wanted to take a short break, so i decided to take out 20 minutes and write a silly song about farmville (it’s a rip off of ne yo’s “so sick” song). note that the lyrics (and thus the mp3) are in pre-alpha (and are not likely to see any future revisions).
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lyrics:
gotta change the favorites i have,
for the new design in store,
cuz right now i really can’t,
take it any more,
and i know it makes no sense,
cuz my farm is nice fo’ sure,
but i can’t wait for gas anymore.
it’s ridiculous…
it’s been weeks, i’ve been playing and i can’t get over it,
and my time’s worth more than this,
enough is enough,
no more sitting around, clicking around,
i am so tired of farmin’ up, to get ahead of you,
and i am so sick of farmville,
hear me loud and clear,
so done with planting, flowers and corn ears,
and i am so sick of farmville, and the much clickin’ fo sho’
so why won’t this game leave me alone?
got nice equipment on board,
a tractor and seeder,
too bad they’re as useless as,
a plastic weed eater,
i am so sick of running out of gas,
and clicking every square,
and how every click must be multiplied by three…
that’s the reason that i am so sick of farmville,
hear me loud and clear,
so done with planting, flowers and corn ears,
and i am so sick of farmville, and the much clickin’ fo sho’
so why won’t this game leave me alone?
said i am so sick of farmville,
hear me loud and clear,
so done with playing a game, makes me bored to tears,
and i am so sick of farmville, unless i find a bot,
so why won’t this game leave me alone?
why won’t this game leave me alone…
inspired by the blog of sy and my previous roommate (who makes a mean paneer btw), i decided to start posting my chef de jour recipes for the benefit of all the bachelors out there. unfortunately, i don’t cook as much as i should (but i have been fairly lucky in terms of the output of my few attempts). so perhaps documenting my experiences as a master chef will help me to stop slacking and cook more.
what is this:
this is a dish known as “فول” in arabic (pronounced ‘fool’). it’s a bean dish famous in the middle east as a breakfast or late night snack.
ingredients:
- 1 (or more) cans of fava beans
- 1 (or more) cans of sliced tomatoes
- lemon juice
- tahina (ground sesame seed)
these ingredients can mostly be obtained at any middle eastern or desi grocery store.
instructions:
- obtain a pot.
- open beans and put beans in the pot.
- add tomatoes to the pot.
- mix together well.
- add a little bit of tahina to the pot – enough to make it slightly lighter color, but not too much. maybe 2 or 3 tablespoons at most
- heat together and mix well.
- add lemon on top and serve (with pita bread usually).
for an upgraded experience:
of course if you want to go all out, try replacing the canned tomatoes with fresh tomatoes, the canned beans with fresh ones that you must first leave in water for some time, and replace the lemon juice with real lemon. experts can try placing the aforementioned mixture with the fresh ingredients into a pressure cooker for better results.
the meaning of the title:
the title, which means ahmed’s great fool, is a pun on the arabic comedy movie, “فول الصين العظيم”, in which the main character cooks fool in a cooking competition in china.
do you watch anta ambooba in tha3lab al nar? click here for a list of funny, literal arabizations done by my roommate and i.
it’s been a while since i last posted… i guess microblogging (twitter, brightkite, etc) have sort of gotten the majority of my posts, and i’ve neglected the blog.
the main reason i like the blog is it’s interesting to look back and see what i was writing about n years ago. it just serves as a good documentation. twitter/brightkite do the job as well (esp with uploading pictures to brightkite on the go and tagging location), but the blog allows me to be less concise.
so yeah, perhaps i will resume the posts shortly ™.
woot! egypt won the 2008 africa cup of nations! beautiful game, i only saw the last 20 minutes, but those were the 20 minutes that mattered. beautiful assist by zidane in a crazily intense moment, passing to abu trayka who scored 
incredible work of art!
i am not a big fan of sports, but this was one game i had to watch second cup win in a row, the last being against the ivory coast in 2006.
amazing… i came across people asking about islam on y! answers before, but never upon a muslim asking a question about islam on answers until right now. i was doing a search on google for “arabic tirmithi” and came up with several questions on y! answers, including this one about shopping du3a2s, asked on y! answers malaysia. even more interesting is the fact that there’s a category for ramadan under holidays and it’s full of questions by muslims (i mean, after all, it is y! answers malaysia, right? ).
dang, i was being paid to make da3wa and i didn’t even know it, al7amdulillah
i guess i may just be going through some weird phase in life, but here’s what’s on my mind this morning at 2:30 am…
- for some things, right and wrong are undoubtedly clear. but for others, how do you really know? two extremely good people with two extremely good (albeit different) view points can really leave you in the middle, unsure of what the right answer is.
- why is it so easy to hurt someone you care about accidentally?
- why do people get carried away trying to live out the “american dream” (ie nice job, nice brick house with a white fence and a dog named spot?)
- why is life so repetitive and cyclic?
- why are we as humans so impatient?
- why are we as humans always looking to be accepted by others?
- why do we let what people say and think drive our actions and affect them so much?
- “history repeats itself” – but sometimes it doesn’t… or does it?
- why is it that most of us are in much better shoes than so many people that we know, and yet we are still not happy?
- how do you distinguish people being “politically correct” with you and people treating you with sincerity?
- why do we try so hard to flaunt our accomplishments, yet at the same time rush to cover our weaknesses?
- if one dies an unexpected death tomorrow, would they have done anything to make the world a better place? would anyone besides their close family notice or care?
- why do the moments of happiness feel so short in comparison to the times of hardship?
- why does life feel so hard at times?
- how do you know who your real friends are?
before someone goes sheikh-style on me answering these questions, let me clarify one thing – i am not asking these questions from a religious perspective, i am just asking why we, as humans, feel this way about certain things.
maybe out of sheer boredom, or too many nerdy thoughts always going through my head, or just to find a good use for the domain, i’ve started a humorous (so claim those who read it) blog about youth and the problems they face in looking to get married (basically some of my theories about the whole marriage process).
you can check it out here.
update – i closed it down
my name was mentioned on the messenger blog in this post – check it out.
just experienced my first earthquake. i was pulling up at the parking lot of the masjid for isha, and i waited a second to shut the engine off and i was like “why is my car shaking like that?” — i took my foot off the brake and my car was still shaking. i got out of the car, walked away from it, puzzled at the shaking (the whole time i thought it was the car, i didn’t realize it was the ground).
i only realized after the salah when the sheikh started talking about a verse (3:143) and saying how we’d just experienced being saved from death, and then the man said that people should go home and be with their families. so i asked my friend and he told me it was an earthquake.
5.6 on the Richter scale – news here.