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I'm back with ZAYN stan-ness. He isn't letting us live.

ZAYN only released his first single, PILLOWTALK, on February 28th.



It has not even been a month as we've already gotten a new single, It's You, performed on Jimmy Fallon. #Dead
Zayn Malik Its You On Tonight show with Jimmy Fallon from Flávio Aguiar on Vimeo.


We got a Chris Brown's "Fuck you back to sleep" remix with ZAYN and USHER!!! USHER. Like I am sure these were ZAYN'S dream and I say WERE because, like I said he has just established himself SOLO and he's already here.


Right now he just hit us with a PILLOWTALK remix, where he raps with Lil Wayne. LIKE WHAT IN THE WORLD.


Also tonight his video for his latest single It's You premieres with a a pre order for his album that is releasing MARCH 23rd..... I JUST.

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— zayn (@zaynmalik) February 25, 2016

and here it is!!!:

I totally remember the days when I wanted to get married as soon as possible, like right out of college soon. I'm not saying that WON'T happen, but I'm begging myself it doesn't LOL. I feel like I'm destined to do the tie-the-knot-early-and-have-a-baby-within-two-years thing. I don't live my life according to this duh, but it's just a thought. My point is that my goals (?) have completely changed, as it should when you grow as a person. There's just so much to do and such little time. It's way easier to take care of yourself without taking a second adult, never mind a chid, into consideration. I don't even know why I got into all this because I want to talk about my dream apartment and house decor! (I will look back at this post one or two years from now and be like?! WTF was I thinking)

So I have conflicting decor interests. That's why I want to have my own small place for my single twenties, single as in non married not single single ;) ;) ;). Then another place for when I am married. Okay this sounds stupid because that's how it works, but I mean both will have different styles that I NEED to happen. I just wouldn't have one particular style in the others situation.

So for my apartment life I would love to have like a boho with shabby chic mix. I love order and having everything in it's place and matching, but this would be my time to mix it up a bit. So fun mugs, spoons, and having like funky things that don't come in sets. I would love colorful throw pillows, candles, and plants everywhere. A small kitchen with a retro type stove and fridge. Just to give an overall cozy feeling, but not too much clutter because I would feel closed in.





After looking at most of the boho chic out there, I think I would go for SUBTLE boho chic. :)

The two styles I would love for my actual house would be a Mexican and a Moroccan look. I wouldn't know how to incorporate those two, but I don't think I can make the decision for either or. BUT there are many similarities between these two. If you remove the indigenous aspects to the Mexican look you're left with the Spanish colonial look. Now, if you know a bit of history, you know that the Moorish, an Arab&Berber Muslim people, inhabited the Maghreb and the Iberian peninsula for a period of time during the middle ages. And if you know your geography, the Maghreb is most of North Africa (Morocco's location) and the Iberian Peninsula is where Spain and Portugal sit. So they share some similarities! Now to be honest with you, I am drawing these conclusions on my own so I may or may not be right. Anyways, aspects I've noticed they share: the pointed arches I love so much, inside courtyards with water features, lots of tiles with intricate patterns, and earthy tones.

example:

Like most people out there, I am in love with planners, pens, supplies, and anything related. I said most people because C'MONNNN, who didn't look forward to back-to-school shopping every August? The rows and rows of notebooks, paper, pens, pencils, erasers, sharpeners, pouches, binders, folders, crayons, glue, pencil pouches. Now that we're a little older, we scan the one or two aisles available at Target for the office professional. The gold paper weight holders, classy planners, the few but intricately designed push pins and paperclips, the MUST HAVE tape dispensers. We love it all. But in my case, I remember I am not that professional and I don't have anywhere to put them, so I must go on without.

I follow a study themed blog on Tumblr and they purchased a planner and posted links to YouTube of people showing how they organized their's. Your first thought is probably, "organize? what's there to organize? sure you can add some sticky notes to it, but all you need is to actually write in it, right?" WRONG. There are thousands and thousands of videos of people showing you how and where they bought the accessories to personalize their planner. Think scrapbooking. You can click the image to see some ideas.

arlier this week I was feeling up to eating something savory and delicious!! I hadn't had Indian food since Oman, but I wasn't prepared for disappointment. I've had enough (in my opinion) to know what decent flavors are. & I will NOT hesitate to flame your roti, naan, paratha, chapati, whatever IDC!! LOL.
On my main street alone, I have three options so I decided to go for it anyways. Before I left for Oman, there was an Indian restaurant by the name of "Sri Krishna Villas".  I decided to go to there (only two minute drive), I had been twice before but wasn't as familiar with Indian to really know if it was good or not. Anyways, now it is called "Wild Roots of India" (update 10/2016: It's now called Sirata or something) and under completely new different management, new restaurant, nothing to do with the old. On a quick separate note, although I think it has a very prime location, the restaurants and businesses never seem to make it long enough. There have been three or four places before this one and before that the building was on the market for a long time. I don't know what it is about that place that doesn't call people's attention, there are other buildings or suites I know of that it happens to. All I know is that if I have ever have a business I don't want to get stuck with an unlucky spot.

Well anyways, I walked in and was greeted by a young lady who handed me the takeout menu, which was still the old Sri Krishna Villa's. After a minute of eyeing the menu, I was approached by a man to take my order, I ordered what I consider a Melissa ( and an uncultured person's) favorite: chicken tikka masala. Which I still think is a step up from the butter chicken LOL. I REALLLY used to think butter chicken was chicken breast chunks marinated in butter and served that way ahah, please excuse me.

I didn't really give a thought of where I would wait, but they led me to the bar and said they would get me chips and I was like:


they gave me papadum, think; thin, flat, crunchy, tortilla (or tostada). As you can see below. I was really excited because my host parents would order these as an appetizer too. They were really good, I was just disappointed because the ones we usually got were spicy. But, as I said, still good and they brought out four different types of chutney (think Indian salsa? they really vary)


 To begin, I think it had a good amount of chicken. Sometimes they can get a bit stingy and have like overwhelming amount of sauce. Well too much sauce will never be overwhelming, but equal amounts of chicken are appreciated. On the actual chicken, it was suspiciously too cubicle. As you can see in my picture it was like clean cut on the sides, it's hard to explain. Just a looked a bit unnatural. I also think it was a bit overcooked and dry. On the sauce it was the PERFECT amount of spicy, but it was also a bit on the sweet side which I wasn't expecting. The naan was delicious and HUGE. Overall I think it was pretty satisfying, only the chicken itself needed improvement. My siblings had a taste and really liked it and even agreed to go together soon! I know they will really enjoy the chicken lollipops and chicken 65. Which makes me really excited because every time I suggest it to my family they reject the idea. Now to work on my parents hehe.

Anyways, I'm done feeling like a lil food blogger. Feeling hungry.. . .

Everyone knows the now iconic boy band One Direction. I did a post on them back in May of 2012, which you can read here. Zayn Malik left the band in March of last year, much to their fans' dismay. Not long after he called it quits with his fiancee of four years, Perrie Edwards from Little Mix (a fellow X Factor come-up band). With that news, a lot of us Zayn stans were shocked and had the idea that Zayn really was done with it all and ready to start completely fresh.





We knew by then he was going solo with news of him getting a recording contract and being sneaky with producers he was possibly working with. Since then he's coming out with magazine interviews, radio interviews and more importantly he released his first single last week.




PILLOWTALK
PILLOWTALK
PILLOWTALK

At first (first 2 minutes) I wasn't really into it, but this happens with any artist I like. I was so critical every time 1D came out with a new single or album.

Am I going to say this is a complete 360 from the material he made with One Direction? I don't personally think so, I really could see 1d singing segments of the song and taking the lyrics from an R rating to PG-13.

I think my friends are all SO excited because his album, Mind of Mine, comes out in March, it actually comes out on the exact day he announced his departure from 1D.

Zayn has been my longest running fave in One Direction and I am soo so happy that he is doing this for himself. I read his Fader magazine article and he was just so . . . authentic and was more articulate than I had imagined him to be. He is so sweet and I am only hoping the best for him and his career's future.

Quick note, I saw that Harry Styles signed with a separate recording label (oh 1D is on extended "hiatus") and everyone is like SOLO SOLO and tbh I'm like *eyeroll* but everyone deserves a chance and Harry & Zayn wouldn't even be in the same genre (hmm guess that's why 1D didn't quite work out). So I'll be keeping my eyes open for news on him.

I'm really not one for American government, I think political science in general tbqh. It just makes me uncomfortable and I generally don't understand. BUT MAYBE I WOULD UNDERSTAND IF I READ aka read my previous post.

"But how are you an International Affairs major???"

Because there's more to IA than political science, there's history, language, economics (which I also hate I still don't understand how money works lmao), cultural type stuff, etc. Which is all interrelated but I hope you know what I mean.


Anyways, so a few days ago was the Iowa Caucus and also the last day to register to be able to vote in the primaries for my state. So a few things about those two topics.


So for the Republican party, Ted Cruz (please tell me he looks like Miles Teller) won with 27.6% and Trump came in second with 24.3%. Before the Iowa caucus I wasn't really into you know, the predictions and pretty much anything to do with the election in general. But it's crunch time and honestly I do feel a bit on edge, and I feel everything is kind of uncertain at this point.

But back to the results, you know my initial reaction was "Hey! well at least Trump didn't come in first! What would that say about Americans (or Iowans lol)" But, honestly isn't Ted Cruz a little scarier? Like he has an actual political background (LOL) and forget that, Trump has taken on more of a role as an entertainer and is kind of a joke. When he's asked questions about pressing issues he dodges them and comes up with like ?? I can't even explain it, his answers are like "*nothing to do what he was asked* but we need to move forward, we're gonna work on it, we're gonna find the answer, we'll do this together." I saw that he's gotten four times as much media coverage as the next candidate, what does that say about our priorities?

I like this quote: "Mr. Trump is to public service what professional service is to sport: entertaining and ludicrously implausible, a suspension of disbelief for escapists, a crude deception for the gullible."

The Iowa caucus is known for having a hand in predicting which candidate will win the nomination for it's respective party. I'm not sure how true it is or isn't or has been in the past elections, but I am hoping that because Cruz appealed to a very small and distinct demographic of voters in Iowa that he will have a tougher time in other states, but where does that leave us?



On the Democratic side, Clinton took the win, if you can call it that. She won with 49.9% and Bernie trailed soooo closely behind with 49.6%, literally .3% difference. I think a lot of Bernie supporters were over the moon that someone with his background could go head to head against Clinton who has all the big money $$$ supporters, backed by Wall Street, and has a real current presence in Washington. I think this gives Americans who had Bernie in mind the idea that he is in fact a legitimate player and give them the confidence to cast their vote for him.

So do I sound like a Bernie supporter yet? because I am. Now, this goes on to my second topic about registering to vote. I was already registered but posted a quick note on FB letting the new voters that it was the deadline. At the end of it I put a quick note stating we need to put Bernie on the ballot. I feel bad because I am so hesitant to publicly state my support for Bernie. It's kind of a thing that Bernie's dominate supporting demographic is under thirty. I think of his supporters as like the hippie/hipsters, the kind of people you don't take very seriously. And I want to be taken seriously right? I ordered a free Bernie supporter sticker, and I'm like will I put it on my car?? I am legit so nervous and like afraid to be judged lmao, but I need to suck it up and will. :*
But honestly, not that Bernie isn't problematic in any way, I think that my stands on issues are very similar to his and I feel like he's serious and actually gives a fuck?

But like I said, most of his supporters are in the young crowd and I feel if we just take ourselves seriously, we can really make sure that Bernie has a chance. I think the Iowa caucus was the first step and the first piece of evidence that, again, he is a real contender in this race.