Disclaimer: Somewhere on this blog are multiple grammatical mistakes, spelling errors and obscure Star Wars references.

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Introducing, "The Dubai Funnies."

I was on MSN with a friend of mine just a few moments ago, and she suggested another blog to me. Upon her recommendation I visited it and laughed out loud at what I read almost immediately. So, to share the funnies, I'd like you all to visit,

The Dubai Funnies


The author who calls himself, The Plastic Poet, has quite a sense of humor.

Happy reading!

xx

M

When stuff begins to weigh down...

Everyone one goes through patches in their lives. Some good, clean fun and some others aren't all that great. The latter are the kind that many of us like to try and forget after a while just so that we don't have to re-live through the emotions that we felt back then. It happens to everyone. No one's exempt from it. If you're not going through it now, you're probably done with it already and had it earlier on in your life. So don't kid yourself.

A while ago I think I went through that kind of phase just for a few hours. But I blog about it because even though it was probably for just a few hours, I actually FELT it more this time than others. The same stuff comes back but this time it hit the bottom of my stomach and made me throw up today's lunch. Sorta like giving mouth-to-mouth to a dead hamster. Either way.. moving on.. I've wondered why some people, your's truly included, find it hard to get over some facts of life, even though some fitting replacements (to a certain extent) are available. Or even if they're not available you've made adjustments.

This post is more or less a ramble, with no point in particular. I just thought of something and decided to blog about it. I guess it's something that everyone feels, but not everyone wants to accept.

Outta here..


xx


M

Friday, April 20, 2007

Virginia Tech Massacre Part 1. The Event

Normally if I had to read the news I just jump to some online editions of popular broadcasts like BBC, Al-Jazeera, Gulf News or 7Days. This time however when I opened up Firefox, Yahoo's frontpage said all that I needed to hear. "Massacre at VT"

VT? Virginia Tech? Really? WTF?! AMMAR & SEAN STUDY THERE! Quick as a flash I opened up multiple tabs and started browsing for any news that I could find on the event. BBC, CNN, Google News, Yahoo News and any any any any website that had anything on it. Needed to know if these guys were ok. Within a few minutes I had some details. There were TWO shootings, a couple of hours apart. Somewhere around 30 people killed, later this was confirmed at 33 including the shooter himself. More sketchy details here and there, but within a few hours I managed to get most of the details. Eventually I managed to contact Ammar on Messenger and he was fine, and so was Sean. I was relieved. Then I continued on some research on the incident.

Cho Seung-Hui was a 23-year old South Korean at VT. Read more about him here. That day he took out 32 students and then shot and killed himself, with a Glock that he was able to purchase because he was a legal resident of the United States of America. The irony for this; the KKK actually promote more students to own handguns, 'so that they could defend themselves.' Read more on that here and here. That is pretty sick. A post on Gun Laws in the USA soon.

Jamal Albarghouti, a grad student at VT, was on his way to meet an adviser, just before the second shooting. He hadn't heard about the first one yet. On his way there he heard what he thought were gunshots. He didn't panic due to the recent bomb scares at VT, and kept on his way. Later when he saw the police draw their weapons as well, he knew that this was going to be serious and began taking a video. See the video and his interview here.

More on the VT Killings and discussion later. Just the facts for now.

May God bless the dead, and keep safe the living. Inshallah.

xx

M

Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Gut Punch...

Has anyone ever been gut punched? Or sucker punched (as some people like to call it)? Like a quick, sharp, strong punch to the gut. One that you never expected and when it was coming you thought it was a joke and wasn't actually gonna land, but it did... Yeah those hurt a lot... Cuz you don't really expect them, but mainly cuz they come from someone who you knew... That's why you weren't cautious in the first place. Think about it. When you're with people you don't know you stand alert, and a bit away, or not too close to them. But when you're with people you DO know then, obviously, you're disarmed and closer to them because you don't expect to be sucker punched.

Long story short: Gut Punches hurt. Don't Gut Punch someone unless you really hate him/her.

xx

M