Rain Shitty Rain

It's been raining all day today. A bit like every other day.

So where the hell is all the global warming gone because I want to see some of this warming.

It's raining in July!

Sinfest- A Web Comic

This is one of my favourite sites on the internet:
Sinfest

My Anime History

At this moment in time I watch a few anime but there was a time when I used to watch anime without even realising what it was.

So here's a little history:
First anime I ever watched was Pokemon. I remember watching it in one of the summer holidays when I was a little kid, every morning.
Next came Digimon.
After this I remember watching Cardcaptors on TV every day after school.
Next in line was Shaman King, this was one that I loved and always hope that they make another part to it, especially after the tantalising ending.
Then came something that everyone and their granddad has seen Dragonball Z.
Then is one that I was addicted to for quite a long time, a little something called Yu-Gi-Oh!

Until this I didn't know what anime was and watched everything in English on the TV. The following are anime that I knew them as anime and watched in Japanese with subs:

Naruto is the first in line. There was a lot of fuss about in on TV so I watched an episode on the TV and liked it. Then decided to download it and watch it in Japanese because I heard that Japanese versions are better.
Whilst on a Naruto forum I saw a lot about Bleach but because of the stupid name I stayed away from them. After a few weeks of the Naruto fillers I decded that I might as well watch Bleach and I loved it.
Then comes my all time favrote anime Death Note. Again I was quite sceptical about it because every image I saw about it was gothic which didn't appeal to me. Thank fully after a while I decided to check out the first episode on YouTube and got hooked on it straight away.
After finishing Death Note, I wanted to find more anime like it and everywhere I looked everyone said that there is nothing like Death Note but there is one that is similar, something called Code Geass. I don't think it's as good as Death Note but it is still brilliant and at the moment my number 1 anime after Death Note.

End of Exams

I just had the last of the exams.

The problem is that I don't think I have done very good in the last one today. Unfortunately the one I have some doubts about is one of the main exams and I need to get a decent grade in it.

All we can do now is hope.

Not Feeling Too Good

I just woke up with a splitting headache and what seems to be a cold (Maybe it's hay fever, in this weather I doubt it). My mum isn't really helping me out and shouting at me to try and find a job.

Anyway I hop I get better in a few hours because I've got a hard exam coming up and I need to be awake for it.

Here's hoping.

Still Looking

I've applied everywhere again. I've applied at Ikea, Argos, Next, Matalan, Commet and Curry's and still no reply yet.

Still hoping to get one soon or I won't be posting on here again. I'll be dead.

Hijabed

I found this really interesting article on the internet and thought I'd share it with you guys:

Hijabed Like Me

by Kathy Chin- A Chinese American

I walked down the street in my long white dress and inch-long, black hair one afternoon, and truck drivers whistled and shouted obscenities at me. I felt defeated. I had just stepped out of a hair salon. I had cut my hair short, telling the hairdresser to trim it as she would a cut a man's hair.I sat numbly as my hairdresser skillfully sheared into my shoulder-length hair with her scissors, asking me with every inch she cut off if; I was freaking out yet. I wasn't freaking out, but I felt self-mutilated.

I WAS OBLITERATING MY FEMININITY

It wasn't just another haircut. It meant so much more. I was trying to appear androgynous by cutting my hair. I wanted to obliterate by femininity. Yet that did not prevent some men from treating me as a sex object. I was mistaken. It was not my femininity that was problematic, but my sexuality, or rather the sexuality that some men had ascribed to me based on my biological sex. They reacted to me as they saw me and not as I truly am.

Why should it even matter how they see me, as long as I know who I am? But it does.

I believe that men who see women as only sexual beings often commit violence against them, such as rape and battery. Sexual abuse and assault are not only my fears, but my reality.

I was molested and raped. My experiences with men who violated me have made me angry and frustrated.

How do I stop the violence? How do I prevent men from seeing me as an object rather than a female? How do I stop them from equating the two? How do I proceed with life after experiencing what others only dread? The experiences have left me with questions about my identity. Am I just another Chinese-American female? I used to think that I have to arrive at a conclusion about who I am, but now I realize that my identity is constantly evolving.

MY EXPERIENCE OF BEING “HIJABED”

One experience that was particularly educational was when I “dressed up” as a Muslim woman for a drive along Crenshaw Boulevard with three Muslim men as part of a newsmagazine project. I wore a white, long-sleeved cotton shirt, and a flowery silk scarf that covered my head, which I borrowed from a Muslim woman. Not only did I look the part, I believed I felt the part. Of course, I wouldn't really know what it feels like to be Hijabed-I coined this word for the lack of a better term-everyday, because I was not raised with Islamic teachings.

However, people perceived me as a Muslim woman and did not treat me as a sexual being by making cruel remarks. I noticed that men's eyes did not glide over my body as has happened when I wasn't Hijabed. I was fully clothed, exposing only my face. I remembered walking into an Islamic center and an African-American gentleman inside addressed me as “sister”, and asked where I came from. I told him I was originally from China. That didn't seem to matter. He respected me and assumed I was Muslim. I didn't know how to break the news to him because I wasn't sure if I was or not.

I walked into the store that sold African jewelry and furniture and another gentleman asked me as I was walking out if I was Muslim. I looked at him and smiled, not knowing how to respond. I chose not to answer.

BEING HIJABED CHANGED OTHERS' PERCEPTION OF ME

Outside the store, I asked one of the Muslim men I was with, “Am I Muslim?” He explained that everything that breathes and submits is. I have concluded that I may be and just don't know it. I haven't labeled myself as such yet. I don't know enough about Islam to assert that I am Muslim.

HIJAB AS OPPRESSION: A SUPERFICIAL AND MISGUIDED VIEW

I consciously chose to be Hijabed because I was searching for respect from men. Initially, as both a Women's Studies major and a thinking female, I bought into the Western view that the wearing of a scarf is oppressive. After this experience and much reflection, I have arrived at the conclusion that such a view is superficial and misguided.

THE MOST LIBERATING EXPERIENCE OF MY LIFE

I covered up that day out of choice, and it was the most liberating experience of my life. I now see alternatives to being a woman. I discovered that the way I dress dictated others' reaction towards me. It saddens me that this is a reality. It is a reality that I have accepted, and chose to conquer rather than be conquered by it. It was my sexuality that I covered, not my femininity. The covering of the former allowed the liberation of the latter.

by Kathy Chin

This article was originally published in Al-Talib, the newsmagazine of the Muslim Students' Association of the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) in October 1994. At the time of its publication, Kathy Chin was a senior at UCLA majoring in Psychobiology and Women's Studies.

Source

Interesting Blog

I was just going threw some of the other blogs on this site and found this really interesting one:
http://pcremix.blogspot.com/

I think it has some really helpful stuff on it.

Job Seeking

I've got a long time to go before uni starts and if I don't want my mum to kill me I have to get a job fast!

I gave my CV into all the local stores a few weeks ago but still haven't received any replies.

Lets See How this Thing Works

I've never been a person who was really interested in all this blogging stuff but now that I am looking for a job and have nothing better to do until I get one I thought "Lets give this a try". So here I am.

I'll most likely post about anything that comes to my mind or about some of the most interesting news and other events and give my own views and opinions on them.