tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-104190322011-12-05T21:26:18.053+04:00Masqueraderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09509503954356675347noreply@blogger.comBlogger591100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10419032.post-1131370291972936582005-11-07T17:31:00.000+04:002005-11-07T17:31:32.026+04:00

Is it possible to state whether the US or Europe is more racist or less tolerant to difference races? I've lived in both worlds...not for very long but long enough to have a say. Experiences are different for everyone, bottom line is to think about your decisions and accept the consequences. A non-African, non-Muslim, non-Arab, non-Asian, non-third world country citizen has a better chance to

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Boohoo! we are definitely living in a crazy world, an unbelievable culture that thrives and lives on gossip. I bet I could be a very successful woman opening up my own business called gossip.com and all the members would be ..... need not say really. Two words: Shut up! It seems like gossip nowadays is something men cant escape. It used to be 'this woman .. that woman' and now it's 'this guy,.

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Feed me oh taunting gods the fruit which i have tasted only in my dreams so vividly that these plump ripened cherries stain my tongue for weeks weighing it down as i try to speak of anything mundane. Didnt we learn from Hume that all of our complex ideas must ultimately be composed of simple ideas, that any idea that we have is ultimately derived from sense experience. So where are you my

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I went to get my phone fixed. The model only came out 6 months ago (which means it's still under warranty) and when I went in to give in my details and what the problem was, they never asked for a warranty (logically one wouldn't need to when they're the agents for these models). Anyhow, they tell me it will be ready after 2 days. I go there after three days and there's this arrogant Indian who

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There are so many characteristics that can define a GOOD friend. I'm not talking about someone who will grant you some favors here n there..i.e. pick you up if you need a ride, lend you a couple rials when you need it, etc...I mean someone who willl drop everything they have to be with you when you need them, talk to you for hours when your blue... LISTEN to your problems and give you advice...

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Rule One for a writer, as far as I'm concerned, is that There Are No Rules. And Rule Two (since Rule One was made to be broken) is that There Are No Excuses for Bad Art. Painters, writers, singers, actors, dancers, film-makers, musicians - they are meant to fly, to push at the frontiers, to worry the edges of the human imagination, to conjure beauty from the most unexpected things, to find magic

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I wanted to watch this movie because I heard a little about the best selling novel from a friend so I thought I'd give this movie a shot because I can't be bothered to spend too much time reading a depressing novel.Yep, this was a very depressing movie, however, an insight to what clinically depressed people go through. It was heart-breaking in many ways. Besides that, Christina Ricci's acting

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Art prankster Banksy or secretive "guerrilla" artist has decorated Israel's controversial West Bank barrier with satirical images of life on the other side.go to:http://www.banksy.co.uk/news/index.htmlBrilliant and Chilling!

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A bizarre movie...Memories and regrets... Excellent cinematography and I just loved the music soundtrack!I liked how the movie made me think of things..."Sometimes you meet the right person but it's either too late or too soon"....In the 60's, secrets were about "climbing up a mountain, finding a tree, carving a hole in it, whisper a secret into it, covering it up with mud so that nobody learns

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Clearly, it's not just a personal electronic journal. Many crave for responses, for communication with the unknowns. I myself at times crave for it. I certainly do for the thought of this blog. What is the essence of a blog?Right now: I feel figuratively painted into a corner with a fear that the paint I don’t want to ruin will never dry. Stuck in a rut.Is writing just our outlet? to express

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Just wondering. Been in one only once and didn't see anything good come out of it except emotions of nostalgia, frustration and sometimes even anger because of time and space keeping me away from the loved one. How do people manage it? how can it ever be made successful? people can be patient at the start of a relationship but once they have established their needs, then what? how can they be

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It's just one of those days when I can't help but think and think and think. In the East, Israel constructing a wall which is over 300 miles long to seperate itself from the land that is controlled by Palestinians, capturing Saddam Hussain may lead in the rebuilding of Babylon, Sharam ElSheikh gets hit again with close to a 100 dead... in the west, people fighting for equal rights and at the same

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Morgan Spurluck (the guy who did "SuperSize Me") is someone I really admire. He has started a series of documentaries and this one was about being a muslim for a month. He got Dave Stacy to experience this; a religious Christian in my opinion but always thought a Muslim meant a man with a gun in his hand.Of course, the experience was not easy for Dave. There were a lot of arguements, confusion,

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Shell have recently rebranded their Recruitment Toolkit and would like to test their new service with a cross section of fresh graduates. They are looking to get an opinion from their target audience globally and specifically, from 40 Omani graduates (0-3 years work experience), both male and female and from any discipline. As a reward for the time taken, Shell will give every applicant who

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What's the deal with cheap people? how does one deal with them? Lately, my way has been to simply avoid them but still, I get this strong urge to tell them what I really think of them and that they need to change their crappy ways.This acquaintance I know bought a fake designer's handbag and when we went out for a group dinner, she was making an announcement that she bought this handbag from

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Ten Leading Causes of Death in the U.S.:Heart Disease: 699,697;Cancer: 553,251;Stroke: 163,601;Respiratory Disease: 123,974;Accidents: 97,707;Diabetes: 71,252;Pneumonia/Influenza: 62,123;Alzheimer's Disease: 53,679;Nephritis and Nephrosis (kidney disease): 39,661;Septicemia (blood poisoning): 32,275; andAssault or Homicide (including terrorism at 14th): 16,775, including 9-11.Terrorism alone

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Has anyone ever heard of a group called the Tharwa Project?This is their website: http://www.tharwaproject.com/In brief, from the website itself:The Tharwa Project is an independent initiative that seeks to provide a free platform for the discussion and dissemination of ideas that can contribute to raising the standards of civic awareness in the Broader Middle East and North Africa Region. Due to

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IRAQ's Diaries -- May 2005By Wafaa' Al-NatheemaIn the bottom of the diaries, there is a list of three incidents describing the American involvement in car explosions and in the killing of Iraqis, yet Washington’s politicians and the media portray most of the car bombs as events by Iraqi or (foreign) Moslem terrorists. Please forward the list to as many national and international media outlets.---

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I see I've been book-tagged by Muscati so here goes:How many books do you own?If it's just novels, then I'd say about 80-100. If it includes painting, photography, home-improvement, cook books, self-improvement (believe it or not), bibles, comics, sciences, business, health, literature, Political, Philosophy etc.. then I'd say about 300.What's the last book you bought?The Five People You Meet in

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Crappy plotPoor actingAnnoying scenesA couple of funny scenes (I think I tried very hard to laugh) to feel the worth of my moneyI love Sandra Bullock and this one would have been an absolute disaster without her.Lastly, they should have hired me to direct it!

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The chains of gossip is just beyond me. As a matter of fact, it agitates every cell in my body. It's shallow and quite alarming at times. Yes, this is a rant for those who yap away: do something more useful with your time.

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Is there a divorce fever in Oman?It's been on the rise in the last 5 years.Is this going to change? get worse? or will people's appreciation for marriage simply diminish?Many who get married don't last for more than 2 years and if they do, they break off by the 5th year.Is it just that the new generation have low tolerance and threshold to put up with the reality of marriage? or is it our fault (

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Quite a disturbing movie I must say.Maria - this young 17 year old Columbian girl out on a life-threatening situation.It points out oppression and lack of opportunity. The details of risks, determination, emotion by emotion, suspense and so on is incredibly saddening.This film is not just a movie, it's factual (it's more of a documentary). One of the actors in there has actually dealt with the

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A career advancement? or actually, at least a career stability?...would a move to Dubai be the right thing to do? ...the current economic bubble being experienced in Dubai, would it burst soon?I guess the thing that is exciting about Dubai is the challenge of trying to build up a business, it's one of those rare experiences that you do get of being asked to build up a business, it's an experience

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Evidently, the media in the West is controlled by large corporations and governments. When the news is filtered down to an ordinary person; he/she is only fed with nonsense. Yes, there are alternative news sources that cover a fairly good spectrum of dimensions from a religious ideology, environmental ideology, political ideology, social justice ideology and so on, however, that again is biased

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Two guys digged up a tree in their backyard only to find vintage bills. I guess not everything is a fantasy. The box was stuffed with cash, gold and silver certificates which are worth $100,000 - all found burried just 1/2 mtr deep in his own backyard.Yalla everyone, start digging for your treasure!

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This woman goes to the zoo 3 times/day to breastfeed cubs. The cubs supposedly had a hard time sucking on the bottle but everything was alright when they tried to get the cubs to suck on a woman's breast! I hope she watches out when they start teething.What a bizarre story! I had a weird taste in my mouth when I read this story.Source: Reuters

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"It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the

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First the deadly tsunami, then a series of terrifying earthquakes among the largest ever in the last century. Now, two erupting volcanos forcing over 25,000 residents to flee from the affected area!?! What's the deal with these violent geological forces? My heart goes out to the Indonensians.

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Hubby played an awful prank on me this morning. I don't know how it slipped my mind that it's April Fool's day. It's payback time. He's been behaving as if he's on speed all day from all the excitement of freakin' me out. Any supa dupa ideas bloggers?

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Big deal! what is $300,000 compared to $ 9 billion?Kojo with $300,000.Coalition Authority (US govt) with missing $9 billion. What a pile crap!Anyone, "Do the math pls", what Kojo did is like stealing a grain of sand from the desert as opposed to what the Coalition Authority (or US govt more precisely) is hiding up their sleeves. I call this hypocrisy to make such an ordeal of Kojo but oh yeah,

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Yeah, this will be my first review of a movie/documentary: so here we go, this is the finest documentary I have ever watched from a Political perspective.It's about 4 intellectual activist Egyptian women: Amina; a socialist/ not religious, Shahenda; a Muslim by label but more of an atheist who lost her husband to a political assassination, Wedad; a grounded Christian who is an author and a

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MEN-opause MEN-strual pain MEN-tal illness GUY-necologist HIS-terectomy EVER NOTICED HOW WOMENS PROBLEMS START WITH MEN??

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Al-Nabhani takes over Kuwait counterpart in GCC TennisMarch 23, 2005In a marathon and exciting game, our national team tennis player Khalid Al-Nabhani defeated Kuwait champion Mohammed Abdulreadha 2-1, 4-6,5-7.Khalid showcased amazing techniques and talents as he dominated the game attended by massive fans.Earlier, our National Tennis team lost the opening game to the Kuwait side when the Kuwaiti

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I normally respond to emails in a very pragmatic way where I take each sentence said and respond to it or provide information similar to it etc. Is it better to just reply in a generic way instead of cutting the words to pieces and responding to every letter? If one needs to lie then I rather not hear anything. I always ask that of people I meet online. Don’t lie and if tempted to then just don’

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In the Buddhist cosmology, one of the realms of being is that of "hungry ghosts." These r beings w/ immense bodies but pinhole mouths, so that they r continually driven by unsatisfied desire. When someone once asked the Vietnamese Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh what life is like in the realm of hungry ghosts, he answered with 1 word: "America." The culture we live in, the one that has

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3/19/2005 9:49:5Source ::: AFPJERUSALEM A 17-year-old Palestinian girl, who became pregnant after her father raped her, was strangled to death by her brother in a so-called honour killing in the northern West Bank.The teenager was strangled by her 27-year-old brother on Wednesday in Bala’a town near the northern city of Tulkarem. Arrested by Palestinian security forces, the brother admitted he

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By Brian Whitaker, March 19, 2005The GuardianSaudi Arabian security forces have arrested 110 men at a "gay wedding" party in Jeddah, a Saudi online newspaper reported. Al-Wifaq, which has connections with the Interior Ministry, said the authorities raided a wedding hall on Monday night after a tip-off and found the men - all Saudis - dancing and "behaving like women". 80 men were later released,

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March 4, 2005 Institute for Policy Studies by John Cavanagh 1. He would follow in the great tradition of World Bank president Robert McNamara, who also helped kill tens of thousands of people in a poor country most Americans couldn't find on a map before getting the job. 2. It helps to be a good liar when you run an institution with employees who earn over $100,000 a year to pretend to help

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Beirut,March14,05 Two words - Mind Blowing!Iza al-sha'abu youman arada al hayat, fala budda an yastageeb alqadar.

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The move is seen as part of an effort by the White House to improve its image in the Arab world. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will announce Powell, currently head of personnel at the White House, as her choice for assistant secretary of state for educational and cultural affairs and deputy undersecretary of state for public diplomacy at noon on Monday.Powell, who came to the US from Egypt

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I actually had a quick thought so I'll jot it down.Think about how families came into existence. Was it necasserily due to blood relations?What I'm finding out is, everyone needs a family or an immediate circle of close friends (family), to trust them, support them mentally, truly hope for advancement (unlike our blood family??).Humans are supposed to operate in small groups and live off that

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Anyone has tried it?Men or women, any response would be appreciated.Do you have to start shaving the body parts that you want the laser treatment on?Does it hurt when the actual procedure is conducted on you?Is it really true that the hair would not grow back? I understood that any part of the body would need at least 2-3 sessions. Has anyone been dissapointed and ended up doing a lot more

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1. I call myself masquerader because I like playing harmless tricks.2. I get out of my way to make malicious evil people cry.3. I easily get bored and restless around a lot of adults. Sometimes, the one and two yr olds keep me entertained.4. I love strong and sensual people. People that can exist completely and comfortably within themselves remaining true to themselves despite any circumstances.5

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Just saw muscati's blogger and I'm very very pleased to know that I am not the only one who has trouble posting comments. I can only post comments to my own blog and the only way to do it is to log on through BlogThis! and then add comments. If I directly click on comments; I get the stupid msg that does not make any sense. Glad to know I'm not the only one. At least I know it's not the Gods of

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Interesting. Oman and US will have a free-trade agreement by year end? I was kind of surprised that the trade between Oman and US totals to only $1 billion/year. If anything, I do hope this boosts our exports and improves our technology and hopefully creating jobs. We can do it sooner than later. Bahrain already has. I hope we do so even before UAE. For once, I need to feel that we're ahead of

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For those who are following the news in Lebanon, Karami has returned as Prime Minister just after 10 days of resigning. What's this a sign of? unity or problems escalating? The lebanese don't feel good about this believing it will only cause more Political instability. Yeah, supposedly half the Syrian troops (approx. 7,000) will move to Bekaa Valley as a pullout plan, however, what does this all

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I'm not sure if anyone has experienced something like this but yesterday was the third time I experienced this. At starbucks, I stand in a que, order my drink "Venti Latte", pay for my drink. A man behind me orders a Frappucino, pays for his drink. A woman behind him, orders a "Tall Latte", pays for her drink. We stand behind one another in the same order when we qued to pay for our drinks. "

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Lebanon's Prime Minister Karami and his government announced their resignation today after 25,000 protestors gathered outside Parliament displaying defiance. I'm not sure how to feel this, just because a Pro-Syrian PM Karami has resigned does not necessarily imply that things would improve. Syria millitary forces are still in the country and President Assad claims that there will a price to pay

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A child to a mother....can't be expressed in words..!

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ok now...libertarianism, socialism, liberalism, communitarianism...more or less 4 branches to Politics..A little overview:Libertarianism is an old fashioned approach where the govt protects their ppl from outsider invaders or domestic criminals who violate ppl's rights. Lots of downsides though such as allowing too much liberty in ppl's private life be it drug use, prostitution, pornography etc.

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a typical profile of suicide bombers: approx 50% of the suicide bombers have an academic education, over 80% are single, well over 50% are between the ages 18-23; and the rest under 30. How does one translate the above? religious upbringing? I think not! parental support for their convictions? perhaps! brainwashing? yep without a doubt. Most of all, it's fighting back against oppression and

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I read an article not long ago about this new birth control regimen called Seasonale. Yeah, I said "Seasonale" just like "Seasonal" just like 4 four seasons in a year. Yes, 4 times a year! It appears that, it has the same substances that conventional birth control pills have but this one works with "active" pills for 84 days, then "inactive" ones for 7 days, during which a woman would

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Is there a purpose for every person we meet in this life? good or bad? Does every meeting point achieve a little or big something? exchange ideas? something exciting and fulfilling? to learn something new? to influence? to motivate? to make a difference? to hurt? to provoke? I'm so hooked on the idea that there is a reason to every interaction, conversation or even silence between two. There's

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I've been under the water for a while breathing from a little cylinder.. time to get on the surface of spring and flower like trees do. Enough for me the drama, I need some true action, at 27, one cant waste time. God doesnt wait and neither do I. I call for God's love in the shape he wills and a human form is due for me..again cause I've been living in hunger, mental and spiritual hunger. Now

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I can't stop thinking today nor can I stop typing.. that's what I love about this space.. being the annonymous me, the masquerader and voicing my thoughts through simple text. What a delightful feeling! No name, no face, no expression except my very thoughts! I'm in such a mellow mood... tab'billy shwayeh...sing us a song you.. the piano man! me.. just the mellow girl..somewhere between

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A little intro about him.. he is a colorful lecturer who has written many interesting controversial articles. I've read a few of his writings and I intend to read every one of them. Easy to read and it appears that his work truly hits the reality of what goes on in our sad world. I sometimes feel that the human race will come to an end before judgement day at the way human beings are torturing

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Diagnosis "Liar" Lies that display mercy to agony and soreness Lies that preserve sense of dignity and seemliness White lies, old lies, black lies, colored lies Unusual traces of desolate lies, it never dies A demon, a small demon Smoking in the car Messing with her head Trapped within her Abrades her inside Sitting, writing in agony The demon of lies and deceit She screams, Pinning it down Some

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had a mind break for some time now; just about a brain dead phase and now, a bizarre question ringing in my head "what is fantasy?", some philosopher said that it is seperating beauty from ugliness or the gap between the two.. like seperating reality from the real? we create this strange reality, deluding ourselves so we can escape the real? whoa, I think that's the saddest part of human nature.

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