Dang!

“Dang!” doesn’t even begin to describe it. It’s been almost a year and a half since I was last here. And a lot of things went down during that time. Here are just a few highlights:

1. I joined facebook.
2. There’s a global economic crisis going on and it’s on the rise.
3. Obama was elected president of the United States.
4. Israeli troops attacked Ghaza killing and injuring hundreds.
5. The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Omer El-Bashir on charges of war crimes.
6. I graduated.
7. Sami El-Haj was released from Guantanamo Bay. (I obviously have a lot of editing to do).
8. Gillian Gibbons was arrested for a “teddy bear blasphemy case” in Khartoum.
9. The rebels reached Khartoum and attacked everyone.
10. I quit facebook.

Did I mention that I finally graduated? I also joined facebook for a considerably long time, but just last night I made the decision to deactivate my account. Apparently, you can’t delete your own account. You can deactivate it, but you can reactivate it easily by logging back in. So I sent them a request to delete my account, though they haven’t done anything about it yet.

I recently discovered that there has been an economic crisis in Sudan since forever, which explains why no one can get a job without knowing someone way up the social chain. I have a lot of friends in the US and even Dubai who are extremely worried about losing their jobs. Fortunately I don’t have one to worry about in the first place.

Obama! I read in the paper last month that a Sudanese woman gave birth to a little boy and his parents named him “Barack Obama”. Sudanese people are way too fascinated by this guy. They are seriously expecting him to do something for them. I will not reveal my thoughts about him yet, maybe after he does at least 10% of the superb things that he promised he would. Guantanamo is a hell of start.

Sigh, the Ghaza conflict… 1.5 million punished for the actions of a few. Inhumane, to say the least.

El-Bashir’s arrest warrant. What a great disctraction from everything else going on in the world. And such double standards. I don’t see Bush behind any bars for sending American troops to Iraq which highly qualifies him as a war criminal. That said, I needn’t say that El-Bashir must own up to what he has been doing to innocent people in South Sudan for years and years.

I’ll be back later.