M-Insight

Ever since i came back from work late yesterday, i've been trying to fill up my time with anything so as to not feel lonely, i've watched 4 movies already, listened to a load of mp3s, played "Command & Conquer : Generals", burned a new music cd to play in the car, gone out shopping, rented 4 more movies, and now i'm back home, with more time in my hand to waste, lol.

The 4 movies i saw were:
- What Dreams May Come: which was an ok movie, the special effects were good, but it was bit boring.
- LXG (League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) : which was quite good, but not as good as i hoped.
- Soul Survivors : ok, they tried to make one of those complicated movies were they want to keep u not knowing what's happening till the end, and it's true u don't, but by the end u don't really care, lol.
- Dog Soldiers : Special effects sucked, looks like it came out from somewhere in the 80s, but it was ok, not too bad as a movie.

I'm thinking of starting an open source project on SourceForge.net, but i'm still undecided about the idea, as usual, i have a ton of ideas, and instead of putting them to work, i waste all the time choosing and thinking, lol.

I haven't eaten much today, so i'm starving. I'll go have dinner now.

Well, my wife has gone to visit her family in Jordan, and due to work obligations i wasn't able to go too, and so i'm left all alone in Tunisia.

This is not the first time i'm alone in my life, but this time it's so different, it feels like i'm the only person left on earth.
It's the first time we're not together ever since we got married last year, it sucks big time, and it actually feels really weird, as if some part of me is missing, a part i'm so attached to.

I'm kicking myself in the head because i was the one who convinced her to grab the occasion and visit her family.

I can't wait for her to get back, so we can do everything together again just like it's supposed to be, just like it makes sense and has a meaning and taste to it.

Anyway, i'd better get going now, i'm so sleepy and exhausted after last night and working till 6:45PM today...

Last night was a great night out, we went to a club called "Calypso" in Hammamet (which is one of the best clubs in Tunisia) with some friends, and we partied like crazy and danced till the break of dawn.

The music was amazing, the beats were hypnotizing and the bass was out of this world, in short it was impossible to even think of sitting down, your body simply wouldn't let you.

Everyone was jumping around and dancing like there was no tomorrow, kind of reminding me of the rave party scene from "Matrix Reloaded" :P
Damn, i've been watching too many movies lately, lol.

We had dinner there too, which as you can imagine, is served in a big plate with a tiny portion floating in the middle, but with a big number showing up on the bill later on in the night, when you're too exhausted to ask why, lol. Anyway, at least the food tasted good :)

We left at around 4AM, and got home at 4:45AM, with only a couple of hours left for me to try and get some sleep before i get up for work. Of course that would never be enough, and that's why i'm now at the office, looking like a retard with psycho red eyes who is high on some weird crap, and raving about this in my blog, lol.

We were invited at a friend's place yesterday, he's someone who went to the same school as i did in Tunisia, and whom i met and knew better in Jordan when i was going to university there.
The cool thing is we also lived in the same building, became good friends, went through the internet bubble together, spent time with a lot of common friends, but the coolest thing of all is that our stories with our wives are very much identical, we both met them at around the same time in university, got engaged at around the same time, got married and moved back to Tunisia and both work in the internet domain, lol.

So just by imagining how many similarities there are between us as couples and how much history we have behind us, you'd imagine how much fun stuff we had to talk about, from our experiences as a married couple and what we go through, to the amazing insects and crawling species we have in Tunisia, to the stuff our wives find weird in Tunisia, lol.
Of course no such talks go without uncovering some funny past secrets along the way, lol.

After talking and laughing for a couple of hours, the talk turned to food, and our stomachs started rumbling at the thought of some local Jordanian fast-food "Falafel" that we haven't tasted for so long, and so we suggested to go to this lebanese restaurant called "Baalabak" that serves some quite similar dishes, and so we did.
The food was good, and our conversations and fun went on.

By the time we finished eating and talking, we were too exhausted to even blink, so we thought that was a sign that we should at least try to get home, but of course not before a half hour talk in the parking, in which we men talked about launching a web startup, and our wives talked about whatever they were talking about.

In short, it was some real cool fun, and hopefully we'll be hanging out together more in the future :)

I thought i'd post a blog entry summarizing the past period, so here it goes ;)

Basically, it was more and more of the usual, lol, work from 8AM to 3PM, lunch at home, sleep or watch movie, go out or watch movie, have a cool night out or watch a movie, lol...

But, there were some rather cool things that happened, which are:
- We got a DVD player as a late wedding gift, so no more movie nights watching DVDs on my laptop, from now on we can use the TV, which is one of the bedroom accessories now after the AC was installed there ;)
- A friend of mine got married (he's actually a brother of a friend of mine who became my friend), and that meant days in a row of nights out, sleeping late, and going shitfaced to work in the morning, lol.
- We went bowling at last with some friends of ours, something we've been wanting to do for ages and just putting off for no reason, anyway it was like a curse, my whole game was a series of 9 points, and i only got strikes in my last 2 shots. good thing though is that i won, so it wasn't such a bad curse after all :P
- We went out to the beach at Hammamet with some friends of ours, and it was pretty cool and good fun.
- We saw a number of cool movies: "Not Another Teen Movie" which was awesomely funny, "Charlie's Angels Full Throttle" which was really good and better than the first one, "Pay It Forward" which was really nice, "Hulk" which had really good special effects but was a bit boring story-wise ...etc.

I guess that about sums it all up...

It's been a while since i posted anything here, i guess i just started thinking there was no reason for me to do it in the first place, lol...

anyway, now i'm back, because i kind of missed it, so expect to hear more from me in the days to come :)