Off to Lebanon
It’s 11:08 PM and I’m still at work. We are flying tomorrow morning to Lebanon and I haven’t packed yet!! HELP!!!!
Art!
A very good friend, Ahmed Khalidi, of mine is holding an art exhibition in Amman at the French Cultural Centre. He is very talented…too bad I can’t attend
Feedback
I received a hillarious feedback on a story I worked on and published. The story was about a Taliban video sent to Aljazeera. The feedback read as follows:
“I hope camels chew off your mustache!!”
Sad, but funny!
Death of a writer
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One of my favourite Arab writers, Abdul Rahman Munif, died this morning. He died at the age of 71 in Syria. I met him on a couple of occasions in Jordan and was fortunate enough to have him sign a number his novels that I owned. I published a small news item about his death on Aljazeera. His death is a great loss. May his good soul rest in peace. |
I’ve been working late
I haven’t blogged in a while, the reason is simply because I have been working. I have been moved to the B shift which is the afternoon shift, from 2:00 PM until 11:30 PM. So my days have been basically work and nothing more.
I started going back home (which is a still a hotel room) by ‘limo’. It’s not really a limo but that’s what they call it here. It is basically a nice looking car with a driver in a uniform. He charges around 15 Riyal which is around 3JD or nearly $5 to take me back to the hotel.
I feel much safer taking the ‘limo’ than waiting in the street at midnight for a cab. The driver is a nice Sri Lankan called Janica. His English is poor so is his Arabic, but we manage to communicate somehow.
The big day is coming soon. On Sunday we are moving to our first apartment together. Janica might come in handy on that day since we might need his limo!