Syntaxification

So, to those who don't know already - this is my Week 2 working with Syntax. I'm really enjoying it, and I'm loving the atmosphere and all. I'm quite finding a hard time shifting from being a very experimental illustrator to be more clean cut and be respectful to design rules (and rulers, lol)

bass, so yeah - Syntaxer is the title I suppose :)

Done?

El naas b 3amman ba6alat te3raf te7ki 3ARABI

Ishi be7azzen.

back in Amman

I'm back in Amman, but is it for good? Only fate knows - because I don't know if I will be spending yet another year in London studying or I'm done with it..

Leaving Chepstow (the halls/dorms I lived in last year) was quite emotional - It was more like a wrap up for me to be leaving the country. All the good things almost happened to me there, I got to know a lot about Omar and other people surrounding me - and never to forget the hours spent with friends in my room (or Brunel in general) and all the memories connected to each corner...

I will definitely miss Brunel, and I came to realise that my best days are my Brunel days. I am back in Amman - a lot of change happening in my life and I'm trying to adapt to it. I want to thank my friends for the smiles, laughs, wall-bangs, neighbours, munchies, dances & good times I had.

photos: my prayer mat before sunset in my chepstow room / my room getting packed and cleared

Hoya!

"Hoya" is my new greeting word - and yes I do realise its the brand name of camera filters, but just try to say it out and see how expressive. It sounds sort of Japanese

I'm finally back to Amman, spent a whole week in Egypt. Finished reading Memoires of a Geisha while there and almost halfway through with Bayt Saye' Al Som'a (Arabic: بيت سيء السمعة - translation "A House with Bad Reputation") by the great Nagib Mahfouz.
Egypt was absolutely brilliant - but my visit was quite long! Mehh, at least I got to have Kushari the last hour on the way to the airport ;)

Met Mohammed as I visited Gazneer which was absolutely brilliant and hugely inspirational, although I have to admit part of me (a really big part) felt like a worthless piece of *chocolate fudge*; but still inspirational ;)

I will definitely show you photos later, of vintage treasures I got as well as random street photos of people from around Cairo. Just to say i'm back for only 2 weeks.

Belated Eid Adha Mubarak (for those who didn't receive the card, see it here)
&

Merry Christmas (the card is coming, later today walla)

:)

Amman tops a list!

my Bahraini friend forwarded this to me, Amman topped a list - and not a very pleasant one.

I know it's quite old, but think about how more expensive did Amman get by this time. What also surprises me is that Beirut is nowhere on the list!

*sigh*

Why oh why? :(

My fortune on walls of a cup

It's such an amusing thing to observe, and see how eyes of participants twinkle with eagerness to know. What could the residues of my finely grind coffee in my beige or white cup be drawing? What paths they will take and form for me? Will they form a husband? A shape of a baby? An enemy in the shape of a snake?

I, for myself hardly believe it. But I don't see harm in practising it. Plus it makes people talk. What's funny is that my friend Amino mentioned it in one of her latest posts. But of course, she did it in a hell more poetic way.

Wa7ad, Wa7ad

I started my calligraphy course yesterday, and apparently the first lesson is to learn how to write the number "1" or "١".
Too bad a bottle of black rotring ink wasn't available, so had to do it in red. More fun though :P

Super takhbees! :D But practice makes perfect!

1st circle old goods, and documentaries

I took this shot as I was walking to first circle, a shot of the Rubicon building from the back. I thought the building was pretty vintage. Before that I had the privilege of visiting a photography studio that's been in Amman since early '60s, had a very long chat with the photographer there, George Lepedjian. I took a stroll around first circle and crossed the modified Rainbow street. But before I went out to the circle itself, I took

portrait of George

Afterwards, I went ahead to attend the public screening for the documentary shorts produced at the Univeristy of South California's workshop alongside the Royal Film Commission. Met Hiba and Ibrahim there and got the chance to watch both Nada Jaffal's short of a hilarious story-telling oracle taxi driver called David as well as Lina Ejeilat's short concerning her questioning of how the old place of Al Jam'a Al Arabeyya cafe in Balad gets part of it knocked down in favour of building a new commercial centre.

Nada's short was absolutely hilarious, and it carries that comic spirit to it that you'd expect to hear her joking about it. I really loved it. Lina's was really good, especially how she showed different insights on "El Balad".

I didn't like "Letter from Guantanamo", "The City of Art & Music", "What is Recycling" and "An Ammani Spirit". I'm sorry but they didn't impress me as much as the two mentioned above and the great "Minister of Peanuts" - gave me goosebumps! A Day in the lives of two Brothers was REALLY impressive, unique and interesting!

c'est tout!

No I'm Not Dead

Yes, I'm not dead. And I said it out a la '70s style as seen above. I really feel guilty towards my blog, I guess it died when Jordan Planet decided it's no long in function. How can you shut down a whole planet? Fuse kahraba? Eh. I'm impressed with the efforts of fellow bloggers in trying to keep up the community through two quite successful aggregators.

So, what's been going on with me? Is it possible for life to progress in a more interesting manner? I don't believe so. Grefet, I'm bored of the whole routine although I try with all my forces to break it. Bass what the hell. I'm being a tad better student this semester than the first one, attending lectures and labs and such. First semester was a total lazy time, started off with Ramadan and all. What else, I'll provide you with a yummy list now:

1. I finally got it, the Canon 350D. I should thank God that I am capable of getting what I want. so Al hamdulillah.
2. Although you might understand NOTHING, maybe "camera", but this is such a great video to show a trick used in magic.
3. It's such a joy to find the website of someone who you always liked their work.
4. This represents me in my best forms, haha.
5. I can watch this video FOREVER! haha
6. Have you ever saw a full circle rainbow?
7. Ain't nobody beats that! HEEHEEE, Billy Jean *aiwa*.
8. I didn't believe it when I read it, but it seriously worked!
9. Please pray for me for the thing to work! :(
10. HAHA, Gate of the Hood! hahaha
11. Now this is what I call "creativity".
12. I like this website, you get some good catches!
13. You'll be charmed, I know. Just pull yourself together. *muffled laugh*
14. Now that's VERY cruel! Screw you, Hotels.
15. 1 freakin' reason not to be the biggest fan of this man. Improvised!
16. I wish I could have this masterpiece in a big frame, *sigh*.
17. I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER?
18. Rebekka is probably the best one in cloning herself.
19. Probably slowest loading website, but REALLY useful and informative.
20. I thought I missed this one, But I didnt! Weeeheeeww!
21. This can be really useful for Flickr users. Don't you just LOVE Greasmonkey?
22. Tyrannosaurus loves her mama!
23. Join us down in Ureedo An Al3aba Bel 7ara, where we remember our old culture in Amman!
24. A really interesting touristy video for Jordan, by Visit Jordan.
25. AH! A classic remake of the classic addictive game.
    

I'm Gone

It's such a joyous feeling how the dryers felt like working with me today, unlike previous unfortunate experiences, they magically fluffed my garmentos! Ah, nice nice.

It's funny how this blog before going to Amman is like a tradition of me, it happened twice, and this is the third time.

Anyway, my eyes are fighting to open up right now, I'm extremely tired cause I had one busy day, been running through town center, 3 malls, police departments. Urgh, i feel i'm not going to wake up and miss my flight! Inshallah no.

I can't come up with something good to say, and I feel you're not in the mood either to be going through paragraphs of a guy complaining how tired he is, so I'll leave you with my omernossy links. By the way, my name is OMAR not OMER. And don't ask me "What you up to".

1. It's good to emotionally eat on something good, especially with a good friend. Now how many good good words there are in this good sentence.
   
2. Another reason to have the 350D.
3. There's obviously some uproar on Coca-Cola changing it's Christmas ad, here's the old and the new one. You decide.
4. It's weird to really really like this charachter! I really don't know why.
5. What to be getting from Virgin Heathrow? Am I Bovvered and Not giving Hate a Chance.
6. I'm so fat, no links here. move on
   
7. THIS so describes me, haha, Seth is brilliant. It's gonna be my message tone! haha.
   
8. If I ever become a photographer, I wanna be him.
9. I'm so sick of this brand, I don't even wanna hear it's name again.
10. Funny how i've always had it, never knew it could be from being anxious or tired!
11. Wake up! Wake up! *pokes pokes*
12. Eventually I will need that strangely-constructed sentence by this brit to explain my destiny.
13. Tee-hee!
14. I'm so desperate, this is a video to show you how I usually leave the room blasting Martjn Ten Velden's, Climax.

Less than 12 hours for my flight, and I still didn't get any sleep. God i'm such a mess.
Yalla wish me luck peoples, bye.