Lina's Blog

I don't know if it's the same for everyone, but every time someone asks me to tell an interesting story, my mind just goes blank. Sometimes I do end up finding a story or an incident, but then it ends up being too context or timing heavy that it falls flat when I retell it. The only way I know how to make others laugh is usually when I make a joke out of myself, so here you go, me exposing my embarrassing moments. I do want to apologise for the low quality video. My room is in the middle of rearranging so it doesn't have a table at the moment haha. After notes: The other objects in the video don't really have stories as interesting as the headband one, if anything most of them are just painful to think about.  Like the earpods missing one of them? That's because I accidentally dropped it and walked over, crushing it in the process. I remember feeling so guilty that I never asked my dad to give me anything again. That bag that I travelled 2.5 hours for was a bag I bo...

 A lot of things has happened the last 2 months, but I think one of the notable events are the ceasefire deal that happened in Gaza. For now, the situation is still on edge, but the bombing has finally stopped, and the Palestinians were finalle able to breath for the first time in 2 years. Of course, the humanitarian crisis continues and the situation is still very tragic, but I'm at least glad that the conflict has calmed down, and I hope that it continues to get better and not worse. Palestinians celebrating ceasefire news I think part of this should be given credit to the many people worldwide who stood for the Palestinians the last 2 years, with protests, strikes, boycotts, etc. For example, around 2 million Italians went on a one day general strike in over 100 cities, after Israel illegally detained and tortured activists from all over the world who carried aid in Global Sumud Flotilla. I think we're really witnessing the world changing. Now that innternet and social media...

When I was a kid, my dad would be away from home a lot. Sometimes for work, sometimes to visit his family back in Syria. So that meant we used a lot of online communication apps so we could stay in touch. Before we had Skype, we used an app called MSN Messenger. Because I was very young, I don't remember how it used to function, but I remember getting excited every time we turned the computer on to talk with my dad. I also faintly remember that my dad had a rubber duck for his profile image, but I don't remember what our profile image was since me and my sister would play around and change it a lot, haha. This picture will forever be iconic for me What's funny is that because internet connections back then was very weak, the best we could get a very pixelated video where we could barely make out the eyes and ears. I think for a lot of times video calls kept freezing so we had to only do voice calls instead. Me and my sister also used to play around with emoticons and animat...

 So Japan has a female pm now for the first time in history. Oh, finally people are going to stop complaining that Japan is run by old men! Look, a woman is a prime minister now, sexism is no more! I personally have a lot of problems with it, and as someone who happens to be very left-leaning, I'm not happy about it at all. One of the most common comments I hear is "oh, so a woman became a prime minister, but you feminists are still complaining". Yes. We are. So let's talk about LDP and their... er... fair treatment of women. This article , written only 4 years ago, talks about LDP finally allowing more women to attend meetings as long as they're silent, because according to Yoshi Mori, meetings attended by "talkative" women tend to "drag on". In 2023, approximately 20% of their members opposed a female PM (if you think that's little, it's 2 for every 10 people). And a survey in 2023 showed that LDP was the only party that the amount ...

 I wouldn't say I'm someone who reads comics a lot, since I didn't really grow up with them personally. Sure, my dad would enthusiastically show me Arabic copies of Tintin or Asterix comics stolen from the internet which were usually missing a few pages and scanned in a weird angle, but other than that I never really followed any specific comic or manga.  However, there's this one comic that I used to read a lot when I was a teen, based on an animated TV show called Avatar The Last Airbender. It used to be one of my favourite shows back then, and it's still one of the best shows I ever watched in my opinion. After I finished watching the show (for possibly the third time), I spent a lot of time consuming fan content or looking up for more content on the internet, and that's when I found out that the series had a comic. And even a continuation comic that continued from where the animated series left off. The one I'm about to show is a collection of short stor...

There was this video that I watched about English names for apartments in Japan, so I decided to share my thoughts about it. I did ramble a lot in the video so sorry about that haha. P.S. today is my birthday!