Tired of Waiting on the World to Change…

A bomb blast… And another… And I’m tired of hearing the same news in an almost recycled fashion every other week.
It’s that much worse not being at home and that initial moment when your rampant thoughts wander into forbidden territory- family and friends… Even if you heard the same thing last week and the month [...]

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Sheep and Wolves: Failing Democracy

It’s a funny thing this democracy… Idealistic, hopeful and perhaps the most sensible form of government that exists. But democracy comes with a series of assumptions and boundaries which the Greeks took for granted I suppose. That is, that the voting majority would at least have an ounce of common sense among them. Or perhaps [...]

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Exploring Iranian Cinema: A Moment of Innocence

One of the advantages of taking Film Studies is that you make some unique cinematic finds which you might have otherwise not looked into. One of this has been Indian art cinema. I suppose the incessant exposure to the South Indian and Bollywood product at home made me rather despise the larger-than-life-everything-can-be-fixed-with-a-song-and-dance genre embodying a [...]

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Reading Week Lull

Autumn Leaves in Winter Light
Originally uploaded by Vindi

Reading week is one of those conveniently placed, veiled holidays in the St. Andrean academic year. Usually inked into the calender at the much needed half term point, you’re technically meant to be reading I guess; hence, the reading part. But well it’s a certainly desirable [...]

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20 Random Life Lessons

So yes this is one of those life-lesson type things in the spirit of turning 20. I like reading them so- I thought I’d take a stab at a slightly introspective and slightly general things you should learn about yourself, life, the universe and the great in-between. Also I like numbered lists…
1) The IB Diploma [...]

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Art: Traditional vs. Digital

I have a very traditional eye when it comes to art. I know a blank canvas with an accidentally-on-purpose paint splatter is art these days but despite the artist’s best intentions and anything can be art viewpoint, I still like art to be something I can understand and relate to. Setting aside a few exceptions [...]

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Turning 20

Sash very kindly rubbed it in my face that I was turning 20 tomorrow (Yeah… old I know…) welcoming me into what she put as the “beginning of middle age” which might I add is slightly true. Middle age in a very pessimistic sense of course.
The difference between a year is somehow extremely profound and [...]

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Rites of Passage

Honestly this post has very little to do with rites of passage but it’s almost 00.20 and I just finished my Soc Anth essay on that title and I’m too pumped on coffee to sleep just yet despite the 10.00 am tutorial for which I can assure you I will be groggy and have not [...]

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Only the Dead Have Seen the End of the War.

Dulce et Decorum Est is the title of one of my favourite Wilfred Owen poems. Describing the very real horrors of a past conflict, it’s probably the best known of World War I poetry from some ninety odd years ago. Yet, you’d think that in that time of almost a century we would have learned [...]

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I stress, therefore I coffee

Clearly the Halloween feature didn’t go as planned seeing as I just got tangled up in a rather convoluted web of stress, deadlines and caffeine (still am to be honest along with most everyone else I know, but it’s Friday and if anyone is in need of some me time just to sit around it’s [...]

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