Whenever my mom is visiting she gets on my case to “trim” my unruly eyebrows, and once even threatened to take a pair of scissors, and cut them in my sleep ! Like Samson, I fear losing all my magical powers. Aid comes from an unexpected source !
Whenever my mom is visiting she gets on my case to “trim” my unruly eyebrows, and once even threatened to take a pair of scissors, and cut them in my sleep ! Like Samson, I fear losing all my magical powers. Aid comes from an unexpected source !
Here is Abu Mahjoob’s Ramadan Production Line:
For the past week, here is my “Ramadan production line”:
12AM: Sleep
7AM: Shut off alarm
7:30AM: Actually Get out of bed
7:30AM: Breakfast
8AM-12PM: Connect to my office PC from home to work
12PM: Exercise on Treadmill
12:30-1:20PM: Free Time
1:20PM: Wait for heating system to heat the water
1:30PM: Shower
1:45PM: Prepare Dinner to take to work [...]
Normally, I’m not a superstitious person. I’m agnostic. I don’t believe in astrology, aliens, or conspiracy theories. I am Scully to anyone’s Mulder ! Yet there is one bit of mumbo-jumbo I do believe in.
I consider the letter N very lucky, and attractive ! The more N’s the better. An M won’t do, its [...]
I got my power bill yesterday. It was handed to me by our building’s caretaker Shnuda. A note within read:
“Power will be cut without notice if not paid by: (Today’s date)”
It was Saturday, and the banks were closed, so it’s only possible to pay at the power company itself. Since its Ramadan the power [...]
I was going to the safeway (Dwar Il-Madeeneh) on my way back from work yesterday, and I noticed some graffiti on the pedestrian bridge. It was asking workers to “Not settle for 1 day off a week, and demand their right to a 2-day weekend from their employer”. My first impression was that it must [...]
It has been some time since I wrote a serious entry. So I thought I’d tackle one of my most controversial opinions. This word Tatbee3 (التطبيع) has become a dirty word. In the Arab world it seems to have lost all other meaning, and now only refers to normalizing relations with Israel. Why is this [...]
