It has taken me some time to learn and appreciate my identity as a South Asian woman. To know that there’s a history of South Asian people breaking barriers way before it was even considered slightly possible to do so. South Asian people are on that page of history, and one of those people is…
May 21, 2019 Dear People of the Western Canada High School Concert Choir of 2019, Here we are. May 29, 2019. Our last concert together. Many of us are about to leave onto bigger things as we graduate this summer. This takes me back to a moment from when I was in grade eleven last…
Journalism is a career path I can be quite scared of, yet I can’t look away from it entirely. There is something heroic about writing stories. Since those stories are meant to be factual, there’s a guarantee that a number of people will be caused to think and reflect on the world we live in. Before…
Summer is the only time I get to do some pleasure reading, after a school year of textbooks to absorb into my brain so I can ace my exams. Hence in the summer of 2017, I decided I would read as many books as I can, all written by one author, that is Kurt Vonnegut.…
An Analogy Thrift stores house items with their own unique past donated to be put on sale. The items found at these stores are ones that are not found in other brand name stores. All these items served their purposes to their previous owners, but alas the owners no longer have a use for them.…
As an extremely shy person, I have had to find alternative ways to express myself so people can better understand and I can also get to understand my own self as well through the process. In grade 9, you could say I finally got to bloom. At my school’s winter concert in December 2015, I asked if…
I try to untangle the tangles That have been so tightly knotted For so long Trying to get the electricity flowing But the vessels let only a single spark through After all This twisting and untwisting of coils Here I sit In a cluster A storm I can’t seem to undo. The coils have a…
I enjoy sports, I really do, but I got tired of always being the last one picked into a team in gym class, which ruined my love for sports. Thank goodness, after grade 10 in high school, Phys. Ed is no longer a requirement. However, I ended up choosing yoga as one of my extracurriculars…
Freddie Mercury was a musician whose irresistible charm, his passion and his dedication to music can be attributed to the legendary status of the band Queen. Who would have ever thought that a boy born in Africa to Parsi Indian parents would become one of the biggest music icons the world had ever seen? Yet,…
Before Christmas, there was Eid. That’s not to say I don’t celebrate eid anymore, now that I live in Canada, it’s just that you don’t get to have the same connection to the holiday when everyone surrounded by you doesn’t know about Eid and is too busy thinking about Christmas every year. I do love…
A school is a place where kids make great memories but also learn many important lessons about life, many of which aren’t taught in classrooms but are learned through interactions with our teachers and our peers. One of the biggest lessons you will learn while being in school is that you will fail sometimes. Even then, the fear of failure still…
A city I’ve never been to feels like home to me It’s the best feeling ever known to me I can hear the trumpets calling me As I lay at 3 am falling asleep Street musicians under warm lampposts Seem like cheerful welcoming hosts Oh how the blues Awaken my soul in different hues In…
Billie Eilish has given so much to the world through her smooth airy sweet voice at just 16 years old as a singer and songwriter. Her success at such a young age has made almost every teen question what they are doing with their lives at the moment. She became well known to her first ever…
One weekend, I was busy admiring the sound of Frankie Avalon, the guy who sang “Beauty School Dropout” from The original Grease movie. I saw footage of him performing at the Saturday Night Beech-Nut show on November 28, 1959, on Youtube. The girls in the audience went wild as he was just in his early…