October 30, 2005 | In: Food
So lately I've acquired a taste for the frighful critter of ze deep. Forget about shark fin soup and all that gourmet crap. I know it is considered some kind of exotic food in the rest of the world, and that in some parts of the world it is...
Comrade blogger Mike put me on to YouTube.com, basically its kind of like Flickr for video. Pretty cool. So I am trying it out with posting a video of myself displaying my amazing foot dribbling skills on the beach in Muscat, Oman, from last March. (I...
My sister studies art at the School of Fine Arts of Helwan University. And every once in a while she shows me some stuff that blows my mind. I mean, I can be "artistic" all I want using Photoshop, but this is real talent. Check this one...
With the icy coolness and steel-nerved agility of a seasoned Cairene urban warrior, Mike dodges a close call with death as he demonstrates the proper way to kill yourself cross a main street in downtown Cairo...
Check out Mike's illustrated...
I can't even remember when was the last time I've been to the Pyramids. But they never fail to make me go "W-O-W...how the $%#& did they do it?!"
Lynn of AUP, my office comrade Miral and yours truely with the Great Pyramid in the...
This will definately come in handy for people like me, who tend to suffer a fatal HD crash like, every couple of...
The question might appear to be simple enough:
What is the criteria for a "countable" visit to a country? Or, when can you rightfully claim to having been to any given country?
The answer turned out to be highly debatable though. Some argue that you...
The flight from Casablanca to Cairo was my worst ever.
Four hours before heading to the airport, I felt a slight pain in my stomache, which quickly developed to excruciating pain. The culprit: A couple of shawerma sandwitches I had for lunch earlier...
My second time in Casablanca. I take the train from the airport to downtown, then a taxi to my hotel.
Taxi driver: "I'll take you to better hotel, oui?" (speaking in a mix of Moroccan Arabic and French)
Me: "No thank you, I already have a...