I was wondering today how come schools were shut down in Beirut but not businesses?

Are our brave 90 year old security men well armed against any group of armed to the teeth individuals?

I demand that we get sent back home :P

One thing puzzles me about the Lebanese is how scared and worried they get at the slightest incident, yet brag about partying during the war and not caring about the bombs. My friends were at Gemmayze on Saturday night and there was barely anyone there, or at least not compared to what Gemmayze looks on a Saturday night.

Why you ask?
Because there’s no government and some guy called Bellmare is handing out the STL report to another dude called Daniel Fransen, the STL pre-trial judge.

I wish someone would come out and tell people if he handed out the report, there are still at least 6 weeks until something is announced publically, if anything is gonna come out at all. Second and most important, i wish our army and ISF forces stop spreading their elite commando units on the streets and highways and scare the shit out of people!

You go to Beirut and feel as if it’s a war zone even though nothing’s happening. The last thing people need is a whole SWAT team guarding the intersections and sitting on top of their tanks parked on the side walks.

I had to share this, hilarious! [YouTube]

7ayet el jagal so3be …

Our electricity minister probably had a party back home and decided to switch off the EDL to power up his house lol!

I wonder if the lack of hot babes in the protests in Tunisia did not get them the attention they much deserve!

Nevertheless, Mabrouk to the Tunisians!

Here are some pictures of the Revolution for those interested. Here are pictures of the Cedars Revolution babes for the nostalgic ones.

Here are few nice illustrations done by Maya Zankoul for the Global Journal on domestic workers in Lebanon. The last one is sadly true but hilarious.

I was googling on countries that have no government and it appears to me that Lebanon might be on its way to beat another Guinness Record, the country with the longest period of time without a government, if they manage to beat Belgium which have been without a government for more than 200 days now.

And you dare say that our politicians are not doing anything!

Danielle from ThisisBeirut had her family over during the vacations and her grandfather wrote a small note describing his visit to Lebanon which i found very true. He also stated that Lebanon reminded him a lot of Trinidad and this is honestly the first time i heard that, so it would be interesting to have someone share his/her experience if he/she’s been to Trinidad.

“Our Lebanese experience was fascinating. In many respects it was as I had expected and in others completely different. The history of any country is interesting but I feel there is no comparable “space” that can have had a more tumultuous past or a more varied cultural inheritance. Being physically “present” in some of the areas where thousands of years of great civilizations have gone before is truly humbling. The relative proximity of the Mediterranean to the snow capped mountains and the Bekaa valley was hard to grasp until the experience proved it so.

My greatest interest was in getting a truer sense of the social and cultural reality of today’s Lebanon and its people. Not least to place modern Lebanon in its rightful context in the region as a whole. In that search I must confess that the time available was never going to be enough. I got some insights from those I met and enjoyed reading the local news and listening to television coverage that was relevant to the region and not obsessed by US electioneering. My learning from this will lead me to look and listen with a more open mind in the future.

The food we enjoyed was exceptional and the hospitality and welcome were incomparably warm. Still I am left with the most compelling impression being that Lebanon is, above all, contrast. So that there is opulence alongside destitution, antiquity alongside “glitzy” modern, sophistication alongside parochialism, tolerance alongside extremism, erudition alongside backwardness, grandeur alongside squalor. Similar contrasts exist in many small societies that are made up of varied ethnic, cultural and religious traditions and backgrounds. I got the feeling that the contrasts are deeper, and their resolution a greater challenge, in Lebanon than in many other places that I know or have visited. Hopefully the vibrancy of the education system and the evident confidence of investors in the economy will contribute to a future that fulfils the present promise.”

Pardon me, ladies. Have you seen my poles? A bunny sloper “accidentally” skis into a photo shoot featuring Miss World Top Model 2010 Luna Ramos of Venezuela (left) and Miss Venezuela 2007 Adriana Pena at the Lebanese ski resort of Kfardebian. [Day in pictures]

Venezuela Top Model 2010 and Miss Venezuela 2007 Adriana Pena were performing a photo shoot at Faraya Mzar yesterday. Click here for more pictures.

I don’t know about you guys, but I just filled my car just in case it gets ugly tomorrow. We don’t have a government any more and there are scheduled riots tomorrow during the day.

Update: Scheduled riots are for the 10th of february, my bad, but gas prices are expected to increase considerably, that’s why you guys need to fill up.

Wondering what will happen to the guy next if the girl was Lebanese.

Lebanese Loto commercial. [YouTube]

Spotted in front of Phoenicia Intercontinental

Gulf guy 1: OK OK, listen to this! I’m getting a BMW M6!

Gulf guy 2: No way!! That’s amazing!

Gulf guy 1: I know! But I’m still debating on what color I should get it!

Gulf guy 2: Please don’t tell me you’re thinking of getting a classy color like black, dark blue or silver! You gotta stand out man! Innovate!!

Gulf guy 1: Exactly!! Man btefhamle rasse! That’s what I was thinking! But I couldn’t make up my mind! I always wanted a gold colored car, but the pearl color reminds me of home… I’m soooo lost!!

Gulf guy 2: Man! I got it! What if I tell you that your car can be the color of your dreams AND match your Louis Vuitton socks and underwear?

Gulf guy 1: Dude, if you can make that happen, I’ll give you my blackberry / pearl colored Range Rover Sport!!

Gulf guy 2: Listen to this… You get the gold color on top, and the pearl color at the bottom!

Gulf guy 1: (Almost having a heart attack at this amazing revelation) You are a genius! I’m gonna look like a real douchebag, uh I mean player riding this car!!

Notice how many times the commentator says “ikhtalat el 7ebil bil nebil”.