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Under: Uncategorized, Random Thoughts @ 2:12 pm on Tuesday, 02.28.06

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My 5…

Under: Uncategorized @ 9:15 am on Tuesday, 02.28.06

Thanks to Rihab’s insomina, I can ‘confidently’ say that I am outgoing, sometimes goofy,  - fair is the name of the game - generally friendly and trusting yet have a healthy dose of cynicism, my openess to new experiences is medium, though generally broad minded when it comes to new things, I - in no way - would ever approve of nor tolerate things that cross the moral line, I am suspicious of anything too wacky (that includes people too!) yet I do hold a strong appreciation for creativity for I consider it a virtue. Allow me to strongly disagree with my 4 - neuroticism. I am living a lively and a very high life :twisted:  

Here is the full report:

  ***My Five Factor Personality Profile***

Extroversion: You have high extroversion.
You are outgoing and engaging, with both strangers and friends.
You truly enjoy being with people and bring energy into any situation.
Enthusiastic and fun, you’re the first to say “let’s go!”

Conscientiousness: You have medium conscientiousness.
You’re generally good at balancing work and play.
When you need to buckle down, you can usually get tasks done.
But you’ve been known to goof off when you know you can get away with it.

Agreeableness: You have medium agreeableness.
You’re generally a friendly and trusting person.
But you also have a healthy dose of cynicism.
You get along well with others, as long as they play fair.

Neuroticism: You have high neuroticism.
It’s easy for you to feel shaken, worried, or depressed.
You often worry, and your worries prevent you from living life fully.
You tend to be emotionally reactive and moody. Your either flying very high or feeling very low.

Openness to experience: Your openness to new experiences is medium.
You are generally broad minded when it come to new things.
But if something crosses a moral line, there’s no way you’ll approve of it.
You are suspicious of anything too wacky, though you do still consider creativity a virtue.

take your own

Not So Lost Without It …

Under: Uncategorized, Random Thoughts @ 10:12 pm on Monday, 02.27.06

My cell phone has been misbehaving the past week…there is hardly any reception … and when it so happens to pick up, the connection is horrible  :mad:  …The first few days, it felt very weird being without a working (or semi working at times) phone. It was very frustrating … I couldn’t use my phone at all… It felt as if something was missing… Calling customer care was even more frustrating … (1) each time I called, I got a different answer, (2) each time I called, I had to explain the problem from the start … [whatever happened to keeping notes in the system?!] I grew tired of repeating myself, so I stopped calling, (3) T-mobile service sucks!

Anyway … I admit, the first few days without a working phone were difficult but now I am getting used to it and don’t feel so lost without it …  in fact, I might go cell phone free for good

(well … on second thought, I should keep it for emergency use :cool: )

UGH!

Under: Uncategorized, Random Thoughts @ 4:09 pm on Monday, 02.27.06

How annoying! How rude! How inconsiderate! How pathetic! so full of crap!

Some people just get on my last nerve …

Ancient Sun Temple Uncovered in Cairo

Under: Art & Culture, Around The World @ 10:50 pm on Sunday, 02.26.06

CAIRO, Egypt - Archaeologists discovered a pharaonic sun temple with large statues believed to be of King Ramses II under an outdoor marketplace in Cairo, Egypt’s antiquities chief said Sunday.

The partially uncovered site is the largest sun temple ever found in the capital’s Aim Ain Shams and Matariya districts, where the ancient city of Heliopolis _ the center of pharaonic sun worship _ was located, Zahi Hawass told The Associated Press.

I hate seeing typos in news articles .. to me, they lose credibility right away! nonetheless, this is interesting!

Among the artifacts was a pink granite statue weighing 4 to 5 tons whose features “resemble those of Ramses II,” said Hawass, head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities.

Also found was a 5-foot-high statue of a seated figure with hieroglyphics that include three tablets with the name of Ramses II _ and a 3-ton head of royal statue, the council said in a statement. (Read on …)

Sums it up…

Under: Thought of The Day @ 8:17 pm on Sunday, 02.26.06

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice. ~ MLK 

You better keep your hands to yourself!

Under: Uncategorized, Around The World @ 8:00 pm on Sunday, 02.26.06

A bicycle courier in Colombia has been given a four-year jail sentence for grabbing a woman pedestrian’s bottom, a TV station has reported.

A judge’s ruling - criticised by some as being too harsh - ruled the courier had committed an abusive sexual act.

Diana Marcela Diaz told RCN that the courier had cycled off after groping her, but had been caught by passers-by.

When he was arrested, she was given the option of slapping him, letting him go, or filing a complaint.

How about slapping him, punching him and filing a complaint? :mrgreen:

She had chosen to set a precedent that would stop sexist behaviour, she said.

RCN described the sentence as historic, but some lawyers condemned it as excessive.

A female member of the national ombudsman’s office said the courier had only acted out of lust.

“He didn’t use violence or commit a sexual act,” she was quoted as saying.

Perhaps the sentence was a bit harsh… Of course you may have those who would argue if a person is going to do something, he/she will no matter what! but sometimes it’s good to set a serious example!

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Gov. Criticized For Nation Of Islam Appointee

Under: Around The World @ 1:02 am on Saturday, 02.25.06

(IL) Gov. Blagojevich’s decision to appoint an official from the Nation of Islam to a hate crimes commission is raising some concerns. Blagojevich picked Claudette Marie Muhammad to serve on The Governor’s Commission on Discrimination and Hate Crimes.She’s chief of protocol for the Nation of Islam — which is led by Louis Farrakhan, who’s been accused of making anti-Semitic comments.

Is any comment - regardless of nature but - having to do with Jews considered anti-semitic?!

Also on the commission is Lonnie Nasatir of the Anti-Defamation League. Nasatir said he isn’t judging Muhammad, but he’s concerned because of her connection to the Nation of Islam.

The governor’s office said it stands behind her appointment. Spokeswoman Cheryle Jackson said the commission’s goal is to have people of different backgrounds work together to fight discrimination.

A survey asking is criticism warranted of Gov. Blagojevich’s decision to appoint a Nation of Islam official to a hate crime commision generated 64% yes and 36% no … I am not even exactly sure if these people surveyed truly  know any facts about Islam. I bet they’re infected with severe ignorance and Islamophobia.

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Fed up?

Under: Uncategorized, Random Thoughts @ 2:23 pm on Friday, 02.24.06

You turn on A.M. Radio, and you get nothing but misery and disasters plaguing the world…

You flip through the pages of a newspaper, and you get a reiteration of what you have just heard on the radio…

You turn to the 10 O’clock news, and you get yet another reiteration of what you have read in the morning paper and heard on the radio on your way home (with the addition of detailed graphics)

You get a phone call from a friend, and you get nothing but complaint after complaint … I admit, I am somewhat guilty of that myself… but I’d like to think of mine as bliss in disguise :cool:

You go to work,  …ummm, let’s not even go there!

You turn to F.M. radio, and you get a dose of ‘Unbreak My Heart’ … (whatever! what was she thinking when she sang that song?)

the solution? I have a pretty good idea … :)

Taking a break from ‘the’ break!

Under: Random Thoughts @ 12:05 pm on Friday, 02.24.06

And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~Anais Nin

This seemed to confuse many of the friends I shared it with earlier this week. I don’t know why! I thought they were profound enough to interpret it :P

Sometimes we just have to be bold enough and take the inititative to get what ever it is we have in mind accomplished!

Back to work!

Taking a break …

Under: Uncategorized @ 10:47 am on Monday, 02.20.06

For now … from everything!

DaDa!

Under: Art & Culture @ 10:14 am on Friday, 02.17.06

It was a very interesting drive to work this morning … I was introduced to a form of Art I was not familiar with … Thanks to NPR Radio, now I know something about Dada. This piece of information about /description of Dada actually caught my attention and made me ponder a bit as I drove in traffic:

Dada was a moral and ethical response to the slaughter of World War I. In grief, rage, and despair, Dada used art to comment on the world, making art an indictment of the hypocrisies that wiped out a generation.

In 1924, Dada was superseded by another movement — Surrealism. But Dada had served its purpose. Artist George Grosz described Dada as “the organized use of insanity to express contempt for a bankrupt world.”

No one quite knows how the name “Dada” originated. In French, it’s what a mother calls a toy hobby horse. In Russia, Dada means “yes, yes.” (it also so happens to remind me of Sameera Tawfeeq - an oldies Arab Singer- :D  ) To the men and women who made Dada art, the meaning didn’t matter.

In the midst of World War I, and in reaction against it, avant garde artists organized in beehives of audacious creativity, first in Europe and then the United States.

Marcel Duchamp’s version of Mona Lisa is a prime example of the Dada spirit. Beloved as a beautiful painting that is mysterious, intriguing and compelling, Leonardo da Vinci’s classic Mona Lisa was hated by some Dadaists because it had become a sacred cow — no longer appreciated as a painting, but instead, commodified on postcards, posters and coffee mugs. Marcel Duchamp took a reproduction of da Vinci’s painting, and drew a moustache and goatee on her face. Duchamp’s audacity became a Dada statement. Ironically, Duchamp’s daring deviltry itself became a classic — widely replicated on postcards, posters and mugs.

In 1917, Duchamp created one of his “ready-made” works — again in the spirit of challenging what society defined as art. A mass-produced object — in this case a sparkling white porcelain urinal bought from a plumbing supplier — was turned on its side, signed, and called “Fountain.” When Duchamp tried to enter it in a New York exhibition, it was refused. Paris museum director Alfred Packmon observes that Duchamp and the Dadaists were making the point that art was no longer just a nice bunch of flowers on the wall: “The artist is the person who decides what is art and what is not art.”

“Just because Dada is attacking traditional values and ideas of high art doesn’t mean that it is meaningless art,” she says. “Instead Dadaists are really grabbing the stuff of modern life itself and making art out of the material and scraps of modernity in order to comment on modern life.” ~ Leah Dickerman, curator at the National Gallery of Art

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