Jameel Haiat
Creative Gratification
The other day, I had a conversation with someone about what I do. They were genuinely interested in how I got to where I am...
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JAMEEL HAIAT
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Jameel Haiat
- Sep 25
- 2 min
I ❤️ Chiang Mai
How the hell did I end up here? I still don't believe that this is where I live, even as the words fill the page.
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Jameel Haiat
- Sep 3
- 1 min
Ode to a Rat….
Fake smiles, empty promises and a treasure trove of greed...it's all in a days work for Management.
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Jameel Haiat
- Jul 5
- 2 min
Another Fourth of July....America
Being an American abroad, I have gained and furthered my perspective on what it is to be an American, on what freedom means. Those words...
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Jameel Haiat
- Apr 21
- 1 min
Hello Chiangmai
It’s been three and a half weeks since I moved from Hong Kong to Chiangmai. It’s a move I wanted, a move I needed. I have no regrets…
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Jameel Haiat
- Mar 19
- 2 min
My Tai Ping Shan Street
I'm here, at home on Tai Ping Shan Street, looking out on to my little city below.
My kitchen window invites and coerces me...
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Jameel Haiat
- Mar 3
- 1 min
Love HK / Hate HK…
It’s fucking complicated….
Anybody that has lived in the belly of this beast, that beast being Hong Kong, for any length of time knows this.
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Jameel Haiat
- Jan 12
- 1 min
Be a Man…
Aren’t we all emotional beings? What’s wrong with feeling something, anything? What’s wrong with expressing our feelings?
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Jameel Haiat
- Dec 8, 2022
- 2 min
Thoughts to Now...
The overall feeling of freedom and creativity in my head and heart is something I never knew I could feel nor knew was possible. Truly.
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Jameel Haiat
- Oct 18, 2022
- 1 min
Hello Universe…I’m still here!
You know, sometimes I can't believe that this little fucker made it.
Today, I celebrate my 57th birthday and I'm still amazed that.,.
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Jameel Haiat
- Jul 16, 2022
- 2 min
Just a Rant...
There are many days when I feel like I don’t belong... Not to any tribe, not to any group, not to any place. I listen, I observe, I...
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Jameel Haiat
- Jul 7, 2022
- 2 min
Society Made Me….
In this current world we live in, one of anti-humanity and faint hope, one of blatant falsehoods, repetitive faux news and sickening...
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Jameel Haiat
- May 23, 2022
- 1 min
Hong Kong Diary...May 22
Black T-shirt. Blue jeans. Laced up black All-stars.
Check.
Peek out to see the sun break through. No rain today.
Check....
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Jameel Haiat
- May 16, 2022
- 1 min
Hong Kong Diary...May 16th
Sitting in my lit kitchen, I look out the window on to the city. Rain drips down in a steady stream, inviting memories and thoughts....
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Jameel Haiat
- May 4, 2022
- 1 min
The Chain
There are days of light and there are days of dark.
We don't always get to choose what we wake to, what memory will take shape as we rub...
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Jameel Haiat
- Apr 30, 2022
- 2 min
Hong Kong Diary...April 29th, 2022
Tonight I walk around Lockhart Road in Wan Chai.
It stinks of stale shitty beer and burning cigarettes. There's too much Old Spice cologne…
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Jameel Haiat
- Mar 18, 2022
- 1 min
World Tour WTF…
If you’re wondering, at all, as to why I haven’t posted in months, well, here’s the why…
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Jameel Haiat
- Dec 9, 2021
- 2 min
Hong Kong Diary...a Beginning
It's been a full year that I’ve been living in Hong Kong....
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Jameel Haiat
- Nov 25, 2021
- 3 min
The Buddhist Condom
"I hope to come back as a dog," he thought.
As a condom, to serve people was what he was made to do, he knew that and accepted that.
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Jameel Haiat
- Nov 4, 2021
- 1 min
Cacophony
Everyday, as I write from my apartment here in Hong Kong, I live in the noise within my mind…
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