The Il Vinaio restaurant near Phoenix, Arizona, is offering a “lion burger” for $21 (£14), served with spicy homemade crisps and roast corn on the cob.

Owner Cameron Selogie said the decision to serve the lion burgers was a tribute to South Africa, host nation of the World Cup. [Source]

This is not the first time an explosion or any incident occurs involving foreign workers and we never hear any news about them. And the worst part is that this habit is common to all local news agencies.

This morning, a factory building collapsed in Zouk Mosbeh.

News covered it as follows:

VOL: Aluminum plant collapses in Zouk Mosbeh. According to preliminary reports, one Lebanese and two Indian nationals went missing following the incident, the VOL said. [Source]

Other Sources:
[LebanonFiles], [Naharnet]

Hours later, all the news revolve around the Lebanese worker and no mention of the other two Indian workers. They even figure out the name of the Lebanese employee but nothing concerning the Indian workers.

Hareth Abboud, a Lebanese national, was found alive under the wreckage.
The six-storey plant collapsed in which Abboud and two Indian nationals went missing. [Naharnet] [LebanonFiles]

Until now, no words or news on the two other missing workers. Last week, Sudanese workers got beaten up for no reason by the ISF and were demonstrating today, yet barely any mention in the news.

Quite sad.

Fadi Gebran, head of “KunHadi” association held a press conference today on car accidents in lebanon, their causes and how to prevent them.

According to Gebran, and based on numbers provided by the Red Cross and ISF, accidents in Lebanon increase between 12 and 17% yearly.

With the degrading status of our roads, and the lack of any structured plan to stop reckless drivers, among whom are some ISF officers, i don’t see accidents decreasing at all.

PS: Note that the numbers in the table above are as of March 2010.

Zouzou Ebba in action.

Ten Freaking hours and the game is not over yet!!!!

It was halted at 59-59 in the fifth set after an astonishing ten hours when bad light halted play.[Eurosport]

The match was between John Isner from the USA and France’s Nicolas Mahut. The previous longest game was only 6 hours and 33 minutes between Santoro and Clement at the French Open in 2004.

Republic is a very nice restaurant that opened up a year ago. It is huge and has a really nice decor and is very spacy. It serves all types of food and has Shisha (Who doesn’t in Lebanon).

For all the times i’ve been there, service was very good and waiters were very friendly, but food was average.
My friend, who is a dietitian, went with few friends yesterday and was complaining to me about how a certain waiter there was very rude to her and didn’t get anything right or on time. Not sure if it’s the world cup fever getting to everyone or the waiter was having a bad day.

So what happened?

R: Can i have a steak salad please? make sure the meat is not raw (meat comes on a “seekh”). I’d also like a lemon-mustard sauce and another balsamic sauce.

20 minutes later, the waiter gets the salad without sauces and the meat was raw.

R: Can you please get me my sauces? And the meat is raw! Look.

Waiter: It’s just one piece.

R (being nice): No it’s two pieces, but never mind i’ll throw them away.

Waiter (being rude): “Aslan Hek Atyab”

R(pissed): Bi nazarak. Anyways please i want my sauces.

8 minutes later, he gets a tartar sauce.

R: This is not what i ordered.

Few minutes later, he gets a lemon sauce (without mustard) and a balsamic sauce. My friend just let go.

Last but not least, She orders the bill 25 minutes before the game finishes so that there’s no delay.

20 minutes after the game ends, the waiter brings the bill.

R: What took it so long? We ordered it ages ago.

Waiter: The game just finished and everyone ordered it at the same time.

R: I specifically ordered it before the game so that it comes on time.

Waiter(who didn’t apologize one time still): So did everyone else!

I honestly would not have accepted to pay the bill and asked the manager to fire his ass.

I’ve been wanting to buy an SLR camera for some time, and i am finally getting my first “professional” camera, the Nikon 10.2-Megapixel Digital SLR Camera.

I first checked it out on Bestbuy and Amazon and the prices were pretty close (450$ for Amazon and 500$ for bestbuy).

I checked out few stores in Lebanon, and the price was double if not more. I even called a friend who works at Khoury Home and he told me SLRs are double the price here.

Luckily i have a friend flying to the states and coming back in a week time, so i will have it delivered to me on July 3rd.

I am kind of excited about this, so let’s hope my friend is here on time.

This is one of the oldest and most beautiful houses in Keserwan. It is situated in Zouk Mikhail near the Presidence for those familiar with the region.

I am not sure if it’s being renovated or not, but they took out all the trees and most of the garden and road leading to the house. I hope they are not planning to start another building there.

Update: Turns out they are just renovating it as per Joe’s Box.

via eatliver.com

This ad seems inadequate for a restaurant to be honest. Sweat and SpeedSticks don’t go along with Spielmozarella burger and crepes.

Thanks Bouli for the picture!

Dear Mr.Baroud,
I strongly believe you are one of the very few competent and uncorruptable ministers Lebanon has had over the past 20 years. I admire your achievements specially throughout organizing the elections and force myself and others to abide by the law everywhere they go.

A week ago, the ministry of interior announced that traffic signs will be increased by 300%. This is great news indeed, however the approach to implementing such road regulations has never been fruitful nor satisfying either for the ministry or for the drivers.

Why is that so?
The picture shown above depicts a car belonging to the ISF driving on the maritime road to Beirut early in the morning. If i was a police officer operating on that road, i would have issued not less than 10 violations for the driver among which:
- Running a red light.
- Taking the right-of-way when it belonged to another driver.
- Changing lanes without using the turn indicator.
- Driving recklessly and dangerously.
- Not wearing the seatbelt.
- Excessive Speeding.

Having said all that, i strongly suggest that you start raising awareness among police officers on driving carefully and setting examples for Lebanese drivers to follow. Also, i wish that the laws apply to them first and that they be punished for such irresponsible behavior before sending them out to collect money from people for going 50 kph on a 30 kph road.

Thank you and best regards.

A 800hp Golf VR6 that can hit 335km/h. [Link]

This car is not selling flags. It’s just some crazy ass dude who hanged all 32 flags on his car.

Thanks Cyril!