Archive for November 27th, 2009

Movie: Julie & Julia

Posted by Bloggylife in entertainment on November 27, 2009

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I couldn’t sleep last night, so I watched one of the many movies I have lined up, I wanted something light, so I decided to give Julie and Julia movie a try.

Julia Child and Julie Powell – both of whom wrote memoirs – find their lives intertwined. Though separated by time and space, both women are at loose ends… until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.

I absolutely love Meryl Streep, her performance in this movie rocks! She’s the type of movie star that always surprises you with her characters and the way she does them, she is one of my favourites of all time.

Julia Child, is an American woman who decided to learn French cooking while in Paris with her husband. she mastered it pretty quick and decides to pursue other possiblities. Mean while in the present, Julie decides to take up a challenge and see it through all the way for a change by cooking all Julia’s recipes in a year and document it all on a blog.

I really enjoyed this movie, Meryl performance was refreshing and worth watching the movie for.

Link: IMDb

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Google Translate

Posted by Bloggylife in technology on November 27, 2009

I did write about this before, but I love Google and what they have to offer.

How their services take over our daily vocabulary.

Does a day go by without one saying, “Did you google it?” :P

Now I’m using a new one, “I’ll wave it to you” :P when I’m using googlewave :)

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I notice now, for Google Translate, you can write an Arabic word using English letter and press the spacebar and it’ll automatically convert to Arabic, without the hassle of (alt+shift) between Arabic-English keyboard settings ;)

If you translate to English, a small speaker icon appears and you can hear the word out and it’s only for the English words so far. I tried French, but the feature is not included.

When typing in the box, the translate is done live on the wire! Isn’t that cool, so you can see the formed words interpreted at each keystroke, it’s kind of fun :)

The one thing I’m missing is having a spelling checker, I’m not sure why my browser doesn’t do that! I do remember that it’s included within my Chrome or was that Firefox, will check it out laters.

Go Google, keep ‘em good things coming :D

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My Siblings

Posted by Bloggylife in family on November 27, 2009

Away from my sister and brothers, but they are always on my mind! When I organized my room and now it is more spacious, I thought, “If only my sister would see me now”.

I’m having a beginning of a cold right now and I remember my big brother, when he has the flu, I ask him to stay away, “Your germs are too strong for my body stay away from me”, he’ll have the flu for 3 days and I for 3 weeks! As any loving brother, he’ll literally rush into my room to just sneeze! He’ll throw his used tissue in my room or just come in to get tissue! I’d scream at him, “ya3nee, you don’t have tissue in your room” and he’ll innocently reply: “I want yours, it’s softer”. The only person so far, that I catch the flu from in a blink of an eye.
I dreamt of my youngest brother today, he’s 16 now but I dreamed of him as a kid, I looked at him and thought, I left you a big boy! But I just picked him up like I used to do when he was a baby and carried him around, he had the cutest face smiling at me :) -3ad oohwa daloo3 moo naqis-
I made a mistake and asked my youngest brothers what they want me to buy them, and told them not to ask for expensive stuff, the emails I got from them, asking for this and that -فتحت على نفسي باب- :P But sometimes I can’t help but spoil them and then I have the nerve to lecture them “You are spoiled” :P I try to find a balance.
I’d call my middle brother and say “I know you can’t live without me and ‘shooftee kefaya’ but do you need anything”
He’d just say, “aqoool, cheena temde7een nafsich wayid” :P
I can’t wait to see them again, though probably, they’ll just want to know what I got for them and then everyone will head out on their way, except habiiibteee my lil sister :* , I just hope they didn’t take over my room :P
I even know what one of my brothers will say about the below pic, “wAllah theeqa” :P

I’m having a beginning of a cold right now and I remember my big brother, when he has the flu, I ask him to stay away, “Your germs are too strong for my body stay away from me”, he’ll have the flu for 3 days and I for 3 weeks! As any loving brother, he’ll literally rush into my room to just sneeze! He’ll throw his used tissue in my room or just come in to get tissue! I’d scream at him, “ya3nee, you don’t have tissue in your room” and he’ll innocently reply: “I want yours, it’s softer”. The only person so far, that I catch the flu from in a blink of an eye.

I dreamt of my youngest brother today, he’s 16 now but I dreamed of him as a kid, I looked at him and thought, I left you a big boy! But I just picked him up like I used to do when he was a baby and carried him around, he had the cutest face smiling at me :) -3ad oohwa daloo3 moo naqis-

I made a mistake and asked my youngest brothers what they want me to buy them, and told them not to ask for expensive stuff, the emails I got from them, asking for this and that -فتحت على نفسي باب- :P But sometimes I can’t help but spoil them and then I have the nerve to lecture them “You are spoiled” :P I try to find a balance.

I’d call my middle brother and say “I know you can’t live without me and ‘shooftee kefaya’ but do you need anything”

He’d just say, “aqoool, cheena temde7een nafsich wayid” :P

I can’t wait to see them again, though probably, they’ll just want to know what I got for them and then everyone will head out on their way, except habiiibteee my lil sister :* , I just hope they didn’t take over my room :P

I even know what one of my brothers will say about the below pic, “wAllah theeqa” :P

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