Black Smoke and Time Travel

Everytime an episode of Lost finishes I find myself staring at my confused/stunned face in the black reflection on my laptop screen.

I love it.

The Funk of Forty Thousand Years

Hello.

I know it's old news by now, but this is my share.

Michael Jackson passed away. I must say I was quite shocked, although the news came in like a looming fog rather than a bolt of thunder, if you know what I mean. I was shocked because it had never occured to me that he would no longer exist. I mean, it's not like he was constantly mentioned or always on my mind and now he's gone or anything like that, it's just that I never thought Michael Jackson would die...just like that. I never really THOUGHT about it, I guess that's what I'm trying to say. And that was the saddest thing about it all really. That it happened so suddenly, so out of the blue. Alas! At least he left us all with music that is pure genius. Music through which he will live on. I hope my kids, if I ever have any, will one day listen to his records and appreciate them as much as I do.

Okay, enough of that. I've been watching some old TV shows from the 50's on YouTube, and they've sparked something big inside of me. A pleasure and a yearning for the past. The charm, the wit, the beauty, the talent, the politeness even...*sighhhh!* More on that in later post. Let this be a tease.

Music that I'm into right now:
La Roux. Her music's fresh yet very reminiscent of the 80's. This is her single "Bulletproof". If you like it go ahead and listen her other stuff. Pretty much all of it has the same vibe. Very catchy, dancey...perfect!

Enjoy,

And now...
I must be going.

Between You and Me

As promised, here are a couple of pictures of the flag I made last week.

I watched a couple of episodes of this show that seems to be all the rage right now. It's called "Bayni O Baynkom" (Between You and Me) and it's aired on Flash TV, it's charismatic (or so they say) host is one "Bo Kharshad." Now I thought I'd raise a couple of questions regarding this trend that seems to be all the hype right now (yes there are others like this one on other channels.) It's basically a show with very little on the screen but the host ( I don't know whether they were trying to go for a minimalistic look, or perhaps their low budgets can provide for little more than just that...) and the host basically rants about negative issues going on in the country with a call coming in every now and then from a dedicated or amused viewer who either praises or makes fun of the said host. Now, why has there become this general tendency for us to just rant and complain about things? Sure, through this kind of behaviour we uncover the problems that we believe are being neglected, but I don't feel like these peoples' purposes are to bring change, I honestly believe they just want to rant. And why are viewers pulled in by this type of show? I seriously feel like I'm losing brain cells watching them. Try it, and tell me what you think. I feel like I know all this stuff already, and that what we really need are people who are willing to actually do something about these problems, rather than just act all concerned and rant about them on TV. We can all be doing something more useful with our time, like read a good book, go out for a walk, spend time making constructive chit-chat with family members, or better yet work do something that will make Kuwait a better place than it already is.

I'd like to hear your take on this. Post a comment.

Child Philosophers

While my siblings and I nerdily read in the back seat of the car, as Daddy drove us out for lunch, my 10 year old brother surprised me with this:



"Imagine all the insects in the world not having names before humans gave them names..."



LOL! He didn't even want an answer, he was just stating it. Reminds me of the philosophy of language I was learning about only last semester. I love clever kids!

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Randomness:
Do you know people who have staple articles of clothing? I can't think of anyone I know personally, but I find it really interesting...Miranda Priestly (the boss from The Devil Wears Prada-Lauren Weisberger) always wears a white Hermes scarf somewhere in her outfit. Also, Chuck Bass from Gossip Girl...he wears this quirky scarf all the time...I think it's cute!

Au Contraire

My sister insisted that I watch One Tree Hill...so I'm watching it. I wasn't interested before because I knew it would be the "Oh my God, she stole my boyfriend!" kind of thing...but I watched it for my sister's sake. It DID turn out to be like how I thought it would, but I'll have to admit, after a couple of episodes you get kind of hooked. I'm not talking about the plot here, since that's proven to be quite predictable so far, but the characters seem to become like your friends...Aww! Yes, how very cute!
For those of you who are familiar with the show, I think I like Nathan the most out of all the characters, oh yeah, and Keith. (Yes, I chose the boys...I never choose the girls! :P )

This brings me to another point I'd like to mention, and that's that I always like the ones that everybody else hates. ALWAYS! And it can be frustrating at times, because nobody can relate to what I'm feeling or experiencing...which is a real bummer! But I shouldn't let myself down because of that right? Amethyst always tells me, "Not everybody has to like what you like!" and yeah, I guess she's right...I just hope people'd understand how I feel about stuff sometimes...

Randomness:
There's something about seeing a bunch of sharpened pencil colours that makes me happy :P Does that happen to you? Not just with coloured pencils, with anything...

Lots of stuff give me that feeling, I just said coloured pencils because that's what I see in front of me now...