hmmmm... Another picture of Lilia (noticed how her hair is parted lol).. it is an inexplicable comfort i feel when i look at her :) amazing feeling... like when is she going to speak ba'a! it's funny because its not like the first baby i come in contact with, yet it just feels weird keda with her being Oz's daughter and all.. Anyway, so i've been meaning to blog for so so long, I even had this Word document with a draft of my post to be.. the file name is "futile", any hints?
Anyway, one reason i havent really been keen on blogging no more is that primarily i used to blog to update Karembu, M & S, et al. on my daily/weekly/whatever life.. and then recently i decided it is futile since we meet and talk and all.. and i went thru a "why am i blogging" phase.. and then i realized i am really doing it for me.. I want to document certain stuff of my life and thoughts, no matter how trivial.. fa eih ba2a.... on my mind right now, here goes....
Karim is here! after 3 yrs of seeing him once a year, he is here to stay.. this -coupled with the fact that Cilantro finally opened on worx' roof- has made my work days a LOT better.. It has become sort of a ritual to take a daily 10-15 minute coffee break with him to talk about life and stuff.. it feels sooooo good.. really! the guys at cilantro now know us so they go like "the usual?" when they see us :) :) Where the usual is a caramel latte' for me, a hazelnut latte' for karim.. we both dont use sugar but i sprinkle a little cinnamon on mine (and have to be careful because i always get a bit on my clothes!).. Having cilantro made me realize how starbucks suuuuuuucked! At least cilantro tastes more or less the same everyday! SB ba'a was one day too much milk, one day too bitter coffee... ugh.. anyway, its cool to have this coffee ritual.. puts everything into place keda.. puts me in touch with the (really) good old days..
Speaking of good old days, we planned a get-together over breakfast @ lucille's today.. (the laptop am working on has the " and the @ switched together.. VERY annoying) back to story... so kailash was @ worx the other day for some meeting with e-gov ppl or whatever and after that we talked a little and he decided we should get together for breakfast blablabla.. so he goes up to Karim and arranges this thing.. M&S cant make it because they both had work.. so today it was karim, me, kash, michael "protos" and jessica (who are getting married real soon), beco, and gawly -altho we thought they're out-... was very entertaining to sit and talk with these people again.. on the way back, Kash, Karembu, and i had quite an interesting talk about Microsoft in Egypt and all that work with their partners, customers, and all that... again, the issue of stupid sloppiness came up (it comes up in almost any work-related talk i have with anyone).. the "i sent email and they didnt reply so i assumed they will reply"-did you call them-"no" syndrome.. the partner is waiting for the customer to reply and the customer waiting for the partner to get back to them, and everyone is waiting for someone else to act.... grrrr...
What else.... hmmm i feel i have word vomit lol.. i am on a talking spree.. anyway.. ah also recently on my mind.. the issue of correlation and causation... i suffer from that a lot.. well not "suffer", but it pisses me off... initially i hate assumptions... i hate them more when they are based on wrong evidence... let me tell you how... N talks to X a lot in the past 3 months, N has become very aggressive in the past 3 months, therefore X caused N to become aggressive... I feel pure ignorance when faced with such meaningless correlations.. uninformed guesses and haphazard assumptions... seebak!
i hate ppl invading my personal space awiiiiiiii... people who are loud in everything, their voice, makeup, perfume, attitude, opinions, it just bugs me to no end. And i feel trapped in a corner and i feel invisible... (message to the annoying ppl sitting next to me on the cilantro couch right now: please take your laptops, your coffees, and sadwiches and go watch your weird movies somewhere else you're bugging meeeeeeeee! and whoever on earth wears a semi-backless blouse to cilantro???)
Karim has a number of audio books and recorded radio shows on his iPod.. so recently when we're together in his car, we've been listening to H2G2 (if u dont know what that is, wikipedia it!) very funny.. luv british humor....
Ah, what am i reading these days.. well, to your (and my) astonishment, i am currently reading 2 non-fiction books!! non-fiction.. ME! :) however i dont read as frequently as before tho.. for some reason i go home totally busted and just watch a little TV until i sleep.. my reading venues are quite weird: gym and hairdresser! apparently someone forgot a copy of The Tipping Point @ hairdresser so i read a little bit everytime i go there (and it gives me an incentive to go there in the first place :)) and i read Wisdom of the Crowds at gym... both are interesting and are somehow related... the TP tho is very interesting that it had me remembering parts of it without really meaning to... Tipping Point main argument is the point at which an incident or an action becomes an "epidemic" as Gladwell calls it.. maybe one day i'd tell you about it in person..
Enough of that.. phew... i feel much better now thank you for listening..
"Life, don't talk to *me* about life!" ~ Marvin the Paranoid Android
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