How increasingly social the Internet is becoming is simply mind-blowing. You can see the thrill in my eyes every time I discover a new Website empowered by people who gathered online for a purpose, be it fun or business, it’s all great!Forget about facebook and LinkedIn and check out what Internet Giants like Google did [...]
Archive for April, 2007
Social Internet
28Apr07She don’t want NO gym
27Apr07Here’s what Shaden did, she paid for a one-month membership in a gym and went only once. I’m not proud.
She’d rather walk in the outdoors everyday, anytime. She dislikes gyms, she thinks they’re so…artificial. I agree.
Free Abdul-Mon’em Mahmood!
26Apr07Another journalist and blogger was arrested in Egypt! I can’t believe it, how threatening words are for some people (AKA oppressing regimes). Egyptian security forces arrested Abdul-Mon’em Mahmood, who works for Al-Hiwar channel and is also a blogger while trying to leave the country. The arrest happened after two days of chase and police raids [...]
I’ve been busy lately, can’t find the time to write a proper post. My heart goes out to the families of Virginia Tech’s victims.
Maybe it was avoidable, maybe not but it was God’s will for sure.
Not sure this one is about the massacre which took place in Virginia Tech, but seems at least inspired by [...]
The Best Stuff in the World!
24Apr07What do you think is the Best Stuff in the world?
This is just awesome. The best stuff in the world so far is music, can’t agree more. Firefox made it to the list as well, Subway and Johnny Depp, again, can’t agree more!
I added Cups & Kilos as the best coffee in the world. The [...]
I’m sick of detergents commercials, especially laundry detergents. Why? because they always involve a mother doing her family’s laundry, sometimes kids’ laundry and sometimes her successful husband’s white “dishdasha”. When is this gonna change? the stereotyping of women as housewives in commercials, who’s biggest dilemma is pleasing their husbands and making his clothes whiter than [...]
Theft is Different in Dubai
19Apr07In Jordan, robbery has a style, everything does. Usually, it involves one or more men and they follow one of the following two methods:
1- they enter, they physically harm the poor guy in charge of the shop often with a special kind of hammers called “Shakoosh” by Jordanians. It’s the most used weapon by thieves; [...]
كان يا مكان اليوم وأنا بتاكسي…
على Ø§Ù„ØµØ¨Ø ÙˆÙƒØ¹Ø§Ø¯ØªÙŠ ركبت تاكسي ÙˆØكيتله “على الدوّار الثالث” . بس اللي لازم تعرÙÙˆ انّي لمّا دخلت قلتلّه السلام عليكم! والظاهر انّها كلمة سØرية متعار٠عليها بين سوّاقين التاكسي. يعني يمكن لو ما Øكيتها كان السوّاق اعتبرني Ùاسقة وريّØني من لسانو.
أنا: ما Øكيت اشي بعد السلام عليكم بس عطست! ÙˆØكيت [...]
Homosexual Scraps
14Apr07As homosexuality in the Arab world is beginning to crawl out of the closet, Islamic authorities are up for a new challenge to clarify Islam’s stand on the issue and direct the audiences to behave in a politically correct way that doesn’t contradict with the Islamic teachings.
Two years ago, a gay wedding in the UAE [...]
adel, I Three Dots, Ali MetalHead, Waleed, G [...]
Anne Pham, Geronimo Cristobal
الختيار, Shaden, bambam
john, Dave, kinzi
samir, Shaden, samo, Jessica, Shaden [...]