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Saturday, August 22, 2009
Video of the Month
My worst snow-throwing experience was throwing a ginormous snow ball at a taxi driver while he was driving. He got so upset that he drove his car onto the pavement and tried to run us over.
Do you have a bad snow-throwing experience?
Friday, August 14, 2009
Finally, We're in the Semi-Finals
And the top three will go to the World Cup(damn it, whenever I google Jordan and basketball I get images os some tall black guy)
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Jordanian Women Who Don't Work
More and more Jordanian households are starting to depend on the working woman's income. Clearly, Jordanian women are smarter and get much better grades than men. However there remains a big chunk of Jordanian women who do not work.
I like to classify them into certain groups.
Those women have no skills. They finished high school but they shouldn't have. Some of them got a college or a university degree afterwards and they shouldn't have, but they really have no skills. They have tried hard sometimes to learn something but they couldn't manage to be useful and no sane work place would hire them. They are the women who studied business but know nothing about business, studied English but can't speak it ....etc. They are everywhere. These women don't work and they shouldn't. They were born to find a good husband and be a great cook and raise children. Strangely enough most of these women end up marrying a loser, their kids go to jail and their cooking is awful.
I like to classify them into certain groups.
1- The Born-To-Get-Married
Those women have no skills. They finished high school but they shouldn't have. Some of them got a college or a university degree afterwards and they shouldn't have, but they really have no skills. They have tried hard sometimes to learn something but they couldn't manage to be useful and no sane work place would hire them. They are the women who studied business but know nothing about business, studied English but can't speak it ....etc. They are everywhere. These women don't work and they shouldn't. They were born to find a good husband and be a great cook and raise children. Strangely enough most of these women end up marrying a loser, their kids go to jail and their cooking is awful.
2- The Marriage-Abused
Those women were working at one point and having a good time but they married a rich husband. He kind of forced them to stay home because the vast majority of Jordanians- men and women alike- believe a woman should not work unless she and her husband needed money. The man is usually kind enough to tell her she needs to stay home as a condition for marriage. Most women agree.3- The Work-Abused
This a silent group but I believe it's a big one. It includes women who really work their ass off day and night and do very well at their job, but they're not appreciated. They're underpaid, made fun of, talked about in the office for whatever reason, and even sexually harassed. They try working at other places but they face the same difficulty everywhere until they realize they live in a society that looks down on women. When they try to speak up, they're 45 and single and pissed and people think they're pissed just because they're single. In Jordan they become angry and depressed. In the US they become lesbians.4- Mothers
These women worked because they loved to work, mostly, or they just needed the money, or they just wanted to go somewhere to meet a guy, or they just wanted to work so people won't call them losers, or because their parents needed the money or because normally once you finish college you have to work. Once they got married and had kids, they voluntarily decided to stay home and raise their kids. Many of them have a part a time job, or join a Jordanian woman society, one of those societies that keep Dunes club from getting bankrupt.5- The Scum of the Earth.
This group is getting bigger. It includes women who got married, usually very recently, who decide to stay home for no obvious reason and do nothing. They have a degree, they have a supportive husband, they even have a maid, and they own a car, and they have worked before and are very healthy, but they decided to not work. I feel ashamed when I remember that I belong to the same animal kingdom that includes those wastes of skin. These women are the reason we have drought, volcanoes, hurricanes, earthquakes and other natural disaster like Jad Chouari.Work Embarrassment
I was at the mall. I stopped by Macy's and bought myself a nice shirt and a couple of great good old fashioned kalaseen. When buying a kalsoon I don't just sneak it in the bag, I open the packet and take out the kalsoon and raise it up in the air to see the reflection of the light from its shining cloth while nauseated people stare at me in utter disgust. I got the shirt and kalaseen and went home.
Next day at the clinic I saw Pam, our physician assistant.
"So Doctor, you were at Macy's yesterday?" She asked
" Yes!" I said
"I work there"
"Really?"
"Yes, I work as part time there."
"Great"
"I saw you bought yourself a nice shirt?"
"Yes.... I actually.... did.... buy a nice..... shirt"
That was followed by 10 seconds of silence.
"Ok doc, Mrs. Andrews is your first patient today, I'll check her in the room"
Next day at the clinic I saw Pam, our physician assistant.
"So Doctor, you were at Macy's yesterday?" She asked
" Yes!" I said
"I work there"
"Really?"
"Yes, I work as part time there."
"Great"
"I saw you bought yourself a nice shirt?"
"Yes.... I actually.... did.... buy a nice..... shirt"
That was followed by 10 seconds of silence.
"Ok doc, Mrs. Andrews is your first patient today, I'll check her in the room"
Thursday, August 06, 2009
Dhaaaaa
An actual quote from CNN's website:
" A Pennsylvania man who walked into a gym aerobics class and opened fire, killing three women and wounding nine before turning the gun on himself, "had a lot of hatred in him," police said Wednesday. "
" A Pennsylvania man who walked into a gym aerobics class and opened fire, killing three women and wounding nine before turning the gun on himself, "had a lot of hatred in him," police said Wednesday. "
Thursday, July 30, 2009
What was your Tawjihi score, and where are you now?
Share with us.
Share with us, especially if you sucked at Tawjihi but are having a relatively successful life now.
Share with us, especially if you sucked at Tawjihi but are having a relatively successful life now.
رسالة تشجيعية و إرشادية من حريقة إلى كل تلميذ راسب في امتحان التوجيهي
ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط ساقط
Facebook-iyyat
* Warning: Facebook has allowed third parties to use your picture.
But believe me narcissists, no third party want to see your picture, especially the 20 pictures you took of yourself while you were testing the new camera.
Also believe me, TRUST ME, even if nobody ever told you so, even if you won't trust anyone in anything in life please trust me on this- Nobody wants to see pictures of your kids. The ones very close to you know how they look like. The ones not-so-close are not-so-close for a good reason and don't care much about your kids.
* If you're Jordanian and you still take a test that tells you what your Jordanian name you deserve and it gives you a name like Jarba and you like the name well enough to publish it on your profile, that tells me how much your real Jordanian name sucks.
* You don't get to send me a "BFF" request if you haven't called me in a year.
* After much thought, I concluded that nobody older than 50 should be allowed to join facebook.
* Never send me a "Mafia War Request" if your biggest adventure in life was taking a Sarvees to Sagf El-Sail.
* Facebook-Status Diarrhea: self-explanatory. It's a mental disease I believe.
But believe me narcissists, no third party want to see your picture, especially the 20 pictures you took of yourself while you were testing the new camera.
Also believe me, TRUST ME, even if nobody ever told you so, even if you won't trust anyone in anything in life please trust me on this- Nobody wants to see pictures of your kids. The ones very close to you know how they look like. The ones not-so-close are not-so-close for a good reason and don't care much about your kids.
* If you're Jordanian and you still take a test that tells you what your Jordanian name you deserve and it gives you a name like Jarba and you like the name well enough to publish it on your profile, that tells me how much your real Jordanian name sucks.
* You don't get to send me a "BFF" request if you haven't called me in a year.
* After much thought, I concluded that nobody older than 50 should be allowed to join facebook.
* Never send me a "Mafia War Request" if your biggest adventure in life was taking a Sarvees to Sagf El-Sail.
* Facebook-Status Diarrhea: self-explanatory. It's a mental disease I believe.
Monday, July 27, 2009
Flight ObservationS
** I was looking up tickets between Cape Town in South Africa and Dubai and found a first class ticket for a direct flight for about 5000 dollars with Emirates.
On the same page on kayak.com I found another ticket with 2 stops for a third of the price, 1800 dollars, also first class. The first part is the flight from Cape Town to Dubai with Emirates, the same exact flight above, then from Dubai to Oman, then from Oman to Abu Dhabi which is pretty close to Dubai.
So what you have to do, is purchase the second ticket with the 2 stops to save 2/3rds of the price. Once you arrive at Dubai, leave the airport and do not take the 2 additional flights. If the airline asks you later why you didn't board on those flights, just tell them you had to take a big fat dump in the airport and were stuck there, which happened to me before but thanks to US airways which never leaves on time I was able to catch my flight.
** I looked up another ticket between Sydney and Buenos Aires. There's a 14-hour direct flight that takes off from Sydney at 11 am and arrives at Buenos Aires at 11 am on the same day! The explanation is that Sydney is 14 hours ahead of Buenos Aires in the timezone. Again, you leave at 11 am and you arrive at 11 am. That should work extremely well for you in the case you're thinking about murdering someone in Sydney. If you kill them at 11 am then take the flight, and the police later accuses you of murder, just say "I was in Argentina, how the fuck can I kill someone in Sydney at the same time?"
Disclaimer: I'm not flying anytime soon, just planning ahead for the 2014 World Cup. I also, in most cases, discourage homicide.
On the same page on kayak.com I found another ticket with 2 stops for a third of the price, 1800 dollars, also first class. The first part is the flight from Cape Town to Dubai with Emirates, the same exact flight above, then from Dubai to Oman, then from Oman to Abu Dhabi which is pretty close to Dubai.
So what you have to do, is purchase the second ticket with the 2 stops to save 2/3rds of the price. Once you arrive at Dubai, leave the airport and do not take the 2 additional flights. If the airline asks you later why you didn't board on those flights, just tell them you had to take a big fat dump in the airport and were stuck there, which happened to me before but thanks to US airways which never leaves on time I was able to catch my flight.
** I looked up another ticket between Sydney and Buenos Aires. There's a 14-hour direct flight that takes off from Sydney at 11 am and arrives at Buenos Aires at 11 am on the same day! The explanation is that Sydney is 14 hours ahead of Buenos Aires in the timezone. Again, you leave at 11 am and you arrive at 11 am. That should work extremely well for you in the case you're thinking about murdering someone in Sydney. If you kill them at 11 am then take the flight, and the police later accuses you of murder, just say "I was in Argentina, how the fuck can I kill someone in Sydney at the same time?"
Disclaimer: I'm not flying anytime soon, just planning ahead for the 2014 World Cup. I also, in most cases, discourage homicide.
Friday, July 24, 2009
Do you want full freedom of speech?
Regarding my poll that is still active, I asked whether you're ready to give up 20 years of your life to get full freedom of speech.
It looks like a split vote.
Where does free speech end?
It looks like a split vote.
Where does free speech end?
Thursday, July 23, 2009
In the Sky
On the 40th anniversay of walking on the moon, the earth gets the biggest solar eclipse of the century.
Lesson to learn: never piss off the sun.
Monday, July 20, 2009
Friday, July 17, 2009
Estudiantes.... Campeon
Estudiantes... Champions of LA Copa Libertadores 2009
and World Champions as of December 2009... sorry Barcelona!
and World Champions as of December 2009... sorry Barcelona!
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Taste of Treason: Drinking Disi's Radioactive Water
As I have mentioned a few times before, according to a study published at the Environmental Science and Technology journal in February, 2009, Al-Disi aquifer is contaminated with radioactive radium. (Click here for the abstract, published by scientists from Duke and Yale and other local universities). We've heard about an investigation that would talk place. Nothing ensued. Not a big surprise.
Today, it was announced that the contaminated water will be reaching Amman by 2012, six months ahead of schedule.
I am out of words.
Today, it was announced that the contaminated water will be reaching Amman by 2012, six months ahead of schedule.
I am out of words.
Monday, July 13, 2009
Bruno, Briefly
Very vulgarVery explicit
Very offensive
Very inappropriate for all age groups
and one of the best movies I've seen in my life
Sunday, July 12, 2009
MiiiiKro- Blogging for Tamooz 2009: Ala Hobbi Bi Sa7niki Wasbi7eena, Wala Tubqi Khumoral Andareena... Andareena.. Noon
* It was sad to see Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett die on the same day. Things are not going well for white women since Obama became president.
* There's been a debate going on on whether Al-Hajj should be suspended this year because of the swine flu. Meanwhile, all Chinese mosques in Urumqi, China suspended Friday prayers because of political unrest. This shows the irony about China: their policemen are more fierce than a deadly virus but they still can't make a T-shirt that will survive past one-time laundry.
* The CIA announced that Mullah Omar of Taliban is now worth 10 million dollars. I'm afraid he'll be purchased by Real Madrid.
* Barack Obama visited Ghana. He was expecting people there to commend the US on electing a black president, but the Ghanaians said it's no big deal. So far they have elected 12 black men to be their president.
* If you're a doctor and you have patients who wake up after a few days of being unconscious, it's not cool to tell them it's 2013. Sometimes they might believe you.
* During a visit of Jordanian official to Mujeb, a citizen took off his clothes and started taking a shower in public in protest of water being cut off his house.
Immediately afterwards and as a sign of support, a gay group in San Francisco sent him an invitation for a vacation. The group wrote, "You'll be showering with all of us, and there will be enough water for everyone to have a good time."
* I really did enjoy our local Jordanian restaurant in Arizona. It's not only good, but very clean as well. In fact you can taste the authentic Yara soap in your mansaf dish.
* The movie Bruno opened yesterday. In the movie Sasha Cohen plays the role of a very gay man who likes to kiss men on the face and dance with them for hours occasionally rubbing his body against them, or as it is called in Jordan: a wedding.
* A Jordanian woman was raped, and as a punishment her brother killed her. He should have spent 15 years in jail, but the judge cut it to 7 because the man did something honorable by killing his sister.
My only wish now is for the judge to have a honorable brother who will kill him after being raped.
* Michael Moore's next documentary "Capitalism: a Love Story" trashes capitalism as a terrible way of living. The movie is produced by Paramount Vantage, which happens to be the film division of Paramount Pictures, which is in turn part of Viacom.
* 26 men were held in Egypt because they were planning on bombing the Suez Canal. I'm not exactly sure why they were arrested when the only dreaded consequence of blowing a canal is making it bigger?
* I decided to start eating healthy. I bought a big ass salad with an extra Blue Cheese dressing, and to reward myself with this success I ate a cheesecake. Tomorrow I'm giving myself a break from dieting.
* Important advice: whenever you're driving on the highway always make sure your window is closed just in case a bird drops a greenish poop on your windshield then you try to wash it quickly with the wipers but the poop, mixed with water, strangely flies in a semi-circular fashion into your window directly into the lateral space between your eyeglasses and your eyes, lodging over your eye while you're driving at 70 mph
*I'm a little upset that my race in the US is often labelled as "Other" or "Unknown", but I'm glad that at least my gender is not classified as such.
* David Letterman: "Anybody here from Minnesota? Congratulations, you have a brand new senator, our old friend, Al Franken. Al is an interesting guy. Went from being a comedian to politician. George Bush, the other way around."
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the picture above is of my fiance-to-be Alessandra Ambrosio. She is a famous model (or singer, actor, not sure exactly). She recently surpassed diabetes and is expected to catch up to smoking as the number one risk factor for heart disease in men aged 12-99. I also would like to thank her for her contributions in the medical field: her urine is used to manufacture aphrodisic perfumes and her feces is used by Pfeizer to produce Viagra.
* There's been a debate going on on whether Al-Hajj should be suspended this year because of the swine flu. Meanwhile, all Chinese mosques in Urumqi, China suspended Friday prayers because of political unrest. This shows the irony about China: their policemen are more fierce than a deadly virus but they still can't make a T-shirt that will survive past one-time laundry.
* The CIA announced that Mullah Omar of Taliban is now worth 10 million dollars. I'm afraid he'll be purchased by Real Madrid.
* Barack Obama visited Ghana. He was expecting people there to commend the US on electing a black president, but the Ghanaians said it's no big deal. So far they have elected 12 black men to be their president.
* If you're a doctor and you have patients who wake up after a few days of being unconscious, it's not cool to tell them it's 2013. Sometimes they might believe you.
* During a visit of Jordanian official to Mujeb, a citizen took off his clothes and started taking a shower in public in protest of water being cut off his house.
Immediately afterwards and as a sign of support, a gay group in San Francisco sent him an invitation for a vacation. The group wrote, "You'll be showering with all of us, and there will be enough water for everyone to have a good time."
* I really did enjoy our local Jordanian restaurant in Arizona. It's not only good, but very clean as well. In fact you can taste the authentic Yara soap in your mansaf dish.
* The movie Bruno opened yesterday. In the movie Sasha Cohen plays the role of a very gay man who likes to kiss men on the face and dance with them for hours occasionally rubbing his body against them, or as it is called in Jordan: a wedding.
* A Jordanian woman was raped, and as a punishment her brother killed her. He should have spent 15 years in jail, but the judge cut it to 7 because the man did something honorable by killing his sister.
My only wish now is for the judge to have a honorable brother who will kill him after being raped.
* Michael Moore's next documentary "Capitalism: a Love Story" trashes capitalism as a terrible way of living. The movie is produced by Paramount Vantage, which happens to be the film division of Paramount Pictures, which is in turn part of Viacom.
* 26 men were held in Egypt because they were planning on bombing the Suez Canal. I'm not exactly sure why they were arrested when the only dreaded consequence of blowing a canal is making it bigger?
* I decided to start eating healthy. I bought a big ass salad with an extra Blue Cheese dressing, and to reward myself with this success I ate a cheesecake. Tomorrow I'm giving myself a break from dieting.
* Important advice: whenever you're driving on the highway always make sure your window is closed just in case a bird drops a greenish poop on your windshield then you try to wash it quickly with the wipers but the poop, mixed with water, strangely flies in a semi-circular fashion into your window directly into the lateral space between your eyeglasses and your eyes, lodging over your eye while you're driving at 70 mph
*I'm a little upset that my race in the US is often labelled as "Other" or "Unknown", but I'm glad that at least my gender is not classified as such.
* David Letterman: "Anybody here from Minnesota? Congratulations, you have a brand new senator, our old friend, Al Franken. Al is an interesting guy. Went from being a comedian to politician. George Bush, the other way around."
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the picture above is of my fiance-to-be Alessandra Ambrosio. She is a famous model (or singer, actor, not sure exactly). She recently surpassed diabetes and is expected to catch up to smoking as the number one risk factor for heart disease in men aged 12-99. I also would like to thank her for her contributions in the medical field: her urine is used to manufacture aphrodisic perfumes and her feces is used by Pfeizer to produce Viagra.
Friday, July 10, 2009
Four Years of Hareega
Busy but alive, stressed out but happy, exhausted but excited, indifferent but grateful to anyone who has ever clicked a button to run across the green, then brown, then blue, the orange-and-white blog.
Thank You
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
The Best Screw Up Ever
This 12-year old boy participated in the talent show Britain's Got Talent this year,
he performed a song for Amy Winehouse, but Simon Cowell interrupted him saying that he screwed up the song, and gave him one last chance with any other song.
The boy, Shaheen, chose a song by Jackson 5 instead. He did pretty well.
This earned him an invitation a few months later by Micahel Jackson's family to participate in his funeral, thus providing him with a worldwide exposure he had never dreamed of, especially that he had previously lost in the talent show.
Here's a clip of the audition, you can have to click here.
he performed a song for Amy Winehouse, but Simon Cowell interrupted him saying that he screwed up the song, and gave him one last chance with any other song.
The boy, Shaheen, chose a song by Jackson 5 instead. He did pretty well.
This earned him an invitation a few months later by Micahel Jackson's family to participate in his funeral, thus providing him with a worldwide exposure he had never dreamed of, especially that he had previously lost in the talent show.
Here's a clip of the audition, you can have to click here.
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
All in the head
I had a patient who went to surgery one morning. I went to her room in the afternoon to check on her.
I tried to wake her up but she was still sleeping, recovering from the heavy effect of anaesthesia.
I don't like to examine patients without them being awake, but since her surgery was in the head, I looked around. I had to take her glasses off then looked around the head and found a small wound dressing. It looked a little old to me, so I went to the nursing station to find her nurse.
"Did Jessica go to surgery today to remove her VP shunt?", I asked the nurse.
"Yes, she got back a couple of hours ago"
"Her wound looks a little old though!"
"hmm, I don't think you're allowed to look at the wound, I have strict orders to keep it covered for today"
"Ok, well it was not covered very well...."
Jessica was in room 220. However the nurse took me to room 232, and indeed Jessica was sitting there, awake and talking.
I pulled the nurse out of the room immediately, and asked her, "I thought Jessica was in room 220!"
"Yes she was, but after the surgery we moved her to 232"
"So who's in 220?"
"Adam, the one with the head injury. Just transferred from the ICU"
"Uhm OK...."
The nurses started smiling, said, "did you think he was Jessica?"
"Well they're both blond... and with the glasses I couldn't tell"
There's a good reason I didn't choose to become a surgeon. It would have sucked to amputate the wrong leg, or open up the head of the wrong patient, wouldn't have felt right....
I tried to wake her up but she was still sleeping, recovering from the heavy effect of anaesthesia.
I don't like to examine patients without them being awake, but since her surgery was in the head, I looked around. I had to take her glasses off then looked around the head and found a small wound dressing. It looked a little old to me, so I went to the nursing station to find her nurse.
"Did Jessica go to surgery today to remove her VP shunt?", I asked the nurse.
"Yes, she got back a couple of hours ago"
"Her wound looks a little old though!"
"hmm, I don't think you're allowed to look at the wound, I have strict orders to keep it covered for today"
"Ok, well it was not covered very well...."
Jessica was in room 220. However the nurse took me to room 232, and indeed Jessica was sitting there, awake and talking.
I pulled the nurse out of the room immediately, and asked her, "I thought Jessica was in room 220!"
"Yes she was, but after the surgery we moved her to 232"
"So who's in 220?"
"Adam, the one with the head injury. Just transferred from the ICU"
"Uhm OK...."
The nurses started smiling, said, "did you think he was Jessica?"
"Well they're both blond... and with the glasses I couldn't tell"
There's a good reason I didn't choose to become a surgeon. It would have sucked to amputate the wrong leg, or open up the head of the wrong patient, wouldn't have felt right....
Friday, July 03, 2009
The Future King of Jordan
Jordan's King Abdullah II on Thursday officially named his eldest son, Hussain, 15, crown prince in a royal decree, the palace announced.
A royal court official told Gulf News that "this is a normal process", stressing the timing carries no specific meaning.
"The constitution is very clear. The line of succession in Jordan is explicitly clear, the eldest son of His Majesty is the heir to the throne and the crown prince."
The crown prince position in Jordan carries no political duties.
The naming of the crown prince comes nearly five years after King Abdullah, 47, stripped his half-brother Hamza of the title.
When he became king in February 1999 after the death of his father, Hussain Bin Talal, King Abdullah named his brother Hamza crown prince in keeping with their father's wishes.
But five years later, he withdrew the nomination, leaving Prince Hussain as de facto crown prince but without an official appointment.
The king had the option of either appointing one of his brothers, Prince Faisal or Prince Ali, or naming his son, Prince Hussain, crown prince.
King Abdullah and his wife, Queen Rania, have two boys and two girls. Prince Hashim is 4 years old, Princess Iman is 13 and Princess Salma is 9.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
BiMontly Video: Real Coca Cola Egyptian Ad
From the 1940s....!!
Is this Layla Murad singing? I couldn't tell
Is this Layla Murad singing? I couldn't tell
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Ten Breathtaking, Shocking or just Plain Brilliant Moments in Sports
Continuing on my series of Ten Amazing Moments in Sports (previous ones: here, and here, and here, and here ) ... here are another ten moments in the history of sports that made the world stand on its feet, or just get shocked for a few seconds, showed an extraordinary skill that will never be matched again. Very unusual, strange and freakish moments...
Make sure you raise the volume!
1- Monica Seles Stabbed
She was on ruling the tennis world winning one tennis tournament after another, when a psycho threw a knife at her back during a game. The man was German and he wanted the number #2 player Graf to climb to the number one spot instead of Seles. Indeed she did.
Seles came back to play 2 years later but did not reach her pre-injury level.
2- Wrong Way!! Wrong Way!!
I don't watch 'American' football, but this incident in 1964 happens once in a million years. This Vikings player grabbed the ball and ran with it without any resistance from the opposing team for a very good reason: he was running to the wrong side of the field.
3- Maradona Fighting Back
While playing for Barcelona in 1984, Maradona was deliberately injured by Atheltico Bilbao's defender Goikoetxea. Goikoetxea was proud of injuring Maradona and kept the shoes he used to injure him in a glass box. Maradona suffered severely but was able to return for the second part of the league, and this time Maradona started a terrible fight against Bilbao players. Many of his teammates joined him and the field was a mess.
It took an intervention by the Spanish King, yes the King Juan Carlos to end the war between both campaigns after he called both players together to his palace days later and asked them to shake hands.
Here's the fight:
4- Panenka's Precious Penalty
It was the final game of the 1976 European Championship (Euro 76 if you like!) between Czechoslovakia and Germnay. It went to penalty shootouts. Germany missed a penalty and the Czechs had one last penalty, if scored would give them the championship. Antonin Panenka stepped up and in this critical moment decided to experiment with this new penalty kick. This type of shooting a penalty was named after him. Zidane scored from a Panenka penalty in the 2006 World Cup final.
Check the video to see whether or not Panenka scored.
Trivia: the German player who missed (Hoeness) is currently the director of Bayern Munich.
5- Three Seconds.
This is possibly the most controversial gold medal match in Olympic history. USA and the USSR played the final game in basketball. Up to that game the US had never lost a single game in their Olympic history. It was close game however with the Americans leading 50-49 with 3 seconds remaining. The Russians played those 3 seconds without scoring, however those 3 seconds were replayed three times for various reasons and following mixed decisions from different people. In the third replay the Russians scored and won 51-50. The Americans refused to accept their silver medals. They were sent to them by mail but they returned them. Today, 37 years after the game, the original players of the US basketball team still refuse to accept their silver medals.
6- Answer The Question, Jerk!
Tennis players can get pretty upset at the referee's decision, but nobody was nearly as crazy and rude as John McEnroe. This is one of his very angry moments at the refree.
7- Very Fair Play
Italian footballer Paolo DiCanio was well-known to have bad manners on the field. His career was filled with fights and red cards. However in this game for his team West Ham against Everton, the Everton goalie was on the ground after injuring his knee, and DiCanio refused to score against him. DiCanio, among all others, received the 2001 FIFA fair play award for this unexpected act from DiCanio (who happens to be a very proud fascist)
8- Samir Bannout wins Mr. Olympia
Mr. Olympia is the most elite competition for bodybuilders in the world. In 1983, Samir Bannout of Lebanon competed and won the title, becoming the first and only Arab to date to win the competition. Here is his performance in that competition. He reminds me of my body in 10th grade.
If you're wondering what Jordanian Mustafa Hassanin won, it was an amateur world competition. Great achievment, but it wasn't Mr. Olympia.
9- The Gift
West Germnay played Argentina in the 1990 World Cup final. Argentina played with 10 players after a player was sent off, defended brilliantly and the game was close for a 0-0 draw. However, 5 minutes before the end, Argentinian defender Sensini cleared the ball from Voller. Voller decided to fall inside the penalty kick and Mexican referee decided to call it a penalty. Germany scored and won the World Cup 1-0.
10- Slow, Miserable Death on the Circle.
This is a dark moment in the history of Formula One. In 1973 Roger Williamson was racing in the Dutch Grand Prix when he lost control of his car which caught fire and hit the barriers. He survived the collision but was trapped inside his car which was on fire. Another driver (Purley) stepped out and started extinguishing the fire. No emergency crew showed up to help. There was only one fire extinguisher available and Purley had used it. He heard Williamson's screams from inside asking for help. The first fire truck arrived EIGHT minutes after the accidents. Williamson by then had died of asphyxiation from the fumes.
Hope you liked them,
Hareega
Make sure you raise the volume!
1- Monica Seles Stabbed
She was on ruling the tennis world winning one tennis tournament after another, when a psycho threw a knife at her back during a game. The man was German and he wanted the number #2 player Graf to climb to the number one spot instead of Seles. Indeed she did.
Seles came back to play 2 years later but did not reach her pre-injury level.
2- Wrong Way!! Wrong Way!!
I don't watch 'American' football, but this incident in 1964 happens once in a million years. This Vikings player grabbed the ball and ran with it without any resistance from the opposing team for a very good reason: he was running to the wrong side of the field.
3- Maradona Fighting Back
While playing for Barcelona in 1984, Maradona was deliberately injured by Atheltico Bilbao's defender Goikoetxea. Goikoetxea was proud of injuring Maradona and kept the shoes he used to injure him in a glass box. Maradona suffered severely but was able to return for the second part of the league, and this time Maradona started a terrible fight against Bilbao players. Many of his teammates joined him and the field was a mess.
It took an intervention by the Spanish King, yes the King Juan Carlos to end the war between both campaigns after he called both players together to his palace days later and asked them to shake hands.
Here's the fight:
4- Panenka's Precious Penalty
It was the final game of the 1976 European Championship (Euro 76 if you like!) between Czechoslovakia and Germnay. It went to penalty shootouts. Germany missed a penalty and the Czechs had one last penalty, if scored would give them the championship. Antonin Panenka stepped up and in this critical moment decided to experiment with this new penalty kick. This type of shooting a penalty was named after him. Zidane scored from a Panenka penalty in the 2006 World Cup final.
Check the video to see whether or not Panenka scored.
Trivia: the German player who missed (Hoeness) is currently the director of Bayern Munich.
5- Three Seconds.
This is possibly the most controversial gold medal match in Olympic history. USA and the USSR played the final game in basketball. Up to that game the US had never lost a single game in their Olympic history. It was close game however with the Americans leading 50-49 with 3 seconds remaining. The Russians played those 3 seconds without scoring, however those 3 seconds were replayed three times for various reasons and following mixed decisions from different people. In the third replay the Russians scored and won 51-50. The Americans refused to accept their silver medals. They were sent to them by mail but they returned them. Today, 37 years after the game, the original players of the US basketball team still refuse to accept their silver medals.
6- Answer The Question, Jerk!
Tennis players can get pretty upset at the referee's decision, but nobody was nearly as crazy and rude as John McEnroe. This is one of his very angry moments at the refree.
7- Very Fair Play
Italian footballer Paolo DiCanio was well-known to have bad manners on the field. His career was filled with fights and red cards. However in this game for his team West Ham against Everton, the Everton goalie was on the ground after injuring his knee, and DiCanio refused to score against him. DiCanio, among all others, received the 2001 FIFA fair play award for this unexpected act from DiCanio (who happens to be a very proud fascist)
8- Samir Bannout wins Mr. Olympia
Mr. Olympia is the most elite competition for bodybuilders in the world. In 1983, Samir Bannout of Lebanon competed and won the title, becoming the first and only Arab to date to win the competition. Here is his performance in that competition. He reminds me of my body in 10th grade.
If you're wondering what Jordanian Mustafa Hassanin won, it was an amateur world competition. Great achievment, but it wasn't Mr. Olympia.
9- The Gift
West Germnay played Argentina in the 1990 World Cup final. Argentina played with 10 players after a player was sent off, defended brilliantly and the game was close for a 0-0 draw. However, 5 minutes before the end, Argentinian defender Sensini cleared the ball from Voller. Voller decided to fall inside the penalty kick and Mexican referee decided to call it a penalty. Germany scored and won the World Cup 1-0.
10- Slow, Miserable Death on the Circle.
This is a dark moment in the history of Formula One. In 1973 Roger Williamson was racing in the Dutch Grand Prix when he lost control of his car which caught fire and hit the barriers. He survived the collision but was trapped inside his car which was on fire. Another driver (Purley) stepped out and started extinguishing the fire. No emergency crew showed up to help. There was only one fire extinguisher available and Purley had used it. He heard Williamson's screams from inside asking for help. The first fire truck arrived EIGHT minutes after the accidents. Williamson by then had died of asphyxiation from the fumes.
Hope you liked them,
Hareega
Saturday, June 27, 2009
A Tribute to Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett died on the same day. That was a very bad day for white women.
Here's a tribute to Michael Jackson, a real artist who was destroyed by child abuse, extreme stress and whatever he was rubbing on his skin.
Here's a tribute to Michael Jackson, a real artist who was destroyed by child abuse, extreme stress and whatever he was rubbing on his skin.
Friday, June 26, 2009
Let Them Wear Burka
I think burkas are crazy, and I always look at the woman wearing it (if I can) and wonder why is she wearing it. I even felt like throwing a question at a student working with me once just out of interest to see if she truly believes that me seeing her face will trigger my hormones and change me into an uncontrollable raging bull. What have always prevented me from doing so is my manners, or whatever remained of them. I always felt it was a personal decision by that woman, a result of multiple religious and cultural factors that I probably do not agree with, but the last thing that woman needed is someone who she doesn't know coming on and asking her questions about something like her clothes.
French president Nicolas Sarkozy said in a speech last week that burkas are not welcomed in France. The Parliament is preparing for a law that bans the wearing of burkas in France.
I have a major problem with that.
First, they are banning something because they do not like it. A woman who is shopping or walking down the street is not taking away the freedom from anyone else. She is minding her own business. We should not lock people up because we don't like how they look, otherwise we'd be locking up men covered with tattoos, fat people wearing shorts and Nadia Al-Jundi from existing.
Secondly, they're doing the same thing that the religious police is Saudi Arabia and Iran is doing, chasing women and giving them a fine or locking them in jail because of something they are wearing (or not wearing for that matter). It's exactly the same concept. The French government would lower itself to the level of Saudi or Iranian government in interfering with the woman's own freedom to wear what she wants to wear.
Abuse is another excuse the French have for banning the burka. They assume every woman wearing the burka is being forced to do so by her husband. This is actually true in a few cases. However in France a woman can get a divorce is she is being abused by her husband, and there are shelters everywhere for women who suffer from domestic abuse.
Integration into the society is another concern, but you cannot enhance that by forcing a woman by law into wearing what you want her to wear. Besides, passing such law would cause many women covered with burkas to stay home rather than go outside their house.
If you want them to be integrated you have to influence the way they think, if possible, by many other methods that do not violate personal freedoms. It has to be their own decision to put on or take off whatever cloth they want. You will not suddenly open up their mind by dropping a piece of cloth.
Do not treat a cough by a cough suppressant. Treat it with excising the cancer that's causing it.
French president Nicolas Sarkozy said in a speech last week that burkas are not welcomed in France. The Parliament is preparing for a law that bans the wearing of burkas in France.
I have a major problem with that.
First, they are banning something because they do not like it. A woman who is shopping or walking down the street is not taking away the freedom from anyone else. She is minding her own business. We should not lock people up because we don't like how they look, otherwise we'd be locking up men covered with tattoos, fat people wearing shorts and Nadia Al-Jundi from existing.
Secondly, they're doing the same thing that the religious police is Saudi Arabia and Iran is doing, chasing women and giving them a fine or locking them in jail because of something they are wearing (or not wearing for that matter). It's exactly the same concept. The French government would lower itself to the level of Saudi or Iranian government in interfering with the woman's own freedom to wear what she wants to wear.
Abuse is another excuse the French have for banning the burka. They assume every woman wearing the burka is being forced to do so by her husband. This is actually true in a few cases. However in France a woman can get a divorce is she is being abused by her husband, and there are shelters everywhere for women who suffer from domestic abuse.
Integration into the society is another concern, but you cannot enhance that by forcing a woman by law into wearing what you want her to wear. Besides, passing such law would cause many women covered with burkas to stay home rather than go outside their house.
If you want them to be integrated you have to influence the way they think, if possible, by many other methods that do not violate personal freedoms. It has to be their own decision to put on or take off whatever cloth they want. You will not suddenly open up their mind by dropping a piece of cloth.
Do not treat a cough by a cough suppressant. Treat it with excising the cancer that's causing it.
Monday, June 22, 2009
Hard Days for Arabic Football
Arab teams had a terrible week. Egypt defeated the World Champs Italy 1-0 and hardly lost to Brazil 4-3 only to be humiliated by the US 3-0 (Don't forget that the Americans scored a 4th goal that the referee did not see). Iraq failed to score in 3 games and was relegated from the first round of the Confederations Cup along with Egypt. Tunisia failed to score at home against Nigeria and drew 0-0, Morocco failed to score against Togo and drew 0-0 and are now technically out of the World cup.
Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia failed to score at home against North Korea, drawing 0-0 and giving the North Korean the ticket to their first World Cup in 34 years. Bahrain, Qatar and UAE lost 15 out of their 24 matches in the qualifications.
Don't get me started on Syria, Lebanon, Kuwait and our national team (which lost to Bahrain 4-0 recently).
Egypt's great victory against Italy was a great one but apparently due to a lot of luck and a good goalie. To be fair they played a wonderful second half against Brazil. They can do something, but I'm hoping for Algeria to qualify instead of them to the World Cup. Algeria has been one wonderful surprise so far, they finally woke up after two decades of disappointing results.
Let's wish them the best.
Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia failed to score at home against North Korea, drawing 0-0 and giving the North Korean the ticket to their first World Cup in 34 years. Bahrain, Qatar and UAE lost 15 out of their 24 matches in the qualifications.
Don't get me started on Syria, Lebanon, Kuwait and our national team (which lost to Bahrain 4-0 recently).
Egypt's great victory against Italy was a great one but apparently due to a lot of luck and a good goalie. To be fair they played a wonderful second half against Brazil. They can do something, but I'm hoping for Algeria to qualify instead of them to the World Cup. Algeria has been one wonderful surprise so far, they finally woke up after two decades of disappointing results.
Let's wish them the best.
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Are Jordanian Blogs Not So Great?
I did a little survey on my blog where visitors voted on the overall quality of Jordanian bloggers. This survey is by no means a scientific and the results may be skewed. Besides, those who voted are actually people who visited my blog. Obviously it's people who read blogs so the results might actually be a little better than what they actually reflect.
Worldwide, most blogs are awful. Most blogs are created by people for no obvious reason and they stop existing a few weeks to few months after nobody really reads them. A lot of them are copy+past+youtube blogs and those are doomed to fail. In the US at least I've been through a lot of "mommy blogs" where a mother, usually a housewife with a kid or two posts stories and pictures of her husband and kids. Those are nor awful blogs, but are extremely boring for anyone who doesn't know the person. Finally there are blogs where you feel the person is trying to say something but you can't understand what are they trying to say, or they write in a bad style or very large or very small fonts or whatever reason there might be to keep one away from reading them.
For that reason I'm not very concerned that a lot of Jordanian blogs active right now will disappear. Mine might be among them sooner than I expect. However I am concerned that we have not had any good blogs in a while. It feels to me like many blogs were created over a period of 2-3 years and some of them were great. They discussed many controversial issues, they used a language many journalists in the mainstream media never used, they had pictures and videos of things we encounter in a typical Jordanian daily life. With time a lot of them faded away, and nothing special came by to replace that vacuum. Besides, most blogs were in English and most Jordanians prefer to read and comment in Arabic. A well-written blog like the black iris is written in English and despite the fact that it's well-written not a lot of Jordanians are able to access its content. Mab3oos is clearly a very clever and humorous guy who often crosses many political red lines in his blog but again, he's writing in English and his blog's name is mab3oos and this is a very major obstacle for people to access his blog. A few other bloggers have very interesting articles and I depend on them in knowing about what's going on in Jordan, but again there are many basic issues that we are afraid to discuss. We're afraid to write something that we'll regret writing later on, or from a random comment an anonymous commentator might drop.
Finally, and I don't have the statistics to support this but it sounds like the case, when it comes to reading news or opinions, Jordanians would rather read a newspaper or watch TV than read something online. We are still not a very internet-friendly society especially when it comes to the not-so-young.
Overall, I don't think Jordanian blogs are terrible, but we have plenty of room for improvement. I'm hoping for stronger, more challenging, more controversial and well-written blogs especially in Arabic to start appearing on the internet. As for myself, Hareega isn't going to get any better, medical school has irreversibly damaged all of my brain cells and 70% of my hair.
Worldwide, most blogs are awful. Most blogs are created by people for no obvious reason and they stop existing a few weeks to few months after nobody really reads them. A lot of them are copy+past+youtube blogs and those are doomed to fail. In the US at least I've been through a lot of "mommy blogs" where a mother, usually a housewife with a kid or two posts stories and pictures of her husband and kids. Those are nor awful blogs, but are extremely boring for anyone who doesn't know the person. Finally there are blogs where you feel the person is trying to say something but you can't understand what are they trying to say, or they write in a bad style or very large or very small fonts or whatever reason there might be to keep one away from reading them.
For that reason I'm not very concerned that a lot of Jordanian blogs active right now will disappear. Mine might be among them sooner than I expect. However I am concerned that we have not had any good blogs in a while. It feels to me like many blogs were created over a period of 2-3 years and some of them were great. They discussed many controversial issues, they used a language many journalists in the mainstream media never used, they had pictures and videos of things we encounter in a typical Jordanian daily life. With time a lot of them faded away, and nothing special came by to replace that vacuum. Besides, most blogs were in English and most Jordanians prefer to read and comment in Arabic. A well-written blog like the black iris is written in English and despite the fact that it's well-written not a lot of Jordanians are able to access its content. Mab3oos is clearly a very clever and humorous guy who often crosses many political red lines in his blog but again, he's writing in English and his blog's name is mab3oos and this is a very major obstacle for people to access his blog. A few other bloggers have very interesting articles and I depend on them in knowing about what's going on in Jordan, but again there are many basic issues that we are afraid to discuss. We're afraid to write something that we'll regret writing later on, or from a random comment an anonymous commentator might drop.
Finally, and I don't have the statistics to support this but it sounds like the case, when it comes to reading news or opinions, Jordanians would rather read a newspaper or watch TV than read something online. We are still not a very internet-friendly society especially when it comes to the not-so-young.
Overall, I don't think Jordanian blogs are terrible, but we have plenty of room for improvement. I'm hoping for stronger, more challenging, more controversial and well-written blogs especially in Arabic to start appearing on the internet. As for myself, Hareega isn't going to get any better, medical school has irreversibly damaged all of my brain cells and 70% of my hair.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Ahmadinajhad Won. Accept it.
They had elections, whether or not they were fair is something we don't know and I don't think anyone will have the ability to tell. I hate Ahmadinajhad but I like democracy and when people vote, their opinion needs to be respected. I hate it how the US's attitude towards every other country where if "our guy" wins the elections would have been fair and the people spoke up their mind, but when the "bad guy" wins the elections are unjust.
Let Iranians vote for whoever they want to, and if they're taking the streets and are going bring down Ahmadinajhad let them do it themselves. The last time the bad guy was brought down by a criminal military invasion things did not go very well and it was a country a little bit close to Iran both geographically and alphabetically.
Let Iranians vote for whoever they want to, and if they're taking the streets and are going bring down Ahmadinajhad let them do it themselves. The last time the bad guy was brought down by a criminal military invasion things did not go very well and it was a country a little bit close to Iran both geographically and alphabetically.
Sunday, June 14, 2009
This Picture is Not Photoshopped
that's a female guard behind him
and he's wearing a tie under the military uniform
and has a goatee at the age of 67
and he is still Libya's leader after 40 years
And he has the picture of late Omar Al-Mokhtar on his chest, like a prostitute wearing a cross.
Friday, June 12, 2009
Becky's Heart
One of my busiest and most stressful months as a medical resident was the one on cardiology service, where we had to admit and treat patients with heart disease. What made the rotation easier for us was Becky. Becky was a nurse practitioner who knew enough about cardiology that she used to do all the paper work and prescriptions necessary for patients, which normally would take a very long time.
Some residents didn't like her much, perhaps because she occasionally would show that she knew about heart disease a little more than they did, something that harmed their ego. Either way she always did her job pretty well.
Recently she started going home a little early. Other than the occasional complaints when the resident didn't find her around at 5 pm, nobody else complained because she continued to work hard, although not as hard as usual.
Last week Becky asked to take Friday off because she had "things to do". On Saturday she was found dead in her house. She had written a letter about how much depressed she had been, how much struggles she had in her life, then grabbed a gun and shot herself in the head. Apparently she had previously attempted to kill herself by swallowing many pills but she recovered from that incident. She gave life a second chance but life didn't smile back so Becky decided to go and this time she made sure she would go for good and indeed she did.
This was sad and scary. This very pleasant lady has been working with us and was extremely depressed to the point where she wanted to end her life and had a plan for it without anyone of us, doctors, knowing about it or even detecting any warning signs. We treated an enormous number of patients with depression. Every doctor had previously held numerous patients in the hopsital against their will just because they were considering ending their life. We study depression and we know what to do with a depressed person. But all that time we did not pay attention to that lady working with us who had died inside long before we heard about the bad news on a Saturday morning. Depression is a very real disease, and like Becky its victims often seek permanent solutions to temporary problems. I hope she's in a better place.
Some residents didn't like her much, perhaps because she occasionally would show that she knew about heart disease a little more than they did, something that harmed their ego. Either way she always did her job pretty well.
Recently she started going home a little early. Other than the occasional complaints when the resident didn't find her around at 5 pm, nobody else complained because she continued to work hard, although not as hard as usual.
Last week Becky asked to take Friday off because she had "things to do". On Saturday she was found dead in her house. She had written a letter about how much depressed she had been, how much struggles she had in her life, then grabbed a gun and shot herself in the head. Apparently she had previously attempted to kill herself by swallowing many pills but she recovered from that incident. She gave life a second chance but life didn't smile back so Becky decided to go and this time she made sure she would go for good and indeed she did.
This was sad and scary. This very pleasant lady has been working with us and was extremely depressed to the point where she wanted to end her life and had a plan for it without anyone of us, doctors, knowing about it or even detecting any warning signs. We treated an enormous number of patients with depression. Every doctor had previously held numerous patients in the hopsital against their will just because they were considering ending their life. We study depression and we know what to do with a depressed person. But all that time we did not pay attention to that lady working with us who had died inside long before we heard about the bad news on a Saturday morning. Depression is a very real disease, and like Becky its victims often seek permanent solutions to temporary problems. I hope she's in a better place.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Unpolished Stupidity
I have a Polish friend, say his last name is Kaczynski. He introduced me to his wife and her name was Polish too. In less than a nano-second I forgot her name.
I wanted to invite them to dinner, and couldn't remember her name and didn't feel like addressing her as "the wife" because that would be a little rude. So I looked his facebook friends and found it: Gizela Kaczynski.
I sent him a text message, "Hi Roman I would like to take you and Gizela to dinner this Friday".
He replied, "Thank you, but why do you want me to bring my mother from Poland to the dinner?"
I'm pretending not to have received the message just trying to come up with an explanation.
Morale of the story: if there's a funny story involving Polish people, the stupid people in the story might not be the Polish.
I wanted to invite them to dinner, and couldn't remember her name and didn't feel like addressing her as "the wife" because that would be a little rude. So I looked his facebook friends and found it: Gizela Kaczynski.
I sent him a text message, "Hi Roman I would like to take you and Gizela to dinner this Friday".
He replied, "Thank you, but why do you want me to bring my mother from Poland to the dinner?"
I'm pretending not to have received the message just trying to come up with an explanation.
Morale of the story: if there's a funny story involving Polish people, the stupid people in the story might not be the Polish.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
BiMonthly Video: Obama in Denny's!!
The Onion news network is a fake news network that is very culturally insensitive and offensive to everyone on the planet as well as incredibly super funny.
Every few days they post a new video that can be incredibly funny, like this one today!
Every few days they post a new video that can be incredibly funny, like this one today!
Saturday, June 06, 2009
Jerusalem Remembered
That is Jerusalem right after the Israeli occupation on this day 42 years ago. A little painful to watch.
We were a miserable broken nation then.
And I wish we'd be just as miserable and broken as we were right after that defeat.
We were a miserable broken nation then.
And I wish we'd be just as miserable and broken as we were right after that defeat.
Thursday, June 04, 2009
Virgin For Sale
I'm not talking about the record company, but a real virgin.
Natalie Dylan is a 22-year old student (and prostitute in the making) who is suffering in these tough economic times, so she decided to sell her virginity and the price offered was 3.7 million dollars.
Man, I know with this economic recession everyone was saying , "we're so --ked", but I didn't know it was going to be that real.
Anyway , for that man who's ready to pay those millions, if Natalie doesn't show up, you know how to reach me honey, love and kisses :)
Natalie Dylan is a 22-year old student (and prostitute in the making) who is suffering in these tough economic times, so she decided to sell her virginity and the price offered was 3.7 million dollars.
Man, I know with this economic recession everyone was saying , "we're so --ked", but I didn't know it was going to be that real.
Anyway , for that man who's ready to pay those millions, if Natalie doesn't show up, you know how to reach me honey, love and kisses :)
Do You Want to Live Here? Bagdad, Nothing, Why?
Those town names are not only funny, but the story behind naming them is very interesting.
Nothing.
Here's a store in this town named "Why-Not"
Nothing.
First, we have Nothing, Arizona. This is really a town called Nothing. The locals say that a bunch of drunk guys gave it the name in 1977!
Why
This town was located at a point where 2 major freeways interesected in a Y-shape. They wanted to name the town "Y" but the state refused to give it a one-letter name, so they named it Why.
Here's a store in this town named "Why-Not"Bagdad
It's a little strange to have a very small town of 3000 people in Arizona named Bagdad. It's basically a copper mine town, that was named after a son and father working in a mine long time ago, and the son asked the father, "Can I have a bag, dad?" Hence the name Bagdad (with the "h" missing)
All of these towns are located in Arizona. Never been to any of them, and not planning to do so.
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
Outrageous
Per CNN:
"Dick Cheney said today that he does not believe Saddam Hussein was involved in the planning or execution of the September 11, 2001, attacks.
He strongly defended the Bush administration's decision to invade Iraq, however, arguing that Hussein's previous support for known terrorists was a serious danger after 9/11."
I don't think that those 100,000 who perished or the 30 million who saw their country fall apart because of him necessarily agree with his statement.
"Dick Cheney said today that he does not believe Saddam Hussein was involved in the planning or execution of the September 11, 2001, attacks.
He strongly defended the Bush administration's decision to invade Iraq, however, arguing that Hussein's previous support for known terrorists was a serious danger after 9/11."
I don't think that those 100,000 who perished or the 30 million who saw their country fall apart because of him necessarily agree with his statement.
Comments of Al-Arabiyyah Readers Over the Air France Plane Crash
I'm ashamed to say that I have all the 289 comments on the news so far.
I don't know much about flying routes, but I'm sure a plane flying from Rio de Janero directly to Paris can never pass through Bermuda triangle!!
Also, some Arabs need to learn how to shut the f--- up.
Here are some genius comments:
I don't know much about flying routes, but I'm sure a plane flying from Rio de Janero directly to Paris can never pass through Bermuda triangle!!
Also, some Arabs need to learn how to shut the f--- up.
Here are some genius comments:
مثلث برمودا -
لغز الرقم 6 ........تابعو معي رقم الرحله 447 ومجموه هذه الارقام هو 7 + 8 = 15 ومجموع 15 يساوي في النهاية 6 ... وعدد الركاب مع الطاقم هو 216 و15 اجمعو هذه الارقام فتكون 9 + 6 = 15 اي الناتج النهائي 6
......والشهر هو رقم 6 بالميلادي والهجري وساعة اختفائها كانت السادسه .......اليس امرا" غريبا" ؟؟؟
ما كنها عدت من جنب مثلث برمودا ؟ -
كانت الطائره تحمل 228 شخص أو 230 شخص أو 231 شخص ... لغز الاسبوع ؟ ؟ الجائزه رحله الى فرنسا على متن طائره مشابهه
لا يكون ادخلت مثلث برموداااااااااااااااااا
ولكني أتسائل ,, متى موعد سقوط البوينج ؟؟ لأنه لو تلاحظون ,, كل ماتوقع طيارة أيرباص ,, لازم تلحقها طيارة
بوينج علشان يحافظوا على نسبة المبيعات ,, و سلم لي عالركاب
والله حسيت نفسي في مطار هيثرو بلدن......الذي لا زلت اتذكر فيه انني عندما نزلت اول مرة للندن ....كيف تجمعت حولي المعجبات الشقراوات الجميلات الساحرات........والله لولاتدخل الشرطة واعوان المطار لتفريقيهن عليا.....لوقعت حاجة في نفس يعقوب فقضاها..هاهاهاهاهاهاهاها
نسيتي الرقم 330 اللي يشير إلى نوع الطيارة فـــ 0 +3+3 يساوي ست رقمية وليست أنثوية ، الله يلطف
بالمسلمين منهم وينجي أهل الكتاب المحصنين والمحصنات منهم
لا يفعل مثل هذه الاشياء الا مثلث برمودا.... لا احد يخرج منه ابدا ... الله يستر .... دعيبس الشرير
هل تعلمون يا اخوتي الاعزاء ان هنالك العديد من الطائرات التي فقد اثرها ما ان تكون قد مرت فوف مثلث برمودا هذا
المثلث الموجود في المحيط قد جلب استغراب وحيره العلماء فلا احد يعرف الى هذا اليوم لما تختفي الطائرات فوق هذا المكان بالتحديد
الله ينجيهم بس انا اعتقد انهم نزلو في المحيط الاطلنطي والينزل في المحيط الاطلنطي والله صعب يطلع من هناك لان في سمك القرش ينتظرهم هناك
القرصنة الصومالية الجوية ههههههههههههه
اعتقد انهم دخلوا او اعتقد اان الطيار ان اخطاء الطريق او انه ميل قليل الى مثلث برمودا
نتمنى أن تعرض العربية برامج وثائقية عن مثلث برمودا .. وشكراً
.....
من مسار الطائرة ..... يبدوا انها اختفت في مثلث الرعب
ياناس صدقوني كان عندي شك ان هاي الطائرة تصيبها مكروه رغم التطور والتكنلوجية الموجودة في الطائرة لكن هذ
القدر
ركاب هذة الطائرة الذين جلسوا فى درجة رجال الاعمال حدث لهم نفس المصير ام ان الطائرة من الامام لها حماية خاصة ؟
Monday, June 01, 2009
BiMonthly Video: Awesome Meshwaaar
I posted part of this song 3 years ago but the clip was removed since then from youtube.
Now it's being posted again, full version.
Great song if you've lived in Jordan in the 1980s.
Singers: Ronza and Wahid Jalal (who was played the voice of the Silver, the pirate with the wooden leg in Jazeerat al-Kanz!!)
Now it's being posted again, full version.
Great song if you've lived in Jordan in the 1980s.
Singers: Ronza and Wahid Jalal (who was played the voice of the Silver, the pirate with the wooden leg in Jazeerat al-Kanz!!)
Crazy Southwest
You can easily find many reasons to love or hate Southwest Airlines. I'm leaning more towards loving these days, mostly because they are the coolest airlines ever. No seating is required, they still do serve you refreshments, they don't charge you 15 dollars for each bag you check-in (which is the most insulting thing ever to any passenger), all their planes are 737s, and that thing above. This is a commercial for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit competition with the picture of a model on the body of the plane.I guess the person sitting in seating 10F is having a bumpy ride more than the other passengers :)
Another example of their coolness:
and yes they are bitches for money, but everyone is.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
99 Red Balloons
Ninety-nine dreams I have had Every one a red balloon
Now it's all over and I'm standin' pretty
In this dust that was a city
If I could find a souvenir
Just to prove the world was here
And here is a red balloon
I think of you and let it go
Friday, May 29, 2009
The Turth About Forbidden Lies and Norma Khouri (No Spoilers)
I was not sure whether or not I should be going to another movie about Jordan. I saw Body of Lies and that was terrible. However, Forbidden Lies seemed like a very serious documentary, dealing with a very real issue: honor killing in Jordan and the book : Forbidden Love that Norma Khouri had written a few years back and was revealed to be a hoax.
A local movie theater here in Tucson decided the movie was so good that they were going to squeeze it into their schedule and show it only once on a Wednesday evening. I was really hesitant to go. Despite the ugliness of honor crimes, I was not looking forward to seeing another movie showing us as clueless Bedouins who beat up women and watch all their movements and deprive them of any right, something that Norma Khouri had claimed in the beginning of her book. But with town half-dead in this heat, I had nothing better to do.
I was surprised by how many people showed up (more than a 100), even thought the movie was already on DVD. My only wish was for it to show something positive about Jordan. ANYTHING.
Briefly, Norma Khouri wrote a book about her best friend (Dalia) who was honor-killed sometime in 1997, and the father who murdered her got away with 3 months in jail. She wanted to tell her story to the world. The book became a best seller, and was well-received in the West. However, many stated-facts in the book were clearly big fat lies. (for example, as a spoiled Shmesani kid myself, I immediately recognized that books @ cafe did not exist before 1997).
Norma responded by saying that she had to modify a lot of things in the book to protect people. The director of the movie goes Norma a chance to defend herself. It also interviews and interacts with a few Jordanian personnel who work on honor killings in Jordan, including Rana Al-Husseini.
The movies is fantastic. It has many twist and surprises. It's really one of the best documentaries I've ever seen and an example on how looking for one piece of truth leads you to the full truth. I very highly recommend it to any person interested in honor killings, Jordan, or journalism overall. And at times it's very funny, we really got some sense of humor.
Regardless of what you think of Norma, her story could have been true and it did happen to many women and will happen this year and the year after. However writing a bunch of lies about her country and her people did hurt the cause of these victims and the country itself. If you think differently let me know!
Finally, the take-home-message from the movie could be: Jordan River does not flow through Amman! HAHAHAHAHA
here's the trailer:
A local movie theater here in Tucson decided the movie was so good that they were going to squeeze it into their schedule and show it only once on a Wednesday evening. I was really hesitant to go. Despite the ugliness of honor crimes, I was not looking forward to seeing another movie showing us as clueless Bedouins who beat up women and watch all their movements and deprive them of any right, something that Norma Khouri had claimed in the beginning of her book. But with town half-dead in this heat, I had nothing better to do.
I was surprised by how many people showed up (more than a 100), even thought the movie was already on DVD. My only wish was for it to show something positive about Jordan. ANYTHING.
Briefly, Norma Khouri wrote a book about her best friend (Dalia) who was honor-killed sometime in 1997, and the father who murdered her got away with 3 months in jail. She wanted to tell her story to the world. The book became a best seller, and was well-received in the West. However, many stated-facts in the book were clearly big fat lies. (for example, as a spoiled Shmesani kid myself, I immediately recognized that books @ cafe did not exist before 1997).
Norma responded by saying that she had to modify a lot of things in the book to protect people. The director of the movie goes Norma a chance to defend herself. It also interviews and interacts with a few Jordanian personnel who work on honor killings in Jordan, including Rana Al-Husseini.
The movies is fantastic. It has many twist and surprises. It's really one of the best documentaries I've ever seen and an example on how looking for one piece of truth leads you to the full truth. I very highly recommend it to any person interested in honor killings, Jordan, or journalism overall. And at times it's very funny, we really got some sense of humor.
Regardless of what you think of Norma, her story could have been true and it did happen to many women and will happen this year and the year after. However writing a bunch of lies about her country and her people did hurt the cause of these victims and the country itself. If you think differently let me know!
Finally, the take-home-message from the movie could be: Jordan River does not flow through Amman! HAHAHAHAHA
here's the trailer:
Football's Malignant Fever
The following happened in Nigeria, not Abdoun.
Hareega
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Eurosport- A Manchester United fan in Nigeria killed four people when he drove his minibus into a crowd of Barcelona supporters after his team lost the Champions League final.
The crowd in the town of Ogbo were celebrating Barcelona's victory after the match when the bus drove into them. A police spokeswoman said 10 people were injured and the driver was arrested.
"The driver had passed the crowd then made a U-turn and ran into them," she said.
Barcelona beat Manchester United 2-0 in what was hailed as a dream final between two of Europe's best clubs. Both teams have large fan bases in Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation.
Hareega
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Eurosport- A Manchester United fan in Nigeria killed four people when he drove his minibus into a crowd of Barcelona supporters after his team lost the Champions League final.
The crowd in the town of Ogbo were celebrating Barcelona's victory after the match when the bus drove into them. A police spokeswoman said 10 people were injured and the driver was arrested.
"The driver had passed the crowd then made a U-turn and ran into them," she said.
Barcelona beat Manchester United 2-0 in what was hailed as a dream final between two of Europe's best clubs. Both teams have large fan bases in Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Diary of a 20-something Ammanite
I'm writing this just to tell you how awesome I think I am. I mean I really keep surprising myself with how much great of a person I am. On many occasions I say something really smart that surprises people, they don't say it but I'm sure they just feel it. Also I'm sooo good looking. I always pick my clothes carefully and I look fascinating when I enter a room and all eyes turn on me. I'm so great to be with, and I have a lot of awesome friends who look great in all places and always say the right things. I don't know what it is but I just feel I'm a very special person and everyone else wants to be like me. Still not sure why I feel so great, could be my parents who are like the most important people in Jordan and everyone respects them, or maybe my house which is really huge and designed by that French designer my father brought from Paris to design our awesome house. My car is awesome and everyone in Jordan dreams of riding in it.
My school is the best school in the Middle East and my teachers were the best in their colleges so I must be great like them. I also have a great voice and can sing in 4 languages and I always rock in Karaoke nights. I have appeared on 7 editions of Layalina and I have like a 1000 friends on facebook many of whom are from those weird countries and have those weird names who just want to be my friends because I am soooo frickin' awesome.
I love myself more than anything else. When I look at myself in the mirror I want to kiss myself and make love to myself because I'm a super cool Jordanian and best-est-est human that ever existed and I am the hottest piece of shit that ever stepped on this planet. I am so special. I love myself and love everyone and love everything and everyone and everything loves me back.
I only hate narcissists.
Monday, May 25, 2009
واحد وستين عاماً من العزلة
لا تصالحْ!
..ولو منحوك الذهب
أترى حين أفقأ عينيك
ثم أثبت جوهرتين مكانهما..
هل ترى..؟
..ولو منحوك الذهب
أترى حين أفقأ عينيك
ثم أثبت جوهرتين مكانهما..
هل ترى..؟
Friday, May 22, 2009
BiWeekly Video" Great Debate on WaterBoarding
This is a great debate on a absolute trashy morning show in the US named the View, that occasionally hosts interesting hosts, like a former governer named Jesse Ventura. He's against waterboarding while the blonde girl from Survivor is for it.
This comes as part of my bimonthly aweomse videos with less than 500,000 viewes on youtube
(At the end, Ventura mentions Sharon Tate, who was a young actress murdered in mysterious cicrumstances 40 years ago. Great quote!!)
This comes as part of my bimonthly aweomse videos with less than 500,000 viewes on youtube
(At the end, Ventura mentions Sharon Tate, who was a young actress murdered in mysterious cicrumstances 40 years ago. Great quote!!)
Monday, May 18, 2009
Sex in..... Gaza????
As I was surfing through dozens of infectious disease journal Icame across this interesting article in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases (Volume 13, Issue 3, May 2009, Pages 334-341 ) about the prevalence of Chlamydia among women visiting infertility clinics in Gaza. Chlamydia is one of the most common sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs) in the world.
The study was conducted by researchers from Al-Azhar University, The Islamic University and the Medical Military Services all located in Gaza in 2005 and 2006. 109 women were screened, and 20.2% of them were found to be infected with Chlamydia.
Although Chlamydia is a very common cause of STDs, it is not the only one. The study did not investigate further if the same group of women or other women were infected with other STDs, which is very possible. At the same time we cannot extrapolate this high percentage of infection to the rest of the community living in Gaza because women who visit infertility clinics tend to have a higher chance of being infected with an STD.
I am still somewhat surprised. I will assume that most of these women were infected by their husbands. Men can get this infection from women or men. These results should be an eye opener not only to people living in Gaza whose last worry is getting an STD, but also to other people living in the Middle East. Gaza is not exactly known to be a safe haven for the sexually promiscous, and yet one out of five women there carries an STD. I wonder how the results in Amman or Dubai would look like. Chlamydia is easily curable, but other STDs (like syphilis, HIV, HPV) harbor very serious longterm consequences on those who are exposed to them and their human and economic cost can be incredibly high for countries with tight budgets like Jordan or Palestine.
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To read the abstract for free, click here.
The study was conducted by researchers from Al-Azhar University, The Islamic University and the Medical Military Services all located in Gaza in 2005 and 2006. 109 women were screened, and 20.2% of them were found to be infected with Chlamydia.
Although Chlamydia is a very common cause of STDs, it is not the only one. The study did not investigate further if the same group of women or other women were infected with other STDs, which is very possible. At the same time we cannot extrapolate this high percentage of infection to the rest of the community living in Gaza because women who visit infertility clinics tend to have a higher chance of being infected with an STD.
I am still somewhat surprised. I will assume that most of these women were infected by their husbands. Men can get this infection from women or men. These results should be an eye opener not only to people living in Gaza whose last worry is getting an STD, but also to other people living in the Middle East. Gaza is not exactly known to be a safe haven for the sexually promiscous, and yet one out of five women there carries an STD. I wonder how the results in Amman or Dubai would look like. Chlamydia is easily curable, but other STDs (like syphilis, HIV, HPV) harbor very serious longterm consequences on those who are exposed to them and their human and economic cost can be incredibly high for countries with tight budgets like Jordan or Palestine.
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To read the abstract for free, click here.
Suing Jordan
A Jordanian-American couple living in Las Vegas are suing Jordan after their son, Firas Zaidan. They claim he was beaten to death which being arrested there.For details, do not check any local Jordanian newspaper. Check this local Vegas paper.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
I Know Who Killed Me
A story about corruption in a Latin American country like Guatemala might sound boring, until you watch this personal video of a lawyer.
This lawyer, named Rosenberg, had previously defended a client named Khalil Musa. Khalil Musa was later assassinated, and Rosenberg claimed the president of Guatemala, Alvaro Colom, had a hand in it.
Rosenberg (the lawyer) then felt threatened, so he taped this video. It was a message to his people in the case he got murdered.
Indeed, he got murdered six days ago.
Then the tape was released.
It's about 9 minutes, you may just watch the first 15 seconds to know why it's causing a huge crisis in Guatemala.
Anyway, if I die soon, it's because the Lebanese song director Jad Chowayri assassinated me. I'd love to get that bastard in trouble.
This lawyer, named Rosenberg, had previously defended a client named Khalil Musa. Khalil Musa was later assassinated, and Rosenberg claimed the president of Guatemala, Alvaro Colom, had a hand in it.
Rosenberg (the lawyer) then felt threatened, so he taped this video. It was a message to his people in the case he got murdered.
Indeed, he got murdered six days ago.
Then the tape was released.
It's about 9 minutes, you may just watch the first 15 seconds to know why it's causing a huge crisis in Guatemala.
Anyway, if I die soon, it's because the Lebanese song director Jad Chowayri assassinated me. I'd love to get that bastard in trouble.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Another Reason to Stand Against the Death Penalty
Paul House, convicted of killing and raping a woman in 1986, freed from prison 22 years later.
He was scheduled to be executed next month.
How can one be against abortion but for the death penalty?
Friday, May 08, 2009
Another Awesome Football Video
This is one of those moments that makes you appreciate how awesome football is, with all its surprises and unpredictibiliess (is this a word?)
Khoshi Khoshi Khoshi
Khoshi Khoshi Khoshi
Hey Saudis: Can you please.... Stop Raping Your Children?
The word marriage can let you get away with a lot of things, especially in the Arab world. It legitimizes sex between unmarried adults, prostitution, forcing a women into sex with her husband, and recently, it was clear to everyone how "marriage" was a way for low-life pedophiles into practising their sick paraphilias in a country that has the reputation of being very conservative, whatever conservative means these days in Arabia.
To define pedophilia, you have to define what a child is. There's an argument whether 16 or 18 should be the legal age of marriage. When the child's age is less than 15, the arguments start to fade away. However when you start arguing that children as young as 10 should be allowed to consent for marriage, you are an absolute moron.
We had a lot of strange practises in old times. A lot of other countries did. We are not in any way better or worse than most of them. However through the process of civilization nations started evolving into better ones. A major key in civilization is the well-being of all people living in a community, especially those who can easily be abused, like people from a certain ethnicity, religious background, women and children. Those groups had nobody to speak for them. Most nations who advance are the ones that pay attention to those little people.
In Saudi Arabia, there is nobody to speak for women or children. Raping a child is very traumatic, and it leaves them with terrible psychological consequences they will rarely ever recover from. For the little girl in the fifth grade, all what she can see and feel in those marriages is a man (usually an old guy) touching her genitals and forcing her into something very awful, very strange and impossible to understand for someone her age. It really doesn't make it any better when the government tells her that she's supposed to live with this abuser for the rest of her life, being under his command in whatever he does. Her only slavation would be if her man picks up another girl from the third grade to be his wife and let her go.
This is child rape. Do not spice it up. Do not defend it.
To define pedophilia, you have to define what a child is. There's an argument whether 16 or 18 should be the legal age of marriage. When the child's age is less than 15, the arguments start to fade away. However when you start arguing that children as young as 10 should be allowed to consent for marriage, you are an absolute moron.
We had a lot of strange practises in old times. A lot of other countries did. We are not in any way better or worse than most of them. However through the process of civilization nations started evolving into better ones. A major key in civilization is the well-being of all people living in a community, especially those who can easily be abused, like people from a certain ethnicity, religious background, women and children. Those groups had nobody to speak for them. Most nations who advance are the ones that pay attention to those little people.
In Saudi Arabia, there is nobody to speak for women or children. Raping a child is very traumatic, and it leaves them with terrible psychological consequences they will rarely ever recover from. For the little girl in the fifth grade, all what she can see and feel in those marriages is a man (usually an old guy) touching her genitals and forcing her into something very awful, very strange and impossible to understand for someone her age. It really doesn't make it any better when the government tells her that she's supposed to live with this abuser for the rest of her life, being under his command in whatever he does. Her only slavation would be if her man picks up another girl from the third grade to be his wife and let her go.
This is child rape. Do not spice it up. Do not defend it.
Monday, May 04, 2009
Sikis
Enjoy the six goals that Barcelona hammered Real Madrid's net with. I apologize for Real Madrid's fans for not posting their 2 goals: they were not well-deserved.
Seriously, if it wasn't for Real's goalie Casillas, it would have easily ended 15-0.
Seriously, if it wasn't for Real's goalie Casillas, it would have easily ended 15-0.
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