Sunday, January 29, 2006Happy Chinese New Year!!!
Happy Chinese New Year to EVERYONE!!! May the year of the dog be a wang wang year for everyone!
恭喜發財
>Fired at 12:01 AM
Saturday, January 28, 2006Place to call home...
Just watched the "Mostly true stories" on discovery, much like "Truth or Fiction" kind of show and in there got a story about a guy who had LIVED in the airport for more than 17 years now, can you believe it?
Yes its True... and the man's name is Merhan Karimi Nasseri... Here are some of the parts of his story i found on the net...
"It begins in Iran in 1977, when Nasseri, fresh from studying in England, was expelled for protesting against the shah. His expulsion left him without a passport.
Nasseri came to Europe. He bounced from capital to capital, applying for refugee status and being refused, again and again, for nearly four years. In 1981, his request for political asylum from Iran was finally granted by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in Belgium.
That decision gave him refugee credentials, which in turn allowed him to seek citizenship in a European country. The son of an Iranian and a Briton, Nasseri decided in 1986 on England with the hope of finding relatives there.
He got as far as Paris, where in 1988 his briefcase containing his refugee documents was stolen in a train station.
Nasseri boarded a plane for London anyway. But when officials at Heathrow Airport found he had no passport, they sent him back to Charles de Gaulle. At first, the French police arrested him for illegal entry. But as Nasseri had no documents, there was no country of origin to which he could be deported.
So he took up residence in Terminal One. From its circular confines, he and his attorney, the Paris-based human rights lawyer Christian Bourget, battled to define his status and send him to London. In 1992, a French court finally ruled that Nasseri had entered the airport legally as a refugee and could not be expelled from it.
But the court could not force the French government to allow him out of the airport onto French soil."
Then "... they hoped to reclaim Nasseri's original refugee documents. But Belgian refugee officials refused to mail them to him in France. They argued that Nasseri had to present himself in person so that they could be sure he was the same man to whom they had granted political asylum years before.
But, inexplicably, the Belgian government refused at that point to allow Nasseri to return there. And under Belgian law, a refugee who voluntarily leaves a country that has accepted him cannot return.
In 1995, the Belgian government finally told Nasseri that he could retrieve his refugee documents if he agreed to live in Belgium under the supervision of a social worker. Nasseri refused. He said he would move only to Great Britain."
"On 17 September 1999, an international travel card and a French residency permit were put into Nasseri's hands. With them, he's now free to leave the airport, either to take up residency in France or to fly to another country that will allow him entry. He refuses to sign them, however, because they list his nationality as Iranian, and he wants it listed as British. He remains at Charles de Gaulle airport, using the excuse that he's determined to stick to this point rather than face life outside the terminal."
"As of 2005, Nasseri is still living in the airport. He does not lack for money, as Dreamworks paid him a rumored $250,000 for the film rights to his story."
The whole story is available here... Its just amazing how someone manages to live in an airport for 17 years, thats like almost as old as all of my poly frens are...
Source: Urban Legends
>Fired at 2:26 AM
Tuesday, January 24, 2006Happy Birthday to all my friends!
Let me first clear some of the dusts in this seemingly forgotten blog of mine...
Why is that title bar up there grey... wasnt it supposed to be blue...? Wiping... ... Ahhh its blue on ur screen now right?
Argh the scroll bar seems stucked isnt it...? Cant scroll right...? of coz u couldnt, coz it never could... its supposed to let u scroll up and down, not right... Anyways cleaning the clog... ... Better mobility now right?
OMG the status bar is black! Let me wipe it... Ahh now the scrolling text can be seen right...?
Too lazy to clean the blog bar, lets leave it as black.
ok all clean. Mostly that is, haha.
Next, I wanna wish a very very Happy Birthday(s) to Weeleong (23/1), Saggy (25/1), Huatose (28/1) and Kelvin (2/2)
Weeleong: Enjoy ur IA, haha!
Saggy: Dun sag anymore! lol /hide
Huatose: Stay "hot & sexy & sweet"! hahha
Kelvin: Enjoy WoW while it lasts, unlike me who cant now =.= haha
lol, i think im abit suffering from wow withdrawal syndrome, feeling damn tired even without doing anything now, and its like only being ONE day lol... Needa start studying soon =/
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