This is a sarcastic post about the “benefits” of smoking cigarettes. While there are some positive benefits to smoking, the side effects outweigh the benefits. I got inspired to write this post after I listened to an educative video by Gauranga Prabhu entitled “The Joy of De-Addiction“. I used to be a former story myself, you can read the story of my very cigarette. Continue reading “3 Benefits of smoking cigarettes”
Jehay-Bodegnée Castle – Belgium
Even Flies say grace…
A funny picture I received but it made me think how in modern times, one can get super busy and forget to say grace before eating. This is especially true if you live alone and away from your family who taught you and enforced those values when you were a kid.
You know what? Even robots say grace! 🙂
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Klara with Guitar
During my short visit to Brussels, Belgium this year, I met another street performer: her name is Klara and she had a lovely voice. Unlike other public performers though, she was not friendly so I could not interview her and share with you part of her story. We will have to contend with just a short video I captured:
You can visit her Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/klarawinterain/
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The prince and the tiger
One day, a prince and his servant were walking in the jungle. Suddenly, a ferocious tiger leapt out of no where and tried to attack them. The servant, out of fear, quickly climbed a nearby tree and took refuge and refused to stay and help his master. The prince, on the other hand, faced the tiger with so much courage and finally killed the tiger.
The prince then calls down his servant and asked him: “Why did you not come down and help me? Come down, I will kill you myself!”
The servant: “I saw a Lion fighting a tiger and it is well known, when those two are fighting, dogs should not get involved”.
The prince then smiled at his reply and spared his life.
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Catching up after a long time
Two friends, Tom and Mark reunite after a long time. They started chatting and catching up.
- Tom: So Mark, what’s up with you after this long time?
- Mark: Oh, since then I got married
- Tom: So that must be good news
- Mark: No, not really. The wife turned out to be very evil and made my life miserable
- Tom: Oh, that’s not good
- Mark: Well, no worries here. We got divorced and she paid me lots of money during the divorce
- Tom: So, that is of most convenience then
- Mark: Oh yeah, with all the money, I decided to get into the cattle business, but unfortunately they all died in an accident
- Tom: What luck!
- Mark: Luckily, I could sell their pelts for good money
- Tom: So for selling the pelts, at least you recovered your losses
- Mark: Yes indeed and with the money I bought a new house
- Tom: What a turn of events. That sucks!
- Mark: No not really. The wife was still in the house when it burned.
- …
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Bullet art by David Palmer
One day I was taking a walk in Laguna Beach and I ran into an art gallery displaying the art work of David Palmer.
Mr. David Palmer, a 60-year-old California resident, is an American contemporary artist. What drew my attention was the fact that Mr. Palmer uses bullets to make his art:
I found that kind of art really fascinating. Certain paintings can take more than 1000 bullets to make.
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The 2018 World Predictions – Michel Hayek
Keeping with every year’s tradition on this blog, I am doing a preliminary translation of the 2018 predictions by Michel Hayek.
2019 Predictions? Click HERE
Disclaimer:
- I am not a professional translator and I do this as a hobby.
- I do not claim that the translation below is accurate or true.
- I did not translate everything. I skipped many things including predictions of events that are very local to the Arab region and Lebanon.
If you can understand Lebanese Arabic, I have edited and cleaned the TV interview with Michael and made it available here:
More predictions:
- The 2016 World Predictions according to Michel Hayek
- The 2017 World Predictions – Between reality and illusion, between today and tomorrow
Let’s get started! Continue reading “The 2018 World Predictions – Michel Hayek”
The holy books quadrilogy
Throughout the mankind history, 3 major Abrahamic religions arose in the world. Almost two millenniums afterwards (in the year 1830), another “religious” book emerged in the US (the Book of Mormon).
It is funny how these 4 books can be likened to a funny quadrilogy book set.
- The Jewish adventures: old Jewish scrolls.
- Jewish Adventures II – The return of the Jews: the old and the new testament. Basically the modern day “Holy Bible”.
- Jewish Adventures III – The Revenge of Mohammed: That’s Holy Quran used by Muslims throughout the world.
- Jewish Adventures IV – Jesus in Space: The Book of Mormon, written by Joseph Smith
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