Cheating my way out :p

Right so my exams start tomorrow and I have been accordingly preparing for them. However, I have noticed that I have been cheating my way out of spending as much time for economics by “studying/reading” other subjects…mainly history and global political economy…and so I don’t feel so bad :D I am still studying right!! :p ahh well the problem with economics is that the chapters are SO long and just as I am half way I lose interest…it is just gone, everything I read goes way over my head. I used to solve this problem by dividing the chapter into little sections for an everyday dosage, but with the limited time I have, that isn’t going to work!!! I think it is just this economics course, plus Ottoman history and global political economy are WAY more interesting to study….don’t you agree?!! and I can spend hours on them.

Uggh both ways…I will be doing my history exam first thing tomorrow morning and there will be little leeway for me to cheat my way out of economics, and I certainly do not want to flunk it out!!

Looking Back

So I was browsing through my mum's laptop last night and came across those many pictures of Bibo...I almost forgot how fast he's all grown up now!!

So I stole some of these pictures :p...for those of you who don't know Bibo but have heard me rattle on about him...well there he is....Bibo turned 9 this July...it has a been a long ways since! I love him so much! :)

Here is the link for the album: http://picasaweb.google.com/rama.isaac/LookingBack#

Dear FutureMe :)

So Maha shared this link http://www.futureme.org/index.php …and it is indeed a great one…I really like the idea…thanks babez x

Basically you write to your future self about what is currently happening with you or what you would like to see happen in the future and then you decide on when to receive this email back in the future. It could be within months, a year or 2. Maha said she did it 3 years ago and got the email. I made mine in a year.

It really helps putting everything down...it helps asserts to one what is currently important. I think it is important from a future perspective as well, knowing what was and is still considered important and how we handled such things and how they've progressed.

The Weather and I :)

Anyone who knows me, would know how much of a weather person I am :p…by that I mean that the weather often plays a role in how I am feeling :) and thankfully I’ve learnt to only let it have a positive impact on me.

I like doing things in honor of the weather, such as listening to a song, doing an activity, having a cup of coffee or simply just taking the time out to sit and watch it. Whatever it may be, I work around it :) It simply is my muse time!

However, I never considered how lucky and how good the weather has been to me. It is easy for me to often forget how the weather has drastically affected millions of people negatively. Whether in the form of hurricanes, floods, snow or heat, the weather, in many instances, has left people without homes, workplaces, schools and hospitals. Today, the human mind has found and invented many means that allow a sustainable life regardless of the weather. Yet it maintains and always will be beyond our control. Even with those most fortunate of us, with a good enough shelter, the weather can turn to a monstrous uncontrollable above superpower leaving us practically helpless to it. It makes a lot of sense that the civilizations before the Abrahamic religions came out, regarded forces of nature such as the sun, sky, rain, etc .as their gods. For at that time their survival depended a great deal on the weather and how much they could work around it.

So since it is very important to me, I just wanted to make sure that I am truly thankful for the weather that I’ve had and am experiencing. and hopefully will continue to be!

Info of the Day

There are two types of Jews: Sephardic and Ashkenazi

Sephardic Jews are non European Jews, mainly from Spain, where the origin of the word is coming from, and the Middle East, at least their historical origin, they are the Hebrew Jews.

Ashkenazi Jews are European Jews, largely from Eastern Europe; they are the Jews that have mainly migrated to the U.S. and Western Europe, 1880-1900’s, after facing much discrimination in East Europe.

Loving it short again!! :D

Haa!! I finally got my haircut last weekend!! I’m loving it…I’ve never been one for long hair….this is much easier, comfier and feels lighter :D

Info of the Day

So today I learnt about “Jonestown” something I never heard of before. Not that it is extremely important to know..but I thought it interesting. Well Jonestown is in Guyana which is one of the nation states in South America. Well this name “Jonestown” was given for the “Peoples Temple of Agricultural Project” which is an intentionally formed community. Which is basically a community formed with some political, social or spiritual idea. Anyways so this community is formed by a “Peoples Temple” led by a person called Jim Jones, which is where the name is derived from. He comes from California. So why is this community important…well on November 18, 1978, around 900 of them died in a “revolutionary suicide” which was led by Jim Jones, what makes this notorious, is that it looked like a massacre but rather was willful suicide. I hope I explained it well, I’m not sure I get quite well myself; I’m still looking into it. :p