Monday, February 26, 2007

If Chat Rooms Were Real, God Forbid !

Its totally true and completely funny, I hope it freaks you out enough not to go to public chat rooms.


18+ Content ! due to language so watch at your own risk !




Raise your hands if you pretended to be younger ! Leave this blog if you pretended to be the other sex ...

Thursday, February 15, 2007

Valentine in the Land of Spices

Valentine has always been my unlucky day. You may just call me the valentine's bachelor if you wish. I was smacked on the face with a business trip to the land of spices, India. Not too happy about it, I landed in Mumbai on the 12Th, stayed one night with some of my colleagues, moved to Pune where we had to have some training in one of the IT subsidiaries of the company.


And the Evil Day comes...
Yes, It was the day of the 14Th, not too enthusiastic was I. I had far more important things to do that day. A day earlier we were introduced to two of our colleagues from India Sachin and Ravi and today they were at the hotel to escort us to the offices.

On our way to the offices we pass by an ice cream stand, one of those cheap ones. They called it a Kulfi stand and basically Kulfi was the name of the cheap homemade (more like street made) ice cream they did. Sachin insisted on us trying this Indian speciality ice cream and assured us that the cheaper it gets the tastier it is. and in fact that was true !

The offices were crammed, no AC, but allot of tea to drink. I believe that was the energy drink they all used to work. A couple of hours of discussion, checking email, MSN, and some blogs we were done for the day. By then it was 7pm, the smell of valentine has spread, you cant see a single guy or girl walking by the street. Yet, Ravi and Sachin sacrificed their valentine to tour us around Pune. Big thanks to Sachin for sacrificing his date with his wife, I really felt sorry for him, but according to what he told me Ravi "is too desperate to have a date".


Still not that enthusiastic, we were deciding on were to go for dinner, and how. Then suddenly the idea of experiencing India using the Indian's common ways of transportation pops in both Sachin and Ravi's minds. So we were asked to wait for a couple of minutes so that they come with their vehicles to pick us up. While they went to get their vehicles me and a colleague decided to ride a nearby Auto Rikshaw (those 3 wheeled motorcycle taxis) and have a quick experience. Never Had I thought that today would be one amazing day ! The Auto Rikshaw adventure was only part of the fun we experienced that day.


Suddenly we hear some engine roars of what it seems to be a motorcycle. Sachin and Ravi arrived, with a motorcycle each. Picked us up for one of the most amazing tours we had on the roads of India, the craziest roads I have ever been on. For 30 minutes we were just driving through the crowds, taking rights and lefts, taking pictures until we finally reached a restaurant. To our disappointment it was packed with daters. Finally we ended up in a low profile restaurant filled with losers like us.

Still not forgetting bout the online date, I arrived back at the hotel at 1am, ran to my laptop, switched it on to realize that the hotel Internet servers were down and told they'd be up tomorrow.

Yet, even though I didn't experience valentine as how it is supposed to be experienced, I had my greatest fun.

So how was your valentine?

Sunday, February 11, 2007

adpolice.gov.ae: your privacy may be at risk!

AD police have done us a great favor by making it possible to check out our speeding tickets online. In fact they were nice enough to upload your cars picture on their website. You only had to input some information that identifies you as the owner, usually found on your Vehicle License and your in.

You might think now everything is safe, the website asks for information that nobody can fake. Well that's true, but the truth is that EVERYBODY HAS ACCESS TO YOUR SPEEDING RADAR PICTURE.

here is a demonstration of random cars I just came across

Car Number 1\Car Number 2\Car Number 3\Car Number 4\ Car Number 5

surprised? well things are just starting. A 10 year old can easily maneuver around the weak even nonexistent security barriers that SHOULD stop a random net surfer from accessing those pictures.

The people who are in charge of this website and its databases need some simple common sense put into them. What they fail to do is make this picture part of your Vehicle License number that you have to input to check on your tickets, sadly their attempt was only to provide a link to your car's picture which they normally uploaded on their website so a simple change done on the URL of the picture can link you to the whole radar pictures database.

Even though our Government attempt in joining the world wide web was fruitful. Their system needs some security improvements. Or did they think that we locals are idiot enough to figure this Out?

I say go get some good programmers....

Saturday, February 10, 2007

anything more depressing?

Why is it that when your depressed you listen to more depressing songs? Is there a relation ... I care to know...



Hitting the 20th rewind...
EDIT (2:10AM) 50th ...............

Wednesday, February 7, 2007

Ensan Akthar !

I am not into sad romantic songs. But this one caught my attention, his words are totally true. It depicts the situation where a lover hurts his/her loved one careless to their feelings in an attempt to gain their attention, love, or devotion be it through playing hard to get, trying some reverse psychology or anything else




Raise your hand if it has happened to you, or if you did it to someone!
*raises his hand*

Click for Lyrics
6rbtop.com Link to Full Song

Monday, February 5, 2007

I Would've Married You if ....

That day I was speaking to one of my friends, a cool guy, lets call him Abz, we been good friends for a while and during this conversation he pops up this surprising comment, not knowing if I was supposed to take it as a compliment or an insult I became nervous, and with furiousness I called him gay. He said that was the truth !

Still wondering whether my reaction to his comment was out of control I went to another good friend, trying not to mention names, and told him the whole story. He looked at me, looked at Abz (he was there), then looked back at me and REPEATED THE COMMENT WORD BY WORD !!! saying that's the truth and there is nothing wrong with it ....

I don't have any issues with my sexuality, but wouldn't comments such as "I would've married you if you were a girl !" scare the shit out of a straight guy?

Saturday, February 3, 2007

Tagged: 5 things you dont know about me

Thanks funky for the uncreative tag. I hoped for some creative questions but it sure kept me thinking, *sarcasmON* looking at myself id say damn you guys don't really know me ! */Sarcasm*

1- I love being sarcastic though in many cases it backfires on me.

2- I like putting a smile on peoples faces even if that meant making a joke about myself. (I am a good sport)

Though lets put the jokes to a minimum


3- I come from a bedouin family, and Id be the second person with a bachelor degree "soon" (no 1 goes to dad) so lots of hope is put onto me. and hopefully get recognition for the most educated bedouin awards (if only they existed).

4- I love luxury yet I am an economical person and make good use of my money. When It comes to spending things on family or friends am pretty generous.

5- And ya, I fancy a smart blond, or a good looking brunette (or aren't they all good looking), and I hate something called mee7ad especially mee7ad emsara3 :p

now who shall I tag ... hmm..
fragile
I*maginate
Arabized
MJ

Friday, February 2, 2007

The Outgoing battle: Looks vs Personality

As much as we try to convince girls that personality is all that matters to us. One of the strongest weapons a women can attract us with is her looks. Looking at our culture, it emphasizes on looks more than anything else. Have you ever seen any Emiraty speaking about how interesting, outgoing and fun his girl is without being called a fag? It is true that the hotter your girl is the more you can brag and flex your muscles.

The shame is such emphasis on looks is practiced in our culture since the days of our parents and arranged marriages where the guy and the girl are shown a picture of their future soul mate (wannabe) and from that picture they have to decide.

Yet its not limited to it. Recent studies have shown that at a very early age, children began to pick whom they would like for playmates by such standards as facial attractiveness and body form (Fisher, 1986)

looks may be the first thing some people pick up on, but no matter how dazzling the display there has to be something deeper to make a meaningful relationship.
-thesite.org


Simple Rating Method:

Yes my dear friends, something deeper. but lets take a look at the simplest functions our male brains have been wired to do in situations were decision on such topic has to be made


Its the 0 to 10 rating line the comes in sentences such as "hey bro, out of 10, how much do you give that girl?" were everybody craves to have a 10/10 chick by their side all day long.

Pros: Simple, easy to use method of pointing out miss universe
Cons: would you go for her? in most cases you'd only fantasize if its worth it

Complex Rating Method:

I devised a more advanced rating method that puts important factors into consideration.

Here comes the personality part where you can brag about how personality matters the most to you and make all girls melt. but looks come with a price as it is said that the more hot a women is the more she is approached by guys that results in her developing a self-defense mechanism unconsciously forcing her to put a wall or a barrier between her and any male person. Yet the typical male insists on getting himself a 10 in looks and in most cases falls for a man eater. Lucky ones can get both 10s in personality and looks. Though as the graph states, the efficient sacrifice would be a 5 in both.

Figuring out the personality:

but here comes the tricky part, how do you figure out a girls personality? it varies from one person to another, some people consider shyness as a good personality trait, some consider the opposite. Others rate girls according to the music they listen to ;)

but the best way to describe it is using a bell curve where too little of something is bad and too much of it is bad too. Lets take the example of me and my way of rating a girls personality according to her taste in music.


The Forgotten Trait:

It seems that most researches fail to mention anything about Intelligence. Who doesn't want a smart girl? or what girl doesn't want a smart guy? would A dumb good looking girl with a very good personality be a good choice? ...... that would be a long debate.

As for now there are some polls to the right, your activity is much appreciated

Thursday, February 1, 2007

FAQ : The Q&A thread (1st attempt)

hello all bloggers, Your activity on my blog have been great. Thank you very much. Therefore as a way of payback I decided to create a FAQ/Q&A thread where you can ask me literally anything (but to an extent) and I will provide the answer in a later issue (article).

This is my first attempt to create good interaction between myself and my fellow bloggers and Ill see how things will go, if there are good questions or topics I might turn this to a monthly event. If not, then I will consider that.

What Can You Ask?
- Personal questions (to an extent)
- My opinion about certain issues (about our society, community, etc)
- Request me to write about a certain topic (if it interests me I would write an article about it)

Guidelines:
- SERIOUS QUESTIONS ONLY
- Best question will be answered first (and that will be decided by me)
- Questions will be answered in a later issue, if your question does not appear in the next issue then it might be due to the following:
1- it might be not serious/Interesting/appropriate
2- it might be answered in the issue after that
3- or never answered

hope to see your feedback ! and have fun !