Clik here to view.
• The Number Two Taboo
“Everyone poops,” blah blah blah, yeah right. No one is that mature and nonchalant about twosies. Why must we humans complicate something that all animals do? Now, I will be the first to say that I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
• Rooms Without Windows
You know what else is a room without windows? Motherfucking prison. Human rights literature frequently classifies prisons with poor human rights standards as lacking proper ventilation. Why the fuck is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
• The Woman Who Tried to Block Me from Changing Lanes in Beverly Hills (A...
I’m currently visiting California, and I write to you from there now. Yesterday I was stuck in horrible, unexplained traffic in Beverly Hills, nowhere near the freeway. I was driving in the right lane...
View ArticleClik here to view.
• Application Forms
I have had to go through loads of bureaucracy for various life events recently. Applying to university, applying for funding, applying for a student visa, applying for identity documents, registering...
View ArticleClik here to view.
• Childhood Misconceptions that Distorted My Worldview — A Special Series —...
This post is to continue a series that I started a while back on how my flawed ways of viewing the world as a child carried over into my thoughts and actions later in life. Previously, I mentioned that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
• The Future Present
Everything I have ever envisioned about the concept of “the future” as a high-tech fast-paced environment pretty much boils down to whatever was done to illustrate the year 2015 in the film Back to the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
• Vauxhall
I was just in California for a holiday and returned to London yesterday. Yesterday was also my two-year anniversary of living in London. I’m not into anniversaries and superstition, but one thing I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
• Asperger’s
Is it Asperger’s or Asperger’s? I constantly hear it pronounced both ways. WHICH IS IT? It’s named after a person, this shouldn’t be ambiguous. I’m going to pronounce it like this until further...
View ArticleClik here to view.
• McDonald’s Egypt “Taste of the World”
McDonald’s Egypt has been running these “Taste of the World” promotions. Compete with an ethnic to win prizes! (Egyptians are not ethnics) The Asian is a sandwich. Have you tried The Asian? Spicy...
View ArticleClik here to view.
• 21 Year-Old Me
The following is a true story modified to fit the way I believe it should have unfolded. (21 year-old me is traveling alone in Ireland. I show my passport at Shannon Airport) Man checking my passport:...
View ArticleClik here to view.
• UK Student Visa
Since I’m a Foreign, once a year I have to have a meeting with someone at my university and show them my student visa/passport to prove that I’m “engaged” with my program. This is so they can ensure...
View ArticleClik here to view.
• Cleopatra of Thebes
Who?! EXACTLY. The mummy of Cleopatra of Thebes is currently in the British Museum, but for the longest time I didn’t know it was Cleopatra “of Thebes.” I thought it was CLEOPATRA Cleopatra. I got to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
• Facebook Sponsored Ads
I’m just so tired of feeling like I don’t live up to today’s standard of beauty. It’s not enough that I am overwhelmed by hyper-sexualized and sexist advertisement every time I step outside, but now...
View Article
