Jump to It! HOP HOP HOP TO IT!

Well well well... it looks like Middle Eastern Chick let school and Dubai get the best of her and failed to update her blog for one whole year! How about we let this one slide and call it quits? After all, she has been working on a brand new project that will keep you all busy reading for a while! Middle Eastern Chick is currently compiling her best stories for all you budding readers to enjoy. These stories should be out in a couple of months, so let's keep our fingers crossed and hope that she can maintain a schedule for once in her life.

Other than her shameful disregard for her readers, Middle Eastern Chick has spent most of her time people watching this summer. No, no hot European boys this year (this must be punishment for not writing...). She did, however, manage to learn a thing or two about people in her own city of residence. For example, when one approaches the age of 18 (like MEChick), one sees no age boundaries to who one finds attractive. Does that happen to you too? No...? Okay... just MEChick then...

Well, what she means to say is that her hormones have been raging like crazy and she's gone as far as to look at twenty-four year olds as potential "candidates", if you know what she means? *wink wink* Actually, no you don't know what she means. People jump to conclusions much too quickly around here (that's the second thing she learned, but she'll come to that later) so let's make it clear that she was hinting at dating and nothing more.

About people jumping to conclusions... she CANNOT have been the only person to notice this! People out here really do jump to conclusions over the smallest issues! The best popular example that she can think of is the famous Facbook group named so aptly:

"Bro she liked your picture. Wallah she wants you!"

This jumping to conclusions business is definitely not restricted to the love and lust department.

"She/He hasn't been home for an hour! Where is my baby?! WALLAH SHE/HE MUST BE DYING ON THE ROAD! OR GETTING RAPED!" All teenagers and young adults can relate to this perfectly.

"She has the same purse as I do. WALLAH SHE'S TRYING TO RUIN ME!"

"He goes to the same cafe as I go to. WALLAH HE WANTS ME TO GET HIM A JOB!"

"They both didn't turn up for today's dinner-out? WALLAH THEY'RE DOING THE HANKY PANKY!"

"She didn't sit next to her husband? WALLAH THEY MUST BE HAVING A FIGHT!"

"He looked at me when I passed him? WALLAH HE WANTS ME!"

Alright, Middle Eastern Chick will admit that the last one was definitely her. Damn all this jumping-to-conclusions business! It's harshin' her mellow.

Are Summer Blues Really Blue?

That Middle Eastern Chick just finished her last day in a school where she spent around nine years of her school life. Needless to say, it has been a very emotional day. However, now that summer is OFFICIALLY here, all she can think of saying is "Now what...?" Such an anti-climax, innit?! To think about all those days during school when we'd moan about the woes of education and the cocktails of torturous pain we could put it's benefactors through... What a waste!

Middle Eastern Chick has realised that this cycle of painful longing, under-the-breath-cursing, relief, satisfaction and then, finally, clueless oblivion is a rather repetitive one. It happens every summer! Yet, we always fail to anticipate the next step! We're always so busy complaining about school, chores, work and projects that we manipulate the idea of summer in our minds to make it seem like the most FANTASTIC thing ever! We start planning the various things we want to do during summer, listing them endlessly, naively deluding ourselves into thinking that we WILL do them this summer even if we failed to do them in previous summers! What a hoot! HA! Just the thought of the mental list that Middle Eastern Chick made during the school year is a laugh!

"Write a book"... Was she being serious or was that the excess of information on pancreatic juices talking?
"Write a personal thesis on anthropology"... Nope, that was definitely the self-pity talking. ME Chick remembers the night she put this on her list. It was a dark, dark night, full of chocolate, cookies, self-hate and Scarlett Johansson.
"Star in a local movie and become a local celebrity"... What the...?
"Tutor kids for extra cash"... That didn't work out last summer for ME Chick... what makes her think it will work out THIS summer. A sudden burst of fairy dust? Ohh Tiiinker Beellll! She's waaaiiitinnng! YOOOHOOO!

The list is endless... and rather embarrassing.

So, Middle Eastern Chick is going to proof-read her whack-job list and edit it a tad bit. She'll probably chop off two-thirds and later complain of being bored during the summer. We humans can be such strange beings, can't we?

For all those who actually DO manage to check off every single little box on their summer check-list... Middle Eastern Chick calls your bluff. She challenges you. Meanwhile, she'll be off to enjoy her blissful oblivion and one-third of her summer check-list.