Along with being pledge parent for Upsilon Class this is one of the things I’m most proud of this last year at UCI. Great job Rho City! You made my last few months very enjoyable.
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I’m sitting here drinking a glass of wine. I finished my pasta. It was rather plain and very unappetizing, but I had no energy to make anything else. In four weeks I’ll be moving out. Going back to Long Beach until I find my own place. It makes me feel lonely. Many things make me feel lonely. Yesterday I had a short talk with a friend, about how being single doesn’t necessarily mean you’re lonely. It just means you’re not with someone. All you got is yourself, and up to that point it made sense, and I had gotten used to being single. But last night, I just broke down again. I think it was all caused by a mixture of the drinks, exes, emotions, desires, and a certain someone who will remain unnamed. That talk I had with my friend, it made me feel unneeded much later. If I just walked out. If I just ran away. If I just took my shit and went to live somewhere else. No one would care. No one would pay attention. No one would miss me. That’s what I felt. It was a burst of feelings all in a few seconds. I’m glad I cried though. It was liberating. However there was a bit of anger. I think I was angry at myself. But when I looked up all I saw was him, and it angered me. I wanted to kick him in the stomach and watch him kneel down in pain. Just because. No reason other than that his presence confuses me. It’s odd thinking about this. I just wish someone would figure all this out for me. Please?
Pad See Ew (Taken with Instagram at Phuket Thai)
On Kony 2012: The Visible Victims Speak: Considering that Kony 2012 — the most viral video in Internet history — exploits the suffering of northern Ugandans to raise money, Victor Ochen, a victim of the Lord’s Resistance Army and a founder of the nonprofit African Youth Initiative Network (AYINET), thought it only right that they should get to see it too.
Ochen traveled to the city of Lira, where he and his NGO set up a makeshift outdoor theater so locals could watch Invisible Children’s much-discussed fundraising campaign, and decide for themselves if it helps or hurts.
According to a statement released by AYINET, over 35,000 people attended the screening, many of whom rode in on bikes from neighboring villages. Additionally, some two million northern Uganda residents tuned in to a live broadcast of the audio aired simultaneously on five FM radio stations.
Al Jazeera reporter Malcolm Webb, who was on hand to gauge people’s reactions, filed the following account:
People I spoke to anticipated seeing a video that showed the world the terrible atrocities that they had suffered during the conflict, and the ongoing struggles they still face trying to rebuild their lives after two lost decades.
The audience was at first puzzled to see the narrative lead by an American man – Jason Russell – and his young son.
Towards the end of the film, the mood turned more to anger at what many people saw as a foreign, inaccurate account that belittled and commercialised their suffering, as the film promotes Kony bracelets and other fundraising merchandise, with the aim of making Kony infamous.
A woman Webb spoke with afterwards compared IC’s approach of selling products with Kony’s image to “selling Osama Bin Laden paraphernalia post 9/11,” which she felt would be offensive to many Americans, irrespective of how “well-intentioned” the fundraising campaign was.
Last night’s screening was AYINET’s first and last. It announced this morning that it had suspended further screenings of Kony 2012 in light of the outrage it caused. Wrote Ochen: “It was very hurtful for victims and their families to see posters, bracelets and t-shirts, all looking like a slick marketing campaign, promoting the person most responsible for their shattered lives.”
“Why give such criminals celebrity status?” asked people in attendance, according to AYINET. “Why not make the plight of the victims and the war-ravaged communities, people whose sufferings are real and visible, the focus of a campaign to help?”
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Mirame (Look at me)- Nikki Clan
