What can one say to sum up 365 days???
 

How can you describe all the good and bad times???

2005 was very eventfull … but not all on the good side.

I met new exciting people … good!!
I also met some jerks … bad!!

Found 3 good jobs … good!!
Lost 2 good jobs … and thensome … bad!!

My sister got married … good!!
My uncle died of cancer … bad!!

I have a new baby nephew … good!!
I haven’t seen him yet cause he was born in the states … bad!!

The list goes on!!

I thought that something really significant will happen to me in 2005 … not only nothing significant happened but a lot of insignificant unhappy things took place instead.

I am sitting at home … blogging!!

Weather is so cold outside … but I really wish I had someone to celebrate the cold weather with, instead; I am sitting in a 4X4 room, with my loyal TV, and my buddy the laptop, and an interesting book to read … what a lovely way to leave a whole year of my life and greet a new one … but as this is the best I can do now … I will settle that it is the best thing to do ever!!!

Happy New Year my friends … clock is ticking and its only a few hours till we finally say goodbye to a long heavy frustrating year.

Boy oh boy!!

Another New Year’s Eve in my lifetime, and guess what? Like all the previous years; I am still alone, i.e. with no companion; in other words; I am still single, you know what I mean, *sigh*

I remember when this night used to be so much fun. Me, my sisters and friends used to have rituals that we do every New Year’s Eve, partly because we did not have the privilege of going out and at the same time; we did not have companions (boyfriends, fiances, husbands) to celebrate with.

Sitting here now and thinking of the good old days; I would love to share these rituals with you in an attempt to make fun of myself and prove to poor me one more time that I am finally mature!!

       

Now, these were important ingredients for the long night. We used to give each one of us a task to do, so one would bring the potato chips (she has to bring several flavors), and another would bring the popcorn; whether ready-made microwave type or the good old dried corn in the pan; it is her responsibility and she has to do it.

Fruits, juices and milkshakes are the next in the line when it comes to New Year’s Eve rituals. Again, all this effort is shared and divided by all.

Good old homemade cake … nothing beats that. Mom used to put it on the heater (el9oba) and the smell would be all over the house. We used to do it in different flavors as well, but I did not like the nuts that mom used to put inside, I love my cakes plain.

And how can we pass the night without some lebanese appetizers (Mazat)? It was fun preparing them; especially the “yallanji”

Then we would wash it all down with the good old Pepsi … nothing beats it!!

We would play lots of games together and dance to the sound of the latest albums of famous singers at that time, like Ragheb 3alameh, 3amr Diab and others.

Now we reached the final and most peculiar ritual of all. I don’t know who planted the myth in our heads, but this ritual is about an orange skin!

The myth states that if you peel the orange without breaking the skin, just like the picture, and then place it under your pillow, so when you sleep, you will dream of your future husband … DUH!!

These things sound so far now. My friends and sisters are all married and have their own lives; I don’t see my old friends any more, and I guess that our relations died with these rituals, and to tell you the truth; I do miss them both!

Hope you will all have a lovely New Year’s Eve with those that you love and care for!

We always say that rivers, lakes, seas and oceans are still closed doors to us simple humans. It has always fascinated me how beautiful and dangerous are the creatures that live under water; it is worlds under the surface, and I guess like people; they have struggles to decide who is the strongest or the fittest.

But what happens when the struggle becomes between the two worlds? the one under and the one above? Surely there are going to be many clashes. Sometimes we win, but sometimes they do.

The creatures that are superior to single man strength fascinate me the most, and I really admire those who are brave enough to explore their worlds.

Why am I writing about this?

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I once read that there is a type of jelly fish that is considered to be the most poisonous creature in the world; each of his arms hold a several thousand poison needles per inch making is very dangerous, and should it hit its victim with one of its arms, they will not have the chance to even scream; talk about very fatal ha?

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Very Brilliant!
 

You probably have heard this or got it by email, but I thought this was cute enough to be posted on my blog!

We have always heard about babies named after famous football players, or singers, but for a kid to be named after an electronic site!! Now, this is new.

The email I got states that a lebanese family residing in Sweden had a baby boy, so the father went to google to search for a nice name for his son. Apparently; he got bored from searching and a bulb was lit in his head; why not name the baby after the site; i.e. google? and that’s exactly what he did!!

Google learned about this baby, who is the first in the world to be named after the famous search engine, and they sent the family valuable gifts for the kid.

I believe that the family has great hopes for their newborn baby; he might become famous himself one day!

But what do you think they will name their second baby??? Yahoo??

Here is the official website and here are some pictures!

Dim lights and warm cozy ambiance; that was the first impression I got when I entered Canvas last night to participate in the JP meet-up. Like the majority of the attendees; this was our first time in Canvas and I think it will not be the last; cause we all liked it.

Unfortunately; we did not have the chance to interact more on a personal level, but we sure had the valuable opportunity to meet the people behind the great blogs that we came to follow on JP. The familiarity of the meeting was an experience to talk about; it seemed like we knew each other from before, and we got along like long lost friends.

At the end of the meeting and after some of the attendees left, we had a chance to gather around and discuss a few things in a group activity. We got to discuss topics of common and national concerns like the education in Jordan; I am actually waiting to see some nice posts about it; and I might do one myself.

I leave you with the pictures that I took from my angle, cause right now I just can’t sleep, so I decided to use the time to post about the meeting that took place last night, and by the way; Laith Zraikat and myself were the first to arrive and among the last to leave. It was raining outside when we finally left after four great hours. We had so much fun, and looking forward to doing it again some time soon.

Jordan Planet and all its citizens are way so cool, thanks to all those who made it possible.

One of the waiters took this picture from the other end

Rami taking notes

Isam looks like he was singing

I could not hear what people at the end of the table were saying, yeah it was a big meeting!!

Discussing

The waiter took this one; this is me with the long hair

Laith Zraikat introducing himself to the group

Laith Z, Lina and Roba is trying to take a picture of Laith Majali

Laith M introducing himself, Mariam is listening and Laith Z likes his Mango Cocktail

Ziad seems to be getting the attention here

Mariam is finding it hard to leave, she is trying!

Nader, Ammar, Mira and Abeer (Mira’s Santa’s hat looks good on Ammar)

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