Wed 4 Jun 2008
I was quirk tagged :(
Posted by Bashar under Technology
[13] Comments
Chika was so kind with me when she finally found out I am the last one untagged. The Last Man Standing. Not that I like it, and I can’t promise you will like it as well. Here we go:
The Rules:
- Link the person(s) who tagged you.
- Mention the rules on your blog.
- Tell about 6 unspectacular quirks of yours.
- Tag 6 following bloggers by linking them.
- Leave a comment on each of the tagged blogger’s blogs letting them know they’ve been tagged.
The Quirks:
- Socially, I am a disaster. Unlike many Kuwaities, and I can attribute part of that for being such a geek. I go to Diwaniyas, yes, once every 3 months or more. I usually go out in groups of 2, including me. You get the idea.
- Being a programmer, I can’t use IDEs for programming. For years, I stuck to the wonderful, fast, bugs free Notepad. I upgraded then to rich editors, such as Notepad++ and now amazing TextMate. It’s actually the killer app made me want Mac in the first place.
- I am a natural disaster in graphics. No matter how hard I try, I just don’t have it. My last attempt was end of Jan for my kid birthday cake picture. You don’t wanna see the results.
- When typing, every 10th click is the Ctrl+S button. It’s just natural.
- I cannot focus on one thing for a long time. I have to go walk around, think things over in my head, just like Bojacob :).
- Ketchup and Mayonnaise is a must for many type of meals, I even add Mayonnaise to Macaroni sometimes. If Mayonnaise is not there, Hommos can take it’s place, but not Ketchup alone. It’s a sin!
Since there is no one else untagged, says a lot about my popularity, I am tagging the one person I know only, MrMMM. Even though he’s technically, blogospherically dead. I’m still tagging him.
UPDATE: I tagged another one. Seems you have to search hard to find them. They’re like pearls. Dr Mahbob is tagged.
Popularity: 20% [?]



June 4th, 2008 at 9:31 am
awwww maskeeeeen :p – yet another programmer that we need tap in his head, enta o Bojacob moshkela …
Thanks for doing it buddy :)
P.S: I HATE MAYO!
June 4th, 2008 at 9:35 am
not a big fan of ketchup and mayo! your pretty quirky! I do save while working too but not every 10th click :-P
June 4th, 2008 at 9:40 am
chika: Thanks for your sympathy. I’m fine by the way being a geek than anything else :). Ohh, and I hate MAYO who I don’t know too. By inheritance.
Ansam: Yeah, people dont even notice I’m saving and keep saying DID YOU SAVE!!!
June 4th, 2008 at 9:43 am
By the way, did you notice how quick people jumped to comment to this post as opposed to some other posts that I really work hard on :)
Kinda funny.
June 4th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
LLOOOLLLL – yeh, Bashar, it’s these heavyweight intellectual kind of posts that get the most comments! Loved hearing how quirky you are!
June 5th, 2008 at 3:28 am
You’re not a social disaster, you just need to find people who speak the same language. Object-Oriented ofcourse :P
June 5th, 2008 at 8:34 am
Intlxpatr: Thanks. Always fun to read, always pain to write :)
3baid: Hahaha… Yeah well, this is what normal people call unsocial! So I was speaking their language there for a second. So what’s your protocol?
(This is equivalent to Are you democrat? Or are you Islamist or Liberal :P)
June 10th, 2008 at 11:52 am
# When typing, every 10th click is the Ctrl+S button. It’s just natural.
# I cannot focus on one thing for a long time. I have to go walk around, think things over in my head
NAFSyyyyyyyyyy :P
June 11th, 2008 at 9:01 am
Mai: Well, you’re a geek and… I think we need to work on our time effectiveness :)
June 11th, 2008 at 10:03 am
Am not a geek :P
Kilsh :D
Tra ana ast’3L wagty 3adel il7amdella 3an 6areeq my strategy: Focus ;)
Bs bil3aks hatha thaka’a ana we break the work relax and come back, for me it doesnt need to be long, it makes a difference to me 7atta law dgaayg .. w btw this way yn97oon feha malot itanmya il bshrya, i read once time ago..
June 12th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
BTW Vote for the 7 Wonders of Kuwait
http://7wondersofq8.wordpress.com/
June 13th, 2008 at 9:10 am
RajQ8: 7 wonders for me would include how people drive, park, misbehave. I couldn’t say we have any wonders. Kuwait Towers are possibly the only true unique thing we have. Stood up against too much.
June 13th, 2008 at 9:16 am
Mai: Good then :)
I feel I over do it thats why.