Nemo

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

The Most Exciting Thing I have Ever Done!

The landing into JFK (New York) from the cabin of the pilot

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Book: Regards from the Dead Princess

This is the best biography I have read this year. I bought the Arabic version (حياة أميرة عثمانية في المنفى) from Lebanon in March. An amazing life and an amazing story. I loved it much more than "Stolen Lives". I'm not going to ruin the book for you but her life was really amazing. (highly recommended).

Book: Outliers

What are the factors behind success? skill, hard work and intelligence? or maybe being born at the right time? or maybe having the right opportunity at the right time? This is definitely not a boring book. the author explains to you by example various cases of successful people like Bill Gates and explains the "unknown" reasons behind their success. A very interesting book and everyone should read it. (highly recommended).

Saturday, June 20, 2009

The Link

I have finally watched the "The Link" which was about the famous 47 million years old fossil scientists have recently presented as the missing link in the human evolution.

Ida was discovered in Messel pit, Germany in the 1980s. A private collector presented Ida to Prof Hurum at the annual fossil fair in Germany in 2006. Prof Hurum and a team of scientists had been studying Ida for 2 years.

"Ida" has nails, a hand, an opposable thumb and most importantly the "talus" bone which humans still have and which directly links Ida to humans as they claim.

The fossil has been named "Darwinius masillae" in honor of Darwin's 200th birthday.

The documentary explains the process of how they have discovered Ida and how they have reached the conclusion of "Ida" being the missing link in the human evolution.

Ida is currently displayed at the American Museum of Natural History (New York).

Batman is for sale too!

694 KD (virgin)
i think he is cute :p

*picture taken by my uncle*

Friday, June 19, 2009

Gizmodiva

this is really a cool blog if you're interested in cute gadgets and so many other cute stuff :)

http://www.gizmodiva.com/

The "Joker" is for Sale!

Who is going to buy the Joker for 647 KD!
(Virgin Megastore)

A new Kindle in the Family

p.s. its my uncle's kindle :)

Friday, April 24, 2009

HSBC FEA Program

Program:
AMIDEAST is pleased to announce that we are accepting applications for HSBC’s Financial and Entrepreneurship Awareness Program, a unique two-week educational opportunity in July 2009, for up to 30 first year college women from the UAE, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Lebanon and Jordan. In this program students will get an in-depth experience in the worlds of entrepreneurship, banking and financial services, while, developing significant leadership skills that will serve them throughout their careers. The program is funded by HSBC and is administered by AMIDEAST. It will be conducted primarily at the all-women’s Wilson College in Chambersburg, PA, with visits to Washington, D.C. and HSBC Headquarters in Chicago, IL.

Criteria:

In-country nationals of Kuwait
Have very good English (minimum: ITP score of 500 or equivalent IELTS/iBT/TOEIC) Note: If you have not taken your local/international TOEFL test, please contact us to register for the upcoming testing session, which will take place on Sunday, the 26^th of April 2009!
Be a female first-year college student
Have high academic achievement
Be available to travel to the U.S. for two weeks from July 4^th to July 21^st, 2009
Be a goal-oriented woman who demonstrates an interest in learning and self-improvement

Deadline: Thursday, April 30, 2009.

Bloggers Meeting :)

It was really nice meeting you girls

(Shaymaa, Bloggylife, Rania and Nosayba)

I had so much fun today :)

Saturday, April 4, 2009

My Kindle ... So Far

Kindle is perfect for reading novels.

In order to read pdf files on my kindle, I need to use a software to convert them to the kindle format, the output is not the same as the original pdf file, its not good specially when there are pictures.

Text to speech is not that great, its just like any text to speech software on the net, audio books are different. (Why are they suing amazon?!)

Battery life is great. with a single charge it can stay up for a week.

Storage is around 1.4 GB. enough for kindle books but not enough for my MP3s.

Reading technical books on my kindle is hard, specially because I tend to go faster thru technical books and I only read specific pages/articles. Kindle is slow for that.

I had to travel two times this month and I enjoyed having my kindle with me. It's light! and I had so many choices on it.

I can now buy any magazine from amazon, the format is different on the kindle, you only get a list of articles from the magazine. (tried newsweek)

Writing notes on the kindle is hard, the keyboard is hard to use and kindle is slow.

Lebanon (3) - Final

The way to Jeita

You can view Tripoli city from this location

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Lebanon (2)

Harissa

Jbeil

Monday, March 30, 2009

Lebanon (1)

Pictures taken from:

Bhamdoun

Jounieh

Aley

Rawsha

Faraya

Monday, March 16, 2009

U.S. UNIVERSITY FAIR - March 17th

Marina Hotel, Salmiya

March 17, 2009
Fair Time: 6 p.m.–9 p.m.

Participating Universities:

• Florida Institute of Technology
• Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
• Lasell University
• Marquette University
In cooperation with
• Ohio State University
• Score Plus / Princeton Review
• San Jose State University
• University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
• Roger Williams University
• University of Bridgeport
• University of California, Riverside
• University of Kentucky
• University of New Haven
• University of South Carolina
• Virginia Commonwealth University
• West Virginia University