Update on my last post, I took these shots from Rani, Umniah “replied” (2) on the last AD by Zain (1) , Umniah just edited the word “bebalash” (for free) so it’s now “bs balash” 
(get real!), really this is the first time that I see such war! I think newspapers are very happy with this war.
(1) last Ad, Zain
(2) Last Ad, Umniah
Previous Ads :
If you read yesterday’s newspaper you would probably know what am talking about.
First Zain made this big offer; pay 1 JD every week and call 5 numbers (selected numbers or super) for free and its not unlimited but they give you a huge amount of minutes. they called the line Zain5, yesterday there was an AD in the newspaper from Umniah, مستحيل 10( impossible 10) in this AD Umniah compares “directly” its offer with Zain’s offer: we give you 10 free numbers to call and not 5 , you have to pay 1 JD every month and not every week, you can call everyone in Umniah’s network for 1 piaster not 5.
I thought that was it, the end of the story, but it was not! In today’s newspaper I found a new AD by Zain: خمسة باليد ولا عشرة على الشجرة
(Five birds In The Hand Is Worth ten In The Bush)
“شبكتنا الأقوى “مستحيل” ينقطع الخط”
(it is impossible that your call will be dropped in our network)
while Umniah focused on the price in its ADs Zain focused on the quality, so it’s quantity versus quality.
It’s really funny and interesting , I will wait for tomorrow maybe the war will continue 
Recently I have started to feel like am a student again, studying and preparing for exams and stuff like that. When I graduated from the university the most important thing that I though I gained was that I don’t have to study anymore, yes I might read some work related books and articles, but that’s not like studying for an exam and not even close.
I think exams are overrated in our culture, for example no matter what you do all the people around you will make you believe that Tawjihi is like a gate to hell or heaven, when you go the university you can see some students that when they have an exam they freak out, starting drinking anything that has a caffeine in it. If they smoke they will call the cigarette company to make sure that they won’t run out of cigarette when they are practicing studying rituals. I lived with one of my friends who used to lock himself up with 3 or 4 packets of cigarette, coffee and papers and that’s it, you won’t see him till the day of the exam.
Yes I had some bad habits when it comes to exams and taking them, I can keep saying that I have an exam and I should study for it until there are 2 or 3 days left, and most of the times I end up finishing like 70% of the exam studying materials in the last day and last night. Till now I still have this problem where I almost can’t study for anything unless I had to, and even when I do I study in the last available time slot.
Nowadays I preparing for my TOEFL and GRE exams and I’ve just finished my 4th Spanish course and going to start a new one after a couple of weeks. I couldn’t start studying for TOEFL for real if I wasn’t registered for it. So that’s why I booked my seat, just to make sure that I will study so I won’t lose my money that I paid “mn 3araq jbini”.
- Now you should say something like “good luck Raeef”
I knew about Dave chappelle only last year and I didn’t know that he was the comedian in the nutty professor but my friend gave me that piece of information. Since that time I started to look for shows and clips for that man, I found two long shows ” Killin’ Them Softly ” and “For What It’s Worth“, of course I become addicted to stand up comedy in general and to any clip by Chappelle. His way just can’t but drag you more and more in watching and focusing on those issues that he discuses in a funny and sometimes dirty way but still he manges to deliver the message and the sad picture hidden by that funny act.
Chappelle converted to Islam in 1998, and he once disappeared and went to south Africa and on that he said
I don’t normally talk about my religion publicly because I don’t want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is a beautiful religion if you learn it the right way. It’s a lifelong effort. Your religion is your standard. Coming here I don’t have the distractions of fame. It quiets the ego down. I’m interested in the kind of person I’ve got to become. I want to be well rounded and the industry is a place of extremes. I want to be well balanced. I’ve got to check my intentions, man
I only wish if that one day we will have an Arabic comedian like this man. we really need someone who can talk about all the stacked issues in our society and still be popular and free.
anyway as Dave says long live chappelleS and those who try to change the world by words.
I was excited to watch a Jordanian movie, one that is not 5 or 10 minutes long, so we went to Grand in City Mall, at the beginning it was just the two of us (me and my friend) but later on people started to come. Two young boys were seated next to me and one of them started counting the people in the theater, at first It was some how funny but he couldn’t stop !
Some people started to pre-translate the Arabic words to English and they were racing the written subtitle ! why? I mean all of us were Jordanian, no one asked for a live translation ! some started to enlighten us about Jordanian locations, this is abdali this is jabal amman blah blah, you can do that but lose the loud voice!
What always amazes me that some of our people really do not know how to watch a movie, they laugh when they are supposed to cry or at least be a little bit sad.
I think our nation needs a lot of education on how to act in certain places and situations.
I watched a part of the UN security council in the emergency session that took place today, if you only heard what the Israeli representative said there! He really flipped everything 180 degrees, if someone who knows nothing about the situation in Palestine and particularly Gaza watched that acting, he will say ” oh poor Israelis ,look at these Israeli children who live in Sderot , they have disabilities in sleeping…” on the other hand over than 70 Palestinians in Gaza have died not by rockets or Israeli attacks but just because they cut off the electricity, children in Gaza can’t sleep not because they have a bad nightmare! but for more serious reasons like losing a father or being sick and left there without medication. the Israeli guy says that we should not mix between the “self defense” act that Israel is carrying against Gaza or Hamas and between what “Palestinian terrorists ” do! what kind of a world are we living in?
Azmi Bshara said that Israel has always said that they are going to attack Gaza in a massive way, and when Bush was here days ago, he said that US understands if Israel carried a massive attack against Gaza, and after that Bush visited many Arab countries and no one said anything about that !!
I really don’t expect that their representative will say anything that might be in the favor of Gaza’s people but the man managed to turn the situation to a self defense against Hamas, he didn’t say Palestinians but he wanted to focus on one thing that the Palestinians in Gaza elected Hamas and Hamas is the responsible for what is happening!
I don’t know what will the people of Gaza benefit from my anger or the anger of millions and millions of Muslims and Arabs! May Allah be with them.
I have an all day headache and the problem is that every single doctor that I visited gave me a different story, and till now they gave me nothing that helped. the latest “news” from the last doctor that my headache have no physical causes, but rather psychological and life style related causes. I don’t know if he made that up cause he couldn’t cure me or he just was telling me the truth. now I gave up, I don’t really think that I will know what causes me that constant headache. I think he thinks that he is my friend, many times I told him ” Headache, I don’t want to carry you anymore, friends don’t do that to each other, just find another head to (ache) ” .
the most annoying thing about having a 24 hours headache that what some people would say , like ” did you see a doctor? you might have sinus!” . really you genius! the first thing I started with is to check for any sinus related headache , but nah nothing there. Anyway , I am going to put a prize on the head of my headache, so if any one of you is interested just find me and you will find him.
4:30 am
It seems that am not going to sleep tonight -I don’t know why, I only drank hot chocolate! - So here are some thoughts that crossed my mind…
My friend said that he likes to fall in love and to be in a relation, knowing that he didn’t live in one; I figured out that I can’t blame him. Every one of us likes to try everything just for the sake of trying maybe…
Anyway I was thinking about some guys I knew, they changed their lives just because they met someone,Maybe I was this close(> <) to do the same thing but I think I really was lucky.… Just if she passed by you at that cretin moment she will change you simply it is not you anymore! A body, heart and an empty head, after that you start making plans, crazy plans that you really wouldn’t think about it if you had 1/4 of your mental health. But that’s it. Sometimes those plans work for you and in most cases they won’t.
I know this guy who used to say he will get married when he’s 27 or 28, few months later he got engaged! Don’t tell me he planned that. It just happened.
For such a generation -my generation- I believe that commitment should come after twenty 7 or at least in my case, because to tell you the truth till this moment I can’t make my mind about what I want to do In the upcoming years; to carry on with my studies, continue working in Jordan or catch the first opportunity to work somewhere else.
I Am small but the world is big (a phrase from a song), I know it’s simple but it’s true.
I noticed a nickname on my MSN’s contacts, it was ‘abu el 3ez’ and knowing that this contact was a girl it was strange to see abu el 3ez as her nickname (especially that most of the nicknames I used to see there were ‘love songs’-related, I asked ” -who is abu el 3ez?”
-YOU DID NOT WATCH BAB EL 7ARA !!!
-no
aperantly I was left behind because of bab el 7ara, because I guess that 99% of the people I know in my tiny world watched it,which is not that important as “why did they?”. anyway am not going to discuss or think about that “why” cause its not of my concern at this moment and I only want to say something in my mind before I sleep,the strange thing that many people liked and loved characters in that series; Characters that in their real life they will mock them or say : ta5alof just for seeing them walking in the street, for example let’s talk about abo el 3ez, from the articles I read and from my friends’ comments and chit-chat about him I made a good idea that he has many good points , but at the same time he is considered harsh with females especially those who are a part of his family. so the funny thing is some girls find him attractive and discrib him as the man that they are happy to say -in a series like life-” I wanna marry him”, but in fact and coming back to reality they will hate his guts everyday. It is just another form of our hypocrisy. even when it comes to series and fun I discover that we have multiple personalities in one body; where a girl wanna wear tight pants and smoke cigartes and get beaten or get a good amount of shouting by her husbend abo el 3ez for a mistake. Maybe am taking a picutre from a diffrent angle!
I was thinking today about which is better with regard to the people you have to deal with them; studying or working, In the university at least you have the privilege to choose the people that you wanna hang up with, at work it’s a different story because no matter how much you try to keep those stupid people away from you, you just can’t, so I have reached a conclusion that world is full with stupid people, actually I have nothing against stupid people but when you add envy and bad intentions to stupidity you really get a very good combination in one person. A person that you really wanna smash his head with a tiny hummer so he will be able to feel every angry hit until he loses his head. I think at that moment a you can see me with a big smile on my face.
في الأنباء أن السعوديين يضبطون مواعيدهم وأجنداتهم اليومية وفقا لمواعيد بث مسلسل باب الحارة وتوقيتات إعادته ، وأن بعض المساجد في فلسطين اختصرت صلاة التراويح لتمكين جموع المصلين من متابعة حلقات المسلسل من بداياتها ، وفي مدارسنا تحول الطلاب إلى باعة “بليلا” يستلهمون شخصية أبو غالب ونداءاته على بضاعته الكاسدة ، ومجمعاتنا التجارية تعيد إنتاج شخصيات أبو بشير وأبو شهاب وأبو حاتم وأبو بدر وغيرهم من رموز وشخصيات المسلسل العربي الأشهر في رمضان الفائت.
لماذا يثير مسلسل سطحي بأحداثه وحبكته وحواره ومضامينه ، كل هذا الشغف والتعلق من قبل ملايين المشاهدين في عشرات الدول العربية والجاليات في المنافي والمهاجر؟ ولماذا تجد بعض القيم والعلاقات والمفاهيم البالية والمتخلفة كل هذا الاستقبال الحميم من قبل المشاهدين على اختلاف مستوياتهم الاقتصادية والثقافية والعملية؟
مسلسل باب الحارة أثار حنين المواطن العربي إلى “مجتمعات ما قبل الدولة” وتنظيماتها وقيمها وعلاقاتها ، فرموز الدولة والسلطة فيه ، لا تظهر إلا كرموز أجنبية ، عميلة ، فاسدة ومنبوذة ، لكأن المواطن العربي بتعلقه بالحارة وتنظيماتها ، أراد أن يبعث برسالة احتجاج على تنظيمات الدولة الحديثة وقوانينها ، والتي تواجه بدورها أسئلة الشرعية ويتسم أداؤها في كثير من جوانبه بالقمع والفساد والارتباط بالأجنبي.
والمسلسل قدم صورة إيجابية للحاكم ـ القبضاي ، وهو التعبير الشعبي عن “المستبد العادل” ، وهي صورة كنا نأمل أن تكون قد محيت من وعي المواطن لكن نموذج البطل الإيجابي لـ”أبو شهاب” ولاحقا “أبو النار” التي لقيت قبولا ورواجا شعبيين ، خيّبت آمالنا بالمستوى الذي بلغه الوعي الجمعي العربي في فهمه ورؤيته للحكم والحكامة والدولة والسلطة.
والمسلسل مسح بجرة قلم ، كل منجزات الحركات النسائية والكفاح المرير من أجل مساواة النساء بالرجال وتمكينهن ، فقد تبين أن المجتمع الذكوري ما زال مجتمعا مغريا وجاذبا حتى للنساء وليس للرجال فقط ، كما تبين أن “الحرملك” ما زال حاضرا في وعينا ولا وعينا ، فالصورة الإيجابية المحببة لمعتز وأبو شهاب وكل الأبوات في المسلسل الذين لا يصغون لأصوات بناتهم وزوجاتهم وأخواتهم طغت على صوت الرفض لتهميش المرأة وإذلالها واستعبادها.
ثمة لغز كبير وراء نجاح مسلسل فارغ من أي مضمون كمسلسل باب الحارة ، فالحلقات كانت تنتهي من دون أن تتخطى أحداثها النكايات بين “الحماة والكنّة” ، وربط يوميات الحارة الدمشقية بالقضية الفلسطينية ربط تعسفي بالكاد لمسنا أثره على الشخصيات والأحداث ، فهو مقحم بالقوة على النص ، ومع ذلك يتطلع ملايين المشاهدين بشوق وشغف لرمضان القادم لمتابعة الجزء الثالث ، فأي فراغ هذا الذي نعيشه وأي خواء هذا الذي يهيمن على مجتمعاتنا وشعوبنا؟
Flu!!
It seems that I always catch flu whenever something important or something needs some activity comes , the last time I caught a long lasting flu was before an 18 hours between flying and connecting. Today flu symptoms started to show up very quickly like it is saying you will not be able to enjoy your EID (as if I was planning to do so !) I only planned to sleep for 10 hours in every 10 hours period and going out 2 times or 3. Based on that the only thing I can say is kol 3am wa ento b 5eer and Goodbye my happy Eid 
It is a sort of madness! I remember the time when people used to watch Cassandra on Syria’s channel. at that time I think all the Jordanians watched it but us, because we didn’t have an antenna and didn’t buy one at that time ( as you know the antenna was the only way to get more than 2 channels in Jordan at that time). now we have more than 100 free Arabic channels but at the same time most of us decided to pick one channel and watch bab el 7ara. so can someone tell me what is so special about it? I didn’t watch the first part nor the second one and am not planning to watch the third one if they are going to make one in the future. Cause I have this strange thing with regard to TV and movies; I tend to not watch things that most people become insane about. I just watch it some other time. so maybe if they will broadcast bab el 7ara 10 years from now, maybe then I will watch it, maybe it will taste better at that time.
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