That Bloke In The Big Smoke

... Tomorrow! Aaaack!! Well it's only worth 15% cuz there's another one worth the same in March. Not too worried about it. Every percent can make a big difference @ the end, but worse comes to worse, a B- is good enough. *grin*

Today was fairly productive even though I did go to bed really late, which was all my fault. There was no need really. I got back from the montreal-lj meet around midnight but couldn't be arsed to go to bed. I think I knocked out while reading a book because the next morning the book was still on the bed, my glasses were on the ground and the pillows were near my feet. Don't ask! :/

Anyways, I woke up late enough to miss (skip?) my first two classes. Bah! Lost 1.25% for not turning in an assignment for accounting. fuck it, i'll make it up in the others, inshallah. So instead spent the morning and afternoon finishing off my social context essay.

Social Context was good for about the first 35 minutes - that was when there was a group presentation on Sweatshops. Even the first 10 minutes or so of the discussion was going good till some jerkass decided to get all smart and started going on this pitiful argument. Well, in essence he was saying:

"The sweatshop workers can't form unions in poor countries because they're uneducated."
I could've punched him in the middle of his bloody face. Fucking retard. I swear, they take education for granted so much here and hype it up so much. Literacy is a level of how much you can think and learn. Just cuz someone doesn't go through school doesn't mean they go through life with a blank brain. Stupid piece of shit.

Yeh, so that characterized my day. The LJ meetup was wikked awesome. Met some great people and can't wait for the next one. Hopefully I'll be able to see some of them before that, perhaps?

Anyways, the Integral man is calling me. I hope everybody is coping and doping. Lemme know how you're all gettin' along! Cheers!

"Most Kuwaitis I talked to about the immigrants ... assumed they would soon be on their way. The labourers would have to return home once the construction work was finished, while young Kuwaitis now at school or in universities abroad would soon be able to take over the work of the better educated; ... it would not be many years before most of the population would again consist of Kuwaitis"

From, Disorientations: A Society in Flux: Kuwait in the 1950s (Middle Eastern Cultures, Vol 19), by Peter Lienhardt

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Delhi set for 2016 Olympic Bid!

Delhi's Olympic Bid
List of 2016 Summer Olympics Bids

Pray, what is a nation with 3.3% of the world's poverty ridden doing, trying to bid for inarguably the world's most prestigious sporting event? Should they not be spending much needed money on alleviating the poor and providing them with basic necessities and proper health/sanitation and standardized education? Or is there something sinister going on again behind the scenes of the IOC? Also, i know it's kind of late, but did China, another nation with a huge, poverty-ridden population (though this is often ignored by large sections of the media), deserve the right to host Olympia 2008? That and more in this week's discussion...

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Tonight is supposed to be the coldest night of the year yet and tomorrow (14th) the worst of the winter! One estimate, with windchill, predicts -48^Celsius. This should be taken into due consideration when reading any of the replies/comments from the guys in Montreal. ;-)

Dubaiwalla, yes we did miss you. Also, I know there are a few others reading the pages. Please leave your indelible mark (refer to Bio). If any of you have any friends who might be interested in writing on these pages, do not hesitate to send the word. I don't plan/want to keep the discussions on purely India, either. The Olympics thing just sort out jumped out of nowhere. Oh yeh, do keep in mind, India has been awarded the 2010 Commonwealth and just hosted a successful Afro-Asian Games late last year. Most of the top athletes dropped out but if you knew the politics that went into it, it was a feat by itself to host it finally! (Oh yeh, and Frankie Fredericks was there...)

On that note, and after another fulfilling day of nothingness, I bid adieu and goodnight. I'm enjoying what I've been reading so far. Oh yeh, Cris, don't fall into the Brisbane Trap. Trust me, years of experience. :-)

Cheers!