Politics - comes from “poli” meaning many, and “ticks”, a blood sucking insect. (saw it in Bill Maher’s HBO website ones).
Im not a fan of politics but I do like to say what I think about politics because no matter what I think about a politician, they will affect my life. Yesterday Saddam Hussein was hung for his brutal crimes and killings, not only him but also his partners and half-brother. I don’t believe in killing people and I do not agree that the best way to show the world that killing others is wrong, is killing the killer.
Yes he was an awful person, of course he killed and tortured millions but I dont think he deserved death. I would of prefered for him to be sent to prison for life, maybe put him in a cell with some rapist , just for the heck of it. If this is the way we’re going to fight terrorism, by killing them, then we are just becoming terrorists. Reminds me a lot of the movie Munich, where man started hunting terrorists and became terrorists themselfs.
Anti-Flag - Outbreak (part of its lyrics):
so who is the real terrorist?
is it saddam hussein or the u.s. president?
Yasser
I saw this movie a couple weeks ago. I was really looking forward to watching it since the trailers and the story looked so interesting. The movie is about secret societies and how the C.I.A. came to be. It is alot of spy and misteries, secret things that sometimes I didnt understand and some action, mostly drama. The movie might be a bit long but it’s ok, its not long and boring. My only complaint about the movie is the way the story was developed, going back and forth in time which gets very confusing sometimes. Some characters weren’t fully explained and felt lost , missed some who, why and what. Overall the movie is good, not a great as it could have been. I give it a 3.5 .
- an expression of agreement that is not supported by real conviction
- Hypocrisy is the act of pretending to have beliefs, virtues and feelings that one does not truly possess.
Back in high school I use to tell my friends I was one of the biggest hypocrit in life, but not like others, I never denied beeing one. Their just certain things you dont say to people in order to not make them feel bad. And you might think that this is acceptable to me; but truthfully it kills me inside having all these opinions and thaughts about people, not beeing able to let them know exactly what I think about them. It feels like I am getting poisened and it is spreading around my body, slowly killing me with pain.
I know there are certain people who wouldn’t like to hear what I think about them because they claim they don’t really care. I use to be on of those people and then I started paying attention to what people think about me because they might know better than me. But for some weird reason I still can’t tell people what exactly is in my mind, I havent been able to open up and make use of free expression.
It saddens me that I cant be who I want to be. Maybe one day I will be able to tell people to there face what I think about them even thought it will cost me a couple of “friends” but I prefer to keep beeing real and saying the truth than to keep poisoning my body with lies and hypocrisy.
PS: I leave this poem writen by Tupac Shakur which I loved, it’s called I Cry.
Sometimes when I’m alone
I Cry,
Cause I am on my own.
The tears I cry are bitter and warm.
They flow with life but take no form
I Cry because my heart is torn.
I find it difficult to carry on.
If I had an ear to confiding,
I would cry among my treasured friend,
but who do you know that stops that long,
to help another carry on.
The world moves fast and it would rather pass by.
Then to stop and see what makes one cry,
so painful and sad.
And sometimes…
I Cry
and no one cares about why.
It was friday night and I was with a group of friends thinking about our options on what to do. We could of gone ice skating, see a movie, go to a crapy party or just hang out in someones apartment. But my cousin was telling us to be spontaneous and lets just go to Binghampton University and visit some of his friens and stay over night. We all thought he was crazy in sounded like a great idea but not very plausible considering its already 8pm. After him explaining how many people in there life are never really spontaneous and they usualy plan things, he convinced one of my friends. But still had no ride to get there and our friend with a car didn’t want to drive all the way down there. He realized my roomate has a car so I gave him his number and he explained the whole idea.
By 11:30pm (more or less) we where at Binghampton University at one of his friends house. We spent the whole night there having fun, playing games, and doing what college students usualy do. Next day we continued our road trip towards Syracuse because my roomate, my cousin and I where going to go watch Carlos Mencia, his new tour The Punisher. It was crazy funny, definetly a must watch. We got back home at around 2am, all of this the consequence of being spontaneous. And I believe it was totaly worth it and next weekend we should get spontaneous again and go somewhere else.
Yasser
JavaScript is one of the most powerful languages, it is just not seen this way. With the new wave of people using AJAX they now realize how powerful JavaScript could really be. But its power goes beyond that; with JavaScript we are able to completely reconfigure a website without having to save it or change the source directly. Not everyone is aware that we could run JavaScript from the address bar and this way we could modify a website, inyect AJAX commands or change value of forms, cheat in games. JavaScript doesn’t only control websites, you can control Flash movies or ActiveX controllers, this allows us to be able to cheat in certain games or “security mechanisms”.
Me and my friend Sirdarckcat (Eduardo) have create a document explaining all the things we could do with JavaScript to control websites and how you could do this. And to make things easier we have created a couple of libraries that you could use to modify websites as if you where using FrontPage or Dreamweaver. Many people could probably be thinking that all these things could be done with certain plugins. But they miss out on the beauty of JaSiLDBG , this does not require to be installed as software, you could run it from anywhere on all the popular browsers (havent tested all the browsers in the world) out there. So you read it and let us know how powerful do you think JavaScript really is.
Yasser
This is my second day of class of this new winter quarter here at RIT (Rochester Institue of Technology). It is crazy cold, you cant even imagine how cold it is, it feels like a January cold in New York City. And the fact that our whole campus is made to be extra windy it is horrible at certain locations. Classes aren’t bad; I am taking Computer Science 2, Writing (I cant spell) , Calculus B and Microeconomics. Today during writing the teacher read a page of Kurt Cobain’s diary which reminded us of how important is to write about our life so later in time we could look back at what we liked and how we use to think. I guess this is one of the main reasons I have always wanted to create a Blog because at the same time I could get feedback of what other people thought about me or my thoughts.
Now the writing class is definetly going to be my hardest class this quarter. I didn’t go to an american school so I’m not really use to writing essays, specially long specific topics. But this quarter I am going to have to face this and learn. And even though I might not do very well in that class at least I’ll have a better experience and know more about writing. I just hope my GPA doesn’t go down because my goal is a 3.0 , but I don’t think I will be able to accomplish this quarter but I’m not giving up yet. So I will let you know how is it going and what I will get at the end of this quarter.
Yasser
I know this movie has been out for a while now but I hadn’t seeing it because it didn’t really appeal me but last night a group of friends convinced me to go watch it with them. It hasn’t changed much from the first version, it is still creepy. But this time they manage to explain a little more about the background of the story and why certain things happen. The fact that it was PG 13 made it seem like it wasn’t going to scare anyone but it still makes you go “ohh” or whatever you say when you see something unexpected or creepy. Im a big fan of horror, specialy gore, and this is definetly not one of my favorites and it is a good movie to rent with a group of friends on late rainy day. I give this movie a 3 because it is still silly and it had some horrible editing and the ending was just to weird for me. But if you really like The Grudge part one then you will probably like this one too.
Yasser
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