2008 April « For the Love of Blush, Cake & Romance

Raje3 Libnan

April 28, 2008 at 10:17 am | In Eye on Beirut | Leave a Comment
Tags: Lebanon, Song

I’m so psyched about going down to Lebanon in two weeks. Who cares about the situation… I just wanna be there. This song is not helping me much… everytime I hear it I’m ready to book the next flight out. But it’s been one of my favorite songs since I heard it so long back and still remains so today. Link to Song.

TypeRacer

April 28, 2008 at 8:48 am | In All in a Day's Work | 1 Comment
Tags: Racing, Typing

If you need an adrenaline rush or just to test how fast your typing speed is… Visit Typeracer. I liked this site because I can challenge myself against other players. But I don’t think it was a smart move to try it first thing in the morning. I got only 52 words per minute which is really bad comparing to my usual scores. But then again, I’m not really a morning person

Singapore Airlines E380 Suites

April 24, 2008 at 9:58 am | In The Luxe Life | 3 Comments
Tags: Airlines, Business Class, First Class, Singapore Airlines

Singapore Airlines are offering a new and exclusive experience aboard their E380 planes for almost everyone with special focus on their Suites for those who wish to indulge. Each suite includes a bedroom, office, cinema and dining area.

For those who want something a bit more affordable, the new business class seats are supposed to be the world’s most spacious to ensure the maximum comfort to their business travellers. Each seat comes with a widescreen LCD and a library of over 700 cds for entertainment and transforms into a flat bed for relaxation.

One extra reason to visit Singapore or the Far East!

Article: Christians Wrong About Heaven?

April 24, 2008 at 9:43 am | In Girltalk | 3 Comments
Tags: Bishop, Heaven

I know this may be a controversial subject to post but I found this article to be a very interesting read based on a bishop challenging what we are raised up to believe about heaven. Time magazine conducted an interview with him on his views of heaven and the reasons he believes that the Christian view of heaven is a distorted misunderstanding.

Link

Blog Tags

April 23, 2008 at 12:17 pm | In Around the World | Leave a Comment
Tags: Arctic, Belgium, Travel

I was checking how this tag search thing works and I saw some cool posts on this blog called Indonesian Expats. The Subjects are entertaining and informative if you have some time.

Little Known Facts About Belgium

Living Above the Arctic Circle

The Morning Routine

April 23, 2008 at 11:00 am | In All in a Day's Work | 4 Comments
Tags: Morning Routine

It’s 10:00am and I just finished up my morning routine… Actually I finished it about an hour ago but its one of those days where I’m not in the best mood to work or work full heartedly so I repeated my routine twice. My company is lucky to have me Ever since being in Kuwait, I have developed a no fail routine that keeps me quite happy during the week. Here’s how my morning routine looks:

First Alarm goes off at 6:50am …. Snooze
Second Alarm goes off at 6:55am….Snooze
Third Alarm goes off at 7:00am… Usually I wake up at this point (if I’m lucky)
Get ready, grab an orange juice out of the fridge and leave for work at around 7:35am
Get to work at around 8:15am, order the regular Turkish Coffee (with little sugar), water and a glass of ice
Check my work mails
Check my personal mails
Check my facebook
Check my blog
Check my feeds
Chat with FONZY and Angel
Talk to Hanx
Start work at around 9:00am

The routine is something I’m very comfortable with and have grown used to. Yeah sometimes I add some extra spice into it (like maybe i’ll get Dunkin Donuts coffee instead of the regular) but my morning routine is quite consistent and organized. I find it really interesting to see how people create their own routines for daily life and how different they can be from the next person.

The Divorce Party

April 23, 2008 at 10:19 am | In Girltalk, Love & Marriage | 5 Comments
Tags: Divorce, Divorce party

Yesterday, I attended my first Divorce Party. Not sure what to expect, I tested the idea out on a couple of people and this concept is definitly still new and quite controversial. Although after looking it up on the net, it seems to be the newest type of party to gain popularity. I even found a book entitled “How to Throw a Divorce Party”.

Anyway back to the subject at hand… My best friend (the divorcee who I might add absolutely deserved that party) invited 10 of her best friends to a trendy restaurant, brought her cute little pink paper stamped by the Government and wore her best dress. The topic of the night as you may guess was “how shitty men can be”. I probably shouldn’t be making this info public but come on you guys… Girls talk about that stuff whether they are at a party or not. Plus you guys aren’t much better

I was the only Single/ Not married / Not divorced person there so I had a lot of stories and advice to learn from. What astounds me is that these were such lovely and interesting women, yet some were divorced twice or just getting divorced or separated and trying everything to get the divorce. Some were after 10 years and some after 20 years of marriage. I don’t know the exact story for all of these women but I couldn’t imagine the feeling of leaving your lifelong companion after 20 years.

I hope I never reach the stage where I’ll be considering a divorce party but it was definitly an occasion worth attending.

An American who Moved to Dubai

April 22, 2008 at 4:34 pm | In Eye on the Gulf | Leave a Comment
Tags: A Day in the Life, Dubai, Story

This story can’t be missed. It’s HILARIOUS AND SO SO TRUE. Thanx Bambina for sending me this mail.

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This following extract is taken from an American who moved to Dubai earlier this year…

April 30th:
Just got transferred to work and live in beautiful Dubai, UAE! WOW!!!
Now this is a city that knows how to live!!! Beautiful sunny days and warm balmy evenings. It’s like New York City minus all the crocks, murderers, and drunks. What a place! I watched the sunset from a deck chair on my beautiful bedroom verandah. It was beautiful. I’ve finally found my home. I love it here.

May 13th:
Really heating up. Got to 95 degrees today. Not a problem. Live in an air- conditioned home, drive an air-conditioned car, and everything is fully air-conditioned. What a pleasure to see the sun everyday like this. I’m turning into a sun worshiper.

May 30th:
Had the backyard landscaped with tropical plants today around our lovely pool. Lots of palms and rocks. What a breeze to maintain. No more mowing lawn for me. Another scorcher today, but I love it here.
Heat is no problem at all.

June 10th:
The temperature hasn’t been below 95 all week even during the night.
How do people get used to this kind of heat? At least today it’s kind of windy though. But getting used to the heat is taking longer than I expected.

July 15th:
Fell asleep by the pool. Got 3rd degree burns over 90% of my body.
Missed 5 days of work. What a dumb thing to do in this lovely city. I learned my lesson though. Got to respect the ol’ sun in a climate like this.

July 20th:
Kitty (our cat) sneaked into the car when I left for the office. By the time I got to the hot car for my lunch break, Kitty had died and swollen up to the size of a shopping bag and stank up the $60,000 Audi. I told the kids that she ran away. The car now smells like Wiskettes and cat shit. I learned my lesson though. No more pets in this heat.

July 25th:
The wind sucks. It feels like a giant fucking hair dryer in here!!!
And it’s hot as hell. The home air-conditioner died. The fucking AC repairman charged 500 Dirhams just to drive over and tell me it was broken in fucking Hindu English or some language that I couldn’t understand.

July 30th:
Air conditioner still broken. Been sleeping outside by the pool for 3 nights now because it is 7000 fucking degrees inside. Bloody 2,000,000 Dirhams house and we can’t even go inside. Why did I ever come here?
Fuck the sun. Fuck the wind. Fuck the freakin’ ocean. And fucking locals walk around dressed in white tablecloths followed by little black female ninjas. Fucking crazy town.

August 4th:
It’s 114 fucking degrees today. Finally got the ol’ air-conditioner fixed. It cost 2,000 fucking Dirhams and got the temperature down to 25, but the fucking humidity makes the house feel 30 fucking Dubai degrees. Stupid terrorist repairman. I hate this stupid fucking place.

August 8th:
If another local wiseass cracks, ‘Hot enough for you today?’ I’m going to fucking whack him all the way back to his goddamn desert. Fucking Dubai; by the time I get to work with all that fucking traffic and heat, the car’s radiator is boiling over, my clothes are soaking wet, and I smell like a baked cat!!!

August 9th:
Tried to run some errands today because it is fucking Friday. Wore shorts and sat on the black leather seats in my Audi. The seat was so fucking hot I thought my ass was on fire. I lost 2 layers of flesh and all the hair on the back of my legs and my fucking ass. Now my car smells like burnt hair, fried ass, and a baked cat.

August 10th:
The weather report might as well be a fucking recording. Hot, humid and fucking sunny. Hot, humid and fucking sunny. Hot, humid and fucking sunny. It’s been too hot to do anything for 2 damn months and the weatherman dude wearing the fucking white tablecloth on TV says it might really warm up next week. Does it ever rain in this damn fucking place? What is next, a fucking hell freezing over wave?

August 14th:
WELCOME TO HELL!!! Temperature got to 120 today. Now the air-conditioner’s gone in my fucking Audi. The fucking Audi serviceman said, ‘Hot enough for you today?’ Fuck him and fuck Audi. My wife had to spend the 7,000 Dirham to bail my ass out of jail for assaulting that stupid fucking Paki bastard wiseass. Fuck Dubai! What kind of a sick demented fucking idiot would want to live in this shit hole?

August 15th: (Independence Day ?)
Fuck this place. I’m off back to New York

H&M’s 24 Hour Video City Guides

April 22, 2008 at 4:13 pm | In Around the World | 1 Comment
Tags: City Guide, Fashion, H&M, Videos

H&M has an interactive 24 hour city guide for London, Shanghai, Berlin, Paris, Australia and Rome. The beautiful thing about these videos is that it really gives you a feel for each from scenery to hot spots to shopping to music. If you have some free time, I suggest you watch atleast one of these… It’s a nice break during the day.

My Virtual Model

April 22, 2008 at 3:46 pm | In Surfin the Web | Leave a Comment
Tags: Model, Virtual Model, Weight Loss

I have created myself a Virtual Model (above). I found this website that allows you to configure as close an image to yourself so that you can try on clothes from different shops like H&M, Sears, Lands End, and Levis. You can also try different hairstyles, weights as well as skin colors. It’s quite cool actually. I tested out how my virtual model looks now versus how I’m going to look when I’m done with the weight loss. Men can try this out too.