Chicken Little told the truth... kind of?

Nine years. Nine years ago the face of the world changed. We were all slapped in the face with reality. We’re still being hit blow after blow. When the towers fell everyone had that Macaulay Culkin face from Home Alone. I wish that had been the worst of it, but it wasn’t. What followed proved to all of us stupid kids who believed that the world by the twenty first century was moving toward peace, and our brains had evolved enough to overlook the differences in colour, language, religion, and community. We haven’t evolved that much. Growing up in the 90s post Cold War, I guess I always knew that we weren’t at peace yet. People were still fighting in remote corners of the world. What I didn’t realize was that 54 years after the end of the Second World War the world would be at war again. We would be discussing Social Darwinism again, I thought we had disproved that. I didn’t realize that once again North American governments would start hiding information from their citizens. I didn’t anticipate the retaliation on Iraq, or Afghanistan. I didn’t realize that people would believe in a War against Terror. It scared me. I would hide in my room and cry when I watched the news. God I hate CNN how they promote hate and propaganda, how Muslims were targeted after the attacks. Dear God doesn’t it end?
That’s when I found her. I don’t know her name, I don’t what she looks like, all I know is her blog. Riverbend, thank you for giving the world insight to the happenings inside Iraq. Abu Gharib proved to many people that at this point Americans were de-humanizing Muslims. Kind of like Nazi’s did when Jewish people were thrown into Ghettos. I watched cowardly as I am. The only time I would speak out was online, in my class, and community. Too scared to travel to the Middle East and help people like Riverbend who are forced to live without running water, minimal food.,…any rights. She did get to live with worry, the sound of bullets, and memories of murdered family.

When Obama was elected everyone breathed a sigh of relief, thinking maybe the world’s not so bad, maybe we can accept.

Today Florida’s minister is burning Qur’ans.

Please God Help us.

As I procrastinate...

I know it's pretty evil, but I think at one point in their life every girl does it. You know how no matter what you can usually tell when a guys into you, like actually into you and you pretend that you don't know cause your not sure if your interested. Yeah... you know.. I know you know. That little period of back and forth flirting watching him get desperate man it makes me laugh. Watching while he tries to catch your eye, innocently staring away..well innocently enough. I swear thats what summer flings are all about. Your nervous and shy, but all you can do is smile and hes trying his best, you can see that...but you still want to push his buttons. That point just before you dive into anything.. that little itty bitty chase that you remember when your alone and wish damn couldn't that have lasted longer while you wait oh so impatiently for the next time you meet...and act like "hey, what are you talking about, I wasn't despretly holding my phone in front of my computer waiting for you to call/text/email". Why can't we just say it, tell them that we were desperate to see them, to smile, and blush while they watch us bewildered, grinning for no reason at all? Is it cause we're scared the chase will end, he'll stop trying? not like us anymore? Slow things down, or is it cause the demon takes over and we just want to torture them. Whatever it is man, does it make me laugh.

the world..."post-wars" and my usual rant.

The smell of basil, that's what I remember. I can still smell it just a little bit. The helicopter blew all the leaves everywhere, on to roofs, through the fields and on to the faces of those kids chasing the gigantic flying monster we arrived in. They flocked us like we were celebrities, something special to be looked at. I hid my gun. That's when I saw her. She was tiny, but she had these deep brown eyes. I swear it was like an ocean of brown, they were filled to the rim with something that shouldn't have been there. That wisdom...the experience with death. Her face was burnt, and she hid behind a small veil. Being completly oblivious to everything but her, I tripped and my gun fell through the green and grey uniform, silver like a flash of lightening. I know she had seen it, I saw her look of horror when she ran away. That was the closest thing to childhood innocence I saw there.

My favorite music

I'm done my final spring exam THANK GOD!!! so finally i can return to listening to music, I'm so sick of listening to the same songs over and over agian on the radio the top tens, of hip hop and rap and whatever Katty Perry is, I used to actually like that stuff man the lyrics make no sense the tunes have been done before. I guess I just craved any music I could listen to while I had the time. Now I have loads of time =) so i thought I'd share with you.
So heres a list of songs and bands that I have fallen in love with:

K'naan- TIA do i even need to say more?

We The Kings-Every time I hear one of their songs I'm danicing around in bedroom (ignoring those random scandolous stares from my neighbors) the lyrics are so good!

Taken by the Trees- Its actually just one girl she sings soft music i love her voice, makes you feel upbeat and happy =)

I love the way you lie- I didn't think the song could be so good but it is

MGMT- the music is so good.

Owl City- Esp his newest albumn

BOB airplanes- i like the chorus and the music

Kevin Ruldoph

Good Night-Black Eyed Peas- Yeah the first song that was played after Canada won Gold, why would I not like it?

some taylor swift... and a mix of others =)

Welcome to 2010

Time tests people we get tested everyday over trivial matters, our alarm clock went off too soon, our shower water was cold, our siblings didn't do their chores, the worst one my playschool teacher has brain cancer and is dying. No it’s not trivial. Its a slap in the face, I volunteered with her for a good two years, all my cousins and siblings went to her for education and now that I'm done grade school it seems she’s done with school too. So let me honor her right now, I can't say her name but she’s an amazing person, she makes her kids smile because she cares about each and everyone of them. She lives in the most multicultural areas of the city and she celebrates it, she runs a small community playschool in one of the poorest places but it doesn't matter to her. The kids mater. I mattered.

In the meantime Iraq’s president is ready to file a lawsuit on an American company (Blackwater) for allowing its security guards to kill 17 civilians, the company was security for diplomats. Yeah, I love the irony too. Want to hear another interesting measure the US will now be screening people of several countries tougher. These countries have been divided as countries of interest (meaning the ones that are being screened for terrorists) are all predominantly Muslim, the next group of countries have been labeled sponsors of terrorism, it includes Cuba, dear God. The list contains a total of fourteen nations. Other western nations are following lead. What this means ladies and gentlemen is the racism is becoming more and more official in the world and we are UNDOING years of evolution. It means that we are FAILING at using our minds to help prevent terrorism and using minor techniques that may seem to help in the beginning but will only make things worse. Racism leads to Terrorism, why would civilians of these countries respect us if we can’t respect them. In one move the American government has classified these people as having suspicious behavior simply by looking at the country they live in. Americans invaded Iraq, shot down thousands of innocent civilians, snatched smiles from millions of children, and the disgusting truth of Abu Gharib. Why? There is NO justification. What will a child do? Losing their parents living on the streets watching their family disappear. And then when they try to escape try to come to “America, the land of opportunity” that child will be discriminated against from the very beginning. Treated differently just because that child didn’t have control over where it was born. Why would this child respect us western countries? Simple logic really give respect get respect. Sadly its not being followed and we need to change that.