Human Behavior and Complexity

Whoever said man is a simple being is out of touch with reality.

We are far from simple.

Hidden agendas, thoughts, and wonderings lurk behind those eyes and it is interesting (and funny) to watch when a person is not telling the truth.

Is it ok to lie? It depends on the circumstance and if anyone gets hurt in the process. Personally, I do not care unless it harms someone.

Honey, I know he is not the father of your child, the paternity test says so!

Life's Simple Pleasure #1

Coffee with friends, subject matter: men

Quand je n'arrive pas à m'exprimer

Je pense bien que le monde est calculé
Je pense bien que tout est encadré
Que nos pensées sont tracées dans l'air auparavant
Et tu crois que la derniere prise
Elle a mis du temps ta douleur

Ouvre les yeux le monde change

Ah oui je sais qu'un jour
Ah oui je sais qu'un jour

Pour voir plus clair
Tu dois oublier tous les mensonges
Ah le monde change, le monde change

Soulage ton coeur, soulage ton ame
Ah le monde change

Et tu crois que la derniere prise
Elle a mis du temps ta douleur
Ta douleur, ta douleur

Demain est une autre sortie
Ca fait mal dire mais j'ai peur, j'ai peur, j'ai peur

Ah le monde change, le monde change
Soulage ton coeur, soulage ton âme
Ah le monde change, le monde change

(Thievery Corp. Le Monde)

Long Live Lebanon!

After a month of unrelenting abuse from their neighbors, the Lebanese people prevailed! Today, the IDF holds its head down in shame while the Lebanese lick their wounds and seek for a better tomorrow. Today, my alarm clock wakes me to better news: Lebanese stock improved tremendously, the Lebanese were able to withstand one of the most advanced armies in the world.

Israel sought to divide and conquer, but what they did was embed a sense of nationalism that has been hammered into every Lebanese around the globe.

Learning to Read the Paper

At the age of 22, I have finally learned how to read the paper. Let us take a look at, my favorite, the New York Times. (The parentheses are the stuff that should be understood from the article.)

Israel Asks U.S. to Ship Rockets With Wide Blast

By David S. Cloud

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 — Israel has asked the Bush(mert) administration to speed delivery of short-range antipersonnel rockets armed with cluster munitions, which it could use to strike Hezbollah missile sites (or baby Ali, mommy, whoever the hell gets in the way) in Lebanon, two American officials said Thursday..

But some State Department officials have sought to delay the approval because of concerns over the likelihood of civilian casualties (Bush's approval rating has plummeted, perhaps?), and the diplomatic repercussions (everyone already hates us). The rockets, while they would be very effective against hidden missile launchers, officials say, are fired by the dozen and could be expected to cause civilian casualties if used against targets in populated areas (whoa, shocker!)...

If the shipment is approved, Israel may be told that it must be especially careful (as in 33% of your targets are kids) about firing the rockets into populated areas, the senior official said.

For You, Georgie

Gandhi is right:

"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?"

The Way My Coffee Cup Sees It

All unhappiness and stagnation
Result from a feeling that you are
At the mercy of the world and the people in it.
But what a joy it is, what a major shift to strength and
Power, when you no longer wait around for others to favor and
Love you, for others to flatter and reward you. Reward and flatter
Yourself, favor and love yourself.

-Kira Salak

Video et Taceo

Serenades of spite
Sung across shores

Sweet sleep seeks
Sadistic souls

The Rape of Lebanon

A half world away,
The furrow deepening my brow
Like the furrow in the land.

I watch.

Flames consume the land
And burns my heart.

A voice from afar repeats:

We will prevail, we will prevail!

You'll Need a Kleenex

I've realized that I am spending too much time in cyberspace than in bookspace...so then I got to do what I got to do.....

I am leaving the blogmunity and will be back in mid August, see y'all then.

Take Care!

Lil Birdy

Little birdy in the tree,

How I long to be with thee!

Mein Kompf

You know what? I was going to write about how my life is seriously sucking right now. I was going to boohoo to you about how I have been betrayed. I even thought of a lovely story about how I stood up for what was right and lost supposed 'friends'.

No, no, I won't do that.

At the end of the day, I have some dignity to look in the mirror and sleep well at night. I am going to bust my ass and try my best to get this test under my belt..then, my career will have some meaning to it....when I reach my goal, I CAN actually do something about what I read in the paper.. I will add my LITTLE BRICK to the big building...

I don't live in Darfur, nor Iraq, nor Kashmir.... All this fussing about my books, my test, my loneliness, mean nothing..as I type on my nice laptop in an air conditioned study room, there are people living through HELL..who have to witness atrocities and don't even have the means to do anything about it....

I am going to suck it up and push myself like I have never done before, then I can at least say that I did my best.

Verbatim

"I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5 lb. perch in my lake."

George W. Bush answering a German newspaper reporter who asked him to name the best moment of his five years as President.

Time Magazine May 2006

Law of Probability and My Messy Room

I don't like to share this with many, but only between you and me.

I like things tidy and neat. As I was folding yet another shirt today, I asked myself, "Why is it, that it is easier to dirty a room than to clean it?"

Because, my dear, we are victims of a law of probability. You see, there are more chances, more places, more spaces for something to be outside of its place, than the small likelihood that it would be in its right place.

The world is increasing in entropy (randomness) and I must learn to live with it!

Heavy Sigh

Okay, so I high-jacked this off 'his' web space. I doubt he would mind, considering:

A) I am the person he his referring to.
B) He took my idea.
C) He doesn't know about this blog ;)
D) It made me feel so good that I had to share.

...And then came the day where my sense of perception shifted to some new level ... even though I was playing the song for the first time, I could swear i was anticipating like every word in it, there were even times when i let myself play on some of the words ... OK, maybe a lot of them. They weren't just expressive enough, you see ... To this point, I must at least got you wondering what was so catchy about this song. Was it the singer, the writer, the producer maybe . I tell you it was a listener, the listener ... a listener who once said that she looks so much like the girl in the song, and I believe without the least doubt that there is no way something so heavenly would be described with earthly words, but to my mind it added another piece to a beautiful puzzle i have been putting together for quite some time. Could you imagine a talking Charlie Chaplin with a dolby surround, a Monaliza giving you the blink, a 3D Tom&Jerry, I say it had the same effect ... I finally got the perfect stimuli to blow some soul into that still masterpiece hanging on the back of my head... Learn the words, boys and girls, I might need you in the chorus for my next big party ;)

Are you a nurse?

I respect nurses, I really do. The world needs nurses as much as we need doctors, technicians, etc.

However, if another person asks me if I am a nurse, I am going to say something really, really, really mean.

Long distance relationships and Newton's Law

So this summer is the 'make it or break it' into med. school. So I whimpered 'no' to an offer to visit Lebanon in hopes of concentrating on the lovely test that I adore oh so much.

I am waisting time, guiltily, but amusingt myself with the correlation that I see with the physical sciences and relationships...for example:

All objects have some sort of attraction to each other...we exert an attractive force on Earth and it does the same to us...only the Earth's mass is much larger than ours, so our force is negligible. The farther two objects get from each other, the less the attractive force...

And that brings me to us, humans, the father we seperate from each other...the harder it is to maintain that attractive force...those who are in long distance relationships are at a disadvantage than their nearby counterparts...thank God for globalization!

Let's Get Off Our High Horse!

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad advance to open communication with the U.S. is an invitation that the U.S. should accept. Opposition of diplomacy with Iran stems from fear that it will hinder international community involvement. Some believe that by speaking to Iran, the U.S. is contradicting its claim that this regime is 'evil'. Because we, the U.S., have branded this country as such, talking to them will show volatility to our enemies and friends, but that is a shifty foundation for a weak argument.

The benefits to diplomacy far outweigh throwing down the gauntlet. First and foremost, we do not have the resources for another burdening war. We have already spent over $100 billion on Iraq. Also, we cannot prove to the international community the justification of military action unless we have used all possible political maneuvering. The belief that by speaking to the enemy, we are endorsing their ideology is nonsensical. The U.S. has communicated with Iran not too long ago during the onset of the war on terror. So why can't we talk once again?

Interesting

What Famous Leader Are You?
personality tests by similarminds.com

Cannot Be Said Better

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple,

pray in your church.

For you and I are sons of one religion,

and it is the spirit.

Gibran Khalil Gibran