From the desk of the Amazing ‘Ainur…

assalamualaikum w.b.t and kia ora….

hello…it’s been three months since i last posted an entry…wow…i like that…proves something that i’ve always known…’consistent’ is not my middle name…i’m sitting down to write this not because i feel like writing…but because i desperately want to go to sleep but i couldn’t…i was fast asleep, you see, when my alarm clock went off at 1.45 am…the thing is, i set it for 5.30 am…can somebody please explain to me why that happened?…and now i can’t go back to sleep because i don’t feel sleepy anymore…i hate alarm clocks…you know how they say that warm milk can make you feel sleepy?…complete bulls**t…i tried that and it only made me feel nauseous…

i turned on the tv while drinking my warm milk and ‘FOX’ was commenting about this year’s Grammy awards…john mayer won two awards…yeay!!!!…well-deserving awards, if you ask me…the dixie chicks won FIVE awards…good for them…what an excellent comeback…what a way to shut their ill-wishers up…but those creeps on FOX, with all their bootlicking ways, don’t like the fact that the chicks won all three of the major awards…naturally…they complained that the grammy is becoming more political…i don’t think that THAT is their real concern…what they don’t like really is the fact that not only are the artists becoming political, they are leaning towards the left…horror…

do you know why the dixie chicks were boycotted way back in 2003?…2003, as you might recall, was the year that George W Bush waged war against Iraq…in one of their concerts, natalie maines, the lead singer of the chicks, said that "we are ashamed that the president of the US of A comes from texas" (i’m not sure if those were her exact words, but she said something to that effect)…they are from texas, you see…so, of course, people slammed them for being unpatriotic…funny that…(i don’t remember which US Presidents said this but he said that to stand by your president when you know that he’s wrong is not only unpatriotic, it’s also a treason)…so they boycotted them…some lunatics who were pissed off by maine’s comment even sent them death threats…i swear those american extremists are getting funnier by the day…   

the dixie chicks released an album last year after a three-year hiatus and it was good…which, i’m guessing, is why they won five grammys…their songs responded to the whole ‘Bush-bashing’ thing…listen to their first single off that album, ‘not ready to make nice’…it’s great…if i were the chicks, i would say something like that too…and like them, i wouldn’t apologise either…i would be embarassed if my president is a mad warmonger…it’s bad enough that he’s not smart (and THAT’s putting it mildly…do you know that he only got into Yale because his father was a Yale alumnus?…do you know that he can’t pronounce ‘nuclear’ correctly?…do you know that he said "our children IS…"? hello?!!! Subject-Verb Agreement…)…i like to watch david letterman’s section of ‘great moments in presidential speech’…you wouldn’t believe how simple-minded (a euphemism for ’stupid’) Bush is…i would be ashamed too if my president has a tendency to go and wreak havoc in other people’s country…he went into afghanistan and look what happened…it’s not any more stable than it was five years ago…then he went into iraq and iraq today is a quagmire…and now he’s threatening to attack iran and syria, countries belonging to the exclusive ‘axis of evil’…with a president like that, is it any wonder that more and more americans are leaning towards the left?…is it that hard to see why there are more and more left-leaning people in america today?…so i say good for you, john mayer (whose song ‘waiting on the world to change’ has a profound anti-war message) and good for you, the dixie chicks…anyway, i thought america is supposed to be the beacon of democracy… and isn’t democracy about, among a great many other things, freedom of speech?…so why all the anger and hostility?…those people are just exercising their rights to free speech….surely Bush’s fans could understand that…

see? that’s what happens when i couldn’t sleep…when i couldn’t sleep, i talk…non-stop…and since i have no one to talk to at this hour, i write…okay..and now i need to stop…because i’ve run out of things to say…and i also need to pray…and then i’ll try to go back to sleep…and one more thing before i go…i’m happy with this year’s grammy…john mayer wins, christina aguilera wins, the dixie chicks wins…i have no complaints…by the way, john mayer attended the awards ceremony in an Armani tuxedo and a pair of Nike sneakers…dashing!…

okay…until next time…

‘ainur.rahmah.ellias