The Last Photo!

When i thought that the Indian trip adrenaline rush faded away; Johanthan would go and send me this one (taken by his camera), it is the best one in my opinion! i miss India and i wish i would go back sometime soon (if i can!).

“Demand that Israel immediately stops its bloody campaign in Gaza”

hosted on the web by our free online petition service, at:

http://www.PetitionOnline.com/gaza2812/

HOPE FOR GAZA

Raising Hopes for Gaza in 2009.
May god bless the ones who left us and the ones who remain.
Peace and love for everyone.

الجزيرة: تركيا تلغي احتفالات رأس السنة بسبب العدوان الإسرائيلي

قررت بلدية مدينة إسطنبول التركية اليوم إلغاء الاحتفالات برأس السنة الميلادية الجديدة التي كانت مقررة بعد غد الأربعاء، وذلك بسبب الاعتداءات الإسرائيلية على قطاع غزة.

ونقل موقع صحيفة حريت عن بيان أصدرته البلدية ”تقرر إلغاء برنامج الاحتفالات الذي أعدته بلدية إسطنبول في 31 ديسمبر/كانون الأول في ساحة تقسيم بسبب التطورات الأخيرة في منطقتنا” وذلك في إشارة إلى الهجمات الإسرائيلية على قطاع غزة المتواصلة منذ السبت.

من جهتها أعلنت محطة تلفزيون (إن تي في) التركية أنه تم إلغاء الاحتفالات الرسمية بمناسبة رأس السنة احتراما للفلسطينيين الذين قتلوا في الغارات الإسرائيلية في غزة.

يشار إلى أن العملية العسكرية الإسرائيلية في غزة التي بدأت السبت وما زالت مستمرة وحملت اسم الرصاص الصلب، أدّت حتى الآن إلى سقوط نحو 345 شهيدا و1650 جريحاً فلسطينياً، بينهم مدنيون وأطفال.

وكانت وزارة الخارجية التركية نددت بالهجمات الإسرائيلية على غزة وحثت تل أبيب على وقف الهجمات. كما دعا رئيس الوزراء التركي رجب طيب أردوغان المجتمعات الدولية إلى التدخل من أجل التصدي للعمليات العسكرية الإسرائيلية ضد المدنيين في غزة.

Pimp Your Brain

If your mind is bothering you with much memory loss and tiresome (like mine) you should check this blog i found this morning about ways to help you tune up your brain, pretty useful, you will like it.

http://www.dumblittleman.com/2008/06/14-simple-ways-to-super-charge-your.html

Bye Bye Facebook

Once again i disabled my Facebook account, but different from earlier times i do not intend to reactivate it once again. It just started getting TOO personal and OVER involving besides the fact that i already have many other tools to waste my time with so Facebook is the least preferable. I also deleted other profiles online. It is time to chill a little for 2009!

So how can we stay in touch, you ask ?
Easy!
My email is aqatato@gmail.com
my IM is midomadi@hotmail.com (MSN) and da_koo3@yahoo.com (Yahoo)
You can email me to ask for my phone number or Regular mailing address as well.

So if i am not on Facebook that does not mean i will vanish, i just do not feel like following the herd, wasting my time and moreover getting really ticked off every time i log to that website!

I will post soon about 2008/2009, my recap on this year and prospects for 2009, keep watching.

Ahmad

Am i ?

WHICH Final Fantasy VII Character are you? (Facebook)
Freaky!!!

You are Cloud!

Although you don’t admit it, you are quite withdrawn and introspective. There is a lot you don’t understand about yourself, and that sometimes causes you to be irritable and snap at your friends. You are tender and socially awkward. You can be moody and cold, but also surprise with your warmth. Generally you are still a person with a good heart. During your life you have overcome many personal challenges. You blame yourself for some of the things that are not your fault.

WEIRDOTOGRAPHY

Al Afaf Foundation for group marriages had -again- planned for one of its amazing blind group mass weddings, the idea is to enable young couples to start their marital life with cutting the wedding expenses (kind of like Carrefour Super Store, The more the cheaper) … Note that these are not chairs but actual covered brides to be! they look like they jumped out of a weird fantasy book.

This is obviously the new concept of Commu-Islam. Sexism included in the same package!

Which film are you watching this holiday?

Valkyrie (Tom Cruise, WWII: Assassination of Hitler)
Seven Pounds (Will Smith, another Pursuit of Happyness, expect to cry a LOT)
Marlie and Me (Jennifer Anniston, a menace puppy that will change your life, expect to laugh and CRY)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt, Amazing Concept of backwards)
The day the earth stood still (Keanu Reeves, The remake of the old classic, just worse)
Slumdog Millionaire (Indian/American, How much do you like WHO WANTS to be a millionaire!?)
Last Chance Harvey (Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thombson, First love does not die)
Bolt (Disney, Cuteness!)
and of course ….Revolutionary Road (Leo and Kate, It’s been ages! and they are back)

LOST IN SPICE (8)

Day 8:

This is Varanasi!

17 hours later in the train from Agra we were amused and amazed by the green scenes in the country side. At that day we took the night boat trip to see the Hindu fire and flower dances besides the cremation sites. Next morning we returned to witness the sunrise also in river Ghanji where people washed their bodies, washed their clothes and swam around the drifting slow boats, it all seemed like a surreal scene from an ancient painting as if you were cut off all means of modernism and connection to the real world and you entered a new dimension where life and death dwelled happily next to each other.

Varanasi is the MOST amazing place we’ve been to in our trip, it is truly peculiar! i recommend it to everyone, or at least people with sense of “connection”.

Later same day we headed to the domestic airport where we headed back to Delhi to rest for the rest of the night, have a meal, and of course wake up late to RUN to the airport like a crazy maniac, thanks to the stupid driver who ditched me all out! but thanks to jojo for waking me all of a sudden at 4 am , and thanks to RJ for always having their flights delayed (god bless!).

I wanted to cry when i arrived to Amman, i had mixed emotions, i was charged! i missed India already but i was  SO happy that i am back to somewhere i call home, a home that is beautiful and clean and orderly. India is a fantastic Experience for those who seek perspectives on life, not for those who seek a swimming pool and a large cocktail!

That was my India anyway, i can not wait to explore more areas next time, maybe to the south or Katamandu!

You’ve got to go to India, at least once, or else, you have missed half of the beauty on earth!