Why is it that when driving in rush hour you always end up in the slowest lane?!!
And then to make things worse some car ahead of you breaks down?!
And then an accident happens?!
And then you switch to another lane, only to see the lane you were in start moving faster, and the one you’re in becomes the slowest?!!
Why? Why? Why?!!!
So after a number of years of not changing time, Tunisia is back to applying daylight saving time starting this year.
Clocks will be advanced by one hour on midnight this coming Sunday, May 1st.
This comes as a move by the government to try and promote saving of energy in the wake of the ever-rising cost of fuel in the world market.
Doesn’t bother me at all.
In fact it adds an extra hour of daylight to the summer days, so one more hour of summer fun 😉
Dubai desert gives way to ski resort…
The brainchild of Majid al-Futtaim, the mountain-themed resort is being built within his group’s billion-dollar Mall of the Emirates, partly to lure people to what will be the third largest shopping centre in the world, and to make it different.
[Source: Al Jazeera]
Man!! Dubai is becoming more and more like a wonderland / amazement park. Unbelievable projects are popping up there everyday, and although they’re all really exciting and wonderful, I wonder why they’re being done?
What is behind this obsession to always build bigger, higher, cooler stuff?
I guess it’s the urge to go the extra step and do things that have never been done before and the beautiful feelings that are felt when they are done.
But how far will this go?
What’s next I wonder?!
Register or face legal action…
A six-month campaign is being launched next Monday to register all Bahraini websites, under orders from Information Minister and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr Mohammed Abdul Ghaffar.
…websites would face similar laws to newspapers, related to libel, public decency and ethics.
Just as a newspaper editor-in-chief is held responsible for what he publishes, so will the webmasters be…
[Source: Gulf Daily News]
Well even though this could have been great news if the goal behind it was to empower bloggers and give them more rights, it’s actually really bad news.
The purpose behind this move is an obvious attempt by the Bahraini government to keep a leash on Bahraini bloggers, track everyone and hold them accountable for their opinions.
We’ve already seen the kind of rights the people who were found out got.
It’s really a shame to see something like this happening. And what’s even worse is that we could see moves like this propagating across the Arab world.
Mahmood is proposing a plan of action against these rules.
I totally support the Bahraini bloggers’ cause and wish them the best of luck in putting an end to this madness. It’s a common cause for us all.
[Via: Mahmood’s Den, Savior Machine]
My Computer programmer nickname is: Hot Swapper.
My Nickname-o-matic is: MC Muchacho.
My Sopranos Gangster Name is: Childlike Complexion.
My Hobbit Name is: Berilac Deepdelver of Brockenborings.
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We just got home from the first Tunisian Blogger Meetup at Biwa in Les Berges du Lac.
It was a lot of fun and really cool to meet all the bloggers who came. We really wished everyone else could have come too and we remembered the bloggers outside Tunisia too. I hope next time more people will come, including our expats, and we’ll have more fun.
We were 16 all in all, a lot more than I expected to show up. So that’s really great 🙂
The following blogs were represented today: Mouse Hunter, Pens
I bought “Siddharta” by Hermann Hesse from a used book store in downtown Tunis a couple of weeks ago, and only got around to finishing it today although it’s not that long.
Not much time left for me to read these days with work and a bunch of other things taking up my time.
When I first picked this book, I thought it was about the life of Siddharta, The Buddha. It turns out it’s not. It’s about the spiritual journey of an Indian man called Siddhartha during the time of the Buddha. He actually meets the Buddha but doesn’t follow his teachings because he no longer believes in teachers.
The story is an interesting one and does provoke thought in a number of places. I especially like the character’s thoughts on time, good vs. evil, and this quote: “Knowledge Can Be Communicated, But Not Wisdom”, which I think is true.
I also agree with the point that is made about everyone having the right to make their own mistakes, learn from them and use them to understand the world more.
I think this is a good book to readm especially for people who are at that stage of their lives when they’re searching for the meaning to it all and trying to make sense of everything. It gives another perspective and understanding of life which is always interesting.
I just found this really funny list of things that only happen in movies. Here are my faves:
– If staying in a haunted house, women should investigate any strange noises wearing their most revealing underwear.
– If you are heavily outnumbered in a fight involving martial arts, your opponents will wait patiently to attack you on by one by dancing around you in a threatening manner until you have defeated their predecessor.
– One man shooting at 20 men has a better chance of killing them all than 20 men firing at once (it’s called Stallone’s Law).
– All beds have special L-shaped sheets that reach to armpit level on a woman but only up to the waist of the man lying beside her.
– When you turn out the light to go to bed, everything in you room will still be visible, just slightly bluish.
– Once applied, lipstick will never rub off. Even while scuba diving.
– The Eiffel Tower can be seen from any window of any building in Paris.
– When paying for a taxi, don’t look at your wallet as you take out a note. Just grab one out at random and hand it over. It will always be the exact fare.
Go on and read the 40 Things That Only Happen In Movies.
