Quote I like

At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is "not done" to say it... Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the high-brow periodicals.”-George Orwell

tattoos, bicycles, and revolutions

So....A couple weeks ago I attended a random event at SOAS...and met an individual screaming revolution in the crowd...We automatically became friends, weirdos unite. He befriended me, and Now Im in moral dilemma up to my head. I have exams, NO WE CANT ATTEND PROTESTS TOGETHER!!! I don't have time for the workers revolution. So I suggested the mosque, a nice friday jummah, pray to G-d, meditate and levitate? Sigh. To my marxist/atheist crush....we may not meet ideologically...but you always have a little spot in my heart.

So he didnt convert me and I didnt convert him....this is how i feel about Marx though....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-u5WLJ9Yk4&feature=related

abus corner

Mahmood says: i know but there still some crazy people who could hijack you from ur mission

"im beginning to feel..."

"Im beginning to feel the drunkennes that this agitated, tumultuous life plunges you into. With such a multitude of objects passing before my eyes, I'm getting dizzy. Of all the things that strike me, there is none that holds my heart, yet all of them together disturb my feelings, so that I forget what I am and who I belong to." In Rousseau's novel The New Eloise....the protagonist describes his wonder and dread of the city, I liked this quote because these similar feelings resonate within me.

cute boys in SOAS library

Well today I met a cute boy in the SOAS library......

any who so ' this boy' asked me some directions....we were sitting next to each other....and he said I have a nice name after he glanced at my computer screen and even pronounced it right too!! he was being all smooth, complementing me , asking me questions, paying attention to MEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! it was all about me. We talked plenty, the conversation kept on, I was like is this gonna lead somewhere shoot (I mean ask for my digits, FACEBOOK!!!). But, we were in the quiet area, so I was like trying to wrap the conversation up, before someone screams at us. Some people were giving us those evil stares, the kind that tells u 'shut the F*ck up' without actually saying it. He asked me what I want to do in life and where I live etc..etc. I mean it got deep and personal, ok not really. Anyways just when I thought things were getting interesting he dropped it on me like a ton of bricks, "I study economics at LSE................." . I know eh? like WTF?

It gets worse, he tells me he wants to work in Washington for the IMF. At that point I said bye, and hurried away.