Category: Everyday Me

Here’s an interesting idea…

Something about me you’d like to know?
Something you’ve been wanting to ask me?
Something you’d like to know my opinion on?
Something you’d like me to ramble on about?
Pick a topic, a question, anything, and drop it in the comments.
Come next Friday (28/01/05), I’ll go through what (if anything) is there and start talking about it.

Of course, if nothing appears, I’ll still go on blogging as usual about whatever crosses my mind.

[Via: eclecticism, The Republic of T., Stay of Execution.]

Eid El Adha, the big Eid, the feast of the sacrifice or the Eid of the sheep as some call it is tomorrow.

Prices for sheep sky-rocketed as they always do around this time of year, but nevertheless most Tunisians went out and bought their sheep for the big day even if they had to get a new credit to do so.

This Eid comes with the end of the Hajj, and is the day in which muslims worldwide sacrifice sheep in commemoration of the prophet Abraham’s story with his son.
Half of the sacrificed sheep is kept and the other half should be given to the poor.

We’ll be going to my parent’s place for lunch and then maybe doing some visits to the close family.

Eid Mubarak to everyone.
May it be a happy and blessed Eid for you all.
And don’t eat too much meat 😉

The 2005 Bloggie Awards have started and they’re accepting nominations.

So please pass by their site and nominate my blog 🙂
You can choose to nominate it for whatever category you want, but the main categories i’m aiming for are: Best African or Middle Eastern weblog, Best-Kept-Secret Weblog and maybe Weblog of the year :P.
So please nominate me there at least.

Here’s the link: 2005 Bloggies.

The name of this blog is: Subzero Blue
and the address of course is: http://www.subzeroblue.com

Last year, my blog was a finalist for Best African or Middle Eastern weblog. So maybe this year with your help, just maybe, I could win it 🙂

Thanks in advance 🙂
I’m counting on you guys 🙂

As the year finally draws to it’s end, I wanted to wish everyone a Happy New Year 2005 🙂

May it be a great year, full of happiness, success and prosperity for everyone, especially the loyal readers of my blog 🙂

I hope this new year brings more peace and less war.
I hope it brings more prosperity and less poverty.
I hope it brings more well-being and less misery.
I hope it brings more success and less failure.
I hope it brings more understanding and less differences.
I hope we hear less about how bad the world is becoming and more about what a great place it can be.

Have fun and take care 🙂
See you all next year 😉

So, just a couple of days before we’re out of 2004 (phew!!) and into 2005. That means it’s about that time of year when we weird humans put together lists of unreachable goals that we call our new year’s resolutions.

Of course, I didn’t accomplish most of my goals from last year, so I’ll be carrying some of them with me to the new year.

And so my list of new year resolutions for 2005 goes as follows, in no particular order:

• Join a gym and get back in shape.
• Organize my time better and allocate more time for fun and leisure.
• Try to cut down on the number of movies I watch.
• Get started on some of the projects lying around in my head.
• Advance my career and take steps to be happier with my job.
• Get more into photography.
• Start praying and stick to it.

The theme of the year 2005 for me is “Life Decisions & Change”.
I want to work on setting a great path for my whole life, take the right decisions even if they’re hard and change a lot of things I’m not satisfied with.
I want to do more of the stuff I love and waste less of my time on the stuff I hate.

I hope I get to realize these goals. Even though I need to put some effort into it, I think I’ve been pretty realistic with my list for this year.

Oh well, only time will tell…

1. I love all types of music from rock to pop to rnb to alternative to everything.
2. I’ve lived more outside my home country Tunisia than in it.
3. I wanted to study Genetic Engineering in University before finally going for Computer Science.
4. As a kid, my favourite colour was red and then as I grew up it became blue (obviously).
5. My movie watching record is 5 movies back to back, and then I ran out of movies.
6. I’ve never broken a single bone in my body. (Thank God)
7. Used to drink freezing cold Pepsi first thing in the morning.
8. I had a guitar that I didn’t really know how to play.
9. I would love to visit Australia, Japan and China.
10. I’d love to live on a small secluded island in the middle of nowhere.

To the nerds within you who read this blog through an aggregator or feed reader, I’ve added a new enhanced feed that contains posts from this blog spliced with photos I’ve posted on flickr spliced with interesting stuff I’ve posted on my linklog.

So, it’s sort of an all-in-one feed, and you can find it here.

Enjoy 😉

Yesterday, I was chatting to Jordan on chatango (in my blog’s right column), and as one subject led to another, I joked about how I was somewhat of a conservative liberal.

Now, it may seem funny, weird and contradictory as the way those two words are defined politically makes them opposites.

Some of the definitions of Liberal are:

1. Not limited to or by established, traditional, orthodox, or authoritarian attitudes, views, or dogmas.
2. Favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; broad-minded.
3. One who favors greater freedom in political or religious matters; an opponent of the established systems; a reformer.

And some of the definitions of Conservative are:

1. Favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change.
2. One who desires to maintain existing institutions and customs; also, one who holds moderate opinions in politics; — opposed to revolutionary or radical.
3. Resistant to change, opposed to liberal reforms.

So, they are pretty much very opposite to each other.

But, when I try to classify myself, I can only say that I’m a liberal with a moderately conservative edge.

Continue reading Conservative Liberal

While surfing through some new blogs, I came across this new service called Chatango.

It’s some sort of a chat thingie that bloggers can integrate into their blogs so that visitors can directly and privately have a live chat with them.

So, I’m trying it out. It’s on the right bar under the Quote.

So, if you’re on here, see that I’m online and you’re interested in a little chat, that’s the way to go 🙂

I’ve uploaded a batch of new photos to the photolog, so if you’re interested check them out at the Subzero Blue Photolog.

The photos are mainly ones I’ve taken around the suburbs of Tunis and are mostly focused on nature and places.

Let me know what you think 🙂