I finally got people emailing me asking me why the heck does the slogan on my banner say, “Oh… just a bit of column of A. Then some of column B.” Now that’s a great question. Glad you asked that ever so enthusiastically.

When I was growing up, I had an obsession with Disney movies. Till this day, I remember movies such as Winnie the Pooh, Alice in Wonderland, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Robin Hood, etc. I have seen them all more than 20 times each. Maybe even more. VHS and those rewind buttons were easily operated by a 3 year old. DVD’s are too complicated for even a 20 year old now a days! Anyways, you can say I am the typical 80’s child that survived her childhood watching imaginary crap. However, one movie stuck in my head that I not only know the lyrics to the songs, but also the words within the movie. Aladdin! That movie was awesome! I loved the movie so much, that I played the SNES game too! I still play the SNES game on my computer. Technology rules!

So what does the slogan have to do with Disney? Well, you see, I didn’t like Aladdin because of Jasmine or the dorky Aladdin guy. I loved the GENIE! He was blue and he had some lip! He wouldn’t shut up! He sings a song called A Friend Like Me, and in the song he says, “Have some of column A. Try some of column B.” So I thought, why not. So I changed it a bit and thought it was appropriate for my site. Since I don’t shut up and don’t care what word vomits out of my brain to the computer screen. So I give you some bit of flavor: some from column A, and some from column B.

Back in the day, when I first started making websites more than 10 years ago, I had personal sites and I just splashed animated pictures of Genie every where. Hehehe.

So sing you fools and honour thy Blue Genie!

Blah Blah, Funny, My taste of Music, Video

This weekend I realized how bored I was. I decided to start something tomorrow. I had enough thinking, and I want to do something productive in my life. What is it exactly? Not sure 100% yet. I am going to work on The Arab Zine again, and I encourage all those that are willing to write for it to come forth and send me articles. Last month have been hectic and I didn’t have the time or willingness to work on it, but now I am.

Also, I am thinking of doing some freelance web work, and starting my own web company again. I think I mastered PHP, HTML, MySQL, CSS over the years, and I have enough skills to get me by. I do not really need money, but I need something to keep me busy. The past 4 months of not being employed and having a boss has been great! I learned a lot in the past 4 months, and now I want to start something and be my own boss. It is not easy finding a job now a days, and believe me, going to interviews is no one’s cup of tea. I will still look for jobs and go on interviews till I find something that I will actually enjoy doing. But I am not going to make it my primary option. Just something in the background and not really a priority in my life.

This site has sustained me financially, and I make enough money off of it to pay my student loans and credit card without using any of my savings. So, I got a plan now for this year that I have been thinking about for a while, and time to execute it. I have my own office and phone, and time to start using that thing called 6.5 years of computer programming and graphic designing experience and do some work!

I am excited for tomorrow, and I feel positive. I think I have a new year’s resolution now. To be productive and start a small business.

Blah Blah, Random Thoughts

Hello, my name is Mona. I was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Since I was born in an Arab nation, it does not mean I hold the citizenship of that country. Since my parents are Palestenian, I am Palestenian too. My parents were not born in Palestine. They were born after 1948 in Lebanon. My parents are the first generation born refugees. They were born in Lebanon, but they are not Lebanese. They were born in an Arab nation, but cannot hold the citizenship of that country.

I was born in 1980. When I was around the age of 4 or 5, my parents would tell me that I am not Saudi, and I never will be. I am Palestenian. I asked them, “why don’t we live in our home land then? My parents answer, “because someone else took it and told us to leave.”

23 years later, people ask me, “why do you have so much hate towards Israelis and Jews?” I answer them simply, “I do not hate Jews. Why would I hate a religion? I do not like politics that speak in the name of religion and make it bad for everyone else. However, why would I like a group of people that made my people leave our land?”

In 1948, over 700,000 Palestinians were forced out of their lands. Now, around 8 million, even more, Palestinians live all over this earth. A small group that live in a city named Gaza, 1.5 million people are blockaded with no food and no medication to enter anymore, and fighting street wars. Why? Neither party gave a reason why they are doing this, and what is the result of it. Neither side is negotiating. They think violence will solve the problems. We Palestinians never surrender, our motto is, “It is either me or my enemy.” However, is that going to solve this problem in the long run? I do not think so. I quit watching the news, and just praying to God that both sides come to their senses and realize that nothing can be resolved with violence.

I pray for the children and women that died unjustly in this pathetic war a place in heaven. Amen.

Advice, Palestine, Random Thoughts

This morning, my mom tried to call her mother in Lebanon that live in the Palestenian refugee camp in Beirut, Burj Al-Barajni, and sisters in Southern Beirut near the Shi’a area that Israel bombed two years ago. My mom spent 3 or 4 hours constantly calling. In the last few times that she tried, all she got was someone else answering. It was someone answering her back in HEBREW!

Why is Israel now tapping the phones to Lebanon? What is their REAL PLAN!?

Angry, They said what?, Whatever!

That’s all we want. The rest of the world just wants it to stop. Please stop the bloodshed!

I can’t even watch the news, Israel is now doing a ground attack in Gaza. It’s a horrible horror movie taking place and the world watches. I go on Twitter, and I get attacked by the most ignorant people justifying the killing. Seriously, we don’t want anything but it to stop. Why you guys doing this? Why kill women and children?

Angry, Confused, Depressed, Palestine