After closing the blog for some time … The Blog is back

I closed the blog because I didn’t have time and stopped updating it for a while. But now, having more time, and since our country’s Minister of Culture and Information issued a ministerial order to the country’s ISPs to ban web sites that the ministry deemed "inappropriate", along with some other reasons, I decided to re-open the blog

This censorship order  came as a shock considering the country is supposedly moving toward a more open and democratic system and the Ministry can’t possibly think that censorship and limiting freedom of expression and of the press is compatible with a "democratic" (I use the word loosely) constitutional monarchy.

I was glad to see that most people didn’t by into this order even though it was issued under nationalistic and moralistic pretenses.

I wasn’t expecting to write this much it was supposed to be just an opening note

Today we started the second semester of this academic year. For my first two lectures the professors didn’t show up. Kinda’ show you what the semester is going to be like :p .

The third and fourth lectures were interesting. The fifth lecture is was not as interesting but it was full of surprises and as my friend put it, the professor looks like "she’s gonna be interesting".

we’ll by the end of the day I was tried and some what disappointed. Hope some changes will happen soon. (not likely :sigh:)

Hello .. I’ve just came back from a conference in the Dead Sea, Jordan! We met our friends from Lebanon and Egypt and we had lots and lots of fun.

<< The dead sea

The conference was good and MEPI spared no expenses. I enjoyed many of the panels, workshops and workgroups, there was one thing though; some of the presenters and participants were only there to show off and it was like I I I, ME ME ME which was quite annoying and boring.

After the conference, we took a couple of extra days to go around Jordan sight seeing with our Jordanian friend. We went to Petra and to Amman, and we went to Mount Nebo from which you can have a clear look of Palestine and the cities of Jericho (Aree7a) and Jerusalem (Al-Quds).

<< Petra

Mount Nebo is also the place where Moses and his followers reached when they looked over Palestine and told him as it’s told in Sorat Al-Maeda “Go thou, and thy Lord, and fight ye two, while we sit here (and watch).”

Over all, it was a fun trip

<< Amman

Few pictures of the beautiful places we went to.

Hey, here I am, talking to you from Marrakech.

It’s been a while since I last blogged but I feel like I don’t have anything to blog anyway.

Oh, yeah, Morocco is great. We’re going out and trying to see as much of it as possible as we have a busy schedule with the conference.

Got 2 go now, we have one day left here and we want to make the most of it.

PS to MBC: this is my first post with Windows Live Writer

Hey there everyone.

It’s been a while since I last wrote something here but it was a busy time for me.

We just got back to Delaware from Memphis Tennessee a couple of days ago. We were there for about 3 days and we visited a lot of interesting places, met a lot of interesting people and did a lot of interesting things.

Needless to say, we visited The King’s house (Graceland). It was an interesting place to visit especially if you’re into music and more importantly Elvis Presley. Of course we listened to a lot of Soul, Rock ‘n’ Roll and the Blues music which was a nice cultural experience.

We went to the civil rights museum which is about the development of the civil rights movment in America and we saw where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.

Memphis was great, we had a lot of fun and we did a lo-o-o-o-ot of things I can’t list every thing here Memphis is now my favorite place.

I think I should get going now.

Peace.

Hi everyone,

It’s 9 am here in Newark Delaware.

Yesterday we had a lot of free time at our hands so we went out and explored Newark a bit it was fun.

Anyways,, I g2g now.

We’re just about to head to Philadelphia for a one-day trip.

seeya all soon.

I just wanted to say hi to every one.

We arrived at Delaware this afternoon & I thought I should drop a line here or something 
It’s now about 10:30 pm here (that is 5:30 pm Bahrain time) I don’t know what else to say except that I’m really tired but we had a fun but exhusting day.

 I guess I’ll probably write more next time, when I’m not half asleep

Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a one horse open sleigh
Dashing through …

I’m in a very good mood today. Yesterday I finished my exams, free at last .

Then I went out with some friends and we did some partying then more partying with my friends on the messenger .. WOW it was wild.

Then of course I slept ’till noon to compensate for the past couple of weeks.

And I’m now happy and fresh and relaxed .

Good luck for the rest of you guys on what is left of your torture.

I have finished my American Studies Finals today and now I have only 4 more Finals to go.

So far, so good, I hope things will stay that way and not get worse (I don’t mind improvement though )

Gotta go,, bbye for now

It’s been a while since I wrote anything in the blog.

I’ve been busy with papers, reports & assignments and I still have a week full of tests before the finals.

For everyone out there suffering like me, Good luck and god help us all!