Come to think of it; we tend to do that!!!

But he forgot the 1000 bye’s we say at the end of it …

This is really dangerous and only proves that you cannot predict the behavior/reactions of a big creature like this one!!

Does anyone agree with me that this so called “Sport” is not fun? Shouldn’t people stop using living animals as toys for their own pleasure?

They lock this animal and provoke it; the whole idea of this game is for the bull to be wild so it shows the skill of its rider. You see, this sport is called Rodeo, it is a Mexican game that moved to North America and the word is Spanish; it means: I surround!!

Talk about human ego here!!

For more information about Rodeo; check here, here and here!!

I mean; really!!
This is so sad; to be able to rent some TV time no less and only come up with this???

I really don’t know what to say …

At this time and age where we have all the technology, resources and talents just around the corner; they come up with this … what the heck was that about???

:(

I haven’t had enough of weekend yet

Have a nice working week everyone

Before I say anything, I am publishing Khaled’s message here:

Statement

On December 30th 2006 when Jordan Planet decided to shut down, it took me 24 hours to come up with an alternative portal in a genuine attempt to keep all Jordanian Blogs together. And although I’m going through a major step in my life, I gave Jordan Blogs a lot of my effort, time and money. It was all for the spirit of keeping us together in one spot.
Lately, I have been battling issues with certain Blogs, some that has to do with politics and some with morals.
Anyone can raise the flag of “Freedom of Speech” but I for one usually look into matters and don’t take it for granted. I think “Freedom of Speech” was created to help the weak, and never to promote hate speech or immoral issues. OK, I admit my mistake in not having a clear policy, but again I started this on my own and when established a committee and assigned tasks, people have jobs and lives outside the blogsphere, so things take time. I have no problem with someone criticizing the government, religion or anybody for that matter. I do have issue with somebody slandering and throwing stones without offering a real solution. When it comes to morals, if you are going to post X rated materials, you are banned from JB regardless you put a disclaimer or not.

And today I find out that I’m being crowned as the enemy of “freedom of Speech” side to side with the Egyptian government. Well, frankly, it is not worth my time or effort. I never planned for this, when I started JB I did not think things will get to this. So as a result, I would like to see about closing JB. If you guys want this to stay rolling till Jordan Planet comes back, fine! And I will release the committee from its responsibility. If not I will just shut it down, and you guys can use other aggregators.
Salam and God Bless,

Khaled

Ever since JP was paused, Khaled has stepped up and took it upon himself to provide Jordanian bloggers with a substitute solution. Single handedly; he built it up and had it running without even being asked to do so. The level of proactivity and initiative he showed is admirable and must be respected.

The main concern was to get the aggregator up and running to give everyone access to their favorite blogs and not lose their daily input and read. This was more important than setting up a policy or a committee but that was not far to follow. Khaled recruited a diverse group of bloggers to give objectivity to decisions and actions taken and I believe that the group was reasonable and mature enough to be in the position they were in.

We all have avoided discussing this issue on our blogs because Khaled spoke on our behalf when it came to JB and that’s how harmonized the committee was, and when we were faced with the case of blog deletion, we were all supportive of the committee’s decisions and actions because that is the way things should go.

We read on many blogs how everyone was confusing moderation with censorship. Khaled said it best when he said that slandering and hate speech is not categorized under freedom of speech and this is a general rule in the whole world. There are limits and there comes a time when some cross the line, therefore; action was taken. It was not a sole decision; we all voted and the result of the voting drove the action. No one was manipulated into his/her vote; we were all free and responsible and that’s how it went.

We could have continued to ignore all the campaigns and motions to classify us as enemies of freedom of speech because we know better and the majority of the blogosphere knows better, but to be compared to and resembled to the Egyptian government in the case of Kareem, now that was over the top and no one can put up with this.

We are not the government, we did not stop anyone from writing or saying whatever they want to say on their own spaces, we did not delete their posts or moderate them, we did not persecute them legally, we did not threaten them to delete and take back what they said or else, we did not do any of those things. What we did is that we took a stand and agreed that we are not going to promote hate speech and slander no matter who it was directed against, we took a stand and agreed that we are not going to promote X rated material on JB, we agreed that we are not going to create a war with these bloggers by telling them what to do with their blogs because that would have been censorship. Instead; we elected to quietly stop the feed and move on just like any newspaper or publishing house elects who to publish for and who to promote for.

We were bending our time and schedules to meet online and try to organize things the right way, we were about to publish the policy and refer everyone to it to get out of these situations, but we were not given the time by our dear friends the bloggers, therefore; I respect and support what Khaled is doing and I think that when you do something for the people, the least you should expect is some appreciation to the effort, time and dedication in the least. When this is not there; I think it is not worth it to begin with!

On the rainy evening of last Thursday, a group of JB bloggers met for a warm nice time at the Graphic Club in Sweifieh.

Although more than 27 people have confirmed their attendance, only a handful appeared that night and it was a great meeting. We had a chance to talk, laugh, take pictures, discuss serious matters and even sing Abed a nice Happy Birthday song.

Another good thing was that I found some nice books and made sure I bought them on my way out. I will leave you with some of the pictures of that lovely evening and looking forward to see all those who could not make it this time in the next meeting.

Manal (Red Rose) and Muoffaq (MQabbani Minds Talk)

Daniella and Eyad (Proactivity Group)

Manal (Red Rose) + 7ala (Ro2a) + Shaden (Sugar Cubes) + Wedad (Better Life)

Roba’s Cousin and Brothers (It was really great to see you guys)

Roba (And Far Away)

I guess it is no secret to everyone that I am too busy to blog and keep up with other blogs these days. I have been too darn busy ever since I started this new job, not that I am complaining because I like what I do, but I truly and utterly miss the blogosphere, and that’s why I keep coming back every now and then and I hope I will always find you there waiting for me … so please don’t give up on me just yet; there is still hope!!

Last week was a killer, with the conference and all those guests, for three days I came home around midnight and then had to be at work the next day at 8 in the morning; by the end of the week I was a wreck, but that did not stop me from sharing a lovely cookie party with my friends at Mommabeans house. That was one warm evening where we shared lots of fun, food and laughter.

The highlight of that evening was meeting teta bean, Madam Laila!
Such a warm nice lady who was extremely welcoming of all of us and said that she was a regular reader of our blogs; I had to take a picture to memorize this moment for years to come … thank you so much Madam for your kindness and follow-up to our blogs, please keep coming back!

Then we got some creativity out, but I was really too drained to do more than a couple and I learned that Jujubean enjoyed my duck and I say Sa7tein!!

Now, Valentine’s Day is around the corner and everything is already turning red … sometimes I see it as a silly occasion but other times I just feel jealous of all the love and lovers around and feel sad for being alone … eh! It is only one day in the year and it will eventually pass

Work has been really hectic and I have been running around … looking at the bright side; everything went according to the plan during the conference, my boss is happy and most importantly; the guests had a wonderful time and they all enjoyed their few days in Amman.

Internet is evolving and everyday there is some new technology or software appearing here and there. I wonder how we used to live and do things some years back; how did we manage without all this technology around us. Can we afford to choose not to enslave ourselves to this technology? Can we turn our backs and say we can do without? I wish we could be professional enough to trust people with their own time instead of regulating their days for them; this is the 21st century after all!!

Yesterday was one of the longest days I have ever had in a very long time. It started and ended without me even stopping to drink some water.

We have a conference next week and I had to prepare so many things and take care of thousands of details; and I will be alert and worried until the three days are over. So, next week will be very busy and full of events and actions especially that we have guests coming from all over the world.

Needless to say; I had to work late yesterday, but the problem is that it was my nephew’s birthday and I had to catch up with the rest of the family to celebrate with the young kid, because if I did not go and give him the present that he asked for, he will not forgive me or even talk to me especially that he asked for the gift and was waiting for it. He asked me for lots and lots of drafting paper, colors of all kinds and the alphabet in Lego style; I happily got him everything he asked for because it was something he could learn from now that he turned 6.

The family was waiting for me in the KFC on Madina street. Now if there is anything I hate; it is KFC; it is greasy and really yucky, but I was so hungry and hadn’t eaten all day. When I finally arrived there, my sister had had bought me a meal, I ate some of the fries and took some of the chicken, but I felt sick immediately and I don’t want to talk about what happened when we left the place and headed home :S

Any way; these are some of the photos that I took for Ahed (my nephew) in his 6th Birthday Party … Happy Birthday Sweetie

When I asked how old he was; he answered with style

Nice bike ha?

Even Mira participated in eating the cake

When I came home and checked my favorite blogs, I found this cute post on Roba’s and decided that this was a really nice way to end this long day; so here it is: me as an M&M … go get your own M&M character … yippee!!!