get that many vacations.

My iPod’s been having major problems lately. I have an 80 GB silver iPod Classic and they seem to have a lot of issues. Every time I try syncing it, it won’t let me and a message pops up saying “the disk could not be read from or written to”. I’ve tried everything but it still continues to do this so today I’m taking it to the Apple Store to see what the problem is and how I can fix it. Or perhaps they can fix it. I’m hoping that it’s not too much of a big problem and doesn’t require much effort/money to fix. I’m completely broke and jobless right now and my family’s not rich so buying a new iPod is completely out of the question.

Sex Pistols = Heaven. ‘Nuff said. I cannot stop listening to them at all. Wish they could have made more than one album, though. That would’ve been legit.

There are so many things in life that I want right now. A new amplifier for my guitar, a new keyboard (instrument, not the computer keyboard), a vinyl record player, and a Macbook Pro. And of course there’s much more stuff that would be too much to explain here. Just check out my wishlist if you’re curious.

I’m trying so hard just to get a job but you know how hard it is. Nobody wants to hire a 17 year old with no real work experience. I swear I applied at like 10,000 different places, called them the next day, and nobody ever calls back. Man, I just want some money. :|

The fact that I’m turning 18 soon has been stuck in my mind nowadays. I’m excited but at the same time kind of sad because 18 means that I’ll be an official adult. Good because I can do whatever the hell I want without asking my parents, and bad because I’ll miss being a kid. I mean, I just have it so much more easier, y’know. Also, soon after I turn 18 I’m going to get a new piercing. I can’t choose between an industrial or a belly button piercing. I don’t think I should get both because I feel it might be too much for me and my parents will be even more mad.

I got a haircut recently too but all I wanted was a trim. Instead, the lady chopped off nearly two inches and gave me “The Rachel”. I guess It looks good but I’m just so sick of this hairstyle. I’ve had it in eigth grade, ninth grade, and half of tenth grade. Besides.. It looked really good on Jennifer Aniston but it makes me look like a freakin scene kid cause of the excess layers and the fact that I have blonde/golden chunks in my hair. I started growing it out last year and got it to be pretty long then what do you know? She chops it all off. Hairstylists, man. They never listen. I hope it grows back fast.

Man, It feels so awesome to be back into this whole webdesign/blogging world. It’s been more than a year. :D But this year it’s even better ’cause I have my own domain! I’ve wanted one ever since I was 12.

Anyway, I shall now give you all a recap of what happen during this past year. One being, that I got my nose pierced back in April. My mum let me get one since I got good grades and well, that’s the only piercing other than my ears that I’m allowed to get. now I just have to beg her to let me get my bellybutton pierced or an industrial piercing on my ear cartilage. xD Hah, anyways.. Believe it or not, it didn’t hurt. But I think it’s because the lady pierced it with a piercing gun so it was quick and fast. Technically they say to get it done with a needle instead of a gun because with a gun, it can get infected more easily and your cartilage can shatter or something but a single needle would hurt way more than a gun so I’m glad I got it done with a gun instead. Plus nothing bad has happened to it so far and it’s been at least 11 months since I’ve gotten it pierced, so yeah..

I also bleached random chunks of my hair blonde/golden back in August because I felt like I needed a change and I just love coloring my hair, you know.. It’s fun. It actually turned out really good for amateur bleaching! :D I got so many compliments on my hair ever since! I went to a party the next day and my hair looked so cool.. But trust me, when they say that bleaching, let alone amateur bleaching, damages your hair, they’re not lying. The condition of my hair has rapidly gotten even worse than it was before since it was already a bit damaged.. It sucks. The hairstylist said that there’s nothing much I can do except for deep conditioning the shit out of it, and waiting for God knows how long for it to grow out and get it trimmed regularly.

I went to Saint Louis, Missouri this summer too to visit my aunt and cousins. ‘Twas fun I guess.. But Missouri is a bit boring so there wasn’t much to do there. (no offense to anybody who lives there) My aunt owns a Subway there and actually let me work there for a day. It was so much fun, but really hard. I had a hard time telling the difference between the different breads. They don’t put labels on them. -_- Also, the oven and cash register was really complicated to use. I think I made about 10 customers mad. xD

I also got a job recently. I work for a home-owned business called Simply Nut Free. They sell chocolates that are nut free so people with allergies (like me :P) can eat them. It’s awesome. I also get to eat chocolate there. xD

This winter break was probably the best time of the year, hands down. I went to San Antonio, Texas like I do almost every year ’cause the whole entire mum’s side of my family lives there. Aunts, uncles, cousins, second cousins, etc. I wish I could live there too. It’s so boring here in Virginia cause it’s just us, one of my aunts from my dad’s side, and my great uncle who hates me. Anyways, I had so much fun. Jeez, I can’t even describe. I just love hanging out with my family. My uncle got married recently so we had two parties for him there too and a lot of my other family members from other parts of the USA came here too so it was like a huge reunion. I was there for 2 and a half weeks and man, I really wish I didn’t have to come back home.