Posted on March 13, 2008 12:16 PM under:
Memories
Mark just posted about his bad experience with Wimpy yesterday, which reminded me of my own experience with the same fast food chain. Let me start from the very beginning, somewhere around 20 years ago or even more, back when I was a little kid in Zimbabwe, we used to have this routine as a family, where we'd go to the movies and then on our way out have a nice meal at the next door Wimpy. It was so delicious, their burgers were some of the best you could find, juicy fresh and simply awesome, the taste stayed with...
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Posted on December 13, 2007 09:56 PM under:
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While doing some random surfing, I came across a list of the top 5 illnesses that cause kids to miss school. These illnesses are as follows: 1. The Common Cold 2. The Stomach Flu 3. Ear Infection 4. Pink Eye 5. Sore Throat The main two that I personally got hit with as a kid, and that kept me from going to school sometimes, were the common cold and sore throat. Until I ruined it for myself, that is... The thing is that after a few times of falling sick and not having to go to school, I found that...
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I miss, oh do I miss: - The 5 millime biscuits we used to eat so much of. - The Stil yogurts we used to shake, bite a hole in and drink. - The cheap granite (lemon & strawberry) ice cream. - The collectable cards (tsawer) and marbles (bees) we used to play with and collect. - The small bunny-bunny firecrackers. - The soccer matches in the middle of the neighbourhood. - The hours of watching kaaboul, baseet, sasuki and the other cartoons. - The trees we used to climb up. - The times we were almost caught for doing...
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Posted on October 20, 2006 10:52 AM under:
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Today at work while joking about something, the idea of morphing images came up (ok we're geeks!), and somewhere in the back of my head a little thread was launched down memory lane, reminding me of this short-lived TV series called "Manimal", that I used to watch in my childhood. The series was about a certain Dr. Jonathan Chase, a shape-shifting man who could turn himself into any animal to fight crime. The role of Jonathan Chase was played by actor Simon McCorkindale. Only 8 episodes were made of this series before it was axed due to poor ratings, which...
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Posted on May 26, 2006 10:29 PM under:
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Summer is here, it means the most to children, soon school will be over for this year, and all the different summer activities will begin taking place. I remember how great it felt when summer came at last, promising us a 3 month break from school, and the rigid serious routine we had to keep up with for a whole 9 months. I have many great summertime memories that I might get around to sharing here, but in this post, I'm going to write about a specific memory that flashed back to me a couple of days ago. As a...
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Posted on April 30, 2006 11:28 PM under:
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I think that my upbringing, plus the fact that I grew up in Zimbabwe and also my getting to travel a lot, meeting different people and having friends from all races and nationalities, makes me one of the people who are the farthest from racism as possible. I'm not just one of those people who go on about how they're not racist but then say that it's impossible for them to marry someone from this race or that, or who feel somehow superior to people from a certain nationality or race, and that list of contradictions goes on... No, I'm...
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Posted on April 11, 2006 10:04 AM under:
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I remember when I was a little kid, I had this big fear of dogs, especially ones that liked to bark a lot when running up to you, no matter how small they were. It scared the hell out of me, I'd panic and run away at the sight of a dog. My mom used to tell me that dogs smell fear and that I had to try and act all cool about it so they wouldn't bother me. But being a kid, that was all blah blah to me, how was I supposed to keep myself together while a...
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Posted on March 9, 2006 07:29 PM under:
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Having two names was never an easy thing for me, even though I don't think it's that complicated or weird. Plus it's a very normal and common thing in Tunisia. I actually see it as one name: "Mohamed Marwen" as a whole entity. Although I did amuse myself sometimes by thinking that "Mohamed" is the good side of me, while "Marwen" is the dark one. Anyway, it seems that some people just need to have one name or else they get a system failure error somewhere in their mental address book. So, as a child growing up in Zimbabwe, all...
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Posted on November 10, 2005 09:42 PM under:
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When I was a kid, I remember how I used to fake being sick so that I could stay at home and not go to school. I'd fake everything, from the fever to the exhaustion to the cough or the throat-ache, to every single detail. My mother would find me in that situation and after some inspection declare me sick, and my father would just go out to work without having to drop me at school on his way. 15 minutes after my dad's departure, as if by a miracle, I'd be up and well again, running, jumping and doing...
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Today, I went to the dentist's for another one of my seemingly endless appointments for dental work. Sometimes I feel like I have some sort of membership card. Anyway, as I entered the waiting room, I found this cute little 9 year old kid who was flipping through a French magazine, mainly focusing on the many pictures, flying by some and looking closer at some others. I said hi and sat next to him and pulled a magazine from the stack too and started flipping through it myself. The boy came across this perfume ad with a guy holding up...
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Posted on August 19, 2004 10:38 AM under:
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Yesterday, I got to watch The Truman Show again. This movie has to be one of my favourite movies because I really relate to it. When I was a child, while other children were worrying about the idea that they could be adopted children, I went a bit further :P Not only did I worry that I could be adopted, I also worried that my whole life was an act that the whole world was watching. I suspected that everyone around me was acting and that all the travels we travelled were in the same place with only the sets...
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Posted on August 18, 2004 11:00 AM under:
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Yesterday, my wife and I were talking about a friend of mine when I mentioned how his job sent him for a whole week to stay at the 4 star Marhaba hotel in the Al Kantaoui touristic area in Sousse. This triggered an old memory of mine that is related to this hotel. I remember when I was a kid, for a couple of years, we went and rented one of those touristic appartments at the Al Kantaoui port and spent the summer vacation there. I loved it, and I love Al Kantaoui to this very day, it's a really...
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Last night, as I was zapping through the different satellite channels, I found a movie about M.C. Hammer on Multivision. Having one of those flashback moments, I decided to watch the movie. It was a nice movie, not anything extraordinary, but nice in a way that it introduced me to his life, how he made it, and how his musical career all ended. It definitely brought back a lot of memories of the times when Hammer was at the top of his game, when it was "Hammer Time". In fact, the first music tape I ever bought was an M.C....
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Posted on March 19, 2004 10:34 AM under:
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Just the other day, my wife told me that I was obviously more of a night person than a day person, which I think might be true. Anyway, her comment triggered a flashback to a period of my life in which everyone who knew me called me a vampire. It was back in 1997 in Jordan, and I had just gotten an internet connection of my own at home. I was over the moon with excitement, and just couldn't get enough. In a few days my schedule became as follows: - Sleep all day long. - Wake up at midnight...
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Posted on February 3, 2004 09:49 AM under:
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Tunisia, Germany, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Kenya, France, Portugal, Switzerland, Morroco, Greece, Egypt, Libya, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Jordan, Syria, Thailand. I love travel. I hope i can grow my list even bigger through the years. If things go as planned, this year i'll be able to add Lebanon to my list, as i'm hoping to jump over there for a quick tour in between visiting my wife's family in Jordan. [via eclecticism] [Map created using World66]...
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Posted on January 21, 2004 05:40 PM under:
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Oh, how much i long for one of the old days i used to spend in Islamabad / Pakistan. I visited Pakistan about 4 or 5 times back when i was a teenager; as my dad used to work at the Tunisian embassy there. It would be summer time, and as soon as school ended, we'd be picking up our baggage and leaving Tunisia to go spend the summer with my dad in frying hot Pakistan while tourists were flooding into Tunisia to enjoy the summer and the sea. Back then, Islamabad was one of the most boring cities on...
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I just remembered this ghost story that supposedly happened in Tunisia. It's quite a well-known one, and i first heard it when i was a kid. I have no idea what reminded me of this, but i remember this and other stories like it nearly made me shit my pants as a child, lol... The story goes as follows: This guy was out for a night walk in downtown Tunis and as he passed by one of the Belvedere Park's gates, he saw this good looking girl all alone and feeling cold. So, he walks up to her and gives...
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Posted on January 14, 2004 11:26 AM under:
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The other day, on our way home and as were stopped at a traffic light, a taxi stopped next to us and the driver pulled up the hand break. Automatically, and by the sound of the hand break, i told my wife it was a Peugeot 205, and it was. Of course, i know the sound of a Peugeout 205 hand break and engine because my dad has one and i've driven it quite a number of times, and in fact crashed it quite a few times too :P But, that reminded me of this game i used to play...
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Well, i'm planning to change my glasses very soon, and i'm already wondering how the change will affect my life this time around. Now, maybe most people's lifes don't really change a lot when they change their glasses, but well my life did the last time i changed mine. I'll tell you the story ;) When i went to Jordan back in 1996 to study at the University of Jordan, i was really happy that i would be living alone and free to do whatever i wanted with my looks, life, home, ...etc. It was all the freedom i could...
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