Etisalat does it AGAIN

Etisalat bans yet again another site used by millions of people around the world. Youtube.com (And also the similar metacafe.com) have been banned by the internet provider in the United Arab Emirates adding to the long list of banned websites, I understand where they are coming from but why the fuck don't they just ban everything? Sites such as deviantart, hi5, mumtazz, timeoutdubai, 7days, etc. should be banned, sites of nightclubs should be banned, you get the picture now I guess.

Jesus, everything progresses but this company keeps on getting worse

Bloody Israelis

People stranded, all sorts of transportation to the outside world has been virtually demolished, infrastructure is non-existent… No, this is not a brief description of the next Hollywood action movie; it is the harsh reality in Lebanon now.

Israel have done it again, sending a whole country into a state of total chaos, what for? Because of two soldiers, yes TWO bloody soldiers that were taken hostages by Hezbollah. Fucking Israelis have taken tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians for doing absolutely nothing and nobody says shit, now Hezbollah take hostage of a couple of people who are trained and paid to KILL innocent people and all hell broke loose, fucking retarded double-standards.

Lebanon was still recovering from the blasts of February 14, 2005 when Rafiq Al Hariri, the former prime minister was assassinated and what is happening just made matters much, much worse…

Shituation

Freaking insomnia

I have been awake for over 27 hours now and I still can’t get any sleep. Feeling so tired and drained out of all energy lying in bed but sleep can’t come to my eyes, thought the summer break will pass by with me sleeping all the time, doesn’t seem like the case.

So, what was I doing in the past 27 or so hours? Here goes: Working out, jogging, partying, swimming, fetching papers and submitting crap to a former employer, shopping, shopping and buying gifts, bidding farewell to a friend who’s going back home for a couple of months, blabbing on the phone, going from one car agency to another and test driving a couple of cars and finally wasting time online in typical Omar fashion… Hectic, eh?

Last-minute cramming

Before I start, I would like to state that this is by no means meant to criticize or bash any races.

As I am cramming for a test, I remembered a comment made by our Statistics lecturer based on her experience in education about Eastern vs. Western students.

She said that Eastern students (Mainly Asians) were excellent in calculating numbers and doing the math part when doing tests, but they struggle when it comes to analyzing and interpreting the outcome. On the contrary, Westerners struggled while doing the math parts but extensively answered analysis questions.

I found that true the hard way (unfortunately) as I find it much, much easier to calculate the mean or probability questions but struggle to define and interpret the outcomes. Well, I have two hours of cramming to reverse the slides and get my Eastern mind to analyze rather than just add up the figures.

My stubborn-self keeps on wondering, why the heck are we supposed to analyze in a statistics course?!

Small rant

Decided to take a small break from all the s-called studying and post this. All-nighter due to the fact that we have three finals (In two days). Didn’t have the best week so far, learned that I could be car-less for up to 8 months, my elder sister had a bad accident but miraculously nothing happened to her, hamdilla (Thank God) for that, finals started a couple of days back, not so prepared (As usual) and to make matters worse, England are out again from a major tournament!

Could’ve been worse though; much worse actually. Thus, I should be thankful for everything :)
Hamdilla for everything :)