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Tuesday, July 08, 2008 - Posts
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It’s been always the place to run to, the place to speak up my mind without worrying about people “judging” me (at least not in my face), I say the stuff that I can’t really say to the people I know around me, this place was the Read More...
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Mr. Amre Husseni, the general manager of Publicis in Jordan commented on my post about Publicis and the Jordan Festival on his first attempt of giving an official statement clearing out Publicis's stand about all the fuzz and rumors generated around the Read More...
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Yesterday we had a house full of cowpokes, cowgirls, and some urban cowgirls. It was the date of the annual Girl Cousin Tea Party, organized by the oldest family cousin, Mona. The twelve girls, between six and eighteen years old, gather from across the Read More...
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I've just finished a very rough draft of my short paper: ' What is Democracy? ' Here's the concluding summary: This paper has explored the conditions under which a state might be described as truly 'ruled by the people'. We saw that even the institutions Read More...
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If you have ever taken Econ 101, you will sure remember the discussion of supply and demand. Of course, supply and demand are the corner stone of Economics. A sub-topic would always be Price Elasticity or elastic and inelastic demand. In plain English, Read More...
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تبين لي في الأيام القليلة الماضية أن على الإنسانة أن تعتمد على ذاتها كلياً إن هي أرادت أن تحقق ما تحلم به, و ليست هذه الفكرة جديدة طبعاً و لا أنا اخترعتها, بل اضطررت أن أتبين صدقها بنفسي بعد محاولتي أن أسلك طريقاً ملتوياً لأحقق أحد الأمور المهمة جداً Read More...
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That's It. I Have learned my lesson! From now on, I am Going to close my mobile phone when I go to sleep! "Hey Maher, Can you tell what song is playing on that radio channel? " WTTHHHHHHHHHH!!!! To ZarZoooooor!! : SMiiiiiiiiiiLeeeee Read More...
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Driving along from Carrefour to the 8th circle I noticed a huge new water feature - 3 large and long waterfalls. Having done a nice job with the trees and landscaping I could not believe this misuse of water. Added to that one can hardly see as it is Read More...
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We're off to California bukra, yahoo!!! First stop, my sister's 400 acre ranch bordering a national park, with ten Great Pyrenees dogs, hundreds of sheep, one old llama, cows, peacocks and marijuana growing neighbors. The local fauna includes bears and Read More...
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Great news for anyone who missed out on the first fantastic calligraphy workshop, there's going to be more! I took a similar course with the same calligrapher (Saleh Nasab) a few months ago and it was awesome. You can see pictures and read more about Read More...
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All you need to do is to drive around the residential streets of Jabal Amman, around 3rd, 2nd, and first circles, and you’ll see it! Streams of water running down the streets… Water hoses out of their hiding and into the open, pumping water to wash cars, Read More...
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Freedom House is deeply concerned about a bill under consideration by the Jordanian Parliament that would increase government supervision of nongovernmental organizations and severely limit their ability to work in the country. Civil society groups in Read More...
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Qwaider gets to Hijack this space to say
MAIOUSH .. I LOVE YOU! She won’t know about this till the morning … Sweet dreams my baby… Sweet dreams Qwaider was here! Read More...
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For a long time, polygamy has been one of the things that I disliked about Islam. The idea of having more than a woman sharing the same man used to be repulsive to me. I used to believe that it is kind of unfair for women to be put in such situation. Read More...
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I've been putting off applying for a phoneline/ADSL service for a while now, mainly because in my head, applying is just a long queue of angry people waiting in line in a governmental office with grayish yellow walls for a guy drinking coffee to stop Read More...
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I always wanted to be part of the democratic process-to walk into our parliament which looks so impressive from outside and come out on the other side feeling that I had just witnessed democracy in Jordan. I finally got that chance on Wednesday of last Read More...
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Currently my life has been quite hectic...from moving back to Amman, to starting this new job. But last week was something totally different. I got to go and listen to the parliament as they discussed the Civil Society Law-Jamgeyat-and then I got to go Read More...
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