Monday, December 11, 2006

Blogger may not reply for he/she "appears to be offline"

You know what I think is the greatest invention ever? (yep, even greater than Cassereccio's Nutella pizza- okay okay maybe not:P) It's the "appear offline" mode on MSN. Pure genius.

If you often choose the "appear offline" mode offhandedly, I must ask you to stop and ponder this for a second. Do you realise the power it gives you? To be around and yet invisible. To observe, but not be observed. To mingle, yet not socialize. To hide, and yet not feel lonesome. You're free to stare, smile, frown or dish out incomprehensible babble at people for as long as you like! (NO of course I don't do that! The idea!)

Take that and apply it to real life and what do you get? AWESOMENESS!
I could most definitely use that during some of my days you know. Ahhhh, what I wouldn't do for an hour of "appear offline" in real life... ;)

16 comments:

Ivory said...

Genius Indeed!

love to try it in real life too!!

Mar Yoom said...

Isn't it?;)

Ivory said...

I've always wanted to have the ability to be invisible!
and i wanted so bad specially when i read about Harry Potter's invisibility cloak! I want one! :)

Mar Yoom said...

Did you have to go and mention Harry Potter- girl it's my soft spot!
Now there's no shutting me up as I go on and on about what a GENIUS J.K Rowling is, and how much I adore Dumbledore (and HATE her for killing him:'( and how I have a complete application form to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry hidden in my desk drawer (erm, maybe I shouldn't have shared that:P)

Anyway, you get the point. Me like Harry Potter. Me like Invisibility cloak and me hate that my photo albums are boring and no one moves in them:P

Anonymous said...

Now I know what it's like barging in on a conversation. A kind of nutty one at that. So I think I will leave you two to your Harry Potteration.

Wait, I just remembered something. Vaguely. Why was I reading Harry Potter out loud with effects and everything? I remember doing Hagrid actually hurt my throat. What was that about? How old were you at the time? Who was I reading to? LOL

The weirdness never ends. Does it?

Mar Yoom said...

You've got some nerve woman refering to people's convos as "nutty":P

Oh my God I have a veeeery vague recollection of that as well. Who could you have been reading it to? Fosto2?:P

woman you are weird:P
hehehehehe

WAIT! I THINK I remembered!
I went through this phase were I was trying my best to get Abood "Potterated":P And when I gave up on him reading it alone, I think I started sitting with him and forcing him to listen to me read it:P

I think that's when you became our official narrator! I remember you did Hagrid so darn well! Yep. It was after you did it once that abood fired me and hired you instead:P
though we never finished the book, our hoiday wasn't long enough, we had to go back to Jordan:)

Anonymous said...

This blog is fdee7a. No really. It's all out in the open now. No hiding it. I shudder to think what a faithful reader of your blog would make of us. A faithful reader that doesn't already know us. Someone who is mish 3aref/3arfeh il beer ou ghataah.

Come to think of it, I don't think this "beer" even has a ghata. Bas kullo wala ykoon "overflowing" .. LOL Please tell me you remember this. The last thing we need is to have to explain yet one more thing to the whole of humanity on your blog too. LOL

Note to self. People can READ what I write on my sis's blog. THEY CAN.

We're nuts. It's official.

Mar Yoom said...

the "beer" is overflowing
HEHEHEHEHE
I do remember that actually:P

I hear ya sis, this blog is compromising my image of utter sanity, poise and maturity! What am I without those???? *gasp*

Oh well I guess you never miss what you never had, eh?:P

Anonymous said...

Allah yir7am ayyam ma kunt ana il poise, wil poise ana. Who's going to believe that of me now?

Your blog completely sabotaged that for me. Ya lahwi. I should clarify. It's not really your blog, as much as it is my contributions to your blog. What can I say, you bring out the crazy in me. If we belonged to a 3asheera, it would be 3asheeret il Nutellaaat. For at least two very obvious reasons :)

Mar Yoom said...

Aaahhhh, NUTELLA....
In my perfect imaginative world, I would be in Hogwarts, eating nutella with a spoon out of the jar, and learning how to turn naughty 9-year-olds into snails:P

Alas, I'm in Kuwait, eating a carrot, and at least up till today at 3pm., there were no signs of snails in the school premises!

Yikes, I could swear I just dozed off on the keyboard. I'm off!

Unknown said...

You know what?
You two make the perfect comedy show!! wallah!
ay Maraya! ay 6ash ma 6ash!!
i dnt understand a word of what you guyz say! not literally..
but its so funny! :)
allah ykhaleekon laba3dh :)

BAck to Harry..
Harry Potter..
would be believe me if i told u that my cozin with my crazy help wrote a fan fiction abt Harry Potter --including our characters in the story!!!
Crazy or what?!!
well that was 4 yrs ago.. now we're mature.. i guess ;P

Unknown said...

You know what?
You two make the perfect comedy show!! wallah!
ay Maraya! ay 6ash ma 6ash!!
i dnt understand a word of what you guyz say! not literally..
but its so funny! :)
allah ykhaleekon laba3dh :)

BAck to Harry..
Harry Potter..
would be believe me if i told u that my cozin with my crazy help wrote a fan fiction abt Harry Potter --including our characters in the story!!!
Crazy or what?!!
well that was 4 yrs ago.. now we're mature.. i guess ;P

Mar Yoom said...

Gem!:)

Welcome to my blog:) If it's any consolation, I'm often unsure myself what the heck we're talking about!:P (but that never stops me from babbling on anyway:D)hehehe

Oh WOW. You and your cousin are the coolest! A harry potter with ME in it, fancy that!!! I SO wanna have that!

grrrrhh, I always had a feeling my cousins were useless!
YO, Nasser, Hussam, Bassel, Yassmeena, how come you don't write me a "Harry Potter And a Pretty Girl Called Mariam" novel, huh?????

That does it. I'm shopping for new cousins, and that's that :P

Lina said...

Imagine if your students read your blog? :) just a thought, hehe.

Mar Yoom said...

WOW
you scared me for a second there Lina!
There's a reason I chose to teach 9 year olds:)

I know better than to meddle with middle/high school kids- for God knows some of them are more mature than I am:P

so at least for now, I'll stick with my "under 10" criteria, it's safest, don't you agree?;P

Unknown said...

Okay... where to begin...

Let me just say that any story we write involving Harry Potter and yourself will NOT be to your liking.
There would probably be so much zanakha that it would make fried mac & cheese seem as light as a fresh bowl of salad.

So in fact, you should thank us for abstaining from such activities. Happy shopping.