Hal-Con Fail

today was the big day! The day I have been waiting a year for. Actually I've been day dreaming about cosplaying and taking pictures with other anime characters ever since I can remember.
I really love anime and at this convention, I thought I THOUGHT we will be let in!

Let me tell you what happened:

I dressed up as Lan Fan from FMA brotherhood to the convention, and took the bus with J, my karate classmate to reach the convention.

I sacrificed this day, and said I'll study in the others all for loss.

Revi and her guy friend were already waiting there for an hour, and even then we waited for three or four HOURS! Just standing in a line like little retards. When we reached the door, the man upfront said we have reached the limited capacity, sorry folks you won't go in today!

I'm like FUCK YOU! (in my head)

Then, we had to go outside in the cold to get the refunds. The 30$ we paid to get in right?!

WRONG!

They actually ran out of cash! so, they started replacing today's day passes for tomorrow's day passes. Otherwise we had to go there tomorrow to get the refunds. AUGH!
I took the pass, but it's so unfair that they wasted so much of our time. My friends have work, and I have to study. It's just aweful!

On the bright side:

I took a picture with Edward Elric! I probably look like shit with my shitty horse looking lan fan ninja mask.

I took a picture with Spike, from Buffy the Vampire Killer.

I think that was it! ( As promised, I'll show pics in exchange for a follower <^<)

We also just walked to the mall and ate together. We a group picture the four of us. I really like them. They're funny, fun, honest, straight forward. You can tell they're good people. I like those types of people.

Crappy time, but ...good company

I just saw a post on facebook that made me smile, it was the same post I posted above but through Revi's words:

"HAL-CON FAIL.

So, went to Hal-con today... first, I picked up my bracelet from my cousin and walked around a little bit (so many people and so much going on!), second, I successfully found my friends and thirdly, I decided to wait with them in line to get their prepaid bracelets so that they could go in... 

4 HOURS LATER... JUST as we get to the door to get their bracelets, Hal-con RUNS OUT of bracelets, which means no one else can get in. So, being disgusted with Hal-con, I left with my friends to get refunded (with money or a free bracelet for Sunday's events), out in the Parade Square. 

JUST as we get to the refund table, they RUN OUT of money AND bracelets. Thankfully though, some guy ran over with more bracelets. So my friends got bracelets for tomorrow. I would have too, but I work tomorrow.

So, even though I never got to attend Hal-con, I made a couple new friends, and I got to spend 4 hours with three amazing people"

That. is exactly what happened today!

(If you want pictures of the event + AWESOME cosplays, then follow me and I shall post them)

Peace,
M.D.

Hot Levi Cosplay

I think...I just died a little inside. Even though I'm not a fan of levi. This guy looks so cool even though he has makeup on. I guess that's why anime guys look hot. They look like they have makeup on. So pretty... *,*

I'm sorry for those that are unable to see the photo ;_;

Meeting Yumi

So, today I went to the writing center, but they couldn't help me. I need to figure out my report on my own! I'm also sick, boohoo!
I also saw a guy from my karate lessons, I texted him yesterday about going to a comic/anime/game con and he said he didn't receive my messages. It sucks, because I saw it, and he really didn't. we need to buy the tickets, and who knows. I might cosplay as Lan Fan from FMA brotherhood.

If I get a follower, I'll post a pic!

Anyways, I also met up with "Yumi" for the first time, and she was as sweet in person as she was via email. Her English is horrible though, she isn't very bad at it to be honest, but she has a LOT of learning to do! and she has to learn it quick too because she's going back to Japan once this semester is over!
You see, she's an exchange student! Isn't that amazing? I told her why she chose Canada, she told me her other options were England, or USA. She told me that in England, they have a difficult accent, and USA doesn't seem safe. I laughed and agreed. I did tell her that it also depends on the neighborhoods that she would be in and that she's lucky that this city in Canada is so small and friendly!
Nothing shocked me about her more than when she told me she doesn't watch western movies. In Kuwait, everyone knew about Iron man, and Rush Hour and not just those block busters, but trivial movies too! So, I found it strange.
I told her she needs to read more, and watch more English shows and movies. Simply hearing the language is helpful!
Yumi wants to be a flight attendant because it's cool! Isn't that lovely, how simple she is. She wanted to learn English for that goal, and she traveled across the globe on a whim! I think it's remarkable how she seems to simplify her life. She wants something, and she does it.
I tend to over think everything, I'm a hesitant person.
Inshallah She will be a flight attendant, and I will be a doctor ^_^

Peace,
M.D.

A japanese friend

I FINAKLY received feedback from the conversation volunteer program that I signed up for more than a week ago.
this program just teams you up with an international student whos english is weak. I'm supposed to meet up with her qn hour a week to just talk and hopefully that will help her learn and use english more often.
The girl that I will be conversing with is a japanese 19 year old girl. Her name is like a stereotypical japanese name and to keep her privacy I'll call her Yumi instead.
She emailed me today to set a day and time and she was very sweet. She went me a picture of herself and when I sent mine whe told me I looked "kind". I don't recall ever being called kind as a first impression. I love it!
She said she was a little worried at first but she feel better after we emqiled eachother. I told her I was nervous too and to feel free to ask questions.
We will meet up this friday. I hope ill know what to say.

Shes very nice I like her so far. This is as close qs my little otaku fantasy goes since im sure ill never go to japan or meet naruto, but I did meet a cosplay of eren!

The life of a student is an interesting one,
M.D.

Halloween

OH MY GOD!
My favorite western holiday is Halloween!
Last year I found waldo in my chemistry class.
this year I saw even cooler things!

Mario at the bus station!
Professors in rabbit suits!
Cookie monster cashiers!
 EREN JAEGER!!!!

 YES, YOU READ RIGHT!
a girl in my university cosplayed as Eren Jaegner and I almost had a stroke when I saw her. I couldn't just watch, I walked to her and was like!!! "EREN!"
She turned around and was like "Yes, someone knows who I am!" then hugged me!
one of the best moments ever!
I took a picture with her <3
hehehe, she looked epic and I'm gonna die! I really wanna cosplay someday, somehow, with the hijab. I will probably go as a ninja but damn! I LOVE halloween!

The guy in my evolution lab is ultra super mega cute! okay there are two really cute guys in my group of 5, but he's just so good looking, and hilarious! I actually still don't know his name, nor am I too sure of what he looks like because I didn't get to stare at him enough. The little conversations we have I can count on one hand. We worked out a phylogeny tree together, we mated as fish, he asked me about the lectures when he went absent today(which I totally didn't get at first which made me look like a total turd.I told him I have a terrible memory and he ended up asking me how I remember to even go to class in which I answered, " I don't know!"), and he cracked jokes about today's lab. He tells the joke with a smug smile, and I'm the only one in class bursting out with laughter. I think I distracted the prof too. It was awful.

He just looked at me and asked, "Is this a trick question?" 

He told me to look at question 18, and I almost died in class trying to contain my laughter

Seriously, what type of questions are these!? I looked like such a dork!



At 6:15 pm, we had a little social gathering in karate. we joined the beginners classes with the advanced then watched Gravity. The sensei brought a full bag of junk food, we just sat and munched on the yummy fatty stuff! At the cinema, Revi gave me a birthday card, it's sweet that she remembered. Aside from my family, she's the only one that actually gave me anything.

Gravity is a movie, starring Sandra Bullocks and George Clooney, that is about an astronaut that gets stuck in space basically. the only thing I liked about this movie is the comparison to the astronaut as an unborn fetus in the womb of the spaceship and that at the end it felt like she was being born again.

It wasn't the best of movies, it isn't my type of thing, but everyone else liked it.

Happy Halloween,
M.D.

What am I throwing myself into?

This year:
Out of 897 applicants to the medical school, only 112 were accepted.
Out of 397 maritime applicants, only 64 were accepted.
I have a 15% chance of getting into that school, if I meet the minimum requirements.
minimum GPA is 3.3 our of 4, but the average gpa of those accepted was 3.8
That's an A+ average. I never ever got an A + average, in anything in my life.
for MCAT scores the minimum is 24 points, and the average is 8 this year.
Never mind the volunteering, working, and membership leading. Never mind the essay and the interview. I really don't know if I have it in me, to compete with these people.
I don't know if I have it in me to even ...15% chance... if I applied for three years, that still won't be 50/50.
This is mission impossible isn't it. I don't even know why i'm doing this anymore. I just feel like I have to. I don't know why, but I just don't see myself as anything other than a doctor.

What do you see me as?
M.D.

samsung tab 3

This is my first post using the tab! I can't believe I have one.
today, as you already know, is my birthday. It started out yesterday at midnight, but I, ve already discussed this is the previous post.
I got a little dressed up today. I wore my blazer, heeled boots and the owl necklace my sis got me (which btw I tore this afternoon!!!) The owl got ripped from the golden chain. Wore itonce and I already damaged it, no wonder my sis won't let me take my tab out before I buy a cover for it.
Speaking of which, my sis and I went to try out the thai restaurant Thai Ivory Cuisine. Boy, was it fancy! And the service, the service was amazing. It was onky one waitress, but she was always genuinely smiling, she was nice, she knows when you want her just by looking her in the eye. She wasn't good with english, but she did well.
I first walked in and waited for my sister. When my sister arrived, she had a rainbow rose in her hand for me and I was just like.

 "awww". Noone ever gave me flowers before♡

I took the pad thai combo and it tasted good, but I wouldn't order it again. Not that great, maybe curry for next time. My sister left for her class and I ordered dessert to go. I paid and left and as I walked away the waitress shouts for me. She's like "your icecream!"
Yeah, I totally forgot to take my food. I walked back in laughing nervously and she laughed and told me that I can't leave it here because I already paid for it!
She was sweet.
I have some work to do today, but so far, it's been a good day alhamdulellah.
Im still not used to the tab, it's odd because I have a smart phone and laptop. The tab will come to use in the university for when I read manga and fool around or when I travel.
oh! Speaking of travel, have I mentioned that im going to kuwait in christmas? I'm super excited to escape this horribly cold weather.
peace,
M.D.

19 years old!

AAAAH! it's my birthday today!

I just turned 19 and, oh my Lord, right before I was going to sleep I felt this box under my blanket. When I looked at it, it turned out to be covered in a pink wrapper. Only then, did it dawn onto me that it was my sister's gift for me!

She (and the family) got me the samsung tab 3 !!! can you believe it ?! It's white and purty!
Then the sweet card that came along with it!

The cover said: "Here's something to make your birthday exciting!"
and when I open it :

I'm seriously tempted to wear that sticker on my back pocket tomorrow!

Niche

I'm not sure what to write here any longer. I asked a blogger that has about a hundred followers or so on how she managed to rake them in. She answered that first of all, she doesn't know much about blogging, which, is humble to say, but a punch in the gut. Second of all, she suggested I develop my own "niche".
After searching what niche is; yes, I'm ignorant, it turned out to be that it's just a major personality, an identity, or like the comfort zone for a person. I do and don't have it! (Ironically we took niche in ecology today, but it has a different definition there!)
You see, I'm the moving disaster; I'm unique and original...just like everyone else.

I do feel comfortable writing my opinions on some mangas. I am also aware that I am doing a horrible job at critiquing them. I'm not proving sufficient information on characters, nor plot really. I just simply state how it made me feel and why I like it.

I don't enjoy writing about the events that occur during the day, or such things. I do feel like I should write them, for myself though. I do like looking back at the strange things I've done, or laugh at some funny things, maybe how stupid I was? How much I grew? Memories, no matter how small, that I don't ever wanna forget.
I know I'm doing a horrible job at this, but I don't know if I'll ever want to direct my whole blog about just one thing!

On other news, there was a little meeting today in university. A representative of the medical school of my province came over to our university to answer some questions. Three important questions she answered for me was, 1) adding the faculty of art to my faculty of science is not really impressive, so don't bother. 2) the MCAT does change in 2015, but that doesn't mean I can't take the 2014 one and apply with it. 3) a sport or hobby can be added to my application to improve it as long as I can prove it.
The last one made me so happy! I thought I was just wasting my time with karate, but I guess not! I can totally include that and I have several senseis to witness my involvement. I honestly joined karate in university just to spite my bitchy principal from high school. The woman made it seem like I'm a slut for wanting to join a sport that has a man for a coach. She actually told me "you wanna hop around in front of men?" and, even my sensei took offense in her rejection, even though he wasn't there to hear it. He knew why and he got upset for me too. He's a married man in his thirties, and he's a father too. It's really insulting to accuse a man of even thinking that he may look at a girl inappropriately. It's even worse to accuse a high school girl of it, specially since I never ever had that thought in mind what so ever!
Just to prove that I'm more motivated by rejection than praise.

A Call from Ro

Augh, I still have tons of things to do but I'm at least done with my discussion!

My cousin Ro called my older sister today. Now, she never ever met Ro in her life so she got confused by the sudden call and gave me the phone to talk to him. I've met him twice or thrice before, but he never really called me or even chatted with me or anything like that. Last time I saw him, we were both sleeping over at Aunt H's house in Oman and my sister and I scribbled on his face with makeup while he was asleep. He grew an allergic reaction to it. Anyways, I think it was strange that he called ...but nice.
Ro asked me about university and such, it turns out his dad wants him to make up his mind about his future by the end of this year. Did I mention he was only in 8th grade? Odd isn't it. I think it's a lot of unnecessary pressure consider I'm in second year of university and still am unsure of what I'm going to do with myself. I told him to see what he wants to work  in before deciding on a major to pursue. Once he finds what he wants its easier to look at what he needs to complete it. I also told him to just focus on his studies for now.
I think he only called for that reason, but he told me he wanted to just "catch up" with us. His voice changed too, it's deep now.

On other news, I have an instagram now (about time, right?).I plan on accepting anyone there, almost like twitter I suppose. I plan on hooking twitter here too, but I'm not entirely sure when, if ever, that will happen. I also updated my goodreads page. I suppose you can find me in almost every single site if you just search for "moving disaster"!

Take care!
M.D.