Foreboding

I add my voice to the distressed silence.
What is there left to say?

Bravo Israel, another generation of liberal moderates have started hating you.

For some reason or another, I’m emotionally attached to my Nokia 7250, which I’ve had since the summer of 2003. I just absolutely love it.

Although its geeky features are extremely limited, I absolutely love it’s physical design, I love the fact that it’s dubbed “Il-Mamlakah”, and I love how I can fit it into my wallet.

Alas though, the battery, which has been replaced several times in the past 3 years, is starting to refuse to remain in place, paper slips slipped under its shaky covers or otherwise. The alarm clock occassionally forgets to wake me up. I get the “black” screen-of-death every too often, and every once in a while, all signs of life appear to freeze its little interface only to be shaken back into reality by taking out the battery.

It really absolutely breaks my heart.

And naturally, most of the phones on the market today are not my cup of tea. They’re too bulky and too jam-packed with features that are absolutely unneccessary to me. I don’t like this whole deal of turning the phone into every single gadget possible- I mean, why? Ok, don’t tell me why, I know why, but whatever, I like big bags and my big bags fit a lot of stuff so I don’t want a bulky phone.

If they still manufactured Nokia 7250s, I’m totally willing to buy another one. But since they don’t, the only phone on my mind is another cute, ungeeky phone that derived a “Roba, why the hell do you have to be artsy fartsy? That phone sucks, get something with features!”

Oh, well, features or not, how does one expect me to resist the prettiness of this? I even blogged about it a while ago.

And now it’s mine ;)

This is Gus.. we’re secretly posting from her blog without her knowing, she left the post thingy open and we found this as a great opportunity to say HAPPY BIRTHDAAAAAAY!!! weeeeeeee :P
For six hours Roba has been “informed” of getting an awesome gift.. since then she has been dying to find out what the present is!

This is hisham:) roba is sooooooooooo hyper:) she cant wait to get that present of hers, i say lets punish her and make her wait more, her birthday isnt over until tomorrow night :D haha..i cant wait to see that robaoic expression as she gets her present :) i loooooooooove you roba and happy birthdayyyyyyyyyyy :)))))))))

This is Omar, yea well Ive been running around after Roba preventing her from finding her gift and putting them in high places so she wont find them, because well normally she doesnt try and find them. We just decided not to give here the presents all at once.. ha go burn up some more :P….. Happy birthday Rooobs and 3uqbaul 100 years

ربى حبيبتي كل سنه وانت سالمه
من 21 سنه انا وبابا بدئنا نعرف ايش احلى شئ بالكون
وجودك خلى الحياه احلى
احلى واحلى واحلى
العمر كله انشاء الله

كل سنة وانت سالمة وعقيال 100 سنة
من عمو ثروت وغنى ولانا وديانا واية ورامي
والى الامام

Seriously. Latest trend. Get one in your boquet for that special someone- marketed as the “Sbecial” sort. Man.

Tawjihi is the Jordanian Highschool Leaving Certificate, and it’s apparently so tough that only 55% of this years round of students from the humanities division passed.

Luckily, to the great happiness of the entire family, my cousin Abed passed (mabrook habeebi), which called for celebration the Jordanian way, getting into cars and beeping the heck out of the horns, although it’s both rude and “illegal” (my job as I’m the car owner).

The first place that popped into my mind was Abdoun Circle, the default place to go beep and spin, spin, spin, but unfortunately, Abdoun Circle is closed this summer. The next best thing was Abdoun Mall, as the Blue Fig Circle is closed as well (damn that bridge, when are they going to finish it? And wow, I’m in such an un-eloquent mood).

And you know, I don’t care if it’s uncivilized, dangerous, and rude, I think it’s awesome.