Archive for March, 2006

Approaching the End

Wednesday, March 29th, 2006

I had my very last lecture the day before yesterday, our easter break starts this Friday (I don’t have any classes already anyway). I am going to have some tutorials after the break, then exams in May/June and then the graduation in July. I find it strange that I simply did NOT feel anything at all when I finished my last lecture, I thought that it’ll feel sad, worrying, relieving, exciting, but it did not feel like anything at all,I am not sure if this is due to the fact that I still have tutorials or the randomness of our course as I did not know a single person with me in that lecture. However, all the lectures are now over.

New Artist Spotlight: Mila J

Monday, March 27th, 2006

Mila J is a new RnB Hip Hop artist that was previously featured in the song “Take It Off” by Omarion. Her first single is titled “Complete” and it is another flip of J Lo’s “The One”, Nivea’s “Can’t Mess With You”, Le Toya’s “Torn”, etc, etc, however, Mila’s version is the smoothest in my opinion. The video for this song came out recently and could be seen at her official website, but it sucks, so visit her official website, pause the video and listen to the song using the little player at the footer as the sound quality of the music player is perfect unlike the video. Mila’s debut album is due June 28th and is titled “Split Personality”.

Mila J’s Official Website.

Wikipedia‘s page on Mila that she is of Japanese, Native American, and African-American descent and that her sister’s name is Miyoko. :P

LEAKED: Pink I’m Not Dead

Saturday, March 25th, 2006

Pink’s new album has leaked but I refrained from downloading it. The album will get released on the 3rd of April and I think that I can wait to get my hand on the legal copy instead of listening to it now.

Pink – I’m Not Dead.
1. Stupid Girls
2. Who Knew
3. Long Way To Happy
4. Nobody Knows

5. Dear Mr President

6. I’m Not Dead
7. Cuz I Can

8. Leave Me Alone (I’m Lonely)

9. U + Ur Hand
10. Runaway
11. One That Got Away

12. I Got Money Now
13. Conversations With My 13 Year Old Self
14. Fingers

15. Centerfold

Beware of the PAN Arab Awards Scam

Saturday, March 25th, 2006

The PAN Arab Awards has started taking entries for its upcoming scam competition. This is the original source of our Oman Web Awards scam that was held last September. The PAN Arab Awards is nothing but a bigger Oman Web Awards joke, each contestant is obliged to pay a non-refundable $100 entry fee for a chance to win a wooden award at a ceremony to be held at a yet-to-be-announced date in Jordan. If you apply for a category that does not get another two submissions that category and your application will be scrapped and you will not get a refund.

The competition has started but there is not date at which the ceremony would be held. You are supposed to book your flight and hotel stay on your own without knowing when the ceremony is to be held. (You’re paying for all these yourself) I cannot believe they did not say whether the people that did not win would be told if they won or not and could be expected to travel all the way to Jordan to be told that they did not win.

Winning at the PAN Arab Awards does not reward you with anything. Barely anybody knows about the event, I do not expect proper TV coverage (IF ANY AT ALL), the 2005 winners page at the PAN Arab Awards website has A ZERO Google ranking meaning that it cannot even enhance the page rankings of winners. There is no monetary award or anything.

Winning at the PAN Arab Awards does mean that your website is actually any good, all the suggested criteria do not have any impact on the results. Last year, the winner website in the personal websites category was the website of the King of Jordan, the running-up was his brother’s website. In case you didn’t get this last point, the competition was held in Jordan.

The people at the Oman Web Awards lied, whether you won at the Oman Web Awards or not does not affect your eligibility to enter the PAN Arab Awards, anyone can still enter the PAN Arab Awards, and you will still have to pay your $100 entry fee whether you won or not.

I do not know what happened to the UAE Web Awards, their website does not have a winners’ page, it is unknown whether the competition was completed or not.

I would like to warn all sponsors not to endorse such a scam that does not contribute to our electronic culture and does not benefit webmasters, web designers, nor web entrepreneurs. A mere celebration at a fancy hotel with no real prizes cannot logically be worth all the money you paid and the money of all the contestants. This whole event is a fraudulent scam that has been stealing the money of individuals and companies in the name of web design competition. You do not have to be their next victim.

Elissa – Bastannak

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

I cannot get enough of Elissa’s new album, I am not sure if I feel this way because I am a fan or because of the actual quality of it, I cannot really tell the difference, I haven’t listened to anything else for the last four days, I am so obsessed about it I feel like I’m finally getting a musical ringtone soon. I am so obsessed I cannot read for my tutorials. I am so obsessed it hurts every time I have to pause the music to answer the phone. I am so obsessed I cannot write anything proper in this post. I am so obsessed about it and I think that you already got the point.

1. Bastannak
2. Kirmalak

3. Fatit Sineen

4. Zanbi Ana

5. Ba3eesh 3ala 7issak
6. 6lob Tmanna

7. Ta3a

8. Mat’7afsh Minni

9. 7ikayti Ma3ak

10. Lao Ba99ait 2uddamak

11. Lao Kan

12. Lao Ta3rafooh

Xenosaga Episode III

Sunday, March 12th, 2006

A new trailer came out for the final episode of the epic Xenosaga. I am so mad that I watched it because of all the spoilers it had, yet this trailer made me crave even more for this game. The music is just so breathtaking, the visuals are the best thing you’ll ever see in a PS2 game, and the story is truly epic. The game will be released next July in Japan, the American version should take about six months to a whole year to get released.. that’s gonna be a very long wait, but I’ll probably forget all the spoilers I saw today, so it’s not entirely a bad thing.

People that can’t think.

Thursday, March 9th, 2006

I, just like everyone else, hate stupid people. I get so pissed of all those people that believe shit they hear from their friends and believe all the crap they read in email forwards, it makes me feel like raising my middle-finger to point it at the screen, I feel so disgusted as I discover that there are people out there who are so this stupid, at times I pity these people, but at many more times I just hate them as I think that they’re the reason we are so primitive, it just pisses me off.

I happily now live without email forwards in my life, however, some stupid person sent this email to our society’s email address, we were just unlucky to be included in his email list:

To ALL MUSLIMS

CORRECTION

Assalamu Alaikum, Its been observed that most of us
write “MOSQUE” for “Masjid” and even calling it as
Mosque in daily routine, what elders and teachers say
that the word “MOSQUE” means the house of mosquitoes
not Masjid. So better be careful next time instead of
writing mosque, u can write MASJID it doesn’t matter..
Most we have seen the spelling of MAKKAH as MECCA. The
word MECCA means “Sharab Khaana”(bar or pub). So lets
all of us be careful of writing MECCA. Many people
whose name start with Muhammed, write in a short form
as “Mohd”. This “Mohd” means “A dog which has a big
mouth”. Guys please forward this message to as many
muslims as possible. Thanks, Regards,

From A FRIEND

Submit Date : 2/23/2006

Am I the only person that thinks that this is nothing but mere bullshit, I do not want to imagine how many idiots out there would actually believe this.


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