When the whole world lost you!!

May you rest in peace and may heaven be your home.

A couple of weeks ago I was doing some searches over the net and I came across a blog of a Kuwaiti fellow blogger. As I was browsing through the posts on that blog, I came across one that left me very disturbed and preoccupied with its content that as a patriot Jordanian, I had to comment and seek permission to link to his post and get my fellow Jordanian bloggers to participate, so here I am seeking your kind assistance.

To cut a long story short; the Kuwaiti newspaper Al Watan has announced on the 8^th of December 2005 that Kuwaiti students in Jordan are under attack, and that this is a series of incidents that have been taking place for some time; please read the piece of news here.

The Kuwaiti blogger UzF was moved and disturbed by the news that he understandably blogged about it.

I do not know whether this piece of news is true or not as this is not the reason I am blogging about this; my main concern is the amount of hostility I got towards Jordan and Jordanians by reading the comments on that specific post, which you can get here.

I am seeking your kind assistance to show our Kuwaiti brothers and sisters that there is no hidden agenda against Kuwait or Kuwaitis and that we as Jordanians share their annoyance and anger from these incidents if they ever took place and that we condemn such acts, and as I commented to him that we think highly of Kuwait and Kuwaitis and this is by no means a reflection of our country, or our people.

I will be informing our fellow Kuwaiti blogger about this post and I hope that our responses will urge him to reflect this in a new post on his blog so that his readers can learn the truth.

Last but not least; thank you in advance for participating in this initiative; I look forward to getting your responses and feedback.

My aunt's family owns a big farm in a town called "Om Rommaneh". I don’t know if you have heard of that place but it is located between Shafa Badran and Baqa'a or something like that. All I know is that it is a lovely place, great weather and wonderful farms.

My aunt plants all sorts of vegetables and fruits on their land, and they always bring us some of the farm products when they do visit every now and then. Figs, grapes, tomatoes, olives, olive oil, peaches, apricots … etc.

Now, this post is not about my aunt's farm, though I will be posting some of the pictures taken there; I am sure you will all love them.

This post is about a tree that we pass on the way to the farm. I believe that this tree must be the oldest and biggest in Jordan; once you see the picture, you will understand why.

It is so tall that sometimes I imagine that it is actually reaching the clouds with its branches, and it is so big that we can't help but park the car and get some pictures of it. Its shade is as big as a house, and believe me; picnics there are the best ever.

I leave you with the pictures of this wonderful tree and I am sure you will love it as much as I do.

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Housing Project for the Poor

I personally think that this is a great thing to do

A large sector of the population are suffering from poverty, and by that I mean; they literally don’t have a roof over their heads.

Every morning when I am driving to come to work; I tune in to Fann FM channel and listen to Mohammed Al Wakeel and his phone conversations with people. He reads the headlines from the major newspapers and this morning this was the most important. His Majesty the King launched the first stage of the housing project for the poor, and there is actually a reward for the governorate that finishes its project first; this reward is half a million JD's.

Really; thank you Your Majesty.

You can read the full story here