Over 250,000$ worth of casino coins were reported stolen from the Roulette box by an unknown individual.
A Bangladeshi worker is the prime suspect as he dissapeared since the day of the theft. He supposedly put the money in a garbage bag and took them away. Ironically, the only way he can get any money out of it is to exchange the coins for money.
Nba3asna.com (roughly translates to “we were screwed.com”) is the Arabic version of sites such as Fuck My Life or Vie de Merde.
It’s a website that allows the user to share an awkward or annoying moment in their lives and end it with the word “nba3asna”.
Example:
It’s harmless entertainment and as usual, you have people who disagree with the content of the site, one of them even calls it an israeli project, while the other one writes 4 lines to tell readers that writing on this website is a waste of time! lol!
A giant Lebanese flag, said to be the largest in the world, will be unfurled in Beirut next month, Lebanon’s ambassador to Kuwait has said.
“The 65,650 square metre flag is a testament to the unity of Lebanon,†Ambassador Bassam Al Naamani said. “The initial plan was to have a 25,000 square metre flag, but when we heard that another country was planning to produce a 60,000 square metre flag, we decided to upgrade ours to 65,650 square metres,†he said. [Source]
The flag was produced by a school in Kuwait and sponsored by the Lebanese embassy in Kuwait.
To give you an idea on how tall this flag is, it is exactly as tall as the Tour Eiffel in France.
Looks like our minister of tourism is on a roll. First he wants to boycott parsley and tomatoes to bring down the cost of Tabbouleh and upon his return on Sunday claimed armed men invading the airport and its salons are no threat to our tourism. Even more, he claimed he did not see any armed presence at the airport on that day.
So now he is stupid and blind?
Here’s the video as shown on FTV yesterday in case our dear minister missed it. Now i don’t care whose side is right or wrong, but the airport is one of the few good things we have left in this country. Let us try not to ruin it.
[View from Le Montagnou Restaurant]
This is a post i wrote on the 19th of September after i had come back from Faraya around 2 am. I did not see it the next day, turns out i had slept before publishing it and the alcohol did not help me remember much.
I was invited to a BBQ night in Faraya at some friend’s place tonight and i had a blast to say the least!
Funny how one plans parties or dinners or birthdays weeks ahead and never gets the satisfaction of a random outing like the one i had today.
Old house, large garden, BBQ, a bit cold weather, great company, Grey Goose Vodka and all is good.
I was with friends the other day having lunch and discussing random topics until we opened up the topic of super nights clubs in Lebanon and prostitutes.
One friend who knows a lot about the law explained to us that prostitutes are called “artists” in Lebanon. In fact, according to the Lebanese law, there are 5 descriptions for foreign workers in such activities:
- Fennene (Artist)
- Moudallika (Masseuse)
- Mounadila (almost like a waitress)
- (Forgot that one)
- Circus athlete or Ice Skating dancer or other similar activites.
The artists is allowed to sit with customers and go out with them or dance on the bar. Waitresses are not allowed to do so.
Like seriously, who has the time to come up with such definitions? And why complicate such simple issues?
I found those oil lamps in front of my parking spot at home. I have no clue where they came from but they did not seem like thrown away. They were neat and shiny. I tried rubbing one of them but no genie came out!
Driving in Gemmayze at night is quite safe considering there’s traffic all the time. As far as driving in day light is concerned, it feels more like playing some video game where you have to pass the whole street and skip obstacles left and right.
I had to stop in the picture above as a truck decided all of a sudden that it needed to park at a specific spot. While it was still backing up, an idiot riding a bicycle decides it’s safe to pass in front of it and almost hit his face with the truck’s mirror. Another idiot on a motorcycle came from my right at full speed and almost hit the bicycle guy and the truck’s mirror.
And then they wonder why accidents are increasing.
No one is going to stop the accidents from increasing in Lebanon, not until the Lebanese understand they don’t own every road they drive on.
PS: I should have opened my window and yelled at them: Chi Marra cheyfeen rass 2istina3e? 7atto el casque! (Refering to kunhadi’s ad)
Surprise Surprise! Roger Feghali is leading the Rally of Lebanon and has a 7 minutes gap over the nearest competitor.
You can check out all the results up to the last section on ROL’s official website.
Chahe posted four days about Fayrouz holding a concert in Biel on October 7 and 8. He went today to buy tickets and just sent me this picture of the waiting line. The image is not very clear but the line is all the way down the stairs until the elevators and from both sides.
Too bad you cannot buy online this time. I am assuming they disabled this option because the system would crash if there’s Fayrouz involved.
60 years that she’s been singing and people still worship her. Wish i could understand why would anyone sue a legend like Fayrouz.
Update: here’s another picture showing the end of the line.
Being in the IT field, i sometimes have to deal with requests that just make you wanna kill yourself and can pretty much relate to the IT crowd show. I had a call from a colleague, also a good friend, asking me if he can retrieve a file he had deleted and is not showing in the recycle bin anymore.
I told him that any file he puts on the desktop cannot be retrieved easily cause it’s not his files but shared files, that’s why he should group his files and put them under the folder “My Documents” as it is his personal space.
He presumably understood what i told him and few minutes later, called me telling me that he did as i advised him to.
I passed to check what he did an hour later out of curiosity, turns out he created a folder ON THE DESKTOP and put all the files in it !!!
I smacked him and moved the files into “My Documents”.
The 33rd Rally of Lebanon kicks off today after the ceremonial event yesterday. Here is a link to the Rally’s program.
To be honest, i don’t understand the big fuss always done about the Rally of Lebanon. For the past 7 years, Roger Feghali has been clinching the title and pretty easily. It is like everyone is fighting for second place.
It seems Facebook decided to close down its gifts shop on August 1st until further notice. I am outdated i know but i never received any notifications whatsoever on this. I kind of liked their gifts option and their justification for closing it is illogical. They are like “It was working so well and we made millions out of it and everyone loved it, so we decided it is better to close it down”.
It is not really a big deal but it kind of sucks that you are not notified in advance.
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