Tuesday, 29 March 2011

I have mixed feelings about this - Lipton Quiz Teabags


When I drink tea, I wanna set my mind free. Not think about which object has a million holes yet can hold water in. Yes! I know they usually have super easy questions and it's fun to check out what the teabag is about to ask you, and that's exactly why o have mixed feelings about them.

Don't tell me it's free when it's not

So today I was really stressed at work and decided to take a look around my office building. I came across this gym and decided to check it out. "you working here ( in the same building)?" asked a muscular male receptionist in a fake Just COVALLI tight top. "yes", I replied. "in this case the gym and pool are for free. All we need is a non-objection letter from your company" Then I asked if they had a stepper and what not he later added, with a " bdw" tone, "theres a registration charge of 600 AED".

Wednesday, 9 March 2011

Censoring AXE Angels in Arabia




So a few months ago, I came across this interesting AXE TV commercial on Youtube.



The idea behind angels falling from heaven, going out of their nature - breaking their halos and approaching the AXE man with anything BUT angelic gestures seemed pretty cool.

The same ad (which i think is originally Spanish) was adapted on a few Arab TV channels. What did the Arabs decide to do? Destroy that interesting idea, remove any element that links those women to angels...in other words, video-edit the golden halos and the wings out... and obviously cut out the last & most important scene where one angel approaches the man with AXE and breaks her halo.
How the fuck is anyone supposed to understand what's happening now?

Wednesday, 9 February 2011

As an Arab in an Arab Country, I Demand Easy Access to Running Water in Toilets


By "easy access to running water" you know what i mean... TISSUES ARE NOT ENOUGH FOR AN ARAB DERRIERE. We Arabs do not believe in just wiping our derrieres...I don't know how to make this point clearer. I was in a golf club some where in Dubai one day. The club members were mainly British and other Europeans...So I entered the washrooms which were pretty fancy and as i entered the toilet i looked relentlessly for a source of running water but there was nothing, except for toilet paper, and we already established it is NOT enough for no Arab bottom.

This is why it really annoys me:

On a simple level, I do believe its much cleaner to use water & tissues
On a twisted more complicated political lever, I feel that the City of Life had become more suitable to the Western individual than it is to me - the Arabian