Month: May 2005

Nike, which sponsors a number of football (soccer for you Americans) players is testing coloured contact lenses for top players. The firm says red, yellow and amber lenses can help them see the ball better, particularly in bright sunlight.

Brian Roberts, of US basketball team Baltimore Orioles, who has tested the lenses, said: “They’re like wearing sunglasses without wearing sunglasses. I could see such a huge difference right away.”

The lenses, which have been under development for seven years, could be used in Britain this year by Premiership players. Nike is working with contact-lens company Bausch & Lomb to sell them through opticians.

Nike has also signed up tennis star Roger Federer and golfer Justin Leonard to test the lenses. It claims that while the red lenses are ideal for fast-moving sports such as football, grey lenses are the key to golfers being able to discern the lie of the land on a putting green.

[Via: And Far Away, Agenda Inc]

Wishing does not make a poor man rich.

Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things on marble.

When what you want doesn’t happen, learn to want what does.

The wound of words is worse than the wound of swords.

The wound that bleeds inwardly is the most dangerous.

Only the tent pitched by your own hands will stand.

Only three things in life are certain birth, death and change.

Seek counsel of him who makes you weep, and not of him who makes you laugh.

He who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Hmmm…

So?!
Why am I even blogging about this?
Well it reminds me of something, that’s why. It reminds me of a hit song from the 90’s called “Alarma” by a group called 666.
I never really liked the song, but still I have a somewhat unforgettable story with it.

Some years ago, I bought this new mix tape with all the recent hits and stuff. I was driving around with a friend of mine, listening to the music, and enjoying a really nice Tunisian summer afternoon. After a while the song “Alarma” came on and just seconds into the song BAM!!!, this car came out of nowhere and we crashed into each other head on. Damn!!!

Fast forward to a year later or so. Eman, My wife (wife-to-be back then), and I were having lunch in one of the fast food places in front of the university, and as we were leaving the place, we heard the song.
After that, I went home and she went to turn in some papers she was translating. I then remembered what happened to me the last time I heard the song, and got very worried about Eman, but then I thought to myself “Nah! Don’t be too superstitious”.
Just a few minutes later though, I got a call from her telling me that she just had a car accident!!

So, in the end, whether the number of the beast is 666 or 616, I don’t really care, all I know is that damned song is one that I hate to hear!