I never imagined I would use Twitter someday! The whole idea behind it was silly to me, and I was always like what’s the big deal about broadcasting to the world what did I have on lunch?! Facebook alone was enough, and it was becoming annoying with all the apps that my friends add and start spamming me with!
Early in May, I was thinking about a way to increase the traffic on this blog, so I thought of re-activating my account on Twitter and combine with Twitter Feed to automatically generate a tweet containing a link to any post I publish. So I was thinking of it as a marketing tool!
Few days later I was surprised to find much more active Lebanese users than I expected, and they were all tweeting about interesting stuff, though it was mostly about the parliamentary elections at that time, but still I found it interesting and entertaining. So I started engaging myself in the game and suddenly got addicted to it. For many reasons!
- It is NOT silly. Twitter is really different than Facebook’s status update, it’s on Facebook where you share silly stuff and the more you update your status the more you entertain your friends! Do the same on Twitter and your followers count will drop, no one wants his/her front page on twitter to be full of trash messages.
- It’s informative! Thanks to the URL shortening services, people can tweet about interesting links. They might not always contain valuable information, but I prefer to receive them instead of Facebook’s poker chips and silly quizzes
- You get to meet some seriously nice people there. In terms of privacy, Twitter is totally opposite to Facebook. In Facebook you are, most of the times, concerned about protecting your personal information and keeping strangers from having access to your profile. Where as on Twitter, strange people follow you and vice versa, and you will eventually make friends with those you reply to their messages frequently.
- Twitter users are the “elite” users of Facebook
- The great tweetups you attend every now and then. Twitleb is doing a great job gathering the Lebanese users, thanks to her we met at KUV Capital’s office today!
So what are you waiting for? Go get a Twitter account and don’t forget to follow me!!
Dear readers,
I am currently working on my final project for one of my MBA courses (Contemporary Management), and the subject is “Talent Management”.
To fulfill the project requirements, I am requested to get at least 100 person to fill a questionnaire I prepared about talent management on this link.
Filling out the survey will take less than 5 minutes, and I would really appreciate your help! 
P.S: You shuld be working in the Lebanese market.
I usually spend a good time everyday following the updates on the Lebanese blogsphere, and I lately came across two nice blogs.
The first is “Hummus nation“, a very funny blog acting as a national news agency from the Hummus nation and reporting daily news (and breaking news sometimes!) about various matter. The latest news reported the phoenix bird being accidentally shot by hunters using RPG’s at Dawra. T3isho.
I’d love to know more about the anonymous author of Hummus Nation, it would be nice if he/she posts an “About me” page. From the writing style I think he’s a man who has gone through the Lebanese Civil war, probably in his mid or late thirties. And the first letter of his name is … oh well khalas.
The second is “Maya’s Amalgam“, authored by Maya Zankoul (not Zakkour!!). It’s just like any other peronal blog, except that Maya is using illustrations to deliver her opinions, messages and daily observations, a bit similar to what Mireille does at Life Geeked.
I have gone over several posts on her blog, and so far all her stories are short, amusing, and interesting. Matches my reading requirements at work!
I took this photo a while ago in “De Prague” at Hamra. I was just having fun doing some compositions with the candle in the frame.
However, after yesterday’s results in the first grand prix of the 2009 formula one season in Melbourne with Raikkonen finishing 16th and Massa 17th, I beleive I should light a candle for them! A BIG ONE!!
Is it only me? Or do others also feel that Hamra resembles to New York? (Tsu2, I’m not out of my mind yet).
I used to rarely go to Hamra until recently when I got bored of all the other places like Downtown Beirut and Achrafiyeh, which are currently being heavily invaded by “wozziyyeh” teenage boys and girls especially on weekends!
Few weeks ago I went there in a hopeless attempt to find some new nice spot, and I was surprised by how beautiful Hamra is! Although I live in west Beirut, but since ever Hamra meant “traffic jam” to me, so I have always avoided passing by there. It isn’t like I have NEVER passed by Hamra before! But I’ve never passed and noticed the nice places I’m observing today.
The numerous neighboring shops, the cozy restaurants and cafés and the cozy streets, they all remind me of New York. I know that for some people there is no way to compare, but I have almost re-experience the same feeling I once had in New York everytime I go to Hamra for a walk.
I can call the Hamra area as “Little New York”… and no, once again I tell you that I’m not out of my mind yet!
I hate waiting… I HATE WAITING!
All I am waiting for is a SMALL e-mail and I am running out of patience…
Update:
Never mind, I got it! What a relief!! 
I liked to wish you a merry Christmas with this photo I took of the dazzling Christmas tree decorating Beirut downtown.
So, Merry Christmas everyone!
Here is something fun, I’ve been tagged by my friend Antoine Khater for what is called “5 Things Meme”.
Here are my answers, I hope the 5 people I tagged will respond too!
5 Things I Was Doing 10 Years Ago
1) Attending school!
2) Playing lot of video games
3) Daydreaming
4) Growing up…
5) Wondering what will I be doing after 10 years
5 Things On My To-Do List Today
1) Get more organized
2) Manage my time efficiently
3) Dedicate more time for my MBA courses
4) Post on my other blog
5) Take more care of my fighter fish
5 Snacks I Like
1) Godiva chocolate
2) Flavored yogurt
3) Hot chocolate cup
4) Can’t think of more..
5 Things I Would Do If I Was A Millionaire
1) Buy a house on Beirut seaside
2) Buy a bloody red Ferrari
3) Start my own business
4) Buy GOOD photography gear
5) Start a second business of my own!
5 Places I Have Lived (For Various Lengths Of Time)
1) Beirut
2) North Lebanon
3) Turkey
5 Jobs I Have Had
1) Network Operator
2) Database administrator
3) Nothing more..
5 People I Tag
1) Jester
2) Sietske
3) Diamond
4) Lilzi
5) Posh Lemon
For a second there, I felt proud to see the Hawker Hunter jet fighters flying over Beirut and participating in the aerial show of the 65th anniversay of (in)dependence (they made a lovely noise by the way!).
But then I felt awkward when I recalled they were actually made in the 1950’s, and we barely managed to get certain parts to restart using them! I wonder against whom we can use the 5 jets we have, Fath Al-Islam most probably? if they ever appeared again… or maybe against the Israeli Air Forces? no I’m kidding.
Anyway, it’s good to see them flying again!
I heard today that you were once passing by Barbar and got stuck in a traffic jam caused by the cars parking near the snack, so on the very next day you decided to prevent any car from parking near the snack anymore and use Barbar’s parking across the street instead.
I don’t know how true the story is, but the fact is that no more cars are parking near Barbar anymore, and it’s a relief! Thanks to whoever decided to make that happen!
BUT! Please do something about the Fakhani supermarket at the Malla street. Fakhani has valet parking! And his guys use the whole street as a parking, try to pass by there at 5 or 6 PM and see for yourself the traffic jam they’re causing everyday (yama7la Barbar!).
I hope you read this post some day when googling your name. (Would you mind posting a comment?)
