Little Mermaid

Watched Little Mermaid this morning, and i was shocked to see how much more disturbing this cartoon has become to me....

In a nutshell, a young girl searching for herself, fascinated with the world she can not have, and in that process falls in love with a prince....

By far, the most interesting scene is Arial and Ursela first encouter, Ursela, bad evil witch tells Arial, men dont like a girl who blabbers, on the land its much prefered for ladies not to say a word. True gentlemen are not impressed by conversation, and it is she who holds her tongue who gets a man. In context it was made in the late eighties...

Arial signs this contract to become human, and pays the price of her voice, and has three days to make this Prince fall in love with her, and give the passionate kiss of Love. Is love just a kiss, and can you fall in three days? :S

Arial is daddy's little girl, who leaves moves her heart into the heart of another man. But she does take a risk, and sacrifies for love of Eric...

Interesting how when the prince met Arial she was first human, he didnt notice her until she was dolled up. Brings back to this saying "Men fall in love with their eyes, while women fall in love with their ears."

Love only happens in the perfect setting, the music, lightening, and the whole atmosphere... You know you want to KISSSsss the girl..

Cartoons condition the minds of our society, and I am a product of those cartoons, except as much I emotional feel that could love could happen, rationally, my mind does not allow it. Humans are incapable... To many variables need to be excluded, but if they were, we wouldnt be living this life we do now...

4 walls

Its strange how a simple concept such as a room which is just four walls, until the resider makes it something else! I have taken done my pictures, and most of my posters except for david appia's one! That painting gives me mixed feelings.. As well as started packing the clothes i know i wont be using!

So this room which i have called my own for eight months has changed back to those four empty walls which it once was when i first arrived, and that thought is so empowering, because everything has a beginning and an ending! And the world doesnt end, cause once my time is up here in this four walls, someone elses time will commence!

Well i have postponed sharing this news with many people, just because i have been scared to admit it to myself! But as i have learnt numerous times, admiting it is always the first step. I applied for National committee vice president of AIESEC Egypt.. and what can i say! If it wasnt for tamer -tamer.nomadlife.org, if not for his manipulative ways i wouldnt have applied, and if it wasnt for so many people believing that i could do the job, i wouldnt have done it. My heart goes our to Hadia and Miano, they were soo helpful throughout it all. So in essence, this success is a shared one!

I am proud and really thankful, that i will get an amazing challenge to come back to! as well i get to re-in-tee-grate with one my favorite people- a sista from another mother [if i didnt love my mom soo much i would say i was her moms daughter, cause her mom is awesome] --whatever ill stop being a randomer and end it here--

Oh ya! really excited Andries is going to be a ceeder for the MC in Egypt, which will be awesome.. trying to convince Letoya to do his traineeship here as well, Amani will be for summer holidays, and then we will have a mini-mapacha reunion, with amani coming in the summer.. It should be awesome! Oh a little piece of my heart will always be in Kenya!

Amazing Day

I just received this forward headed amazing day..

"On Thursday May 4, 2006, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 AM in the morning, the time and date will be
01:02:03 04/05/06
This will never happen again in your life time."

I laughed when it was like this will never happen in your life, hey everyday is a special and amazing! the world and the people are incredible-mashallah!

Iran?

So what is going to happen to Iran? Will America bomb it, or ignore it?

I am leaving!

Today was my last class at SFU! and it hit me, that today will be the beginning of alot of last things while I am in Vancouver, and although its soo hard to psychologically prepare myself to going home. I am doing the first step and admiting, that not saying I'm leaving doesnt mean I am going to stay here. This year has taught me soo many life lessons, i cant begin to start to explain, and as wise Elisa said "its not the place you are at, its the people who makes the experience" and i have been fortunate enough to make a few of the best friends i could have. I know that our path will cross again and again in this lifetime.

"If I could tell the world just one thing
It would be that we're all OK
And not to worry 'cause worry is wasteful
And useless in times like these
I won't be made useless
I won't be idle with despair
I will gather myself around my faith
For light does the darkness most fear"
- Jewel, [Hands]

This is a picture of the first day in Estonia, and as this chapter of my closes a new one will start and that gives me hope!

More about perspective

Last night, i was hanging out with Diana who is possibly one of the most amazing people I could ever meet! She is Mexican and moved to Canada when she was 14, and all her stories and how she became who she is!

She is also a role model for me, starting her own company which is a Mexican Deli when she was only 21!!!

Well we were talking about nothing and everything and we were talking about a bunch of our epiphanies and
we decided the root to understanding this world are two things
1. that us as humans struggle to view different perspectives
2. that everybody has so many insecurities that no one wants to admit

but talking about perspectives, yesterday i went to UBC anthropology museum and there was a little tour, and the tour guide began by talking about three totem poles. They were all sculptured by first nation people, about 100-200 years old, were all used to hold up houses. In addition the main characters in these poles were the bear and the hunter.

The only difference was the geographics of the tribes, and how their perspective between the relationship with bear and hunter!

And hence again Perspective is an important element of this story!

Just one of those days

So its raining all afternoon and now its about 12.09 and its raining. to be quite honest, i get annoyed sometimes, cause my pants get all well, but today i like the sounds of the drops it very soothing while im cracking down my books. Funnily enough this african song comes up on my playlist.. no idea who the artist is but these are some of the lyrics

Fall rain fall rain(x2)
Beautiful rain
Don’t disturb me…beautiful rain
Fall rain fall rain
Beautiful rain
Don’t disturb me…beautiful rain
Oh Come[never come] Oh Come[never come]

It hit me again how for some people what they find normal, some agricultural societies wish for a portion of what it rains here..
Its so strange how perpestives can change so easily just from the angle you are looking at it from...

This post is yet another product of procrastination...

another one of those...

"we are born twice over; the first time for existence, the second for life; once as human being and later as men of women"
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau