Archive for July, 2006
Overdue: Three Days of My Life as a Play
0 Comments Published by hasan July 23rd, 2006 in Music, Dream, Oud, War, Orientalism, Lebanon.Scene 1: Nightmare on the Night Before July 20th:
I am imprisoned in a world-wide police operation that takes all male youth of a “particular ethnic/religious background” who are being educated abroad in an attempt to rob the countries to which these young men belong of a class of educated youth. So, I find myself being told […]
Open-ended Monologue Just because I Couldn’t Think of a Title
0 Comments Published by hasan July 18th, 2006 in daily life, Kobudo.Let’s see.. I’ll write this as it comes to me;
Kobudo (Ancient Japanese Swordsmanship) : I received a CUSTOMIZED KATANA (Japanese Sword) from my sword teacher yesterday. Don’t worry, Mom - it’s blunt. I don’t think I can hurt myself with it - I think. I guess it’s just to practice Kata (form) in a style of Swordsmanship […]
On Beirut and Gaza
0 Comments Published by hasan July 14th, 2006 in War, Middle East, Palestine, Iraq, Lebanon.It’s really been difficult for me to swallow watching the Israeli Army “defending” (as a particular super-power country leader so elllllloquently put it) itself by taking out important infrastructure and murdering scores of innocent civilians in the Gaza Strip (with its Economy and People gasping for a breath of life) and Lebanon.
The sad thing is, […]
Ten Things Without Thinking
0 Comments Published by hasan July 11th, 2006 in Satanic Verses Controversy, World Cup.I really don’t know what to write about, and yet I have a lot to say. Here are a few things I thought I’d like to point out this time around:
1. I had an Entrance Interview/Oral Exam into Hitotsubashi University’s Graduate School on July 5th. Getting admitted into this university is a nightmare; especially […]