Not in order of preference, but in order of my current mood :)

1. Ritter Sport’s Marzipan Squares

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2. Ferrero Rocher

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3. Nutella

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4. Curly Wurly

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5. Reese’s Buttercups

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6. Ras Il Abed

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7. Chocolate-dipped Dates

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8. Oreos

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9. Kit Kat

10. Crunchie

What are your favorite chocolate bars? :)

Did I mention that the highlight of my week is always the moments when Fast Company update their site?

I AM OBSESSED WITH FAST COMPANY. I can’t help it. It’s even more brilliant a magazine than Wired (though Wired wins when it comes to the actual design).

Anyway…

Fast Company have a slideshow entitled “Rendering Fear: The Graphic Design of Al-Qaeda”.

It is quite interesting, with some background info and critiques.

Check it out here.

Assaf: You are treating me with إزدراء
Roba: Shu?
Assaf: Izdira2.
Roba: What’s “Izdira2″?
Assaf: It’s the same as when you use the fancy “-ation” words.
Roba: Oookay.

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Other Office Conversations:

Mama Versus El-MamaOver My Dead Titanium Body
On Justifying Text
Imperio Steve Jobs
Conversations with an Office Cup
6:00PM Office Conversations
Desktop Crap Blackhole
Kalamantina Conversations
Lunchtime Conversations
Internet Existential Crisis
Depressive Connotations
Early morning office conversations
Next Friday
Office Conversations
Toshet Thulathi il-”rrrr” [video updated]
Rainbow Bright
Hot Chocolate Amidst Ice: Office Conversations
This is Chicken
Ditz Central

Like I already mentioned… it has been that exciting time of the year again. Exciting for me because we at toot add new blogs to our network of best Arab blogs out there, and that means more fantastic reads for me every day.

What is new on toot? A lot! There’s something for everyone. We present you with the best that the Arab blogosphere has to offer.

Let’s see… What are you into?

Are you into Arabic food?
Well, I have good news, we have a fantastic Arabic food blog that will make you salivate. Check out Syrian Foodie.

Are you into Arabic pop-culture?
Well, it’s your lucky day. We have TONS of great blogs in this category. There’s Plus 961 and Baba Ghannouj et la Zeitoune from Lebanon. There’s 360dewan, Fourth Ring Road, and Buzzberry from Kuwait.

How does it feel like to live in the Arab world?
Of course, we already have several blogs on toot that portray the experience, but our new additions include: American Bedu, Susie’s Big Adventure, and Muscat Confidential.

Architecture and urban planning are your thing?
re:Kuwait and Interruptions will please your mind.

Art, Design and Fashion are awesome in Arabia.
You will LOVE this list. Check out:
Beirut Drive-by Shooting.
Identity Chef
Interface Fix
Beirut NTSC
Marketing 3.0
Shezshe in Beirut and everywhere…
Maya Zankoul

Politics. Politics. Politics.
Don’t worry, we didn’t forget about that either. Not exactly political, but this lawyer is very interesting: Abdulrahman Allahem. There’s also Qunfuz, Under My Olive Tree, and Maysaloon, among others.

Technology-Geeks from Arabia.
I love the geeky blogs :) Check out: Anas Online, Arab Crunch, and Freeware Genius.

Of course, we didn’t forget opinion and journal blogs.
From the opinion side: Saudi Woman, Beirutiyat, Dhofari Gucci, House of Curiousity, Palordinia.
From the journal side: This Limerick Called Life, Living in KSA, Maram Meccawy, Quest For the Right One, Chocolate Mints in a Jar.

Okay, I can’t list the entire blogs there, so here’s a complete listing of the new blogs on toot:

Saudi Woman
Living in KSA
Saudi Alchemist
Qusay
My World and More
Maram Meccawy
Abdulrahman Allahem
Susie’s Big Adventure
Hning
American Bedu
Plus 961
Beirut Drive-by Shooting
Beirut NTSC
Identity Chef
Baba Ghannouj et la Zeitoune
Beirutiyat
Shezshe in Beirut and everywhere…
Maya Zankoul
The Inner Circle
Anas Online
Maysaloon
Quest For the Right One
Syrian Foodie
Qunfuz
Under My Olive Tree
Maysaloon
Quest For the Right One
Syrian Foodie
Eatbees
Here
360dewan
Fourth Ring Road
Buzzberry
Dhofari Gucci
Other Oman
Muscat Confidential
House of Curiousity
Interruptions
Arab Crunch
Freeware Genius
Cinnamon Zone
Interface Fix
Godot Basha
Jaraad
Palordinia
Godot Basha
سيناء حيث أنا
Marketing 3.0
Smoke Blows
re:Kuwait
Bu Youesf
Brake Banzeen
Chocolate Mints in a Jar
Oh Seriously
Jaraad

Thanks to everyone who submitted their blogs. You can still submit yours, but I’m afraid we can’t have any more additions for this phase. We will have another phase of additions sometimes later this year, so if your blog rocks, please sumbit it.

It just occurred to me that it’s really funny how I actually continue the thoughts I was having before I dozed off the night before the second I wake up.

Usually, I wake up to last night’s thoughts.

I am the world’s most irritating sleeper. I sleep with my eyes open (runs in the family), I can carry out discussions while asleep (runs in the family), and I continue the conversations that I was having eight hours ago as soon as I’m awake.

Does anything like that happen to you?

I don’t. But Ted Ross, who I don’t know either, is apparently looking for him on Facebook.

Brilliant Facebook ad idea, especially if it’s targeted at annoying the heck out of Mo Ghanem. I’m super banner-blind (given that I’m regular blind as well), and it got me to click.

Yo Mo, Ted is looking for you.

(Let’s hope this isn’t a milk-carton Facebook-style “LOST” announcement)

Well, it’s no secret that I really adore my boys, but sometimes, they do really endearing things that make me love them even more. Take this, for example, courtesy of my brother Omar.

He hijacks CD cases with markers to make them look as much as possible like the real covers.

My favorite part is how he “fakes” the layout to look like real layout:

This, is supposed to be this:

Anyone who has played this game should be able to guess what it is:

toot, the Arab world’s hand-picked blogs network is growing again! :)

We will be adding more blogs this week to our network of the best Arab blogs. If you have been consistently (as in a minimum of eight posts a month) keeping a fantastic blog for at least six months, go ahead and submit it here.

We are looking for the best Arab blogs, in both English and in Arabic.

Jordanian tweeps have been having a field day all morning and afternoon listing their favorite top 50 things about Jordan. I have no idea how this started, or who started it, but here are some of my favorite 50 things that were mentioned by Jo tweeps so far:

The Small Things:

1. The Jordanian National Anthem at the end of broadcast day on Jordan TV. @Kanaani
2. Football matches at Sports City. @tarawnah
3. The fact that the weather broadcast almost always gets it wrong, making Jordanweather.jo super popular. Lol. @RobaAssi @Kanaani @Bardees_S
4. Wandering into the National Museum in Webdeh looking for my favorite Ali Jabri 70s Aqaba painting. @NadineToukan
5. Hamoudeh DVD! Definitely! @AyahNasan @RobaAssi
6. The serene call for prayers resonating across Amman.. and definitely the weather..second to none! @Ryan_W_Sadi
7. The trucks, like the one I can hear right now, which sell & collect used furniture & announce it on loud speaker. @RaghdaButros
8. Watching all the traders set up their stalls for the Abdali Friday Market on a late and dark Thursday night @raghdabutros  @imadnaffa
9. Getting to see views like these: http://img160.yfrog.com/i/img4762.jpg/ in spring @abitmutch
10. The beautiful old houses of #Amman which speak of a humble yet rich past @Hamzetwasel @imadnaffa
11.  Those people that rang the door bell asking for: empty perfume bottles @lo2lu2a @Ahmad_Kamal
12. The way we all wait for snow like 3 year-olds. Still waiting. @khaledhakim @imadnaffa @Bardees_S
13. The fact tht you can be in Syria / Lebanon within 3 hours :-P @madnaffa @Kanaani @LebTweets
14. A cool Queen: @QueenRania with 1,240,897+ twitter follower!!!  @KrishnaUdeshi @imadnaffa @ArabObserver
15. One of the best countries in the region for road tripping. a new destination every 50km! @tarawnah
16. Driving home from the airport after a vacation, seeing everything with new eyes & really *appreciating* it! @Rula_Z
17. King Hussein Cancer Foundation @khcf @Ahmad_Kamal  For any #cancer-related questions, call @KHCC toll-free Cancer Information Helpline at 0800 22662

The Edibles:

1. Caramel Hot Chocolate and Hazelnut Latte from our all Jordanian “Cups and Kilos”.  @Bardees_S  @tarawnah
2. The Sha3r il-Banat (cotton candy) man with the balloon inside every bag. @RaghdaButros
3. Allo Arguileh :) @OmarChr
4. Ka’ak & eggs sandwich from the cart vender, with tomato, lemon, zaatar and mint tea. @NadineToukan
5. Chili House cheese coneys! @FawziB @steitiyeh @ArabObserver @tarawnah
6. Hashem Restaurant (Al-Balad/Downtown) @fouadjeryes
7. Bon el3ameed @3amor.
8. Labaneh Jarashyeh, Jameed Karaki and the best olive oil from Ajloun mountains. @yugi
9. Quick stops at a watermelon tents in the summer on your way home. @tarawnah
10. Stopping at the spices & seeds stands on outer city routes, tasting, having tea with the vendors over a story. @NadineToukan
11. The guys who sell corn, humos and fooul on those carts. @tarawnah
12. Yummy falafel sandwiches from Al-quds in rainbow street /via @FawziB @imadnaffa @Bardees_S

13. Gerard ice cream. Beats Ben & Jerry’s every time! @o2lu2a @hala_k
14. Hot delicious mana2eesh from Abu Khamis on a lazy Friday morning with no traffic @lo2lu2a @kamelasmar @imadnaffa
15. Seven+ packed branches of Tche Tche around Amman @fadia_hamdi
16. Mansaf :-) That’s simple @lo2lu2a @reemba
17. Fresh “Taboon” bread @Bardees_S
18. Sufara Bakery and Abu Ghosh Bakery on Rainbow. Ka3eeek! Ka3eek! @kamelasmar @RobaAssi @tarawnah
19. Kabab resturants at Jarash & Azraq @jawazsafar
20. Books@Cafe. Best Cafe in Jordan @tala_tj  @RobaAssi @ArabObserver
21. Batata =D @khasawnehman

The Culture:

1. Tafeeli jokes! @tarawnah
2. Getting totally inebriated & stupid at the bar you’ve been going to for four years and no matter how badly you behave, they still smile and serve you gladly. @NadineToukan
3. Everyone’s father was offered to buy Abdoun or Mecca street, and they refused!! @swfmaster @yugi
4. Zero to a maximum of one degree of separation! @yugi @Razano
5. The way every person claims that they have land or a farm that overlooks the lights of Jerusalem or other parts of #Palestine @RaghdaButros
6. Watching the excitement of kids on first day of Eid, dressed up, in streets, sizing the other, hustling over gifts & play plans. @NadineToukan
7. The warm hospitality of Bedouins in Wadi Rum @imadnaffa @am2680
8. For the memory of Abu Ahmad, the “Peanut Man” from downtown #Amman! http://is.gd/6Hm45 @imadnaffa @RaghdaButros
9. The fact that “leway?”, “he!”, “hay!” all sound like noises but are acceptable words, making up entire conversations in places like Karak. @tarawnah
10. Harmony between Muslims, Christians, Beduins, Villagers, Palestinians, Circassians. @A_Omari @MissKhasawneh @FawziB @ChristinaTwal
11. Omar Alabdallat :) @Jansait
12. Abu Mahjoob :) @imadnaffa  @AsrarSonya

Of course, you can check out the whole list (still being updated) on Twitter.
What are your favorite things about Jordan?

I thought tags are dead, but I was browsing around and came upon this blog which had a tag. Of course, no one tagged me, but I felt like answering a few questions :) Sometimes it’s fun. You can steal it too, or just answer these questions in the comment section if you feel like it.

So here we go…

So here are the rules:

Respond and rework – Answer these questions on your blog, replace one question that you dislike with a question of your own, and add one more question to the list. Then tag eight or ten new set of people.

1.What is your current obsession?
Twilight.

2. What are you wearing today?
Silver tights and long gray top.

3. What’s for dinner?
Beef with cream and broccoli.

4. What’s the last thing you bought?
A gorgeous purple coat from Zara, at 50% off.

5. What are you listening to right now?
My mother, my aunt, and my mother’s best friend chattering and smoking argeeleh.

6. What do you think about the person who tagged you?
I wasn’t tagged :)

7. If you could have a house totally paid for, fully furnished anywhere in the world, where would you like it to be?
Japan.

8. What are your must-have pieces for summer?
Comfortable sandals, airy tops, and 5-piaster red askimo.

9. If you could go anywhere in the world for the next hour, where would you go?
London.

10. Which language do you want to learn?
PHP.

11. What’s your favourite quote?
The only quote I know, a childhood thing, courtesy of Judy Blume, “Nothing matters but the moment, there might be no tomorrow, but even if there was, no one gives a damn.”

12. Who do you want to meet right now ?
No one in particular.

13. What is your favourite colour?
Red?

14. What is your favourite piece of clothing in your closet?
A shift 60’s dress.

15. What is your dream job?
Something at Google.

16. What’s your favourite magazine?
Draw between Fast Company and Wired.
 
17. If you had $100 now, what would you spend it on?
I’d put it in the bank.

18. What do you consider a fashion faux pas?
Fur.

19. Who according to you is the most over-rated style icon?
Don’t follow up with style.

20. What kind of haircut do you prefer?
Pixie boy-cuts.

21. What are you going to do after this?
Wait for guests to come over.

22. What are your favorite movies?
The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

23.How many tabs are turned on in your browser right now?
Wrong minute to ask… around 40.

24. What inspires you?
Reading.

25. Three styling tips that always work for you:
# You wear fashion, it doesn’t wear you.
# Comfort is king.
# My mother’s taste is better than mine.

26. What do you do when you “have nothing to wear” (even though your closet’s packed)?
Wear jeans, converse, and a boring top.

27. Coffee or tea?
Definitely coffee.

28. What do you do when you are feeling low or terribly depressed?
I sleep.

29. Which other blogs do you love visiting?
Check www.itoot.net

30. Favorite Dessert/Sweet?
Marzipan.

31. Favorite Season?
Summer.

32. If I come to your house now, what would you cook for me?
Take out.

33. What is the right way to avoid people who purposely hurt you?
I never feel like anyone is out there to purposely hurt me.

34. What are you afraid of the most?
Having nothing to do.

35. What brings a smile on your face instantly?
Reading something good.

36. What makes you sad?
Lack of education.

37. What is the first thing that you notice in people?
Their uniqueness.

38. What turns you off?
Stupid people and simple people.