Category: Everyday Me

Some of you guessed it, some fell for it, but in the end, the truth is my previous post was an April Fool’s Day joke.

In fact, I truly wish I could just pick myself up, leave and go live in Phi Phi Island, a place I fell in love with ever since I visited it.

Of course I wouldn’t go for the whole buddhist and name change part.
But living there would be a dream.

Anyway, the truth is I just can’t at the time being.
So it’ll remain an April Fool’s Day joke until I can.

Sorry for the people who believed the lie, and thanks for your support 🙂

This morning I woke up a changed man.
I looked at my life and just realized that this is not what I want, it’s not what I’m here for, It’s not what I want to do, It’s not how I want to be.

And so I’m quitting everything, and I mean everything.
I’ve already started making arrangements for my new life.

I’m going to leave everything that’s in my life now behind me, change my name, my religion, my nationality, my everything.

I’m going to change my name into Sikotai, become a buddhist and go to Tibet for a year of meditation to find my inner self and reach peace with my surroundings.
After that I’ll be off to the small Phi Phi Island in Thailand, where I’ll open a little shop where I’ll make natural remedies and potions.

Every once in a while I’ll go to nearby Phuket for half a day to sell my potions to some dealers there and to visit the big buddhist temples.

Yep, that’s what I want to do.
And I’ve started my way to true enlightment.

PS: This should also be the last blog I’ll be posting here.

I never knew that Google served free lunch and dinner for their employees. And not any dinner too according to Ernie who just had dinner there a few days ago.

… Google serves lunch and dinner to their employees, all at no cost. The food is pretty posh: stuffed pork loin, grilled polenta, beverages in cans that were designed by industrial art students. House music is played while waiting in line. It’s kinda like being at Hometown buffet, except everyone is good looking and rich.

Now, that’s really cool.
I wish I worked in a place like that.
Good Technology and Good food, what more could a tech freak ask for ? lol

For quite a while, my wife and I have been looking around for a good new living room.

And after checking out every cool furniture store in Tunis more than once, we finally narrowed it down to a couple of options.

Anyway, yesterday we went to the furniture fair taking place in the Kram Fair to see if there’s anything exceptional that we haven’t seen before. We looked around, found some nice stuff, but nothing too special.

In the end, we passed by the stand one of our options had setup and we saw the living room we had liked in the store.
We thought quickly, chose it for good, talked to the guy at the stand, chose the colours we wanted, agreed on the price, and ordered it.

Because of the high demand generated by the fair, it’s due to be ready in a couple of months.
I just can’t wait till it’s done and in our home for us to enjoy and feel comfy in.

Well, I just got the following email from some guy:

You know, for someone so obsessed by hating Jews, you should be more
careful to not quote them approvingly. There are web sites that’ll list
Jews for you, so you don’t have to contaminate your web site with their
quotes. I am sure you already know all the web sites that list Jews and
tell the real truth about how they are all out controlling the world
through their conspiracies and giving special sex-gum to Egyptian women
and poison wells and… well, I am not up to date on the latest lies
people like you enjoy spreading, but I am sure you can come up with
something.

Anyway, I just wanted to warn you to be more careful — you know Jews
can see through walls, right?

Well, this guy is very mistaken. I do not hate jews.

If you check through my whole blog, you’ll never find me even hinting to hating jews. Because i simply do not.

On the other hand, I hate Zionists.
And there’s a very big difference.

All over the world there are Jews who dissaprove of what Zionists and Israelis are doing, and who want an end to the terrorism and violence they are causing.
All over the world there are Jews who live peacefully side by side with Muslims like brothers.
In fact, right here in Tunisia, we have an important Jewish minority who are living in great harmony with Muslims.

So, I’m not against Jews in any way, and I think it’s more than normal for me to quote a Jewish person if I feel like it and agree with what they have to say.

Anyway, it seems that just because I write some stuff against Israel, all of a sudden I’m being branded anti-Jewish, or no, that other fancy word: Anti-Semetic.

Well, sorry to dissapoint, but I’m really not !

As for the lies part: whatever !

So, exactly 25 years ago, on a day like no other, at a time like this time, the whole story started.
The story, I like to call my glorious life.

Yep, that’s right, today’s my 25th birthday.
And well, as usual, instead of thinking of partying like crazy or doing some mad thing, I’m thinking about the past 25 years of my life, what I’ve accomplished in them and what I have to show for it all.
I’m also thinking about the future and what it holds for me, or more precisely what I can make it hold for me.

I never really was a birthday party guy. Not that I’m some party-pooper or something, but I just think I’ve grown out of the stage of having birthday parties.
Of course that pisses my wife off because she’s been wanting to throw me a birthday party for years now, with me screwing up her plans every single time 😛
Anyway, I’d just rather spend a day like my birthday with my wife and family, that’s where my joy is.

I don’t feel older really, now that another year has been added to my history, I just feel exactly like I did last year or the year before.
But when I look at it and think, 25 years is a quarter of a century, well that puts things into a different perspective and it makes me think: how much time do I have left ?
Ok, I know those aren’t thoughts a person should be thinking on his birthday, but well, it was just a passing thought.

My plans for today ?
Well, I’m at work for now. Will be going out for a good lunch with my wife.
Then I’ll be back for more work. After that I’ll be going home to share my birthday with my wife and family.
Sounds great to me 🙂
If only I took today off and slept more in the morning, It’d be perfect 😛

My resolutions are the same ones I took for new years, simply because I didn’t get to implement those yet, lol.

So, to end this post, I’ll just wish myself a great and happy birthday, and may all my wishes come true 😉

Well, last Sunday morning, we woke up and we thought: Let’s go buy a receiver!

In the buildings we’re living in now, a number of satellite dishes are installed with wires going into each appartment, so all you need is a receiver and you can plug in and get all the glorious channels on the satellites the dishes point to.

After thinking about getting a whole installation of our own in the past, we thought we’d go for what’s available through the building now and then upgrade to something of our own later.

So, we went to the Moncef Bey Shopping Mall, lol, oh ok it’s just a big hectic market of some sort for stuff that is sold cheaper because it was brought in (legally or maybe even illegally) from Algeria or Libya.
Anyway, we looked around, bought a receiver and went home.

We only got it installed yesterday, but that’s a whole other story 😛
Anyway, I ended up spending last night doing what I always made fun of other people for doing, which is zapping through the channels without staying longer than a few seconds on each one.
I didn’t enjoy doing it, but it was necessary for me to do so to get to know what options I have and narrow down the scope to the channels that I find interesting and watch-worthy.
I’m still not sure I got anywhere last night, but at least I have a better idea of what’s there, where it is and what’s interesting to keep an eye on.

Ah, what a delight…
At last I’ve rejoined the world 😉

After a tip from a friend at work who seems to share my love for delicious fast food, my wife and I went to the newly opened Joe CHAMPS, an American style Restaurant & Bar in Les Berges du Lac on Friday.

I have to agree that the food is great, the setting is pretty cool, the atmosphere nice and the prices acceptable.
We truly enjoyed being there and the meals we had.

This place is already on my favourite places to go for food in Tunis, and i have a feeling i’ll be going there quite often, especially whenever i miss my beloved Burger King double whoppers 😉
They have a yummy Double-Double that fills that gap 😛

The other day I was thinking about my life, I tend to think a lot actually, and I realized that my life these days revolves around certain pre-defined places.

At any given moment in time, there’s a 90% possibility I’ll be at one of the following places:

• Work in Charguia 2
• Home in Diar Soukra
• Champs Disques at Centre Kenzet in Les Berges du Lac
• Carrefour (and for even higher probability: near the CD/DVD/Computer sections)
• My parents’ place in La Marsa
• Habib Bourguiba street in downtown Tunis

The other 10% I’m either out of Tunis alltogether, at some restaurant, visiting someone, or wherever else.

I think I certainly need to add more places to that list 😛