In celebration of International Women's Day, Google has unveiled a new doodle that inspires women and honors their achievements. But instead of using animated characters, the tech giant opted to travel to 13 different cities across the globe and asked a diverse group of females to finish the sentence "One day, I will . . . " Some of them are prominent figures: Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, anthropologist Jane Goodall, and activist Muzoon Almellehan. But most are everyday girls and women with big dreams and aspirations.
My first apartment was in Malate, and calling it “small” would be generous. I lived there with two girls and one guy, and to this day, I genuinely don’t know how we all fit. It felt like a magic trick. Or a health hazard. We were a musical mess. One roommate lived and breathed ’70s classics. Another was permanently blasting Korn and Slipknot. One survived solely on cheesy love songs. And me? I was floating somewhere between new wave and folk rock, pretending that made sense. Somehow, despite the noise and the chaos, we all lived together in this weird, mismatched harmony. No murders. No lawsuits. A win, honestly. My music taste now is nothing like it was in my twenties. Not even close. But I’ll always be grateful to Jacqueline for introducing me to this song in particular. It was playing when I woke up from a very memorable sleep in 2002. I was 21, half-awake, probably confused about life, and that song stuck. It still hasn’t let go.
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