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According to the news, George Wassouf sayir manzou3! The Swedish police arrested him because he was in possession of 30 grams of cocaine.

According to AFP:

Syrian-Lebanese crooner George Wassouf was arrested in Sweden at the weekend on drug charges just hours before he was due to perform a concert, police told AFP on Sunday.

Wassouf “has been held in police custody since yesterday (Saturday) on drug charges,” a police officer in the western Stockholm district, Martin Holm, told AFP.

Wassouf is probably the most famous drugs addict in Lebanon, his dumb look tells everything! He has been helping lot of people getting high on songs like “El Hawa Soltan” for so long now, and he deserves a break… in Stockholm.

Very huge areas of the Chouf forests have been on fire since yesterday night… and it’s quite obvious it isn’t due to high temperature but because of unknown people who want to get woods for the winter. I don’t understand how irresponsible people can be sometimes, it’s frustrating.

For those who have not been to Chouf before, I’m posting a photo I’ve taken early in March in Baakline, it will show you what is it like there and what we might be losing, god forbids.

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I hope for those who are setting the fire on, shi nhar twalli3 fiyon!

I was driving near the Beirut Marina today when I noticed new concrete blocks placed on the sidewalk.

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I drove further to find the same concrete blocks supporting metal rods.

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Now if you take a look at the inside of the marina , you will notice that these block and rods are meant to form a visual block (as in the photo below) to PREVENT people from watching the sea and the parked yachts.

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Very soon, the Beirut Marina will be pretty much like the Movenpick and Riviera, where the sea view is blocked for the public just because they own the land on the seaside.

Anyway, it’s Solidaire’s time now! Bravo! After stealing the center of Beirut now they’re stealing the sea view from the Beirutis.

I know there’s still the rest of the corniche, but still, fuck whoever came up with that idea, they do NOT have the right to do it.

After climbing more than 70 of the world’s tallest structures, Alain Robert aka spiderman arrived to Beirut to climb the Phoenicia Intercontinental hotel tower using his bare hand without ropes!

The event was set today at 6:00PM and I heard about it by chance on Mix FM. I thought it would be cool to go and shoot some photos of spiderman but unfortunately I was wrong… As soon as I arrived in my car near the Phoenicia at around 6:10, I found hundreds of cars stuck in a traffic jam on the road passing by the Phoenicia and leading to Saint George.

Reason? Not because there was too many people, but apprently the internal security forces have blocked the road and stopped cars from proceeding towards Ain El-Mrayyseh. I didn’t understand why they did that especially that Alain Robert was climbing a tower that is far away from the road….

I was also surprised by how the ISF took actions to make that event a success! As I know, in almost every other country the cops arrest Alain after he does his stunts because it is so unsafe… Check this wikipedia page and see for yourself. The ISF here were actually amused by what he did.

Anyway, at the end after being stuck for more than an hour in that traffic jam without even facing the building he was climbing, I returned back with no photos…

Update: Thanks to Dona, now I’m posting 2 videos of the event.

Dear minister Ghazi Aridi,

Have you been driving in Beirut lately? Did you notice the potholes everywhere in the city roads? And did you notice those open manholes?

I nearly crashed my car yesterday on my way to Rawche because of an open manhole! I was very lucky to have sopotted it.

Please do understand that unlike you guys (MPs and ministers) I cannot change my car on a monthly basis. I worked really hard to pay for my 2 months old car and I won’t like it if something broke because of your potholes.

I hope you will read this post someday when googling your name! (Would you mind commenting if you did?)

Regards,
Beiruti Alfa Romeo driver.

Happy Fitr to all my readers.

Kneifeh is the best breakfast today!! 🙂

Dear Alain Tabourian,

You are wrong if you think that cutting off the electricity on Beirut is a smart move. It is the CAPITAL, the heart of the country, where generators are PROHIBITED.

Increasing the cutoff hours in Beirut will not help the other areas at all! Beirut Vs. the rest of Lebanon? Come on! I wonder how many extra hours of electricity will each other city have… 15 minutes maybe?

Oh and if you think that this it the best way to have your revenge from the Future Movement, then f*ck both of you. We have nothing to do with your stupid conflicts with Saad Hariri!

Regards,
A pissed Beiruti internet addict.

Sheik Saleh Aridi, a senior member of the Lebanese Democratic party, was killed in a car blast last night. And so, we “earned” yet another martyr…

Talal Arslan, the head of the Lebanese Democratic Party said today: “The message has been delivered”

I don’t know since when Lebanese people started exchanging messages through dead bodies, but they should really stop it. It’s a dangerous habit because 6 other persons were injured yesterday during the message delivery.

انخفض سعر صفيحة البنزين 800 ليرة

Good things are happening while I’m away!!