While critics are all picking their favorite movies of 2005 I figured why not. This list is not complete as I havn’t seen every (good) movie that I intended to see due to time and money constraints, so I also left one slot open for the future when I do get to see them. In […]

2006 - 2005

Emad Hajjaj always has a sense of optimism I suppose.
Maybe next year will be better
Happy New Year Everyone!

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if jelous stars conspired
to set the sky ablaze
they would kneel in awe
of the light God has chiseled in your heart
thus like a child blindly
stumbbling through the darkness
eyes flutter madly to brave
the brightness of yours
for
here
in
the
night
you
are
but
an
instrument
for
God
to
bestow
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The Constant Gardener is a little complicated so if you’re not into that sort of movie stop reading right about here. The best ‘idea’ I can give you about the movie is that it’s like Syriana where it tackles a tough issue, the theme of that movie being oil and theme of this one being […]

If you have an envious streak, you probably shouldn’t read this.
Because chances are, Alex Tew, a 21-year-old student from a small town in England, is cleverer than you. And he is proving it by earning a cool million dollars in four months on the Internet.
Selling porn? Dealing prescription drugs? Nope. All he sells are pixels, […]

That’s right. I’m making a list. I have never done this before. Only mental footnotes that somehow manage to get erased by mid January. I am writing this one up, with actual pen and paper. I have finalized the list. Color-coded it based on priority. Laminated. Framed. Snippets…
NYResolution #14: Cut one hour of average “Blogging […]

The Criminal Court sentenced a man on Thursday to 15 years in prison for strangling his pregnant wife to death.
The tribunal found Majid Mohammad, 35, guilty of murdering his second wife, who was 27 years old, after an argument in their home on Jan. 6, 2004.
The victim was the mother of a six-year-old boy and […]

On the Internet, as in life, men and women have different motivations for doing what they do. According to a recent report from Pew Internet and American Life, women view the Internet as a place to extend, support, and nurture relationships and communities. Men tend to see it as an office, a library, or a […]