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Gad el Maleh is not coming!! Ya Waylaaaaaah...

layalk@gmail.com (nightS) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:56:00 +0000

Seriously people,
What image are you talking about that's ruined??
Where is it?? And HOW for god's sake is it ruined??

Clashes in Beirut last week and a woman died..
Israel wondering in Lebanon..
That doesn't ruin the friggin' image(if any)?

So what he's not coming??
Am I missing something here??
Is the economy ruined now??
Should I go and get food supplies and stuff for the great famine??
Did I lose the opportunity to have a decent life in this country?
I know you guys hate Al Manar..
but they have this right called "freedom of speech"
(whether you liked it or not)

This is probably the best thing happened to this Guy..
free publicity and advertizing!!

You need Comedy and you appreciate a good laugh??
Watch our politicians every night..it's even free!!

I wasn't going to write about this but got encouraged by Jamal's Post.

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التحقيق الطائفي

layalk@gmail.com (nightS) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:25:00 +0000

بمجرد ما يسمعوا إني خطبت..
بتبلّش الأسئلة..
أسئلة هدفها واحد فقط لا غير
معرفة طائفة الشخص..اللي هو خطيبي..

الأسئلة متنوعة جداً وتدل على يأس الإنسان اللي قدامي بمعرفة الطائفة
و بشكل غير مباشر التوجه السياسي
بس ما بيسألوا لأن برأيهم التوجه السياسي يعرف بمعرفة الطائفة...
(ياعمّي الليبانيز بيبل غير شكل)

الأسئلة بتكون على الشكل التالي..
من وين
من بيت مين؟ (إسم العائلة )
وين ساكن؟
شو إسمه؟(هيدا إذا فشلوا تحيد الطائفة من الأسئلة السابقة)
أهله من وين؟
وين ساكنين
إلخ إلخ إلخ....

والمشكلة إنو ما بيسألوا السؤال المباشر..
طبعاً لأنهم مش متعصبين طائفياً!!!

فأنا صراحة بناءً على هالظاهرة الجديدة (بالنسبة لي..الطائفية موجودة بجينات الليبانيز بيبل)
قررت وفّر وقتهم و وقتي ورد بكلّ صراحة و وضوح على سؤالهم (الحقيقي)*
...
شو رأيكم؟

*ردة الفعل بدها قصة ثانية

Lebanese Elections 2009 on Twitter

layalk@gmail.com (nightS) — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 07:58:00 +0000

For latest and live updates..follow the hashtag #lebanonelections via twitter.
Check this twitterfall search as well.

About this Equality...

layalk@gmail.com (nightS) — Fri, 15 May 2009 16:30:00 +0000

I need to straight up a point here:

When I call for male and female equality I mean I want men to be as good as women not the opposite. Although this is a male-dominant society -the one and only Middle East-, women are much better. And I would never want to change myself or any other female to reach the miserable state of the typical Middle East "man".

A very simple example, sexually promiscuous men shouldn't be encouraged (they're free after all) instead of looked at as studs and real "Men". While on the other side, women should be granted the abortion rights no matter how bad her reputation was when she was raped!! This stupid 'You Deserve It' theory SUCKS!!

So PLEASE dear man, don't understand me talking about women rights that I look up to you, or that I want and fight to be like you...

I'm sorry if this offended anyone but I've had enough with the sexist comments I hear each time I discuss the Arab Women Issues in the area with someone.

Soon...

layalk@gmail.com (nightS) — Fri, 08 May 2009 19:44:00 +0000

This is blog and it's owner are having a complete makeover..

I'm FINALLY getting my own domain name.
I'll be one of the newest Drupal users :)
I'll start a semi service which will help (I hope so)... more on that later
I have LOTS of books and documents to read!! I don't know where to start, but I know I have to ASAP
I need to do something about my attitude..

I have been postponing everything..it's time to do something about it!!

layalk@gmail.com (nightS) — Mon, 04 May 2009 05:53:00 +0000

Good morning everyone..

Diigo Bookmarks (weekly)

layalk@gmail.com (nightS) — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:34:00 +0000

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

Diigo Bookmarks (weekly)

layalk@gmail.com (nightS) — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:34:00 +0000

Breaking: Internet Explorer 8.1 Eagle Eyes Leaked | How-To | Smashing Magazine
LOL
tags: ie, ie8, browsers, funny, april-fool

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

ساعة الأرض بلبنان..غير شكل

layalk@gmail.com (nightS) — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:41:00 +0000

بكرا ساعة الأرض
بدكن تطفوا كل شي كهربا لمدة ساعة
من الساعة 8 ونص لل9 ونص
خطوة كتير حلوة كرمال الأرض و حمايتها شوي من الإحتباس الحراري

أنا برأيي نعطي لبنان و لحكومته جائزة
لأنه طلعت عم تحمي الأرض مش عم تنصب عالشعب
بالتقنين طبعاً
ببيروت 3 ساعات بدون كهربا كل يوم
بضواحي بيروت والجبل يمكن توصل ل12 ساعة بلا كهربا كل يوم

شكراً حكومتنا الخضراء

تحديث: حكومة لبنان خضراء من زمان..
مش جديدة هالشغلة..وآكلة

Diigo Bookmarks (weekly)

layalk@gmail.com (nightS) — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:35:00 +0000

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

إكتشفت إنّو

layalk@gmail.com (nightS) — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:15:00 +0000

بعيد ميلادي ال23 (من يومين)
ما لقيت عندي شي إتمناه زيادة أنا وعم بطفي الشمع

ما كنت متوقعة أوصل لهالمرحلة بكير هالقد
:)

Gmail Day Dreams...

layalk@gmail.com (nightS) — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:00:00 +0000

...or more likely Nightmares.
I didn't care much when I knew about the Gmail outage. I was at work with hundreds of stuff to do...

10 minutes later, I started to freak out, I thought about every web-application, account, subscription and contacts I use..Most of them (if not All) depend on my Gmail account. I even use Gmail for online file storage :$. I would literally die 'virtually' without it.*

Although the idea of Google owning us all (what I concluded from the freakig out) may annoy some, I still like Google. At least it united the world for a couple of hours for a good cause: Communication. That's what we all humans are here for **...right?

* (I know only the Web Interface was down and it wasn't that bad. I tend to dramatize things).
**(And we suck at it).

إكتشفت إنّو

layalk@gmail.com (nightS) — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:39:00 +0000

كرهي لعيد الحب ماكان لأنه كنت وحيدة
هلأ أنا مع أحسن شخص ممكن كون معه
بس بعدني مابحب عيد الحب
حتى ماجبنا لبعض هدايا

حبوا بعض...كل يوم

Geocities 1996

layalk@gmail.com (nightS) — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:05:00 +0000

If you're into web design, then you definitely heard about 'CSS Zen Garden'.According to the Zen Garden it's:

A demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS-based design.

In short it's a place where web designers can show off their skills and designs. You take the plain HTML markup they give you, work on a design, style the HTML you took with CSS without changing a single bit in the HTML. It's pretty challenging and that's why you see wonderful submissions from around the world...

My favorite was the "Retro Theatre" theme. Until I saw the "Geocities 1996" one. Watch out before viewing it...It can hurt your eyes :P The author said he was nostalgic when he decided to create this beautifull mess, I mean design :D. He's brilliant!

I hope this motivates you to submit your own Zen Garden CSS Design.

The most difficult Tag ever

layalk@gmail.com (nightS) — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:35:00 +0000

Lasto-Adri tagged me with the toughest tag ever..I suffer from the lack-of-favorites syndrome so listing my favorite things isn't an easy thing to do at all..But I'll try...

Favorite color: Well I'm choosing black alot these days...but still it's not a favorite yet.
Favorite perfume (guys): I don't know...they all smell the same..
Favorite perfume (girls): YAY I know this one..Ralph-Ralph Lauren..I'll get my fifth bottle soon.
Favorite pj brand: I don't know.
Favorite clothes brand in general: I don't know. Affordable brands?
Favorite person in the entire world: Him, Parents and Sisters.
Favorite country: Despite all the corruption and the sick society...Lebanon..that's why I came back and I'm not planning to leave anytime soon.
Favorite car: I don't know...
Favorite sport: I don't know..Yoga?? I prefer the stretch-your-muscle school over the make-it-big one.
Favorite sport player: I don't know..I don't even care to know :)
Favorite spot in the World: A Beach?
Favorite animal: Dogs maybe...they're loyal.
Favorite movie: I don't know
Favorite singer: I don't know either..!
Favorite day in the week: I don't know..
Favorite time of the day: Early morning..when it's very calm.
Favorite holiday season: All..
Favorite number: 3
Favorite food: Anything..I'm not very picky..I just can't stand Bananas...And I don't like chocolate and sweets in general
Favorite chocolate: I don't like chocolate.
Favorite cartoon: I don't know..but I like cartoons
Favorite blogger: I don't know...they're so many...
Favorite Flavor Ice Cream: Vanilla
Favorite Mobile Brand: I don't know
Favorite name: Hmmm...I like Layal :)
Favorite hobby: I'm very moody when it comes to hobbies...But in general: Playing Guitar and Reading.
Favorite room in my house: Bedroom.
Favorite Fruit: I don't know...I like all fruits..except for Bananas..
Favorite flower: I don't know..
Favorite Quran Reciter: I don't know
Favorite Ayah: I don't know
Favorite Website: :D Okay I know this one, they're not actually "websites" anymore:
Google and all of its products (I know it's evil..but I'm addicted) Google Reader, GMail , Jaiku, Twitter, Flickr, Blogger, Wordpress(I'm moving soon), and actually anything that has to do with online social networking, except for Facebook!! I never liked it!!

There's also the websites I follow that covers every inch in Web Design/Development:
nettuts, psdtuts, Smashing Magasine, Web Designer Wall, Noupe....I can go forever...

Feel free to be tagged :)

Yalla...back to work!

Sick Society

layalk@gmail.com (nightS) — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:00:00 +0000

I can't believe I live in a society where
many excuses can be found for a sexual harasser
and a gay or lesbian person wouldn't be looked at as a human being!

Personal Post

layalk@gmail.com (nightS) — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:19:00 +0000

It's been a while..I don't know why I never thought of quitting blogging. Sometimes I forget I have a blog but I never thought of deleting it.
The past 6 months were crazy. New job, new life, new people, new everything. Everything around me changed. I almost changed myself.
I worked hard to impress special people. I worked so hard that I almost lost my identity, I became a person who says sorry alot (can you believe that?). I was happy and sad because I was scared of losing this happiness, or that's what I thought.

I ended up being a totally different person. And when you change your inner self, it doesn't matter if you're better or worse now. It's just not you anymore, and it's always bad! Because you'll never be you.

I don't make any sense, all I know is that I should stop whatever I'm doing and be the old stubborn, mean and rude me again. I might work on my attitude a bit to be a better "social" person but that's it. I can't handle losing the people I almost ruined myself for.

Oh, Happy New Year!

إكتشفت إنّو

layalk@gmail.com (nightS) — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:17:00 +0000

مش لازم غيّر بحالي لكون أحسن بنظر حدا
يمكن هالشخص عاجبه حالي هيك

وإذا لازم غيّر حالي..لازم كون أحسن بنظري أنا قبل أيّا حدا

zzzzz

layalk@gmail.com (nightS) — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:22:00 +0000

Every time it happens, we get busy blaming ourselves!

Zionists hit Lebanon, everyone get busy blaming Hezbollah.
Zionists hit Gaza, everyone get busy blaming Hamas, then everyone get busy blaming Egypt, and then everyone get busy blaming everyone for blaming Egypt, then everyone get busy blaming everyone for blaming Hamas...And ofcourse, everyone get busy blaming Iran as well..(I can go forever here).

It's not wrong to make a statement or say what you stand for out loud to everyone. But it's wrong to forget the main goal for all of this: to end the suffering caused by the Zionists. Stop wasting your whole time on blaming everyone because it won't change anything. Yes it won't! It's not like Mubarak will suddenly open his borders, and it's not like Nasrallah will praise Egypt in his next speeches. The Arabs will remain puppets, more Children will die, more Arabs will watch them die and blame Egypt/Hamas/Iran/Hezbollah.....etc.

Have no faith in your leaders.
Have no faith in your people to get rid of your leaders.
Do something to end the suffering: Donate, support Gaza with your heart before your money.

I haven't visited this blog for a while now but I had to say something about this. TFEH

لغزة

layalk@gmail.com (nightS) — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:40:00 +0000

Shoe!!

layalk@gmail.com (nightS) — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:27:00 +0000

What's hilarious about the incident is that he missed !! It wouldn't have been this funny if the shoes landed on his face!!

What's more hilarious is Angry Arab's reaction posts.

What's even more hilarious is this. (What's your score guys?)

Aurora Borealis

layalk@gmail.com (nightS) — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:54:00 +0000

Emergency Shelter, originally uploaded by orvaratli.

Nature is amazing..
But this...I have never seen anything like this before..
this is more than amazing!!!
Someday, I'll go and see them for real!
I will..

What is Aurora Borealis(Wiki)

إكتشفت إنّو

layalk@gmail.com (nightS) — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:36:00 +0000

إذا مواطن لبناني حاول يتذاكى ويقول إنو لا مع المعارضة ولا مع الموالاة

وبلّش يتفلسف ويبعبع بالوحدة الوطنية والعيش المشترك

فيك تكمشه لما تجي سيرة وئام وهّاب

مهضوم؟ معارض

&*(#$@!*؟ موالي

Blog Questionaire

layalk@gmail.com (nightS) — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:33:00 +0000

Email from Maha Taki:

Hello bloggers

I'm currently doing exploratory research on blogging for my PhD degree at the University of Westminster, UK. I would really appreciate it if you could take a few minutes of your time to fill out this questionnaire in order to help me find out more about blogging in Lebanon and Syria. Your replies are crucial to helping in my evaluation. Most people are able to complete the questionnaire in less than 8 minutes.

Please note that your responses and any comments will be treated with the utmost confidentiality and your annonymity will be granted throughout my analysis. If you have questions at any time about the survey or the procedures, please do not hesitate to contact me at mahataki@gmail.com.

Thank you very much for your time and valuable input and please pass on the link to other bloggers and put it on your blog if possible.

I have two versions: One in english and one in Arabic. Please only fill out the one of your language choice, they are identical.

English version:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=ga_2f1i2evTudF5QgJDGWXow_3d_3d

Arabic version:
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حضرة المدوِّن

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كُن على ثقة في أنّي سأعالج أجوبتك وتعليقاتك بسرية تامة. إن كان لديك أي سؤال حول الاستبيان أو الإجراءات المتبعة، فلا تتردد في الاتصال بي على البريد الإلكتروني التالي:

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أشكرك جزيل الشكر على وقتك ومساهمتك القيّمة. أرجو منك أن ترسل هذا الرابط إلى مدوِّنين اآخرين

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إكتشفت إنّو

layalk@gmail.com (nightS) — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:28:00 +0000

الموظّف الجديد عنّا شكله مش عاجبه إنو المسؤولة عنه بنت
:D
ما بعرف ليه بس كتير مستمتعة بالموضوع...شماتة؟