from my big brother ....
Deena has a cousin on the way inshallah
August 31, 2010
August 28, 2010
August 27, 2010
westbound
the other day i was told i had a meeting in the evening with my boss and the branch manager ... i was not told what this meeting was for ... turns out they wanted to me offer me a position in jeddah ... wanted to see if i was interested ... i said yes ...
i had a job interview last week ... if i get it i'll stay in riyadh ... but it doesn't look like it's going to work out ... so it's probably off to jeddah ...
with this i can say i lived in all of saudi ... i grew up in dhahran ... spent the past two years in riyadh ... and now moving to jeddah ... next stop ... ???
August 22, 2010
August 21, 2010
quote of the day
Peace process? What peace process? That's so nineties.
Ahmad Aweidah, head of the Palestinian stock exchange, commenting on the resumption of Middle East peace talks
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Ahmad Aweidah, head of the Palestinian stock exchange, commenting on the resumption of Middle East peace talks
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August 20, 2010
cure for the itch
how long has this situation been going on now ... like fifteen years ... that's long enough i think ... more than enough ... nobody should ever have to suffer through that ... not even for one second ... let alone for fifteen years ... sure the solution has some unfortunate consequences but hey ... if it means putting an end to this ongoing tragedy then i can live with that ... call it collateral damage ... a small sacrifice for the greater good ...
i B I C F
i B I C F
mumblings
if he ever found out ... he would freak ... but who is he ... and what would he find out ...
August 18, 2010
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August 14, 2010
August 13, 2010
worst person in the world
A 31-year-old Utah man has been sentenced to six months in jail for fondling a maternity nurse who was wheeling the man's pregnant girlfriend to the delivery room. He missed his child's birth following his arrest.
story
story
ramadan recommendations
it is ramadan ... and juice is an essential part of any iftar table ... so i would like to recommend one ... florida natural's raspberry lemonade ... the stuff is delicious ...
only in lebanon i guess
the lebanese general security directorate recently issued a statement about new recruits ... saying we have received this many applications ... and this many of the applicants are muslim ... and this many are christians ... it went on to say that 4000 of these applicants are going to be accepted ... this many will be muslims ... and this many will be christians ...
August 11, 2010
youtube quran
i found a neat youtube channel that has the entire quran recited by my favorite reader ... yaser aldosary ... click here ...
ramadan ranting
it is ramadan as you may have heard by now ... and some people think it is cool to post a ramadan greeting on facebook then tag all their friends on it ... then people start commenting on the greeting ... and facebook will send you an email saying "so and so has commented on a photo of you" ... first of all facebook this photo is not of me ... and second i have never met this person commenting on it so i don't give a shit what he has to say about it ... and so you go to the photo and remove the tag in order to stop receiving the notification emails ... normally such minor incidents would not annoy me ... but i haven't had a cigarette all day ...
August 10, 2010
in your dreams
what does it mean .. if anything .. when you see someone you know all dressed up in a dream ..
August 8, 2010
August 3, 2010
flotilla baby
Bouthina Haniyeh, daughter of Gaza's Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, holds her newborn baby named Recep Tayyip Erdogan next to a Turkish flag in a home in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010. Gaza's Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh has called his fifteenth grandson after his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan who is a hero in Hamas-ruled Gaza for unofficially sponsoring a doomed May flotilla that sought to break Israel blockade of the territory.
(AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
heartbreaking
Khaled Jabari wails in torment and confusion as Israeli soldiers drag away his father Fadel in the West Bank district of Hebron. Walking barefoot, the youngster becomes hysterical as he pleads with the troops not to take his father away.
story
August 2, 2010
and we couldn't be more proud
وتضمن الصحن 1500 كيلوغرام من البندورة و85 كيلوغراما من البقلة ، و105 كيلوغرامات من الفجل ومثلها من البصل و42 كيلوغراما من النعنع ، و1050 كيلوغراما من الخيار و315 كيلوغراما من الخس، و126 كيلوغراما من السماق، و45 كيلوغراما من الملح و210 كيلوغرامات من زيت زيتون، و336 كيلوغراما من عصير الحامض، بالإضافة إلى 336 كيلوغراما من الخبز المحمص
وأهدى رئيس البلدية فياض حيدر الإنجاز إلى رئيس الحكومة سعد الحريري
وأهدى رئيس البلدية فياض حيدر الإنجاز إلى رئيس الحكومة سعد الحريري
rage against the machine
whenever i have to get something done that involves the government i say a prayer ... something along the lines of God see me through this ... please give me the strength and patience to survive this ordeal ... as you might know i got a new job three months ago ... currently i am in the process of getting my sponsorship transferred to my new employer ...
now i know government and bureaucracy go together like milk and cookies ... but arabs take it to another level ... honestly sometimes i think they make things up just for the sake of complicating matters and making you miserable ... like they might say something like ooh sorry the signature is in red it has to be in blue ... or ooh sorry your form is unacceptable the date is written as 1/8/2010 ... it needs to be written as 01/08/2010 ... they really are that ridiculous ... and don't even get me started on the stamps ... if there was a nobel prize for bureaucracy i think arab governments would win it every year ... they certainly have my vote ...
"Kafkaesque" is an eponym used to describe concepts, situations, and ideas which are reminiscent of the literary work of the Austro-Hungarian writer Franz Kafka, particularly his novels The Trial and The Castle, and the novella The Metamorphosis.
The term, which is quite fluid in definition, has also been described as "marked by a senseless, disorienting, often menacing complexity: Kafkaesque bureaucracies" and "marked by surreal distortion and often a sense of impending danger: Kafkaesque fantasies of the impassive interrogation, the false trial, the confiscated passport ... haunt his innocence" — The New Yorker.
It can also describe an intentional distortion of reality by powerful but anonymous bureaucrats. "Lack of evidence is treated as a pesky inconvenience, to be circumvented by such Kafkaesque means as depositing unproven allegations into sealed files..." Another definition would be an existentialist state of ever-elusive freedom while existing under unmitigable control.
The adjective refers to anything suggestive of Kafka, especially his nightmarish style of narration, in which characters lack a clear course of action, the ability to see beyond immediate events, and the possibility of escape. The term's meaning has transcended the literary realm to apply to real-life occurrences and situations that are incomprehensibly complex, bizarre, or illogical.
The term could also be seen as Kafka's reaction against the concept of time. Public time, to Kafka, is a nightmare; he has a broken relationship with the world; that, in essence, "the world has gone nuts." One such example is in The Trial, wherein Josef K. says of a meeting with his employer that he was summoned to go somewhere, but they forget to tell him when. He assumes to be there at nine, and arrives an hour late. The Examining Magistrate approaches him and says that Josef K. should have been there at 8:45. The next week, he shows up at 8:45, but no one is there. His heroes feel absurd when arriving early, but guilty when late.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kafkaesque
now i know government and bureaucracy go together like milk and cookies ... but arabs take it to another level ... honestly sometimes i think they make things up just for the sake of complicating matters and making you miserable ... like they might say something like ooh sorry the signature is in red it has to be in blue ... or ooh sorry your form is unacceptable the date is written as 1/8/2010 ... it needs to be written as 01/08/2010 ... they really are that ridiculous ... and don't even get me started on the stamps ... if there was a nobel prize for bureaucracy i think arab governments would win it every year ... they certainly have my vote ...
"Kafkaesque" is an eponym used to describe concepts, situations, and ideas which are reminiscent of the literary work of the Austro-Hungarian writer Franz Kafka, particularly his novels The Trial and The Castle, and the novella The Metamorphosis.
The term, which is quite fluid in definition, has also been described as "marked by a senseless, disorienting, often menacing complexity: Kafkaesque bureaucracies" and "marked by surreal distortion and often a sense of impending danger: Kafkaesque fantasies of the impassive interrogation, the false trial, the confiscated passport ... haunt his innocence" — The New Yorker.
It can also describe an intentional distortion of reality by powerful but anonymous bureaucrats. "Lack of evidence is treated as a pesky inconvenience, to be circumvented by such Kafkaesque means as depositing unproven allegations into sealed files..." Another definition would be an existentialist state of ever-elusive freedom while existing under unmitigable control.
The adjective refers to anything suggestive of Kafka, especially his nightmarish style of narration, in which characters lack a clear course of action, the ability to see beyond immediate events, and the possibility of escape. The term's meaning has transcended the literary realm to apply to real-life occurrences and situations that are incomprehensibly complex, bizarre, or illogical.
The term could also be seen as Kafka's reaction against the concept of time. Public time, to Kafka, is a nightmare; he has a broken relationship with the world; that, in essence, "the world has gone nuts." One such example is in The Trial, wherein Josef K. says of a meeting with his employer that he was summoned to go somewhere, but they forget to tell him when. He assumes to be there at nine, and arrives an hour late. The Examining Magistrate approaches him and says that Josef K. should have been there at 8:45. The next week, he shows up at 8:45, but no one is there. His heroes feel absurd when arriving early, but guilty when late.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kafkaesque
August 1, 2010
police state
the uae has announced it is going to start blocking blackberry services ... some nonsense about security concerns ... blackberry is made by a company called research in motion ...
so to summarize ... on the one hand you have censorship ... and on the other hand you have research in motion ...
so to summarize ... on the one hand you have censorship ... and on the other hand you have research in motion ...
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