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Photos from Syria
I just uploaded some of the photos I took when we were in Syria on my photolog.
So if you’re interested in checking them out, click here.
Enjoy 🙂
Speak Out
“First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was neither, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.”
— Martin Niemoeller
The Future
How true is it when we say that the future is what we make of it? And that our past has nothing to do with it and that it should not haunt us?
I think it’s true that our present is the result of the decisions we took in our past, and that the future is the result of the decisions we take today.
But, still our decisions today are based on whatever elements and consequences we have today, which have come to exist because of our old decision in our past.
Let’s say a person took the decision to study Computer Science a number of years ago, and today he is a programmer because of that choice and others he took along the way.
Today he also wants to take another decision for the future. And even though he could go and take a totally unrelated decision of becoming a professional photographer, thereby throwing away a lot of stuff from his past and many of the decisions he took, it’s most likely he won’t and that he will follow the path he started carving out for himself in the past and go for something IT related.
So, even though we don’t like to admit it, the past does somehow haunt us. It affects the decisions we take, it limits our scope of options, it tries to put us into a box we can’t get out of.
But life shouldn’t be that way.
What if we took a wrong decision along the way, or a decision we don’t like anymore?
I mean we’re human after all, and we’re built to make errors.
We should always have an option to undo what we did, and as that is impossible, then we at least should have the option to right our wrong by taking a good decision later on.
It takes courage to take such a decision though, because it means you’re admitting you were wrong, you’re admitting that a period of your life was somehow a waste of time, you’re admitting that you’re throwing a lot away and starting some things from scratch.
It’s not easy. And it’ll certainly feel unlogical to take such a step.
But what’s better to take a hard and “unlogical” step that will make our lives a lot better or to let our old wrong decision haunt us and control our lives making them miserable?
I’d choose the hard way any day!
So, after all, the future is what we make of it, it’s a direct result of the decisions we take today and it doesn’t have to be haunted by the past.
So we should learn from the errors we made in our past and take better decisions for our future, we can’t go on making mistakes and then trying to fix them forever.
My First Game of Tennis
Today, I played my first game of Tennis and it was GREAT!
My wife has been wanting to play Tennis for some time now, so yesterday we passed by Carrefour and we bought me a Tennis racket. And today, we headed to El Saada Park (formerly El Saada Palace) in La Marsa, rented ourselves a Tennis court and had some really good fun.
Now, this is my first time to ever hold a Tennis racket and try to play the game, but it was still a hell of a lot of fun.
It was also very funny. It was my first time, and my wife hasn’t played for over 2 years. So there definitely were some stupid moments, but incredibly there were some really good moments too, when I felt like I’ve been playing the game for a while now.
Thanks to my dear wife for introducing me to this new pleasure and teaching me how to play.
I truly can’t wait for the next time we play.
I think we’ll most probably be getting a membership card so that we can play as much as we want 🙂
Champion Lafayette
So, this morning in between paying our rent, bills and other stuff, we passed by Champion, the new mall that opened this week in Lafayette in downtown Tunis.
It looks really nice from the front and on the inside, but it’s a bit too small to be called a mall actually, so maybe mini-mall would be more suitable.
A lot of the shops and boutiques still haven’t opened yet and the food court is still under way but the supermarket section is working and already over-crowded.
The first thought I got when I walked into the supermarket was: this is more like a Monoprix loaded with the exact same stuff that’s in Carrefour but packed into a smaller area.
Anyway, even though I found myself thinking of how the lanes, counters and some other little things here and there were shopper unfriendly, I think it’s really nice and a great addition to the Tunisian shopping scene.
I hope it takes off some of the load Carrefour gets so that the latter can go back to being a good shopping experience.
Breast Boosting Ringtones
Hideto Tomabechi’s Rockmelon tone registered more than 10,000 downloads in the first week alone.
He claims his ring tone has “sounds that make the brain and body move unconsciously”.
Tomabechio calls the subliminal breast booster a kind of “positive brainwashing” and says it draws on his teachings of the “powers of cognitive science”.
One satisfied user told Japanese media: “I listened to the tune for a week expecting all the time that I was being duped. But, incredibly, my 34-inch bust grew to 35 inches. It was awesome.”
Tomabechi says he’s now planning other ring tones to help people quit smoking, combat baldness and attract a mate.
Source: Ananova
LOL…
With the whole bust upsizing obsession going on in the world these days, this guy would make a fortune selling these ringtones 😛
A curious question though, what happens if a guy uses these ringtones?
Design in Progress
Some elements of the blog are being re-designed live as you read this, so if anything looks weird, don’t worry it’s just me playing around with things 😛
Why didn’t I work on this offline and then put it online when everything was organized and settled down?
Because I foolishly though it was so easy I didn’t have to 😛
Anyway, when this seems to have settled down a bit, let me know if you have any thoughts about how it turned out.