So I garbed 4,700 JD’s from the company and went in a shopping mission for a contest we are running, its nice when you have such money and you know that you are just gonna blow it away I remembered last summer when I went for such an issue, at that time I checked the rates of stuff I want to buy couple of days before, so there was no need for examining prices at purchasing time.

So I entered PC Zone at Mecca Mall and here what happened:
Samer: Can you pleas give an HP laptop (I was pointing at a punch of laptops).
At this point I noticed a couple of exclamation points and question marks popped above his head.
Salesman (to himself): Ha! This guy just asked for a 1,100 JD’s laptop without even looking at it, it’s not like a pack of cigarette for god’s sake, I thought we are in Jordan.
So he brought and he didn’t look convinced.
Samer: Is the warranty regional or just in Jordan?
Salesman: Its regional, may I ask what the region is?
Samer: Bahrain (The winner was Bahraini).
Salesman: So you work in Bahrain. (He looked like he finally solved this dilemma).
Samer: No in Jordan, but I’m having this competition and the laptop winner is a Bahraini.
This fact doubled the number of exclamation points and question marks above his head. I swear his eyebrows became one

I continued and went into inTouch at Mecca Mall and I asked for an iMate Jam, same reaction: Its morning and someone just ordered an iMate Jam like it was a pack of gum! (It was like 445 JD’s or less).

From the reactions of people in those places, I sensed that they are not ready for large sales at one time; they are used to go through lots of questions and negotiations with customers just to sell one item.

So yesterday I went to Prime Mega store and I had to wait for an hour to get the rest of the Digital cameras (all I ordered was 5 and they didn’t have that number at that time). So meanwhile I went down to Nokia and I bought 10 sets, I felt like an old VIP customer there. After that I went back to Prime grabbed the cams and 15 PC games.

All the way to Gardens street to PC Zone to purchase PC software, I wasted a lot of time in that stupid place; I bought couple of Islamic and educational software, in addition to Norton Anti-Virus and the crappy Microsoft Office.

Then I met Ibrahim at iSystems in Swifieh, there I bought 12 iPod shuffles, and headed back to the office to store 5 Digital cams, 10 mobiles, 20 PC software, 15 PC games and 12 iPods – and none of them is mine

MobileCom introduced a new service where you can determine for how long you want to keep an SMS that you sent in the receiver’s inbox. I’m not sure what is the idea behind it but I found it irrational, why would I want to delete a message I sent to someone unless I don’t it to be kept as an evidence on me.

Sometimes I receive a message on my mobile and I’m too busy to see it, if the sender has determined a short-life-time of this message by the time I’m free to see it, its gone.

How ethical it is to let someone control others personal stuff? If someone got a confirmation from someone else by SMS and this message was planned to be automatically deleted after a while I guess the first person might have a problem.

Far from that, I don’t see the point of this service, why would I bother what will the receiver will do with messages I sent? Am I too afraid that I will stack their inbox? Its their own mobiles let them decide what would they do with it.

During our trip into Wadi Rum we have been told that those engraving are ancient and were made by the Nabataeans but the truth is that some kinky dude who turned out to be a graphic designer passed by and left some of his art in the area, it’s the rise of the Engraffiti.