مشعل جريس الخيطان الهلسة
(شربل) ا
ستتم مراسم الدفن في قريته حمود في الكرك
يوم الأربعاء 8 تموز 2009
التجمع في مقر الحزب المركزي الساعة 9:30 ظهرا
لتجهيز الاعلام والرايات
الانطلاق الى مستشفى الامل للسرطان الساعة 11:00 ظهرا
الوصول الى المستشفى 11:20 ظهرا
الانطلاق من المستشفى 12:00 ظهرا
الوصول الى قرية حمود 3:00 عصرا
تبدأ مراسم الدفن عند الوصول الى القرية
**يرجى الالتزام بلمواعيد
Jul 7, 2009
رحيل شربل (مشعل) خيطان الهلسة
Jun 26, 2009
Why am i thinking of jokes about Michael Jackson's death !!
Whats wrong with me :s jokes are popping up in my mind ever since i heard that Michael Jackson died !!! why am i allowing myself to make light of death ,especially that i have some serious issues with "death" ,its probably the most thing i so fiercely hate in this life ! weird ! I want to go on but I'm having mean thoughts thats supposedly funny ! :s i better go blow off this energy doing thriller routine ! see !!!!??
Jun 23, 2009
Smile ! you're in south Lebanon - إبتسم أنت في جنوب لبنان
The documentary was filmed in south Lebanon a year after the 2006 war when Dalia went to check on her relatives ! through it,you do realize how these people survive a war after a war and from where they get their strength ,so many black comedy situations (real situations) !like the toddler saying "2at3aaaat" when the electricity cut off...like making use of the TNT powder from the exploded bombs.... we also get to notice the very unique fabric of the Lebanese society even within one (extended) family ,who all live in south Lebanon,who are all of Palestinian origins like when two siblings asked if they have Hassan Nasrullah's picture in their houses and the two very different answers and justifications !
there is a lot of joy in the documentary ,so many laughs ! its just...u gotta watch it ! I'm not sure when is there another screening ,i'll make sure i'll post , but anyway you can get the original DVD from Dalia for 5 JD only .
Jun 17, 2009
Jun 16, 2009
منظومة الدفاع الشعبية لتحدي الكوارث و إنفلونزا الخنازير
Jun 9, 2009
مطلوب ذاكرة مع صورة بالأبيض و الأسود في بيروت
Jun 3, 2009
Why are Jordanians angry people
I will tell you why , let me tell you how i came to figure out 1st , I've been noticing a gradual change in my mood and temper since i got here,around two weeks period now ,the coolness and relaxation in public places i came to enjoy in Thailand is gradually fading ,and I've been thinking about it ,and been noticing stuff :
1st thing ; we don't say thank you enough :
In Thailand ,when you get into any kind of shop ,or even stop at a street food cart you're greeted "welcome" ,and after you ordered and paid the seller they'd say "Thank you" when they take the money from you, and then when they return the cash or hand you your bags ! however big or small the shop is ,everyone would do the same .with time -believe it or not- ,coming into a shop becomes a relaxing thing . WHERE IN JORDAN : you get into the shop,no one gives a damn ,you say "Marhaba" or "Salamo alaykom" and I'd say you have 4:1 chance of being ignored too.you order your stuff (or get them yourself) and go to the cashier , there is a big chance he'll be sacking it up and calculating while he is not even looking at you,talking to some other guy or on the phone,or even worse sitting on his chair laying back at the wall reaching his arms full length to do everything without moving an inch ,you hand him the bloody money ,he gives you the bloody change;still not looking at your graceful face ,YOU say "Thank you" or Shukran,and this one has a 6:1 chance of being ignored . believe it or not ,its starting to make me hostile towards all sellers ,its just not a nice feeling ! .
2nd thing ; Taxi drivers are self-proclaimed Gods .
I don't drive and i don't own a car ,i take taxis ! when you wave to one of them ,they slow down,ask you through the window (while still moving) "WHERE TO?" you tell him "somewhere" and he hits the gas and keep going .just like that.best case scenario he'd tell you -cuz he is a self-proclaimed God- "no no,not going there" and then hits the gas pedal .
Assuming he wants to take you where you want to go,you have to go with the way he wants to go,cuz he knows better,remember,he is God he knows better .hell,one of them insisted i unbuckle my seat belt cuz he thought i was picking on him and/or making fun of him !! what are these people !!! okay 90% of them,i admit I've been in couple of cabs with real nice clean buckled up drivers with clean nice cars who made me feel like human again . you have to encounter one of the prior kind of drivers and trust me your mood is fucked up for the rest of the day . did i mention they never have change ?or somehow its always 5 piasters short ! W.T.F.
3rd thing ; No where is clean,and everyone smokes everywhere .
now you may wonder (if you haven't lived in a city where everywhere is clean and people don't smoke everywhere) you may wonder how does that effect ones mood ,IT DOES . when the streets are clean,when the parks are clean,when people don't smoke indoors ,or in cars ,you feel good about your community and therefore yourself ,when the whole nation act like that IT DOES make a difference, yes i wasn't really happy with Thai's very strict self commitment to following rules in general,especially when it came to smoking ,but later when i got used to it ,geeeez does that make you feel like a civilized person living in a civilized place !
4th thing ; we don't line up .
Whenever you're anywhere where there is anything that requires people to line up..guess what...you never see the magical line happening ,you see half circles of people over each other's asses and backs each trying to reach their arms as far as they go to get done 1st ...whether its a concert's ticket at Jara Market or the close by bakery ,its always the same scene ,a scene that flashes images of movies such as The Gladiator in your mind walking toward it for some reason .
the list goes on and on .its fucking annoying and depressing ,its sad and fucked up ,we are fucked up,thats why we are angry people ,because we don't know better,and we don't know anything else .
May 27, 2009
كناري أرستقراطي
May 25, 2009
من وين الشب ؟
May 15, 2009
BAPD : Meet Jedditi (Grandma)
No one is exactly sure whats grandma's age ! not even herself,or any of her sons or daughters , but I'd say,she is as old as the wind scratching the face of that naked mountain she lives on,as old as the burning sun she came to make friends with every morning ,she even gave it a place to stay on her body ,between the wrinkles on her smiling cheek,right between the pumped veins on her hands pulling out the bucket from the well in the morning , right on her forehead holding the most delicious Taboon bread on her head taking it home .
Jedditi ; a tower of strength ,raised two daughters and four sons ,who caused her all kind of pain without them knowing ,when one of them was departed,and the others were jailed .
Today, when you go to visit Jedditi, you'll probably find a toddler or two of her grandchildren in her arms,clinging to her Toab (traditional dress) or just following her around . She raised them all,and when we -the ones away- come to visit her,she make it up for us for not being there for us to put us to bed when we were young !
May 7, 2009
To Falafel,or to Mansaf ; that is the question !
I've been doing a lot of visualizing and day-dreaming in the past couple of days about my come back to Jordan, and honestly I've been struggling with this issue ; what to eat 1st ? . Unless you've been away from "home" -wherever "home" is to you- long enough I don't think you're going to really understand the seriousness of this question !:D . I'm arriving at dawn ,I'll be home at breakfast time ,and this very 1st thing I’ll have in my mouth of our food is of a great importance ,I've been craving it for a year and a half now , following my successful Labaneh experience here, I'm only left with two vital players to choose from , to have a steaming hot fresh falafel ,or a Mansaf for that breakfast ? Before i came here I'd consider having Mansaf for breakfast a radical act ,but its all just a state of mind ,let me help you...Imagine that you came to visit me here in Thailand ,we'll be having rice and other stuff mixed with it for breakfast ! no tea no bread no nothing of that .. you'd eat it and be happy about it "wow exotic !!" think of having Mansaf the same way and its not such a bad idea anymore ... I really don't know what to do here ! Maybe have both?
May 6, 2009
Roberto Baggio
The only two things i know about Roberto Baggio are that he is Italian ,and that he missed that penalty kick at the world cup finale in 1994 in which Italy lost !
The Thailand experiment is officially over ,going back home next week . I bet this is how Baggio felt 15 years ago.
on the flip side,no more dogs!!