"I won't be denied my Masturbating Bear!"
Conan O'Brien, in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, commenting on whether he is legally allowed to bring over his trademark gags to his new show set to air in November on TBS
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October 29, 2010
October 27, 2010
October 23, 2010
FIRE!!!!
this fire happened very close to where i live ... like across the street close ... i woke up around six fifteen to the sound of my alarm ... hit the snooze and went back to sleep ... then the electricity went out ... what ... as it turned out there was a fire ... oh well i have work anyway ... by the time i come back the power will be restored ... but no ... luckily i had a meeting at the head office after work ... so i came home ... had lunch ... showered ... changed ... and went to the head office ... about two hours later i was back home ... still no power ... fuck ... what to do what to do ... i still haven't explored jeddah much ... so i went for a long cruise ... like two and a half hours ... came back home ... still no power ... oh well ... it came back the next morning around six in the morning ...
October 22, 2010
the move
the following events took place over the past month ...
i knew i was going to jeddah ... at first they wanted to me join after eid ... then we pushed it until october 1st ... i had to be ready to start in october ... meaning i had to have found a place and moved in by then ... so i went to jeddah a week before ... the plan was to go look for an apartment ... then come back to riyadh and take everything and leave for good ... i don't know anyone in jeddah and i don't know jeddah so i needed help with finding a house ... i made that clear to my boss ... thankfully he came through in a big way ... i flew in to jeddah ... he sent someone to pick me up at the airport ... then he drove me to the apartment they had found me ... i was not crazy about the area at all ... but it was very close to work ... i mean very close ... also the apartment and the building were actually really nice ... so it balanced out ... i made a downpayment so as to reserve it ... then went to work for a couple of hours just to visit with the boss and check out the new place i would be working in ... after that it was back to riyadh ... so i came and left on the same day ... it was a huge relief for me to find an apartment so easily ... i was actually worried about that ... and so back to riyadh ... i packed everything ... took apart what needed to be taken apart ... bed and closet and what not ... and was ready to move ... i hired a dyna to move all my stuff ... shipped my car ... and it was off to jeddah again ... and this is where it gets interesting ... i arrived in jeddah on a wednesday ... i was exhausted ... all the back and forth and packing and lifting and moving and flying and driving had worn me out ... all i wanted to do was sleep ... then that at night at 1:30 am i received a call from a strange number ... i answered ... it was the police ... telling me they had towed my car ... why ... there is a report out on your car ... the rental company that owns it has reported it missing ... but wait ... i'm the owner ... what are you talking about ... well you have to go to riyadh and get us a paper from the police so we can release your car ... but i'm the owner ... sorry ... wait man i am in jeddah i can't go back to riyadh ... the guy finally got annoyed with my incessant pleas and told me listen i have to work to do bye and hung up in my face ... like i said i was exhausted but that woke me up ... i sat there for a few minutes ... with a blank stare ... unable to comprehend what had just happened ... but i soon succumbed to my weariness and fell asleep again ... when i woke up i thought maybe it was a dream ... checked my phone and sure enough i had received a call at 1:30 am ... fuck ... later on that day i received an sms from the shipping company telling me my car had arrived in jeddah ... i was like hmmm ... so i went to their office hoping that my car really was there ... but as it turned out no ... it had been towed ... the man at their office gave me a number to call ... it was the same number that called me ... so i called and talked to the officer ... he was much more helpful than the last guy ... he sympathized with me and told me look i understand but we cannot release your car until you bring us the paper ... but check your system i am the owner ... there's a mistake ... sorry you have to bring us the paper ... ok ... so i had to go back to riyadh ... i called a friend who let me stay the night with him ... the next morning we went to the police station to get the paper ... as it turned out the car which had been reported was plate TUA5734 ... but when the geniuses entered it in the system they entered TUA5731 ... which is my car ... so it was all cleared up in a matter of minutes ... and it was off to the small town of 3shaira where my car was ... this is a small town outside of al-taif ... i arrived there just as the sun was setting ... got my car from the police station ... and drove it to jeddah ... that was kind of fun ... basically you pass through taif then makkah then jeddah ... got lost for a bit in makkah ... before going home i picked up some food ... got home ... ate it ... and slept ... the move was now done ... well there was the unpacking ... and hiring a carpenter to come put my stuff together ... also cleaning the apartment ... but that's all minor things which i could take care of later ... my move was now officially done ...
and here we are two weeks later ... unpacking is complete ... my stuff has been put together ... the apartment has been cleaned ... i still want to buy a few things ... mainly a sofa ... waiting for the salary ... but for the most part the move is complete ...
i knew i was going to jeddah ... at first they wanted to me join after eid ... then we pushed it until october 1st ... i had to be ready to start in october ... meaning i had to have found a place and moved in by then ... so i went to jeddah a week before ... the plan was to go look for an apartment ... then come back to riyadh and take everything and leave for good ... i don't know anyone in jeddah and i don't know jeddah so i needed help with finding a house ... i made that clear to my boss ... thankfully he came through in a big way ... i flew in to jeddah ... he sent someone to pick me up at the airport ... then he drove me to the apartment they had found me ... i was not crazy about the area at all ... but it was very close to work ... i mean very close ... also the apartment and the building were actually really nice ... so it balanced out ... i made a downpayment so as to reserve it ... then went to work for a couple of hours just to visit with the boss and check out the new place i would be working in ... after that it was back to riyadh ... so i came and left on the same day ... it was a huge relief for me to find an apartment so easily ... i was actually worried about that ... and so back to riyadh ... i packed everything ... took apart what needed to be taken apart ... bed and closet and what not ... and was ready to move ... i hired a dyna to move all my stuff ... shipped my car ... and it was off to jeddah again ... and this is where it gets interesting ... i arrived in jeddah on a wednesday ... i was exhausted ... all the back and forth and packing and lifting and moving and flying and driving had worn me out ... all i wanted to do was sleep ... then that at night at 1:30 am i received a call from a strange number ... i answered ... it was the police ... telling me they had towed my car ... why ... there is a report out on your car ... the rental company that owns it has reported it missing ... but wait ... i'm the owner ... what are you talking about ... well you have to go to riyadh and get us a paper from the police so we can release your car ... but i'm the owner ... sorry ... wait man i am in jeddah i can't go back to riyadh ... the guy finally got annoyed with my incessant pleas and told me listen i have to work to do bye and hung up in my face ... like i said i was exhausted but that woke me up ... i sat there for a few minutes ... with a blank stare ... unable to comprehend what had just happened ... but i soon succumbed to my weariness and fell asleep again ... when i woke up i thought maybe it was a dream ... checked my phone and sure enough i had received a call at 1:30 am ... fuck ... later on that day i received an sms from the shipping company telling me my car had arrived in jeddah ... i was like hmmm ... so i went to their office hoping that my car really was there ... but as it turned out no ... it had been towed ... the man at their office gave me a number to call ... it was the same number that called me ... so i called and talked to the officer ... he was much more helpful than the last guy ... he sympathized with me and told me look i understand but we cannot release your car until you bring us the paper ... but check your system i am the owner ... there's a mistake ... sorry you have to bring us the paper ... ok ... so i had to go back to riyadh ... i called a friend who let me stay the night with him ... the next morning we went to the police station to get the paper ... as it turned out the car which had been reported was plate TUA5734 ... but when the geniuses entered it in the system they entered TUA5731 ... which is my car ... so it was all cleared up in a matter of minutes ... and it was off to the small town of 3shaira where my car was ... this is a small town outside of al-taif ... i arrived there just as the sun was setting ... got my car from the police station ... and drove it to jeddah ... that was kind of fun ... basically you pass through taif then makkah then jeddah ... got lost for a bit in makkah ... before going home i picked up some food ... got home ... ate it ... and slept ... the move was now done ... well there was the unpacking ... and hiring a carpenter to come put my stuff together ... also cleaning the apartment ... but that's all minor things which i could take care of later ... my move was now officially done ...
and here we are two weeks later ... unpacking is complete ... my stuff has been put together ... the apartment has been cleaned ... i still want to buy a few things ... mainly a sofa ... waiting for the salary ... but for the most part the move is complete ...
poor sportsmanship
or maybe i should say poor sportswomanship ...
there is an arab women soccer championship being held in bahrain ... and just look at some of these scores ... jordan beat iraq 20-0 ... bahrain beat qatar 17-0 ...
and speaking of women's soccer and poor sportsmanship ... who remembers this ...
there is an arab women soccer championship being held in bahrain ... and just look at some of these scores ... jordan beat iraq 20-0 ... bahrain beat qatar 17-0 ...
and speaking of women's soccer and poor sportsmanship ... who remembers this ...
October 18, 2010
October 16, 2010
coming soon
so i am in jeddah and i want to write a post about the move ... it is quite a story ... but i can never find the time or the energy ... but i promise you it is coming ... just a matter of when ... i wanted to leave you with the song i've been everywhere by johnny cash ... you know seeing as how i have now lived in khobar, riyadh, and jeddah ... but sony has flagged every single video on youtube ... copyright issues ... so i leave you with this instead ...
October 11, 2010
quote of the day
"The more inclined a city or town was toward modernity and the West, the less was its contribution to resistance."
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so random
the hindi 7ares or na6oor or whatever you want to call him was in my apartment yesterday ... i had asked him to come to do some housekeeping tasks ... while he was over his phone rang ... and guess what his ringtone was ...
October 8, 2010
the new fairuz album
the style is very ziad ... it's certainly not her best work ... but better than her last album for sure ...
this was my favorite song on the album ...
this was my favorite song on the album ...
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