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There are days when I love wearing a hijab a lot more than others, and I think one of the greatest reasons is what I like to call the great secret international hijabi club.

The best illustration is an example from when I was in Prague.

One day my friend who had come on the Erasmus exchange with me ( who shall from now on be known as Jadz on account of her trekkie tendencies ) and I were out walking through town. As it is a finable offence to Jay walk in Prague we ...

There are some moments so scared in their simplicity, that they move through the soul, as oceans. Leaving your torn in between, for it would seem a blasphemy, a betrayal of the self, of the moment, of the spirit to speak of such monumental miniscule things to ears that fail to grasp full understanding, and would either nod their heads in some pretended meaning or hide the mockery within their own untouched eyes, counting off the lies they believe they see, or calling upon delusions and illusions. ...

I promised that I would tell Virgil a scandalous story one day. It was a scandalous story to tell in front of respectable ladies one and a half decades ago in Korea. What I know of Korea may or may not be true anymore. Anything sexual or related to the tail end of our digestive system would be considered scandalous or at least inappropriate to narrate in front of a genteel lady back then. A girl who considered herself respectable and proper would be indignant if told such jokes or tales.
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16. Voyage into Unknown Territory

Am somewhat surprised that Ruth is fine with blue jeans for me to wear to her graduation. Her idea-not mine. I was prepared for the coat and tie and all that. On the other hand comfort is never overrated by me.

Off we go. I had mapquested the Victoria theatre but was doubting my findings. We had attended a concert by the gospel singer Sandi Patti several years ago when she making a bit of a career comeback well over 10 years ago ...

So I suck at answering the phone, because I forget how answering the phone is suppose to work, because I generally never do it, and I have this idea in my head somehow that if it is my cell phone, people I do not know should not be able to call, sense the number is not listed anywhere, not in the phone book. But I still keep getting wrong number calls which annoys me.

When I hear my cell ring I instinctually presume it is someone I know and then when I don't recognize the number ...