This morning at university an advertisement was being filmed for some Arabic company, we first thought they were filming a video clip so we went to see who was the singer but they told us it was an ad for some product so we watched how they film ads, took some pictures and went back to the air conditioned class!
The regiments of the army that participated in the Nahr L Bared Battle are now returning to their bases, people are gathered at some places and a lot of people are driving in their cars holding Lebanese army flags, Lebanese flags and sadly some political party flags (One car was just holding a tayyar flag!).
The only TV station that is reporting the return of the army is OTV, other channels are just showing cartoons! OTV also has a very nice slogan on the screen: “September 1st 1920: The Great Lebanon (Loubnan L Kabir), September 2nd 2007: The Greater Lebanon (Loubnan L Akbar).
Here are some pictures from the Antelias-Jal El Dib area I took a couple of minutes ago (as you can see kids are on the streets so TV channels can stop the cartoons and be Lebanese for a while).
According to a New York University study the kiss means a lot for women:
They use kissing as a way of assessing the recipient as a potential partner, and later to maintain intimacy and to check the status of a relationship.
So every time you kiss a girl make sure you do it the correct way, your entire relationship could depend on that kiss!
The Kiss by Francesco Hayez, 19th century.
The official Lebanese Army website offers a lot of nice useful feature, you can check the headlines of all the Lebanese newspapers, read a summary of the editorials of all the newspapers, check the Lebanese Army news, read a summary of news from the Middle East, the enemy (Israel) and the world, you can also read the introduction of the news on some radio stations.
Another page contains the precise hour of the start of the day and of the end of the day for september. (Useful for Ramadan I guess)
You can also get a couple of nice Lebanese Army wallpapers for your desktop.
All of those services are offered for free in addition to news and information about the Lebanese Army and a list of the martyrs who died during the battle of Nahr El Bared.
Sanioura just gave his “victory speech”, those are the priorities in his speech:
I don’t know about you but I think that points 3, 4 and 5 are most important than point 1 and 2!
Today while checking the AFP news on my cell after waking up I was surprised by news that the army killed 20 terrorists while they were trying to flee the camp and captured 7 but apparently 5 including Chaker L Absi (The leader of the group) managed to flee so the army was searching Nahr L Bared and the surrounding areas. I went to the living room to watch TV and see what happening and only Al Jazeera was reporting live from the camp! The Lebanese TV channels were just showing the normal morning shows!!!
The Lebanese TV channels were not properly covering the Battle from Day one (Hariri or Aoun or any politician repeating the same thing he has been saying for a year is more important than Lebanese Soldiers dying for Lebanon according to those Channels!) but this might be the last day of battle and the least they could do is show us what is happening! “Jarass” a Lebanese Music Television was broadcasting Army songs but Lebanese News Television were doing nothing!!!
I just checked Google news, what’s happening in Lebanon is on the front page same for BBC news! So when will the Lebanese TVs respect the army as much as foreign news sources are?
UPDATE: I just turned on the TV in my room, LBCI is now reporting from Nahr L Bared! 10 apparently escaped and 2 were killed in villages surrounding the camp.
One of the nice features in Vista is the ability to put gadgets on the desktop, the system comes loaded with a couple of gadgets and you can download others later from Microsoft’s web site.
Here’s the list of gadgets I am using:
*:Preloaded with Vista.
Today whoever is in charge of distributing the electricity is being very generous!! I got home at 1:30 PM, we had no electricity, at 2PM it was back but they didn’t give it for too much time at 3:15PM they stopped it, at 6PM they finally gave it back only to re-cut it 30 minutes later!!
When will they fix the electricity problem in this country!!
Note that usually it’s 6 or 4 hours on/6 or 4 hours off!
The new Google earth has a hidden feature! if you press Ctrl+Alt+A you get a flight simulator, it is still a basic one, you only get two planes and a few airports to take of from but this has the potential to become the most realistic flight simulator out there!
Here’s the list of controls available, and some screenshots I took:
From Marco’s Blog Via Digg
