What just happened? One minute I’m surfing the net with my window open enjoying the breezy air and the next minute am running around the room flooded with water!!!
I got a ticket to watch Ayman Zbib perform tonight!!!
This weekend seems to have a good start!
Have a good weekend everyone!
Delirious just sent me an invitation to “Haven’t 15 years of hiding in the toilets been enough?!” (click on image to enlarge)
From what I understand its a public installation by Nada Sehnaoui that will be available for viewing from April 13th until April 26th in the parking lot across from Starco in Beirut.
Check the image for more information on the event as well as the performances that will be available. For those of you in Lebanon, I strongly recommend that you go to this event, and I beg of you to take some photos and send them to me 
I am not a fan of Yanni, maybe because he got over-used in the 90s or something. This is a piece I adore and it truly touches me. It’s a piece of music using a 3000 year old Armenian instrument called Duduk. I feel that this piece of music actually tells a story. Watch and listen here!
I don’t know why I didn’t hear of this earlier! Apparently, Hawa Lebnan is a product created by a lady called Rasha Najjar. Hawa Lebnan is canned Lebanese air being sold for $3.5 a can. According to Rasha Najjar, all revenues go to planting trees in the Chouf area. I don’t know how I feel about this! Also, how can you can air?
Check out the YouTube video about it.Â
I’ve seen and heard of disgusting and sick people in my life but never have I heard of a person as sick as this one!
“In 2007, Guillermo Vargas Habacuc, a so called artist, took an abandoned dog from the streets, tied him to a very short rope to a wall in an art gallery, and left a kettle of food on the other side of the room, beyond his reach, and left him there to slowly die of hunger and thirst.
The so-called artist of such cruelty and the visitors of the gallery of art watched the agony of this animal. The dog finally died of famine, surely after a painful, absurd and incomprehensible torture.
The prestigious Centralamerican Biennial of Art decided that this horrible act committed by this guy was art, and Guillermo Vargas Habacuc has been invited to repeat his cruel actions in said Biennial in 2008.”
To stop this horrendous act, join this facebook group and sign this petition
Yup am back in Kuwait and headed out to watch the Bahrain GP live at Applebees (2:30pm) and the rerun at (8:30pm). Am all geared up in my Renault ING F1 clothing and ready to cheer Alonso and Piquet!
Yes people, I am in Dubai once again.
Surprisingly the weather is amazing! I just returned from having dinner at The Meat Co. at Souk Madinat Jumeirah and the outdoor seating was extremely pleasant.
This time I’m driving myself around, which is kind of hysterical since I do seem to know the direction I should be heading at and sort of have the roads covered… but I keep missing the damn exits!!!
I used to hate coming to Dubai but I sort of don’t mind it anymore. I still don’t see myself living here. I can’t even imagine how people do so but at least I’ve been enjoying it when I do come here for a few days.
This time I am staying until Thursday and have a full and busy schedule.
Oh… and for those of you who are thinking it, the chances of me missing the flight is extremely slim since my flight back is an afternoon flight. So no traffic to get stuck in or oversleeping 
For the past few months I’ve had extremely fun and busy weekends. This weekend seems to be a dry one…
I was looking forward to the weekend all week to vent out a bit and instead I got the opposite. Let’s hope tomorrow things change a bit.
Beirut City Center
Mar 27th, 2008 by Rampurple in architecture, lebanon
Since we’re on the topic of demolishing history and what not (and since I can’t think of a post topic) I have decided to retrieve a post I wrote on January 11th, 2007. It’s about an architectural structure that I would hate to see demolished, and apparently will be demolished very soon. (unfortunately, i can’t find the pics now and my mac which holds the pics is out of service at the moment)
The Beirut City Center
Many of you might know the Beirut City Center as the Dome, or the Bubble, or the Egg. The Beirut City Center is located at Martyr’s Square in Downtown Beirut and is a piece of art. The images I have uploaded on this post is what the structure looks like 40 years after it was built, including 15 years of civil war… keep in mind that it is located really close to where the Green Line used to be.
The building was designed in 1965 by Joseph Philippe Karam. It originally contained a movie theatre, which is the dome, an exhibition hall, and 6 underground levels for parking and shopping.
The reason I am writing this post now, is because I was just out with my parents and their friends. We were discussing Beirut prior civil war, actually they were reminiscing on the good old days. I asked them about this building since it always caught my eye. One of my dad’s friends told me that the technique used to build the dome was extraordinary for it’s time. He tried explaining to me something about how the shell was on a certain thickness and that it would usually be 5 times thicker or something of that sort. When I got home, I decided I would google it.
Unfortunately, there is not much information available about it. However, it has come to my attention from a bunch of online articles that the dome was going to be demolished back in 2003, but then they decided against it and got Bernard Khoury (architect of BO18, Yabani, Centrale, etc) to fix it up in 2004 and it was supposed to be completed by 2006. BUT I also read that in 2006 they decided to demolish it.