I have just read four of my previously published posts and could not help but reminisce the joy I then experienced in writing them which is equal to the one I had reading them almost 3 years later.
Sorry peeps, but I got to take a break from blogging a bit. I just can't seem to find enough time for all of this. So i'm going on a break or rather hiatus..
Since my last malnutritioned post, I have been so preoccupied with my busy academic and friends-full life, that I could only browse and browse and read other peoples' blogs and not updating mine.
So, here comes the update in no particular logic or order
1- My acne problem has cleared up, only to be replaced by another type of annoying smaller version of it :-S
2- I realized that the less I stress, the more glow I emit and the cuter I look afterwards.
3- Newsweek is weak and the Economist is my new addiction
4- I could be so bored at times, that I would actually buy some trinkets online to be shipped to me from Japan to decorate my gadgets with.
5- I am writing this right now in an attempt to avoid my statistical analysis of some useless data that adds nothing to the world or my personal growth for that matter
6- I am becoming more and more superficial as I grow older (at least this is how I see myself now) (No! I refuse to be a superficial woman!)
7- I miss the Gulf and want to elope there, alone!
8 - *Staring at the ceiling at the college's library*, ahhh I wish it is not almost 9 pm now and I do not have to go home with my final incomplete again!
9- Will Hillary quit already? and make news channels interesting and worth watching once again
10- I am so super glad that my peeps (Russians) have resumed their control and won the GOLD at the Ice Hockey World Championship! (It took us 15 years!)
11- On the other hand, I'm very ashamed at the JEM's attack on our Capital in the Sudan. Wallahi fa'9i7a le alhukuma!!! Allah yistur 3ala alli jaee.
That's it for now, better resume analyzing my data
Missed blogging :-)
Just tell me! What's up with big men and small dogs, and small women and big cars?!
I'll be back to vent out!
Look at what happened to us (Sudanese). 20 years ago we were praised and referred to as the prototype of morality, decency, honesty, and all the other virtues. What happened to us?
Someone explain it to me!!!
Southern Sudan is learning to smile again, according to Russia Today website. A three part report from the southern border of the Sudan, a Russian correspondence conducted some journalistic work and broadcast its first part
Not pollyannaish at all
My heart goes out to Granville's family in Buffalo, NY and elsewhere. May his soul rest in peace.
At the wee hours of the first day of the first month of 2008, John, aged 33, was shot as he was driven home by his Sudanese driver, Allah yihamu, returning from a New Year's party. Most articles on the net rehash the same information.
Some of those could be read here, here and here.
A compendium to this CV and his radio distribution project in the Sudan could be found at the USAID website
John’s fellowship focuses on community participation in government and NGO capacity building in South Sudan. Using tools such as community needs assessments and interactive problem solving models, John works to create collaboration and cooperation between citizens and government. Currently he is working to bring radios to the population of South Sudan in order to maximize the impact of USAID’s broadcasting initiatives in the region.
John is a former Peace Corps volunteer and has worked in Sudan as a consultant for USAID and GOAL-Ireland. With GOAL, he designed and implemented an HIV/AIDS Participatory Action Assessment. He has studied as a Fulbright Fellow and received an MA in International Development and Social Change from Clark University in 2003.
In my humble opinion the perpetrator(s) could be
I still am shell-shocked!
I did not believe it when I read the headlines on the BBC.
The first woman head-of-State of and Islamic country has been brutally killed with a shot to her neck and another to her chest as she was leaving an election rally this afternoon, before the assassin set off a suicide bomb.
May Allah rest her soul in peace and my heart goes out to her family and friends. No one should depart this Earth in such a fashion
I am usually 5 minutes late in catching up with gossip. But when it comes to technology and computer related stuff, I am at least 5 years late.
Anyhow, since I have decided to conserve some of my energy and time, I began using the so-called RSS Readers. My first choice, and last for now, has been the Feed Reader or quoi? This software brought back the memories of my dial-up connection in the ME. I enjoyed the luxury of not having to type the URLs of my favourite sites, blogs, and newspapers, but the updates were really slow. Thus, I removed it!
I would really appreciate it if you folks share with me your experiences and what you use for your RSS Readers. I think I got used to saving time and my lazy self cannot properly google it
Merci mille fois
I think Charmin has gone just a bit over the board and the bride went a lil' loco. Why on Earth would any bride want to wear a toilet paper made wedding gown. One would answer me, an eco-conscious, green-minded bride. I think I will assent to that. But tying the knot in the loo, and a public one, for that matter is certainly insane.
On December the 19th of this year, a Kentucky couple from Lexington were pronounced a man and wife in a public toilet, and a temporary one also. She wore a wedding dress made of toilet paper. You can't discern that, but in my viewpoint it looked very cheap and cheesy.
Read about it here, here and here.
La! ahhama haja innu the gown won a 2007 Toilet Paper Wedding Dress Contest sponsored by Cheap Chic Wedding (I intentionally wouldn't post a link to their site. The idea is ridiculous). Don't these people have anything more meaningful to do?!
Let me start by saying that YES, I will be stereotyping and here I am practicing my right to free speech. Therefore, I suggest that this post is looked at as an amusing piece that many of us, the Russian Women, can identify with. Also, many of our traits are shared with our African-American sistas. I just love observing that everyday on the streets of the hotchpotch of this metropolitan city of NY
Here are a few of the things I've noticed:
First, most Russian women are in love with the bling bling and the mink furs. That grandeur has no limits. Anything and everything worn must shine like a 10 Carat diamond. Also wearing tight outfits and giving mini-skirts a new definition :-)
Second, Russian women like to be spent on graciously and lavishly. An uxorious man exists to spend on a woman and that's about it :-)
Third, most Russians are able to get along and adapt into living in neighbourhoods of non-Whites. The only whites I see in predominantly African-American or Caribbean blocks are the Russians. Oh for goodness' sake, Russians drove out Black communities from Coney Island :-)
Four, just check the most recent Russian rap songs. The beat is so cool and hiphopish I actually feel proud we've assimilated into that genre so smoothly.
C'est tout for now
This is Russian politics (and perhaps others'), but if you scratch my back I will scratch yours. I will assure you the presidency, but only if you guarantee my premiership. But then of course, the PM office will be more influential than that of the president's.
Oh, Medvedev, what a silly lil' boy you are. (I will elaborate on this later)
Volodya (diminutive of Vladimir) never ceases to amaze me.
So far these are the posts that I did not publish because one of the following:
I hate subways! They are filthy, stinky, crowded, depressing, dungeon-like, leaking, rat-infested, beggar/vendor dwelling, artist/dancer Hall of Fame. Is it not enough that I have to commute using those means? Must I endure these daily sightings и к этому by paying what I could fill my car with, had I been able to drive it to work, in yet again more congested, toll-infested, pothole marked roads!!!!!!!
So these are the conditions and the scenes I see before I get to work/school, so why should my day be any better?
Anyhow, what bothers me even more, is the disgusting subway riders that shove, push, and stomp you. I mean c'mon! The other day I was boarding a train during the rush hour and his dimwit who was already on stood facing the boarders and deliberately pushed everyone away who, God forbid, brushed against him, with full force!! What a baboon!
Oh Goodness, there are so many incidents that I can stay here forever reciting them, but those morons need to know that they are nothing but animals! 7ayawanat!
From now on, if you push me I'll push you like there is no tomorrow! I will step on you with my heel and I don't give a hoot what you'll do you, you chimpanzee.
Finally after more than five years, two Sudanese detainees were released from Guantanamo. Adel Hassan Hamad and Salim Mahmoud Adam .
Watching their brief interviews on TV, filled me with a rush of immense anger that was only attenuated by my sense of helplessness. One of the detainees described his detention as being buried while being alive. Sad indeed.
But, I am very glad they've reached their loved ones in the Sudan
Read about it here, and please have a look at the ridiculous comments which reflect the opinions of a majority, rather than a minority in the US of A.
related site : Project Hamad
What: Screening of a Film "Caught Between Two Worlds" by Simin Farkhondeh & Persheng Sadegh-Vaziri
When: 12/12/2007 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm
Where: 365 Fifth Avenue in New York, NY at Segal Theatre
Summary: Depicting the lives of Iranian exiles in in the U.S., this documentary tackles acculturation, language, the traumas of revolution and the hostage crisis, religion, and life in post-9/11 America.
Have a sneak peak to decide if you want to watch it
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