AC in, Heat out :)

Well, yesterday was a good day, our AC finally got installed, and the bedroom became heavenly cool ๐Ÿ™‚
It really was worth the wait, and even though these days aren’t that hot in Tunisia, i just know we’ll be needing it more and more as we go further into July and then August, and hell starts opening its doors again…

It was a noisy procedure installing it, and one of the neighbours started shouting out of his balcony, but it’s ok, i just ignored him, which is something really easy to do with all that drilling noise. what annoys me most is that this guy is supposedly a distant relative of mine, and yet he’s the only one who made a fuss out of it…

So last night was the first night since summer began that we could sleep comfortably, in fact i was so comfy and loving it, i had a hell of a time trying to get out of bed and to work in the morning ๐Ÿ™
Don’t you hate work ??!!
Can’t wait to get home, get hold of my laptop and sit in bed doing whatever and enjoying the cool ๐Ÿ™‚

On another note, we rented a cool movie on Monday called “Say it isn’t so!”, it’s one of those fun movies to watch, featuring Heather Graham and one of the guys from the American Pie movies, quite enjoyable…

ATM Nightmares

Have you ever allowed yourself to spend every penny in your pocket, feeling safe that you have money in your bank account and that you can use your ATM card at any moment to get the cash you need ?
and have you ever gone to an ATM with an empty pocket and that feeling of safety only to be turned down because of a connection failure or whatever other reason and then hit by the fact that you’re totally out of money and that even though you have money in your bank account, you just can’t get to it ?
It’s one of the worst feelings ever, and it sucks like hell !

Well that’s part of my everyday life with my bank, i put my money in, spend the money i have, go to the nearest ATM (and every other one i know about), and it doesn’t give me anything !!!

What annoys me most is that it seems to only do it when i really need the money, when i’m really out of money, and when it’s a weekend, so i’m left with no solution to get my hands on some cash…

I’m seriously thinking of changing banks, the only problem is that i know it’ll be the same shit, just a different taste, so the big question is : am i ready to change the taste i’ve gotten so used to ? loooool…

Trinidad Club

We went out to a cool club in Gammarth on Saturday night called “Trinidad Club” with some of our friends.
It’s very stylish, very cool, very high class, and of course you can only imagine it’d also be very expensive, the thought that drove me close to a heart attack as soon as i walked through the door, especially as i only had 20 Dinars on me, lol…

The place has a swimming pool, a caf

Overcrowded Madness

Have you ever been to a place so overcrowded you end up stepping on your own toes ? Well, if not, then you obviously haven’t visited Carrefour in Tunisia (a Mega Mall we have here) on the first day of the month.
Everyone just got their paychecks, and they’re all out there at Carrefour to spend every millime (cent) of it like crazy on stuff they mostly don’t need, but are buying anyways because there’s a big red and yellow sign saying “PROMOTION” on it.

Suddenly, the laws of physics don’t apply anymore, and you actually can fit 15 adults in 1 square meter, not to mention their shopping carts and kids, who act as if this is the first time they actually step out their home doorstep and see what the outside world looks like, not wanting to miss one moment of it without proving to everybody how insanely active they are.

Another amazing phenomenon is what happens at the cash registers, it’s incredible how everyone totally believes they were standing in that queue before you or that they deserve to pass first, multiply that by 30 cash registers, and then believe me you’ll start thinking twice before using the word havoc in the future.

Oh well, i think its obvious i made the stupid mistake of going to Carrefour on this cursed shopping day, only to find that every other Tunisian beat me there, lol…
Anyway, i’m ok now, i just have this darn headache, a raging temper and god knows what else boiling inside of me !

Today was the first day in what we Tunisians call “S

Unbearable Heat

It’s incredible how wrong a person can be when he thinks: “Things can’t get any worse than this !”, coz they can, this heat seems to keep wanting to out-do itself day after day, making life miserable for us mortals…

Just came back from checking out a number of ACs and their prices, and well i feel like kicking myself in the head for not buying that unionaire AC in the beginning of the summer for half the price ACs are at now

I can’t help but fantasize of that cool Training room i spent most of my day in today, even if it meant having to answer an endless flow of questions about web site management by two people who shouldn’t be anywhere close to a website, lol…

Good thing i’ll be back there for more training on Wednesday, bad thing is i’ll have more questions to answer, so i’d better be ready and take my anti-stress pills (just kidding) ๐Ÿ˜›

NDC 2003

Just finished resting after 3 days of attending the first North Africa Developer Conference in Tunis/Tunisia. It was quite tiresome but very interesting.
It was held at the Renaissance hotel in Gammarth, overlooking a beautiful golden beach.

Most of the talk was about Web Services and how they’re the next big thing and how they’re going to blow all our worries away, and that asp.net is the best platform and easiest one to create Web Services in, and well believe it or not, the Microsoft guys almost got me convinced ๐Ÿ˜›

Anyway, Web Services are truly great, and i can’t wait to have more free time at home to play around with them and create some cool stuff. I’m also thinking of going a bit deeper into .NET and doing some development with it, it seems to be able to provide some nice capabilities.
I’ll post any stuff or ideas i work on here…