It hasn't been the best of my days. My day didn't start up very well and i was not productive at work. I started my day with what I call my cup of coffee links where I check blogs that I missed reading over the weekend. Today, this process took around an hour..By the time I wanted to start working, I had to leave the office to go pick up my dad from the airport. His flight got delayed another hour. So by the time I picked him up and dropped him home, I ended up wasting a total of 3 hours.
Back at work, I worked for a couple of hours till I couldn't focus anymore. I got a phone call from my friend to join him for seafood lunch, again during my working hours. So basically, I stayed in my office only a total of 2 hours.
At lunch, while my friend was explaining to me how important it is that I should get used to drinking coffee and especially turkish coffee. He had a very convincing argument: "what if you wanna propose to a girl and visit her family and then she comes and brings you a cup of coffee? would you say no? they'd think you don't like her. and even if you drank the coffee and you showed up the facial signs that you don't like it..they'll assume that you didn't like HER coffee and they would consider this as a "no". and..."
I was in the middle of arguing why don't they become more modern and go and do NESCAFE or capuccino before my phone rang with the infamous metal gear solid ringtone.. I pick up the phone:
"Good afternoon Mr. Hamza Taha. This is the dental clinic calling"
"yes hi"
"how are you feeling today?"
"hm...pretty good"
"are you having any pain or side effects from the root canal treatment we did to you on thursday?"
"hmm...no everything is fine. It only hurt me at night"
"you are taking your antibiotics?"
"yea"
"ok...this was just a follow up call to make sure that you are ok. See you in your next appointment next thursday..Take care"
"ok..thanks for caring"
Did my dentist just call to check up on me? this is the first time that I have such experience. Doctors must definitely learn from him. I am definitely recommending this dentist to all my colleagues because he really made my day
A phonecall that made my day
iTunes and MediaPlayer Tag
I don't wanna do tags but since I haven't updated my blog in a while. So I might as well do it
The rules are :
a) Put your iTunes/music player on Shuffle.
b) For each question, press the next button to get you answer.
c) YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER WHAT!!
1. IF SOMEONE SAYS “IS THIS OKAY” YOU SAY?
Diana Ross- Ain't no moutain high [nice one]2. WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
Deff Lappard - When love and hate collide [good for describing my feelings]3. WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
Ragheb Alameh - yalla ya chabab [I don't wanna know what does this imply]
4. HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
Westlife - Angel's Wings [totally not my ]
5. WHAT IS YOUR LIFE’S PURPOSE?
Leann Rimes - One of these days (yep, a normal life)
6. WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
Westlife - Unbreakable [ oh yeaaaaa. ;)]
7. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR PARENTS?
Mohammed Mounir - Ya Tayr ya tayer [why am I still doing this tag?]
8. WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
Lil Mama - Shawty Get loose [ Love it! ]
9. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
Rihanna - Take a bow [Shaklo fee fight 3al 6aree2 :s ]
10. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
11. WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Kazem el Saher - Mashi Bi Share3 [yea...sort of ]
12. WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Ace of Base - Beautiful Life[ :D ]
13. WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
Fadel Shaker - ya ghayeb [loooooool..considering I am never in the house..]
14. WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
Kazem el Saher - Sayidati [naaaaaaaaaa]
15. WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Alisson Kraus - Baby, now that I've found you [who is singing this to me? the angel of death? :S]
16. WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
Hani Shaker - Aeesh 3ala Hawaya [ aren't we all? :P ]
17. WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
Lifehouse - Quasimodo[ huh? oh yea...that thing! ]
18. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Lara Fabian - Je suis malade [:s...definitely the wron song for this question ]
19. WHAT SHOULD YOU POST THIS AS?
Assi Hellani - Bhebek inti [ I think I am having the worst answers among you all ]
20. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOURSELF?
DJ Tiesto - Elements of Life
I am regretting doing this tag and you know what? I am not taggin anyone
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The dog & its nipples
for the rest of the week, I'll be attending a training course titled "Islamic Banking Instruments". Yesterday was our first day. and here is an example of some of the conclusions that our instructor arrives because of the weird wiring system in his brain and the burnt up fuses he has.
A colleague of mine is questioning the difference between how a form of strucuturing deals done in islamic banking is different than the way its done in Conventional Banking. Here was the professor's answer:
"Listen...how many nipples does the dog have?"
WHAT THE.....how is that related to the nipples of a dog?
"the dog has 6 nipples. Why? because usually dogs give birth to usually 6 dogs and it needs to breastfeed all the children.
Let's look at sheep. How many nipples does the sheep have? they have only one. Sheeps usually give birth to one sheep. Right?
How many of you eat dogs? if you live in china, you might be. But how many of us eat sheep? almost all of us. For example, we in Bahrain slaughter around 5000 sheeps a day. So imagine how many sheeps does saudi arabia slaughter..especially with saudis being more voracious and they always eat KABSA 3 times a day. So they slaughter sheep 10 times more than us.
The question that arises is how come there is more sheep in the world more than dogs...ha?????
The answer is simple. GOD BLESSED sheeps. He didn't BLESS dogs. Same for banking. God likes and blessed Islamic Banking. He didn't bless conventional Banking."
I am seriously concerned about the deteriorating health of my brain. It does not need more corruption. I wish I can lend it to someone till this course is over.
NOOR (a.k.a as GUMUS)
I HAAAAAAAAAAAAATE IT.
and each day, it keeps giving me more reason to hate it, especially since it started to directly affect my life.
1- like many days, I'd come back from work and I want to sit in my room to read a book, watch tv or play music on my laptop. But lately, my brother would walk in like 3antar zamano and with few clicks on the remote control, he would ruin the whole relaxing atmosphere I have when he tunes on this blasphemous tv show that would distract me from reading anything, listening to music or doing whatever I want to do.
2- One of my friends who I keep calling to see if he wants to go out. Most of the time, he is ready to go out but there are times where he hesitates to go out and he keeps giving me all those excuses like: "I am doing my AC", "I am out shopping with my dad", "I am fixing my fridge" etc etc. Lately, he confessed to me that he doesn't 't show up because I call him when he is in the middle of watching NOOR.
3- Another friend who I regularly talk to. Whenever we talk and might be having a serious debate and our conversation is almost reaching the climax, I all of a sudden hear: "oh...Noor is on....bye"..tout tout...Later, we came to this arrangement not to talk to each other during this 'holy hour'.
Latest incident I had was yesterday. I just wanted to call to say hamdella ala il salameh after arriving from the airport yesterday, but what do I get in return? "watching noor...call you later"..tout, tout..
4- and Last but not least. I go out shopping with my dad. At around 9:45, I see him getting jumpy and is hurrying up in shopping. When we rode the car, he was driving faster and recklessly more than usual. When I asked him, he goes like: "Noor is starting in 10 minutes". That's all I needed. My dad to be brainwashed too.
and for the fans of Noor, let me tell you, I tried watching the show. I seriously tried...I watched a couple of episodes. I don't find anything extraordinary about it. Its like any of those long mexican series....rich guy, poor girl....breaking up, making out, breaking up, making out, somebody is paralyzed...not anymore...there will be a new kid...turns out to be his son...the story is such a cliche. You could watch an episode now, and an episode one month later, and you can easily follow on what happened because the progress in story is sooooooooo damn slow.
and seriously, I believe that this show might be the cause of many divorces and breakups. This Mohannad guy is such a pain in the neck. He unrealisticly raises the bar for the dream guy for the girls. Most of the girls would go like: "why can't you be like mohannad? see how nice he is"..."yeeee, dakheeelo shu amooor wi jameeel hal mohannad..yo2boshli albi" " aaaaaaaaah, look at his green sexy eyes"..."7araam hal nazrah il 7azeeeneh illi ba3youno.....it doesn't suit him"
oh, one more thing...is it me or am I the only person on Earth who finds Alma annoying? I wish I can mutilate her and cut her to pieces each time I hear her annoying voice. I can't handle her naive and stupid behavior. If there is a kid who'll ever make me a child mercenary, its her and she is on the top of my list.
ah look at me, I ditched work and wasted 40 minutes just ranting about this silly series....I HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE IT.
