Ay Tariray

I don’t know what it feels like to be marginalised. I don’t know what its like to be look at sideways on the street.  I haven’t lost my loved ones to war.  But I do feel loss, and grief and sadness and I ache.  As I type, there is a shootout in Mali’s capital, and a hostage situation.  This will not garner a social media profile photo flag.  This will not garner wall to wall media coverage. And that is just as painful as the grief and shock I feel for Paris and the unbelievable shock it has witnessed. A day before Paris, it was Beirut.  Four people set out to blow up a popular shopping area of Beirut.  Two managed to detonate their bombs, a third got caught in the blast before he could explode his and a fourth got caught my locals before he could do anything.  They nearly lynched him.  The police had to shoot into the air to make the crowd to disperse in order to arrest him. In the hospital a man screamed out to the camera: ‘We are Arabs, and we will never

Goddamnit! It's almost the end of the year.  How the hell did this happen? Its been an interesting month. Work still goes, and I'm still adjusting.  It's been a slog actually, I feel my metaphorical calves chafing from all that metaphorical uphill climbing. On the plus side, dem metaphorical glutes.  On the minus - dem glutes aren't real.  It almost December - which means Christmas, which means I'm going to be eating so much and oh my god decorations and presents and the new year holy shit, wait... I had plans! what happen! In fact, I have recently been encouraged to write my short stories and such and start looking for ways to publish.  If anyone has any resources or sharing ideas, please hand them over!  I'm not expecting something lucrative, but I want to write to get better, get critique and collaborate with others.  That way I don't write in a vacuum of writer's hipsterness. I feel like I have procrastinated a lot, even though I ha

So last September 2014 I went on an epic adventure back to my (other) homeland, Spain! I took K and J with me as travel buddies (oh and mum too hee hee) and they're the best travel buddies ever! We spent 4 weeks gallivanting around the peninsula and even though I was still mega sick with a borderline hangover style depression, I had an amazeballs time and got to reconnect to my old home and reminisce about childhood and meet with old friends and family. Flying high with Monster Hunter - Achieving G-Rank at 5000 feet! Mind you, the long flights are horrible, thankfully the Emirates long haul flights we took had a great collection of shows to watch like Community, Brooklyn 99 and some old school friends - awwww  yeah! Finally arriving in Barcelona, tired and excited, we met up with two other travel buds who decided the first meal they'd have in Spain was Burger King. WACK! No worries, we were situated in a nice area that let us commute easily aroun