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Picture from Last Year’s Final

I’ve been playing Basketball for more than 10 years now and I remember going to the Streetball challenges that used to be held long time ago at the Forum De Beirut back in the late 1990s. It’s a lot of fun and Streetball (3 on 3, 1 on 1 ) for me is more fun than a 5 on 5 game.

You want to take a fancy lunch box to work… Here’s a new idea… This Black + Blum’s Thermo Pot is an amazingly nice stainless steel flask/container.  They say “hot food warms the soul” and this is the perfect way to take your hot food with you. This BPA-free container sits within a stainless thermos »more...

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I didn’t watch Splash’s first episode but I was told Abou Salim, Aka Salah Tizani the Comedy legend from Tripoli, made a 3 meter jump which is quite impressive for an 85 year old! He eventually qualified to the second round.
I thought it was pretty cool move from him but a lot of people are asking whether it’s safe to let the old man jump.

On the beach, you swim    Sometimes it is just that. I was with some friends at a beach down south. Apparently not many people are in beach mode right now, because it was pretty empty. We had all the waiters to ourselves, the kids owned the pool and the beach.
The few people that were there all left early, but we stayed on. The kitchen closed, the staff left, but it was lovely on the beach.

Last week I got my hands on The Body Shop’s new limited edition collection by gorgeous songstress Leona Lewis. The cruelty-free range recently hit stores in Lebanon and also includes a very playful musk-fragrance.

Picture taken from GlobalPost
I laughed when I read that Abou Bilal the young man who approached her first is studying medicine at the Kyiv Medical University. I wonder what he will specialize in later on? Gynecology maybe?

Update: The General Security denied the allegations stated in Annahar’s article and said it didn’t have access to any data (Source: VOL).

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I was watching this video and thought I’d dig out the prices of the foods they looked at in Lebanon. I asked few friends and got an estimate:
Banana: 5$ = 5-6 Kilos (Local), or 2-3 Kilos (Imported).
Coffee: 5$ = 0.5 Kilos
Rice: 5$ = 6-7 Kilos
Potato: 5$ = 6-7 Kilos (Local).
Beef: 5$ = 0.5 Kilos
Eggs: 5$ = 12-24 eggs (Price is varying a lot lately)
Beer: 5$ = 5-6 Almaza beers.
You can buy a lot of beer with 5$ in Lebanon, but not as much as China.

This year, during the Beirut Corporate Games, which took place at Jamhour on the 18th and 19th of May a new kind of competition took place. For me to mention it here, it obviously involves food. Classic Burger Joint held a competition, where by who eats the most burgers in 5 minutes, wins a $100 »more...

Interesting article I read today in the The Telegraph:  The European Union is to ban olive oil jugs and dipping bowls from restaurant tables in a move described by one of Britain’s top cooks as authoritarian and damaging to artisanal food makers. In Lebanon, we use olive oil in abundance, its on most dinning tables »more...

Last picture of the group on the small boat taken by the yacht’s skipper – via DailyStar

That’s quite an unfortunate incident. According to TimesOfMalta, the sea was calm when the group left but there was a sudden change in weather later on with winds reaching up to force six.

Image credit: Nadim Nasr

Teens celebrating the end of school Life, reminds me of my own teen life and how much I hated school!

Every single day, I was cursing at school, forcing myself to go, just trying to survive.

Ahmad Ajam, better known as DJ maDJam, is an extremely good friend of mine. His birthday party has become a time-honored tradition year after year where lotsa awesome people get together for good drinks, great food and even better music on the rooftop of his house in Beirut.