Nazia F. Rahman's Blog, page 3

18. The Peircing Artist

I got dragged to a stylish tatoo parlor because a friend of mine wanted to get her nose peirced.Finding the tatoo parlor was an adventure itself. We first arrived at an extremely shady corner on the street where the sign for the Tatoo Parlor was so faded that we had to drive by the place a couple of times before we found it. We walked into the building and walked up some stairs to find nothing except cast away piles of new carpeting. Next door, the carpet people clarified that the specific tatoo parlor we were looking for had moved to the mall a few miles down the road.

Thirty minutes later we walked into the most posh tattoo parlor I have ever seen (not that I have seen many). It looked more like a celebrity hair salon. It was complete with a leather couch and shiny fluorescent decor on the wall.

My friend eventually got paired with an very cool and accomodating employee. My friend, who is the type of person who needs to hold someone's hand, asked if the procedure would hurt. The woman whose dreadlocks managed to enhance rather than take away from her very beautful face replied, "Do you want me to answer honestly? I  am going to stick a giant needle in your face."

17. Backstreet Boy Concert Bystanders

If you see a long line of girls in their mid twenties to early thirties, do not stop and curiously ask, "What are you in line for?" If we answer, "The New Kids on the Block and the Backstreet Boys Concert!!!" do not laugh and walk away.

You know you secretly sang to "I want it that way" when it came on the radio too.

16. Chicken Teriyaki Boy

My two friends and I were sitting at a table planted in the middle of the street during the Sakura Matsuri or the Japanese Street Festival at the Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, DC.

We were sharing some bulgogi and I was battling my war with chopsticks when he captured our attention.

He looked like he was seven or eight years old and he was a young American Asian. It seemed like his family had dragged him, like they must often do, to the festival to sell food from their restaurant in a stand. However, unlike I would have acted if I had been in a similar situation during childhood, he was completey thrilled with the situation.

He was totally the cutest walking billboard I had ever seen and he walked among the crowd passing by his family's stall shouting happily "Two dollars! Chicken teriyaki for two Dollars."

"Hey," he shouted to a young girl standing by the trash cans with a stick of meat wrapped in foil held up in her hands. "I see that you got the chicken teriyaki. It's good, right?" The girl kind of stared at him blankly, but that didn't make him hesitate.  "Chicken teriyaki! Two dollar chicken teriyaki! It was four dollars before! Come get it because now its only two dollars!"

Slowly, my friends and I broke down, one at a time, to buy a stick of chicken teriyaki for two dollars. I don't think I was even hungry for mine…but damn, he was good.

15. The Carvel Guy in January

The Carvel guy owns a Carvel inside of a Jerry's subs and pizza. He also owns the Jerry's subs and pizza. We walked in one night in January to see the ice cream station abondoned. Out of luck, we wandered over to the Jerry's side of the store and would have ordered pizza or subs.

But fortunately, the Carvel guy, an older gentlemen,  noticed our sad eyes glistening with dissapointment. He asked us if we wanted ice cream service and we rejoiced. Carvel guy walked us over to the ice cream counter and was very patient with me while I was taking forever to decide what I wanted. He walked away once to serve some pizza customers but overall he did a great job describing what a carvelanche and carvelatte were. Finally, we left with our pocket change handed over and huge cups of delicious ice cream concoctions in our hands. As a final act of kindness, Carvel guy asked us not to get too cold with our ice creams in the cold January weather. 

14. Minor League Paparazzi on the Metro

It is New Years Eve and there is a woman on the train in very appropriate attire: golden streamers in her hair and a pair of 2011 shaped glasses.

An older lady in less appropriate normal attire is sneaking her cell phone through the bar of the seat in front of her and snapping a picture of the more festive woman.

 

If you have to do it secretly, you probably should not be doing it at all…now should you? A more appropriate method would have been going up to awesome lady and saying "Hey. What's up? Love your hair! Mind if I snap a photo?" And yeah – if a chick has the confidence to dress up like that on the metro, she will definitely say yes.

Just a thought…we don't need minor paparazzi acts on the metro.

13. Dunkin Donuts Lady

An awesome part about being brown is that other brown people tend to give you discounts or free stuff. No lie. I have had cheaper cab fares and extra food because I am a wonderful south asian.

I went to Dunkin Donuts for coffee before class. The woman was very apologetic because she did not have any more coffee since the store was about to close-only decaf or a latte. So I got an iced Latte and decided to get some munchkins just because I was there at Dunkin Donuts. You can usually get 4 for a dollar. She gave me 8 because she felt bad about not having coffee.

True, she probably was going to throw them out anyway. But if you ask me it was totally the influence of brown love. The best munchkins ever are free ones (especially on someone's birthday).

I love you south asians.

12. Guy Bidding at the Anime Charity Auction

I volunteer at a hospital so I know first hand that the video games and systems donated by Child's Play (Charity that donates toys and games to Children Hospitals) get used by kids, technicians, and volunteers all day long.  They become the object of poutyness for the kids that have to wait for an available one and the creator of laughter and cheering for kids that are lucky enough to have one… or two… in their room.

So how cool is the guy who ends up going to a charity auction at an anime convention and starts bidding ridiculous amounts of money on random anime stuff? I am sure he probably won't be reading the set of three translated japanese novels and manga sudoku handbook that he won but he bought it anyway. And is that autographed convention booklet (who are the random people that signed it again?) really worth more than $40? Who cares! We are helping sick kids (and related grown ups) get video games to play with here.

11. Korean BBQ Waitress



Maybe I am a little too infatuated with Korean food, but this time the waitress 1) grilled the meat (bulgogi and kalbi and beef ribs) for us, 2) cut it into little peices, and then 3) spooned it into our plates for us (splitting it up fairly amongst the people at the table of course). Oh, I love you, I love you, I love you…even more than HKA (hot korean actress a.k.a. Ha Ji Won) wearing a bra in the Soju ad poster hung up all over this restaurant do I love you…

10. Creepy Guy in the Club

Sometimes when a girl and her friends are just fed up with their jobs, school, or relationships they know it is time for girl's night out at a club.

Guys everywhere need to know that if they see a group of girls dancing, they should realize that these girls may not even be interested in the male species at that moment. They might be, which is why guys need to be like the sweet guy that taps a girl on the shoulder and asks for a dance. You may still get rejected but your chance of success just went up by 30% because you asked nicely and you will leave a positive impression on us even if we didn't say yes. When we recall stories of the night you will be referred to as the nice guy (or that nice old guy, that nice short guy etc.).

Now if you are also dressed nicely, and decently attractive the other 30% percent will kick in and you will get to dance with the girl. The last 30% of course usually depends on the lady's state of mind or intoxication which might make up for lost points in the previous measure. Of course, if you are going for a girl like me or some of my friends you are out of luck because we go to clubs to dance with each other not get wasted or look for boys.

Whatever you do- don't be like Creepy Guy at the club.

First, he just stands nearby and watches us for like an hour. Then, he pulls a douche move when he starts dancing behind one of our backs trying to get closer and closer…

Until one of us realizes that there is a creepy behind our friend whom she can't even see so we pull her away and either rotate to get her away from creepy guy or just go to another part of the dance floor altogether.

Creepy Guy, of course, decides to follow us, to a freaking entirely different part of the club and he proceeds to repeat steps 1and 2 (stare and sneak behind someone) until we all just start shouting and cursing him off. Really Creepy Guy reacts by laughing and asking "Whaat?" as if he doesn't even know what an asshole-douchebag he's being.

Creepy guy… your chance of success is 0%.

9. Drunk Chick at the Rock Concert

This little girl who looks like she is 16 and has a short stature and glasses is walking up to random guys asking them to pick her up so she can crowd surf. She needs two guys to pick her up.

You do know what you are wearing right? We all just saw up your short skirt.

She comes back and does it again.

Where's your dignity, girl?

Note: Above is a google image of a less short crazy random drunk girl