Mario Teaches Us About Life

FYI

i had the most beautiful dream today ...

Pacman Pillows

which would you prefer

a job where you're "somebody" that earns 5000 dollars a month ... or a job where you're "nobody" but earns 8000 dollars a month ...

chain of events

first nabih berri - leader of the amal movement - was re-elected as speaker of the parliament a few days ago ... his supporters celebrated by firing into the air ...
then saad hariri - leader of the future movement - was elected as the new prime minister ... and his supporters celebrated by firing into the air ...
and today it was reported that amal supporters and future supporters fired at each other ...

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Outgoing Lebanese PM Fuad Saniora congratualtes fellow party member Saad Hariri on being elected the new PM. (AP Photo)

look at the expression on hariri's face ...

you would think that saniora is consoling him ...

he doesn't look very happy does he ...

freeze frame

i'm sitting at home ... not really sitting ... i'm laying in bed actually ... working on the laptop ... doing this report for work ... well that's what i was doing till i decided to take a short break and write this ... highly doubtful it will be done tonight ... the report that is ... i'll probably have to finish it at the office tomorrow ... miss lebanon is on tv in the background ... i have it on mute ... i can't tolerate their lameness ... listening to music on my laptop instead ... such beautiful contestants ...

shamone

so if you haven't heard already michael jackson is dead ... who cares right ... anyway so a lot of my "friends" on facebook have devoted their statuses to this news item ... one was particulary melodramatic saying "music died" ... i can't help but wonder how many of those guys actually own a michael jackson album ...

Coming PS3 Releases

this list makes me wish i had a machine that could fast forward time ...

Quote of the Day

i used to have this quote on my wall back in college ...

“Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.”

Albert Camus

mumblings

remember susan boyle?
susan who?
exactly ...

dirty talk

i wanna use your lips as chapstick ...

although .. it's not very masculine to invoke chapstick now is it .. guess that's not the smoothest line i've ever come up with ..

kill me now

here's what i did today ... i spent eight hours sitting in a room listening to a guy talk about internal auditing and iso standards ... i have to do it again tomorrow ... well i guess if you count all the breaks it comes out to about six hours ... but it's still eight hours of my life i'll never get back ...

Mysterious One

he was a quiet man ... he was not a shy man ...
occasionally he would speak if he felt the need ... but most of the time he was silent ...
his eyes did most of the talking ...

Hero of the Day

Colby Curtin

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mumblings

i wish they sold willpower in bottles ... i would get pretty drunk ...

Song of the Day

a double dose of abu noora ...

Paris Comes To Dubai

this is why people love to hate dubai ...

Seriously

i'm all for "the ethical treatment of animals" ... but there's nothing wrong with swatting flies in my opinion ... i mean it's not like he clubbed a baby seal ... also ... it's not like flies are facing extinction ...

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i'm just saying

if i ever move to the US ... i'm moving to louisiana ... they have the prettiest girls ...

Quote of the Day

"I've been wearing it 4-5 years now, and it helped me get to the NBA. They didn't say anything about it when I signed the contract, so it's not going anywhere. I don't think they are paying me enough to take it off.''
Orlando Magic center, Marcin Gortat

Orlando Magic center Marcin Gortat received a phone call from shoe sponsor Reebok because the company was upset about his Michael Jordan/Nike logo tattoo.
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there is a poll in the article asking whose side are you on ... gortat or reebok ... what do you think?

no kidding

egypt 1 - italy 0

Road Monster

A handout photo released by Joseph Carnevale shows a sculpture made of traffic barrels by Carnevale in Raleigh, N.C.. Carnevale says he didn't have a grandiose point to make when he chopped up orange-and-white traffic barrels and turned them into a massive statue of a hitchhiking roadside monster. But the North Carolina college student has become a celebrity artist of sorts since city police charged him with possession of stolen goods. And now, the construction company whose barrels he took wants to keep the statue.

(AP Photo/Courtesy of Joseph Carnevale)

mumblings

your nickname should be "knockoff" ... you know because you're such a fake but you pull it off so well ... if you had a nemesis his nickname would be "the real thing" ...

i don't get it

regarding the controversy surrounding the iranian elections ... i have to say that i just don't get it ... i mean if the ruling council has to give its stamp of approval to any candidate who wishes to run for president ... so why would they allegedly rig the elections ... it doesn't make any sense to me ... i mean doesn't the system entail that they're fine with whoever wins ... so again ... what possible motive could they have to tamper with the votes?

One Year

it's been a year since i moved to riyadh ... i thought about writing a post to commemorate this occasion ... but decided against it ... i actually started writing it but changed my mind halfway through it ... mostly because there just wasn't anything to write about ... at least nothing interesting anyway ... if you know that song by nine inch nails ... every day is exactly the same ... yeah that about sums it up ...

so instead just click here and read some of my posts which were written a year ago when i first moved here ...

mumblings

trying to stay good in a world that doesn't want me to ...

mumblings

i like to think bad thoughts when i'm working out ...

Star Trek

i saw the star trek movie ... normally i would not watch this movie ... i'm just not into this stuff ... i haven't even seen any of the star wars films ... i tried watching one once but turned it off less than half an hour into it ... but everyone who has seen this movie said it's awesome ... i'm not a trekkie person and i've never been a fan of sci-fi in general so i was hesitant to see it ... but i succumbed to the power of the almighty rave reviews and watched it ... it doesn't suck but i didn't enjoy it ... i just didn't ... i was rather bored by it ... it's just too much of this ...

computer set coordinates for planet vulcan ... i wouldn't do that sir ... why not lieutenant ... because i sense a romulan ambush sir ... computer change coordinates to deep space nine ... it's not possible sir ... warp speed already activated and the time continuum does not allow renavigation ... captain i think you better see this ... i'm picking up a black hole ...

ugh ...

The Fast and the Furious

i saw the new fast and furious movie ... they brought back the old cast for this one ... i've seen the first two but i didn't see the tokyo drift one ... i liked the first one they made but the second one sucked hard ... and so did this one ... it is the same format as all the other movies in the series ... crazy cars doing crazy things ... hot girls wearing next to nothing ... a lot of mean mugging ... and a lame story ... unfortunately there's too much lame story and not enough crazy cars doing crazy things ... this movie is a piece of crap ...

Summer In Riyadh

i could try to describe how hot it is for you ... but they say a picture is worth a thousand words ... and i agree with them ... whoever they are ... so here ...

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

i saw xmen origins: wolverine ... special effects are insane ... his body is pretty insane too ... he is really really buff ... story is okay but nothing profound ... but the special effects are insane ... i know i said that already ... but that's because they are the only thing you will remember when you are done watching this movie ... so if you want to be blown away by some insane special effects check it out ... 7/10 ... also i thought liev schreiber did a better job than hugh jackman ...

Priceless

In a sign of growing concern in Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's government over US President Barack Obama's Middle East policies, Minister-without-Portfolio Yossi Peled proposed Israeli sanctions on the US in a letter to cabinet ministers on Sunday.

In the 11-page letter, obtained by The Jerusalem Post from a minister on Monday, Peled recommends steps Israel can take to compensate for the shift in American policy, which he believes has become hostile to Israel.

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Dreaming

hada il zalame fahman

Correlation

the sweeter her words ...

the deadlier her bite ...

mumblings

nobody in this world understands him ... partly because he's hard to understand ... but mostly because he won't let them ...
he says that he's pissed off at the world ... when all he really wants is a hug ...

song of the day ... one of my favorite bands ... toad and the wet sprocket ... it's called all in all ... click here and enjoy ...

Carla

hey baby .. i really miss you .. it's been three days since you overheated .. i had to leave you there on the side of the road .. i didn't want to but i had to .. i had to sleep that night knowing you were parked far away from my building .. i thought about you all alone in that strange parking lot .. the next day i came and rescued you from your misery .. put you on a flatbed and carried you to the mechanic .. he will make your pain go away .. he will make it all better .. hopefully tomorrow he will release you .. so that we can be together again .. i'll put my key inside you and turn you on .. and you'll purr with pleasure .. and we'll go for a drive together .. just like old times ..

The Lebanese Elections Are Tomorrow

Supporters of the FPM in Beirut yesterday.

(AFP)

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an interesting article from the associated press ...

Lebanon's election campaign is full of women, except where it counts.

click here to read it ...

Book Review: Holes

holes is written by louis sachar ... sachar is a great author and i have read some of his work previously ... the only problem is his books are not that adult ... but they are always very funny and very clever ...

so the book is about a guy called stanley ... stanley is sent to a juvenile detention camp for a crime he did not commit ... at the camp he and the rest of the boys are forced to dig holes all day ... the warden says that she makes them do this to build their character ... but stanley thinks she is looking for some kind of treasure ... and that is all i can tell you without ruining the story ...

if you can get past the fact that it's not an adult book then you will definitely love it ... or you could just watch the movie ...

for my next book i will be reading something a little more adult ... the road by cormac mccarthy ...

A Bush in sheep's clothing

this is the best response to obama's speech ...

السلطة الفلسطينية

لعنة الله عليكم يا خون يا عملاء يا كلاب

3arab

Paris Hilton is taking her search for a best friend to the Middle East, where Lionsgate and Ish Entertainment have stuck a deal with a Dubai-based shingle to produce a new version of "Paris Hilton's My New BFF."Dubai-based Uniqon is funding most of the project, which will follow the celebrity heiress as she puts a group of young women -- half from the Middle East, half from elsewhere but currently living in Dubai -- through a series of tests to see who would best complement her lifestyle.

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قولوا آمين

i was contacted by a recruitment agency today ... there are two opportunities that they would like me to apply for ... both are outside saudi ... and both pay way more than what i'm making now ... so what's not to love ... so let's all join hands and silently pray that something good will come out of this ...

Cars

i wish they would invent one that doesn't require servicing ... ever ... you just drive it for the rest of your life ... filling it with gas when you need to ...

Separated At Birth

this is nadim gemayel ... bashir's son ...

he's running in the upcoming lebanese parliamentary elections ...

doesn't he look like the pillsbury doughboy ...

Zionism = Terrorism

The current issue of Moment magazine dedicates its "Ask the Rabbis" section to the question "How Should Jews Treat Their Arab Neighbors?"
Rabbis from various denominations offered responses, but it's the final one -- from a Chabad rabbi, Manis Friedman of the St. Paul-based Bais Chana Institute of Jewish Studies -- that is likely to spark the most reaction:

I don’t believe in western morality, i.e. don’t kill civilians or children, don’t destroy holy sites, don’t fight during holiday seasons, don’t bomb cemeteries, don’t shoot until they shoot first because it is immoral.
The only way to fight a moral war is the Jewish way: Destroy their holy sites. Kill men, women and children (and cattle).
The first Israeli prime minister who declares that he will follow the Old Testament will finally bring peace to the Middle East. ...

Click here to read Friedman's full answer ...

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So Soon?

The team of UN investigators assigned to probe war crimes committed during the22-day offensive against the Gaza Strip arrived on Monday morning into the Gaza Strip.

and as you might have guessed ...

Israel said that it will not cooperate in the investigation. Israel's Foreign Ministry stated previously that the committee is coming to the region with the intent to show Israel as the guilty party, and decided that cooperating with the committee would be meaningless.

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