personal

Transformations

Between now and Sept 13 I am to undergo lifestyle transformations. Since I have had my head shaved, I have decided on the following to be implemented: – Personal habits: reducing my anal-retentive habits.- Exercise (I can’t believe I wrote it).- Enjoy my work while looking for different opportunities.- Resist[...]

random

Anti Abuse Day: Guilt

I have received through several blog rolls and groups that today, in the blogosphere, is to be Anti Abuse Day. I found it a topic worth writing about and I would certainly be pleased to bring awareness to the public about abuse and being abused. I won’t talk about sexual[...]

So mom is here. And like all Syrian moms (and ultimately all moms from the this region), the topic of marriage opened up within minutes of arriving. “So Kinan do you love someone now?” she said as I was still struggling with her one small bag of 700 kilograms. “No[...]

humour, NYC, prose

200,000 Books

“200 thousand books,” Sarah told me with lots of pride. I wasn’t with her at all, mentally, when she said this blasphemous hypocrisy. My eyes were fixed on the librarian. But let’s rewind a little bit. On a random day, like all unlabeled, unnamed days when you are on holiday,[...]

videogames

Evil Rants

If you’ve been keeping a close eye on the videogame industry, or actually any other industry that can raise the least bit of controversy, you can easily then identify Jack Thompson who is an attorney avid on attacking videogames and other forms of entertainment that are psychologically damaging to children[...]