The Frowner
I had a long weekend in Berlin, hung out with the family, met a few friends… On my way back, I took the S-Bahn (subway) from Hamburg main station to Heimfeld (home). About halfway through an old guy I have amicably dubbed “the frowner” gets on. This guy is always frowning, and […]

For once, semi political
Last night was so nice. For the first time since I left home, I was sitting with three lebanese guys, doing what we Lebanese do best: drawing up theories, and coming up with political analysis of the highest degree. Add to that a few bottles of wine, a couple of beers (we […]

“Not impossible. Inevitable.”
**Warning: MATRIX:REVOLUTIONS spoilers herein** (neat trick I learned from IMDB
Agent Smith says it best. Matrix critics have been loud and all over the place, tossing this movie around. What did they expect? “Bullet-time” (space-time) motion was invented […]

I don’t want to seem biased or unnecesarily critical, but I am still discovering some very strange German habits. One that has been on my mind the last couple of days is the way the say hello. Literally (and I’m not the translation expert) it is some variation on “I salute you”. Now that strikes […]

Recently, I’ve been reading The Wall Street Journal, European edition. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not much of an economist (despite an interest in the stock market). Most of the articles are too complex for me to actually understand. Therefore, I stick to reading general articles. On that level, I have devised a technique […]

I’m coming to realize that the average german is too stiff for me. A friend of my cousin’s just made me realize that most of the people I have found interesting in this country are either foreigners, or have foreign friends… I think I understand why my cousin has mostly non-german friends, it’s more fun! […]

I think that we are moving in loops. Life has nothing absolutely new, it’s just a new part of our loop that we discover. When the loop is over, we are back where we started, however, there’s no fixed image of where we started. since everything and everyone else is moving in loops of different […]