Being able to sleep early has done me wonders, the military style discipline is the most productive step I have taken so far in 2010 lol (I'm hoping there's some productivity tucked back here). I wake up just after 4am a wee bit tired but once I'm up and about I run around like a new born spring chicken on prozac lol (don't laugh).
This month for me will be remembered as the month of Haiti; when the world shook its earth and I pray may Allah subhana wata'ala be with them as they strive to find their loved ones. Though it has been a while since the earthquake took place, people are still being dug up from underneath remnants and collapsed buildings and therefore the search quest te reunite families missing members still continues. Children have lost their parents and extended family members leaving them orphans with nowhere to go. Mothers have lost their husbands in the quake and are left to take care of their children with businesses lost and no income.
Insha Allah lets keep them in our prayers and do as much as we can to help and support them. There are many charities on the ground providing emergency relief. There are around 1 million Haitians that need shelter who have lost their houses. The number for those in need of food, water, sanitation facilities exceeds all possible equasions. The Haitian government is currently planning to relocate 100,000 people just outside of the capital Port-au-Prince but even there the basic needs still exist. The long term needs to rebuild the capital and areas of the island that have become damaged as well as the infrastructure of the country and people's businesses rely on the hope of the world reaching out. Let us do our share, lets give regularly as much as we can to any of the relief agencies operating on the ground.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
gazaholism
means when one practices the art of gazing a bit too excessively! lol that cracked me up. I was watching wife swap a few days ago and the swap was between a hunting family that eat anything from rabbits to horses and a vegan family of which the mother gazes at the sun for energy. She believes this can replace food and thinks this could be the answer to world hunger....
then she goes back to the kitchen to raid the fridge! lol, says she hasn't figured out the knots and bolts yet. She was a very active animal rights campaigner only to show up at the door step of a family that believe animals are made for human consumption! What I couldn't get over was how this woman was so adamant about the sun being able to replace food then jump right back to the kitchen to eagerly devour some serious food and not feel silly.
She would argue if people in places like Africa knew of sun gazing they could become independent and not starve and at the same time not wonder why she's still hungry even though she 'stares at the sun' every morning. Americans never seize to amaze me.
Today for the first time in a long time I am putting myself to sleep at 7pm, need to get some serious discipline happening in my life. I find myself struggling to get up every morning because it's so early but not try to sleep early enough to get enough rest. And so my severely delayed new year resolution is to militarise my sleeping schedule lol! Good night :)
then she goes back to the kitchen to raid the fridge! lol, says she hasn't figured out the knots and bolts yet. She was a very active animal rights campaigner only to show up at the door step of a family that believe animals are made for human consumption! What I couldn't get over was how this woman was so adamant about the sun being able to replace food then jump right back to the kitchen to eagerly devour some serious food and not feel silly.
She would argue if people in places like Africa knew of sun gazing they could become independent and not starve and at the same time not wonder why she's still hungry even though she 'stares at the sun' every morning. Americans never seize to amaze me.
Today for the first time in a long time I am putting myself to sleep at 7pm, need to get some serious discipline happening in my life. I find myself struggling to get up every morning because it's so early but not try to sleep early enough to get enough rest. And so my severely delayed new year resolution is to militarise my sleeping schedule lol! Good night :)
Monday, January 4, 2010
new year, new hopes
A very belated happy new year to each and everyone of my family and friends. 2010 has brought a very chilly start but of course each new year brings new hopes and so we're diving in with heads held high and remain grateful for the blessings of 2009. I am in particular in a humble and grateful state of mind. 2009 has been the year where I got accustomed to DC and the VOA and though it was a scary and anxious time for me but I've had a tremendously fulfilling and welcoming time so far. So I'm driven to accomplish much more this year hopefully. WEBR's show has officially started airing each and every Tuesday at 4pm and Patrick and I are having a great time hosting the show. Come fall time I'll also hopefully start my Phd either in African Studies at Howard or Philosophy of journalism at Maryland, I'm still in two minds.
At the VOA both my horn series and the prison report are still in the editing stage. It's dragging on a bit now so I'm hoping to bang it out soon. Still thoroughly enjoying producing the Diaspora program which airs every Mnoday and Wednesday.
On a more personal note, as I was still struggling with adjusting to the cold here I went out on Sunday and bought the biggest northpole type jacket I could get my hands on lol! I now look like a tall domesticated eskimo!
In terms of Somalia, the situation is just going from bad to worse and I'm really worried it will just be wiped off the world. People are fleeing to wherever they can get to and those who haven't been able to leave are displaced within the country. There is literally not a safe area at all as explosions and suicide missions are being carried out in all parts of the country. There is talks that Britain and the US might send troops to Somalia alongside Yemen in the vain hope they might strike lucky this time given the previous failure attempt of Operation restore hope. We live to see insha Allah, I just hope some form of normality might come about for the civilians.
At the VOA both my horn series and the prison report are still in the editing stage. It's dragging on a bit now so I'm hoping to bang it out soon. Still thoroughly enjoying producing the Diaspora program which airs every Mnoday and Wednesday.
On a more personal note, as I was still struggling with adjusting to the cold here I went out on Sunday and bought the biggest northpole type jacket I could get my hands on lol! I now look like a tall domesticated eskimo!
In terms of Somalia, the situation is just going from bad to worse and I'm really worried it will just be wiped off the world. People are fleeing to wherever they can get to and those who haven't been able to leave are displaced within the country. There is literally not a safe area at all as explosions and suicide missions are being carried out in all parts of the country. There is talks that Britain and the US might send troops to Somalia alongside Yemen in the vain hope they might strike lucky this time given the previous failure attempt of Operation restore hope. We live to see insha Allah, I just hope some form of normality might come about for the civilians.
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