Category: Everyday Me

Last night, while watching Rocky 2 on Channel 2, I sat down with my laptop and started writing what I intended to be a blog post for today.

Anyway, as I started writing, ideas started popping up in my head, some old and some new, and I went on writing and writing.

So, I dumped the idea of writing a blog post and moved on to the thought of writing a short story. I don’t know if it’ll grow even more than that though. It all depends on the characters I’ve just started creating and what happens to them.

I’ve been toying with the thought of writing for a while now, and have had many ideas come and go, but there’s this one idea that I really like which I’ll be trying to work into what I’ve started writing now.

I hope I stick to it and carry it through to the end though.

My dear wife already got a sneak preview last night, and she seems to like it, so that’s encouraging.

Anyway, if I’m really happy with how it starts shaping out to be in the coming days, I might start posting some of it here for you guys to give me your feedback.

Well, time has flown by as it usually does and Ramadan with all it’s holiness and glory has come to an end.

The Eid in Tunisia was on Sunday, so we also got Monday off from work.

I didn’t get a chance to blog in the weekend, so although this is a bit late I wish all of you had a great Eid.

Eid Mubarak 🙂

Today is the first day of Ramadan in Tunisia and in most other countries.

So Ramadan Mubarak to everyone 🙂
May it be a great month for you all 🙂

I’ll be trying to start praying again. I hope I get to stick to it this time.

Take it easy on the food and TV everyone. Remember Ramadan is the month of worship and fasting after all 😉

My brother in law Mohamed decided to pass by Tunisia on his way to Jordan from Toronto, Canada. He got here this past Saturday afternoon.

I actually haven’t seen him for over 2 years, and it’s great to be able to meet again and catch up on all that’s happened during this time.

It’s so cool to have him over. He’s one of the most fun people to hang out with, we’ve been having loads of fun and laughs since he got here, lol.

His advice is also priceless.
It’s really helping me with some issues I have floating around in my head nowadays.

It’s a shame he won’t be staying much this time as he’ll be moving on to Jordan and then going back to Canada quickly.
Anyway, he seems to like Tunisia a lot, and hopefully he’ll be coming back for a longer visit next time 🙂
When he does we’ll have a really cool tour of Tunisia planned for him, including the locations where they shot Star Wars in the south of Tunisia.

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 🙂

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 🙂

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.

So, the days flew by quicker than time has ever been and I’m back in Tunis now.

I wasn’t able to do all the things I wanted to do, nor visit all the places I wanted to visit, nor see all the people I wanted to see.
Sorry to everyone I couldn’t meet either because our schedules didn’t match or because I ran out of time. I really wanted to see you all.

My visit to Jordan was a great one and I truly wish I had more time to spend there. It was really a lot of fun and a great change.
Of all the countries I’ve been to and visited in my life, Jordan is truly my second country. It fits me like a glove.

I’m back to work today.
I’m still getting into the mood for that though, I guess I’m still functioning in vacation mode, lol.

I’m currently in the process of moving my photolog to Flickr, as it’s friendlier and more feature rich.

So with time all the old photos will be moved there and you can expect a bunch of new pics to be added of my trips to Jordan and Syria.

Yesterday was our 2 year marriage anniversary 🙂
WOW, I can’t believe it’s already been 2 years. It’s like it all happened yesterday.

So what did we do yesterday?
Well, there was the usual life stuff, then my wife went to get her hair done, and I went to Abu Rmeilah bookshop and bought 2 programming books. What a geek I can be sometimes, lol.

After that we went on with the tradition we started on last year’s anniversary. We figured out that as we have birthdays to get gifts for each other in, then maybe on our wedding anniversary we should celebrate ourselves as a couple, a single entity instead of 2 seperate ones and so get one gift for both of us 🙂
So, we went over to Mecca Mall, and bought ourselves and our home some really cool stuff.

Then we went home with a psycho taxi driver who slightly missed about a 100 good opportunities to get us killed.

After that we got dressed and went out for a nice romantic dinner in one of our favourite restaurants before we got married 🙂

When we were done with that, we got ourselves back home and celebrated with my wife’s family.

In short, it was a really nice day 🙂

These past 2 years have been so great and full of happiness, surely the best 2 years of my life, and hopefully we will go on to make the coming years even better Inshallah.