Only recently have I started watching Sex and the City. To be honest, I wasn’t at all interested in watching it bss a lot of girls had recommended it for me and I am the type of person who would never say “no” to anything until they’ve tried it… and that goes for food, music and clothes too.
So, I started watching and I’m in season three right now. I’ve just finished watching episode 10. It’s the one where Samantha invites the girls to her brand new downtown apartment and screams out the window “You see us Manhattan, we have it all!” which brings me and Carrie Bradshaw to the question: “Is Samantha right, can we have it all?”
At all points in my life, as a kid, as a teenager, and as an adult, there was and is always this girl that seem to “have it all.” I bet you’ve met her too. She’s thin and very pretty. She’s rich and successful in her studies and career. She has the nicest family. She has a lot of great friends. She spends her summers tanning in Côte d'Azur and her winters skiing in the Alps. She also regularly donates and supports great charity organizations. She is loved by everyone and has a beautiful aura that shines around her whenever she enters a room. She always seems calm all of the time, even when things go terribly wrong.
She appears to be living her dream…. and everybody else’s! Does she really "have it all"?
No, she doesn’t. She only has what means “all” to HER. She probably has her own problems and insecurities BUT she has clearly decided what she wants in her life and from that decision she has gained focus, energy and POWER. She has learned to sort through the difficulties of her hectic lifestyle. She has taken all possible opportunities around her and has not let herself become distracted by anything else. She has created HER best life. And she is still in the process of creating it.
What defines your “all” in life? What is most important to YOU? Losing weight? Owning piles of designer shoes? Having great friends? Getting good grades? Owning a successful business? All of the above? Once you have the answers cleared out… you can start building it, your ideal life… step by step and brick by brick… just like her.
Now, excuse me ladies.. i'll go watch another episode of my latest addiction.. ~ Lamoona
“Yma, is this where Micky Mouse lives?” were the first words that came out of my mouth when I stepped out of our blue car in Disneyland-Florida’s parking lot in 1997. Like a lot of people, I don’t really remember the details of my life as an 8-year-old back then. Bs I remember that Disney Land felt like a place out of this world to me! It felt like…I don’t know.. heaven?
I remember asking my mom if she could take me to see Cindrella’s room in the big castle... that was a major Fail btw! Cuz obviously it wasn’t a real castle Lamoona -__- !! I also remember racing my brother and cousins to the actors in costumes thinking they were the real Disney characters....and I remember standing in line for hours for a ride and then not getting in because I wasn’t tall enough! Pfffft!!
Why all the sudden reminiscing you ask? Well because a few days ago, my friend Lulu hosted a “girl’s game night” at her house. But it was no ordinary game night of scrabble, monopoly or pictionary. No no no nooo, it was a Disney themed game night.
One of girls had this DVD board game called scene It? – Disney edition. In this game, players had to answer trivia questions about Disney films. The questions were read from trivia cards, viewed on a monitor from an included DVD or based on clips from movies, TV shows and music videos.
It was by far, the most fun board game I have ever played in my life. I felt like I was an 8 year old again!! I didn’t realize how much I missed watching those Disney classics until that night… I also didn’t realize how my personality was affected by Disney’s fairy tales until that night.. and it wasn’t only me, all of my friends were having all sorts of flashbacks of their childhood Disney memories...
Anyway, i just read an awesome post on Nofe's blog and it got me inspired and excited about sharing my favorite and most memorable Disney movie songs and scenes =D so, are you ready? Here we go:
Movie: Mulan
Favorite song: I'll make a man out of you
Favorite Scene: Mulan’s hair cut. I mean c’mon, didn’t you want to cut your hair after watching Mulan cut her's with a sword? Ah that scene felt so empowering madri laish!
Movie: The Little Mermaid
Favorite Songs: Under the sea and kiss the girl
Favorite scene: Arial’s fork. Yes, the famous fork scene when Arial was sitting around a fancy dinner table at the castle and then she startedcombing her hair with the fork! I think every little girl tried this at home! LOL I absolutely love that scene!
Movie: Cinderella
Favorite songs: Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo and The Work Song
Favorite Scene: making Cinderella’s first pink dress. Omg!! After me and my cousins watched how the mice and birds sewed Cindrella’s dress for the ball, we went and bought one of those cheap sewing boxes because we wanted to make our own ball dresses -_-
Movie: Beauty and the Beast
Favorite songs: Be Our Guest, Something There and Tale as Old as Time
Favorite Scene: The beast's transformation. Beauty and the beast was by far my favorite Dinsey classic! I love every single scene in the movie.. One of my favorite scenes was the transformation when the beast turned into a handsome prince <3>
Movie: Alladin
Favorite songs: Prince Ali and A Whole New World
Favorite scene: Aladdin’s attempt at flirting with Jasmine on the balcony loool. Remember the scene when Alladin was trying sooo hard to win Jasmine over and then she told him to jump off the balcony? LOOL It’s the scene right before the legendary magic carpet song, “A whole new world.” LOVE THAT SCENE AND THAT SONG!!
Okaaaaaaay feeeee so maaaaaany scenes I love w it would be impossible to list them all here! Btw, ana mt2athra al7een after watching all the clips on youtube :’( I started downloading all the movies.. i wanna watch them all over again <3>
Disney has been a great source of beautiful, inspiring, touching, and cheering life lessons. The amazing filmmakers have taken us to magical places, from Neverland to Wonderland, Atlantica to Narnia. They made it possible for an 8-year-old living in Qatar to meet legends from American history, Greek mythology and the Arabian Nights...
I love you Dinsey world…. See you in a few months inshallah!
~Lamoona
Comic of the day:
I really enjoyed writing this post! I think I’ll be tagging my posts from now on because I’ll be posting about a lot of topics =D This one will be tagged with “fun stuff”
Spring 2010 was the toughest… and by far, the longest. Not everything went according to plan. Life gave me a lot of Lemons when I asked it for strawberries.
There were lots of times when I squinted back my tears…. Lots of times when my stomach squeezed so tightly that I couldn’t sleep at night. There were moments when my loved ones got hurt and I couldn’t do anything to help them… there were moments when a close friend stabbed me in the back… there were moments when someone dear to me slowly drifted away…I had lots of sleepless nights, stressful nights, cruel headaches and blank computer screens…
But spring 2010 semester is over…. and my junior year at college is over.
I look at myself now and I see that I am stronger than I realized… I got bigger, I got better, and I got all the scars to prove it… I learnt that anybody (including me) can do anything when they put their mind and energy into it…
So, life… thanks for the Lemons!
Reader, if Lamoona got through this effy year, you can do it too.
True, life did not give me big Lemons. You might have bigger Lemons than mine. Bs no matter how big or small they are, there is always a way to get through. Always remember to never lose faith and say Al7amdellah.
Here's an inspiring story I watched on Oprah the other day. If this little girl could do it, you can do it too. When life gave her Lemons, she made not only Lemonade, but a Lemonade stand, and a campaign to cure cancer one cup at a time.
Tata until my next post,
Lamoona ~
Song of the day: (thanks for sharing, A)
PS: Do you think I’m taking the whole Lemons theme too far? LOOOL... Anyway, forget about Lemons for now.... It'a SUMMMMMER *dances* and i have a lot to talk about so "stay tuned" or whatever you bloggers say :p
Hey, incase you’re wondering what this is, this is another diary blog.. yes ladies and gentlemen its just another one of those blogs where people go on and on and on AND ON about their lives.. I thought I should give it a try =D I mean why not right? It’s not like anybody is gonna read this!!
Sorry to disappoint, but I’m no fashionista. I don’t have the inside scoop on the latest celebrity gossip. I’m no hot shot photographer. I’m no awesome professional writer. And I’m defiantly no… uh well you get the point!
Anyway, my posts are going to be reflections of what I’m feeling and perhaps maybe possibly my humble opinion on life and … other stuff… nothing too serious though!
Well… since this is my first post and everything, let me tell you a little about myself… I get bored very easily. I’m always looking for something new to make me busy. Like most girls my age, I am “confused.” Most girls my age are still trying to find out who they are and what they “want” from life. But I think that I am a different kind of “confused.” I know exactly who I am and I know exactly what I want from life. The problem is that I want A LOT of things. I want to do soo many things that I don’t know where to start and what to work on first… but i think I’m getting there.. I’ll let you know how that goes =D
~ Lamoona
NOTE: the iPod on the side is soo cool right? believe it or not, its one of the reasons why I wanted to start blogging :p lame I know bs I love it! I love sharing the music I love with people.
ANOTHER NOTE: Speaking of music, I think that the perfect metaphor for my life is a mixed music playlist. The playlist you’re listing to right now is actually the story of my life.. one minute I’m feeling sooo “hard” like rihanna and the next I’m feeling soooooo “lost” like coldplay…
AND ONE LAST NOTE: if you think that my ideas are all over the place in this post, you ain’t seen nothing yet!!! =p
