12.9.06

Beirut on September 12, 2006

6 days since my last post, and i c that gardenia and god attracted a lot of fervent comments.

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i would like to announce the adoption of Jurdenia. Chica, being the awesome friend that she is, decided to buy me a gardenia plant to make up for Gardenia. she bought it from the jurd, hence the name jurdenia. i felt bad for gardenia, i did not want it to think i was replacing her by new and preppy jurdenia; in that sense too, gardenia has an edge on jurdenia— gardenia is from the bourgeoisie and jurdenia, as her name connotes, is from the jurd al 3aleh and hence is a common peasant. see even in botanics, high society and bourgeois attitudes have their ways.

and so i adopted jurdenia on saturday 9th in sofar. left it on sunday, coz i had lunch in fallougha and sent it to beirut with chica as guardian, who failed miserably at guardianship as she left jurdenia at abou naji's. yes abou naji's; don't ask why, i didn't. if it wasn't for hannad, i don't think poor jurdenia would've left abou naji's. and now poor jurdenia awaits my pick up at the sinnos. i guess this little marathon is gonna make gardenia even more jealous, since it hasn't left the sussussudio's balcony since i put it there i dunno when; i need to find a way to make it up to her...

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Chica and a3war left today.
fe came in on sunday.
we are finalizing our animation. we finished the music yesterday. and today we gonna wrap it up.

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yesterday had my first steak sandwich from celtic since the end of the war. yumyum.

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Chica's gifts did not stop at jurdenia, as she delivered me the long-awaited Thom Yorke. i love it. it's awesome. anyone who says any different is lying or he/she loves it and doesn't know it.
and fe... fe got me a radiohead tshirt, and sin city playing cards (although i never play cards), and a history of violence comic book... and he delivered me the stuff i bought from amazon and sent to his place a zillion year ago.

all and all i guess i received plenty of gifts these few days. i might even go out on a limb and say that it felt like my long-lost bday...

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throbbing headache these last two days. god knows why.

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today the US embassy in syria got ‘attacked’. what's happening?
what's happening in the south? what's happening in da7yeh? we don't hear anything anymore. as if nothing had happened... i extort some news and khabryett from a friend of mine who's working on the ground in 3ayta el sha3eb. it seems to be a bit messy when it comes to the help and compensations that we hear about...
the beaches are still a mess...

goddamn all of them. and blair even had the nerve to come to beirut to claim he supports beirut's reconstruction. fuck you and ur support, we still did not forget when it was that u felt ‘it was time for a ceasefire’. fuck you.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Your friend in 3ayta el sha3eb is crazy. I know her.

m said...

i only married her because she looked just like you.

Josette ZOoz Khalil said...

ma2, what are u talking about? who married whom? and who looks like whom?
am worried now, what did i miss. i keep feeling am missing things today... psheeewww... kello 3am yemro2 fo2 rasseh...

m said...

no one married no one.
but u replaced your gardenia with another one.
that s like me marrying the "new girl" only because she looked like the "girl before".
u did not miss anything. there is nothing to miss.
miss switzerland was elected this saturday.
dont want to marry her.
take care of my little miss when she ll be back in beirut.

Oji said...

steak sandwich..yumm...celtic...burger...yum
an apple for dinner??!!..who was i kidding.
Come back ZOoz (hosni is delusional as always).

Josette ZOoz Khalil said...

u come back hoss. me take care of u. come back. i slipped in a word for u; evb is willing to let u sleep over when needed. as for work, btin7all... or not... but who cares coz u'd be back. hahhhayz

Anonymous said...

you can always work as a plumber (even if you know nothing about it. you will learn through trial and error).