Month: September 2015

Going to college vs. Not going to college

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Hello readers and followers. I messed up again. I did not post anything on Sunday and I forgot to post as well as fell asleep on Wednesday again. Sunday I did not know what I should write, so I decided not write anything. For some reason I have fell out of my rhythm of writing regularly and it is proving a little difficult to get back into it. And being in my final year of college does not really help either. Oh well…

Anyway, today I will be making a blog post in place of yesterday which was supposed to be my Opinion Wednesdays and I wanted to touch on the subject if people should go to college or not. This question could sometimes be a very difficult question for some or it could be a very easy question to answer for others. I wanted to touch on this subject because some weeks ago I was having a Whats-app conversation with someone and they stopped going to college. She felt like college was not for her but still felt embarrassed and somewhat ashamed that she dropped out because people will most likely judge her for her decision. I still commend her for her attempt to try though. I can imagine that decision to stop might have been a difficult one especially because of the social pressures involved. Continue reading →

Contradictions

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Hello everyone. Today is my Writing Related Fridays and so I would like to share with you all a poem called Contradictions which is another poem, like my poem Wounded, that was not taken from my poetry book I’m Only Human.

I wrote this some months back and was thinking that some point in our lives we all contradict ourselves do we not? Sometimes do you not find you are contradicting yourself? Having two beliefs or doing and saying two different things that contradicts what you just did and said before?… So far I have not read a poem that talks about contradictions. so I decided to write it myself. 😛 Continue reading →

Stop blaming because we should ALL try to help!

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RefugeesHello everyone! My readers and followers thank you for continuing to follow a silly person like me, lol. Actually, I was so sleepy that I fell asleep earlier and just woke back up a few moments ago in the early hours of the morning because I just remembered I did not make a blog post as yet. 😛 Oh dear me…

Anyway, this is my Opinion Wednesdays blog post (although it is no longer Wednesday 😛 ) and I would just like to take note of the serious cases of refugees trying to cross many country borders in Europe to get out of their difficult living situations in their own country. I can imagine how difficult it must be for them and not being allowed to get in. It must be so difficult for them leaving their home, travelling so many miles and many times on foot and risking death all for the sole purpose of getting into a country that will allow them to lead better lives, only to be refused and shut out. I feel so bad for those poor people but have no means of helping them myself so I can only pray for them. Continue reading →

A short video to sum up my summer vacation

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Hello! Today is supposed to be my What I do with my life and The things I like Sundays and so to make up for not being able to post the short video of my summer vacation on time last week I will be posting it today instead. After all I do love Saba! No matter how small it may be. It is and forever will be my home. Anyway, I tried making the pictures change according to the beat of the music but with not much success, I know. This is probably not one of my best videos nonetheless this is the first video that I have made in quite some time so I hope you still somewhat like it. Take care and see you next time. Continue reading →

What makes someone a good writer?

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Hello everyone… I know, I know, I know! I went AWOL again. I am very sorry! Let me explain before you all attack me. On Sunday my intention was to make a blog post video summarizing my summer vacation in one minute. I underestimated the amount of time it would take me to complete it to be honest but this time it took me a lot longer to edit this video compared to any of my other videos and my other videos are much longer than this one. I’m not really sure why. I feel like I have forgotten some of my video editing skills somehow, lol. And also due to some technical difficulties I was not able to post on time on Sunday.

Then around late Monday afternoon my throat started to feel a little sore and by Tuesday I had a full blown throat inflammation. So for the past few days I felt like I was just about ready to kick the bucket. This was because I could barely swallow much less eat anything. I still tried though but it was too painful. I had a pretty high fever, my body was aching all over and for some time my head felt like a bobble-head because my neck also hurt and felt like it couldn’t support my big head anymore, lol. So for the past few days I have been mostly reserved to my bed, although I still went to school despite my condition because it was my first week of school after all! I didn’t want to miss any important information since this is also my last year of college as well. So I must be extra attentive now. So as you can imagine it was not a great week for me considering the way I was feeling. Actually, today is the first day since I became sick that I am not in pain and the swelling in my throat has gone down quite considerably. First week back in the Netherlands and I get sick. Arghh!

Anyway… Since today is my Writing Related Fridays I wanted to talk about what exactly makes a good writer? A lot of people believe that you have to be born a writer to be able to write which I do not 100% agree with. Sure, there are very talented writers that were born to be writers and there are writers who were not born to be writers but have amazing ideas and so they practiced and worked hard at it that they later did succeed to become writers. You could say I am one of the latter. I was definitely not born as a writer. I did not really have the innate talent and skill to write. Continue reading →