one of the many reasons to vote for barack obama

why i'm voting for barack obama

happy anniversary to me!

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so, im sitting here trying to stomach this sarah palin acceptance speech w/ a bag of butterkist toffee popcorn(it’s the best i tell you!), n i want to hurl!(not b/c of the popcorn, but b/c of palin’s voice) I mean, i have patiently waited for all parts 5 of 5 of the hopeful v.p’s speech to buffer on youtube – to only want to gag after 5 min.. first of all, the first 2min 31 sec is off mrs.palin thanking her audience for supporting her thus far....therefore, mrs.palin has only been speaking for a little over 2min- and i can’t go on.. Anyway, mid-gag, i’m realising, my toffee popcorn has half-way been devoured, as if this lady is really entertaining?!? i can usually unregrettably devour my popcorn quickly during really entertaining movies such as, ‘the dark knight’; mrs.palin is no competition whatsoever....
*play*
--ugh. It’s her voice again..i should at least watch parts 1 and 2 of 5, right? Right?I did wait for this speech to load which means i did have a slight interest in hearing her ‘policies’..(toffee popcorn now almost empty)...
BTW – happy 11/09, or 09/11, depending on where you are in the world...
Happy 1 yr anniversary to me in London!
Yep...previous posts have centred around my life as a student in London..future posts will hopefully, very soon concern my life as a working professional in London....
Stay tuned for random babblings while I am on the job hunt! =)

off to the 'motherland' !

well, i guess i kinda 'scratched the surface'....went on a little family holiday for a week to egypt with my younger sis and dad. good times overall!
we visited cairo(2 days), luxor(1 day), and sharm el sheikh(3 days).
cairo and luxor: cairo reminded me of 'an old photograph' in the sense that there was a yellow haze over the city from the sand in the air, similar to the yellow hue of 'an old photograph'..many of the cars were about 20 yrs old?? and there was ridiculous traffic..needless to say the little white dashes that might have been used to designate hmm..lanes? were unimportant here...the cars on the road were literally like herded cattle...anyway, after checking into our '5*' hotel not on the Nile, we did the touristy thing- giza pyramids, papyrus museum, egypt museum, Nile cruise, perfume factory, and the best part --> getting ripped off b/c we're tourists, yuh know? and since we were only in cairo and luxor for a few days we had a private tour guide complete with chauffeur service...(which is another reason we got ripped off b/c we were paying for convenience..which is yet, another story)...it was HOT HOT HOT in cairo,

BUT it was H'EXTRA HOT in luxor, i mean just dry ass heat...and of course, i'm weak, and couldn't manage the heat. my cheapie shades did their best to shield the sun, but i couldn't really lift my head too high b/c i couldn't see, my eyes were burnin probably because of a combination of sun/sand particles aimed directly at my face..i desperately had to remove my contacts b/c like i said, my eyes were burning..so, the chauffeur and tour guide stop off at a hotel so i can remove my contacts (at this point i'm kinda relieved/upset i can't see)...then we go to lunch and our tour guide thought he had this grand idea that would cure me.. ICE.
he suggested i take ice cubes and place them over my eyes and *poof* no more pain?!? weell, that egyptian home remedy worked temporarily, and so mr.tour guide says, "just wait, i have the perfect thing..i understand your problem." and i'm thinking, "uh, no you don't , do you understand i'm blind right now and am frustrated? uuhh no." so, the tour guide calls his brother to meet up with us and bring the 'perfect thing' to cure me. uMM, DO YOU KNOW WHAT HE SHOWS UP WITH? some got damn VISINE ppl?! i'm like Visine? that's what i've been waiting for all this time? Visine? i'm like, "no you did not bring me visine as if it is some secret that Visine 'gets the red out!' duuh, i've seen the commercial..i'm american, right? aaanyway, i can't really knock the man, cuz he was trying to help?1? but the point is, i thought he would've brought me something simple/ home remedy-ish..once again, needless to say, i was 'blind' in luxor and then blind for 2 of the 3 days that we were in sharm el sheikh..basically my eyes just needed a rest - they were strained...anyway, our beach resort in sharm was great =) (i'm near-sighted so i could actually see where we were staying.lol) if it's one thing the egyptians do best, it's service.. and our resort was gr8 - no complaints! in sharm el sheikh, we smoked shisha, ATV riding in the desert, met some bedouin children, went on a little yellow submarine- hehe, and swam and drank daiquiris on the beach. =) anyway, the photos are a few snapshots of my trip...we of course brought home some over-priced souvenirs, as well as ones we bargained well for.

sidenote: didn't really notice too much women out during the day, and if they were out, they were damn sure completely covered up- with only their eyes revealed. it was a good experience to see a little glimpse of life in a predominantly muslim atmosphere.

i liked egypt- i would definitely go back--(with friends of course)..DESPITE the: heat, diarrhoea from day 1, the beggars, tipping every damn person in sight, the great hospitality (mainly b/c of the tourist-dependent economy), muslim men offering camels in exchange for marriage, ummm..and the tricky businessmen (can't really knock their hustle), and just because the egyptians are a nice people...and the men are GORGEOUS! but i am not converting to islam...
shukran! egypt for adding a few words to my previously non-existent arabic vocabulary: shukran(thank you), habibi(my love), and 'base busa' (pastry w/ honey) yum!
-peace.

consequences of facebook obsession..

the unhorse.

the unhorse

saturday.

i went to LSE library today which is freakin marvelous...went over some notes- 2 more exams to go...and now, i'm here eating phad thai (which seems to be a weekly thing),and um, yah, updating you on a rude email i just received from a website i posted my 'targetjobs link' on. Targetjobs is a fairly new Part Time stint courtesy of my sister. anywho, i posted my link on a student site, note, a student site. The website in question said in the email that i should refrain from posting spam on their site.ok, so i brushed it off like, yah, alrite, warning email, i get it..psssh, yah right?
so, my phone battery died earlier today so i missed all calls- including 2 from nigeria aka dj-or-is-it-tj that i met last nite, AND a call from laura, my boss at targetjobs saying that the damn london student website called her saying that i had posted spam on their site!!? these mofos called my freakin job? ARE YOU SERIOUS? it's a student site- number one- and number two- how lame can you be to go to these lengths? grrr..british ppl, cuz u know ppl in usa dont have time for this. oh well. my boss suggested i call her back, but then kindly pointed out that i was "proactive, and took initiative" by posting on student sites. thanks, laura, thanks...
some ppl need to get a life..and if the london website got a hold of laura, i bet they could be reading this blog right now. how clever?!
-my phad thai is getting cold.
peace.