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Here’s a belated overview of my impressions from the trip to Geneva. What do you think about how Lebanon compares to European coutries?
Hope you’re having a lovely day, here’s a song to brighten things up 🙂 Diana Krall’s ‘Walk on By’. Enjoy!
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Glad to be back, forgot how much I missed doing posts! A big thanks to Cafe Thawra, who made this trip possible. All about Geneva, the people, the food, and all, in the next post! Have a nice day! 🙂
A story I remembered and drew during the flight to Geneva! Why am I going to Geneva, you ask? Here’s why. I’ll be participating to this discussion/round table with Cafe Thawra and other bloggers. If you’re around Geneva, pass by – I’ll also be signing my book!
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m taking the next week off! Will miss you guys very dearly! 🙂 See you soon!
Just a quick thought during the flight to Geneva! 🙂
Presenting… my latest animation! 🙂
Here’s the original post that the animation was based on.
[Youtube blocked at your work? See it on Vimeo. Vimeo blocked at your work? Change your job!]
I’d like to give a BIG thank you to Toni Yammine who offered to help with the sound, making the animation much richer and more fun!!!
Here’s a sneak peek of the making of, enjoy!
I will end today’s post with a song by an ‘underground alternative’ Lebanese band from the 80’s, the Quiminboos. This song, called Behsos, is impossibly cute, authentic and funny [mostly if you understand Arabic & Lebanese accents]. It’s from the CD compilation of Lebanese alternative music, Banadoura. Have a lovely day! 🙂
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I hope you like my poem. I felt like writing it to express my amazement at the latest road adjustments in Jounieh. Note that this is freestyle poetry so don’t judge the rhymes or syllables 😛
Now for the true poetry, here’s Ella Fitzgerald singing ‘Ev’ry time we say goodbye!’ Have a beautiful week! 🙂
1-01 Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye
And here is May’s wallpaper! Download away! 🙂
Download sizes: 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200, iphone.
As for today’s song, here is Lisa Ekdahl’s amazing ‘You’re gonna see a lot of me’. Enjoy!
I’ve got quite a lot coming up for the month of May, will update you about all of it on Monday. Until then, have a lovely weekend!
If you support this, you can now vote or comment HERE! Thank you Crest for approving the submission after all! 🙂
No song today, I have the flu and need to catch up on some sleeping, so have a beauuutiful day all!
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If you want to know what I’m talking about, you can see the campaign site here.
In other news, I’ve been hearing a lot of talk about another war happening in Lebanon soon… the thought of which brings out very ugly feelings in me. Here’s this song (&video) by Meen produced in 1 day only during the 2006 war. Hoping this is all only talk and Lebanon will keep on growing like it has been doing for the past 4 years. You can listen to the piano version of the song here.
UPDATE:
The parking ticket sticker made it to the newspaper this morning! 😀 You can read it in today”s issue of Al Akhbar.
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I”ve been getting A LOT of parking tickets around Beirut. So I thought that I might as well be courteous with the policemen working hard on adding the tickets. So I created those stickers!
In English:
In Arabic: [I guess the darakeh will understand this better]
And because I love you all so much, I”ve uploaded the PDFs for you to download, print, and add to your cars!
* Download CarSticker_EN in English
• Download CarSticker_AR in Arabic
The stickers are licensed under Creative Commons, you can download them, use them, remix them. But you cannot sell them. And don”t forget to mention the source! 🙂
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
If you”re wondering how to place the sticker, here”s a HOW TO image:
Have a beautiful week my darlings! Here”s a song for you 🙂 Nick Drake”s “One of these things first”.
I”ve been getting A LOT of parking tickets around Beirut. So I thought that I might as well be courteous with the policemen working hard on adding the tickets. So I created those stickers!
In English:
In Arabic: [I guess the darakeh will understand this better]
And because I love you all so much, I”ve uploaded the PDFs for you to download, print, and add to your cars!
* Download CarSticker_EN in English
• Download CarSticker_AR in Arabic
The stickers are licensed under Creative Commons, you can download them, use them, remix them. But you cannot sell them. And don”t forget to mention the source! 🙂
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
If you”re wondering how to place the sticker, here”s a HOW TO image:
Have a beautiful week my darlings! Here”s a song for you 🙂 Nick Drake”s “One of these things first”.
I am NOT telling you my religion because it”s about time we learned in a country like Lebanon that you cannot judge and stereotype a person based on something that, in 99.9% of the cases, (s)he was born with.
Tomorrow is the Lebanese Laique Pride. See you at 11:00am near Ain El Mreisseh.
As for me, if you must know, well I believe in music. It”s the only thing I truly believe in. Here are 2 beauties for you today: Ella”s fantastic Mac the Knife, and Lhasa de Sela”s fantastic Pajaro.