A Jordanian beauty
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Now that’s amusing, Miss New York is originally Jordanian. Her name is Jaclyn Nsheiwat. Nsheiwat is an indigenous Christian Jordanian family from the city of Salt. Long live Jordanian beauty! |
A better day
Ok, it seems like this day is better than tomorrow. As soon as I got to the office at 7:00 am I heard the news of the assassination of Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmad Yassin. This kept me busy all during the day.
On the Tunisia front, things seem to be working out. I am booked for this Friday 26 March, scheduled to return by the 31st. I will go via Dubai so it will be interesting to get a chance to check out Dubai’s airport, as it is rated “best in the world.”
Also, I got the equipment for the trip: A dell laptop computer and a Sony digital camera.
On the health front, though, I am still suffering. The coughs don’t seem to want to stop and the general fatigue is still there. I Hope to get better before the big trip!
Uff!!
My health is bad at the moment. I spent the weekend in bed … Sore throat, frequent coughs and general fatigue.
As for the Tunisia trip, it is actually proving to be a headache due to some expected complications. Don’t know when or if I am going to cover the summit. I should “know bukra” (tomorrow) … yeah whatever!
Meanwhile, the saga with Qtel continues. Our landline was disconnected just three weeks after its installation … of course this comes with no explanation. So here we are, once again sans phone and sans internet. In other words, completely isolated.
After making a couple of phone calls it turns out that we have exceeded our bill limit for this month. Could this be possible? No! And who said there was a bill limit in the first place? It is becoming obvious Qtel sucks and they control everything here: cable, mobile, internet and all local and long distance telephone. This is the usual situation when a company has a monopoly says my spouse, the telecom conspiracy theorist.
The issue still remains a mystery and requires further investigation.
Finally
We finally made it. We moved to our new apartment on the third floor.
We are pretty pleased with the new place although there is still work to be done. Jeff moved everything on his own on Wednesday night as I worked until midnight that day.
The poor boy! His back is still hurting from all the moving.
That was the highlight of the weekend. As usual, there were also movies and pancakes. We watched Darkness: horrible horrible, not recommended, The Italian Job: an overrated “guys’ flick” and White Oleander, which is actually really very nice.
Parlez vouz Francais?
I spent most of the day working out the details of the upcoming trip. This entailed calling Tunisa and man, that was fun, as I got to try out my long-forgotten French.
The Tunisian Arabic is anything but mainstream and so different from my Arabic! It was fun, as we managed to communicate somehow, through a mixture of Arabic, English and French.