First Weekend of Freedom

What a great weekend - had time to do things I love, in peace and quiet. Yesterday, I finally had the chance to do some lane swimming at the recreational complex. It wasn't bad but I hadn't done lane swimming since grade 5? A very very long time ago. It was a cool night, and the pool wasn't that crowded.

I had even more fun this morning. Got to enjoy my for tui tong (火腿通) for breakfast in Mongkok before I headed out for my search of some climbing gloves. I made my purchase a short time later and made my way to meet up with the group.

The bus brought us to Repulse Bay and it was a rather interesting ride. Got to meet a new friend C. A pretty chill guy - in town working on the Sai Kung wind farm. That's just cool - being part of the team developing some renewable energy resources for Hong Kong even though they can quite aesthetically ugly.

We reached the stream and I quickly swapped into my Vibrams. Didn't risk not bringing my hikers as I didn't know the route. Skipped through rocks and all that fun stuff. The rainy season is just beginning and the first small stream was basically a 101 course for newbies to stream trekking - like myself (: It was fairly easy, not really slippery. So next time, it'll be actually more stream trekking-ish with more H2O. After losing most of the group who returned to Park View first, the rest of us set out to another stream.

The slow flowing stream - Tai Tam

It was like a private pool. Only a short distance from the hiking trail - also out of view of the trail. A large pool of running stream water was available for a swim. Just watch your step when you move up and down to the pool, but once you got there and saw the cool waterfall - you felt good.

The Private Waterfall - Tai Tam

 I also learned today that Vibrams and concrete don't make friends. Kind of weird, since I've been in them around town but they haven't really bothered me. On the actual trails and up and down the streams they worked great. I could feel every rock and leaf I stepped on. Truly feeling one with the earth.

Enjoying my Vibrams in and out of the water

Met really friendly people, C & D - all gung ho about trekking and stuff - well kind of anyway. It was fun to chat with them about the weather, the hike itself and share our hobbies. Met BS (not bullshit), he spoke of how I must be finding it an awfully easy hike and invited me to another event which is like pro people. It's two weeks away, it looks intense, snorkeling, hiking, rock climbing all in one… perhaps I'll see.

Anyway, I'll have a good night sleep today. People still doing exams, please freaking chill out - you guys are 1. overthinking, 2. freaking out way to much, 3. cramming things you wont ever remember - so just screw it for the rest of the night and go to bed.

Finally done planning for others

It's official, I'm done planning for others in the little while. Well, if you look at the technicality then no I'm never going to be done - but in the mean time, I can become a narcissist. More about ME less about others.

The day was a jammed packed with action! From the planking with TL, to the running around the whole LLAC and even worse yet going up and down from 6th to 3rd floor three times… I was awfully tired. So much for being an athlete? It was loads of fun - a bonding time between the whole grade with the exception with those who no showed. It'll be a lot of work for JL, KK, AC on the editing aspect of things but it'll work out alright - they'll pull it off with their amazing artistic + filmtastic skills. (A word that probably doesn't exist)

To end that off, a rush of running up and down even more tracking down people, things for the AB tonight. It was really hectic and felt really rushed - but it all came out well. Fitting the mannequins with bikinis and sports was hard. Had QH hugging tops in awkward positions as well as on top of one as well and SH struggling with placing her lower body back onto the stands. Who knew that you had to take them apart and put them back together again. What's even funnier is when we finished dressing them up, the caterers were taking pictures with the mannequins... über-awkward. Also hiding bouquets that were almost reaching the neck of QH was hard. Did some bribing of coffee with the first, didn't have anything for the latter but she happily accepted to help. Finally, I get to kick back and leave the planning for someone else.

Bang On.

What a day. Filled with limitless surprises - both good and bad. Let's start with the bad but I guess it's kind of funny. My day spent at school doing some work, organizing, you name it - ends off with a bang. Before the bang, I had my whole day set out. Work, Organize, Work out, Swim. Got 3/4 done - so bang on. Swim... didn't actually get done meaning that's a thumbs down on my to do list today.

Here comes the story. Some already know of it. The life guard who is ever so nice asks student or teacher. I answer graduate. She then states that I need PE teacher to supervise me so I don't drown. Great, so I'm all pumped to complete 100% of my to do list and you spoil the whole thing by telling me that I need a supervisor so I don't drown in 4 feet of water? Anyway, very mad at about it. It's all because some other company actually owns our swimming pool. Ironic really because its within OUR school. 

The true bang on of the night. I was invited to go to a play at my school and I didn't really know if I wanted to go at first. But what the heck what else am I going to do. Well see my mom of course - haven't seen her much these days with a sleep schedule from 4 pm till midnight... for the last couple weeks. After some consolation that some people were going to go, I decided I'll go to support the students who went to practices and put it all together. As I walked down the stairs, and pass the cafeteria - surprise - a face I haven't seen since November. My heart skipped a beat. So many surprises in the last week. Did some catch up but it was sad to hug goodbye as she flies back home tomorrow. Enjoyed the play put on by amazing actors - minimalist style; to top that I was sitting with people that have really helped me out with my life. 

- - - Bang On - - -

Continuation of Excitement

Even as the days pass by and the nearing of graduation looms. The excitation of moving away hasn't really settled with me. I don't really know whether its the fact that I'm moving on with my life, or the hyped of going to university or maybe just the remaining emotions of completing IB - whatever it is I hope it lasts throughout the summer.

The next couple weeks will be spent tying up lose ends here and there. Then it moves on to the phase where I get to enjoy myself and take pleasure in what I do. So it will be an awesome summer, well I deem it to be so.

Current short term goal in my life is to ensure that my sleep cycle doesn't go haywire. With the exception to tonight, since I've slept from 3 pm till midnight.. shhh.. My goal is to keep on track with it, just because it'll benefit me in the long run - well really so I can function with the society around me as stores don't open at 3 am :'(

Today has also been exciting as I cleaned my room. Moving all the unwanted papers of IB into bags that I will soon bring down to recycle. I had the urge to bring them in school and burn them in the fume hood. But I thought that it would be better for the planet since I already killed so many trees over the course of two years. There is a hint of irony as becoming an IB student we learn the ways of conservation, especially in geography - and come to it we kill many trees. Therefore, as an IB student, I killed many trees and contributed to the destruction of forests worldwide. This is as shown below… It doesn't make it any better, but no IAs, labs, EE, ToK, WL drafts were included.

Tomorrow will be a new day with new things to do.

It's Really Over.

I really can't believe it, exams are finally over. That thought really had to sink in. Walking out of the exam room, no shouting or I'd get yelled at - simply enjoying the triumph of completing the final essay required for my marks. What happens now is all up to the examiners - I'm just hoping they like my style.

This ideal of everything being over is like a boulder has been lifted from my shoulders. The hours of studying, working on internal assessments, and designing labs are over. For the next three months I get to kick back and do things I enjoy. However, even with this ideal, this whole idea hasn't really settled. The fact that I'm going to be at school on Wednesday and in again on Friday is kind of dreadful. I think I'm heading in on Thursday for a workout with QM.

The walls of cedar, colours of red and white will never be forgotten. The two years have passed by insanely quick. A blink of an eye, grade 11 and 12 past by - there were no breaks in between only an assignment after another.

It's awfully relaxing just to spend some time after the exam to chat with CC, JA, PL well only hugging SLM because as usual she's busy. Explore what I'm going to do in the future, well shortly the three months ahead of me!

Not looking to far forward, but this week is packed with visits back to the big 14 story building. Got pushed into volunteering at a Kindergarten - but it'll be fun - lasting all summer long and what's even better is that SC will be there with me. Her enthusiasm automatically lights up the atmosphere, on top of that her never-ending positive energy simply comes streaming through her. Then a short stream trek on Sunday which will be fun. Perhaps test out my vibrams in the real world. Prom and commencement are coming up - that will truly mark the end of high school. A sad moment but that'll be blogged about later. Beijing for a week is what's marked in my schedule so that will be awesome, meaning that I can actually write in my travel blog! As far as I see. Treks, Exploration, Volunteering and Work are my top four things I'm doing this summer.

Boring Book

It's been awhile since I've written about the book I'm reading. I really had to stop reading one those boring books, The Unblemished by Conrad Williams. I thought I picked out a decent book. A horror based in UK. It took some piecing together to figure out the story line, but it may have also been influenced by the fact that I wasn't really interested at all.

Maybe I have neglected the book for to long and it simply hasn't settled down. But it didn't jump out at me like Larsson's novel. Anyway, just a short post. Going to start a  The Girl Who Played Go by Shan Sa. Another translated piece.

the biggest surprise

Often when someone visits back from anywhere, you call them up, let people know - especially with the convenience of Facebook nowadays. So rather surprising, I was speaking with someone from the PE department for my grand plans of a present for someone. Anyway, one of them commented have I seen her yet and that she's in the school. So be it, I thought he was simply joking and tooling with my mind. 

Lone and behold I go seek out someone more trustworthy to consult. I didn't know why I trusted him either because he's usually the joker around the school. Anyway, going to a school with 14 floors ain't easy - firstly there is all the staircases just to get from 3rd to the 9th floor - then you have like 40 000 square feet to search for one person, who I presently don't have a cell number for. Anyway, I finally found her and it was an amazing surprise.

Carefully coordinated by another teacher and herself, it was on the super DL. Had a great time just to do a short catch up and also show her another part of the school she usually never sees. It was simply great to see a familiar face around the school around. Her presence coupled with some other people defined the PE Dept. It's perhaps one of those reasons as well that I no longer visit that boring part of school - lost it's lustrous shine when there's a lack of strong females. 

As she goes off to BKK over the weekend, it will be awesome to do some real catching up next week either in a workout or dinner. A shame that she's not here for our graduation, but she's made the absolute effort to come. At least she'll be here for the Athletic Banquet.

Biggest Surprise

That language

Well its really the end of the exams after Monday, and IB is officially over. Unless somehow, my diploma gets evoked but that shouldn't happen. As I sit here listening to my French teacher one more time before the last exam, I'm attempting to reflect upon the things I've learned in her class.

Actually that should be said for the last three years I've been at this school. Well I probably wasn't especially strong in French but I had my fair share of 4 years of French Immersion and two years of bilingual debating. Coming here, from French 10 - 12 - I don't think I've really learned anything.

In French 10 it was a rather awkward class, we had 8 people? Anyway, no one was really keen on the French language and the fact that no one did their homework. I got by just fine and it was evident that I got away with my strength = Orals. Moved on to French 11 with two teachers, one who went on maternity leave and one who claimed who couldn't teach AB French. Ironic since the second teacher was claiming that she can teach SL and HL… Anyway, in year 1 of DP we did the most random things ever. Firstly we read Le Petit Prince, last time I checked I didn't have to do literature but that was easy so it doesn't really matter. Then my awesome second teacher of the year made us watch Cyrano de Bergerac. That was a great play if we could actually understand ye olde french.

Moving onto year 2 of DP French, it was great we had a new teacher for French, sort of a relief as we had a feeling we weren't going to do so well. She's awfully nice and always fun to chat with or whatever, however in class she sits and teaches. Don't think that worked out to well because I was always completing some sort of geography homework rather than listening to my teacher.
However, finally with the exam glooming over all the ABs and SLs, I'm learning in class. I finally understand what she's been trying to tell us over the last year. Anyway, just a thought about my class.

Biology Freakout.

Like any other exam here at this school, theres a refractory freakout period. As usual the day before and the day of the exam you have people flying questions for biology. How do you do this? Do you understand this? Do you need to know this for tomorrow/today? The tension prior to the exam automatically rises. 

Just like anything else that occurs at this school, there is a diffusion of stress as depicted by my friend's picture here.

You can visit her other work here (:

Yes, one person evidently starts freaking out causing the start of a chain reaction in adjacent students. Simply, it takes one student to do so and start the spontaneous reaction. 

So here I am now less than three hours till the exam where I have a hallway filled with students who are freaking out for the exam. Firstly, it's to late to cram anything more now - so just go enjoy your life and do something else... make use of your time. Secondly, you are the source of stress for other people - I personally don't mind if you have one or two questions to build your confidence before the exam but if you're going to use it as an excuse to freak out, seriously STFU. 

What do I opt to do in the situations like these? Today, I'm watching documentaries and educating myself in the events of the world. Currently I'm watching Japan's Killer Quake presented by NOVA, and before that I spent an hour discovering the stupidity of the "junk shot" along with other failed attempts to seal the BP oil spill (Deepwater Disaster: The Untold Story - BBC). 

Many things are happening in the world, and all everyone freaking out is about three paper exam totaling to a 4 hours and 45 mins. Come on, try your best on the exam and after that, it belongs to the past. Anyway, I must continue watching my documentary and learn about the devastation of the 9.0 earthquake as well as the resulting tsunami that caused devastation for hundreds of thousands.

To end off, stop freaking out - go away. 

a bag of mixed emotions

The title says it all - and its evidently bugging me that I can't sleep at 2:30 in the morning. The clash of hope, joy, fear, worrying is playing out through my head. Filled with what ifs - and to be clear not pertaining to my exams but more important things in life. 

The good comes with great cheer and satisfaction that the little pending sign has disappeared. Today has been a day where all my letters of acceptances have finally arrived - except for Queen's Kinesiology but none the less. At the start of the process it wasn't at all grim, I knew for sure I'd be accepted into my safety schools, my attainable schools and didn't hope to much for my reach programs. It all comes with a price tag. That program that I've been thinking about for 3 years now has been confirmed. I yelled and got random stares but it comes with the excitement. So it is official I'm going to be a Con-Eddie of 2015, furthermore it's the shocking surprise that in my Con-Eddie class there are only 100 other students and in my specific program 39 in science? It has come to be a great relief, well rather not relief but like a token of hard work that has been finally paid off. The times where I wondered what if I really got in and vice versa will be played out next year. 

There are a great decisions to be made, from residence and especially courses. IB will do me good, if I pass with 5s in my HLs as per expected by all my teachers - that's 18 credits. It'll be an exciting year this coming year, with the start of a practicum of 10 days after my first education course, being a sci geek, FROSH week. Everything is simply in store. 

It really then goes with all the excitement the clash of all this. There has always been this innate ability for me to sense the vibe everyone gives off - with the exception when I'm majorly off my norm. Today was one of those days were it was sensing that something went down the wrong path and there is the obscurity in the air. If you were to ask me how I know these things - I really don't know - gut feeling? how people express themselves? tonality? how they walk? emotions? The situation was really two fold; I'm assuming the stress accumulating from the upcoming due dates of the great ToK essay and the fact that majority of the class is struggling at the moment to produce a draft due at the end of the week. The other part was rather explicit once the whole idea came up. 

Rather wracking with emotions for someone who has been evidently suffering acute pain for an extended period of time. It's not sympathy pains. But seeing the person going through what they have to. It's rather admirable that rather than screwing work off, she's there although sometimes not desiring to be but here. The cards dealt onto the table were to fix her broken-ness soon in surgery. It goes without saying that anyone going through surgery is a scary one. I wouldn't even imagine the intense emotions that float through their minds - but already as a bystander and friend its nerve wracking, 

The emotions are evidently mixed. Everyday continues to be unpredictable and even when you believe that it will just be deemed another boring day of school, everything can change. We fight and conquer the battles that arise in our daily live.

Stuff My Face

Today just feels like a day where I want to stuff my face with food and hope for the best. Everything has its consequences but I'll see to it later. Food - I don't often seek comfort in it, its rather a pass time that I do because there is nothing else good to do. For example, when you have chat with your friends or what not you end up going to a café so you can have relative peace. Another, sitting in front of the T.V. there is that desire munch on something while you watch. In all, food is something we simply do because its convenient and enjoyable. It feels like that today, a rather lazy one.

It's often heard of that you just have to stop everything and take a day off. Well, I've taken two days off - not surprising. It will be the last day and tomorrow I will for sure crank open my binder and do the required revision. As much as I would say I have a strong passion for biology, nearing the exam I no longer have the avidity towards it for the time being.

I see the gates of IB exams coming to and end - but it should not be a time to slack off. As you can see I contemplate between the battle of continue to achieve and just letting myself off the hook. What to do?

Whatever I choose in the last hours before I head to bed, continuing to stuff my face in cheetos is the way to go. I already have the tingly feeling that I will continue my CSI marathon. <-- Only Las Vegas (: [Even though I miss Grissom dearly]

There is still time I will tell myself and I do.

Today is the Future

Perhaps we don't really think about it on a daily basis - but that saying that goes on like, "you should do well now so you will do well in the future" or something along those lines anyway. It really goes without saying once you've seen it happen to you, but on those odd occasions I simple slip because you didn't see the caution sign can lead to dire consequences.

We've made our mistakes, our amends and we try to forget the things we've done. It's not as easy it seems - it really does stick with you even as we try to forget. I don't know for you, but even years after I've done something wrong I vividly remember as if it were a film that replays subconsciously. Just like anyone else if you ask me on the spot to recount something stupid I've done I'd probably say I wouldn't know. Come around the corner I could probably think of at least half a dozen incidences right now. 

The implications are never foreseen of our actions - a new perspective we should probably have in our lives I argue. A recent conversation with a friend of mine about how high school grades stick with you for the rest of your life. Yes, it might simply be that sheet of paper that you get at the end of the year. However like any other record it stays attached with your name to it. Anyway, he was recounting how a friend was seeking an administrative position at a secondary school and they asked to see her high school grades. Lone and behold, something that probably wasn't thought about to come up ever again after leaving the doors of high school it comes back. I was definitely taken by surprise that even though high school was already a long lost memory and her most recent education was her masters degree.

Therefore proving how that simple sheet we are handed during the days of high school might not be important now - but it may play the role of dictating our future. It really just goes to show how the saying is true. What we do now is the basis of our future - if the foundation were weak, the structure wouldn't be built very tall. Even though there is this emphasis of the future its not to say to throw your life wholly into academics -  nor to throw your future through the window caused by ignorant choices.

Past Activated Complex

After today, I have officially past the activated complex as I had the required ∆G to pass through the exams - well this were if I were a molecule anyway. At this point I only have to increase my temperature to increase the proportion of molecules above the activation energy - as shown by the below Maxwell-Boltzmann Diagram.

Omg the diagram is wrong - X-axis is supposedly 'number of molecules'

To have the same effect I can consume a catalyst that would speed up the rate of reaction as well - due to the increased number of molecules above the required kinetic energy. Something like that anyway... I'm done with chemistry and will not touch it for another year I think, unless I don't get a 5 or I take a year 2 course. Yay! Seriously there are the days where I really wonder why I took HL Chem. 

Enough of the chemistry analogies and its a dynamic change in gears to biology & french. I can't think of anything to make a gag yet since I haven't started studying. I'm sure in the next couple posts there will be some biology gags. Then people are going to read this and comment how 8-| I have become over the years living in Hong Kong - it's just part of the process of IB. The living of IB subjects day and night, the ability to foster connections between subjects and to apply to the world is their goal. I'm sure by now I have reached those, well if I haven't I still have my whole life to explore what they truly meant by being an 'IB student' - or -  I never will? 

Time

It's perhaps one of those things we tend to treat as a commodity. As I heard a man speak today about how we associate certain terms automatically with time - spending, losing, precious, gain, waste, earn. Anything really, words we commonly attach to money. Interesting eh?

Time is no longer the same as it was hundreds of years ago. There is still sunset and sunrise today, but we don't pay attention to the natural beauty of it all anymore. With the invention of electricity accompanied with Edison's light bulb, who needed to sleep by the end of the day.

So what's the use of following natural daylight anyway?

Decades ago, they had 24 hours just as we do today. Why is it that we often just say that we haven't got enough time to complete the things we have to do. It's been particularly a big thing currently with the specific time-orientation with exams and all - be here at this time, complete this by that time, don't be late for it. It's been hard to really think of a time in the past couple years that I've stepped out of the rigor of time. Of course, with some exceptions especially on vacation - sunrise and sunset decided what happened that day.

The great return of getting up by sunrise? That's perhaps so for myself at least - well after exams. Planning to ditch the watch at some point, but it's not entirely bright to do it at the current moment, in 19 days.

The thing we've turned into a commodity shouldn't be treated like one. The time spent with a friend or family even by yourself should not be given a simple figure. It's simply not how we were designed. We developed the circadian system so we do sleep at night, so it just begs you to stop complaining that you don't have enough time to complete things.

24 hours is all we need - completion of all tasks for the day.

Neglected blog.

It feels like its been awhile, and this blog deserves more - so extra long post, because there is loads to recount.

I'll go chronologically backwards.

I had a run today, in my new vibrams which I will talk about soon. I always knew there was a sitting area near my place but wasn't sure where it lead to. So I took the liberty today after jogging around the complex to visit this 'sitting area'. It was a pretty short hike up 15 mins? Anyway, a beautiful place to have taken pictures but I had no camera with me, so bad luck, share with everyone next time.

Less feel, but they're durable!

Next thing on the list, my new vibrams (: The amazing shoes I was talking about earlier. It's like walking on the bare ground. Ok with the KSO treks I have to give up some of the feeling of the floor but I'm down with that. Yes, I also realize they make it with kangaroos, but I reasoned that they rear them anyway - therefore they would be equivalent to killing cattle. So be it. Life goes on. Anyway, they are awesome and some photos for your enjoyment.

This is why I get creepy stares, they are not coherent w/ regular shoes

Postcarding is still an awesome hobby, and I've received some more, so you can go check those out here. It's pretty cool collecting postcards as it really goes to show how many places I haven't seen and the places I have to mark on my 'to go' list + the list of countries I want to visit.

I guess it's also worrying when you've got someone you know suffering from acute pain. Which sucks, and really there isn't anything I can do about it. Well actually this should have been higher in the list but it's more of a serious matter. Also to top everything off, her doctors haven't solved the mystery behind the pain but they found all sorts of other un-fun stuff. At this point - simply get well soon. Well we carried out a typical conversation, talking about ToKer students - how they believe they can just pull off that essay. They don't think. Ok, sort of a rant but I had to yell at them to shut the heck up and leave the room so I can study in peace also yell at them so they will hand in their stupid outline that was due 4 hours after the fact and horribly written.

Exams have been painless. But that's about to change with the chemistry exam coming up. So I have no idea how I'm going to do. Others went alright, pretty happy about them in general. I felt that i knew my way around but probably did some really stupid mistakes such as misreading the questions - I'm a victim of that all the time.

That's all folks, a mouthful and written in pretty flat English - anyway, leave you off with my random word of the day: Jollux

My Day

I had a pretty chill day yesterday and relatively so today. Public holiday ain't so holiday-like with exams around the corner - therefore I decided that it was time to pay a visit to my chemistry tutor and seek some help. Anyway, that ended promptly and I had to go visit Escapade sports. I haven't written about my cool shoes, but many already know that I recently bought a pair of Vibrams. They are awesome five-finger toed shoes. So I had to go get an exchange for them just because they had a manufacturing defect. I was like, "omg" when I found out, but it's alright. When I arrived at the store the manager said, "just because they are so popular we don't hold any stock for black ones anymore, but we can exchange your pair for a pair of pink ones". Eww? They look like this... so ugly.

KSO - Grey / Pink

Anyway, he told me to come back at the end of May. So now I'm extremely disappointed because I was becoming one with my awesome shoes. Really other than the really random stares I get from strangers as I walk the streets of Hong Kong I love them to death.

So I went along with my day - took a bus to Hung Hom and hopped onto the KCR. Memories of the random trips to Shen Zhen flashed into my mind, however it was just a simple trip to Tai Wai to play some soccer.

Ye Olde KCR

The time spent on the KCR was brief and short, only 4 stops away I have already arrived at my destination. Being ridiculously early, I decided to look for a place to sit and enjoy some geography review. The nicest place I could find was McDonald's but I had a really strong craving for 太興's BBQ pork but I opted not just because I'd get kicked out for sitting there for an hour-ish. In midst of that I sat down in McDonalds enjoying my $5 apple pie.

nom nom nom - Apple Pie

That was that, and off to my soccer game. It seemed like everything was a-ok until we got to the field. A field of potholes and uneven grounds, a game played with a flat ball, the hot stinging humidity and a team of women who apparently at least half are professional soccer players. Well that wasn't a good outlook already - coupled with the last minutes of the game where one gets trampled and scrapped by rocks is no fun. As much as that was 'no fun' - it's my second last game and who could say no to going to a game.

On the way back home was a rather quiet one, took the olde KCR back to Hung Hom and bussed it from there. Not much interesting going on there.

he who was killed today

If you're truly disconnected from the world, then you wouldn't have heard the news. Other than the over rated Royal Wedding which is still playing on a constant loop. If you still don't know what I'm talking about please, go look up some news, on your iPhone or other cool gadgets.

One of the most notorious terrorists of the century to perhaps join the list with Hitler, bin Laden is put to rest. This wealthy man was the founder of the organization al-Queda held responsible for the attacks to the twin towers a decade ago. He is considered on of the most wanted terrorists and the ten most wanted fugitives. As much as it is death that dawns upon us today, one could say he perhaps did deserve it as he affected thousands of people that fateful day.

His death today was confirmed by President Barack Obama - killed in Pakistan by a branch of the American military forces. His involvement in multiple movements and wars has lead to blood shed.

However, although the leader of the group has been taken down, the effects of his doings can never be undone. History was written on the days he commenced his bomb attacks in Egypt. Terrorism still haunts us today and most probably will occur again. Whether it be an attack on a national monument or simply on the web - to this we are all vulnerable and never can we run away.

a man died today.

#03 Weekly Photo

How often we visit these places...