UNBLOCK FLICKR

I know I've been away for a while, but this was too good to pass the opportunity. I haven't had a go at our friends from du in a while, and even though people trying to do this with Etisalat will probably have the same fate, I will take this opportunity to say, as I always say, Don't du!!!!

I'm working on a presentation for something at work which had me researching the history of mosques. I needed to know what the first mosque in Islam was and, thanks to google of course, I found this link as you can see:



Of course, the logical thing to do is click on the link to go and read a little bit more about the Mosque of Qiba', the first mosque in Islam which was built in Madina after the Prophet Mohamed's immigration. I didn't get this information from that link however because, according to Umm 3allawi from Freej, du and the UAE Telecoms regulatory authorities deem the content of this link PROHIBITED!

Honestly, there's not much more I can say! UNBLOCK FLICKR!!!!

Etisalat Broadband- I'll have mine without pickles please

I was watching TV yesterday and suddenly a commercial came on with people in different situations saying how they want "it". You have no way of telling in the beginning what the ad is about until the end. So you have people saying things like "I want mine fast", others "The most important thing in mine is flexibility" and things like that. Naturally when you see commercials like this, most people's instinct is to try to guess what is the product.

The first thing that popped into my head was the Burger King campaign, Have it your way.

So I kept watching and the tagline in the end confirmed what I was thinking. It was the same campaign, Have it your way, only for a different brand. "Etisalat Broadband - How do you want yours?"

Creative geniuses behind this campaign need to go back to the drawing board and avoid drawing comparison to the Burger King Campaign, despite how stupid that campaign was to start with. I mean How else am I gonna have my burgers if I can't have them my way? Right? It's like going to buy a suit from a shop that says "Buy it in your size"....really? Because I just love wearing suits that are too short for me with my arms popping out of the end of the sleeve and the buttons on my jacket on the verge of popping. Isn't that the fashionable thing to do? Anyways, that's neither here nor there...

My response to Etisalat? I'll have my broadband with no tomatoes, no pickles, extra mayo please! Can I get curly fries too? Oh no, that's du ... I mean Hardee's!

Sports News - Portsmouth add 2 Players to Squad

For all you sports fans out there who care about up to date (or week late) sports news, I decided to post the last transfer news from the English Premier league on my blog since most of the UAE papers (the national published the story, don't know about the others, Arabic papers certainly didn't) seemed "interested" in this news. They've published news about Nigerian players signing up for Swedish clubs and games between Honduras and Trinidad and Tobago (not really, but just to illustrate irrelevance) and for "some reason" chose to ignore this...

So here goes

Portsmouth, famously known as Pompey by their fans and Premiership followers, have succeeded in strengthening their 2009/2010 squad by adding Hassan Yebda, the young French midfielder on loan from Portuguese club, Benfica as well completing the signing of Israel international Tal Ben Haim from Abu Dhabi owned Manchester City football club.





"I've come here to give 100% in each game and no less" said Ben Haim on his intentions to help the club which, after four weeks of premiership action, sits uncomfortably at the bottom of the table with four losses out of four.

Sulaiman Al Fahim, the club owner and Abu Dhabi business man, will hopefully lead a revamp at the club and return it to its rightful place in the top half of the table. These two acquisitions are just the start.

*Source - THE INTERNET - (just as reference: the BBC news page)

Who Built The Pyramids!

For hundreds, if not thousands, of years the world has wondered how the Great Pyramids of Giza were built.

What technology was used? What people had this strength and patience? Was it Aliens that built them?

I have a breakthrough. I have discovered a rare breed of Egyptians that may be linked to the ancient Egyptians who built the pyramids...

Egyptian "Hulk" Claims God Gave Him Strength of 30,000 Men, 260 Horsepower

An orgasm a day keeps the doctor away!

Ok, I'm still hunting for medical proof of this, but apparently some people have found it.

Why can't we have school programs like this one in the Middle East and the Arab World? According to this campaign, students have the right to an enjoyable sex life and are told that regular intercourse can be good for their cardiovascular health.

Here are 10 suggestions I have for the schools that are going to publicize this campaign:

1) Start giving out free condoms at the start of every scholastic year
2) Ensure that the schools are properly equipped with private copulation suites for the students to ensure they get their dosage of sex
3) For those who are shy, or less likely to score on their own, schools should offer mating and blind dating programs
4) Schools in the district should start planning for plenty of maternity leaves for students and home schooling facilities for pregnant school girls
5) Sell condoms and of course sex toys at the school shop next to the cafeteria
6) Make inter-class breaks slightly longer to ensure that it's not just a sex life their students have, but that it's an enjoyable one. The last thing we want is to promote premature ejaculation and quickies!!!!
7) School clinics need to be bigger now to ensure that apart from a school nurse and GP, all schools now have a gynecologist in house!
8) Elective courses in schools to include Kamasutra
9) Creative Sexwork to be given as part of students' homework with close supervision from guidance counselors
10) Students who have sex less than twice a week are sentenced to co-ed detention to increase their chances!

LINK TO STORY from TIMES

Sentenced to 40 Whips?

A Sudanese Journalist, Ms. Lobna Ahmed Hussein has been sentenced to 40 whips. Now while this is unfortunately not uncommon in the Arab world, there are rules and guidelines for this kind of barbaric punishment, which, generally includes public intoxication, public display of affection, illicit relations and indecent exposure and behavior.

While I do not condone any of these sentences or their reasons, seeing as most of the above is not offensive to me personally, I understand societies being offended by this behavior. So naturally my curiosity arose when I heard about this, and felt like I needed to know why she got this harsh sentence which drove her to sending out 500 invitations to prominent journalists in her country and the region saying that no one will believe she was whipped for this unless they see it themselves.

Can someone with better eyesight, or a vision that has been less affected by alcohol, than me please take a close look at this picture and tell me what's indecent about it (save for the hideous color which if I were to classify I'd call diarrhea green - but even that's not grounds for 40 whips!!!)....

Spread the word...the world needs to know about these things! Click HERE for full story...

Indian Thriller with English Lyrics - HILARIOUS

There's not much I can say about this.... I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!