Heading home for 11 days. A freak decision, on my part. I need to be with family and friends. I need some sunshine. I need some sort of break.
Hopefully, I’ll be able to think things through over there.
I’ll be taking a blogging hiatus. The internet has become more of a burden than a way out […]

Ladadeedaa…
tick tock tick tock.

Let me tell you a little story. It’s a true story, that happened to a real person in the not-so-distant past.
So, this guy was feeling down, and decided, late at night, that he needed something. Sweets. A drink. Anything. He wasn’t in the mood for going to a pub, so he decided to take a […]

An average day, by all means. I just arrived in Berlin, here for a few days, on a quasi-vacation. I know, I’m still in Germany, I know I’ll still be working, but it’s a change of scenery, and that is an absolute necessity in this country of perpetual misery.
My hatred for Hamburg, is only surpassed […]

Democracy isn’t for everyone. I sometimes don’t understand world politics.
On one hand, how could you FORCE a democratic system on some people? Doesn’t that defy the concept? Democratic systems should be a choice. People should believe in democracy, and quest to achieve it. It can’t be imported like a friggin’ foreign sports car.
On the […]

Franz Ferdinand are set to play in the Byblos Music Festival. Personally, I don’t really know the band, but they’re all the rage these days, and I’m happy for my home town. Even more so, because my dad is on the festival’s organizing committee! Yay Byblos. I also happen to know someone who’s going to […]

Read.
I like reading. Anything from cheap detective novels(Hardy Boys??) to existentialist rants(When will I ever finish The Antichrist). It depends on my mood, and energy levels.
Lately, having had lots of work to do, I resorted to the simpler genre. I went through Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes cases, and Alexandre Dumas’ The Three Musketeers. Although […]

disclaimer: Monday was a very stressful day. This is a long post. The orgasm of several months of intercourse (discourse. Research. Whatever)… Don’t judge me. Actually, please do.
Monday rolled around, warm and sunny. My due date, of sorts. The labor of several months of on-and-off research finally coming to fruition.
I loved the warmth as […]

DEATH be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not so,
For, those, whom thou think’st, thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleepe, which but thy pictures bee,
Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee doe […]

Talk about redemption. After his “Troy” fiasco, Orlando Bloom is back in my “ahhh, ok” list. Ridley Scott has earned my respect. The girl, I’m in love with. And, I’ll get around to learning her name soon enough.
What can I say, I went in with the lowest of expectations. Crusades? Christians fighting Muslims? Jerusalem? I […]

I have a feeling this is going to be a recurring theme.
I hate the fact that, when faced with a problem (studies, technology, work), I immediatly ask for assistance. Only then, do I proceed to actually try and figure out the solution. Most of the time, I end up solving it myself. However, the cry […]

A lot of German youth are anti-fascists. One of their mottos: “death to fascists (or fascism)”. Isn’t that, in itself fascistic?