Our dear blogger and lovely Kinzi has tagged me with an awkward task to reveal five things that you (readers) do not know about me. Well, to begin with I asked myself why should anyone be interested in the hidden stories or features of other people. Is it curiosity, fun or trying to get to know people more?
For the tranquility of my psyche I want to choose the second option to make this entry as funny as it should be by revealing things that may not be linked with the normal life of other people.
1- I almsot got lost from my parents while I was 4 years old...in Paris! My father was working with UNESCO and our fanily was living in Paris for a period of 4 years (1971-1975). In one instance in 1973 I was accompanying my father at the grocery market and then got lost after letting his hands off. After a period of search I was noticed by a man who brought me to the police station where my worried father was filing a request for search. Thankj God for that man I did not know and I sometimes wonder what a simple incident can make If I was to be left lost in Paris in 1973. My father drove us from Paris to Amman in 1975 via a Volkswaggen Beatle. That was a great adventure.
2- I am a complete failure in mathmatics and calculus. I have always hated calculus. Although I am good with numbers but I suck in calculus. In my Tawjihi year my calculus rating was poor and it was the reasons for getting only 88.6% while all my other marks where over 90%. In the university I studied Biology and had to struggle with calculus I and II. I passed Calculus I from 1st attempt by getting the 50 mark and then had to repeat Calculus II three times. In the first time of Calculus II my combined marks from the first two exams were 6 out of 50. I did not go to the final exam and got 35 which was the zero of the university. Even if I did the exam I could have never got 35. In one occasion I managed to provide an answer for the volume of a cube that was in negative numbers!
3- I cannot fix anything. I am not a handy man. Even a small electricity problem will be a major task for me and I usually bring the specilised technicians home. Sometimes my wife tries and succeeds. All I can do is to hang a picture by drilling a hole in the wall.
4- I am crazy about football. This is the thing that makes me lose all my composure. When France lost to Italy in the World Cup Final I almost started fights with all the people I know. No one is allowed to mock Zidane. I even went in rampage in the blogsphere getting personal with everyone showing happiness after France's defeat. I support France since 1982 and never traded it with another team. However I learned to be more tolerant during the last ten years as my all time favourite team Liverpool was doing miserably with the exception of few cups and the great victory over Milan in the Champions league in 2005. Recently Liverpool lost 6-3 to Arsenal so I am learning to keep quite.
5- I love rain. I always go walking under the first rain of each season and naturally will catch cold. I love all water bodies (seas, lakes, rivers, etc...( although I cannot swim. All my PC screen savers are natural views for water bodies. In my Masters Thesis I worked on sampling water for chemical analysis and sampling frogs from the banks of Zarqa River. I fell down many times in water while running after the frogs to catch them. I took small frogs back to the lab to put them in aquaria and see their growth rate in polluted water in comparison to healthy frogs growing in clean water.
A calculus idiot, a frog chaser, a soccer maniac and a lousy fixer. This is me in a nutshell.
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I enjoyed this post tremendously :)