Sugar Cubes

As if our local production is not enough we decided to import this garbage called Reality TV from the west. The latest show is called Starting Over in which a constantly changing group of women who were experiencing some psychological and social problems and joined the program in order to start their lives all over again after getting rid of all the problems they used to have. In the show you’ll see them crying every episode for the lamest reasons ever, most of the times trying to show their best performance on the camera, sometimes its the mere thought that they are women and hence they HAVE to be sensitive and delicate just for the heck of it. On many occasions you’ll see them fighting! arguing about the un-arguable, blabblering about whatever and disagreeing with each other also for the heck of it. After watching the series many men started to wonder if this is what women are all about, cat fight and weeping.

I can’t grasp the idea of this show, Interviewing those women every episode and asking them to talk about the other women which is an indirect invitation to back-stab them is freaky. Video taping them all the time (or most of the time) specially in awkward moments is disgusting as well as degrading to those women. If the intention behind this stupid show is to help those women they could have helped them without making them sound like monkies in a cage, without abusing them and taking advantage of their problems.

However, I don’t blame mbc I blame those women and their families for allowing such thing to happen. Its an insult not only to those women but to all the women of the Arab World. I can’t believe we’re going down, blindly mimicking American Reality Shows which are ironically attacked and rejected by many people outhere who consider themselves conservative, who believe that their lives and their privacy are more valubale than that. Even by ethical codes abusing people like that is not acceptable!
So…whats next?

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I don’t know where to start. I’ll make it short, I promise.

I need to study one more course in Marketing in order to graduate inshallah this summer but none of the courses I can take is offered. Since I’m expected to graduate I have the right of being excepted and taking just any marketing course (but only 3 courses are available and all of them I’ve already taken). So…since registeration has started on the 30th of April I’ve been trying to talk to the head of the management department but he’s always not available. I could find him only once and I talked to him and he promised to solve this and asked me not to worry at all, but then nothing happened at all.

After I was done with my finals I didn’t rest, until now I’ve been up each morning heading to the uni waiting for him to come. And by the way all of them are not on their desks on time, often 2 or 3 hours late that is if they showed up! I tried calling but nobody answers, finally he answered one day and he said he’s not sure he can do something about it because the number of students will be very little if any , which is not what he said to me at first, he could have told me before when all the staff was still available now many of them are on vacation, I could have talked to our head of MIS department and registered for the internship but no he had to make things complicated and hard because of his carelessness. He said I can call him later the next day but when I did he didn’t answer, also he didn’t answer the day after! and I could find nobody to talk to because it seems like everyone is on vacation except for the Chair Person and few others. I emaild that doctor before by the way, before I call and till now I received nothing. Two days ago I emailed the Chair Person and also no response. Makes me wonder why on earth do they have emails? why give them computers and telephones? why do they pay them in the first place????

The same doctor attended only 3 or 4 classes during this whole semester! he was busy with conferences I guess, but thats not the students’ problem now is it?!

You can sense the unbelievable carlesness and laziness, wallah I can understand if they weren’t proffessors and principles but if our most educated people are like that then how can we blame others?

They act like lazy spoiled potato couchs not like responsible people who are paid to do their damn jobs. I forgot to mention the way they talk to you if they answered beeji 3abali a2olhom ana asfe inni 2ala2t manam 7adretak/7adretek (and thats for both instructers and secretaries!)

Laziness and and uncalled for arrogance, thats what we are when we’re given a little responsibility and control over others.

(And, oddly enough, in dry weather there’s none at all!)

“A truck driver was driving along on the freeway. A sign comes up that reads “low bridge ahead.” He tries to turn off but, before he knows it, the bridge is right there and he gets stuck under it. Cars are backed up for miles.

Finally, a police car comes up. The cop gets out of his car and walks around to the truck driver, puts his hands on his hips and says, “Got stuck huh?”

The truck driver says, “No, I was delivering this bridge and ran out of gas” ”

“If we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure.”

….George W. Bush, Jr.

“As fulfilling as it is to make fun of people for stating the obvious, you should at least be aware that doing so properly can be (and is) an integral part of many noble endeavours. Most proofs in philosophy and mathematics start out by stating facts that are widely known/considered to be true (ie, obvious), both to lay the foundation for inferences later on, and to orient the reader to the writer’s progression of thought. You and I both know that an odd number n can be represented in the form 2k+1 (k an integer), but if I don’t come out and say so at the beginning of my proof, you’ll scratch your head when I tell you that n squared is 4k^2+4k+1. And you’ll either take longer to infer my meaning (reinventing the wheel in the process), or just lose interest. The Socratic method is structurally little more than stating the obvious and asking your pupil whether a series of seemingly obvious consequences do or do not follow logically.

But outside the realm of argument, stating the obvious is one of the most basic elements of small talk, which is almost always the first step towards having meaningful conversation with another human. Unfortunately, we can’t just walk up to strangers and ask them about their thoughts on the nature of the soul… it’s socially unaccepted, but for a good reason. Subjective issues (religion, politics, musical taste, etc) are the most touchy, and when conflict and disagreement erupt around them, people become upset. A new person you’re interested in starting a conversation with has no interest in getting into an argument with a stranger. Conversation based around deep thoughts and strong opinions and radical ideas doesn’t occur until after you’re fairly well acquainted with someone (unless you’re part of a society similar to E2). Prior to this, you’re confined to asking innocuous questions (”What’s your major?” and “Have you seen such-and-such movie?”, once you’ve been talking for a few minutes), and stating the obvious (”It’s a scorcher out here today” or “That’s a cool shirt”) to show that you’re willing to engage in verbal communication and exchange a little vulnerability for the possibility that the other will respond with something interesting (”Yeah, I was born in such-and-such, where the weather is…”, “Thanks, I bought it from NORML, which meets the first Tuesday of…”).” Source

i often use sarcasm when someone states the obvious or says something very expectable , like something was repeated so manytimes before.