Do not watch it if you have just eaten unless you’re a fan of Silent Hill this shouldn’t really bother you lol

Enjoy the show!

Migraine, 3rd day.

Work @ office, downhill… hard to concentrate… damn UNIX, damn HP, damn wading through log files.

Traffic, traffic, traffic… I dunno how anyone gets anything done in this city… unless you live next to your office and everything you would ever need (including your business contacts) are within 5 km.

Was going to attend Leena Chamamyan tonight but my brain is throbbing I might not go.

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH! *puts everything on silent*

Anyone has a medicine for migrane?! Apparently Braufen 600 just makes me hungry and thirsty.

For part 1, read here

Am a bit exhausted, yet energized.. am truly happy, and utterly sad…

Many things changed in one week. Clearer head, clearer mind, new perspectives…

New meanings, new friendships…

Learned so many things, a lot I was aware of, right under my nose but didn’t see… and others totally new.

I have a lot to write about, and I dunno how to write them! One post? Two? Three?

In any case, I will catch up on your blogs and insurmountable amount of emails and will post something in a couple of days.

Finally for once the whole Muslim world agreed that Ramadan starts September 1st (edit, Silent Reader pointed out Libya and Iran started differently).

Now I get an email stating that Eid will be “dependant on the sighting of the moon”.

My question is: WHY?!

Science has come a long way now and we can predict weather (which fall under Chaos Theory) so definitely we can predict something as systematic as the lunar cycle.

It pisses me off when for instance, Saudi Arabia says they saw the moon, so Ramadan starts, and Syria says they didn’t see anything and they delay Ramadan by one day. I thought the moon is a universal phenomena and won’t really change much if you go vertically up just a little in lattitude. If it appears in one place, it should appear pretty much everywhere in the region (poles excluded but will come to that later).

Which brings me to the point of Qadr. I am fine with not having the exact date revealed and that it is most likely 27. Now, aside from the fact that some people say “the night changes every year” *rolls eyes… I mean if the Quran was revealed on 27 then it is 27 on all Ramadans not 27 in one and 23 in another*… when we have different countries starting with different dates then which country is actually “correct” about the night (let us assume it is 27)?

A sheikh in one khutba said “but this is one of the great miracles!”. I am not going to that mosque again.

Now let’s assume I’m following the traditional way and I am living in Antarctica. I get 6 months plus worth of total darkness and a couple of months of total sunshie. Strictly speaking, then, a lunar month is 29-30 years there.

What if the moon flew off orbit or it exploded? Will Islam be doomed? Will we then resort to the scientific, calculated dates? We’re doing it for PRAYERS… I mean God forbid they said Iftar is at 6:23 and it is actually 6:24!

I can understand when 1400 years ago the sighting of the moon was the best if not only indication for the new lunar month. But now in 2008 things are different. Islam told us to embrace science, to seek it and make use of it. Why aren’t we? They’re predicting the exact timing of a prayer can’t they predict what stage the moon is in?!

Eid Mubarak I will be freezing in Jordan (it is 27C-31C at night here and 3C-7C at night there) starting from tomorrow LOL!

PS: You don’t need to call me a lying blaspheming infidel. Am a believer and like everyone else I just have questions and seek answers.

Yes I lost weight again.

AAAAAAAAARGH

When Hamza came in April I was a zombie (as you’ve all seen). Since then I’ve been exercising and eating properly (all natural food) and I gained 9.5 kilos w00t!

But before my Lasik in a week I stopped exercising and until now I haven’t exercised… and I lost 2.5 kilos even though I have Iftar + dinner + su7oor.

So it looks like my body is Genetically Reversed - if I exercise, I gain weight, if I don’t, I lose weight!

Something wrong happened here… my parents should have read the Arabic or English manual. Damn foreign hotels!

So ultimately I share the main problem all humans do - we have to move our butts to reach our target weights LOL!

See… the world is fair

Yes you read that right.

Did it sink in? No? Ok.

Hamza has been bugging me endlessly to go with him to Amman so we could go to Petra and Wadi Rum (which I like to call Wadi Num) and the Dead Sea and whathaveyou.

Now the reason I want to go to Amman is to eat from Kollaj 3omar and to pick on Maher.

Only yesterday I got the confirmation for my holiday (seriously do I have to beg people for my rights!) and booked during the meeting LOL!

I will be inshalla in Amman between September 26 to October 3rd. Yup that’s a week of KJ/Moogle in all their glories! So all you bloggerlings should organize a meeting or something. Settle your differences before I come I’m not coming to babsit

I of course expect a plush red carpet, preferably Iranian, and at the end of it a plate of fatteh

No mansaf. I eat it with a spoon so save yourself the embarassment!

And I will keep smiling in the airport tourist LOL

tada!

Oh as a side note, I got the Speedlite as a gift w00t!

This is Marcus. He likes his noms to be fresh, his belly rubbed, and he utterly hates curtains. He’s smart and very witty - in fact he puts his owners into more trouble than he goes into.

Thankfully I’m not the owner. But since most people like kittehs and we all want to awwwwwwwww every once in a while, here are a couple of awwwwwwwwww-inducing photos.

Yes he looks like a muscular Mafia member. What do you expect - his owners are Russian LOL!

KISSME management apologizes for KJ’s absence. We decided to refrain from giving Moogle the reigns after The Incident Which We do Not Speak Of. Therefore we can only assure you that KJ will be back within a week.

Thank you for your cooperation.
KISSME Management Team

KJ’s current status for your reference:

du duru

For the past years I have become quite the phenomenal internet whore (along with my cousin of course). I believe that there is not one site we have not been active in, enrolled in, or at least heard of.

the mind boggles

Two days ago I was going through my ever-growing bookmark list of social sites and by God I can’t even recall when or why I joined those sites. I haven’t been active there nor have I really interest in them or even any time to give them enough attention.

In fact I noticed I waste so much time on unnecessary online crap it is unbelievable. I already cut down on lots of it but it looks like I will cut down on more.

If you’re an avid Digger or Stumbler you know what I mean. It is an exhausting task to be actively responsible for digging and stumbling and rating and reviewing each or most sites you visit. Even though you’d be contributing to the cumulative community, is it really what YOU want?

Sure, for a while, it is fun. But keeping up with so many people and events in so many areas takes a whole lot of time - time I can’t always afford or have the luxury to distribute left and right.

So with that I will be cutting down and closing accounts on many of these sites. Not that my dormant existence there will ever hurt my search results but perhaps meaningful ones are much better than those with me everywhere on the net. And everywhere isn’t truly credible.

Interestingly though people who got through my Digg and Stumble list know enough about me to strike up good conversations! So I guess there are some advantages after all.

*reconsiders closing accounts*

UPDATE: thanks to moryarti for the video!