I don’t really celebrate thanksgiving but SheWrites Inspired me to wite my list of 50 things I am grateful for this thanksgiving. Here goes the list …

01- Internet
02- Music
03- Friends
04- Being Me
05- My Blog
06- KDD Kulfi Ice-Cream
07- Green things
08- My Big Brother
09- Interesting Clients
10- That girl
11- My Mac
12- The Shins
13- My Mom
14- Cheap CDs
15- Misc. Random Magazines
16- Aramex
17- Karen O
18- Thin black women who can really fucking sing.
19- For not saying “I want to quit” anymore.
20- Fruity Loops
21- Cool Edit Pro
22- Hawalli
23- Cell phone still working
24- The car too
25- Being young? (although I don’t feel young anymore)
26- Caffeine
27- My Band, The Tater Tots
28- Educated People
29- Random Individuals who rock (in their own way)
30- Stylish People
31- My ‘Music’
32- Free Porn
33- Fake Friends (made me learn a lot of things about life)
34- My Afro
35- Quentin Tarantino
36- Dark Empty Places
37- Jack Black
38- Girls are still giving me the ‘looks’ (but I guess it’s the afro).
39- Random SMSing
40- Google.com
41- The Dot Com Boom.
42- My little brother’s sense of humor
43- My Camera
44- Masuimi Max
45- Ignorant People
46- My Shitty Speakers
47- The Fucked Up States of America
48- Fusla People
49- My PT
50- God

Today after I dropped my friend home and on my way back home I saw the moon. I was on the 7th ring road (dark and empty) and the moon looked so beautiful, Full and round. I don’t really care if today was 13th or the 14th of the hejri month, honestly, I don’t feel like fasting one more day … till next Ramadan at least.

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Ok, I wrote that yesterday at 3 am or so, then I left Word open and I drank 3 cans of Red Bull (full of sugar for those who care to know) to get ready for the photo shoot. Before drinking them I was like “damn, I really can’t do it. I had a really long day and I think I have to cancel the whole thing” but after drinking them I was doing air guitars to Danger Mouse’s Remix of Jay Z’ “99 Problems”.

My two photographer friends and I went to few locations in jahra. First we went to sha3byaat (AKA Taymaa) and we were lucky that it was really early and nobody was out there. Then we went to the ‘dead forest’ I told you about earlier. The sun wasn’t really good so we stopped shooting and decided to do this again some other day, especially that we didn’t get the chance to shoot anything in ‘sha3byaat’.I think now I have more time to check out more locations out and maybe even discover new ones.

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The other day I saw this chick while I was in this Chinese restaurant. She came with her mom and her big sister. She looked like one of those chicks from Suicide Girls (no piercing, no similar make-up and as far as I saw no tattoos) but my point is she had the potential to be one of them. Why the hell am I saying this? I have no idea … I just saw a picture of Brody Dalle in a magazine which was hot hot hot. Maybe that’s why, I guess.

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Now I have this unbearable pain in my jaw (I guess it’s my teeth), I’m off to the dentist.

What would an aspiring musician do if he had a shit load of musical instruments, 6 brothers, 3 sisters and a very bad urge to rock.

Yes, he would start his own big band. well, at least that’s what I did.

We don’t really play jazz nor swing, we are trying to be the next big thing in electronica by playing IDM acoustically. Our style is very Improvisational yet planned, noisy yet quite … I hope you got the idea.

In this set we focused on the percussion instruments, next recordings will definitely incorporate more non-percussion instruments.

Feel Free to Download:
01 400KB
02 364KB
03 559KB

So I discovered that cleaning is the key for my happiness and ever since I’m in a very ‘clean’ mood (whatever that meant). I mean I started cleaning my room earlier this week and I’m positive that I’ll be done by next year. Also, Yesterday I washed a big pile of my dirty clothes, It just felt right … even thought we have a maid (or a helper as D&G likes to call them).

So whenever feeling bad, blue or just in weird feeling like a potential depression I start cleaning anything I can lay my hands on.

And I’m taking showers more often now, damn, I can’t smell like ‘good sex’ anymore … BTW that line caused such a stir on our lil blog-o-sphere, so just to clarify things up; I haven’t slept with any girl lately, really. (sigh) I was just typing stuff and I thought ‘damn, I smell like some one who just had some good sex’ and believe me people smelling like ‘good sex’ is not necessarily a good thing, yeah, don’t be fooled by the ‘good’ part.

Right now I’m very hungry, but I’m not going to do anything about it cuz I’m a lazy fucker. I will just wait few more minutes and ‘bgdrat gader’ I will find breakfast in all its glory waiting for me to eat it.

Listening to: Franz Ferdinand
Watching: Monsieur Ibrahim (with Omar Sharif’s Commentary on)
Wait for a full review.

Eating: Bounty
Drinking: Red Bull & Mountain Dew (AKA Dee’You in Jahra)

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After 8 Hours

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Wearing: White Boxer Shorts
Smelling Like: Good Sex

Feeling: Dead Sleepy

Latest Obsession: Ripping the Logo tags off my clothes.

Last week I was chatting with mom about this and that when she mentioned that she went to a “3elwyah” (although we are Sunni) and asked her to read quran for one of her kids (me) and see “what’s wrong with him?”. She told my mom that I’m “ma7sood” (black eyed?) and I should go to “rugyah shar3yah” to get my dose of quran and to delete all the “7asad” files. While I’m not sure if would go or not, I definitely think I’m “ma7sood”.

Few years ago I used to have one hell of a job, the pay was extremely good for me and my parents couldn’t even believe it. Everything seemed magical to them, you can’t blame them … they were thinking “OMG our son who just graduated from high school actually made a career out of his hobby and he’s making some good money out of this” (keep in mind that I didn’t go to university or anything I just had a diploma in a totally non-relevant thing).

So whenever they got the chance to talk about me in front of our relatives or guests they would, sometimes they add few lies to spice things up and sometimes when they run out of stories they make up their own new ones, 3aaaadi “WE ARE PROUD OF YOU” … I used to tell them everything, EVERYTHING. I guess that what’s made them more excited and kept on telling their own versions of my success stories. I remember once when the added too much spice and ended with a very hot “salfah” … all you need to know is that they mentioned a seven digits number. I definitely was a 7asad material.

This year is my shitiest year ever (career wise). I got laid off from a start-up agency of a friend of mine and I’m freelancing ever since. I discovered I’m not a really good freelancer … I lack some key skills in order to become a successful freelancer, Motivation and Discipline … when you are working outside the agency structure you have to rely totally on yourself to do everything.

I know I used to have the motivation and discipline before, I’m just thinking “7asad” took them away or maybe it’s the lifestyle change I went thru (corporate sucker to independent freelancer). To be motivated I need people to bitch on me (account managers) and to get the much needed discipline I need some one to scare me every once in a while (Creative or Art Directors).

The Butter:
I gotta go to the “rugyah shar3yah” hoping that would work and I should finish my freelancing projects ASAP and get a job in an international agency or something (no local start-ups, ever).

Also, I didn’t know I can write posts this long.

P.S: Purg, STFU.

Now After I came back from the eid prayers and had me a nice breakfast It is safe to say: عيدكم مبارك . I really hate how I every body is greeting every body while eid is three days away. I hate how everybody start sending new year greetings while we are in mid December and I also hate the fact that I haven’t shaved yet.

Gotta Shave Now.

P.S: Just before my first bite today I was telling the prayers we usually say before Futoor. I gotta get out of the ramadhan mood now.

For the sake of Iraqi Children, at least.

Oh oh oh, I know someone who’s gonna luuuurve this.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet (the director of “Amelie”) Just released a new film starring amelie herself (Audrey Tautou).

Watch the Trailer (QuickTime)

They say it’s a bit like “Cold Mountain”. So good for me that I haven’t seen “cold Mountain”. But hey you can’t say a lot about a film just by watching the trailer.
So Shut up Biyaaaaatch.

It’s raining here in jahra, like hell. It’s so strong that I hardly was able to close the door of the (sa67).