Category Archives: Random

The Ring of Invisibility

An old man somehow ends up lost in a vast desert where East, West, North and South all reflect an endless terrain of dunes that span far into the distance, into the horizon, as if kissing the skies. It doesn’t matter who this man is, or if he is even …

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Marriage or my Honda?

Seriously. I think I have had enough of my car. It has become so heavy on the pocket, seemingly only shirking the contents of my wallet to… thin air. I have a ‘98 Honda Civic. I like my car. It is black, has nice rims, has nice thin profile tires, …

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A Reason To Be Slow…

Be punctual. Be prepared. Be creative. Corporate slogans pumped to pump up:  pushing employees to give it all they got. Their biggest nightmare? B12. I recall it was three or four years ago when I first heard a cousin of mine mention B12. Since then, the vitamin has become a …

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The ‘Cheapness’ of Time

Red bull seems to be doing well… They sponsor everything, don’t they? So well that time itself seems to be drinking it; for time seems to have acquired ‘juweineh’ (wings) and is now officially – and I am the official doing the officializing* here – flying. So its been said …

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What is the difference between B.C., A.D., B.C.E., and C.E.?

What is the difference between B.C., A.D., B.C.E., and C.E.? B.C., which stands for “Before Christ,” is used to date events before the birth of Jesus. A.D. is the abbreviation for the Latin phrase anno Domini, which means “in the year of our Lord,” and is used for dates after …

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Lost in translation…

Some Arabic phrases translated word for word (or close enough) to English seem to somehow lose their meaning or sound utterly hilarious. I’ve only added 4 translated sentences below and hope that you can help me by adding your own translated Arabic-to-English sentences in the comment section. I will later …

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One more candle…

February 4th was my birthday. That was almost 3 hours ago. Another year has gone by and I have another 365 days full of events and memories to archive in my head and heart. Time flies has always been the saying, but I would like to stress the fact that …

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The bathroom is my temple.

“Wait wait… go in with your left foot”, is something most of us raised in this part of the world may have heard from our admonishing parents or grandparents as we made our way into bathrooms, washrooms, WCs, toilets, 7ammams, etc… Well left foot or right foot, or both feet …

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