من أقوال القائد جندي

ما حدث في تونس و يحدث في مصر إنما يشكل جرعة من الرجولة كانت و لازالت الأمة العربية بأمس الحاجة إليها

jundi the صعلوك

i always knew the word صعلوك was an insult though i never really knew what it meant ... i always thought it meant like bum ... anyway now that i know the real meaning of the word i don't really see it as an insult anymore ... in fact go ahead and call me one ... i promise i won't get upset ...

الصعاليك اسم يطلق على جماعة من العرب في عصر ما قبل الإسلام عاشوا واطلقوا حركتهم في نجد وسط الجزيرة العربية ويعودون لقبائل مختلفة، كانوا لا يعترفون بسلطة القبيلة وواجباتها (خارجون عن القانون : بالوصف المعاصر)، فطردوا من قبائلهم. ومعظم أفراد هذه الجماعة، من الشعراء المجيدين وقصائدهم تعدّ من عيون الشعر العربي.

امتهن الصعاليك غزو القبائل بقصد الاخذ من الاغنياء وإعطاء المنبوذين أو الفقراء، ولم يعترفوا بالمعاهدات أو الاتفاقيات بين قبائلهم والقبائل الأخرى ما أدى إلى طردهم من قبل قبائلهم، وبالتالي عاشوا حياة ثورية تحارب الفقر والاضطهاد وتسعى للتحرر في شكله المتمرد.

واصطبغت أدبيات الصعاليك برؤيتهم عن الحياة فجاءت معظم قصائدهم تحكي عن شجاعتهم وقدرتهم وتحديهم للمجتمع. وشعرهم يمتاز بقوة العاطفة وسعة الخيال وفيه من الحكمة الشيء الكثير.

ومن مميزات شعرهم الخلو من المقدمات الطللية فكانوا أول من كسر بنية القصيدة الجاهلية كما خلا شعرهم من المدح والطول فانتهجوا شعرا جديدا.

thanks wikipedia :)

words of wisdom

don't aggravate a gentle beast ... he may be gentle ... but he's still a beast ...

you still look beautiful

even though the colors of the photo have been distorted so that you look like a member of the blue man group ... even though you are not smiling in the photo ... even though you are looking away from the camera ...

the man who lived underground

the ground has been rumbling for quite some time ... but nobody paid any attention to it ... probably just some moles digging or something ... suddenly a fist came bursting through ... throwing dirt everywhere ... everyone ran away terrified ... they thought it was a zombie ... but it wasn't ... it was just him returning to claim what was rightfully his ...
all it took to wake him up was a series of seemingly unconnected events ... some of which happened thousands of miles away from where he was buried ...

as the world turns

people in egypt are revolting ... trying to pull off a tunisia ... personally i don't see it happening ... egypt is too sensitive ... for the west ... for israel ... for other arab countries ... but i pray that it does ... but i don't know ... anyway it's interesting to follow ...
meanwhile here in jeddah people tried to protest on friday ... it was a small protest ... to express unhappiness with the poor infrastructure which allows these floods to happen ... but it failed ... shut down immediately ... ah the rain ... it's beaten me three times in the past month ... first it ruined my engine ... then it forced me to cancel my road trip to makka ... and most recently it forced my friend to postpone his trip here ... he was supposed to come on wednesday ... but it rained that day and i told him he had two choices ... reschedule or cancel ... anyway ... they say another storm is coming ... next week supposedly ... and they say it's going to be worse than the last one ... there's still a lot of water in the streets ... i went for a cruise yesterday and i regretted every second of it ... there's also a lot of potholes ... really starting to hate rain ... i used to love it ...
moving on ... nothing to else to talk about really ... those are pretty much the two main issues going on these days ... in my world anyway ... well there is one more thing ... which brings me to my song ... dedicated to my mama who has not been feeling so well lately ... i actually have the instrumental of this song as a ringtone for my mom ...

mental imagery

mumblings

it's romantic for a valentine card to say ..
be mine ..

it's not romantic for it to say ..
let me own you ..

even though if you think about it .. both of them mean the same thing ..

this is a joke

Mubarak threatened to set himself on fire to demand a change of...the people

song of the day

in honor of the heavy rains that fell yesterday ... i had to choose one about rain ... ended up going with this one ...

heavy rain

yesterday jeddah turned into one giant the day after tomorrow movie ...

just watch the video ...

maybe i will write about it later ... but suffice to say it was quite a memorable day ...

mumblings

i cherish the chip i carry on my shoulder ... it's what makes me so sexy ...

brother from another mother

my friend is coming to stay with me this weekend ... picking him up at the airport on wednesday inshala ... this guy is my best friend ... love this guy ... we met in university and were good friends then ... later when i moved to riyadh we reunited ... we used to go out every weekend during the two years i spent there ... anyway i haven't seen him since i moved to jeddah ... i'm kind of excited that he's coming ... really looking forward to it ... the only thing that can make this any better is if he were a hot female ...

mental imagery

number two

schadenfreude

karma baby ... it's a bitch ...

what i did during my lunch break

i took two guys from work to lunch today ... i am their supervisor ... one of them i always have lunch with him ... but the other one this was the first time ... i paid ... i took them to a place called pizza fusion ... the pizza was awesome but the salad was terrible ... or at least not good enough to justify the price ... it cost more than a pizza ... and all the staff there are filipino and one of the guys i took to lunch happens to be filipino so he started chatting with them in filipino ... anyway the pizza was awesome but the food took a while to prepare ... so we had to race back to work because by the time we finished there was five minutes until the break is over ... and it was a 15 min drive back to work ... and guess whose car we had gone to lunch in ... if you said jundi you are correct ... usually i go to lunch with the other guy in his car but today it was blocked by another car so we took mine ... so it was my job to play the transporter ... it was a wild drive lol ... also it being my car we were listening to my music ... so i turned it up loud as i drove ... they swore they would never ride with me again ...

i think i should stop playing need for speed so much ...

remix

you know how we say shu malak ... well in the jiddawi dialect it's eesh bak ... emphasis on the eesh ... it's a slight variation of aish ... as for bak it's a variation of bik ... as in matha bik ya rajul ... so basically it translates into matha bik in fus7a ... so they'll say something like eesh bak ya wad ... what's with you boy ... but i digress ... here's why i mentioned eesh bak in the first place ... i was thinking of the perfect remix for that fairuz song ... kifak inta ...

eeshbak intaaaaaaaa malla inta

it's perfect ... eeshbak and kifak are the same rhythm ... someone should make that song ...

a lyric is worth a thousand songs

no song of the day today ... a lyric of the day instead ...

i once had a girl
or should i say
she once had me

the beatles

slice of life

i was driving today and return of the mack came up on my ipod ... must have downloaded a best of the 90s album or something ... because i know i didn't download the album ... anyway ... that song takes me back ... a lot of memories associated with that song ... not all good ones ... there was a kid on our bus who used to sing it ... and the funniest thing was he had no idea what the lyrics were ... so he would sing it in gibberish ... and not like a joke ... he really thought he was singing it ... anyway ... so i kind of went on a little trip while driving ... like a trip within a trip ... get it ... anyway yeah i started remembering all sorts of things as i drove ... but yeah that kid on the bus ... i guess that was like ten years ago or so ... who knew ten years later i'd be in jeddah thinking back on those days ... and the world keeps spinning ...
i took a bunch of pictures of my apartment ... i'm not going to post all of them at once ... they're not that many ... but whatever ... i'll post one a day or something ... here's the first one ... it might not look like much but i think it's very artsy ...


(click to view full-size)

mumblings ...

she doesn't have the prettiest face in the world ... but her body is a ten ... and she knows it ...

*-*-*-*-*-

when it happens ... it's not a matter of if ... it's only a matter of when ...
and when it does happen ... the mountains will be covered in rain ...

لا بد للغيم أن ينجلي

encryption

NeVEr
HoLDinG
BaCk
AgaiN

i've been workin' on the railroad

talking about jobs ... i'm at my third company so far ... in about four years ... most people don't change that many in their entire life ... take my dad for example ... he's actually looking for one right now ... see his company has a policy whereby people have to retire once they reach a certain age ... he'd been with them for thirty years ... so anyway ... i digress ... back to me ... because that's who this post is about ... no disrespect papa ... well i guess papa deserves some credit ... i think his retirement inspired me to reflect a little bit on my own humble career ... so thanks for the inspiration papa ... but again this post isn't about you ... it's about moi ... so yeah my first job ... i was a fresh graduate ... and i have to say i was kind of naive ... was fresh meat if you will ... and i was thrust into a very demanding and stressful position ... i was having a managerial position you see ... man i suffered at that job ... anyway i ended up giving them a big fuck you ... i abruptly quit on them ... just went home one day and sent an email saying i wasn't going to show up anymore ... i also ignored the numerous calls that followed ... then came my second job ... this one paid a little less than my first one but sounded much more promising so i accepted ... it was a very good company ... plus i wanted back in the workplace ... mostly just so i can get out of the house and not be such a bum ... so yeah i worked for a year at my first job ... my second job paid less like i said ... also it was in RIYADH ... this was actually a bonus for me ... i wanted to live on my own you see ... so yeah ... i moved ... that was the best job ever ... i came and went as i pleased ... absences ... internet ... chatting ... i did so little real work at that place ... i did nothing there ... also the people were cool ... but alas ... they refused to give me a raise ... and after two years i refused to go on another year with the same pay ... except this time i already had a job lined up ... so i spared myself the ok i quit now what the fuck do i do scenario ... i learned from my mistake ... and now here i am at my third job ... started out in riyadh but ended up transferring to jeddah ... i like it here ... mind you all these jobs have been in the same field ... logistics ... i like this job i'm in now ... i mean the work is absolutely exhausting ... but i'm happy ... pay's good ... i actually contribute ... although i'm not crazy about the people ... i mean my team is wonderful ... but i'm not too fond of my management ... well only one of them and he's leaving ... well transferring actually ... same as leaving though isn't it ... so yeah i like it here ... although my boss says i have a negative attitude ... i told him i disagree ... i really did ... we kind of went back and forth about it ... he didn't convince me and i certainly didn't convince him ... but in terms of the big picture he's pleased with me ... so it's good ... i honestly like it here ... i wouldn't say it's my dream job ... but i'm happy and that's all that matters ...

and now ... i leave you with a dilbert cartoon ...

song of the day

this song RULES ...

herbal philosophy

be careful ... the beast might get you ... they say he bites his victims heads off ... but that's just an urban legend ... or is it ... either way ... just be careful ... he is starting to rear his ugly head ... his eyes gleaming in the darkness ... his fangs glistening against the moonlight ... nobody is happy about all of this obviously ... the beast's appearance does not bode well for them ... well maybe one person is happy about the beast ... him ... but we don't speak of him ... he's been gone for so long people forgot he existed ... or at least they pretended to ... nobody knew when he would return ... if he would at all ... but now with the news of the beast finally breaking out of his cage ... that cage that held him for oh so long ... longer than anyone or anything should be held really ... anyway the rumors about "his" return grow stronger with every passing day as the beast's presence becomes more and more real ... if he and the beast ever reunite ... who knows what might happen ... we might go back to the old ages ... when things were different ... not necessarily better ... but certainly different ... imagine if we really did go back to those times ... wouldn't that be weird ...

that didn't make any sense did it ... so i leave you with something a little more coherent ... also on the subject of beasts ...

If at times my eyes are lenses through which the brain explores constellations of feeling my ears yielding like swinging doors admit princes to the corridors into the mind, do not envy me. I have a beast on my back.
-Douglas, Gavin
'Be" te Noire'.


yeah that was definitely more coherent ...

the smurfs

saw this over at hummus nation and it cracked me up ...

وفي سياق التحضير للإستشارات الملزمة الأسبوع المقبل، طالب بابا سنفور بتمثيل لائق لقرية السنافر في الحكومة العتيدة. وأكد في حديث صحفي أن قرية السنافر قدمت تضحيات كبيرة، وسنفر الكثير منهم بحياتهم دفاعاً عن القرية أثناء الحرب وبعدها. وشدد على عدم تجاهل المخاطر التي تحدق بالقرية من قبل العدو الأول والأخير، “شرشبيل وعميله القط هرهور” الذي يستغل كل فرصة لدق اسفين الفتنة بين أولاد القرية الواحدة. وتمنى في نهاية الحديث على المعنيين السنفرة في تكليف الرئيس وتشكيل الحكومة

mumblings

fear the lead pipe ...

separated at birth

have you seen this show arabs got talent ... terrible isn't it ... but here's the thing ... one of the judges ... ali jaber is his name ... his resemblance to mustafa fahmi is uncanny ... uncanny i tell you ... can you tell who is who ...

الكرم العربي

a list of gifts received by US officials in 2009 from foreign dignitaries ... this is not a wikileaks cable ... this was released by the US government ... gotta love their transparency ... not surprisingly the most lavish ones came from arabs ...

sex sells

reebok has these new sneakers for women .. they're calling them "reetones" .. supposedly they help women tone their legs and ass .. which i think is nonsense .. but the commercials are a treat .. i happened to see one on tv today ... check them out on youtube ..

daydreaming

i flew home today ... going back to jeddah on friday ... it was a two hour flight ... and as it tends to do when i sit around doing nothing ... my mind began to wander ...

jundi pushes the "help button" above his seat ... the stewardess comes over ...

stewardess: can i get you anything sir

jundi: yes .. how about a piece of that ass

in conclusion ... enjoy this song ...

dear both

they will never see this post ... but if they did they would know it was addressed to them ...

to burn or not to burn

some people are debating whether what bouazizi did was right or wrong ... talking about does he deserve to be called a hero ... is he going to heaven or hell ...
first of all before i offer my own take on the issue let me say a couple of things ... what he did was commit suicide ... there's no debating that ... and suicide is a very grave sin ... there's no debating that either ... i think even atheists would agree that suicide is a serious transgression so it's not a religious thing ...
having said that ... context is very important ... considering all the events that led to him taking his life it's kind of understandable why he did what he did ... i'm not saying it justifies his actions however it does help us see him as a victim of a brutal regime that drove him to despair ...
and so here's the way i see it ... what he did was not right ... in the sense that it was suicide and suicide is a grave sin ... however to talk about heaven or hell is not for us to decide ... God is merciful and we pray that He will forgive him for what he did ... as for the question of is he a hero ... absolutely ... his sacrifice was the catalyst that set off the revolution ... rest in peace comrade ...
and while we are on the subject of suicide and it being a sin ... let me close with this ... if it wasn't such a huge sin ... i would've done it a long long time ago ... i'm just sayin ...

little did he know

mumblings

take it easy ... don't go all bouazizi ...

song of the day

in honor of the severe rains falling on jeddah these days ...

doctor phil moment

i saw this video on youtube today ... i won't tell you what it was ... but the last time i saw that footage i was in maybe second or third grade ... something like that ... anyway ... it evoked some strong emotions in me and the next thing i knew i was crying ... i didn't like break down and start sobbing ... but there were tears ... i think i miss being a little boy ...

song of the day

in honor of the tunisian people freeing their country ...

dear tunisian people

طوبى لكم

b.f.f.f.

that's best facebook friend forever .. moving on ..

i think they need to change the name from friends to something else ... i mean i have "friends" who i have not had a single interaction with until now .. by that i mean on facebook .. basically i added them or they added me and that was it .. some friendship ..
even msn doesn't call them friends .. and i think we can all agree msn is way more intimate than facebook ..

song of the day

in honor of the recent developments in lebanon ...

sigh

كنا سوا نلتقي
و ما عاد سوا نلتقي
و ضاع الهوا و ما بقي
إلا القصص و الصور

in the world of sports

apparently mansaf trumps kabseh as well ...

black swan

did not go to makka as planned ... heavy rains you see ... so i ended up staying home ... i slept after work ... that's right i work on thursdays ... though it is a half day so ... anyway ... so i watched black swan ... normally a movie about ballet would not interest me ... i don't care if it did receive a lot of critical buzz ... i mean so did brokeback mountain but i'm never watching that ... however ... this movie is directed by darren aronofsky ... he has directed requiem for a dream ... and the wrestler ... two amazing movies ... and now you can add another one to the list ... this movie is very dark and very sexy and also kind of trippy ... a lovely combination ... also ... mila kunis is so hot ... i just have to mention that ... solid 10/10 ... this movie is getting an oscar for sure ...

come on

you may have heard of this shooting that took place in arizona recently ... tragic no doubt ... but how come nobody is calling it a terrorist attack ... i mean does the shooter have to be muslim ...
as gob would say ... come on!

song of the day

oh boo fucking hoo

Several Jewish groups are criticizing Sarah Palin's use of the term "blood libel" in her video statement on the Arizona shootings.

story

mumblings

opium is the religion of the masses ...

almara3i

not sure how long ago this happened but apparently almarai has a new logo now ... i like the old one better ... this one is too abstract ... so long mister cow ...

one last post before i sleep

my eye has been twitching all day ... literally all fucking day ... and now my head hurts ... and i can't sleep ... really looking forward to work tomorrow ...

ماذا تريدون

in honor of the anti-government protests currently sweeping the arab world ...

to the ka3beh

well i mentioned i rented a car recently ... due to my car being out of service for the time being ... and seeing as how i paid a good sum of money to rent it ... and seeing as how i am not really using it much ... certainly not enough to justify what i paid ... although the convenience of having a car at my disposal makes it worth it ... but getting back to my point ... i decided to go to makka this weekend ... i haven't been since coming to jeddah ... my last time was a long time ago ... like four years ago ... i'm not going for umrah or anything ... i just want to go sit in the haram and pray and contemplate and so forth ... a friend from work might be coming along ...

i hope it's not true

Prince William and Kate Middleton are set to receive their very own crown jewels worth £60 million as a lavish wedding present.
In an extraordinary act of generosity, billionaires based in Saudi Arabia are trying to buy the couple a fabled set of coloured diamonds called the Rainbow Collection.

story

in the world of sports

shawerma trumps kabseh ...

guilty pleasures

i feel kind of ashamed to say this ... but season 3 of jersey shore just kicked off ... and i couldn't be more excited ... well okay so that's kind of a hyperbole ... but my point is i do enjoy watching it ... very much so ... can't wait for the next episode ... honestly how can you not love this ... pure entertainment ...

cat killer

i ran over a cat when i was driving home today ... happened on my street ... he came running out of nowhere ... poor guy ... i looked in my rearview and i saw him lying there ... i stopped and put the car in reverse back to the scene of the crime ... got out and looked at him ... i could see that i hadn't actually run over him ... that is there was no blood or guts ... but he was lying there motionless ... his eyes staring into space ... there is something chilling about a dead person's eyes ... or dead animal's eyes in this case ... though they are open you can somehow tell there is no life in them ... anyway i gave him a little tap with my foot ... and he just kind of moved with the tap ... like a lump ... he was clearly gone ... anyway i stood there a little longer ... just looking at him ... then i got back in the car and went home ... so this thread is dedicated to him ... or her ... rest in peace little guy ...

song of the day

zoom zoom zoom

there is this game i'm really into these days ... the new need for speed ... suffice to say it's effing awesome ...
anyway one of the events you can play is hot pursuit ... and you can be the racer or the cop ... for some reason i enjoy being the cop more ... i think it might be because as the cop your goal is to wreck everyone and shut down the race .... whereas when playing as the racer your focus is more on evasion and reaching the finish line ... in other words being the cop is more offensive whereas being the racer is more defensive ...
in reality though ... i imagine i would rather be the racer ... sticking it to the man so to speak ..

i leave you with a small sample of what i'm talking about ...

puzzle fo shizzle my nizzle

i think i'm going to buy a puzzle ... one with at least a thousand pieces ... i used to have a passion for puzzles when i was younger ... not sure what inspired me to think of buying one ... but i think i'm going to ... i'll go to toys'r'us and see what they have ... then when i'm done putting it together ... i'll just put it back in the box ... trying to think of what would serve as my assembling area ...

separated at birth

unless you don't have internet you have probably heard of ted williams by now ... the homeless man with the "golden voice" ... does anyone else think he kind of resembles an ugly obama ...

fly like an eagle

remeber space jam ... that looney tunes movie with michael jordan in it ... well it seems the movie website is still up ... it's like the internet equivalent of cave drawings ...

!@#$%&

a friend of mine posted this on facebook via the huffington post ... it goes without saying that it contains some strong language ... still funny though ...

song of the day

well this is the third song post in a row ... seems i have run out of things to blog about ... but anyway ... for some reason i started singing this song at work today ... ma ba3raf shu jabha 3a bali ... but anyway ... it is a classic ... they don't make songs like this anymore ...

song of the day

i rented a car today ... for one month ... i got it for what is equal to twenty dollars a day ... it's a 2011 mitsubishi lancer ... i don't like it ... but i had no choice ... i've been without a car for almost a week now ... and it looks like it will be a while before i get my car back ... at least a month ... oh how i miss my baby ... which brings us to the song of the day ... i dedicate it to my carla ... that's my car's name for those who don't know ...

classic hiphop

قدر الله و ما شاء فعل

so i wrote about how my car broke down on the way home the other day ... and how i thought the massive flooding had something to do with it ... well turns out it did but not in the way that i thought ... you see ... when the street is a sea you cannot sea the street ... and when you cannot see the street then you cannot see the potholes ... and jeddah is full of them ... so as it turns out i hit a nasty pothole which broke something which is connected to a cylinder which in turn bla bla bla ... to boil it down my engine is bye bye ... and i need a new one ... well it will not be a new one ... it will be a used one from the junkyard ... the point is the engine needs to be replaced ... such wonderful news to hear at the start of this new year ...