Tuesday, December 30, 2008

2008:Rebirth

. Tuesday, December 30, 2008
4 Insights



As the new year's countdown is just around the corner, i've decided to round up the highlights of what was an amazing year, regardless of some minorities.
I'm going to list the best and worst 8 in 2008 of anything that comes to my mind.



Best Accomplishments
- saved a life
- got into CBA
- got my driving license
- saw the Killers in a live concert.
- discovered the place for the best milkshakes ever!
- mastered advanced scuba diving
- went to 7aj
- finished off my best ever work, an epic poem "The Butterfly Effect"









Best Places I've Been To
~ Megeve
~ Geneve
~ Rome
~ Stamford Bridge
~ Wembley Stadium
~ Reading
~ The Emirates Stadium





Best Memorable Moments
~ the killers walking out on stage at the reading festival
~ 30 seconds to mars concert!
~ attending the chelsea 4-0 thrashing of portsmouth in the league opener of the 08/09 season.
~ the surprise farewell dinner feast on monday the 15th of december, guest of honour 7amany!
~ towing Sullie's Infinity FX35 and never making him forget till this present day.
~ S's front porch
~ (brainstorming..)
~ weekends at Kempinski


Best Quotes
- alone i am lethal, as a team i dominate.
- i'm not a perfectionist, i just let things be the way they are meant to be.
- people may not remember what you exactly said or did, but they will always remember how you made them feel.
- everything happens for a reason.
- madness is like gravity all it takes is a little push.
- reality is how we perceive things, and since we're all different who's to say what's real and what's not.
- I don't know why we all hang onto something we know we're better off letting go. It's like we're scared to lose what we don't even really have.
- when you're shooting for the stars you can't miss.


Best Songs
~ Losing Touch - The Killers
~ Spaceman - The Killers
~ Jasey Rae - All Time Low
~ Up Against The Wall - Boys Like Girls
~ The Only One - The Cure
~ Gifts & Curses - Yellowcard
~ 23 - Jimmy Eat World
~ The Fantasy - 30 Seconds To Mars
~ Pink Bullets - The Shins
~ The First Single - The Format






Best Albums
~ Day & Age - The Killers
~ A Lesson In Romantics - Mayday Parade
~ In So Many Words - InMemory
~ A Beautiful Lie - 30 Seconds To Mars
~ Searching For The Hows And Whys - Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly
~ The Script - The Script
~ North - Something Corporate
~ We The Kings - We The Kings






Best Movies
~ Iron Man
~ The Dark Knight
~ Hancock
~ Chaos Theory
~ Jumper
~ You Don't Mess With The Zohan
~ Eagle Eye
~ Definately, Maybe




Favorite TV Shows
~ Heroes
~ Prison Break
~ Chuck
~ The Spectacular Spider-Man
~ The Daily Show
~ Desperate Housewives
~ Everybody Hates Chris
~ Lost

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Worst/Weirdest Case Scenarios
~ losing three of my best friends.
~ the "Soho Incident"
~ getting mugged in a moshpit in a 30 Seconds To Mars concert.
~ one word: yathoom .. for the first time ever.
~ twisting my leg and ripping the ankle ligaments while playing football.
~ mingling with the whale shark while scuba diving.
~ stuck in traffic as the hail/sand storm hit our shores
~ stranded in dubai's airport alone after i missed my flight sleeping, had to wait 10 hours for the next flight!


Forgetable Moments
~ getting a ticket for driving on the wrong side of the road. (it's not how it sounds)
~ getting thrashed 10-1 by Yousef Al M. team
~ car accident with Nass
~ 'hit and run' a taxi
~ getting pulled over and a ticket for not wearing my seatbelt!
~ "9ab7an"
~ drowning my new phone, after just 1 month of buying it
~ arriving at the end of my lecture thinking that i was on time, it turned out that my watch was one hour late! and i got kicked out.

Weirdest Places
~ Sex Museum
~ Soho Street
~ Cheers Bar
~ China Town
~ Salmiya Police Station
~ Hawally Investigation Office
~ My Old School
~ The Roma Hotel

Worst Movies
~ No Country For Old Men
~ Wild Child
~ The Day The Earth Stood Still
~ Wanted
~ The Love Guru
~ Meet The Spartans
~ The Eye
~ College Road Trip


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New Slang
~ ay ma7ar?
~ latyeeb el 3eed!
~ bu 3lii chalb!
~ el 7iff!


The Understatement Of The Year
- never say forever.

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