August 2008

Superman Reboot! Or So It Seems…

August 22, 2008

The folks over at Warner Brother realized that maybe the Superman Returns movie wasn’t as good as it should have been. From a Wall Street Journal article: Warner Bets of Fewer, Bigger Movies ‘Superman’ didn’t quite work as a film in the way that we wanted it to,” says Mr. Robinov. “It didn’t position the [...]

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Trying to Find an Identity

August 22, 2008

I recently read the book How Does it Feel to be a Problem: Being Young and Arab in America. It was a pretty good book in which the author, Moustafa Bayoumi talked with Arab youth from Brooklyn to discuss their life in this post-9/11 world. One thing that got me was that a few of [...]

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Adventures in Arabic (Part 2)

August 12, 2008

Previously, I wrote about taking my first Arabic class at Pacific Arabic Resources in SF. After I finished this first class, Introduction to Arabic, I moved on to Modern Standard Arabic 1, the next class in the series. Today was the last day of MSA 1 and I’m moving onto MSA 2, which starts in [...]

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Random BART Station Pic

August 12, 2008

Taken from the iPhone, felt like sharing.

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Getting Sucked Into America’s Best Dance Crew

August 8, 2008

A couple of months ago, I was sitting in the living room over at the Kimchi Ninja’s, place hanging out with a few people when I was asked if I wanted to watch America’s Best Dance Crew. “What’s America’s Best Dance Crew?” I asked. I almost thought they were joking as that couldn’t possibly be [...]

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Dealing with the Inevitable

August 1, 2008

The following includes views on death and religion so if you’re not interested in either subject (which is fine) step away from the entry… Yesterday, my brother in law’s (Vasim’s) father passed away. He’s had some sort of cancer for a few years now and in these past few months, he took a turn for [...]

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