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since I posted something here.

its me bday

and i am 31, i don't care about age, but lately i downloaded the demo for the game Fear 2, and frankly it was too stressful for me to play!


A good Death

in the weekend i was in a place called brecon beacon, very beautiful place.


Our group has passed another one which had an emergency, one of them has collapsed, we called the emergency, the helicopter came and he was announced dead on site after 30min of trying to revive him.

He died of a heart attack, he was in his late 60's and was suffering diabetes. He didn't have chest pain as far as they know, he just went down on one knee and then collapsed.

While walking back we were discussing the incident and I found that the group with me agreeing that he had a good death, in a nice place doing what he like instead of dying alone in bed in the house.

People who are not relgious see death in a different perspective, while religion provides the comfort of having an afterlife, the rest it seems look at the conclusion of the life itself.

What does a good death means to you?

No photos

Its been quit long time since I took my camera with me to my hiking trips, and the reason is simple, while I love photography, I love nature more, and I found that not taking the camera makes me enjoy the place more. However, taking photos keeps the memory. What a dilemma!

and finally

I have to present a food recipe, Lately I found good meatloaf recipe and modified it to make it more exiting.

250g fine mince steak, and 250g mince lamb. Black pepper and salt. Table spoon Juniper berry. 1/2 cup bread crumbs soaked in beef stock. 1 egg. one minced onion. Mix, and back in the oven, heat 180C and cook for an hour.

Sauce is made with Chanterelle mushroom (or any other cheaper one), cream and a bit soya sauce. fry the mushroom in butter, add the cream and sauce and cook for 5 min.
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Red Eye

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I've been the victim of an eye infection or Conjunctivitis, which is usually harmless, but very contagious, and in my case it kept coming back to me for a few times. The problem is that medication does not always help and like all antibiotics, misusing it will create a stronger bacteria which causes more damage. As an internet addict I tend to check the internet for all symptoms and info about these things and you can get some scary results which turns you into a hypochondriac, but extra cation is always needed.

Boredom;:

The year 2007 was not a good year for the cinema, we had part three of everything which was below the expectation which wasn't high in the first place. I thought it couldn't get worse than 28 weeks later, unlike the previous 28 days later which was excellent, and then they made the rip-off I am legend. Things got so low that they made Bratz the film! then we had some more penguins and 300 men screaming at each other. Samuel L Jackson seems to have an obsession with films about snakes, after his Snakes on a Plane he come back with Black Snake Moan.

There were some expectations like Simpsons movie , Zodiac, and The Kite Runner which made cinema a less painful experience. More important was the film Control, which rough life back to the excellent band Joy division, unfortunately the weight of all the garbage was too heavy to be balanced by not that many good films.

So pls producer, abuse us with more disasters, I have many ideas, something about a penguin going for general election, or smurfs the film, or even go exotic and make a Pokemon resurrection! I saw an add for another part of Alien Vs predictor, what the *$%^*!!!

and excitement

I still remember the old days in the university back home in Jordan when I needed to register for my courses. After the long day where you are treated like cattle waiting to be castrated, and begging every person behind the disk to not make this a worse day than it is, you finish your day knowing that what waits is worse than pushing a rusty nail in the area between the eyeball and the orbital bone, the week of adding and removing courses, because all the classes you needed were closed when you wanted to register, or they made many classes, they had to cancel  most of them and you were lucky enough to be in the deleted list.

This included the journey between different tutors who tell you that their class is so popular that everyone is begging him to join, because he deserves a Nobel prize in bullshitting, so he has no place for the likes of you, unless you are cute enough are know how to kiss his big arse properly.

Then you need to pay, and of course no queue is needed, and after smelling every other student up close and personal, with their cheap "eau de toilette", no need to shower in that day anyway, you reach that guy behind the window with a smirk sighing and saying that I should not waste my father's money like my generation do, especially that his generation is not known to waste the  everyone's else money and time, you ask for a stamp, but he refuses, or say he can't find it, or its with someone else, but they should accept it anyway, and you take you registration paper that smells of corruption and manure (not yours). I reach the registration office which was as far as possible of the finance office, because we want to train a generation of athletics. where you go through the cattle castration process again and you get to the man who holds the resolution of that day in his hand,

-A bottle of water for the hot day....25p
-a cheap candy bar to keep your sugar high and your tempers low...50p
-The registration man telling you that he can't accept your paper and if they refused to stamp it they can eat ****... priceless

Go back to other side of the universe where he cashier is, bypassing the blackhole caused by the gravity of the other students trying to figure out a queue,  driven by anger, sweat, and shame, to reach that guy who have the holy stamp. He refuses to stamp my paper because I was not in queue (what queue?) and ask me to leave the office at once!

Many thoughts came into my mind, and discussions started with other personalities inside my head, after my ego killed my inner child he was beaten by chauvinism,  it made an alliance with my testosterone and I can't exactly remember how it went for couple of seconds, other than some shouting and unintentional spitting, but he agreed to stamp my paper using some random student back.

Using what is left my cocktail of testosterone and adrenaline, managed to get back to the registration office, and he said " I know that I made you run back and forth and you got a red face like a tomato.... but that was the right thing to do!" and my reaction was just stupid smile!

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What they don't tell you about culture

There are more similarities between cultures than there are differences, and there are more differences between individuals within a culture than there is between cultures. There are many different cultures within the western society in the same way there is in the eastern one. Most important point is a culture is not defined by borders.

We are taught to accept these myths which divide the world into cultures rather than political alliances as an excuse to justify struggles around the world, which are usually driven by fighting over resources rather than ideas. This can only beatify greed, and use culture as a proxy to racism.

What they don't tell you about love

Love is a drive provided by nature so we will eventually have sex and reproduce. Although biologically its all about dopamine ( a brain hormone), the idea that it brings us joy does not mean we should not enjoy it. Its good not to be driven by rationality in our decisions from time to time. However, while love provides us with happiness, we should not expect it to bring us happiness, friendship does, even if this friendship is with the people we used to think of as our love.

What they don't tell you about culture and love

In some cultures, being invited for a cup of coffee has nothing to do with coffee!
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When marketing companies rip you off!

This is the new London Olympics 2012 logo that cost them 400,000 pounds

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which should inspire the young generation, by presenting a lazy graffiti of "2012" - I still don't know what the dot in the middle suppose to be. when I look at this logo, I don't get inspired, I just get some weird images in my mind, like a crude representation of a couple having sex, or a swastika that had an accident. This logo is not new, it's just scarred by the 80's fashion.


What was wrong with the old logo anyway? old fashioned? As if anyone can predict the fashion trend of 2012.



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Pending...

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Sorry for not updating anything for a while, and thanks for all the people who asked. It's just I've been extremely busy lately, and having problems with multiple tasking, but I'll be posting again soon, tell then, take care
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