incoherent

a favor for a favor and the world will go blind ...

wikileaks ... wikidumps ...

there is a God

i can understand people who don't like religion ... what i can't understand is people who say there is no god ... i mean when you read things like this or this ... then you tell me there is no creator ... it just doesn't make sense to me ... i mean such things cannot be the result of some random explosion that happened when some gases collided ... that's just ridiculous ...

slice of life

i was working on this spreadsheet at work today ... hell of a spreadsheet ... it had something like fifteen tabs to it ... i had been working on it for the past two days ... i could not wait to finish the son of a bitch ... and i was drawing ever so closer to that moment ... so when i finished i wanted to check my work before emailing it to my boss ... and as i checked the tabs i noticed that one tab did not have as much data as it should ... i was like where the @#$&! did all my work go ... oh no ... oh shit ... oh fuck ... and i began to panic ... i have to redo it ... i wanted to cry ... especially since i had promised my boss i would send it to him today ... and there was no way i can send it today now ... but wait a minute ...
i remembered i had a filter applied to that particular tab ... so only the filtered data was showing ... the rest was only hidden ... not actually gone ...

phew .......

the evil queen

i was reading al-akhbar newspaper online today and they had this article about amal hijazi's new album ... remember amal hijazi ... i forgot she existed ... anyway so the article mentions how the cover is getting mixed reactions because of amal's unconventional look ... here is the album cover in question ... it reminded me of the queen from snow white ...

princess dina :)

moi @ corniche

the sun was in my eyes ...

a day in the life of jundi

well my mom and my brother were here ... they just left like an hour ago ... they had come for hajj and they came to visit me ... they arrived in jeddah last night at 11 pm ... i would have been asleep had i not been expecting them ... so i went and picked them up ... they were hungry apparently ... it was late and so i suggested al baik ... they said yes ... so i got them some takeout from there ... for those unfamiliar with al baik it is a VERY popular restaurant chain here in jeddah ... arguably the most popular restaurant in all of jeddah ... visit their website if you are interested ... so that took forever ... the ticket number for my order was 698 ... the number on the display was 625 ... yeah it's always packed like that ... anyway ... so they came home ... ate ... and soon passed out ... mom took my bed ... my brother took the sofa ... i got the floor ... how about that ... they were exhausted ... next morning my brother and i went to friday prayer ... after coming home i took them out ... we went out at 2 and stayed out till 8 when they left for the airport ... i don't know many places in jeddah but i showed them what i know ... first i took them for a cruise ... that was about an hour ... then we had lunch at some place called uno chicago grill ... good food ... then we went to the corniche for only a few minutes ... my mom wanted coffee ... then basically we just killed time by going from mall to mall ... we didn't buy anything ... not a single thing ... it was just about wasting time ... their flight was at 11 pm and the plan was they would leave for the airport at 8 ... so we just kept going from mall to mall ... which bored me tremendously ... them as well ... but there's nothing to do at my house really ... so all in all it was a long and tiresome day ... but at least i got to see them ... also they got to see my apartment ... which they admitted exceeded their expectations ... so i was pleased about that ... and yeah it's back to work tomorrow ...

also ... away from my own personal life details which mean nothing ... i want to take a second to address something that actually does ... mean something that is ... and that is maid abuse in the arab world ... every other day it's a new story ... today i read about a horrific story where an indonesian maid in saudi arabia was found in a dumpster ... her throat had been slashed apparently ... i just want to say to all those people who abuse their maids ... ya wailkum min Allah ... i think we are all familiar with the hadeeth about the woman who entered hell because she tortured a cat ...

no mas

spotted while driving

* a police jeep pulled over by the side of the road and some indian dude was painting over some graffiti while the police officer observed ... as i drove by i could see that the words they were covering were an insult to a certain prince ...

* at a stoplight ... there was a sign stuck to the pole ... it said ... تقسيم الميراث - استشارات شرعية و أسرية ... then it mentioned the number you could call ... i just felt it was an odd place to advertise such a service ...

mumblings

in an ideal world where none of that matters .. we would have been perfect for each other ..

scott pilgrim vs the world

it's based on a comic book .. or should i say graphic novel .. i actually have it downloaded but have never read it .. so anyway .. it is a fun movie .. very original .. kind of geeky but the violence sort of balances that out .. the girl who plays his love interest is hot .. or i thought so anyway .. despite the multicolor hair ..

so brief summary basically michael cera plays scott pilgrim .. a young man who is in a band .. and he falls for this girl .. but in order to win her he must defeat her seven evil exes (see above picture) .. and that's pretty much it .. the battle scenes are the best part about the movie .. so all in all it's a good movie .. nothing spectacular but entertaining nonetheless .. 7/10 ..

happy eid everybody

slice of life

i passed by an atm booth on the way home from work and both machines in the atm were out of cash ... or temporarily unable to dispense cash ... something like that ... the point is i was unable to get any cash out of them ... later on in the evening i went back and there was a huge line ... so i was like fuck that ... there is another machine in our neighborhood ... i'll just go to that one ... so i did ... and lo and behold it was also unable to dispense cash ... it was at that point that i exclaimed ... FUCK MY LIFE MAN ... rather loudly ... as i turned around to exit the booth i realized someone was waiting outside ... i'm sure he heard me as the door was not exactly closed ... i told him it wasn't working as i left ... got in my car and went home defeated ... that was yesterday ...

today was the first day of the holiday ... i didn't do much ... woke up rather early ... had breakfast ... stayed awake for a couple more hours then went back to sleep ... played some playstation ... haven't played at all since i moved here ... literally haven't played at all ... so that was nice ... other than that i didn't do much ... i went to this part of town where there are a lot of houseware shops all on the same street ... it's not far from where i live ... i bought a lava lamp there ... i went there just to look around i didn't have anything in mind ... i didn't even know they had lava lamps ...
i might go shopping again tomorrow ... maybe buy a new playstation game ... go to ikea maybe ... maybe go to virgin ... i probably won't buy anything ... maybe one or two things i don't know ... it's more about leaving the house than actually coming home with bags ...
i need to do laundry over the break as well ...
i was going to go home for the break but some things came up ... it's not a big deal though the house is practically empty ... it's just my dad and my little brother ... and the maid ... my mom and my other brother went to hajj ... and my other brothers no longer live in the kingdom ...
i have some work to do over the break ... like work work ... couple of spreadsheets ... not exactly thrilled about that ...
i might watch a movie after i finish writing this ... i downloaded inception the other day but it's 2 and a half hours long ... so not watching that ... maybe tomorrow ... i will definitely watch it over the break though ...

saudi love

an american friend of mine who grew up in the same compound back in dhahran recently got a tattoo ... she is no longer in saudi arabia ... now living in the US ... anyway she shared a photo of it on facebook ... pretty cool no?

fantastic mr. fox

i read the book when i was in first grade i think ... finally watched the movie ... i loved every bit of it ... the animation and the voice acting are superb ... and the story is very light and funny ... solid 9/10 movie ...

by the way tomorrow is the last day of work ... then the rest of the week is off for the hajj holiday ... i was supposed to be going home to khobar for the break but due to unforeseen circumstances i cannot go ... i will be staying here ... so it looks like there will be a lot of watching movies over the break ... so expect more of these reviews in the coming days ...

really

if you're familiar with snl ... you're familiar with weekend update ... and if you're familiar with weekend update ... you might be familiar with a segment they sometimes do called really? ...
well in a statement released by netenyahu recently ... he says and i quote ...

Israel sees no connection at all between the peace process and building plans in Jerusalem
(source)

REALLY?

:- /

حسبي الله و نعم الوكيل

retro

dancin dina

3arab

yahoo had this feature on the six largest yachts in the world ... and surprise surprise ... five of them are owned by arabs ... but i'm not impressed ... maybe if they were built by arabs ...

one word

why?

oh snap

a friend of mine shared this on facebook ...

What's the difference between men and women?

Men always have the same pair of balls between their legs

sure kevin

charlie villaneuva tweeted that kevin garnett called him a cancer patient ... garnett released a statement saying no no i didnt call him a cancer patient ... i just told him he is "cancerous to your team and our league” ...

somehow i don't believe garnett ...

mumblings

jeddah ... it's the san francisco of saudi ...

office talk

i was having lunch with boss and his boss today ... as we often do ... we have lunch together at the office since we are "too busy" to take a lunch break like normal people ... i happened to mention that i was going to ikea straight after work ... and so the subject of my apartment came up ...

boss's boss (bb) ... boss (b) ... jundi (j) ...

bb: sa7ee7 keef il sha22a ili la2alak yaha b .. mabsoot feeha
j: il7amdulila .. il binaye kteer mrattabe w 2areebe 3al shughul kaman
bb: tayeb mnee7
j: bas fee shaghle wa7deh ....
bb: shu
j: ino poor area
b: yir7am jdadak

jundi goes to ikea

i went to ikea today ... when i got there i realized i didnt have my atm card on me ... i thought it was at home but even when i got home i couldnt find it either ... i will go to the bank tomorrow to see if their machine has it ... i think i may have forgotten to take it last time i withdrew some money ... anyway ... so that sucked ... since i couldnt buy what i wanted to ... but i did have some money on me ... so i was like lets just go inside and look around ... even if i dont buy anything i will just browse and pick what i will buy next time i come back ... which may or may not be tomorrow ... i was in there for a good two hours or so ... i picked out the sofa i want to buy ... and the eating table ... the coffee table and the rug will be decided when i go back ... i will probably go for one of those high pile rugs ... i liked them ... very spiffy ... its just a matter of what color ... also they have some nice photos/paintings you can buy ... i found a few that i liked ... also i wanna buy a rod and a curtain for my shower ... theres a bunch of stuff i marked down as "to be purchased" ... though i dont know that i will buy it all this month ... i only need the sofa and the table for now ... the coffee table and the rug as well ... the rest is just decorations that i can add as i go along ... anyway so i bought a bathroom mat ... and a bathroom set ... one of those soap dish + cup for your toothbrush and what not + liquid soap dispenser + bla bla ... gotta love ikea though ... such a lovely shopping experience ... anyway ... so that was what i did after work today ... i leave you with this beautiful song i heard on the drive home ... so beautiful i heard it three times ...

quote of the day

Dr. Asad Abukhalil (the Angry Arab) recently returned from a trip to Lebanon ...

I don't like Beirut: it is too noisy and too dirty and too pretentious and too sleazy and too ugly and too lost and too dazed and too polluted and too stressful and too corrupt and too fake.

i agree with everything he said ... except for the hating beirut part ...

song of the day

if you're like me and have a ton of music on your ipod ... and another ton on your computer ... a combined total of well over 100 gb ... then often times you will be listening to one or the other when a song will come up that you never heard before ... and you'll be like this song effing rules ... it just happened to be a part of your vast collection but you never knew it existed until now ... i like to call them hidden gems ... no i don't ... anyway ... the other day i was driving and came across such a song ... listen ...

mumblings

so people are posting halloween party pictures on facebook ... and i just want to say that she is the sexiest pirate ever ...