tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-192687902024-03-13T17:47:51.114+03:00Don't call me Sheikh...A sincere attempt to establish a crude alternative perspective.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07134857444273605793noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19268790.post-38175386073526746382011-11-16T17:29:00.006+03:002011-11-16T19:16:42.320+03:00The case against being taken for granted by Jordanian establishments (Third installment): LG dealer "New Vision"In this iteration of the CABTG series, i will share my recent experience with LG electronics' new distributor in Jordan; New Vision.As any bonafide consumer would do; i answered the sudden impulse urging me to get up and buy me a new screen instead of my perfectly usable old one. and so i did on a Monday, i bought a 55 inch'er from said established, bundled with a 3D blue ray player & set of Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07134857444273605793noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19268790.post-47497719316273916512010-10-19T06:50:00.003+03:002010-10-19T07:04:18.606+03:00أضعت هويتينشرت هذه التدوينة على حبر، شكرا لفريق حبر لتنقيح وتصويب الأخطاء الإملائية واللغوية:أضعت هوية الأحوال المدنية الخاصة بي قبل عيد الفطر المبارك. هي أصلا متهالكة وفيها صورة أكاد أنا نفسي لا اتعرف على الشخص الذي فيها (شكلا ومضمونا). لم أكن أعرف أن هذا الحادث العرضي سيكون له تبعات تفضي الى أن أتنفس الصعداء حين أستلم هويتي الجديدة بقدر لا بأس به من الراحة التي يشوبها كبر من نوع ما…قصتي تبدأ كأي مواطن Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07134857444273605793noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19268790.post-31534512309585089582010-09-30T19:12:00.004+03:002010-09-30T20:32:00.156+03:00I was there when it started, and...7 Years ago, I was a fresh engineering grad, one of my uncles was an investor in what was then the hottest talk-of-town new telecom venture; everything was hyped, from the uninspiring typical name it was given, the choice of technology it ran, to the "miracle" financing it secured and the tasteless celebrity who -dis- graced the launch party, the story of XPress telecom got far deeper Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07134857444273605793noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19268790.post-74320195323569447022009-05-24T17:14:00.006+03:002009-07-12T11:40:26.558+03:00The case against being taken for granted by Jordanian establishments (First Installment): Tahboub KitchensMy frustration with the way Jordanian companies and services providers take their customers for granted and generally sport a laid-back attitudes was dramatized with a recent skirmish I had with the said establishment.I have taken it upon myself to write (and speak) about every similar occasion with explicit reference to the establishment’s name, despite having almost deserted my blog, but the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07134857444273605793noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19268790.post-61801693402305039442008-12-30T02:38:00.005+03:002008-12-30T02:59:52.389+03:00Scoot drive for Gaza...For those planning to participate in the Gaza drive arranged by 7iber and the Action committee; but find themselves strangled with time, I'm dedicating two of my company's delivery scooters to collect whatever you intend to send and we'll make the arrangement for the drop-off at the Cozmo location before 8:00 pm free of charge.Please call us at 06-553-5249, SMS at 07-4543-2101 or email as at Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07134857444273605793noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19268790.post-71279495670196154812008-10-30T13:42:00.005+03:002008-10-30T15:55:42.597+03:00An alternative ISP, with an unlikely feature (or flaw)Since I moved back to Amman at the start of this year, I was looking for an alternative to Orange fixed and internet services, not because their services were necessarily bad, but because they're offered by the incumbent who dominated the scene for far too long that they tend to take their customers for granted, and I don't want to be taken for granted.Then a good friend of mine put me on the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07134857444273605793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19268790.post-13165821947045374702008-02-04T22:00:00.000+03:002008-02-04T21:37:56.000+03:00The early signs of fatherhoodLast summer, my wife got pregnant with our first baby, my reception of the event was as crude as it can get, crudeness apparently became a practice really; yes I was happy about it, I didn't necessarily applaud the occasion, I was mostly overwhelmed with the feeling of yet another no-turning-back moment, like the death of my father, my marriage and some other events and decisions that I've Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07134857444273605793noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19268790.post-74156265322275241032007-12-25T13:04:00.000+03:002007-12-25T13:27:26.726+03:00A year without blogging, OR: The Sheikh is backIt's been well over a year since I wrote for my deserted blog, I can't help but maintain a continues awe of the way time lapses, however; it's not how time passes that made me return to my dear-diary equivalent, but rather the yet another set of momentous events and things that I've witnessed and was intriguing enough that I wanted to capture "somewhere" other than the volatile memory of mine.YouAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07134857444273605793noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19268790.post-46563052889744441572006-11-17T20:00:00.000+03:002006-11-17T20:07:44.031+03:00I got promoted, so where's my partitioned office?Apparently, at our sick and unprofessional work environment, if you don't have a walled or partitioned office, it doesn't matter if you're a manager or not, what's important is to have the latter and then command the blunt acknowledgment and attention usually associated with being one (a manager), and I happen to experience both, being an office-less manager and just recently added another key toAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07134857444273605793noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19268790.post-20488766792839943122006-11-05T11:50:00.000+03:002006-11-05T11:01:37.975+03:00Flashback : Thoughts extravaganza in a Bonfire nightFour years ago while i was still studying at university, i wrote this essay in an online forum i used to post in, I'm reposting it as-is to capture the true essence of it.little did i know at the time that the thoughts manifested in it will perpetually echo with relevance until today, alas with even wider spread footprint, for we now have the affairs of Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Palestine amongAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07134857444273605793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19268790.post-17918803535459108082006-10-11T12:59:00.002+03:002006-10-11T11:57:25.338+03:00Islamically tuned, Ramadan themed & personalised scam email!Though I didn't have the endurance exhibited by Bakkouz and his long email skirmish with Amina the orphan and herIntoxicated-to-death father, however I found this pilot scam email I received yesterday interesting.Did he/she actually spent some actual human-time on customising such message, or is web-crawlers are now smart enough to relate a name, a theme among other info to the email they hunt!AtAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07134857444273605793noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19268790.post-22339698004708207332006-10-08T13:11:00.000+03:002006-10-08T12:12:35.116+03:00Moslems celebrate their "Lunar food & drama festival" aka RamadanNext will be surrounding the Ka'ba with advertising billboards like football stadiums to milk out petty pilgrims, why not?If it was a matter of dedicating certain delicacies (Qatayif, Samosa …etc) to this season then I wouldn't have given this despicable state of affairs a flying thought, but what we're witnessing here is an outright exploitation of the holy month of fasting with total disregard Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07134857444273605793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19268790.post-55756676516490877612006-10-08T12:15:00.000+03:002006-10-08T12:16:57.413+03:00To the interested few, my blog site feed changedMy avid readers, the don't-call-me-Sheikh site feed address was changedfrom http://dontcallmesheikh.blogspot.com/atom.xmlto http://dontcallmesheikh.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/summarykindly amend your aggregators accordingly.A tip to all those who migrated to Blogger beta and are using the new templates, your old site feeds will eventually disappear, circulate the new one accordingly.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07134857444273605793noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19268790.post-35369984783385272502006-09-13T10:00:00.000+03:002006-09-13T09:51:01.857+03:00Getting techy with itBlogger platform help. How can I upload AND place a JPEG banner instead of the one in the template? Please help, it'll be rewarding, rewarding I tell you (visually at least)…Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07134857444273605793noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19268790.post-4779280048903795532006-09-06T16:00:00.000+03:002006-10-31T12:23:41.111+03:00Batelco Jordan CEO joins XPressOnce again, another episode in the Jordanian telecommunication sector, notorious for its plentiful surprises, Marwan Juma an old-school figure in the IT & telecommunication scene in Jordan resigned from Batelco and joined the ranks of XPress as the CEO, taking over from Mr. Suleiman Ma'ani whose been the latter's CEO since its establishment back in late 2002.The drastic changes in XPress is Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07134857444273605793noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19268790.post-1157352326319210762006-09-05T03:00:00.000+03:002006-09-04T10:36:48.380+03:00A glitch in the Matrix? The windowless houses of RiyadhThe photos speaks for themselves, but mind the awkward angles they're taken at, they were shot in a drive-by fashion as I thought to myself that those who put too much effort "covering" up their houses will probably be really pissed-off if they found someone –a foreigner especially- taking photos of the very entity they're "covering" away from voyeuristic intruders!Let's start with this one, the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07134857444273605793noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19268790.post-1156340094715495102006-08-24T02:30:00.000+03:002006-08-23T16:39:00.050+03:00Scandal at MobileCom: 1,000 car winners due to a fault!This piece of news & pictures came from an insider, apparently hundreds of MobileCom customers who subscribed to some car competition gathered in front of MobileCom HQ sometime ago to claim their car after receiving a SMS message from MobileCom congratulating them on winning a promoted car.The insider said that an employee at the marketing department sent the message to some 1,000 customers (who Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07134857444273605793noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19268790.post-1156059962217254822006-08-20T22:30:00.000+03:002006-08-20T10:46:02.246+03:00"No body queues in Jordan"; but I do!During a spontaneously arranged trip I had with my wife (Yes, I got married few weeks back) to Aqaba, I had an unfortunate incident at the Movenpick hotel while I was checking-out from it, the incident reminded me of how “third-world”* we can be right in the midst of our thinking rather than our surrounding.A quick back rounder, this leg of the trip was never planned, my wife and I were roaming Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07134857444273605793noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19268790.post-1155716665186700732006-08-16T22:30:00.000+03:002006-08-16T12:26:17.283+03:00Fence Your Farm: Jordan’s first Guerrilla marketing campaignChances are that you have already spotted at least 3 to 4 of the intrusive “لتشيك مزارعكم” graffiti littered all over Amman and rumored to have even reached Irbid.Every single person I asked if he/she knew someone who could basically “fence my farm” failed not to refer me to a number they think they saw scribbled somewhere near! Think of repetitive subliminal message engraving.Brand recognition Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07134857444273605793noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19268790.post-1152426794217441732006-07-09T20:00:00.000+03:002006-07-09T09:58:35.800+03:00Blog wars, now is it? A comment spammer(s) managed to lure me into clicking on what apparently seems to be yet another new Jordanian aggregator.What seemed wrong right from the start was the statement made under the coming-soon banner, which clearly drives off all those who are already registered with another existing Jordanian aggregator!Unless the creators of the two sites were fuming foes, I see no reason why the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07134857444273605793noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19268790.post-1151417809825569342006-06-28T04:00:00.000+03:002006-06-27T17:16:49.963+03:00They met before we didWhen my Aunt (my father's sister) met my fiancée's grandmother (her father's mother) for the first time during our engagement "party", there was an elusive sense of familiarity between them that was thrusting through both minds.They both went home & started scratching their heads to aggregate their rusty memories with the underlying question; "Where do I know this woman from?"My aunt had an Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07134857444273605793noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19268790.post-1151309752114619742006-06-27T09:30:00.000+03:002006-06-26T11:43:32.090+03:00Do you know Wonho?Leave a short comment if you do!I’ve known Wonho for almost 8 years now & he’s a good friend of mine. Beside his socially engaging personality, multi-talented nature & (sort of) charming-at-first-encounter charisma; the guy is eccentrically different than "us".The late king in his famous saying “من شتى المنابت و الأصول” (From all routes & origins) was inspiringly broad enough to include his Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07134857444273605793noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19268790.post-1151222517935562102006-06-25T22:00:00.000+03:002006-06-25T11:01:57.950+03:00A good blog entry & an even better commentQwaider from the Memories Document blog has put together a very interesting piece, which I obviously didn’t agree with, so I wrote a comment which is worth a dedicated blog entry of its own. Links: The entry & the comment (in case you’re more interested in what I had to say)Shameless egoistic self promotion? Indeed…Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07134857444273605793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19268790.post-1150620925634533212006-06-18T23:00:00.000+03:002006-06-18T12:00:02.670+03:00An anomalous divine intervention: America vs. Italy!“عدالة السماء” (heaven’s mercy/justice) apparently took revenge last night for the hundred of thousands of massacred Iraqis & Afghanis killed by US forces while fighting terrorism (and as a bonus: bringing them justice while at it), along with the chronic oppression of Palestinians that was only made feasible by the American support of the Israeli apartheid!I despicably hate America’s guts (not Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07134857444273605793noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19268790.post-1150092887392299322006-06-12T20:00:00.001+03:002006-06-12T09:14:47.393+03:00Wondering Abdullah:check your mail!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07134857444273605793noreply@blogger.com