On giant apes and other exciting stories!

As most of you probably figured out by reading the heading, I watched King Kong this week-end. The rest of the group was composed of Leila (my sister), Sawsan (Leila's friend from Concordia university), Fayçal (mutual friend of Leila and myself), Ziad (Fayçal's friend), Janine (my fiancée) and myself. Unfortunately, since we arrived late and the theater was rather full, we were seated in pairs and didn't get to really share the movie as a group.
The good thing though is that upon going out, everybody had enjoyed themselves and we were ready to go out to "Les 3 Brasseurs", a previously nice place in Montreal that has now become a chain. This makes it a lot less unique and the quality of the food has also gone down. As the name implies, they make their own beer, which is still pretty good, but I wouldn't go out of my way for one.
Les 3 Brasseurs also serves Flamms, a modernized version of Alsace's flammekueche. We ended up being 11, as Stuart Amrstrong (high school friend of mine), his gf (Myriam, an American strangely enough), her mom (weird ass name and very religious apparently, which somewhat explains the evangelic name of her daughter) and a Lebanese couple (Charles and what's her name I forgot, she was blond and pretty cute, do you remember her?) all met us there.

Either way, a pretty good evening. As for King Kong, main topic of this post that's looking more and more like a rant, I found that I had set my expectations for it just right. It was the action movie where giant ape kicks t-rex butt, then falls in love with blondie actress. If you are to ever watch it, watch it at the movies!

Ciao,
Karim

Following Grendel's Baby Pic Trend

Leila sent me this pic for Christmas, but I only checked my gmail account today, so it was a very pleasant surprise. As you can imagine, this was a LONG time ago! I'm so happy I have a copy of this picture, this is one of my best childhood memories.

The background is the curtains in our house in Bagdad, Iraq, circa 1983/1984 or something.

As you can see, the Christmas tree is kinda dry and small, as the weather in Iraq doesn't encourage much growing for the pines.

Anyways, just thought I'd post something and not let Bourgui and Grendel make me look weak. I will kick your asses guys!

:)

Bourgui's annoying

So I have a friend who's so annoying he had to buy into this whole blogging bullshit and now both Grendel and I have to create blogs just to reply and annoy Bourgui back! :p

Or maybe all the group will start blogs and it will be our way of actually giving each other news while still being self centered bastards.

Either way, maybe this will get me off my ass and back to writing a little.

Or maybe this will be the only post ever on my journal and will be forgotten on the net for all eternity.

Best wish to all (i.e. you get only 1 wish, so make it count people), and happy new year of course.
Love,
Kash