Syrian blogger: 'I live or die here'

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

"Huge Al" started blogging about his life in Homs, Syria, in September

Stuck inside while war happens outside, he watches "The Simpsons," listens to Nine Inch Nails

Al contends with his guardians about whether to stay or leave Syria


Most nonconformists are adolescent, in the same way as him. "I know my rights as an individual," he writes

(CNN) - In a solid square loft constructing in a working population Syrian suburb, a young person who calls himself "Huge Al" uses his days listening to Nine Inch Nails on his cell phone. He watches consecutive scenes of "The Simpsons" on his smart phone while he scoops a skillet of brownies into his mouth.

He adores to cook. It's the main thing keeping him going.

"I'm a huge fellow, and I like to cook and heat," he says. "Since I've been jobless for a year, and there are no exercises to do, I get occupied with heating. Actually, I made a larger number of pizzas and treats not long from now than I did in the previous three years."

At the point when the power is on, there he'll be, in a modest kitchen in his guardians' flat, blending and filtering and tasting. He'll hear gunfire popping out there; now and again the blast of a shell arriving shakes the loft. He is frightened. Obviously he is frightened. Trepidation settles on everything. His eyelids are substantial. In any case what else would he be able to do however continue living?

Huge Al exists in Homs, now brimming with wore out structures and rubble, for example, this building.

Enormous Al exists in Homs, now brimming with wore out structures and rubble, for example, this building.

It's searing hot in Syria, yet Al dependably keeps the windows open a bit. Weight from blasts around his Homsneighborhood can result in glass to break. This is one of the lessons he's gained from war.

He's likewise figured out how to keep his portable computer connected to so it can splash up whatever power may go ahead, in the event that it does. Al cherishes the Internet. To him, its flexibility. He can say what he needs and be who he might want to be, something like the goofy, joyful fellow he used to be before such a variety of individuals began biting the dust in his nation.

I viewed the news, got discouraged and backtracked to cot.

Huge Al post,

Al puts in hours slouched over his console, writing, chipping away at his site, Thoughts and Feelings of a Syrian Freedom Fighter. Its entrances, a great many words, white letters against a dark foundation, are not at all like the typical bomb and body-number stories about Syria.

Al's web journal is a point by point journal of a young person's life interfered with, days and nights existing in two states: ordinary, very nearly zombie-like fatigue and after that sudden, run-for-your life dread.

Source : CNN