1. Does your eyebrow piercing hurt? do you sleep with it on?
   It doesn’t hurt at all, been 2 years now and all is good.
2. Aren’t you ashamed of yourself for being a Muslim but act like a jerk?
   I’d say you don’t have the right to judge me.
3. You don’t me, I saw you a week back and I used to be with you in school! you’ve lost weight, how did you do that?
   I did nothing, I guess it is just because I study and work at the same time, I don’t have the time to eat nor feel hungry, I also walk a lot.
4. Zain or Orange?
   I prefer Orange in Amman and Zain in Kuwait
5. Your Arabic accent in not Jordanian in the videos you post, are you Lebanese? and why mixing Arabic with English? lack of confidence?
   I am Jordanian of circassian roots, my accent is not that “Jordanian” lets say because I lived in Lebanon before and I never been to Jordan before 2005? and It is not confidence or anything, I’m just used to talking that way.
6. You look beautiful the way you are, I have to say you’re such a prince charming, why do you keep modifying and hurting your body with tattoos and piercings? you’re good without them, they ugly-fy you?
   Well, thanks for the nice words, I don’t have any tattoos. About piercings, they’re just addiction, I might get rid of one day. I actually like it when people talk to me your way, maybe I have my piercings just because back in the days when I used to live with family my mother won’t let me have one, so It just became wanted because it is not allowed. I don’t actually know.
7. Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
   Either a successful Art Director at an international agency or maybe more… nobody knows, my goal at the moment? maybe owning my own studio and snitching major clients in the MENA region.
8. Kuwait or Jordan? make up your mind.
   Kuwait’s good business and money and Jordan’s weather and atmosphere.
9. You are too fake, I think you should stop blogging and kill yourself fag.
   Thanks for your honesty, I think people who care/know me, know that I’m neither this nor that.

Send me your questions *feels like Queen Rania when she said send me your stereotypes on YouTube* and I’ll be glad to answer/discuss them.

The closure — which came as Shiite fighters routed Sunni loyalists of the Western-backed government — concerned one satellite news channel, two regular television stations, a newspaper and a radio station.

Hizbullah, the Lebanese people had enough… I swear! they don’t even smile now, they have a worse kashra than Jordanians have on their faces! you fucked Lebanon up, who’s next? Us? Syria?… I wonder whether I should hate Israel anymore… I seriously wonder!

آخ يا بيروت… شو ضللك!

أنا للأسف لغتي العربية ركيكة لذلك ساستعيض بكلمة أو مقولة فقط لاغير…

لا تأسفن على غدر الزمان
لطالما رقصت على جثث الأسود كلاب
لا تحسبن برقصها تعلو على أسيادها
تبقى الاسود اسود
والكلاب… كلاب

On the world arena, there was, on the negative side, wars, food poisoning; on the positive side, it was heartwarming to see so the shawerma bans, Lebanese democracy and more.

Turning to my keyboard, here is a look back and ahead.

Ten Things I’d like to see Ending with 2007:

1. Weak and expensive wi-fi spots around the city & limited internet.
2. Advertisements full of misspellings and bad concepts.
3. Beggars everywhere near fast food restaurants in Jordan that’d not let you enjoy your food.
4. The Sarsari accent of many.
5. K.Fucking.C
6. Not smiling in Jordan?
7. Zain’s ugly advertisements?
8. Babies thrown in garbage because they’re not wanted.
9. People running around with Carrefour trolleys in CityMall.
10. TAXES! TAXES! TAXES!

Ten Things I liked in 2007 (and want to see more of in 2008):

1. Great new restaurants/hang outs popping up. (hint: Subway)
   OH, OH & FRED THE CHICKEN.
2. Events such as Distant Head and Tiesto in Petra.
3. New malls, CityMall alike.
4. Brands of young men strutting around the malls with tight, bright clothes and hair styled skywards – I like that, we had enough being regular.
5. Decent people sharing same interests with me (I met many nice people/bloggers this year).
6. Advertising wars in Jordan.
7. Gadgets, like the iPhone, new iPods & Operating Systems.
8. Sites like ikbis & watwet.
9. Megastores… I enjoyed Virgin & Prime this year.
10. Less whore-y looking Hijbabis.

I think 2007 was another successful year, being elected the most annoying blogger in the Jordanian blogosphere according to Ibrahim’s readers, also many people chose me as their favorite blogger on the favorite blogger day competition, thank you for choosing me and I hope you like my new stuff too, I also ranked first between Jordanian most popular bloggers, 9th on Jordanian bloggers worldwide on Alexa stats & 8th on technorati, I was also mentioned on Global Voices Online & many other blogs (thanks for having me on your blogroll list everyone) + Katy Perry’s official MySpace page as a news source.

Many other “bloggers” wrote about me under the most anonymous names of “mab3oos”, “the critic”. I met a lot of nice bloggers in real life, and I hope they liked me because I don’t believe in this “I hope I gave them a good impression” crap, I am whatever I want to be, and I don’t care if no one likes me. (take that for a motto)

I can say 2007 was beyond expectations, I had the chance to intern/work at a high-profile advertising agency in Kuwait, learned a lot, and now working at another high-profile well known advertising agency in Amman while studying. Now talking about 2007 in other fields, like studying for example… Well, last semester was nice, I dropped one class this semester and I think I might need an extra semester to finish the studying plan since some friends ended up taking 18 credits the past summer courses and took more credits than I did the past semesters.

In general, I was soaked into depression during January/February, I shaved my head for the first time in my life, put new piercings & grew a beard, shaved it, opened up, started doing new things again, grew my hair, done a few podcasts, got a new macbook, ipod, iphone and did a lot of shopping, missed many people especially steve, kloude, mohkha & josh, I engraved on linocut & plywood, met international artists, helped tourists not to get raped by the airport taxi prices, fought stores with the worse spelling/english ever, my tartool project, liked a nasheed, talked about my converse obsession, hating people who add ketchup to their pizza, missing mother and more…

PVD is performing live in Manama, Dubai & Beirut.

Reasons why he’s not performing in Amman are not known yet, I’m guessing:

• He ditched Amman because he didn’t enjoy Distant Heat.
• Organizers didn’t give a good offer, so It wasn’t worth it.

We need an explanation Paul!

I had the chance to see the movie last Tuesday, I have to say that I was impressed (again) by the power of Nadine Labaki, whether it was the quality of the movie, the stories, the scenario, the acting, the comedy/drama smooth transitions, the cinematographthey, the script, the intro itself is a “WOW, how nice!” type of one.

If you’re Lebanese or just an Arab who appreciates good cinema, memorable and professional, stop reading and go see the movie now at Grand Cinema! You’ll have the opportunity to see the world from a different perspective, a Lebanese woman’s perspective.

The movie story is just complicated and simple at the same time, focusing on sisterhood, pressing social issues, love, homosexuality, adultery, religious customs, and aging explored in an unbiased way. with all of the hidden emotions, that will make you have different feelings at the same time. from smiling to crying.

Any woman would be able to see herself in at LEAST one of the characters in this film. You will also leave with a very good impression after viewing Caramel, something the Lebanese cinematography has been missing for a long time, Thank god it is coming back with movies like “West Beyrouth”, “Zozo” and now Caramel.

Congratulations to Nadine Labaki and the team behind the movie! I will be waiting for Nadine’s next wonder!

Extended info: Caramel is a Lebanese film, produced in 2007, the first feature film by the Lebanese director Nadine Labaki. The film has premiered during the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, in the Directors’ Fortnight section. The film ran for the Caméra d’or during the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. In Caramel, Nadine refers to an epilation method used in the middle east that consists of heating sugar, water and lemon juice. She tries as well to refer to the “idea of sweet and salt, sweet and sour”. Where most of the women in the middle east used to remove their unwanted body hair with.