Category: Family stuff

  • Blu-ray players come to Jordan (overpriced) and flat-screen TV’s take off (also overpriced)

    Today I spent an hour at Smart Buy hunting for a flat screen TV for our office’s meeting room. I was looking at screens 40-50 inch in size. My hunt started a few days ago at Carrefour’s electronics department. Complaining about the prices of electronic in Jordan is one of my favorite pastimes. I will…

  • Exclusive video: snow falls on Dabouq ๐Ÿ™‚

    Kids excited. Adults relieved. Finally some snow. The construction site next door has been deserted by the contractor today. Only two workers where attending to some tasks. Watwet is on fire with people sharing snow news and photos. Cool!

  • Amazing music juggler!

    Will show this to my son tomorrow who is trying to learn juggling.. Unbelievable..

  • Happy Everything..

    Happy Everything. From your friends at ikbis.com!

  • What? WHAT? Watwet!

    It’s on the web. On the mobile. It’s addictive. Watwet (and yes, it’s another TootCorp production)

  • Who is killing Amman’s oaks?

    Every time we drive beyond Dabouq, towards Bader, Mahis and Fuhais, My wife and I get enraged. Because the direct answer to the question “who is killing Amman’s oaks?” is: rich west-Ammani villa builders! People who go and buy land in Amman’s most beautiful countryside hills, which are full of amazing oak trees, and then…

  • I voted

    OK. Thanks for all the advice. I voted. I went to the same public school I voted at in the last elections. I took my 9 year old son with me so that he can see how the process goes. He was pretty impressed with the computer that displayed my full name when the “election…

  • Virgin Megastore and SmartBuy: taking electronics and media retail to the next level

    Around four years ago, I wanted to buy a simple tripod for my video camera in Amman. I went on a great tour of the city and found nothing to buy. Nothing. Fast forward to 2007: I could shop for one at Prime Megstore, Carrefour’s electronic department or the two newly opened Virgin Megastore at…

  • Children and the great Arabian Internet Desert

    During Iftar, my 9 year old son, asked me if I could help him find some Arabic information on the web, about animals and the five senses. So after we finished eating (and after my delayed ‘morning’ coffee) we sat down in front of his good old Mac for what I supposed would be an…

  • Who’s liberal? Who’s conservative?

    Don’t judge by appearances! “Back in Chicago I have my own Dishadash and Siwak, Dad!” LOL! [See it on Ikbis] Read these related posts on 360east: Hey! Journalists! Leave those kids alone! Tuesdays in Al-Ghad: Highly readable opinions of Khashogji and Sagheyeh Weimar: the original home of the Bauhaus More crazy stuff with an ‘Islamic’…

  • Blogging from Turkey

    Where they already have their own version of Coca Cola Black. And yes.. I am on vacation. Read these related posts on 360east: Turkey: Secularism, Islam and Nationalism in one shot Invitation: Adel Iskandar talk on “blogging arabia” this Thursday Ending my self-imposed blogging hiatus Toot and Arab blogging to be featured today on Amman…

  • Wakalat street at night: urban coexsistance

    Place: Wakalat Street, Amman, Jordan Time: Sunday 22 July 2007. Today was the official opening day of Wakalat Street. I decided to pass by on my way back home from the office at around 10:30 pm. Thousands of people. Jordanians, Iraqis, Gulf nationals. Teenage boys and girls. Totally westernized clothes to pitch black niqabs. Families.…