From Faiza

When I used to live in Amman my boys were young, and I needed someone to help me raising them. I hired a Sri-Lankan maid like most people there do.
When she arrived my boys gathered around her. She sat in her room having lunch. The boys were spying on her and say in childish amazement: mama, she is eating. Mama, she doesn't know how to use the spoon.
I laughed and said: yes, she is poor and from a poor country. She has a family and children and had to leave them to come and serve you because she wants to send them her salary so they could live a good life like all other people.
I cried all night in the first days after her arrival. I felt guilty. My boys have 2 mothers now while her kids have no mother now. How will they sleep? How will they spend their nights? Crying and missing her?
My neighbor laughed at me and said: don't worry about that?.They are poor,
they are not like us. Not like our families or children.
I wished I could punch her in the face and shut her up.
Is this arrogance and despising other people a culture Man acquired or is it a hereditary thing?
I think it's the latter. But the poisonous and stupid media make people know each other less and less. It separates them instead of bringing them together. It builds barriers instead of bridges. Why???

Torfeida's got a much better post about the recent train problems over on his blog. He's even included pictures.

My thing was from the SMH, should've attributed. Got to get out of the house more, been to lazy to put effort into anything lately, schoolwork and blogging included.

Almost forgot.

[signs back into blogger]
Benita. Over on ebay they are auctioning off gmail invites.
They're going for approx. US$70 each.

Blogger only gives you one per profile so I don't know how you're going to get those other adresses.

Dear World (And Benita),

It's 3 AM and I've just finished:

• sending a match report for my mum's netball club (for which she plays and is press secretary (my sisters all play for the club too) ) off to the local newspaper,


• tracking down a site I visited earlier this week (randompixel) (I found it),


• and reading a few blogs, articles & lot's of different websites [looks at history] : Syd Mob - Sydney Based Flashmob, 1000 Journals, BookCrossing, & RandomPixel.
  
  It seems that I have a fascination with these kinds of projects / ideas.

I am off to bed.
'night.

Train Failures

Tens of thousands of Sydney commuters were delayed or stranded today when most services ground to a halt after the rail network's communication system failed.

Crowds choked platforms with passengers left to endure lengthy delays, even after RailCorp said it had fixed the problem.

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At the height of the problem, only 20 per cent of services were running, he said.

-SMH