Feb
13th

• Asians Want $4 Billion From Miley Cyrus – I haven’t been more ashamed of another Asian in my life. Who the hell does this greedy bitch think she is to say she is representing all the Asians [in the L.A. area]?! Can she even legally represent an entire group without everyone’s consent? I can’t stand Miley Cyrus and think she’s a horrible actress and singer but getting sued for 4freakingbilliondollars is a lot. I wasn’t a bit offended although I admit what Miley did was wrong but that’s such a selfish reason to sue someone just because they have the money. Talk about blowing shit out of proportion.
• Google Proves Humanity Is Sick and Sad, Yet Absolutely Hilarious – This comment on the article was too funny: ”I broke up with a girl once because of her google search history… its scared me.” Just for the record, I would like to buy a hamburger too and sleep IS for sissies.
• Baby-faced boy Alfie Patten is father at 13 – That little boy is too cute to be a father… or have sex at 12.
• Octuplets mom wants $2 million for story. And a TV show? – I hope TLC or any other network sees her selfishness and won’t offer her a television series. Besides, she’ll probably be another boring mother like Michelle Duggar. Also, would you donate money to Nadya Suleman? I wouldn’t.

Speaking about TLC’s reality shows, what are your thoughts on the way Kate behaves on Jon & Kate Plus 8? Anal people don’t like her because she’s mean, sarcastic, naggy, pessimistic, loves to make fun of Jon, etc. but I LOVE IT!! That’s one of the reasons why I love that show so much— it’s real and they don’t try to hide their true personalities. The mother in 17 Kids and Counting is SO FREAKING BORING and annoyingly sweet. I’ve only watched that show once and fell asleep.

Jan
19th

I haven’t really been into the music scene ever since those days when my girlfriends and I would each pick a Backstreet Boy to be and record ourselves performing Backstreet’s Back but I recently discovered the most talented singer in the world (IN THE WORLD!!): Charice Pempengco!

You’ve probably heard of her before but l always discover things like this at least a year too late. I’ve only written about music twice in this blog and so she HAS to be good if I’m writing about music again (not that I have anything against music but it’s usually nothing interesting to blog about). Read on…

She’s Filipino, she’s only 16 yet her voice is freaking powerful and amazing… where the hell does it come from?! She’s so tiny! Amazing. She was discovered on Youtube and introduced to America by Ellen, she’s been praised by Oprah, she’s being produced by David Foster and she performed at Obama’s Pre-Inauguration Concert; I swear this girl is going to be the WhitneyMariahCelineHoustonCareyDion of this generation. I was reading comments on an article and someone wrote, “If she was a drug, I would be in rehab for the rest of my life.” WELL, SAME HERE.

You know how every up-and-coming singer performs “I Will Survive” on every talent show? Well this is probably the BEST version I’ve ever heard.

Sigh. I. Am. So. Amazed.

I seriously wish the best for this girl and I can’t wait to see where her voice will take her!

Sep
11th

Sep
2nd

Jul
13th

Firstly, I just had to fill this entry with block quotes and excerpts so please don’t mind the excess. AND please excuse my grammar.. it’s 4am and I’m too lazy to go back and correct them… maybe I’ll do that tomorrow.

I was just going through some of my old bookmarks right now and stumbled onto a bunch of blogs that I use to follow but have seem to forgotten lately.

One of them is baghdadgirl aka Raghda. I use to follow her blog religiously but stopped when I started getting busy (along with the rest of the blogs in my bookmarks). The only blogs I’ve kept up with in the last couple years are ones I connected to 24c.

Anyway back to baghdadgirl, she hasn’t written in a year now and I wonder what has happened to her? In an entry in June 2006 Raghda said, “I promise that I’ll never stop blogging no matter where I am.” I don’t even have words to express about what she must be going through in her war torn country, but I hope she’s okay and just took a long hiatus from blogging. When I read back on her entries, I feel ashamed of myself and the contents of my blog.

Living in war is the hardest thing in the world because you’ll see the place you have lived in for your whole life is being destroyed completely and all the people you love are getting hurt, growing up in war is very hard, all the things you used to do is impossible to do now including going out that’s because it is very dangerous to go any where so you have to stay home all the time and even home isn’t safe… when the situation become really bad like it it is now in Iraq, you do the only thing you can do to get your life back which is leaving the country, and that’s what I done, I still and will all ways feel like there is some thing missing in me, and that’s my friends is growing up in war. - excerpt from baghdadgirl

Why are we writing about our latest shopping hauls, reviewing make up and how we got the latest iPhone, etc.?! It makes me sad that we don’t have any idea of what they are going through over there while their country and lifestyles are being destroyed in a failed invasion by Americans (on both sides). They’re all normal bloggers like us except their rants are a lot different than ours; they struggle to lead a normal life yet it’s clouded in fear because they don’t know what will happen to them and their country, car bombs explode outside near their homes, they have to pass countless checkpoints just to get to school and the list of terrifying ordeals go on.

…the American government and president Bush talk about their big achievements in my country, where we find nothing but fear ,losses, pain, and threats. no safety , no electricity, no tap water in most of the cities , lack in all kind of services even health services , nothing but the worst schools and education , no jobs, no human rights. - excerpt from youngmammy.blogspot.com

It makes me sad that I’m going to continue blogging about what I usually blog about and continue my life as it is. It makes me sad that everyone I know will do the same. It makes me sad that I can’t do much about this. It makes me sad that we can’t help them as much as we want to. It makes me sad that there is no good way to end this war.

Are these the signs for the end of time, of the dooms day? That the world has lost its mind, its ethics, its mercy, justice, and all its beautiful features? I, personally, am tired, but I didn’t lose hope that some people still exist in this world who form a beautiful face to it… They are a minority, no doubt, but they still exist……… perhaps one in every thousand…. - excerpt from afamilyinbaghdad.blogspot.com

One thing we CAN do is spread the word and share their grief, joy and hope. Here are some blogs you can check out (many more if you look through their blog roll). Read their archives. Get to know them. I know I will. They’re all added to my RSS feed so I won’t ever forget about them again.

• baghdadgirl.blogspot.com
• afamilyinbaghdad.blogspot.com
• astarfrommosul.blogspot.com
• youngmammy.blogspot.com
• dbubble.blogspot.com
• livesstrong.blogspot.com
• aviraqi.blogspot.com
• whowasthere.blogspot.com

I want to be able to walk freely in the streets without being afraid of terrorists, many times I wonder, god created us all equally, and gave us mind to think , and feelings to sense, everyone like children because they are so innocents, why some of those children grew up and became evils ? why people fight each other ? I can’t understand that, why someone wake up in the morning and his attention is to kill ? I can’t understand the reason that motivate people to kill, sometimes they kill because of nationality!, religion!, race, some times I wish everyone can remain a child to keep the innocence! - excerpt from livesstrong.blogspot.com

And just one more:

Peace is an amazing feeling we went through ,my kids were walking ,playing and running away from us with out scare .they saw people dancing in the bus ,casino, street and enjoyed the sound of music and beautiful Iraqi songs instead of shootings and explosions’ sounds.they saw how Iraqis are alike and are harmonious unlike what the media reveal that Iraqis are fighting each other. - excerpt from youngmammy.blogspot.com