Thursday, May 12, 2005
Keepin' it short & sweet
No shortage of interesting material on the planet to blog on, though i'm suffering from a severe bout of CBA* Syndrome right now so i'll be quick:- On the philosophy of Bullshitting
- I'm starting to get the hang of flickr. Albeit with a cheap camera and no photographic dexterity whatsoever, any tips?
"Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Thus the production of bullshit is stimulated whenever a person's obligations or opportunities to speak about some topic exceed his knowledge of the facts that are relevant to that topic."
- Whoever thought it was funny to sign me up to this. You see me laughing?
- Never thought Mahmood would have a change of heart. I am genuinely surprised. Patience is a virtue indeed.
- A rather odd yet talented Bahraini blogger joins the scene.
- To the malicious snooper spying on my email: Spin on it u bugger, how do u get off reading other people's emails? Take you're trojans and patches somewhere else, goodfornothingsonofa***** I say this after running an Anti-virus for the first time on my laptop, which detected 211 virus thingies. I sat there for 4.5 hours watching this program scan and exterminate these foreign bodies that have impregnated my gateway to the universe.
- Orlando bloom. Nuff said... well actually no...I have a great offer for you Orly, I can just about envision an epic remake of the movie called "Kingdom of Bahrain" starring Orlando Gloom and debuting Bahrania? We can put all the rest of the bloggers as background extras...Mahmood as court jester, Chan'ad as the loyal sidekick, DIB as the leader of the Knight Templars...(sorry SBG no other female roles in the film ;)..."the AlKhalifa crusades and the fight for Manama"... but who should take the role of Salahaldeen?
- $260 million in total revenue for Bapco (Bahrain's oil company), and only $40 million reported in the state budget!!! MPs hope King will intervene and sort out the shortfall, how democratic.I'm sure Bapco will come up with the dodgy accounts to make up for the missing $220 million somehow in the next few days...Oh I dunno, a random hunch tells me they should ask around in Switzerland where most swindled petro-dollars end up.
*Can't Be Arsed
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ooh DAHLING, I would just lurve to be the jester, if I can get a bit of pinch and tickle with you! ;)
As excited as I am to have been cast as the loyal sidekick, I think I would make the perfect Salahaddin. My grandfather once told me that our family has some Turkish blood in it. And there are lots of Kurds in Turkey. And Salahaddin was Kurdish. Hence, I am probably related to Salahiddin and would therefore be the best person to portray him in a motion picture.
Chan'ad...Salahildin is old!!! i'm not casting u i'm afraid :) i was thinking more on the lines of Abdulwahab Hussain...he has that aura, no?
M... thats not in the storyline :p
i'm in such a bad mood, if u cudn't tell, ditzy me lost my credit card and mobile today... i'm adament not to get a replacement..as a test to see how long i can survive!!
Hey, that's an opportune moment for losing your phone, but not your card, considering the pending release of the Nokia N91, but you would need your card (seriously!) to buy one!
Well... sometimes things disappear and magically show-up again. In the meantime, i'll go through every single pair of jeans, look in every nook and cranny, call the bank to cancel the card... thats another day wasted...
how long do I have to wait for the N91?? i'm not much of a gadgety person and and as for the Ipod fad thats going around... i much prefer the sound of silence, or birds on a tree, the ruffling of leaves, and conversations around me... and of course the voices in my head... i think i'll give the N91 a miss...although with 4GB of space and camera... oh i dunno... its too much to think about...
Odd...i don't know how i do it either... i blame bad feng shui in my surrounding environment..but thats the topic of another post.. all those contact numbers, messages, pictures...oh well... i hope they dont get abused by whoever finds it
end of the year... and I can't wait! phones like this do come in handy, like posting from the train, party or even a hospital bed! (god forbid)
I've gone through a lot (read an awful lot) of gadgets looking for the ultimate "thing" that would help me organise my life, but have not found anything that would satisfy other than a pad and pen! I'll still buy the N91 though and the one after that just to satisfy my curiousity.
The iPod I'm using continuously in the car and the gym. I'm going to buy an iShuffle next week I think because.. well, just because. I wouldn't use either in the garden for instance or when chatting to friends, like you, I much prefer analogue sounds then.
The next gadget YOU should purchase is a "key finder" where you attach that remote beeper on your phones and wallets, click the remote whenever you once again lose something and you'll be safe.. as long as you don't lose the remote that is!
That remote control device sounds like just what i need!!! Something I did try was attaching a long key chain around my neck, with usb's, mobile, keys hanging...it did help...until i misplace the whole bundle...
well, the ending to today's fiasco, was that the mobile was handed into Lost property and I got it back...but the credit card was stolen LAST SATURDAY!!!!!!!! and i only noticed last night... I called the bank up and they blocked the card, some cow used it on some shopping spree...
regarding Flickr, it's just a very convenient album, that's all. you need to go out and take pictures in order to populate it and share what your eyes see.
BBN re "imate JAM", the only problem with it as far as I'm concerned is its OS! I won't have MS on my phone thanks very much, I have enough trouble with it on my office computers. Had the device come with Mac OSX, now that would be something... other than that, I'll stick with Symbian for the moment.
The advantage of having the N91 of course is that it is an all-in-one PIM and entertainment centre. By the time they release it in the ME, maybe the memory would increase as well or more features will be added, like Bahrania-proof-anti-loss device where she can whistle and it'll obediently jump up and down and wave it's little antenae as well as emit laser lights in 3 directions (x, y and z) for her to find it!
;)
Smells fishy, or is it me being skeptical? makes u wonder how this revenue was spent in the past...what about the remaining 70million?
BD392M BUDGET EXTRA!
MANAMA
Bapco is to pump BD392 million into the nation's coffers, thanks to bumper oil prices.
The national budget will now include revenue from Bapco of BD196m each for this year and next, it was announced yesterday.
This is several times the original conservative estimates, said Finance Minister Shaikh Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Khalifa.
He was speaking at a Press conference following a meeting with parliament's financial and economic affairs committee chairman Jehad Bukamal.
This followed a disagreement over the figures, when the government listed in the budget Bapco's estimated revenue for this year at BD44m, while the committee said it should be BD260m.
It was agreed yesterday to list the revenue as BD196m each for this year and next.
Thanks girl for posting the Free Ahmed logo in a prominent place on this great blog!
I owe u one ;)