I was watching the news on CNN a few hours ago, and Mr. George W Bush was addressing the nation and answering reporters from around the world about Iraq and Afghanistan.
Everything was going smoothly almost the same dull Qs and answers, until a reporter asked about the troops in Iraq and if there's a schedule to bring them back and if there will be more troops sent to Iraq, nothing unorthodox about that even the answer wasn't really unexpected.
But I'm a 100% sure Mr. Bush had no idea about the few things that made me wonder does anyone pay attention to him anymore, He said if General Casey and our ambassador Karazai need more troops we will send some more........ WTF ambassador Karazai, first of all the US ambassador to Iraq is called Zalmai khalilzada, and if Mr. Bush didn't know that or even got confused about the name, shouldn't be someone to clear things up for him?
Obviously no body cares anymore, am I the only one who noticed that? Or was I mistaken?
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Monday, October 23, 2006
Quick tip
No more bathing especially women
Never ever think about taking a bath, and I'll quote Kramer "you're actually swimming in your own filth" and that's a fact, simply because the more dirty your body is, your doubling it, due to the water heat, I'll skip the talk about the bacterial vast spread under certain conditions cuz it's really boring and I'm not a biologist.Anyways I really recommend taking a shower before and after the bath, if you consider bathing a necessity despite the fact that it's not.
and stop wasting water for god sake.
The best and worst movies ever
Best 10
- The Exorcist
- The Punisher
- The Bourne supremacy
- The passion of the Christ
- Talladiga nights: The ballad of Ricky Bobby
- Forrest Gump
- Anchorman: The legend of Ron Burgundy
- Oceans 11 & 12
- Kingdom of Heaven
- The Italian job
Worst 10
- Bewitched
- Sinbad
- The date movie
- Click
- Terminator III: Rise of the machine
- Mission Impossible III
- The Grudge I (haven't seen the new one)
- Christmas with the Kranks
- Batman & Robin
- House of the dead
Friday, October 20, 2006
Mice, Mouse, Meece
The third word doesn't exist I know, but what I saw today also have no existence what so ever nor a name, it's the smallest animal I've ever seen in my life, a grey colored rodent, although I hate all kinds of animals but this one was really cute.
It has the size of a matchbox or maybe smaller, light grey color as I mentioned earlier, sharp bloody eyes, I'm not sure about it's gender it wasn't really obvious.
It lives nearby I guess, that's the only assumption, after finding its dead body lying beside the dumpster.
That was Meece story, the smallest mouse in the world, or was it a baby mouse?
It has the size of a matchbox or maybe smaller, light grey color as I mentioned earlier, sharp bloody eyes, I'm not sure about it's gender it wasn't really obvious.
It lives nearby I guess, that's the only assumption, after finding its dead body lying beside the dumpster.
That was Meece story, the smallest mouse in the world, or was it a baby mouse?
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P.S.
- The picture does not show the real character of the what so called Meece, and/or was used for publishing purposes only.
- No animal was hurt in the process of writing/typing/publishing this post.
- No intention to hurt any animal existed before and/or after this post.
Monday, October 16, 2006
The rooster mug
I grabbed the cereal box and headed directly to the cash register to pay for it, $6.40 sir the cashier said, paid, took the change and rushed to the car.
After 5 minutes I was ready to start eating my regular breakfast while reading the cereal box content as usual, after all the nutrition facts crap and the some stupid information about corn flakes and minerals, something grabbed my attention, a really nice designed coupon about some free mug on the box side, brought a scissor to cut it, to claim my free gift.
finished eating after a while and got ready to leave, on my way to work I remembered the coupon so I wrote a note and stuck it on the rear view mirror not to forget about getting a stamp on my way back home.
The day went smoothly no hard work at all, at 5 I was ready to leave, headed directly to Walgreens to buy the stamps after I saw the note. I bought a whole set for $8 and a few envelopes and 2 packs of Marlboro's the sum was $15 and some change.
On the way home stopped to get a 6 pack & burgers for dinner, I can't remember how much I paid for it, but it goes around 20 bucks or so.
After all the pit stops for food, stamps and the other shit I was finally home, ate my burgers and had a couple of beers, called the guys to shoot some pool, it was almost 8 o'clock when the mug flashed my memory again, so I filled the coupon and filled the envelope with it, wrote the address and stamped it as well, it was finally ready to mail.
Knock knock knock, it was Jeff, got the envelope & the wallet, locked the door and went to play billiards with the rest of the guys, while we (me and Jeff) were in the car, he asked about the letter so I told him about it, he started laughing really loud, what's wrong man? I asked.
He said nothing but u reminds me of my Granma. I was like its really cool mug man come on.
He said ok, so I told him to stop so I can drop the envelope in the mailing box, and he did.
The night went fast, we had lots of fun, I didn't worry about draining my wallet cuz I was expecting the paycheck the day after and that doubled the fun for sure.
After a week or so, I was checking the mail and there was a letter from Kellogg's, I was waiting for this the whole week, so the excitement overcame the logic (since it was just a letter not a package), I opened the letter to check the long waited mug and I found nothing but a stupid note saying: "sorry sir the coupon you have sent isn't valid anymore, it's expiration date was due six months ago.”.
After 5 minutes I was ready to start eating my regular breakfast while reading the cereal box content as usual, after all the nutrition facts crap and the some stupid information about corn flakes and minerals, something grabbed my attention, a really nice designed coupon about some free mug on the box side, brought a scissor to cut it, to claim my free gift.
finished eating after a while and got ready to leave, on my way to work I remembered the coupon so I wrote a note and stuck it on the rear view mirror not to forget about getting a stamp on my way back home.
The day went smoothly no hard work at all, at 5 I was ready to leave, headed directly to Walgreens to buy the stamps after I saw the note. I bought a whole set for $8 and a few envelopes and 2 packs of Marlboro's the sum was $15 and some change.
On the way home stopped to get a 6 pack & burgers for dinner, I can't remember how much I paid for it, but it goes around 20 bucks or so.
After all the pit stops for food, stamps and the other shit I was finally home, ate my burgers and had a couple of beers, called the guys to shoot some pool, it was almost 8 o'clock when the mug flashed my memory again, so I filled the coupon and filled the envelope with it, wrote the address and stamped it as well, it was finally ready to mail.
Knock knock knock, it was Jeff, got the envelope & the wallet, locked the door and went to play billiards with the rest of the guys, while we (me and Jeff) were in the car, he asked about the letter so I told him about it, he started laughing really loud, what's wrong man? I asked.
He said nothing but u reminds me of my Granma. I was like its really cool mug man come on.
He said ok, so I told him to stop so I can drop the envelope in the mailing box, and he did.
The night went fast, we had lots of fun, I didn't worry about draining my wallet cuz I was expecting the paycheck the day after and that doubled the fun for sure.
After a week or so, I was checking the mail and there was a letter from Kellogg's, I was waiting for this the whole week, so the excitement overcame the logic (since it was just a letter not a package), I opened the letter to check the long waited mug and I found nothing but a stupid note saying: "sorry sir the coupon you have sent isn't valid anymore, it's expiration date was due six months ago.”.
Sunday, October 15, 2006
Home sick
Time goes faster than expected 4 months away from Jordan and I'm already missing it again.
I have ten reasons to miss it and million reasons not to, but I'll stick with ten of the most beloved and yet memorable reasons to keep my heart in Jordan and my body overseas.
My family comes first, ooh I miss them, all their faces, their way of talk, their commitment & love to each other, the games of chess, cards, and console games when I was young, the serious conversations, and the silly ones. I can talk about them forever.
then my friends and their joys & dreams, drinking coffee with them, hiding cigarettes away when a parent pops up out of no where, the pool games & the silly talks about girls and sex, and more and more.
Home sweet home, where I grew up in the most beautiful place on earth Paradise city (Paradise city or 'madinet alfardos' 1 kilometer away from dabouq, Amman in the middle of no where as the cab drivers used to call it).
The old streets of Madaba and Irbid, the beautiful smells of Samad ( a small village in Irbid where my family comes from).
The people who ironically enjoy life with all the challenges they face.
The traffic jams and the old cars surrounding the scene.
The food with all the different choices & tastes.
Where time seems less valuable and more joyful than ever.
The political issues that everybody talks about.
And finally the excitement of just being there.
I have ten reasons to miss it and million reasons not to, but I'll stick with ten of the most beloved and yet memorable reasons to keep my heart in Jordan and my body overseas.
My family comes first, ooh I miss them, all their faces, their way of talk, their commitment & love to each other, the games of chess, cards, and console games when I was young, the serious conversations, and the silly ones. I can talk about them forever.
then my friends and their joys & dreams, drinking coffee with them, hiding cigarettes away when a parent pops up out of no where, the pool games & the silly talks about girls and sex, and more and more.
Home sweet home, where I grew up in the most beautiful place on earth Paradise city (Paradise city or 'madinet alfardos' 1 kilometer away from dabouq, Amman in the middle of no where as the cab drivers used to call it).
The old streets of Madaba and Irbid, the beautiful smells of Samad ( a small village in Irbid where my family comes from).
The people who ironically enjoy life with all the challenges they face.
The traffic jams and the old cars surrounding the scene.
The food with all the different choices & tastes.
Where time seems less valuable and more joyful than ever.
The political issues that everybody talks about.
And finally the excitement of just being there.
On the way back
Time: 11 pm
Place: Amman, Jordan
Date: November 2002
I just came from Bahrain after 4 months with my family, the whole trip from Manama to Amman was nothing but a miserable experience starting with a late wakeup at 10:30 Am with no more than 30 min. To eat, put some clothes on and go to the airport, somehow I managed to do all that with just being 5 minutes late.
I went through all the security checks and then proceeded to gate 32 I guess, where I found nothing but a cleaning cart and an Indian dude trying to clean the passengers leftovers, I asked him about the plane, he said it left 30 minutes ago!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I must be at the wrong gate (said to myself ) I took a quick look at the boarding pass and everything was fine but the time was 12:30 instead of 11:30, so I went back to the Qatar Airways counter to make sure everything was ok.... And it was.
so I went to the duty free shop to buy a few cartons of cigarettes, a bottle of Chivas and a perfume as usual, I didn't find any Chivas it was out of stock so I settled with a bottle of Jack Daniels instead, a weird woman was looking at me curiously so with all my rudeness I went to her and
said: what's wrong
The woman: nothing but you're so young to drink
replied: well I think I'm legally old enough to do whatever I want
The woman: I know sweetie but don't waste your money and health over something so stupid like alcohol
replied: it's my money and my own body so leave me alone please
I walked away thinking about how rude and arrogant my words were, just like every time I encounter some strangers criticizing my way of life I find a way out to justify everything I do. So I paid for the stuff and went to the waiting lounge and waited................... Finally I boarded the plane and on my way to transit in Doha to Amman.
It was a sweet flight really quick 45 min. Waited for almost 10 minutes then grabbed my stuff and left the plane to the shuttle, which is the most stupid thing ever in Doha international airport.
I waited for almost one hour then boarded the other plane to Amman and this is where the shit started.
I was seated on the worse seat ever in the row located right behind the first class area, but that wasn't the real problem, the man who was setting next to me was the most freakin annoying thing in the world, I can't recall his first name but I remember his last name it was for sure Shouman or maybe he was lying the whole time.
He introduced him self as an ex-pilot working for Boeing as a senior researcher in the middle-east region and started talking about airplanes and stuff and kept asking personal questions about my education and other stuff till he asked me about my name, I said Yanal he quickly responded no I mean your family name, I said El-****r. So you're Jordanian??!!..... I replied yeah aren't u? He said no I'm Palestinian but I hold a Jordanian Passport.. I knew he was up to make some stupid remarks about Jordanian people so I said we're all Jordanians sir, whether you're originally a Palestinian or not we all live in Jordan and we all love Jordan. He said I don't love Jordan I own Jordan ( talking about the Arab Bank and the Abdulhameid Shouman which I really respect for both his intelligence and generosity )........... He was really stupid to say that, I said ok sir u own Jordan and no one else exists in this whole universe but u so leave me alone and find your self something to do..... He suddenly pressed the overhead button and called the waitress. He told her this man is racist ( talking about me ) and that he doesn't wanna set next to me, she was shocked why sir what's wrong??!! That man replied he doesn't respect the landlords of Jordan. She was like who what landlord!!!!! She thought he was talking about the Royal family, so she said no sir I think u mess interpreted his words about the king........ He said no no no no he was talking about us ( since the waitress seemed Palestinian) she said: who me?!
he said no u and me u know Palestinian people. She quickly replied I'm not sir........ He got really confused it was obvious..She said no problem sir follow me I've got the perfect seat for you..... And guess where?? The first class!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...
If I knew I'll get a seat in the first class by just lying, I would've rushed my hand into that button since the beginning of the conversation...
After he left his seat I had more space to fit my big butt in and be comfortable on my way home, so I relaxed and started thinking about apologizing to the woman I've met in the duty free since she was in same plane so I did.... She was happy about it, u know everyone enjoys apology so I headed back to my seat and slept for almost two hours till the plane landed in my beloved Amman.
waited for 10 minutes as usual and grabbed my stuff and left the plane, stamped my passport, then went to check out the duty free in Alia airport it's really small with nothing in it but cigarettes, liquor and chocolate bars so I looked around for my favorite liquor and found it they had three left so I grabbed one and went to the customs. I didn't notice a yellow sticker on my bag so the customs guy asked if I have any appliances in my bag? I was so dumb not to say I have a DVD player inside. So he told me to open it and he found it, what do u call this?????? Well it's a DVD player but it's a gift ( I was lying pretending it's ok to smuggle a DVD player as a gift ) he said a gift or whatever u wanna call it we must tax it or u can just leave it here and take a receipt for it... I said ok how much do u want? He answered well it's a Sony it looks expensive so what about JD125 ( I was so mad, I didn't want to get really angry so he would insist on the amount ) so I said come on man I'm a student I don't have that much money and it's used, it's not a new one anyways. So he kept saying different figures till we finally settled on JD35. I paid the money took the receipt and headed to the entrance to get a cab, cuz no one knew I was coming.
Took the cab and immediately went to see my grandma in Zarqa ( I don't like to go there but she had the keys of our home and my car was parked there) so I went to get the car and the keys, they were totally surprised and asked me have lunch with them I refused politely and told them I was tired and shit, so I took the keys and headed back to Amman with the stupid car which my uncle really fucked up while I was away, and all of a sudden the car stopped so close to the Pepsi factory. I tried my best to figure what's wrong with it but also as usual no luck... So I locked the car and went to look for a phone ( I realized that I didn't exchange enough money after all the unexpected payments for the cab and the customs, so I didn't have enough money to go back to Amman. ) I found a small shop who didn't bother letting me use his phone, so I called my uncle and after all the explanations I did, he agreed on giving me a ride home (I know he's an asshole).
After a series of lousy tries to wire jump the car by my uncle, he gave up and told me to bring a mechanic to fix it tomorrow.
In less than 12 minutes I was in Amman finally, we stopped to get something to eat, I was really hungry.
On our way home he asked me if I needed anything, I said no thanks just get me home, he insisted on giving me JD50 but I refused to take the money. ( Unexpected offer ).
We finally reached home, I faced a lot of shit to get home and finally did, to face more and more shit.
Almost each and every window was broken, all the exterior lights were stolen ( and I thought we live in the best neighborhood in Amman ) anyways called the cops, they came after 30 minutes, started asking silly questions ( any suspects, mother name, how much is the damage?...Etc ) they took a few finger print samples off the broken glass and doors and left in 20 minutes leaving me with more questions on how and when and why all this shit happened in the first place.
It was so cold I tried to turn on the heater with no luck, I couldn't find the keys of the heater (Boiler) room, so I grabbed a blanket and the booze and got drunk as hell.
No woman can blame me now.
Place: Amman, Jordan
Date: November 2002
I just came from Bahrain after 4 months with my family, the whole trip from Manama to Amman was nothing but a miserable experience starting with a late wakeup at 10:30 Am with no more than 30 min. To eat, put some clothes on and go to the airport, somehow I managed to do all that with just being 5 minutes late.
I went through all the security checks and then proceeded to gate 32 I guess, where I found nothing but a cleaning cart and an Indian dude trying to clean the passengers leftovers, I asked him about the plane, he said it left 30 minutes ago!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I must be at the wrong gate (said to myself ) I took a quick look at the boarding pass and everything was fine but the time was 12:30 instead of 11:30, so I went back to the Qatar Airways counter to make sure everything was ok.... And it was.
so I went to the duty free shop to buy a few cartons of cigarettes, a bottle of Chivas and a perfume as usual, I didn't find any Chivas it was out of stock so I settled with a bottle of Jack Daniels instead, a weird woman was looking at me curiously so with all my rudeness I went to her and
said: what's wrong
The woman: nothing but you're so young to drink
replied: well I think I'm legally old enough to do whatever I want
The woman: I know sweetie but don't waste your money and health over something so stupid like alcohol
replied: it's my money and my own body so leave me alone please
I walked away thinking about how rude and arrogant my words were, just like every time I encounter some strangers criticizing my way of life I find a way out to justify everything I do. So I paid for the stuff and went to the waiting lounge and waited................... Finally I boarded the plane and on my way to transit in Doha to Amman.
It was a sweet flight really quick 45 min. Waited for almost 10 minutes then grabbed my stuff and left the plane to the shuttle, which is the most stupid thing ever in Doha international airport.
I waited for almost one hour then boarded the other plane to Amman and this is where the shit started.
I was seated on the worse seat ever in the row located right behind the first class area, but that wasn't the real problem, the man who was setting next to me was the most freakin annoying thing in the world, I can't recall his first name but I remember his last name it was for sure Shouman or maybe he was lying the whole time.
He introduced him self as an ex-pilot working for Boeing as a senior researcher in the middle-east region and started talking about airplanes and stuff and kept asking personal questions about my education and other stuff till he asked me about my name, I said Yanal he quickly responded no I mean your family name, I said El-****r. So you're Jordanian??!!..... I replied yeah aren't u? He said no I'm Palestinian but I hold a Jordanian Passport.. I knew he was up to make some stupid remarks about Jordanian people so I said we're all Jordanians sir, whether you're originally a Palestinian or not we all live in Jordan and we all love Jordan. He said I don't love Jordan I own Jordan ( talking about the Arab Bank and the Abdulhameid Shouman which I really respect for both his intelligence and generosity )........... He was really stupid to say that, I said ok sir u own Jordan and no one else exists in this whole universe but u so leave me alone and find your self something to do..... He suddenly pressed the overhead button and called the waitress. He told her this man is racist ( talking about me ) and that he doesn't wanna set next to me, she was shocked why sir what's wrong??!! That man replied he doesn't respect the landlords of Jordan. She was like who what landlord!!!!! She thought he was talking about the Royal family, so she said no sir I think u mess interpreted his words about the king........ He said no no no no he was talking about us ( since the waitress seemed Palestinian) she said: who me?!
he said no u and me u know Palestinian people. She quickly replied I'm not sir........ He got really confused it was obvious..She said no problem sir follow me I've got the perfect seat for you..... And guess where?? The first class!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...
If I knew I'll get a seat in the first class by just lying, I would've rushed my hand into that button since the beginning of the conversation...
After he left his seat I had more space to fit my big butt in and be comfortable on my way home, so I relaxed and started thinking about apologizing to the woman I've met in the duty free since she was in same plane so I did.... She was happy about it, u know everyone enjoys apology so I headed back to my seat and slept for almost two hours till the plane landed in my beloved Amman.
waited for 10 minutes as usual and grabbed my stuff and left the plane, stamped my passport, then went to check out the duty free in Alia airport it's really small with nothing in it but cigarettes, liquor and chocolate bars so I looked around for my favorite liquor and found it they had three left so I grabbed one and went to the customs. I didn't notice a yellow sticker on my bag so the customs guy asked if I have any appliances in my bag? I was so dumb not to say I have a DVD player inside. So he told me to open it and he found it, what do u call this?????? Well it's a DVD player but it's a gift ( I was lying pretending it's ok to smuggle a DVD player as a gift ) he said a gift or whatever u wanna call it we must tax it or u can just leave it here and take a receipt for it... I said ok how much do u want? He answered well it's a Sony it looks expensive so what about JD125 ( I was so mad, I didn't want to get really angry so he would insist on the amount ) so I said come on man I'm a student I don't have that much money and it's used, it's not a new one anyways. So he kept saying different figures till we finally settled on JD35. I paid the money took the receipt and headed to the entrance to get a cab, cuz no one knew I was coming.
Took the cab and immediately went to see my grandma in Zarqa ( I don't like to go there but she had the keys of our home and my car was parked there) so I went to get the car and the keys, they were totally surprised and asked me have lunch with them I refused politely and told them I was tired and shit, so I took the keys and headed back to Amman with the stupid car which my uncle really fucked up while I was away, and all of a sudden the car stopped so close to the Pepsi factory. I tried my best to figure what's wrong with it but also as usual no luck... So I locked the car and went to look for a phone ( I realized that I didn't exchange enough money after all the unexpected payments for the cab and the customs, so I didn't have enough money to go back to Amman. ) I found a small shop who didn't bother letting me use his phone, so I called my uncle and after all the explanations I did, he agreed on giving me a ride home (I know he's an asshole).
After a series of lousy tries to wire jump the car by my uncle, he gave up and told me to bring a mechanic to fix it tomorrow.
In less than 12 minutes I was in Amman finally, we stopped to get something to eat, I was really hungry.
On our way home he asked me if I needed anything, I said no thanks just get me home, he insisted on giving me JD50 but I refused to take the money. ( Unexpected offer ).
We finally reached home, I faced a lot of shit to get home and finally did, to face more and more shit.
Almost each and every window was broken, all the exterior lights were stolen ( and I thought we live in the best neighborhood in Amman ) anyways called the cops, they came after 30 minutes, started asking silly questions ( any suspects, mother name, how much is the damage?...Etc ) they took a few finger print samples off the broken glass and doors and left in 20 minutes leaving me with more questions on how and when and why all this shit happened in the first place.
It was so cold I tried to turn on the heater with no luck, I couldn't find the keys of the heater (Boiler) room, so I grabbed a blanket and the booze and got drunk as hell.
No woman can blame me now.
Finally in......
I finally started blogging after more than a year in just reading blogs for fun, I think the time is due to show the world how I think in this amazing world.
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