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Breathe
Sunday, April 19th, 2009 | Blog | 3 Comments
Somethings just take your breath away
It’s been five months since my last requiem. It feels ages longer. What have I been doing?
To be honest, I’ve been watching life speed towards me. I watched as life crashed into me. I watched as life gave me a sheepish smile, dusted itself off and continued on speeding away. I, me and myself had nothing to do with the course of my life and there was nothing I could do to hinder it.
This is not psychobabble bullshit. I had forgotten how to breathe. I remember now. I’m going to breathe again.
Expect more from now onwards 
Amen.
Charm
Sunday, November 9th, 2008 | Blog | 6 Comments
‘You’re so charming’ She gushed.
‘Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.’ I told her.
She stared at me blankly.
‘Henri-Frédéric Amiel’ I told her.
She kept staring.
I’m not charming anymore.
Also, she stopped speaking to me.
So much for honesty…
Vote For Change
Sunday, October 26th, 2008 | Blog | 6 Comments
I was speaking to my mother, or rather arguing, about her ardent support towards our ever-consistent president, and she told me something that explained to me somewhat, how the minds of these ‘older’ people are working.
She said to me ‘When I was a young girl, my mother used to tell all the people to vote for Maumoon, or else we will not get good food, and education and medical facilities.’
Yes, that’s right, basically, by letting him have the maximum amount of votes from all over the neighborhood or district or whatever, she wants to suck up to him so that he wont punish her. And I’m sorry if I offend people when I say this but that doesn’t sound like the makings of as perfect a president as he makes himself out to be.
Through out her entire life, my mother has been told that if she doesn’t like Maumoon, then she will in turn have to suffer. She has been forced to believe that there is nobody else in the entire world who can be responsible for this dot of a country, that he is only one who is pure, he is the only one who is uncorrupt and he is always right, and if she doubts his grace, its her problem.
Maumoon has successfully proven his ‘Godliness’ by putting in practice the same thing they repeatedly tell you during Islam period in school; love your God or he will screw you backwards later.
Everyone, please, vote for change.
Old Emails
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 | Blog | 3 Comments
I was revisiting the past by reading all my oldest emails. I had no idea that old emails could make me feel so many different emotions. Even when I look back at the worst times, I find that there are good enough memories to make me remember when everything wasn’t so bad… and smile about it.
Important Lesson of the Day :
An email where a person says ‘Call me’ will make you feel an insistent urge call that person again, even if the email is 2 years old!!
PMS
Sunday, January 27th, 2008 | Blog | 8 Comments
Did you know that close to 14% of women between the ages of 20 and 35 become so affected by PMS that they have to stay at home?
I’m sitting at work, feeling my mood fall and rise and twist and turn like an overzealous salsa dancer. Hormones… they’re running in excess around my body today. Sometimes I’m thinking that I want to write a long rambling post about my life… something I haven’t done for the past two years… and other times, I want to delete this entire sordid disemboguement. And then I think maybe I should go out and and have a hard black coffee with blueberry cheesecake.
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But for the record, PMS is real. It’s not just something that the Women’s Super Secret Underground Organization of Super Secret Stuff (that all guys suspect is there but none can prove) fabricated so as to justify a sudden feminine urge to scream, cry, grumble maliciously and eat two gallons of rocky road (note : ^.^ yum!!).
Apart from the PMS thing, I am fairly content with my life and don’t have anything important to complain about as of now.
I suppose that makes me the weirdest girl on the Maldivian blogosphere =(
Social Profiling
Saturday, January 19th, 2008 | Blog | 6 Comments
I found a rather depressing quiz today that classified all women into three very specific groups. Those who are shy, those who don’t care, and those who are snobby. It was an insult to women every where. I don’t understand people’s fascination with it. (By it I mean personality quizzes and horoscopes) I enjoy quizzes as much as the next person, but yesterday, when I actually saw that quiz, it occurred to me that we humans have an uncanny obsession with hearing other people talking about us. Yes, inside, almost everyone wishes for the whole world to revolve around them! No one likes to admit it, it’s the human tendency to deny personal vanity when asked in the face, but while you’re reading this, deep down inside, you know it’s true!
Horoscope is also the exact same thing. I know I am a zodiac fan too, but it does occur to me from time to time how absolutely silly all of it is. The formation of the stars cannot authenticate who we are. That is settled, scientifically, first, by our chromosomes, and then, the rest of our personalities are shaped by our upbringing and the society around us. What does stars have to do with it? But still, we love reading the horoscopes, and by doing that, we, in a way, become hypocrites. If a person is a Leo, they’re labeled as bossy and self-involved, if a person is a Scorpio, they’re labeled as sadistic and cynical, and if a person is a Sagittarius, they’re labeled as not serious and airy. Isn’t it the same as the hypocritical labeling that the entire world is giving Muslims as blood-thirsty terrorists?
Okay, okay, you’re right. It may not be exactly the same thing, but it’s in the same line, isn’t it? It may not be as drastic, but it’s similar all the same.
There are many people in this world who also have a tendency that I like to call the ‘Read and Believe Syndrome’. Yes, I do make up my own words and diseases.
A person suffering from this condition believes so much in what they read in these personality quizzes and zodiac fore-telling, that they actually begin acting out these predictions. They, unconsciously, make them come true. And then, of cause their belief is hardened even more. What they don’t understand is that when they read these so-called predictions, their mind, unconsciously links this to any event that may even remotely be connected to the topic, and forces it to make sense. Why? Most of the time, only because you want to believe it bad enough that you’re mind has no choice but to come up with a logical explanation to prove it. And sometimes, the coincidental incidents they come up with are amended to suite the purpose, or simply made up entirely!
This is yet another example of how humans are obsessed with themselves…. when will we ever learn?
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