Breaking News: The Saudi security forces have killed four terrorists during an encounter in northern Riyadh this morning. The encounter lasted for 4 hours, from 0300-0700 GMT, and it is said that there was a fifth terrorist who has managed to escape.

I’m back from Medina. More words and photos from there soon.

This story from MSNBC website says nothing new. Using Bluetooth to hook up seems to be very normal now, we don’t even think about it. We, Saudi youth, will always find a way to over come the barriers put by our conservative society. This is how it always used to be, and this is how it is going to be.

I’m going to go to Medina this afternoon. I’ll spend a couple of days over there. I don’t think I’ll be able to blog from there. Maybe I’ll tell you more about this trip when I come back.

I just finished reading this interesting NY Times story about something called “Girl Crush.” Well, that explains a lot.

Molouk Ba-Isa has an impossible dream. “I’m starting to believe it might be easier to get a pizza delivered to Mars than to have one arrive hot and crispy at house No. 11 in Al-Waha district, Eastern Province, KSA,” she said. I have the same dream. Most restaurants refuse to deliver food to my apartment in Riyadh simply because I don’t have a land phone. Do you have any idea what do they need a land phone for?

How vanilla became shorthand for blandness, while it’s “at once simple but sophisticated, familiar yet mysterious—and not at all bland.”