aliansary @ August 16, 2010 # No Comment Yet
It’s been a while since I had an opportunity to write some thoughts out as I have been adjusting back into school mode. Aside from learning how to take exams again and making new friends, the added stress of tuition seems to be the biggest impact on the pockets of many students, including mine. So [...]
aliansary @ April 25, 2010 # No Comment Yet
I wanted to take a moment to share my thoughts and photos that I took of the current Red Shirt protests in Bangkok. Mind you that this was all taken a few weeks ago and since then the demonstrations and protesting have increased. For the most part, the protests that we have seen have been [...]
aliansary @ September 14, 2009 # No Comment Yet
For what accounted for a majority of the 20th century, Afghanistan experienced some of its most peaceful and thriving times. It would be a coup in 1973 when King Zahir Shah was overthrown by his cousin, General Daoud Khan, which would create an inflection point in Afghanistan’s history. Once referred to as “the Switzerland of [...]
aliansary @ June 16, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Last week I had a unique opportunity to watch Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam speak. Dr. Kalam was regarded in India as the People’s President and served in office from 2002-2007. He is known, interestingly enough, to play a key role in India’s space race and nuclear development, quite odd combination for such a [...]
aliansary @ May 14, 2009 # 2 Comments
“Dubai Media City, please.” I say to the cab driver as the 2007 Toyota Camry drives down Jumeriah Beach Residence (JBR). JBR is in the heart and soul of the Dubai boom. The two dozen or so projects here include some of the most advanced architecture and design in the world. I ask the cab [...]
aliansary @ December 2, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Yesterday, I turned to the headline news reports and I suddenly found myself finding an urge and need to write. Never have I read through the headlines of multiple news sources and tabbed so many different crises going on throughout the entire world. What today represents is a time in our society where global policies [...]
aliansary @ November 11, 2008 # No Comment Yet
In the third grade, I remember playing tag on the jungle gym with my friends when a girl called me a sexist pig for not allowing her to play with us. For the very first time in my life I experienced sexism. Appalled by the word – Pig – that is (I didn’t know what [...]
aliansary @ October 28, 2008 # One Comment
The birth of the United States was on the back of slavery, which ended in 1865. This was nearly 100 years after America fought for her independence but after almost 200 years of slavery in the US. It took congress 5 years to amend the US Constitution and in 1870 the Fifteenth Amendment to the [...]
aliansary @ September 17, 2008 # 2 Comments
This last Sunday I attended a demonstration in front of the Los Angeles Federal Building in Westwood. This was a peaceful rally in response to the escalation in the number of innocent civilian deaths in Afghanistan. Although the war in Afghanistan would be a great write, it would also be a long (maybe a book [...]
aliansary @ July 15, 2008 # No Comment Yet
(This is a picture I took of Huntington Beach and after reading (no company proprietary data was revealed), Huntington Beach is one of the U.S. top 100 oil reserves. Profits from this picture will not be donated to any oil company (click here to view picture ).) In a television interview yesterday, Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez [...]
aliansary @ July 1, 2008 # One Comment
In 1949 George Orwell presented to the world Nineteen Eighty-Four , a book that would impact the way we perceive our own government and the manipulation through different controlling processes over its citizenry. However, four years earlier his book Animal Farm would give us a preview of not only Nineteen Eighty-Four , but also a [...]
aliansary @ May 14, 2008 # 3 Comments
We have all been exposed to the cliche saying “it is better to give than to receive.” Well in today’s society we are seeing this giving done in very astute ways. Let me start with a couple examples. The first classic example is the Fruit Stripe chewing gum, with lavish colorful stripes and temporary tattoos [...]