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Model Tololy

In Life on March 29, 2008 at 5:12 pm

All bluffing aside, I am now a model for real. I know that it doesn’t make sense because I am petite and my bust-waist-hip measurements are not exactly Cocaine Kate (Kate Moss) material, but hey, this is 2008 and this is Tololy: ANYTHING can happen.

Seriously though, I posted pictures of my hands/nails on this blog at different points in the past. Some of these pictures were a documentation of my ‘good’ nail days, and others were a documentation of my ‘bad’ nail days. I admit I enjoy taking pictures of myself because I am a devoted narcissist as any of my friends and family will swear to you should you ask them, but that’s a topic for another day.

I was contacted by two sister websites: www.unghielunghe.com, and www.nailslong.com to be a hand model for them. Both sites are based in Italy and feature pictures of nails and hands and all things related to them, and it seems they found my nail pictures online and wanted me to join them. I said OK, so I expect my pictures to appear in these sites any day now. Pretty fetishistic and exciting, if you ask me — they’ve got some seriously long nails featured there.

I am, needless to say, flattered and very amused at this cosmic irony. Because right now, my hands look like they have just stepped out of a horror movie called Teeth. But the unexpected flattery of being asked to be a hand model (even if it doesn’t pay) got me thinking I should go easy on them.

Now I am off to pamper my hands by not eating them. People who want my autograph should contact me by email or by leaving comments on this post. Thank you.

Sharaf Garaf

In Jordan on March 28, 2008 at 2:03 pm


الحبس 6 أشهر لقاتل زوجته

اربد- قضت محكمة الجنايات الكبرى أخيراً بحبس شخص دين بتهمة “جنحة القتل العمد المقرون بالعذر القانوني المخفف (سورة الغضب)” لمدة ستة أشهر بعد أن أقدم على قتل زوجته.

وتتلخص وقائع القضية بأن المتهم (38 عاماً) مصري الجنسية وزوجته أردنية كان قد غادر من منزله إلى مكان عمله بتاريخ 8 تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 2007 في منطقة سموع بلواء الكورة، وأثناء عمله تعرضت إحدى أدواته للكسر ما اضطره إلى الاتصال بأحد الأشخاص لينقله لمنزله من أجل إحضار أداة جديدة.

ولدى دخوله منطقة منزله “تفاجأ بأحد الأشخاص يخرج من باب منزله وزوجته خلفه بملابس أثارت الشك بنفسه بوقوع جرم الزنا”.

وبحسب وكيل الدفاع المحامي حاتم بني حمد فان المتهم “قام باللحاق بالشخص الذي فر هاربا بيد انه لم يتمكن من إمساكه ثم عاد إلى زوجته وعلامات الغضب تبدوا عليه ما دفعه إلى القبض على عنق زوجته بكلتا يديه والضغط عليها حتى فارقت الحياة”.

وتم إحالة القضية بداية من قبل المدعي العام إلى محكمة الجنايات الكبرى بتهمة “القتل العمد” مع سبق الإصرار، إلا أن الأخيرة أصدرت قرارا بتعديل وصف التهمة من جناية القتل إلى جنحة “القتل المقرون بالعذر المخفف” وقضت بحبسه 6 أشهر.

Comments on the news:


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غريبة (محمد الخطيب - الأردن)
bilal332004@yahoo.com
(28/03/2008 01:47:19 PM)
غريبه فعلا غريبة والله يعني واحد بشوف رجل بطلع من بيته ومرته في وضع مريب للشك شو بدو يعمل يحكيلها بحبك ولا بسكت وبقول المجتمع صار سئ انا اتصور انه اللي عمله الرجل المصري بدل على رجولته وحمياته لشرفه واتمنى انه ربنا بكشف كل انسانه تخون زوجها من احل توخذ العقاب والله يحمي من اللي جاي لانه اللي مستور اعظم واشد خطوره.

الشرف والرجوليه (وليد الاردن - الأردن)
albrns_love123@hotmail.com
(28/03/2008 12:54:05 PM)
يعني اكيد في في هي الحادثه طب شرعي يا دانا اكيد الطب الشرعي قال انها زانيه يعني لو انتي محله بتعملي ايش بتسكتي عليهاولا بتقتليه

الحكم لقاتل زوجتة (Ahmad Mashaqbeh - الولايات المتحدة الأميركية)
psd156969@aol.com
(28/03/2008 11:12:12 AM)
نقول الى د. معن محمد كمال عالية إن جريمة الزوجة هي الخيانة الزوجية كما جاء بالتقرير الصحفي والدين الأسلامي الذي تنتسب حضرتك اليه وأنا طبعا يأمر برجم الزانية المحصنة أي المتزوجة حتى الموت وكذلك الزاني بهاإذا كان محصن ( متزوج ) وإذا كان أعزب يجلد أنت تقول في تعليقكم إن الحكم مخفف على شخص مصري أزهق روح أردنية ياأخي الفاضل هل الشرف والكرامة والرجولة بها تميز هذا مصري وهذه أردنية ( هي زوجتة وهو زوجها بغض النظر عن الجنسية لكلاهما ) وياأخي الأردنية التي ترتكب مثل هذا الفعل أذا كان ثابتا بالدرجة القطعية التي لاتحتمل النقاش تستحق القتل والعقاب وعليها اللعنه من الله ومن ملائكتة والناس أجمعين وكذلك الشخص الذي غرر بها وأغواها الى طريق الرذيلة والمتعة الحرام

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Sharaf = Garaf.

Mansaf

In T Play Box on March 27, 2008 at 5:07 pm

Remember when I wrote about Mansaf and its significance in Jordanian culture? I put three pictures of a Mansaf made by my sister’s mother-in-law, they got everyone drooling and some others having heart attacks.

Well, today I was casually talking to my other sister while she opened some forwards sent to her. And lo and behold!, my Mansaf pictures were among them. Here they are with their respective comments:


أحدث ما توصل إليه العلم والتكنولوجيا في عالم المناسف


الصورة التاليه شغل جلطات وتسكير شرايين


وصحتين وعافية


I feel proud that my pictures are being forwarded.This must be how it feels like to be the forwards favorite Jameed.

Sucks To Be Dumb

In Life on March 27, 2008 at 1:55 am

What does he mean by this question?
Oh…what does ‘underlie’ and ‘overtone’ mean?
Hmmff.
Five minutes passed already?
What does he want exactly?
This is so confusing.
This is a trap test.
Why is everyone writing so excitedly?
What are they writing?
What do they know that I don’t?
I studied too!
Ok. Back to Q.1, what does he want me to say?
What does he expect?
I don’t remember what Said said about knowledge and power and hegemony.
Can I make it up?
Skip that question. Don’t waste time.
Hey, did my fall make me dumb? Like damage my brain?!
Blank.
Hmmm… The Sheik, I can do that.
Underlie? Assumptions? What?
Everyone is so into this exam. WHAT are they writing?
Maybe it’s just the smart American kids.
No, Arabs too.
Shit.
Ok, focus. The Sheik…Diana, Ahmed, World War I, projections, anti-feminist…
How do I start this?
Introduction.
Quick! Time!!!
I am not going to look at the time.
“Both the novel and the movie did more to portray contemporary transatlantic anxieties than…”
Blank.
What did I want to say?
What was my point?
None of what I wrote makes sense.
Think. Please. Think.
Jed is writing like a frog on steroids.
They’re nerds, this is a class of nerds.
Did I look like that when I was smarter?
I hate the smarter me. So nerdy.
Why am I not writing?
“…to depict an accurate image of Arabs at the time.”
Progress.
Q.3
Bernard Lewis. Ok, I know Lewis.
“What went wrong?” — relates to Arabs and non-Arabs.
What does that mean?
I am going to write whatever comes to my mind.
Arab victim mentality, unintrusive West, bla bla bla
Hmm. How do I finish this?
Did I really answer the question?
Arabs and non-Arabs? Readers? Politicians? What?
Idiot professor. WHAT does he want?
Why does he have to be so vague?
Why am I suffering to answer a question?
This has never happened before.
Blank.
How do I finish this?
Blank.
I can’t think of anything more to write.
Blank.
Maybe if I stretch my legs a little.
Blank.
He asked for two pages per question. Think!
Blank.
I’ll throw in a little philosophical spice and finish it.
Whatever.
It sucks to be dumb.

One More Time

In Personal on March 24, 2008 at 8:03 pm

I am living proof that things can ALWAYS get much worse. As if all the suffering I have gone through since the start of 2008 was not enough, today more bad things happened.

I woke up with a badly sore throat and muscle ache all over, but I helped clear out a room that we wanted to paint. I kept going back and forth in the house to transfer objects from this room elsewhere. I hadn’t had breakfast yet because we were in a hurry to get the room ready. When the room was cleared out, my brother was dissembling a bed that remained there. I happened to walk by as he was working on the other end of the bed, and BAM!, a large wooden board fell on both my feet. The pain was excruciating. I remember leaning my hand against the wall and saying ‘it’s okay.’

When I woke up, my vision was blurry and my head hurt like a bitch. I saw my mother’s face, with tears in her eyes, and then I saw my brother wiping a damp cloth on my face and on my feet. I thought I was dreaming. My feet were killing me, and my head was buzzing. I asked them, ‘what happened?,’ and they just told me to stay still. I was very hot and I was trying to move the turtle neck I was wearing away from my neck. Everything hurt and I was very confused. Then I started crying.

Later on, I realized I had fainted and fell on the floor head-first. They tell me they thought I was okay when I leaned against the wall but that I suddenly seemed to want to stand tall and instead just dropped to the floor. When my head banged against the floor, I opened my eyes, then I was gone. Luckily, I didn’t bang my head on a sharp angle or any object. I got up after a while, bruised and shaken. I guess my system shut down because I was in a lot of pain, and the stress probably helped.

So, you see, 2008 is not my year. In addition to that early morning incident, which I remember every time I look at my blue-purple feet or try to move, I had a presentation to do at school and I did it because I did not want to lose the grades. I also learned that fixing my car will cost me 700 JD, which is obviously a fortune. Also, I have a research proposal to submit tomorrow and a midterm exam the day after.

I am extremely hating my life right now.