Archive for the 'Reality Check' Category

The Dog Days of Summer

July 29, 2008

I never knew bloggers also have ’slow cycles’. I clearly didn’t plan out to neglect my blog this long but it feels as if I’m in a slow-motion period, where everything takes forever to come to a conclusion. Not only have I neglected this blog but I haven’t really been paying much attention to what’s [...]

Useless Day

July 6, 2008

Does this ever happen to  other people: your off from work and school so you decide to do something you want to do, but end up doing nothing that’s neither useful or you want to do? How may times does this ever happen? 
When I woke up this morning I had plenty of things I wanted [...]

World Refugee Day

June 20, 2008

Sometimes we’re so busy that we forget who we are and where we come from -the essentials that make us who we are. By all indication today seemed just another day for me - until I learned just few minutes ago that today, June 20th, is World Refugee Day. How can I forget who I [...]

The Palestine of Africa

March 26, 2008

I’m sitting in the library of my school, very comfortable with music blasting from my laptop through my bluetooth headset wondering when I want to go eat something. Yet someone in Somalia that I know is starving, sick, or displaced by fighting. At this moment a lot of thoughts are going through my head - from regret, [...]

Icebox of the Nation

February 12, 2008

Minnesota has officially been declared the icebox of the United State - really? Didn’t people already know that? Sitting in my comfortable therapeutic library chair, where the temperature of the day is expected to reach mid 50 degree fahrenhait, I can only send my sympathy to those folks who have to get up and go [...]

Judge strikes down part of Patriot Act - Yahoo! News

September 6, 2007

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Rebel is the new terrorist

April 28, 2007

Since 9/11, the English vernacular has changed in ways that no one could imagine, thanks to Bush. I remember when Rebels, Freedom Fighters, Militants, Revolutionist had a meaning, and now of all of those meanings have become extinct. Now it’s words like terrorist, insurgency, terrorism, and so on that are constantly used to define something [...]