AMMAN // Jordanians Dima and Lama Hattab are hoping to be the first twin sisters to conquer the world’s highest mountain – but are struggling to find the funding for their adventure in a country that does not have a tradition of professional female athletes. (Source)
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Although some would be surprised, but the second thing I love about Amman (the first thing being the cultural scene) is it’s mixed population. There’s something religiously amazing about seeing non-Jordanian sub-societies and individuals melted within the Ammani population.
It’s exciting to hear other Arabic accents spoken by people I could never have guessed that they’re not Jordanian. Knowing that appearances no longer distinguish people despite of their different nationalities is, in my opinion, something worth celebrating =)
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How happy you are is influenced by your social links to people you’ve never heard of and never met.That’s the conclusion of a US study looking at the spread of happiness and depression across social networks.
Happy people cluster together, the research suggests. And the opposite also seems to be true — so if you are miserable, you are more likely to have miserable friends.
The effect holds in both the real and virtual worlds. People who put smiling photos on their profiles for social networking sites such as Facebook tend to link to one another. Frowners do likewise.
But it’s not just direct contact that counts. The link is significant to three degrees of separation — that is, your own emotional state is connected to that of your friends’ friends’ friends. (Source)
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Jack Nickolson and Morgan Freeman are cancer patients who share the same hospital room (ironically owned by Nickolson). They soon become friends and together co-write a list of things they want to do before they “kick the bucket” (hence the movie’s name).
The movie is a must-see for all ages, simply because it talks about the most important things in life and death: Friendship, goodness, joy and love. I know it sounds like a cheesy movie, but it isn’t. It does get emotional and even real-life serious in some scenes but it balances things out with some of the most hilarious lines I’ve heard in a long while.
My favorite quote though is what Carter (Morgan Freeman) says at the beginning of the movie about how we measure our lives, he says “I believe you can measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you”. And I wonder if that in fact is the sole judge of a life well-lived. It does make sense though, and it was touching to recall what he said in the end of the movie.
I’d give this movie a score of 5/5 on my personal scale.
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eXPAND is Faridon Abida’s latest photography exhibition which started on the 16th of this month and will continue till the 26th (you have only two days left so hurry up!). I’ve been to Faridon’s previous exhibition and from an admirer’s point of view, I must say that I was a bit disappointed this time. But again, I’m not a photographer nor an artist. I’m sure that photographers would appreciate his latest collection more, being interested in the quality and all the camera-related details. I liked the grey-scale photography the most.
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Who the hell need Fatwa for this? Seriously, if someone is going to give up his home or land, no Fatwa will hold him back.
And I don’t even need to be Muslim to figure that Gaza siege should end. This sort of things should not be Islamized like that, for one, who’s to say we’re going to hell if we don’t speak about what’s going on , and how frequently should we speak before we get the pardon from hell? and second, Palestine is for everyone and not just Muslims.
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