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Oh No!!!

nina@arab-designs.com (ARAB-DESIGNS.COM) — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:52:00 +0200

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Hey guys, I don’t have much time, so I’m gonna do this as fast as I can
As you already know, we are moving, so I don’t have any internet at the moment, which means I’ll be gone for a while!!
But no worries, the site will still be open, ofcourse
I am working on alot of updates though, so stay tuned!
The contests are still open, so join okay! But I don’t know when I will add the new enteries! When I get an internet connection somehow…

Okay, talk to you later guys, bye
PEACE!

PS: What’s up with these online surveys??? Everyone has one these days!!
Oh, I have just made an LiveJournal account, so if you guys know anything about it, please tell me… Cause it’s kinda Chinese to me:P

blend contest + updates

nina@arab-designs.com (ARAB-DESIGNS.COM) — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:55:00 +0200

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Okay, well I made a new layout! Yes it is another “Dark one” I actually like how it turned out… But I think I’ll do better next time
Can you guys please join my Blend contest, I opened it a few days ago… So why not join ey?

So guess what? My Dad got me a Nikon D80 which I’ve wanted ever since it came out So I’m taking pictures all the time… Most of them are meaningless, but I just love the camera! It looks so pro.
Even though it’s summer here, I feel so bored all the time… There is just nothing to do, you know?!
We went to the beach. We went shopping. We went to coffe shops. We even went to the movies. But nothing is exciting anymore…
Oh, and soon we’ll be moving back to Saudi Arabia, so my room is packed with boxes We are going to Riyadh first, because it’s my cousin’s wedding… Then we are going to Jeddah, where we’ll be living next year!

Okay, enough of all that… I made lots of updates:

30 PNG’s/ PSD’s: 4 of Alicia Keys, 1 of Ashton Kutcher, 7 of Elijah Wood, 5 of Gerrard Butler, 4 of Heath Ledger (RIP), 2 of Johnny Depp, 2 of Orlando Bloom, 4 of Zac Efron, and 1 of Miley Cyrus.

190 Button bases: I re-did the whole page!!!

78 Icon bases: 30 of Bow Wow and 48 of Jada Pinkett Smith.

That’s all for now, I really should go to sleep now, cause I feel so dizzy
PEACE!!
[EDIT]June 21: I’m very very busy at the moment, trying to pack all my ~~shit~~ in these huge boxes!
Honestly my room is full of ~~crap~~! You really should see how it looks
I have done lots and lots of new stuff yesturday, but I haven’t got the time to upload them to the website! So I’ll do that later But I did post the new enteries for both: the icon & the blend contests! They are all soo good! You guys are making it impossible for me to pick the winners!! [/EDIT]

new contest + colorization

nina@arab-designs.com (ARAB-DESIGNS.COM) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:10:30 +0200

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[EDIT2]June,13: I installed CCount, so now when you download something, it will tell you how many times it has been downloaded! But sadly it has to start from ZERO, so all the previous downloads were not listed. I also made a COLORIZATION, so you guys please check it out & tell me what you think okay? Click on the image to enlarge!

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[EDIT]June,11: I made 4 new PSP tutorials and 1 new Random tutorial (on how to make animations). All were requests from my fav. visitors. Hope they help you guys out [/EDIT]
Yeah, that’s right! The awards for the previous icon contest are now posted! And may I just say, you guys really really made it difficult for me, I mean all the enteries were amazing, and when I say “all”, I mean “ALL”.
But I had to choose the top 3, and so I did.

I also put a new contest, so make sure you guys join it, okay?
You can click (here) to join!

In other news; I was just fooling around with my stupid camera yesterday, and I took these photos of junk! So here are some of NINA’S JUNK!

My Nike’s fresh out the box!	Yeah I bought this wierd thing called “Fridge Poetry”, thought it was funny!
A little magazines ‘ell do!	Isn’t it CUTE? I bought it for MYSELF! haha
Okay, this little teddy my Mommy gave me. XX	This is where I’m sitting right now!
OMG, I love GoldFish, don’t you?	AMS caps!! Pretty Gangsta ainnit?

Ya remeber when I told you I bought it? Here’s the proof!

I actually finished watching Heroes season I, and I’m almost done with Season II, but I can’t find the last episode on LimeWire! Do you guys know where I can download it?

Okay, I guess I’m off for now! Don’t forget to join the contest ey?
PEACE AND HARMONY

updates are finally here!

nina@arab-designs.com (ARAB-DESIGNS.COM) — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:30:00 +0200

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Hey people! Yes, yes I know, it’s been ages. I know I promised you guys I would be back sooner, but I got caught up in some personal stuff!
But I’m back now, with loads of updates, and yeah, a new LAYOUT, you like?
I spend a long time trieng to get the container right, and I think I did, except, maybe it won’t work on FireFox, so yeah, you people should really start using IE!
So guess what? I Re-did the icon texture’s page!
Now I have a total of 12 icon texture packs.
Here’s a teaser:

(GIMME GIMME MORE!)
I also made 10 blend bases for my favorite visitors
2 of Rihanna, 1 of Alicia Keys, 1 of Jojo, 1 of Jennifer Lopez, 1 of Justin Timberlake, 1 of Chris Brown, 1 of Zac Efron, 1 of Tyra Banks, and 1 of Ashley Olsen.
BTW, I put a link to my updates, next to the comment’s link, in case you guys want to know what else I’ve added.
~~I put back my sidebar, but with the navigation alone! Tell me what you think okay?~~

In other news, our school gave us a farewell dinner last Wed., it was only for the seniors and their teachers. I will miss all my teachers actually! To come and think of it, this year was in fact one of the best years of my life.
And omg, I’m gonna reallllllllllllllly miss my friends, especially Noura, Mariam, Fatimah, Alanoud, Esra, Roya, and Maha…And all of the other gurlzzz!
I will try and post some pictures which will be like a summary for the whole year… That’s gonna be hard to do!
I know I always say I’m gonna post pictures, then I don’t! Well, hopefully I will actually post them this time!

Well, yesterday was a very normal week-end day! We went to watch two movies, back-to-back, just like I always do
I watched the movie “Narnia II“, it was nice, but I liked the first one better.
I also watched the movie “Baby Mama“, which was very FUNNY! I recommend you guys to get up your asses and go to watch it

I will be somehow busy the next couple of days, I’m currently working on my cousin’s website, I should give it to her on the 10^th, so yeah, I’ll be a bit busy this week.
Any-hoo, take care you guys, and do tell me what you think of the overall layout! I’m always open to suggestions
PEACE AND HARMONY
[EDIT] The icon contest has finished, but I have not yet posted the winners. So please be patient. Thanks. [/EDIT]

coming soon + animation!!

nina@arab-designs.com (ARAB-DESIGNS.COM) — Fri, 30 May 2008 02:59:20 +0200

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[EDIT] June, 1: I made my very first Animation today, thought I’d let you guys see it and tell me what you think, so here it is:

It’s form Chris Brown’s video: With You, I just love that song
Any-hoo, I will finish my exams TOMORROW!!! YAAY ME :D
I have Islamic which is pretty easy, so that’s why I thought I should blog! Let you know I’m still here!!!
Toodles [/EDIT]

Hey people! How’s everything. I know it has been ages, but I just need 4 more days, and I’m done with school work FOREVER. Starting tomorrow, I still have ~~Arabic~~, then ~~English~~, and finally ~~Islamic~~.
Btw, the icon contest will close on the 8^th of June, so make sure you send your entries before the 8^th. You can apply (here).
I updated the (INFO) section today, especially the Staff application page, you guys I really need staff members, please help me by applying (HERE).

Oh, yes COMING SOON…
Well I’ve been working on some new stuff for you guys, so I thought I’d let you know that I will put ALOT of icon textures soon, I’ve already finished some, I will add them later.
Also Tutorials, for those of you who requested them in my AskMe page, I will add all your tutorial requests very very soon.
Oh, and are you guys sick of this layout as much as I am? I’m really annoyed of it right now, I hate looking at it.
So yeah, I guess that means I will try and make a new layout… I’m thinking of making ONE layout thta would stay for a very long time, you know like a DEFAULT one. SO that means it will not include any celebrity pictures on it. I think I’ll go with VERY SIMPLE but Great all at the same time.
What do you guys think?? Let me know ok?
Well so far my exams were okay I guess, I screwed up alot though, but what can I say, I’m just too bored to study… I’m not in the mood at all
Okay, I guess I’ll be off now.
PEACE OUT :D

finally graduated!!

nina@arab-designs.com (ARAB-DESIGNS.COM) — Thu, 22 May 2008 22:51:35 +0200

[EDIT2]I added a PLUG BOARD so go on and plug your site (HERE) [/EDIT2]

[EDIT] The code for the AskMe form on my homepage is this: </p> <table> <tr> <form action="YOURSITE/askit/?page=" method="Post"> <td> <input type="text" name="question" size="25"/> <input type="submit" name="Ask" value="Ask me" /> </td> </form> </tr> </table> <p> [/EDIT]

Yeah that’s right, I am finally a grduate!!!!! YAAY me The ceremony was very lovely, the place was huge, the music was nice, and we had loads of fun!
Since they put us in Shortest-to-Talest order; I was the third to graduate from the girls sections!!! Very funny isn’t it?! At least now I know there are two people who are shorter than me

I still feel strange though, I don’t realy feel that I have graduated, it’s very wierd! I mean I feel I’m still not ready to say BYE BYE to school and all that
But I still can’t wait to get rid of school forever. Confusing? I know right?
And to think I was gonna cry in my own graduation day…. I DIDN’T, NOT A SINGLE TEAR!!! I guess my tears just don’t fall that easily, but I was pretty sad, and pretty happy all at the same time!
Unfortunately, we still have to worry about our FINALS Because the ARAB-VERSION fo graduation is to graduate and then do the final term tests!!!
How wierd is that??
And on top of everything, the school gave us a schedule from HELL, no honestly, I think they don’t want us to pass, beacause this schedule is just going to KILL US, here’s how it goes:

Sun: Biology

Mon: Trigonometry/ Statistics

Tue: Physics

Wed: Calculus

Thr: Economics

Sat: Arabic

Sun: English literature

Mon: Islamic education
WTF? right? I mean who in their right mind would make a schedule like this?? And we seniors already feel that we are no longer in school, so we are not going to work as hard as we use to in the first couple of terms, they should at least consider that!! Don’t you think??

O well, on to something more interesting “GIFTS. Ya well, my parents still didn’t get me anything, but my mom hinted that they might get me a ROLEX WATCH, here’s what she said: “Nina, if by any chance you bought a Rolex, what color would you like it to be? Gold or silver?” So yeah that kinda says it right?
But I think their still thinking about it cause I didn’t get anything yet!!
My grandma sent me some money though, I just love her! She’s the worlds cutest grandma ever. And my other grandma, well, I called her to tell her that I have graduated, and guess what she said? :”Oh, mabrook. Which subject did you study again?” and I was like:”No grandma, I graduated from High school, not college!” and then she said:”Oh your not Alaa?” Alaa is my cousin BTW. I said:”No I’m Nina!” then she just laughed and congratulated me alot! Aren’t my grandparents FUNNY? Yes they are! hehe :D

I watched the new Indiana Jones movie, and it was very good, but I kinda didn’t like the ending, I thought that it we be just a bit more interesting!
But I liked the movie, especially Cate Blanchet, she was amazing in it.
She’s always amazing if you ask me
Okay, well I didn’t do any updates except for adding the 7 new entries for my icon contest. You can click (here) to veiw them
To tell you the truth, I don’t think I will be updating anything until I finish my term tests, which will probably be on June the 2^nd or 3^rd, not sure yet!
But I promise you guys I will make a HUGE update by then!

Take care people <3
PEACE AND HARMONY :world

summer layout + updates

nina@arab-designs.com (ARAB-DESIGNS.COM) — Fri, 16 May 2008 07:50:48 +0200

[EDIT2]May 18: I opened my very first ICON CHALLENGE, click (here) to join now!!! :D [/EDIT2]

[EDIT]May 17: I added some more stuff:

223 ACTOR icon bases.

4 Jesse McCartney icon bases (under musicians).

1 Light Bubble texture (under downloads).

I also changed the link’s CSS, it wasn’t showing properly

Oh, and Jack was saying that its very strange having a SUMMER LAYOUT when it’s sprin, but from where I am, we don’t really have spring + it;s almost JUNE, and it’s very HOT at the moment!
So thats why I made a SUMMER layout, becasue it felt like it :D [/EDIT]

Hey People! :D How are you all doing? Fine I suppose
Okay, well as you have noticed, I made a new layout, the dotty font was inspired by Tori, so thank you babe!
I figured since summer is around the corner, I should make a summer layout, I know it is very simple, but I kinda like it :)

Well, I will be having a very stressfull week starting Sunday. You see we have our writing & social studies final term tests on Sunday, and then on Tuesday, guess what?? I will be having my GRADUATION DAY!! YAAAY ME!!
I honestly cannot believe I’m graduating, things are just going too fast for me right now!
After graduation, we will have our fial exams for about a week and a half, so that’s why I won’t be updating much, though I’ll try, I always do

I may have already told you guys, but I’ll say it again; we will be moving back to SAUDI this summer, on June 20^th to be accurate! And I talked to my parents about taking a TERM OFF before I actually go to college, and they said it was okay! So that means I will be having ALOT OF TIME TO MYSELF AND TO MY WEBSITE!
YAAAAY ME :D <3

Okay, on to the updates:

1 Light icon texture.

11 Quote icons.

4 Brand new Quotes. (under graphics)

1 Blend base of Miley Cyrus.

I also made loads of ACTORS icon bases but my stupid FTP won’t upload them, so I’ll try again tomorrow.

PEACE AND HARMONY :world

WTF is wrong with **?

nina@arab-designs.com (ARAB-DESIGNS.COM) — Sat, 10 May 2008 08:56:42 +0200

[EDIT] May 11: Okay, you guys, I just re-read my blog! and I striked out all the POLITICAL stuff, so I take it back. It’s just that I was so annoyed, you know?! I just hate WARS! And I have always been a PIECE person, and to see stuff like this in the news just “grinds my gears”.
So I will say this ONE MORE TIME: I do not wish to offened anybody in any kind of way, I have nothing against people’s beleifs, and I apolagise for any inconvenience I may have caused!
I also have nothing against HIZBOLLAH and their people, so sorry about what I wrote earlier!
I have DELETED many parts that might have been offending to my people including the TITLE. So I hope none of my sayings have been taken personally, and once again I’m sorry if they have offended you guys :D

Take care! [/EDIT].

*****WARNING: THE FOLLOWING BLOG MAY CONTAIN SOME BAD LANGUAGE, BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN WRITTEN IN ANGER! PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL THOUGHTS SAID ON THIS BLOG ARE MY OWN, THEY DO NOT REPRESENT MY RELEGION, MY CULTURE, NOR MY PEOPLE! I DO NOT MEAN TO OFFEND ANYONE, I JUST WANT TO SPEAK MY MIND! IF YOU CAN’T HANDLE THAT SCROLL DOWN TO THE UPDATE’S SECTION***** Ya I’m sooo freakin’ pissed right now, you guys can’t imagine! I just really really HATE this ** who calls himself a true **. And now because of him, Lebanon is THIS close into having yet another CIVIL WAR.Thank you so much ***, you have made everyone’s life soo much easier!!!Ughh, and the worst part is that my grandmother is stuck there, because they have shut down the airport, and she can’t get out, no one can!They also blew the FUTURE TV media corporation!

Islam is supposed to be the most peacefull relegion ever! Our prophet has never killed a human being for no reason. And even when he went to war, he always told his people NOT TO HARM THE ELDERS, THE WOMEN AND THE CHILDREN.
I know this was a very disturbing blog, but I was just watching the news, and I got cranky
So I’m sorry about the language, and if I offended anybody in any way, I’m sorry about that too
Why can’t people just get along! I mean does it always have to end this way? GUNS, is that all you guys can do?
We should be more open-minded, and not judge people right away, and remember that guns and war have NEVER solved anything, they just made things worse than they already were!

Wow, that was long! onto a different matter; I will install ASKIT very shortly, hope it helps, I will also add a new section to the site “CHALLENGES”, hopefully some time next week. A new layout might come in handy as well :D. And the new updates will be added shortly! I’M GONNA START A NEW THING AS WELL, “TOP COMMENTERS”, WHICH MEANS I WILL ADVERTISE THE PEOPLE WHO COMMENT ME THE MOST FOR FREE, so comment me you guys! K? :D

Take care! PEACE AND HARMONY :world, which is what Arabs and people all over the wiorld should be doing! Finding Peace, not War.
I’m out~

future of AD + just blogging

nina@arab-designs.com (ARAB-DESIGNS.COM) — Mon, 05 May 2008 10:08:21 +0200

Hey people! How ya’ll doin? Okay I hope

Okay, so I don’t really have much to blog about, I’m just sitting in my room doing nothing, so I thought I would write/type something to clear my bordem -if that makes any sense?

We got our English quizes back today, I think I did okay, I got a 17.5 out of 20, which isn’t really my best, but it’s all good!
I did wayy better in Physics though, I got 14 out of 15, which is an A or something, so yeah pretty neat!

We had another Physics quiz today, which I think I did okay on, let’s just hope and pray I get a very good mark.
Also I had a Geography mini quiz, which I did sooo bad in, ughh I don’t want to get a bad mark!

I have a Biology quiz tomorrow, and you all know how much I HATE it, I nearly failed it last term! No seriously, I almost did.
Let’s hope I do better this term :p

In other news, there are soo many movies I want to watch next week, there are about 4 movies that I just need to see:

Untraceable (thriller).
~~Step Up 2 [the streets] (dance).~~
~~Speed racer (action).~~
Stop-Loss (drama).
Nim’s Island (comedy/ adventure).
The Other Boleyn Girl (drama).
I Could Never Be Your Woman (comedy).

Ya, I know, it’s ALOT, but I’m a movie junkie, I just have to see all of them, some I will watch during this weekend, and some during next week, after school maybe! :D

Sitewise, I want to install a few things on my website, starting with an Ask Me thing, so that you guys can ask any kind of questions you have with ease!

But I need some help with it though, I am confused between two; you see I downloaded both Faqtastic and AskIt, but I have no idea which one to use, I think I will go with AskIt because Sophie has it, and it looks like it’s working just fine with her, what do you guys think I should do??
Please tell me, I need you!

I’m also thinking about adding some more stuff to my website like a Review Section and a Challenge Section, but I’m afraid that people won’t apply or join, I will only add them if I’m positive that people are going to join or apply. So tell me what you think about that okay?

I need your openions people… After all, you guys are the ones who are using this site, so feel free to add your suggestions, k?

I won’t put a new set of questions, just one:

Why do you think the world is so corrupt these days? Not scientifically but otherwise?

Take care! :world

firefox is fixed!

nina@arab-designs.com (ARAB-DESIGNS.COM) — Fri, 02 May 2008 00:43:28 +0200

[EDIT]: May, 4, 08: I finally fixed the problem! Thank you to Mona for the tip!

I watched Iron Man yesturday, it was very good, I liked Robert Downey Jr. in it, he did a great job! I advise you guys to go watch it!

I also watched Maid Of Honour, it was great as well, and soooo cute nad extremely FUNNY! :D

Talk to you guys later K? [EDIT].

Okay, so I have no idea how this SH*T happened, my website used to look perfectly okay on FireFox :o
But don’t worry, I’m working on it :)

OOOH, GUESS WHAT?? I won a SweetandTalented award, I came THIRD in her previous ICON challenge:

Pretty neat ey?

On to another subject, I decided I want to make a To-Do List, so here is what I’m hoping to have by the end of this SUMMER VACATION:

5 or more regular Texture packs.

2 or more Brush packs.

2 PSP Scripts.

5 or more Smiley packs. (Cus I just HATE the ones I have now!)

10 brand new Coded Layouts.

20 or more Backgrounds.

Some brand new Website Blinkies.

20 or more Icons.

Revamp the Bullets page.

Revamp the Download Buttons page.

Revamp the Pixels page.

20 or more brand new Quotes.

20 or moreWallpapers.

20 or more Web Signs.

20 or more Affilate Displays.

20 or more brand new Glitters.

20 brand new Fav Icons.

10 brand new Cursors.

100 or more PNG’S/ PSD’s.

30 Icon Gradients.

500 Icon Bases.

100 Blend Bases.

Revamp the Button Bases page.

10 or more Coding tutorials.

5 or more FanUpdate tutorials.

5 or more CuteNews tutorials.

10 or more Random tutorials.

10 or more photoshop tutorials.

10 or more Paintshop Pro X2 tutorials.

5 or more Animation Shop tutorials.

5 or more MySpace tutorials.

20 brand new MySpace Layouts.

20 brand new Comment Boxes.

20 brand new Contact Tables.

20 or more brand new MySpace Codes.

5 or more brand new Articles.

Well that’s it so far, I might add some more stuff on the list, but basically, this is pretty musch enough for me and for you as well. Don’t you think?

Here’s the new set of questions:
1. How would you describe your family? (use 1 sentence only)
2. What kind of computer do use? (Ex: HP, Dell)
3. When you go to the store, what’s the first thing you buy?
4. How often do you clean your room? :o

I’ll see ya when I see ya, k?
PEACE AND HARMONY :world
Nina has left the Building/Webite/Blog, whatever okay?

fanupdate + up(dates)

nina@arab-designs.com (ARAB-DESIGNS.COM) — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:45:38 +0200

Hey everybody, guess what? I switched from Cutenews to FanUpdate, it seems alot better and way easier, but I was kinda hoping for more, maybe later (I mean in a year or so), I will switch to WordPress!

So the “SWITCH” was pretty easy, except for the fact that I have lost all my previous Cutenews enteries and comments, but I still have the folder though

What do you guys think?? Pretty neat ey?

I made a new layout, hope you guys like it Personally, I like the CSS. The woman in the layout is the amazing miss Jada Pinkett Smith, (Will smith’s wife), I just love her. Don’t you??

I made Jamilah’s request, YAY! You can find it on my wallpaper page.

Oh, before I forget, I got tagged by various people, so here are the random 10 facts about myself:

I love Pop-Corn (I can’t go to the movies without a bucket!).
I am an absolute MATH geek!
I love the 90’s singer SADE’ and I listen to her at least once a day
I never show any sort of emotions to people, which is why people might mistake me for a COLD person, but I am not!
I am a cleaning machine, my room MUST be organized and cleaned!
I use my computer every day!
I rarely use my cell phone, and when I do, I hate it.
Although I’m an Arab, I hate how people in the arab world think about things. (that means I DON’T hate America nor do I hate Jewish people) :o
I love Hershey’s Kisses, the milk chocolate one!
My favourite actress at the moment is Cate Blanchet, she is the most amazing actress I have ever seen.

Lol, some of the facts are very RANDOM, I am kinda tired and I’m just babbling
about stuff right now. I should stop!

Let’s talk about the updates:

I made 1 wallpaper of James Lafferty.

I made a new page “Icon bases” (under resources) with 823 icon bases:
399 Actresses.
27 Models.
116 Movies.
281 Musicians.

Hope those are helpfull!

Okay well, here is the new set of questions:

Would you rather have salty food or sweet food?

Do you still have a childhood doll or teddy bear? If so, what’s it’s name?

Do you have any kind of addiction? (EX: I am addicted to MUSIC)

What’s the best Stevie Wonder song you ever heard?

Well, I’m off now. Enjoy the updates
Toodles :world