Category: Everyday Me

We just went out to return a movie we had rented yesterday and maybe get something else to see, and on the way we thought we’d pass by and check out some magazines.

We passed by the closest magazine store, and didn’t find the magazine my wife wanted, so we thought we’d move along down the street to Monoprix and see if we could find it there.
It was already near to 10PM and so Monoprix was shutting down, so we decided to just go home, but then i thought, lets go to this cool magazine stand in front of the Soula Shopping Center even though there were other ones before it on our way.

Anyway, we got there, and as we approached it i saw a friend of mine i haven’t seen for a long time, he’s a friend i met in Jordan, and who i haven’t heard from for ages, although i would always ask anyone coming or going to Jordan about him.

It was really great meeting him there, it turns out he finished his studies in Jordan and is back home in Tunisia now too 🙂

I love coincidences like this, and sometimes i can’t help but think that maybe these aren’t simple coincidences, maybe there’s this hidden power that meant for them to be, maybe, just maybe 🙂
Anyway, whatever it is, it was cool, and i hope we get to meet more often 🙂

Well, haven’t really had time to put anything on my blog lately, a lot of work, and a busy after-work schedule, lol.

My wife’s sister is here to visit, and it’s been great fun going out everyday showing her around and taking her to places we’ve discovered over the past year or so since her last visit 🙂

Just this saturday, we went to Carthage Land again, and this time it was even greater because there were less people, and we actually got to get on all the rides as many times as we wished.

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Yesterday, we finally got to go and check out Carthage Land, the all new and very first theme park in Tunisia, built in the great touristic station of Yasmine Hammamet.

It was really cool and fun, we enjoyed it very much 🙂
The games and rides are cool, and the atmosphere is great. A very good inititiative from the Poulina Group.

My only advice to anyone is not to go there on a weekend afternoon, especially that these are it’s first weeks, choose some other day when the park is emptier and you can enjoy it more 😉

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It’s unbelievable, totally unbelievable how a nice place and great shopping experience can turn into a nightmare and somewhere you avoid going to. That’s what’s happening (or i think already happened) to the Tunisian Carrefour.

A year ago, it was the best place to be for shopping, you’d find anything you need, have a good meal, enjoy your time and go home waiting for the next time you’ll be there, but now it’s something totally different, it’s a place i just can’t stand to go close to anymore, it’s so full of people at any given moment of any given day of any given month, it’s so noisy, it’s full of chaos, in short it has become a bad shopping experience.

Now i hear some people thinking, well go shop from somewhere else, well i do whenever i can, but there are certain things i need that i can only find in Carrefour, so i have to drop over there every once in a while to get that stuff, and believe me, it’s turning into hell whenever i do.

I’m hearing they’ll be opening a new Carrefour somewhere in the Center of Tunis, so i’m hoping it’s true and that it opens quickly and that most of the load moves to that branch, giving us our great shopping experience back.

Before an hour or so, the power went off in the whole area (i can just hear those lazy guys at the electricity company going like “Come on, the power went off in New York, and you’re complaining cause it went off in Charguia 2, give us a break !”), and we guys at work ended up waiting for the electricity to come back on in the Recreation room talking about a load of meaningless crap as usual, lol.

Anyway, some of the guys used the chance to have an early lunch, in an effort to optimize their time (as management puts it, lol), and that triggered a talk about how some were trying to save on Soda cans and on other stupid small stuff by buying them from this place or the other, which made me think how weird some people are, they try and save pennies on some small items while they don’t mind it at all to go for a night out and spend really big money on a meal at a luxurious restaurant or to buy an over-priced something they don’t really need.

Thinking about that, only makes me look more at the human nature of our days and see all the other weird contradictions it has, lol.

It’s so weird and funny how a creature so complicated and advanced as a human being can contradict itself time and time again without realizing it.

It all makes me kind of wonder how developed we really are, and whether we really do think enough about the things we do in our lives or if we just go along with whatever dumb thought that crosses our mind first, lol.

Yesterday afternoon was nice, after going home from work, then going back to fix a stupid error the client created by overwriting their database, and then going home the second time, i had time to play more “C&C : Generals”, which was cool, more of me crushing the terrorists with the Chinese Army…

At about 8PM i remembered i hadn’t eaten anything all day long, so i went out for some fast food and returned the DVD i had & rented a new one in my way.

After eating i went out with a friend of mine who’s in Tunisia these days, he studies Information Security in Russia.
It was really fun, as we had a lot of catching up and laughing to do, talking about everything from us and our lives to our friends and our friends’ lives, lol.

We had to leave the caf

The past couple of days i’ve cut back on the number of movies i’ve been seeing, as i was afraid i’d soon run out of movies, and that wouldn’t be a good thing 😛
So i’m basically seeing only one movie a day now, and spending the rest of my time out with friends or family or sleeping, lol.

I finally caught “Harry Potter : Chamber of Secrets” at the DVD rental place, and jumped on it right away, as i’ve been wanting to see this movie for a while, i saw some of it yesterday at 2AM, but got too sleepy i couldn’t finish it, so i’ll finish it today after work.

Talking about work, i shouldn’t even be at work today, it’s “Woman’s Day” or something, and it’s an official holiday, but well, since when do we tech people know the meaning of holidays, especially when the word “deadline” is involved, often preceded with another nice word “Tight”…