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Wednesday, 31 December 2008

Happy New Year!

.... Happy New Year!

2008 was full of ups and downs....mostly downs...... more like rock bottoms..... the kind of downs that most people dont get back up from...... the kind of downs that give you a taste of what the lowest level of hell is like.... *AHEM* anyway! but its over and yay for me (and everyone else) for making it to the end!

Everyone have a great New Years out and party like its the last moments of 2008! ;D

Sunday, 28 December 2008

Yaaay~!

Im back!

So the whole "posting from beyond" thing didnt quite work.... not only because it caused much confusion (in the form of people thinking im 14 instead of 24, for example), but mostly because i was lazy and couldnt commit to the long winding process to post my mostly frivolous material through the sticky film of censorship that communist china set up within its internet system..... i dont know what im saying. im tired after a week straight of wedding work.... no im not getting married, it was my cousin's wedding last week and as is sudanese custom, a wedding has to last four days (cuz one just isnt enough to truly celebrate).

Oh yea! im in Sudan now! got here last week and havent gotten a decent night of sleep since i arrived! yaaay!

Anyway, just wanted to let all of you (who still remember this page) know that im back and will be posting much more regularly than i have in the past ten months (if you care).

Permission to celebrate - im back!

Friday, 12 September 2008

Posting from Beyond~!

... and by beyond, i mean China.

On my first go around in Shanghai, i quickly discovered the fact that, apparently, the Chinese government construed Xanga to be evil and revolutionary and thus had it blocked from its internet waves, denying the plethora of (nerdy) global citizens (such as myself) their creative outlet.

At first i was outraged. Then saddened. Then a little angered. Then i was complacent for a while. Then i went through withdrawal. Eventually i got over it and didnt think about it anymore. (It didnt matter anyway, because i wasnt feeling very creative those days .... take THAT, chinese government!)

Then i went back to the States for vacation for two months, promptly getting me back on the Xanga wagon ... or is it off? im not too sure .... in any case! There i was, back to writing, and with a decent amount of creative juice flowage (although i will admit that i had lost a lot of my previous flare, wit, and whatnot).

As time flew by and my vacation came closer and closer to a crashing end, i was starting to feel the effects of losing my writing privileges, PRE-loss... of... writing... privileges... (wow! English, going down the drain!). I frantically searched for a way to keep my access, but the more panicky i got the less crafty and devious i became. The only choice was becoming painfully clear: suck it up until you get to a country that does NOT recognize Xanga as a rogue state... but when would THAT be? The nerves kicked in, sweat pouring, and the itching commenced (am i addicted to writing or crack? .... or are they one and the same?! *dun dun duuuuuun!*)

So! Back in China i am, lonely and sad and limited to accessing the beast that is my addiction only through the email updates that i receive .... bland pages of text with none of the excitement and electricity one gets from the combined magic of the words and the page.

And then, in a flash! My senses adjusted! The craft and cunning was back! My mind felt crisp and alert, my problem solving skills sharp, like a crackhead who just devised a plan to swindle his grandma out of her money AND steal her VCR ... all at the same time! (Yeah, i took it back with the VCR - seriously, if there are grandmas out there that own DVD players, i dont want to know about them. Grandma will ALWAYS = VCR!)

And THUSLY, i give you my first post from beyond the Great Wall.... of Internet Censorship! For security reasons, i cannot divulge the way in which i have cheated the system - suffice for you to know that i am a genius mastermind, trapped in a 14yr old's body.

........ I'm a rebel! Yaaaaay!^^

Monday, 01 September 2008

*Sigh*

Well, im off.

Back to China.

Land where (gasp) Xanga is blocked.

I didnt know Xangans were so dangerous that the mighty China would deem it necessary to have them blocked from its net-waves!!

That being said, i dont know when the next time ill be able to post something is - so everyone just hang in there :) i was really hoping i could get in one last post, something meaningful to go out with in style..... but i guess the video of Mr. T giving 80's youth fashion tips will have to be it.

It felt nice though. Being back in the good ol' US of A for a little bit, seeing the twists and (sometimes horrendous) turns that society has taken while i was away. And it felt great to finally be able to have the time (and willpower) to write something and post it up on this site. *Queue cliche* Writing has always been an outlet for me, and a passion of mine, and it felt strange and uncomfortable to not only not be able to write anything, but also to not even be able to come up with anything TO write. *End*

It was equally great to have the time to read (and cackle at) other people's posts, rants, ramblings and scribbles.

So until i find a way to cheat the system and join the Xanga Revolutionary ranks...

peaceout!

Friday, 29 August 2008

Sedona (Picture Post)

dont mind the crack in the window...

we saw what appeared to be a house on fire - exciting!

i wish they really were blocking the road so we could just zoom through them.

i especially like how clouds cast shade on the ground. very peaceful.

the red rocks for which sedona is famous.

this is one of my favorite shots.

old town sedona (i dubbed it that myself).

lots of things happen at old town sedona (as you have seen in my previous post about it). Here, my brother engages in fisticuffs with an innapropriately dressed Santa....

.... after which he was.... knighted... by Santa.... i didnt know Santa had that authority....

theres.... this..... whatever it is (why is she posing like that!?)....

theres even a place to swim! in the desert! those people walked all the way down this mountain to go swim in that.... stream.... thing........ im a city girl, i dont really GET nature.....

......which is why it was a nice when i fiinally found out what they were talking about when they said "every cloud has a silver lining"...

awesome!