While having dinner at Basma restaurant, they were showing an old Lebanese movie that i haven’t seen anywhere before.

I asked the waiter about it as i haven’t seen it before and he told me its name and that i can find it at Virgin Megastores.

The movie goes back to 1987 and is called “Beirut: The Last Home Movie” and was directed by Jennifer Fox.

I am not sure what this movie/documentary is about but i read some reviews and all agree that it is very boring and long. I am going to look for it this weekend and see if it is decent or not.

Yesterday on my way back home, MIX FM were having a competition asking listeners to SMS a funny phrase or joke. The winner would get a new Nokia E5.

Most of the phrases sent were clichés and many jokes could not be read live (dirty or racist ones), and the guy who finally won came out with “I can touch Mc Hammer”. I thought it was pretty funny, at least much funnier than most of the others i heard.

My friend who was with me sent him a quote from the Love Guru:
“If you uncle Jack helps you off an elephant. Would you help your uncle jack off an elephant”

But he did not read it.

I found those yogurts at O&C Supermarket while i was buying yogurt. They are relatively more expensive (3.5$ each) than Elle & Vire (Each 3 for 4$) and way more expensive than the local yogurts but have M&Ms, Oreos or corn flakes with them. I got the Oreo one and it was very good but again it’s too much to pay for a yogurt.

Al-Ahram egyptian newspaper photoshopped a picture showing Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak trailing behind Pr.Obama and other personalities and put him in front.

Here’s a link to the whole article.

I was invited to an iftar last week in a Lebanese restaurant called Basma, opened next to La Cigale in Charles Malek Avenue in Achrafieh. The Iftar was a bloggers’ meeting organized by Leo Burnett (Thanks Michael for the invitation) and i had the chance to meet up briefly with some Lebanese bloggers. I was in a rush so i barely stayed for 20 minutes and did not taste the food even though it looked delicious.

I went back yesterday again to Basma to have a taste of what i missed. I was with a friend and we ordered their special fattoush that comes with goat cheese and sesame bread, hommos, grilled cheese rolls, wings and a mixed grill. The food was OK but nothing special to be honest, but then we decided to order dessert and even though i was hesitant at first, i ended up ordering one of their specialities, Riz bi Haleeb with burned sugar and what a great delight my dessert turned out to be!

The desserts were succulent and worth every penny. The chocolate fondant my friend ordered was amazing and had some cinnamon on it, mine had burned sugar on top of the Riz bi Haleeb and some dried fruits. They also had Ismalieh with ice cream instead of Achta.

In all, i would definitly come back for lunch or dinner, specially when i am in the mood for a good dessert.

I always follow NowLebanon blogs and find them very diverse and interesting, but i am very annoyed by their moderation team or whomever clears the comments done.

I received a confirmation today for a comment i did two days ago! I would understand that delay if it were a personal blog, but nowlebanon supposebly pays people to write on its site, so it should quicker than that.

I wish they would do something about it.

I was just checking the MyCrest Smile competition and i saw the winner and i don’t recall seeing her in the top 20 on the votes list.
Probably our girl with the red hat had more votes than her.

I am starting to feel this whole competition is fixed. Her father is a dentist too and he uses Crest. What a coincidence!

Maya Zankoul thought she was “on a planet of her own” when she set up her blog, Amalgam. Two years later, the young Lebanese graphic designer and illustrator has published the second edition of her book, Amalgam, a collection of her illustrations. [Source]

Here’s an article published by Gulf News on MayaZankoul’s blog. Keep up the good work Maya!

I spotted this new car for sale on elmazad today and i couldn’t stop laughing!

Is this guy for real or what? This is apparently a Chevrolet 2008 that was tuned with a budget of approximately a million dollars.

The car is offered for 150,000$ only and the buyer only wishes to be contacted by “serious buyers only”. So basically someone spent 1 million dollars on this car and it’s being sold for only 150,000$?

Plus, he is saying the car is better than a Ferrari or Lamborghini ?? It has only a 200 horse power.

“Chou Sar?” is a movie directed by De Gaulle Eid depicting the massacre of his family that he witnessed during the civil war in his hometown in Edbel, North of Lebanon back in 1980.

The movie was banned by the ISF for inciting sectarianism.

I guess we can add that movie to the list of movies and shows banned in Lebanon. I think it is the first Lebanese movie to be banned.

This picture was taken this sunday on the Dbayyeh highway. Zod security is few meters away from the car, so there should be surveillance cameras showing who did this because it definitely looks intentional.

I would have loved to go watch the Champions league there, only if the service wasn’t that bad and the food not worth it, if you ever get it.

Also, the SMS is misleading as Manchester are not playing Barcelona on the 14th but both Manchester and Barcelona have games on that day. Same for Chelsea and Real. Last but not least, considering the large number of German fans in Lebanon, broadcasting the Bayern Munich game vs. Roma would have attracted more viewers than Chelsea playing a team most people never heard of.

Lebanon’s Maronite Christian Church inaugurated a towering, lighted cross Monday as a sign of unity among the world’s people.

The cross soars more than 73.8 meters (242.13 feet) into the air and is lit up with 1,800 spotlights in the mountain village of Qanat Bekish, according to Father Farid Doumit, a Maronite priest in the village.

Building the cross took about two years and cost some $1.5 million, which mainly came from donations from the Maronite Church and a French Catholic group. The cross stands near a church that dates to 1898. [Source]

This is a site definitly worth seeing. I am gonna try go there this weekend.