Great news for anyone who missed out on the first fantastic calligraphy workshop, there’s going to be more!
I took a similar course with the same calligrapher (Saleh Nasab) a few months ago and it was awesome. You can see pictures and read more about that experience here and here.
For more information, contact Hussein AlAzaat [alazaat (at) gmail.com] or check out the Facebook event group here.
Open Firefox window. Open AndFarAway tab. Ctrl+R. Nothing. Work a little.
Open Firefox window. Open AndFarAway tab. Ctrl+R. Nothing. Check my email.
Open Firefox window. Open AndFarAway tab. Ctrl+R. Nothing. Stare blankly at window.
Open Firefox window. Open AndFarAway tab. Ctrl+R. Nothing. Make more coffee.
Open Firefox window. Open AndFarAway tab. Ctrl+R. Nothing. Work some more.
Open Firefox window. Open AndFarAway tab. Ctrl+R. Nothing. Bitch to anyone who listens.
Open Firefox window. Open AndFarAway tab. Ctrl+R. Nothing. Start screaming uncontrollably.
That was exactly what the past 3 days were like for me, a case of Ctrl+R OCD, thanks to Yahoo’s unreliable webhosting. The moment my blog rendered after a Ctrl+R, I felt one of the best feelings ever. I never thought I’d be that kind of person, but what do you know.
Anyway, back up and running I guess, unless the gods of servers decide to change their minds, and then… I’ll probably have a heart attack. Otherwise, thanks to everyone who emailed, the guys at the office for putting up with my constant nagging, Ibrahim for letting me steal his blog, Tim and Hal for being super nice, Naseem for making me feel normal about my withdrawal symptoms, and my parents for freaking out along with me.
Wow, that feels like an Oscar speech. I haven’t watched a SINGLE Oscar nominated-movie for the year.
With the Ikbis team trying to join the festive spirit of Ramadan, they’re giving away Nokia NSeries devices to the Ikbis user who sends them the most interesting photographs expressing what Ramadan means to him/her.
So go ahead, get your cameras out, snap a few pictures of the moon, your family on the Iftar table, Ramadan decorations around your town, or I don’t know, some other type of insanely creative idea that reflects Ramadan (Ahhh! Shoes hanging instead of Fawanees!), upload it to the contest channel, and cross your fingers and hope that the stars are shining bright.
Yalla. Get them cameras out to make sure you celebrate Eid with a brand spanking new phone.
Thanks to everyone who filled up the survey, I’m afraid that even with my printed-out, color-coded attempts, I couldn’t count the votes to come up with easy to read answers. I did though find out what I was interested in, which is that the words in the survey were most familiar to people of Palestinian origin. Most of them were not familiar to Egyptians and Gulfians, while being more familiar to people from the Levant, which is expected I suppose as all the words were from Aramaic / Syriac origins rather than Arabic.
Thanks again to everyone who participated!
My mother and I are spending the rest of the week in Aqaba, and so I will be offline for a while. I haven’t been to Aqaba since I was a child, and I have little memories of the city. I also haven’t been to the seaside since summer 2004, and so its exciting. Not that I miss the sea itself much, I guess you can say I’m a landmass girl. My mother, on the other hand, spent a lot of her childhood in a house on the shores of Jeddah, and so she constantly misses the sea, the sound of the sea, the smell of the sea, and the fish in the sea. Personally, I’m excited about getting the chance to eat some fresh seafood, stare into space with absolutely nothing to do, and darken up a bit. I’m sort of dreading the heat, which according to Mr. Weatherman, is one of the hottest bouts of the year. Yalla, my body better remember that it spent most of its life in Saudi Arabia, where the 36-degree-Celsius induced national panic attack is something to laugh about.
Hey, I’d really appreciate it if you take a second to fill out this reader survey that I need for blogging-related reasons, it’s pretty short and will take you only a few minutes. Thanks a lot in advance :)
I’ve been getting a lot of complaints about the spam filter in the comments section, and I know that it can get really annoying (but hey, it’s still a lot better than the math equation spam filters). Unfortunately though, it will have to stay because spammers should go to hell.
On the bright side though, there’s a little workaround to that that will even spare you typing in your information every time you comment, as well as lower the chances of getting your comment thrown out into the moderation que by my retarded spam filter. All you have to do is register, then keep yourself logged onto this blog (log in here).
I guess that’s really as user-friendly as I can get :)
A lot of things happening these days… I’m sorry for not replying to emails, I haven’t been checking my mail because I need the peace of mind until I’m done with my graduation project. Ok, that’s all for now I guess.
An initiative at this year’s Cannes Festival through Reel Ideas Studio is a “focus on global networking and the evolution of shared ideas”, and so what they did was create international 4-person teams to shoot documentaries at Cannes.
My soon-to-be-ex-adviser and friend Tarik is one of the people involved in the teams, and it’s pretty cool. They have their experience in a blog-like setting with videos and all. It’s worth checking out, although it’s in Flash, and , ehhh, I hate Flash, its very un-user friendly! I can’t even link directly to their blog… but what you can do to check it out is go to Reel Ideas Studio, click “On the Ground”, and find the blog for “Team Cre8iv”. After the 23rd, you can even see the documentary they created. You can also leave them your feedback.
Looks like fun!
