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It’s very rare I guess for a pregnant woman to have a smooth pregnancy but fortunately, I’m one of those lucky ones (El7mdellah). As I am in my 5th month, everything is going very smoothly & perfectly. I never vomited nor had low blood pressure or any kind of bad symptoms pregnant women suffer from. To be honest, I’m only suffering from severe heartburn which is annoying me alot, but I’m taking medicines which only help for one hour or so ;) but all is good el7mdellah!

Let’s see how it all started. I remember I used to wake up early February feeling nauseated & dizzy. & I fell twice or 3 times, one time my husband was able to catch me LOL but others, well you don’t wanna know if I banged my head on the kitchen cabinet or on the wall :P After a couple of weeks I knew I was pregnant yeeeppppeee :) The attack on the kitchen specially the fridge started immediately. I’d literary egt hungry every 2 hours or so, I couldn’t help myself but eat & keep on eating til I couldn’t breath. The scenario would be repeated every 2 hrs & so on :P After that, the craving started to cease a bit, I’m back to my normal eating & I’m not hungry all the time. Pregnant women are known to have weird cravings but til now, I haven’t craved anything weird, except for burgers in the middle of the night or white rice with yogurt & ma3booch every now & then :)

My mood swings are very stable except the first couple of months when i used to cry like a lunatic for no reason. I’d open the window to enjoy the beautiful breeze of Mars & booom, tears are rolling down. I’d drive my car crying all the time. I see my husband’s face & I cry. I was very depressed & sad. I spent the 1st months crying, I doubt I have any tears left right now :P But thank god everything stopped in the beginning of the 4th month & I became very happy & excited. I didn’t have one of these pregnancy madness, screaming at people or my husband or anything, I’m actually very serene & peaceful :D

I spent my whole time sleeping & I’m still sleeping all the time, good thing I don’t have a job right now or else I’d have slept on my desk & wouldn’t care if my manager saw me or not. When the sleeping bug hits you, you can’t control it. Although, I’m feeling very active & super healthy these days, that sometimes i wish i had a job to enjoy my time but what can I do? I guess I’m gonna have to enjoy my pregnancy at home & then motherhood ;)

My belly is still not showing, even though I expected it to show because I’m not skinny or anything. Sometimes, i doubt that I’m pregnant but when I look at my sonogram photos, I assure myself that I’m pregnant for real :P I dunno how’s the baby growing or how big he/she is, but it’s def not showing! Still :)

Boy or Girl? I still have no idea, will know nshallah next week. Will keep you posted :D


Last week I got the iControlPad to use with my iPad and after playing with it over the weekend I think it’s a great gadget for gamers. The iControlPad is a Bluetooth controller designed by the same guys behind the Open Pandora gaming device so you should know it was designed by gamers for gamers.

I was originally a bit worried that there would be a bit of lag between the control pad and the game but from my short experience with the device there doesn’t seem to be any lag whatsoever. It felt as if I was playing with a wired controller which is great, similar to the wireless Xbox and PS3 controllers.

The iControlPad works with a bunch of official games in the App Store but I actually got it so I could play SNES games using an emulator. Since I got an iPad 3 I’ve gone ahead and jailbroken my original iPad 1 into a gaming device. I’ve installed a SNES emulator on the iPad as well as some games and now with the iControlPad it’s a great portable Super Nintendo. The iControlPad actually has 6 buttons similar to the SNES except the top shoulder buttons (L and R) are located on the bottom of the back of the device which will take a bit of getting used to. Other than that I didn’t have any issues with it, it has a built in battery and charges via USB so it’s very practical.

The iControlPad I ordered came with a phone holder that attached to the rear of the controller. The holder fits not only iPhones but other phones as well including Android phones since the iControlPad works basically with both operating systems. The price of the controller is $74.99 and I ordered it from ThinkGeek but they’re out of stock right now. Your other option is to get it directly from the iControlPad website [Here]

Last week marked the anniversary of a day that will always be Very special to me. We walked to the restaurant, her friends were right there, Would I mess up, would I make an error? Thoughts of...

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I’ve previously test driven the Fiat 500 and loved it which is why I decided to rent the convertible version this weekend while I’m here in Lebanon. But, while the Fiat 500 was a lot of fun to drive on flat roads, it’s horrible to drive up a mountain.

I don’t think it’s the lack of power but more the crappy automatic gearbox. The car will just not shift down into the right gear when you really need it. It actually stalled with me TWICE on a tight steep corner which is why I’m now driving the car in manual mode not auto so I could choose the gears I want when I want them.

The version of the car I’m driving is the 500c where “c” stands for cabriolet. Since the weather is fantastic right now in Lebanon driving around in a convertible is the way to go about it. The car I’m in also has a black leather interior which looks a lot nicer than the beige interior of the car I test drove in Kuwait. But, I don’t think I could recommend anyone to get a Fiat 500 if they live in a mountainous country unless they get the manual version (or drive the auto gearbox in manual mode).

My one true love: Coffee <3

Fresh baked waffles drizzled with melted butter and chocolate sauce.

Bubble Bath while reading a new trashy romance novel and sipping on a strawberry smoothie.

Now the stressful work week seems like just a bad dream...


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today was one of those rare days where i managed to come in super early and finish everything i had to do by 2:30pm

so i have been sitting and killing time for the last two hours!

well not so much – i was trying to sort out car service and fixing it from the stupid accident i had a couple of weeks ago

so its one of those rare relaxed days – where i have nothing urgent pending.. and there is nothing i want to do as such..

i know sunday will be hectic and that’s why i want to enjoy today for the time being..

the office is so quiet and i understand that the weekend has kicked in early for most..

i hope my boss tells me i can leave early if i’m done ;p

which she knows i am ;p


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Health they say, is a lifestyle, not a choice. It is permanent, not temporary. Earlier this week I had decided to go on a brisk run after days of procrastination, opting this time to set aside my...

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The hardest part is letting go. They say change is a good thing, however they neglect to mention the Herculean efforts that go hand in hand with accepting change. Losing someone close is never an...

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I have (finally, shamefully) uncovered the lyrical wizardry of Bob Dylan for myself. When I began exploring Nina Simone’s impressive repertoire, looking up the background of  most of her songs simply became a habit. Her performances simply have a way of communicating to parts of me which remain otherwise uninterested in communication to begin with. [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

This is dedicated to Cheeky, just remembered this and thought of reminding you :P Read the post HERE.


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I’m surprised at the amount of patience this person has.

“In this chain reaction there are 60 big dominos each containing 990 dominos, and a small field of 600 dominos (which says 60,000) to bring the total up to 60,000 dominos used.

The big dominos span about 14 feet across. It took approximately 65.5 hours to complete over 8 days. In the setup footage, the counter changes color on each day.

The entire setup fell in approximately 12 seconds.

If you pay close attention to the setup sequence, you can find one domino I built while wearing the wrong color shirt!! Oh no!

After building this, I was able to count my remaining dominos and I have roughly 7700 left over.”


Back in February I signed up to a 10Mbps connection with WiMD and just over 3 months have passed since then so I figured I’d post a second impression. For those of you who missed my previous posts, WiMD is a local wireless internet provider that uses technology similar to WiFi and WiMAX except theirs works using the 5 GHz wavelength.

Since installing WiMD I got rid of all my other internet connections and have put all my trust in them. That might not sound like a big deal but you have to consider the fact I live my life online and if I don’t have access to internet I start experiencing withdrawal symptoms. Ok maybe that’s a bit extreme but you get the idea.

So how’s the connection speed 3 months later? Browsing websites everything is still super fast, pages load instantly and there is no lag of any sort. Downloading torrents I also don’t have any issues, if I let it download without any limitations it can easily bypass 1,000Kbps. YouTube on the other hand is horrible with WiMD. I’m not sure what exactly is the problem but I can stream an HD video from Vimeo instantly but I can’t watch a non-HD video on YouTube without having to wait ages for it to load. Running speed tests has also provided me with vastly different results than when I first started with WiMD. When I last ran the speed tests 3 months back I was getting results of around 10Mb/s, this time around I was having trouble getting half that. Check out the results below:

But really if it wasn’t for the YouTube issue I wouldn’t have noticed anything out of the ordinary. My biggest issue really is the YouTube problem since it’s ridiculous to have to wait for a low res video to load on a 10Mbps connection. I’ve already contacted support and they told me they’re working on a fix for it and I trust that they are. The speed test results have dropped considerably and what gets affected by this the most is downloads from a single source like say downloading an update or video from an Apple server. Since most of my downloads take place while I’m out of the house or asleep I’m not affected by this but I’m sure it does other people.

The best thing about WiMD and something I make great use of is the upload speed, it’s fast! What this allows me to do is upload files onto the server a lot quicker compared to my previous DSL connection. Nat takes advantage of this the most since she spends a lot of time emailing her clients large files and what used to take her a couple of hours now takes around 20 minutes.

But, like I previously mentioned, I’ve given up all my other internet connections including my very reliable DSL connection because I trust WiMD. I know they’re busy right now working to fix whatever needs to be fixing so I’m not concerned too much. They’ve just started catering to consumers recently and I know for a fact they’ve been overwhelmed with subscribers so it’s only a matter of time before things get back to normal. I’ll have to wait and see but so far I have no regrets signing up with them. They’re the best available option for me right now.

If you’re interested in a connection you can call them on 22475841 and 22475842 or visit their website [Here]

While in Geneva we stayed at a hotel overlooking the Geneva fountain called Beau Rivage. It’s an old hotel that dates back to 1865 and I doubt the general look of the hotel has changed much since then and that’s actually what I loved about the hotel.

It’s a very posh hotel and you feel that as soon as you walk in. It’s not Dubai style posh where everything is gold and shiny, it’s a lot more understated here with pastel pink colored marble pillars and ceiling decoration that dates back most likely over a hundred years. Of course the fact that everyone speaks English with a French accent doesn’t hurt.

The hotel is 5 floors high and my room was on the 4th floor which was great since I usually prefer the higher floors since they’re quieter. Once I walked in I was amazed at how big the room was. I think it’s probably the largest hotel room I’ve ever stayed in and it was beautifully decorated. I’m not really into this classical style but it worked really well in this case. The room was decorated very tastefully and I had 2 large windows that were bringing in a lot of natural daylight and more importantly I had an incredible view. I also had a chimney, a real one not just for decoration. No idea if they actually use them in winter (I doubt) but the idea is great. Each room in the hotel is also individually decorated so no two rooms are the same.

The hotel has a couple of restaurants including one that has a Michelin star.They also have a bar with a really great outdoor seating area that also overlooks the famous Geneva fountain. I didn’t pay for the room but according to the rate card, my room rate was 1,600CHF a night which is around KD480. The hotel is located walking distance from the main shopping streets and is also just a 15 minute ride from the airport without traffic. It’s definitely one of the best hotels I’ve stayed in.