Shaden's Blog

It’s finally September. Eid will be here in a little more than a week. Goodbye Ramadan, I will miss you, especially your contradictions and your inexplicable traffic jams.

Another hot event for this month, is the restoration of my connection’s bandwidth after nearly 10 days of a dead-slow internet. I’ll finally be able to watch Youtube videos and upload, download pictures and files without a worry in the world!

رواق!

Tags: Ziad Sahab, زياد سحاب، ما أنا بحب الرواق

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It is inevitable not to spend more time infront of the silver screen during Ramadan; not complaining though because it’s one of very few activities I can think of that involves spending time with other family members. So many TV ads make their first appearance on TV in the holy month of Ramadan, but very few get noticed, and even less are appreciated for their creativity or charitable intentions. But here is my list of 3 great ads I don’t mind my watching being interrupted by:

Zain’s Charity and Hope Ad

Not sure who did this ad for Zain, but I’m rarely impressed by a TV ad so thumbs up for the people at Zain for doing a good job with this one. I think the musical theme just did it for me.

انقذ مصيلحي و اشرب فانتالوب!

This one is just hilarious. I like how they make fun of the new cantaloupe Fanta drink, admitting the risk involved in the company’s choice for the new flavor. Continue Reading »

Tags: Ramadan, TV ads, Zain

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طلعت اليوم من البيت متفائلة بالحياة و حاسةا اليوم هيك سبيشال مش عارفة ليش، لسا بمشي لراس الطلعة اللي قدام بيتنا عشان أوقف استنا تاكسي كالعادة و لا قبل ما اوصل شافني تاكسي من بعيد فراح لافف و رجعلي، قلنا يا كريم! الدنيا رمضان و مسهلة الأمور بانيتها!

وقف عندي طلعت، ريحة السيارة دخان اشي بقرف بس مكيفة فما في مجال نفتح الشباك…

التاكسي: (بكل حماس) شفتك انا من راس الدخلة!

انا ابتسمت…

التاكسي: والله اول زبون، أخدت الوالدة على المستشفى و هلا لسا مرجعها و والله دعت لأول حدا بركب معي دعا!!

أنا من نابلس انت من وين؟

قلتلو من حيفا

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Tags: taxi, تاكسي، عمان، taxi diary

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Guy: shu ya3ni worth a chance ?
Me: hmmm…someone who’s worth being in a relationship with. does that answer your question?
Guy: i do not know ! just a question …
Me: we’re getting too philosophical aren’t we?
don’t throw questions at me like i know the answer to everything..
Guy: yes, defining stuff … khara
Me: I’m as clueless as you are. nothing wrong in experimenting though. i hate definitions, labels, categories, names!
Guy: long live tags !
Me: yup

Tags: conversations, guys, life, relationships

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In a dream-like state of mind, you’re not awake, but you’re not asleep either, you start confusing love with hate, rejection with total adoration and wisemen with gremlins.

Let me tell you what a gremlin is; or better yet, what it does!. It might love you so much that it becomes concerned about how strong these pleasant feelings are, and so it decides to suck on your sugary marrow one day until it paralyzes your emotional spinal cord. And sometimes, if it wants something so bad, it will to turn back against you, and haunts you like an astral body that still feels your pain. At night, if you’re not careful enough, it will try to ease your pain by stabbing you where it really hurts…

You’re not awake, yet you’re not asleep…but when you’re back, and the sun is teasing the soft skin of your shoulders, you’ll realize that you’re scarred for life.

Tags: gremlins, hate, love

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As part of a recent female bloggers meet-up that took place in Cairo; and was organized by Danish Pen; we decided to blog about a certain theme every month. We decided to start with a photo post on ourselves in the city (our cities). I took some pictures from around Amman over the past week, mostly of places I’ve been to.

You can view other posts made by my fellow female bloggers at:

Hala in USA, Torture in Egypt blog; هدوء نسبي; ميرون; Ma3t; Manal and Alaa’s bit bucket; Noter“; International Pen; “مدونة “حكايا; WHEN IS A CITY; لَسْتُ أَدرِي;
Rasha Hilwi

Tags: Amman, pictures

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Me: Check this out: http://www.thesocialman.com

Me: It’s interesting that even online, men get to brag about their jerkness and help each other get in the pants of hot girls. We never do that. We’re so lame. We want lovvvvvvvvve.

Ya3ni askmen.com, has this corner for “the player”; a guy who basically instructs “losers” on how to be irresistible assholes
and they’re not even ashamed of it. They don’t even keep it as a secret!

Titi: tab bikafi tighari bi7alek

Me: walek habla mish 3am baghar b 7ali. It’s interesting! ya3ni we should start doing that too. They know so much about us

Titi: Jump in the pants of boys.

Me: While we know nothing unless we try and err.

* Check out our blog here.

Tags: conversations, socialman, titi

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