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The Worst Thing in the World

… capped bandwidth.

you have a deadline and you need images and you can’t browse the net for the life of you because even the most simple websites cannot load because of the stupid internet connection ra7 anjilet somone should make capped bandwidth illegal
urghhhhhhhhhhhhhh



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Beddi :(

I think I have a thing for Super Mario. These cupcakes look so amazing to me that I even googled a marzipan recipe.

 

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Donkey Kong Post-It Extravaganza
The coolest thing I’ve ever seen



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Hot Chocolate Amidst Ice: Office Conversations

The phone rang, and I groaned. It was 8:00 o’clock and my alarm was set for 8:30. I tried to ignore it but it rings again. I finally decided to pick-up, and I get a “Roba, get out of bed and look out of your window!”

What?

No one said anything about waking up to a snowy Amman. Quite the contrary actually…the minimum forecasted was 4 degrees Celsius, and the horribly dreary cold front that hit Amman during the past two weeks was supposed to be getting the hell out of town.

Anyway, lured by promises of hot chocolate and marshmallows, I ended up braving the snow drive and going to the office. Snow is always welcome I guess. People on watwet were going crazy with excitement. Surprises are starting to grow on me.

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Urban Review: Jollibee

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Moose: Long gone are the days when Jollibee was our ultimate treat as highschool kids. I remember in 1995 when Qays and I had its coupons, and we stuffed our faces with two family meals- each – followed by a one-on-one full-court basketball game. Of course, the result was a tremendous amount of puke in the school’s sink.

That’s exactly the feeling I got when we walked into Jollybee 12 years later.

Roba: It was 10:30 PM on a weekday. We got a great idea. Let’s go to Jollibee. Jollibee? I haven’t been to Jollibee in over 13 years, and I felt a dose of nostalgia that rendered the idea fantastic. The boys all agreed to tag along, as they were hungry (like usual).
When we walked in, the whole place reeked like old engine oil, and everything from the staircase to the floors was coated with a layer of grease. Surprisingly, the place was crowded for 11:00 PM on a weekday, and it had a lot more families and single guys than the Burger King across the street. Even more surprisingly, Jollibee is more expensive than Burger King, with the average meal costing around 5 JDs.
The interior of the place was crazy. Nothing has changed since I was last there- the same yellow and purple seating, the same wall murals, the same arcades. Yeah, everything was beat and greasy, but not a thing was moved out of place, not even the Arby’s tables and the Wendy’s posters with a cut-out Jollibee logo glued on in place of that of Wendy’s.
Although I’m usually gutsy with food, I decided to skip it and just rely on the boys’ tastebuds, and I was very thankful that I did when I saw the boys’ meals. The boys though claim the food wasn’t bad at all, but I’m not sure if we can rely on their them… they are teenage boys afterall.

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Location: Shmesani, across from the police hut at the end of Thaqafeh Street.
Reservations: no
Phone: 568-8006
Recommended Item: Not the fries.



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