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Doha to Paris
We returned from South Africa to an apartment whose floors were littered with all the crap we’ve accumulated over the past two years. After a week of head-scratching, we managed to fit everything into 3 trunks to be shipped, 4 luggages to check in, two backpacks and two laptop cases to carry with us on…
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Fast, Dumb, Silent
An ostrich can run up to 60kms per hour. A two-toed bird, they are very fast runners. Also, they are silent animals: They make no sound, except for some squeaks when they are babie and during mating season. They are not the brightest bulbs in town, either: Their eyes are bigger than their brains. Our…
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In South Africa
After the turbulence… the goddam turbulence… we finally landed in South Africa! It’s pretty cold here this evening (temps go down to 12°C in the evenings, these days, according to the weather reports, but tonight it’s a cool 19°C) — a welcome change from the seemingly never-ending temps in the 30°s of Dohell. Since this…
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Appreciation
A list of things that have pissed me off recently: 1. Crazy drivers in their 4×4s who flash you, tail you, and cut you off at roundabouts. Imagine this. One afternoon you decide to go to the mall (because other than that, there’s not much to do here) and the street is practically empty. Suddenly a…
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Hide and Seek
The earth beneath my feet is turning either very, very slowly or unbelievably fast, depending on my mood and the time of the day. Ramadan is over. Hanim’s family invited us over to celebrate Eid, and it really felt like a holiday compared to last year’s Eid, where we just stayed home and savoured a day…
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Golden Slumbers
If you think that there’d be less cars on the road during Ramadan, you are sorely mistaken. From 8h to 14h, the streets are clogged with impatient, thirsty, fasting commuters. It’s madness! But during the daytime, between 15h up until 19h, the streets are unusually quiet. Since the risk of getting run over at this…
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Ramadan in a Few Weeks
The future: Ramadan in a few weeks Anticipated Scenario: Closed stores, boredom, traffic, getting drunk in the living room Work: One million of them, unfinished –> Flash: Uncooperative Actionscript –> Flash: Difficulty (impossibility?) in making buttons nested in movie clips to link to an .swf target in the same scene (despair) –> Errors due to…
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Spooflings
A few things in a list of plenty that I love: Jason Schwartzman and Sofia Coppola (who are cousins), and Marie Antoinette (the person… and also the film, which, in spite of all the bad reviews, is totally kickass… et alors? What are you going to do, chop off my head too?) One thing on…