ghosts from the past

i stayed in the aub dorms for my freshman year .. two semesters that is .. i had a different roommate each semester .. my first roommate was an older guy .. we never really talked .. mostly i just slept in the room and that was it .. the next semester my roommate was a newcomer .. a freshman like me .. here's why i bring it up .. the second roommate and my brother have a mutual friend .. and they recently met .. he told him that we didn't get along as roommates .. that's an understatement .. truth be told i was a terrible roommate .. so i don't blame him for saying that .. i wonder what else he told him ..

merry christmas everyone

Beiruting

i came across this cool website which is just a collection of old photos of beirut ... it's called old beirut ... go figure ... anyway it's really nice ... check it out ...

unblocking the past

sitting at choices
talking about choices
it was ramadan
she sprayed cologne on her wrists
her hair looked beautiful
we had a nice talk
i was such a fool back then
but i digress
what was i talking about
ah yes
choices
we narrowed it down to two
the fun bad
and the peace of mind
rare wisdom from such a shallow person
such a fool

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

song of the day

in honor of the recent developments in lebanon ...

absurd

the lebanese minister of labor boutros harb proposed a law that would make it illegal for a christian to sell his land to a muslim and vice versa ... true story ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

المصدر

hamra graffiti

almaza world cup commercials

the au of b

this is interesting ... massive student protests against tuition increasing by 25% at aub ...

doesn't fool me

this would've actually been pretty cute if it wasn't such a farce ...

hummus wars

If you're looking for a Guinness, you won't find one in Abu Gosh.
No one in the largely Muslim village sells beer.
But if it's a Guinness world record you want, they now have one: the world's largest dish of hummus. And it's a dish all right.
A 6.5-yard satellite dish with more than 9,000 pounds of hummus, the stuff of both consensus and controversy in the Middle East.
The new record beats one set only two months ago in Lebanon, which has been waging a culinary-rights war with Israel for the last two years.
story

beirut protests

Children with tape over their mouths, protest against Egypt's border barrier between Egypt and southern of Gaza Strip, during a demonstration in front the Egyptian embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, on Sunday Jan. 3, 2010, with placards written in Arabic, at left, 'Hey Arabs, stop killing the innocents on your metal wall, and right, reading 'From Lebanese children to Gaza children, be patient the victory is soon'.
(AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

A protester helps others setup a makeshift wall during a demonstration by Islamic groups to protest against Egypt's border barrier with the southern Gaza Strip, in front the Egyptian embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Jan. 3, 2010.
(AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

بلاد الطوائف

meanwhile in beirut

read a sad story about a domestic worker committing suicide in lebanon ... not an uncommon thing over there apparently ... it happened in sanaye3 ... that was close to where i used to live ... there was a park ... anyway ... this is just another reason why arabs suck right now ... we treat our domestic workers like slaves ... remember those commercials that used to come on tv ... about treating your domestic workers like human beings ... they used to break my heart ... they stopped showing them though ...