right, right?

While women rights are still a matter of discussion here and freedom of speech is the freedom of what they want you to say.While we are swimming in a sea of problems environmental economical social and political, somewhere over the rainbow way up high in finland "every citizen has the legal right to a 1Mbps broadband connection, meaning that providers are now required to make the connections available to everyone." engadget

el-vanet (2)

The following story actually happened with me 5 years ago. I was waiting for a van, and one passed by. It kept moving until I couldn't recognize the numbers on its license plates. I said to myself, no problem fi ghayro, so I waited for another one. Without notice, I was hit from behind, and brought to the ground. Yes, it was that distant Van. 2alle: tale3? iltillo: la2, ma sheyefne 3am ikdosh el2ared?

Another time and in the same location, i was a live witness to an extraterrestrial event. Tlo3et bi van w mshina shi 20 meters la ytalle3 wa7ad teni, bi2oum byiji van teni w bishekk 3layna w byekhod elzboun. Fa sar yzammer haydek w y3ayyet w ysabseb... Until his rage went to a place no rage has went before. Da3as benzin w darab elvan yall iddemo. Till here no surprise, common day stuff. Now i thought the other should get off his van and beat the crap out of the guy of the van I'm in. On the contrary, he kept calm, switched on "Reverse" and re-hit our van, ktir cool kenet el3amaliyye. The funny part, my van's driver didn't react, since he most probably felt stupid hitting him in the first place, and knew what an ash he made out of himself.

government supports sports

X: 3ashu el fer2e3? batal fee t2nin?
Y: la2 rib7o le brazil
X: el mondial?
Y: la2 3a se7el el 3aj
X: ok

between the rebroadcasting rights for the world cup and buying our participation in the basketball world championship, we spent 1.2 million dollars (i know the prime minister paid the 500k for basketball from his own pocket) just for the sake of arguing let us see what could the government do with such a number...
-steal the money
-pay 3000 employee minimum wage($400)
-60000 tanket benzin at price of $20 dollar each
-1.2 million rabtit kobez
-road maintenance
-improve our football and basketball leagues
-buy a 20m^2 1st floor flat in beirut

it is not like it is the first time the government wastes money.They are pros at this actually it is all they do. 1.2 million dollars is a lot of money to spend recklessly.

ad by the ministry of tourism

I heard our minster of tourism talk about the budget for advertising lebanon and the tourism industry abroad and how it is really low compared to other arab countries. I wanted to help so i came up with an advertisement idea.Just imagine the setting and the music for yourself since our blog (for now) has no pics or music. The voice over goes something like this...In a world filled with greed and no guarantees.In a world of violence wars woes and uncertainty.The next time you think of place to run away to from all of this, think of lebanon and remember that the only assured thing in the whole world is that each day in lebanon fee te2nin.

3ada 2ilaykom min jadid (2)

Great post days, I'd like to add one thing to it:

-Ever noticed our football fields (or in modern Lebanese: male3eb elfatbol), they have some grass, yes, but only on the sides. This is because all players run together only on the midfield (We don't play on the wings, kick ash Lebanese strategy).

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I'd like to talk about the current flag phenomenon in Lebanon, 2 words: "We're Crazy". No other country does that !! Not even the ones playing in the world cup !! Come on people, a Falafel sandwich is more of a benefit than a flag.

I once saw a car having 4 flags, for 4 different countries, maybe he thinks he's the United Nations (UN). I bet you saw similar phenomena, feel free to share the

m with us.

3ada 2ilaykom min jadid

It is world cup time and the football hype is all over the place. I figured this post should be related to football. I was and still am a big fan of captain majed*(and I think anyone who likes football should also be a fan). Also when I was a child I used to follow the lebanese football league and was a fan of a certain team. If you remember any captain majed episode you will remember how comical and how unrealistic it was and coincidentally if have seen any football game in lebanon you will notice the striking similarities between our football game and style and captin majed's. Here are some similarities:

-even now our football style is similar to the style used in the 70's and 80's (captain majed was produced in the 80's I guess)

-captain majed and his teammates always run up a hill in football field. Our fields also have many hills

-it always took captain majed's team about half an episode + commercials to reach the other side of the field. Same thing with our teams

-just like captain majed, in our teams only one player was the star and always had the ball

-referees were obsolete any you rarely saw them

-the acting and the drama that occurs whenever a player is injured(this actually happens everywhere)

-during an episode you only see a handful of team supporters(although the stands were packed).At an average lebanese football game you also saw a handful of supporters if any(before the baning the fans from the stands ).

-“game” commentator sucks

If you have noticed any other similarities please feel free to share them.

*for any one who doesn't know, captain majed was a japanese animated series(dubbed in arabic) about a football star known as captain majed

they all are the same

It is well known to everyone that beirut suffers from social class differences. You have areas where the rich tend to live and other areas where people with economical difficulties live. If you walk around the streets in the rich areas you might step on dog feces or smell dog urine, you will be pissed but you carry on with your life. The same thing can also happen on a street in a "poor" area only the difference is that the thing you stepped on might be human feces and the thing you smelled is human urine now you will be more angry, start cursing and start calling people ignorant stupid and anything that comes on your mind. Let me tell you a thing feces are feces are feces, they all smell as bad. Let me add a thing while it is actually ignorant stupid and anything that comes on your mind for people to answer the call of nature on the street, it is just as bad ignorant stupid and anything that comes on your mind for people to leave their dog's feces on the street without cleaning them.

la wen wasil

In this post i will not talk about how a servis driver drives or the state of his car, i will not mention how he respects the laws and the people around him. I will complain about how many times he blows the horn or how annoying it is to be stuck behind him while driving. I will forget the B.Os and inevitable talk about fuel prices.The fore mentioned characteristics are known to everyone they are the foundations of your average stereotypical servis driver so there is no need to go deep. What i will discuss is remarkable. Many might have noticed it before but only until lately i was able to figure it out. A lot of servis drivers are not servis drivers by trade. They all were millionaires, doctors, engineers, businessmen. Most of them lived for years in europe the gulf region or even the U.S.A.Some will say gambling got them to where they are other will blame a woman and others will tell you stories of how some guy somewhere (mainly a family member or at least of lebanese origins)screwed them over because they were kind-hearted. Some will try to prove it by mentioning facts or just squeezing in some technical words. Even if your education was minimal you will notice that their facts are wrong and the words they use have nothing to do with their claimed field of expertise. Those stories might be true for some but for the majority of drivers they just are not. Drivers might either use the stories to create a false identity or just for entertainment. Whatever the reason is, 3andak m3alim there is nothing wrong in being just a plain sevis driver.

Liberation Day

As the authors of this blog, hash and days (so far), we would like to congratulate all the Lebanese with this glorious day that we celebrate each year. This day makes us forget all negative and paranormal things that happen in this country.

A new equation has been set today, if our seas get besieged, their ships will be sinked. This should give the Israelis something to think about, luckily we know their way to salvation. Here it goes:

If ships can be hit, jet fighters might as well, which gives Israelis no choice but to go inland. So we suggest that they start buying some ground-to-ground missiles like Hizbollah, since their applied strategies suck bad. Anyway no matter what they do their days are numbered.

Now to the most important thing we have to say in case our Blog gets hacked: "IZA HAJAMTOM MAWKI3ANA, SA NAKSOF MATAR BEN GORION FI TAL ABIB."

to cross a street

On my daily route to uni i have to cross a street. The street isn't very wide yet traffic flows constantly. Usually i have to wait about 5 to 7 min to get a chance to cross. Unlike me young ladies cross in no time, their head tilted down eyes closed and before you know it they are on the other side.For the young ladies, drivers stop and wait patiently for them to cross ever so slowly as if doing a runway show.I thought i should give it a try being under the illusion that all i needed was a little bravery.... but no it didn't work all i got was horns blown at me and drivers cursing left and right. I figured i should go back to my own ways and wait 5 to 7 min.

the sea

So I was walking around in Beirut going somewhere and an unfortunate but casual thing happened, the smell of sewer. It didn't bother me a lot but, the smell ... it reminded me of something... but i couldn't quite put my finger on it... at the end of the day it struck me like lightning, it reminded me of the Lebanese sea....

el-vanet

There's something that I always wished of writing about, the Lebanese public transport system, or what we call "el-vanet". There would be more coming series about this subject.

Saba2 w e3din bil van el-lobneni? (the one with the 14 seats)

Bi2ouloulak inno el3akl el-lobneni motakhallef !!! I will prove the fallacy of this statement, just please be patient in reading.

Elmolfet bil amer inno lamma tiji biddak to33od bil van, bitla7ez inno ma fi ma7al la t7ot ijrek (ntibih, 7atta law kinit 2aseer). Ya3ni, hal ya tora yalli sammamo (designed) hal van, hal2ad aghbiya ma bya3erfo "the average man proportions"? Am sammamou la wled zghar, la 7atta 3emlin elbank blizi2 elteni?

7a2i2et el-amer inno el-van yalli "originally designed" la ykoun fi 3 bnouke, is being re-engineered and redesigned to accomodate 4. Hon elzaka el-lobneni byozhar, bil economics wil business. Shou bya3mel sa7eb el-van? Byidfosh el-bnouke 3a ba3ed w bizid bank. Bhal tari2a bizid elcapacity lal rokkeb min 11 la 14, increasing efficiency 27% per na2le. W tkhayyalo kam na2le bya3mel 3al khat bil nhar... Ya3ni law byotla3lo lal shofer yo2osmo lal van, ya3emlo tab2en (2 stories) ma ken bi2asser...

Matabbet Siye7iyye

This is the first opening post of this blogspot. And today came the idea of this blog, where we discuss all these small things that people say don't matter. Well, everything matters. And if we talk, it's only because we care and want to do some change to our community.

The First subject as the title says is about "Matabbet Siye7iyye". We were cruising in Beit Mery, and Broumana, w la7azna inno elmatabbet yalli 3al tor2at honik gher shikel. Ma b7aje la tid3as frem inta w tale3 3layon. Bi beirut byisef2oulak hayda elmatab yalli irtife3o nos meter, hayda extra deluxe bi sammou. Fi mattabbet kamen bi beirut byiji waraha doghri joura, hayda el super deluxe byib2a. Ya3ni iza bidna nkaren te3oul Beit Mery w Broumana ma3 matabbet beirut, minle2i holik matabbet siye7iyye.