Submitted by zozo2k3 on Mon, 2006-01-23 10:50.
Just A Narcissistic Guy's Blog
| It's Been a Long Time |
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I haven't post a single word in the last month and half and honestly I don't feel like it now either, not that I am in trouble or anything of that sort :P but it's just I have so much... |
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| Settling In |
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So I left Dhahran-Saudi Arabia for good last Wednesday, and while waiting to get admitted for masters in the fall I’d be living in Damascus. Anyway staying at home doing nothing is not an option for me, I’m the... |
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| Al-Domari |
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s Al-Domari is what Damascenes used to call the street-oil-lamps lighter, who is also known for telling the best night stories and spreading the most outrageous rumors. Al-Domari is a musical that talks about Damascus, Sarouja in particular, in 1884.... |
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| Our Sweet Friday |
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We have this weekly “ritual” which is family’s day, every Friday my maternal family meets just to spend some quality time with each others especially that everyone of us is busy during the week days so without even considering... |
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| Good Bye Saudi Arabia |
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So it’s been a week since I last posted anything and I have a very valid reason to, I was away in Dhahran-Saudi Arabia ending my residency sponsorship and finishing all the paper work in my university in order to... |
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| Jazz Again!!! |
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So it happened again, a rocker found himself in a Jazz concert, and to tell the truth I’m starting to get into it. Anyway this time it was “Matthew Herbert Big Band” a concert organized by the British Council Damascus-Syria... |
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| Is It Really Valentine??! |
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First of all let me make a clear statement about what I think of St. Valentine day, Valentine my ass. I received a sms this morning wishing me a happy Valentine day, my normal reaction was “Is it really Valentine??!”... |
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| Everybody's Changing |
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You say you wonder your own land But when I think about it I don't see how you can You're aching, you're breaking And I can see the pain in your eyes Since everybody's changing And I don't know... |
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| Nonsense |
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I have nothing to write or whine about today, but honestly I don’t want to break my streak either, I’ve been too busy to write during the last semester and I haven’t paid enough attention to my blog as... |
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| Sue Me |
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I was reading a fictional the other day, and two friends were having an argument, where the wise one gave his final fatal blow. “You know what your problem is? You do what’s convenient to you, it’s always about you.... |
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| Not In Our Name |
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None of us believe in violence as a solution.The following is a compilation of the writings of Syrian bloggers, regarding the attacks on the Danish and Norwegian embassies.The intent of this post is to give our readers a different perspective,... |
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| Legal Prostitution |
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The way I see traditional marriages in Syria and in the rest of the Arab countries –which is based on my observations- is closest to what I like to call legal prostitution. Arranged match making in the west, based on... |
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| Jazz |
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Yesterday I was having my normal day waking up at 6 o’clock, had my spiritual morning prayers, sipped my black Turkish coffee, chatted with my mom about diets, her work, her current writing work, talked about politics with my father,... |
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| Islam In My Own Mortal Eyes |
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Omar Faleh has made an interesting comment regarding the previous post, and I felt the need to explain my view about Islam as a faith and as a social and political system. First of all my definition of Islam is... |
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| What Is Really The Truth? |
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I know that my response to the series of demonstrations against the offending caricatures to our prophet Mohammed (PBUH) that have been recently published in Danish papers and the rest of Europe, that took place in Damascus is coming late,... |
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| Back At Home |
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It's been since last Wednesday that I've been in my beloved Damascus, I wanted to write earlier but I had a lot of catching up to do, five months away from here is a lot especially in these hard times.... |
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| At Last |
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I am writing this post with nothing in my mind, I'm having my last final in my bachelor degree after an hour only, and till now the fact that I'll finally graduate and leave this shit-hole hasn't sunk in me... |
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| Shame on us |
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Today I received an email from Amr saying “We need Backup, check Yazan’s blog”. To tell the truth I was scared while opening the blog; the question is why shouldn’t I? In the last year or so every single thing... |
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| Driving in this life |
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It’s been over a month since I last posted anything, or commented on others’ blogs, this is by far the longest time I’ve been away from the blogosphere since I started over a year ago. For my own personal... |
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| Germany 2006 Draw Results |
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Group Countries Remarks A 1.Germany 2.Costa Rica 3.Poland 4.Ecuador A pretty easy group for Germany. B 1.England 2.Paraguay 3.Trinidad Tobago 4.Sweden England with Sweden again, Paraguay is also relatively strong a very challenging group. C 1.Argentina 2.Ivory Coast 3.Serbia... |
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| This Time Of Year |
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It's this time of the year again, finals are approaching fast and projects to submit. Today was the first free day I had in weeks, I barely had time to do anything besides studying, and when I am not... |
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| The Magdalene Sisters |
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The Magdalene Sisters is a fact-based account of three young Irish women who were imprisoned in a Magdalene Laundry in Dublin in 1964. The original purpose of the ten Magdalene Laundries that were established in Ireland in the 19th century... |
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| Osama |
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A 12-year-old Afghan girl and her mother lose their jobs when the Taliban closes the hospital where they work. The Taliban have also forbidden women to leave their houses without a male legal companion. With her husband and brother dead,... |
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| The Kingdom Of Lovely |
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Danny Wallace or as he call himself King Danny the first, one day came up with a brilliant, and equally stupid idea, how? Well in order to put it in the simplest terms ever, King Danny the first decided... |
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| Eleven Minutes |
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A young girl from a Brazilian village, Maria’s first innocent brushes with love leaves her heart-broken, convincing her at a tender age that “love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer.” When a chance meeting in Rio takes... |
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| Catching up |
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Last week was crazy, I had loads of assignments to submit, quizzes coming out of no where, two major exams on the same day and an operating system project submission as well. I had to declare martial law and hit... |
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