Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Cilantro morning :)

Sleepy as hell but excellent atmosphere and music. Almost makes up for their recent decline in service.

Blogging from phone. lol.

Nostalgia

Am in a really nostalgic mood these days.. To top it off, I heard 2 phrases yesterday that brought up a load of memories:
Smart Cards
Hong Kong

Now anyone who knows me well enough will know what these mean/meant to me..

Zeww (Yasmine) was on a one day office visit between her assignment @ Dubai so she passed by my desk, took one look at the document am reading and went like "yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah" (she knows the history i had with SCs!)

HK ba'a.. they brought it up in the talk about contactless SCs implemented there, Karembu ;)

SCs get me real emotional/passionate (to the point of trying to convince my mngr @ IBM that they needed to support my research for SC opportunities!).. but thats a story for another day..

Friday, July 14, 2006

On my mind...

* Le Liban
Things are going crazy in Lebanon.. they hit the airport, gas stations, sea ports, bridges, and highways... in short, they're ruining the lebanese infrastructure! You dont like it? "Well, blame Hizbullah! they are the one's who dared to talk back to us".. Dont get me wrong, i am against violence in all forms, but when someone offends you or your country, then you should show them where they stand.. no one spoke up when they kill or capture hundreds, but capture one of theirs and it's hell.. Dont blame the people who got you your Liban back, again blaming the _wrong_ enemy.. What I wonder about is this: Where the $#%#^ is the Lebanese army and government? How can they stand and watch it happen? Least they can do is stand next to HA until this is over and then they can reprimand HA for getting them into trouble... Saudi Arabia condemned what HA are doing! Come ON! no one asked you for support, but ya3ni when you have nothing good to say, say nothing..Why are you condemning the attack? Is it because your ever-so-spoiled people has had their ever-so-fancy vacation plans to Beirut and lebanese spas ruined? What kind of culture is this? how can you overlook what happens on a daily basis and only talk when you should be acting...
The shouldve-been-Arabic country that really takes a stand? Iran.. makes me proud.. best researchers, best scholars, philosophers, and still they have the guts to take a stand! In fact i noticed them first when i was at uni and a philosophy professor talked about their president (ex now) Mohammad Khatami, a philosophy researcher that was very modern, yet very down to earth and sticking to his principles.. Forget about religious inclinations and all, these people really hold their ground.

Anyway, enough about me and politics.. I wrote this in my post draft so I had to share it anyway..

* The Wednesday Effect
Last Wednesday K. was reminding me when i first knew him that he thought i was crazy because -unlike all people- on Wednesdays i didnt feel happy tomorrow was a Thursday.. instead, i always had the "would they insert just *one* more day before Thursday?".. Funny thing is, he said that just after i was having this thought (he thought i stopped it but he still thinks am crazy anyway).. The thing is, one usually sets the "by the end of this week" kind of milestones.. having said that, my wednesdays always come too early and i wish there were one more day in the week squeezed between Wed and Thurs..

* Me and Google.. (or "Another bloggable thought stolen from K.")
I google just about everything in a coversation.. in fact, if you ask me a question, i will probably answer you then google it to send you a supporting hyperlink! :D
here's what happened... Kareem had part of a song in his msn name, i googled it and replied to him with another part of the song, plus my opinion altogether about the lyrics.. and here's what he said:
"without google i don't think u'd be able to survive
ah just google it and it will all go away. Google, the modern solution for modern problems... and u can smile at the end of the commercial"

funny thing is, HE googles as much as i do!


dont like this post but feel inclined to post it anyway..