Archive for the 'Journal' Category

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Mr. Nice Guy

April 3rd, 2008

No, this isn’t about the Jackie Chan film. It’s about me — and no, I’m not implying I’m the nicest guy around.
The seeds were sown in the Fall of last year when my friend Samuel asked me to do him a favor. His cousin was apparently coming over from Ghana and would be staying in [...]

Eyes and Glasses

September 28th, 2007

I started leaving my seat to walk towards the board when I was four. As I grew older, I had to walk further and further. By the time I was eight, I was going all the way to the board.
I can’t remember the times before that — what my sight was like before I became [...]

Wandering

June 29th, 2007

I’ve been missing from the blogging scene again. What have I been doing?
Learning Japanese. Okay, not exactly. That’s just a roundabout way of explaining my new found love for Japanese anime. I prefer them with the subtitles because I pick up a lot of phrases that way. Great Teacher Onizuka, Eyeshield 21, The Prince of [...]

Not exactly back

June 12th, 2007

I haven’t exactly been too busy, but neither have I been idle since I last posted.
I really had to take a break from blogging because it was getting too addictive. It was more like switching addictions — as bloggers whose Facebook walls I’ve been trolling will attest.
Why exactly did I leave? Well, for one I [...]

Leave

May 25th, 2007

I will be away from blogging for a while. I need to concentrate on a project that’s been long overdue, and the blog world has been getting very heated. I don’t want to have to read the latest ‘Anonymous attacks’ being propagated on certain blogs[1][2][3], and I think I haven’t been doing a lot of [...]

Umqombothi

April 29th, 2007

I don’t know why, but I’ve been listening to this for almost all of today.
If you’re seeing this, then you don’t have the flash player, or have disabled javascript. My deepest apologies.
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I’m almost done on the code for my writing site. I should be [...]