Blog Entries tagged 'failure'

Transformation of Tragic Lives Documented In Dancing Girl

susan@amazingwomenrock.com — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:00:00 +0100

Your 21-year-old daughter is a table-top-dancing heroin addict.

Her younger sister, the second of your two children, suffers from severe panic attacks.

Both have been close to suicide more than once.

You yourself have stumbled, pitched and reeled [...]

Tourists Flock There To Float On Their Backs In It

susan@amazingwomenrock.com — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:00:00 +0100

The AWR Facebook page has been on fire with heated debate over who's
wrong and who's right in the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli conflict that
came to yet another head last week with deaths aboard a ship whose
stated goal was to bring aid to the blockaded Gaza strip, but whose main
purpose was more likely to break said blockade.

Strong opinions on both sides of the fence, or perhaps I should say
wall, included the following:

THERE IS NO SIEGE ON GAZA! They are still s [...]

Dubai Frozen In Time (But Likely Not For Long)

susan@amazingwomenrock.com — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:00:00 +0100

Funny, Dubai LOOKS and FEELS pretty much the same as it did when I left just about three months ago for a summer romp around the world. Kinda' frozen in time as it were.

Traffic’s still here, irritatingly. Likewise, I couldn’t find [...]

Sex Slavery Is NOT Acceptable, No Matter Where It Occurs

susan@amazingwomenrock.com — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:00:00 +0100

Svetlana hasn't seen her son in seven years, because she agreed to take a job as a waitress.

She was then was kidnapped and forced to work as a prostitute in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

Her story is not unique. Hundreds of thousands of women are trafficked around the world for the purposes of pleasuring men who wish to pay for sex.

Being a prostitute by choice is one thing. Being a victim of mutliple rapes as a sex slave is quite another.

In [...]

One Young Woman Dies In The Street In Tehran

susan@amazingwomenrock.com — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:00:00 +0100

Susan notes: One year ago, on June 20, 2009, Neda Agha Soltan died in a street in Tehran.
The following day, I watched in horror as her
dying moments were replayed for the world to see, and I
became a supporter of the Green Movement for change in Iran.

Today, on
the anniversary of Neda’s death, she will be mourned by hundreds of
thousands, including myself, and millions of people worldwide will hear the echo of her dy [...]

An Open Letter to Johann Hari of the Independent

susan@amazingwomenrock.com — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:00:00 +0100

This is an open letter to Mr Johann Hari in response to his article The Dark Side of Dubai, published in The Independent, Tuesday April 7, 2009, in which he describes his recent misadventures and negative impressions of Dubai, its policies, its politics and its people.

Sadly, I’m sure many of the stories you recount in your article are true, Mr. Hari.

Even more sad is the fact that they are not only true of Dubai, but of the world as a whol [...]

The Interview With God - 94 Million Views And Counting

susan@amazingwomenrock.com — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 12:00:00 +0100

I'm not a religious person. Spiritual, yes. Religious, definitely not.

But whenever I feel sad, lonely, lost and/or unloved (as I did today :(, I take a few minutes to watch The Interview with God, the link for which was originally sent to me several years ago by my friend Harris.

The imagery is stunning.

The music is the same as the soundtrack at the start of Forrest Gump, one of my favourite movies about the magic of humility, love, innocence and being [...]

You�ve Come a Long Way Baby. Maybe.

susan@amazingwomenrock.com — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:00:00 +0100
A few days ago, on International Women’s Day, I joined the millions of women (and hopefully millions of men), who together celebrated the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future.

According to www.internationalwomensday.com (a very cool site which I unfortunately only visited today for the first time, and which I immediately wished I had visited BEFORE March 8, but better late than never as they say, and next year I’ll know where t [...]

Taking Aim

sarahhepburn@email.com — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 12:00:00 +0100
Anyone who really knows me knows that I'm a goal orientated person. I need goals and targets to aim for at all times, personally and professionally. The targets range from big to small, long-term to short-term, but I always seem to have something to aim for. My New Year's resolution to try at least one thing new, different, unusual, challenging etc every month is one clear example of this.

I guess this is one of the reasons why I've found the last year in my current job so [...]

Architecture Holds Lots of Room For Improvement...

susan@amazingwomenrock.com — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 12:00:00 +0100

I was a bit disappointed to find as I researched my two last blog entries (How High is High in Dubai? 818 metres ! and

Talking Towers - Who's on Top and Who's Not), that the fields of architecture, engineering and construction are still mostly male dominated. Sigh.

We’ve come a long way, but there’s still an even longer way to go.

Never mind. It just means it’s time to make more inroads – and roads, and bridges and t [...]

How High is High in Dubai? 818 metres !

susan@amazingwomenrock.com — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:00:00 +0100

There’s something frightening, to me at least, about Dubai’s latest construction marvel, the world’s tallest tower, as it inches ever closer to heaven, just a kilometer or two from where I now live.

I see it daily, from various different perspectives: telescopic-like layers of concrete, rebar, steel, glass and aluminium, the apex of which pierces the sky impossbly higher than any of its dwarfed neighbours.