Falafel is a popular meal in the Middle East, and this free flash game will challenge you to become the Falafel King. You have to move your hand and finger very quickly. If you lose it easily, consider changing your antique mouse :)

To explore the differences between college life in KSU and that one in KFUPM, I went to Dhahran with my cousin and spent tow days in the KFUPM dorm. Now I can understand the difference. When you live in the KFUPM dorm, you live in your own room, while here in KSU we are living in the university housing.

You can do whatever you want in your room. You can paint it the color you want and you can host whoever you want. In the other hand, in the university housing, you are not allowed to stick a poster on the wall!

The KSU housing list of the disallowed things is too long. Here’s my favourites:

– No TV

– No guests between 2200-1600

– No modifications to anything in the room

And here’s some photos form the trip..

A warning on the door (Exams period, Do Not Enter!)

My cousin is trying to cover all the space with pics, notes, whatever

When it comes to food, my cousin’s room-mate is the man

My cousin’s room-mate is not a geek, but his mom made him this beautiful curtain, if you like it you can order from here!

Anyway, I may get back to this topic soon after I get back to school. This trip is the reason of my absence of blogging in the past few days. Now I’m back to the job full-time ;) By the way, this is my first post using my new laptop. I know the IBM Thinkpad R32 is not ultra-sexy like the X40, but it’s OK for a college student who needed a financial aid from his dad to make it happen :)

College life here in Saudi Arabia is hugely different from that one in the States. We got no parties, not much alcohol, and I have no idea about the drugs consumption. Can I call it a “college life,” anyway? it’s almost dead silence in here.

Drew Black, spokesperson for the Internet casino that Bensinhom was advertising for on his chest, told CNN: “We don’t pay people in advance for doing this.

Yes, I can believe that, because if you did not pay him for doing that, he must has been sending a love message to his wife!

Abul-Rahman Al-Rashid says he – just like anybody else – wants to know why the government wants to keep the oil prices down. If the high prices will give us better income, why our government is trying to reduce them? I don’t really know why. I hope I could.

Meanwhile, the former Jordanian minister of information Saleh Al-Gallab is wondering why Iranians decided to detect the identity of their country as a Shiite Islamic country. Why the Iranians didn’t just say it is an Islamic country for all Muslims?

I don’t know if he has any idea about this, but in other Islamic countries, Saudi Arabia for example, Shiites are about 20% of the population and the government treats them like don’t even exist. Their children can’t have their religious education in the schools and they can’t even pray to God the way they want.

Prince Abdullah thinks oil prices must be brought down to help the developing countries to maintain their development. But what about us? It’s OK, we are just generous to help other countries while we are sinking.

Want to know how summer looks like in Saudi Arabia? Read this article be Abeer Mishkhas. All you have to do is to replace the word “Jeddah” with the name of any other city in the kingdom and here you go.

It is summer in Jeddah, and for those who do not know what summer in Jeddah means here is a brief description. You wake up drenched in sweat even if your AC is on all night. You leave your room but you hurry back in until you have got all the ACs in the surrounding area going. You take a cold shower a la Jeddah, which means hot to very hot water — the only way to get cold water is to take it from the water heater when it has been switched off for few days.

Having finished eating your breakfast it is time to go to work. That is a hard one, I tell you. When you step out of your door the heat slaps your face in a not very gentle salute. Then you head for your car, and the first thing you do is reach for the door handle, which is so hot that you scorch your hand. Inside the car, it is like an oven. By the time the car AC works, you have already reached your destination, so it is time to face the elements again and get out of the car.

This a brief everyday scenario for just the beginning of the day. So those who want to enjoy their summer vacation either travel abroad or, if they cannot afford it, stay in Jeddah. And Jeddah is a beautiful city; just keep out of any open-air areas. Activities have to be kept inside all the time.