My 1st ever independence day outside Jordan

Tomorrow is the 25th of May, Jordan's independence day.

I'm currently off for vacation and some personal arrangements in Romania. and i will be missing, for the 1st time in my life, spending the independence day home in jordan.

Happy Independence day Jordan!

Radio Guide Update: Sunny 105.1 FM

Sawt Amman, which has been broadcasting on 105.1 FM for over a year now. has been finally released. and started official broadcasting since yesterday on 105.1 FM in Amman. with the name "Sunny 105.1".

The station stopped playing Classical music, and is playing all types of music, mainly 90s and post-2K pop music.

I don't know how much of a smart move is this for Modern Media Corp, to have a radio station, almost, the same as Play 99.6, and with a morning show competitive for The Big Breakfast show on Play (it's not to be compared at the moment, but well..)

Maybe have a different kind of a radio station, with a different theme and gener of music. would have been more of a benefit for them...

Whatever happened to the classic music thingy!?

Play 99.6's Radio Reality Show

An amazing idea Play 99.6 has came out with when thinking about their new compition "Live in it, to Win it" with Toyota.
The competition is in short, what i'd rather like to call, a "Radio Reality Show"



The competition in short, will involve 4 people, who would be living in the car one of them would win (The Toyota Yaris), 24/7, eat and sleep in it. with no mobiles, no electronic devices. and will be only allowed to go to the bathroom. The last contestant that will resist these conditions will be the winner of the car.

If you have been to city mall last weekend, where the competition will be held, you'll gonna mention the massive setup for it. Since it will be starting on the 22nd of May. The car in which the contestants will be spending their next coupla weeks or so, will have a complete camera setup recording what's going in the car as well.
Hmm, will they be producing a daily show about what's being done in the car, since we have no such much of an "interested" local TV stations, a channel on ikbis.com might be something nice :)

I told you it'll be a reality show :)
here's a trailer about it.

3ein, the new-generation weekly newspaper.

Yesterday, while getting the daily newspaper from the traffic-light newspapers distributor.I got this free supplement small-size newspaper. an interesting new one on the scene.

Its called 3ein عين. and its branded with the arabic letter (ع) and in short i can call it: "The New Generation weekly" ... its social, its political, its realistic, its the new fresh mind, of the same real world we are living in.

The newspaper is the 1st arabic publication by JO Publishing, and the 1st newspaper issued by Al-Farida.
The newspaper is ran by a bunch of professional young journalists, meeting together for the 1st time even. just like Pheras Hilal(I Wonder why he deleted his blog!) and Mohammad Shamma.

I liked the 3ein's topics, contents, design, and even the way it was distributed with daily newspapers yesterday.

Way to go guys


Photo courtesy of Lina Ejeilat

"Morning Fix" debuts on Energy FM this coming sunday

Energy FM which started earlier this year. Will finally start speaking :)

"Morning Fix" is the 1st show to go on the airwaves of Energy FM, which can be heard in Amman Greater Area on 97.7 FM, and is to broadcast Sunday-Thursday, 7 - 10 AM. & will be hosted by Dj Yanal Kassay, the one and only morning man ever since he used to be on RJ 96.3 FM's morning show, then on Beat FM, and now is back, better than ever hopefully, on Energy FM's Morning Fix, along with Adrienne Denaro.

Alphonse Mucha in City Mall Amman

For all those suffering a middle of the week crisis, just like me right now. I advice you to go get a doze of art nouveau, from the Gallery currently being held by the Embassy of the Czech Republic in City Mall - Amman.

The gallery mainly features art works by Alphonse Mucha , displayed in the middle of the ground floor hall, and are not to be missed until May the 7th.


To see more artworks by Alphonse Mucha, there is always some flikr for you :)

Radio Guide Update: Hawa FM starts on 105.9 FM

The Greater Amman Municipality's FM radio station (Hawa Amman) started its test transmission on 105.9 FM in The Greater Amman Area, with the declared name of Hawa FM (هوا FM)

Jerash Festival Stopped!

Yes, Unfortunately, the great festival that made stars all around arabia, and the only festival in jordan that had the possibility to get international. was just turned off ... just like that!

I know the festival was going bad lately, but instead of developing it....

Then the 25th , silver, festival ... was the last!

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0% taxes on Energy reduction products.. including Hybrid Vehichles

Last thursday, the government announced reducing all the custom taxes and VAT on all the products oriented for reducing energy consumption. Be it solar panels, solar ACs and fridges, consumption reduction light bulbs, energy control panels, isolation construction materials, and .... Hybrid Cars & Vehicles :)

Finally, We'll be seeing more Toyota Prius cars in jordan other than The Minister of environment's car. actually, there is a good set of hybrid cars in the market out there.

Not only this, but how about some hybrid ran urban public transportation. other than thus urban buses are the top of the top brands, this will assure a flat rate for urban public transportation regardless of fuel prices.

Flat rates = stability
stability is an attraction
=> 100% attractive for the people in my opinion.

So there's MAN bus getting things done with Siemens for such a bus.


& Mercedes Benz is releasing its Hybrid Citaro G in less than a year from now.


a Part from the neat European technology, GM had already did it in the states, and over 1700 Hybrid Buses are driving the urban US streets nowadays.

GM debuted the hybrid technology for transit buses in 2003. Demand has been rising steadily each year. Later this month the 1,000 th GM-Allison hybrid-powered bus will be delivered to the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada.

More about GM Hybrid Buses here

Motorola.. In My Life

For those who don't know, Motorola has been a major part of my life, as well as my family life.

in the family, we had over 10 different Motorola mobiles until now.

It all started back in 1998, when my father got his Motorola D520 .. this one was rocking big, 2x12 characters monochrome screen, and .... it was the 1st device to have encrypted transmission of voice over the network!

(apparently, and the last :P).

Later, came my mum's Motorola Talkabout T180 .. this was an amazing


improvement. especially when it comes to the weight and size. and the one my mum had was fully black ... very stylish if i may say. I inherited

the phone after that, at the 1st times of my uni life, back in 2002.

That is, when the Motorola Timeport T250 entered the house:) this one


worth about 250 JD was acquired from FastLink with my dads post-paid line with only 20 JDs ... that was a rocking offer, for a rocking phone.

Tri-band, blue Optimax backlight (a.k.a laser in jordanian terminology ;) ). voice recording, built-in answering machine and voicemail, auto

answering, voice tag phonebook, and ever IR (which i never used). All of those were one of a kind features back in 2002. & despite the fact that

the mobile got stolen in 2003, my mum bought another similar one, and she still has it (but not use it).

Meanwhile, & since i'm obsessed with radio, I decided to run up for an FM Radio Mobile phone, my option was again the "KOOL" Motorola v2288. It was some sort of an advanced talkabout, with built-in FM

Radio & earphones, colored in Orange, with 2 rubber covers (when of them was the umniah kind of yellow :P). This phone was probably the most

powerful i ever had, it dropped several times from the 2nd and 3rd floor with no problems, I remember we even used to play volleyball with it :D
It brokeout at the end, actually, only the transmitter/receiver unit had, it still turned ON and OFF :D

The story continues with Motorola in my family, after got her Motorola L6 (or

actually i got her this as a birthday gift last year :P), a cool high-tech device all of today's usual stuff.

On the other hand, my story with Motorola continued after that with iDEN devices.
iDEN, a technology from Nextel and Motorola, available in Jordan throughout Xpress Telecom. runs on awesome powerful Motorola devices, with integrated GPS, data-packet and wap, to some multimedia cool stuff, you got it all there, with both direct phone calling and PTT.

A part of Project BiSCA took advantage of this technology, and i still keep my Motorola i265 device until now, and use it for mobile internet surfing, as well as PTT, phonecalls, and the GPS features.

I got board of this i265 actually, and aiming for an i850 ... if any one has got a used one, please don't hesitate contacting me :D