Listening to : Nothing Lasts Forever - Maroon 5
Feeling : Amped for skool daze!!

One of my major pet peeves since last year ( yeah i know a lot of things irritate me now. I must be getting old) are the increasing number of people, mostly brits who wear keffiyehs as a fashion accessory without knowing its cultural significance. A couple of years back Londoners, mostly of middle eastern origins or muslims from around the world wore them in a certain way as a sign of Palestinian solidarity. It gets even more complicated in Arabic countries, where the colours, embroideries and the style of wear indicate tribal & political loyalties.

One of the more famous keffiyeh wearers. Shame on you if you dont know his name.

But somehow along the way, when Western militaria started wearing them out of practicality in middle eastern theaters, they sorta became part of military gear, and Japanese(eventually europeans and americans too) civvies who dress in fatigues and camo added them to their ensemble. Then the boho circles. Then the hipsters. Then every other schmuck who goes to urban outfitters/topman etc etc. I actually asked a guy who was wearing one on the bus the other day if he knew what wearing a keffiyeh represented. Nope. Big surprise.

A keffiyeh worn as a shemagh, for practical desert use

A keffiyeh on a catwalk, as lost as a pig at a barmitzvah

That being said, i DO have a red/white one that i used to wear as a shawl for Friday prayers while i was at school- picked it up in Mecca so it was quite a nice one. Best comment i ever had on it was from Mrs Lim - my form 5 English teacher-

"Amar why are you wearing a tablecloth?"

HAHAHAHAHAHA. Silly woman.

Would it make me a horrible hypocrite to dig up mine and wear it?

Finally got around to watching Die Hard 4 the other day. Always found movies about hackers hilarious - how there always HAS to be ONE really hot chick hacker while everyone else are stereotypical scrawny geeky weird looking types.

And how they always seem to have the prettiest UIs.

And how they can always call up perfectly user-friendly frontends for anything - traffic control, power management from any standard computer.

Its all a load of rubbish lar.

But John McLane is just fuckin hardcore. I dont recall Chuck Norris ever flinging a car into a helicopter.
I dont recall Kiefer Sutherland ever jumping on an F35 mid-hover.

Oh btw that scene was bloody fake. Fine a Raptor can hover. But to engage in urban close combat with a ground vehicle? Not even a triple ace Israeli air force pilot on meth can do that. 80% of all fatalities/ejects on VTOL jets are due to the pilots losing control during hovers.

Bruce Willis is the man la. 5th Element, Whole 9/10 yards,Sin City, 6th sense, Armageddon, 12 Monkeys- all damn good movies. No idea what the hell he was doing in Planet Terror though.

True, Planet Terror was a typical Tarantino homage to that particular genre, but it was so over the top in every which way and it was ridiculously cliched. All that was intentional i'll bet. But you can't argue that it was a bloody fun movie to watch. Every other scene will have you laughing your balls off, from the Machete trailer to the BEST.SCENE.EVER.

No really, have you ever seen anything more hilarious?

I'm gonna go grab something to eat! Lemme leave you with another lovely song - Akhir Rasa Ini by Samsons.



Tatabata!