Nylon Parla and other news

I’ve been a naughty blogger. I’ve carried out that one sin which every blogger is guilty of at least once in their digital life…..i haven’t updated my blog.
Oops.
One reason is that while succesfully purging myself from Facebook I have been basking in liberation from its clutches and enjoying fresh, digital freedom from it.
Now that i’ve [...]

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Kodachrome and Exams

My exams are lingering on, hence my lack of entries here…however, here is something I wrote for another blog I used to author called ‘Seven Candles.’ I thought i’d import it here so its not lost in the digital annals of time….
I love photography
I love the sound of the shutter on a digital SLR.
I love [...]

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10 ways to get a really good sleep

Interesting article on how to get that golden nap:
Britons are the worst sleepers in Europe, claimed a survey last week, depicting a nation starved of sleep and facing a daily battle against red-eyed exhaustion.One in five of the population sleeps for fewer than seven hours a night, according to research from the Future Foundation for [...]

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Goodbye Facebook. For Now.

I am suspending my Facebook notice until June, for two reasons.
1. I have exams, so don’t need the unnecessary distraction.
2. I want to test if Facebook truly is an unnecessary distraction by being detached from it for a while and see if my life is enhanced or not, through its absence.
I am not a hypocrite, [...]

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US backing for world currency stuns markets – Telegraph

The Chinese proposal, outlined this week by central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan, calls for a “super-sovereign reserve currency” under IMF management, turning the Fund into a sort of world central bank.
The article above, in the Telegraph Newspaper, is reporting on suggestions by the Chinese government, with some support from [...]

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Slim-Fast

As I write this entry from my iPhone I sit on an overland train, traversing the urban jungle that is South London.
I am currently fasting.
The Bahá’í fast is a period of prayer and detachment. This means no food or drink (including water) from sunrise to sunset for 19 days, ending on sunset of the [...]

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nineteen days

Nineteen days, much like the last initiative I was involved in, ‘morn and eve,’ is a photoblog collaboration.
However….the difference with nineteen days is that it is one specifically for the nineteen day long Baha’i Fast.
Starting on the 2nd of March and ending on the 20th March, ‘nineteen days’ will feature 3 photographers (and 3 photos) [...]

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Viva la Revolución, Part II

Originally written for Bahá’í Perspectives:
Continued from Part 1
Classical scholar Alexis de Tocqueville differentiated between three types of revolutions.
1) political revolutions
2) sudden and violent revolutions that seek not only to establish a new political system but to transform an entire society
3) slow but sweeping transformations of the entire society that take several generations to bring about [...]

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every morn and eve

‘every morn and eve’ is a photoblog founded by an old friend of mine from my university days at Queen Mary, University of London (2000-2003).
Now in New York, Amy Sahba is a journalist for CNN and founded this blog with her friend Leila.
Not only am I drawing your attention to it because it is a [...]

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Faces of New York

Faces of New York is a great photoblog  project by photographer Simon Hoegsberg who looks at how one’s spirit is reflected in their face.
About it he says:
Once in a while I see a person on the street who immediately attracts my attention. I’m fascinated by the appearance of the person and feel a strong urge [...]

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