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Monday, June 23, 2003

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PromoGuy's Monday Mission 3.25



1.What is the difference between spirituality and religion?


Religion and Spirituality are often confused with each other, yet in many respects religion has very little to do with spirituality and everything to do with the attainment of secular power and wealth for rather base and venal reasons.



Religion invariably presents an oversimplistic and narrow view of reality, is intolerant of contrary views and demeaning to the basic tenets underlying spirituality in that it attempts to present a finite and limited interpretation of the infinite.



Spirituality on the other hand is usually a far deeper personal experience associated with an individual's personal quest to re-discover his or her essence and who he or she really are. (i.e. the essence of one's identity so to speak) This quest invariably involves entering into some form of holotropic state (either planned or spontaneously) and experiencing a life-changing spiritual event associated with the person's reconnection with the Creative Principle (or God, for want of a better name) This "reconnection" has no real counterpart in everyday human experience, so very few people who experience it ever talk about it.



2. What is the difference between someone listening to what you say and hearing what you say?


When someone listens to what you say it usually implies that they are hearing the words come out of your mouth and either not understanding or sympathizing with what you have ot say or letting them go in one ear and out the other. It usually menas they really don;t care whatt you have to say, they are just entertaining your silly drivel.


However, hearing what you say menas they are taking a vested interest in what you are saying and using the ears, heart and brain to process what you have to say and respond back to you. They connect with what you are saying; even if they may not understand they still make the attempt to get it.



3. What's the difference between a Father, and a Daddy?


A father is a biological component of your genetic makeup who serves as nothing more than a figure in some familial structure that society has emblazoned on us as being traditional and perfect.


A daddy is someone who goes beyond the title anf fulfills the role as one of the caretakers, guiders and nurtures of a child. He presents himself in both emotional and intellectual spheres to help shape a child's upbringing and to be responsible for all the things that come with being a parent.


4. What's the difference between being married and living together?


Well, one implies a governmental and church sanctioned union of two people to signify an eternal bond and connection as husband and wife (or husband and husband or wife and wife.....tree and animal?). Living together doesn;t really imply some kind of union. It's all about learning to live with someone and learning what the other person is life, idiosyncracies and all. However, some people who are against the idea of marriage see living together as no different than being joined in wedded bliss. They see it as a spiritual union that does not require some law to make it official on paper.


5. What's the difference between growing up and growing old?


Growing old is the increading growth in age and physicality. It;s a physiological growth. Growing up is more mental and involves learning life lessons, becoming mature, and experiencing things on different levels than when you are younger. Of course, many people, for one reason or another grow up earlier than others which results in ratehr intelligent people who know more about life than some adults.


6. What's the difference between getting what you want and getting what you need?


How Maslowe. Needs vs. Wants. Hmmmm.... What you want is not neccessarily what youneed and what you need may not be what you want. A need is something required for your survival and health whether it be physical or mental. A want fulfills some emotional need (which can be materialistic). For instance, we all NEED to have food and water, or we NEED medication even tho we don;t want it becauseit tastes bad. On the flip side, we may WANT to buy something new because it is shiny and cool and makes fun noises....but we don;t need it to survive.


7. What's the difference between punishment and discipline?


Discipline is the process of teaching a child the difference between acceptable and unacceptable behavior. Good discipline should be a positive force focusing on what a child is allowed to do. The goal of discipline is to help a child change impulsive, random behavior into controlled, purposeful behavior, and discipline should be reinforced with teaching, firmness, and reminders. The goal of discipline is eventually self-discipline or self-regulation. We want our children, when they are away from us, to have a system of rules within them that they will use to govern their behavior toward themselves and toward others. We want to bring our outside control inside the child.



Punishment is one technique of discipline. It may be physical–a spank or slap; or psychological–disapproval, isolation from others, or withdrawal of privileges. The goal of punishment is to inhibit unacceptable behavior.



BONUS: Can you hear me calling you?


What is this? Wuthering Heights? "Heeeeeeeathcliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiffe"

Saturday, June 21, 2003

Finding A Nemoic Harry Potter At Barnes and Noble


Well....hasn't it just been quite sometime since I have blogged my happy little hump./ I honestly have nt felt like taking the time to just sit down and write out stuff and I don't really feel like it now either, but I digress.


Not much has been going on....well actually a lot. The ballet company show came and went to much success and acclaim. However, I being the perfectionist and self-aggrandizer I am wish that the choreograhy was better and wasn;t too happy about my pieces. Just can;t be satisifed I guess. Footloose is going on right now and the pressure and stress from trying to get he numbers finished is driving me up a wall...as is the constant occurence of my being kept in the dark about everything that is going on in the show and all the changes being made. While I am loathe to say anything to Jason about how I feel I am being treated, I am not sure how much longer I can stay silent. It feels very different working with people who are not dancers after working with dancers for the last 9 months. It's both refreshing and frustrating because I can no longer just call out moves, I have to go one step farther. It's all good experience I know, but my god, some of those people are dunderheads.


I am officially the only person in Tampa out of my Tampa friends. Ana is off ot NY to be married. Sara had to move to her dad's in Marco because of the crappy job market....gee I know how that feels...and yes....still no job because the job market sucks ASS. But I did interview for University of Tampa earlier this week and I REALLY hope I get in there because I like the campus and the people and the ideologies. Cross your fingers.


Spent a lovely day yesterday accomploshing several tasks. Went to the company board meeting because Mark wanted me there. I left after 25 minutes to meet Diane, Josh and Brittany for a movie. I just did not want to be at that meeting with all those clueless people. I just did not feel comfortable being there and saying things since I was not a member of the board. The movie, Finding Nemo, was great (YOU MUST SEE IT) and hanging out with the trio was very cool. I really like Diane's boyfriend, and while my overprotective nature wants to kick in full throttle, I sincerely do think he is the right one for her. Headed over to B&N after to meet up with Sara and Sue for the Harry Potter book release. I was there until about 2 am. THe place was INSANELY packed with the rudest collection of people. I ran into just about every person I knew, but it was fun hanging with the two S's and just trashing people. I went ahead and bought the book even though I already ordered it from Amazon. I wanted to start reading it pronto and i will return the book when it gets here.


I am not done updating.....until next time.

Monday, June 02, 2003

PromoGuy's Monday Mission 3.22



1. One thing that really annoys me is when someone at work will just start clipping their fingernails at their desk. In most cases, it is men who do
this, which only makes it worse. I can't explain why this grates on my nerves, but when I hear that "click-click-click" of the clippers, I just imagine nasty fingernail fragments flying everywhere. What habit do people have that drives you crazy but doesn't seem to bother anyone else?


Burping...in public...out loud...in front of me....I hate it....ABHOR it.



2. I just had to replace the compressor in my car. That was $400 I didn't have that is now gone. Have you had any expensive car trouble recently?


Funny you should ask because my car is in the shop right now getting a radiator leak and coolant flush done to it because of Murphy's damn law.



3. A friend of mine came over for dinner with us this recently, and brought her baby. At only 8 months he is as cute as the dickens, but when he got hungry, his momma just whipped out her boob for him to start chowin' down on. Among friends or family I can see why she wouldn't be shy, but it still made me a little uncomfortable. I realize it is a natural function and wonderful bonding experience, but I wasn't ready to be a part of it. How do
you feel about mothers who breastfeed their children in public? At what age do you think they should stop?


I don;t think it should matter. I mean being discrete is one thing, whipping out your boob for the entire place to see and then placing on the baby is just a little too silver pole. Never realy thought about what age they should stop. Didn;t realize there is a statute of limitations on that kind of thing.



4. I was watching the "Antiques Road Show" recently, and the resident "expert" presented the "Atari 2600" game system as a popular collectible. I am now officially OLD! Do you recall the first item from your youth that became an "antique" and made you feel old and how you felt? Or if it hasn't happened, yet, what item do you think it will be and how do you expect it to make you feel?


Definitely the Atari....LOVED playing on it all the time. Doeasn;t make me feel old. Makes me feel priveleged.



5. It started raining last night as I was going to bed. Not storming or a hard rain, just a nice rainfall. The pitter-patter of raindrops hitting the window made for a peaceful way to drift to sleep (and also made it hard to wake up this morning). Do you like rainy days/nights? What type of weather makes you feel relaxed?


I LOVE the rain. Morning, noon, night. Love the noise, the feel, the taste, the smell. It makes me feel calm. I especially love it when it thunders and I can watch lightning strikes. I pull the curtains aside, turn off all the lights in the apartment and just watch and listen.



6. We used to joke about the retired couple across the street. Every night, they would pull out their lawn chairs, sit in their driveway and watch the world go by. We laughed about how someone would just waste away their life like that. Now 8 years later, I pull out the lawn chairs and we find ourselves doing exactly the same thing. Life has a way of making one humble. Have you ever found that you have become that which you once ridiculed?


No because I ridicule myself at every waking and walking moment, so no problem there!



7. Have you ever sent an e-mail to the wrong person? What was the most embarrassing experience you remember?


Nope. Well the closest thing was sending an e-mail in ghetto-nese to Sara and the e-mail autofill accidentally putting Dr. Sara Deats and me not noticing it. That was pretty funny.



BONUS: You know, you got me spellbound what else can it be?


Angina?

Sunday, June 01, 2003

Understanding Ignorance


First they they came for the gypsies,
but I did not speak up for I was not a gypsy.

Then they came for the communists,
but I did not speak up for I was not a communist.

Then they came for the Jews, but I did not speak up
because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak up.


I just watched what I feel is one of the most realistic and poignant movies of my life. The Pianist is an amazing movie. I kept missing my chance to watch it in the movie theatre and simply had to watch it tonight when I invited Jorge to dinner and a movie. Luckily, Blockbusterhad a copy. Two and a half hours later I just sat on my bed in silence watching the credits roll by and sorting through all the thoughts in my head. First of all, the movie is amazing. The direction, the photography, costumes, sets, lights....everything is amazingly real, true, and moving. It is no wonder that Polanski won the Oscar for Best Director, he deserves every inch of it, and Adrien Brody for Best Actor, which he earned with every fiber of his body. His performance is at once moving, hopeful, and sad. He is truly a gifted actor. I cannot speak enough about the movie and how great it is, yet I can;t imagine bringing myself to watching it again because it is SO real and disturbing that I don't think I could face those images again.


That got me thinking about all the things those people must have seen in that time; having to witness those horrors on a daily basis and having to live that life every single day. How human beings could have done this to each other is unfathomable. It hits so close to home as genocide is a huge part of my cultural heritage; a genocide VERY few people even know occured. I just can;t wrap around my head all the atrocities that people commit in the name of who-knows-what. I don't even know why. I try to come up with a valid reason to understand them since I can;t excuse them.


Then that got me thinking about my own experiences and my culture shock and my family. I can vividly remember coming to America and being taken aback by the idea of racism and witnessing all the things that came with it. Back home I never knew there was a difference between myself and people of darker or lighter skin. My friends were my friends, people were people; all that mattered to me was who they were as a person. I simply could not understand WHY there was a difference. I can remember the shocked look of the black people at my high school when I joined the black culture club and on the first day I was stared down and questioned. I was curious about the culture, I didn;t think it was a problem. But I loved making the friends I did through that club and learning from them what it felt like for them to live life everyday. Shit, I experienced all that myself when I first came to his country during the Gulf War and became the object of prejudice....just because I "looked" like an Arab. Even the most recent events over the last 3 years have brought back those memories as I get racially profiled everywhere I go. And the same thought occurs to me? Why? Is it ignorance? Fear of the unknown? Can we blame the media and parental guidance on everything?


And then I think about my family and the numerous racially insensitive comments they have made. Comments that I used to ignore and later abhor. I never understood the concept of how minorities could hate minorities. How can a group of people who go through the same experiences inflict it on others? Is the need to feel power and to be in control so great that we have to marginalize and oppress those we see as lower than ourselves? How sick and twisted can people be? I never really understood, and I still don;t why my family made those comments about everyone from black people to Hispanics and from Jewish people to gay people. My family was the victim of the socialization and stereotyping through the worst kind of enculturation. The same things we accuse "these people" of are the same things our own people are guilty of. It is not relegated to one group of people. Not all Jewish people are money hungry; not all black people are lazy....and on and on.


I can remember meeting my first gay person when I was 16 and not even understanding what that meant. I mean, I knew what gay was, I just never understood it. It was my first exposure to it and I remember being so curious as to what it all meant and asking questions and paying attention and trying to discern the difference. Why were they hated? Why did my family warn against them so much? I just didn;t get why who a person fucked dictated their societal punishment. I can vivdly recall my mother being shocked and berating me upon seeing me hug a gay man and asking me who he was and what he thought he was doing and then thinking to myself why she was overreacting about my hugging a friend who just happened to be gay. I mean I have even suffered the abuse most gay people go through simply because of my theatrical leanings and my single life. How stupid can people and their assumptions be? And why should it ever have to make a difference? It got to the point as I grew up that I just didn;t care anymore what people thought and by defending myself I was doing the idea of independance and freedom an injustice. It meant I was bothered by it and thought it was wrong to be thought of being something I was not.


Even while I sit typing all this I still can't understand man's inhumanity towards man (excuse the sexist rhetoric). What could possibly drive us to hate that which seems to be so much different, but which is based on nothing more than benign factors? A person's skin color, societal position, or sexual preference should not have to be a death sentence or a green light for verbal and physical abuse. I wish there was more I could do apart from what I do on a daily basis. I won;t let my friends and their friends be treated like that; I won;t listen to mindless ramblings of people who just don;t get it, even if they are my family; and I won;t allow people;s looks or words to oppress who I am as a person or an individual. To allow anything less than that would be to spit on the graves of all those people who had to go through what we could not even possibly imagine. We are truly a flawed species with so much chance at redemption...and I don't mean spiritually (shit look at the Crusades). I won't not speak up because if everyone is gone, who WILL speak up for me?

The *almost* daily musings, gripes, and happenstances in the life of a 26-year-old performer, choreographer, socio-pop-cultural enthusiast with a bent for theology and making people tilt their heads and go "Hmm." Sometimes funny, sometimes sanguine, sometimes melancholic, but always with something to say in the absence of sound but in honor or humor.



























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