Good Morning, Mamdoo7!

Mamdoo7, is Dr. Mamdoo7 el 3abbadi.

Ex Mayor of Amman, Ex minister of health, and current senate in the new parliament, but I am addressing him on a first name basis.

Why? one might wonder, and how come?

Plain and simple! Dr. 3abbadi and I have formed some sort of collegue friendship over the last six weeks,we have been seeing each other for at least five hours every day, six days a week.

For six weeks now, every morning, Dr. 3abbadi smiles at me from my office window.

When I come in to the office at 8.00 sharp, I feel he is nodding with approval.

He watches me as I sip on my coffee and scan my email.

He overlooks the work I am doing.

He does not frown when I minimize that Autocad screen and play a game of Scrabble.

He understands, its been sort of boring these few months at work.

He might as well tell me I should quit trying this Master Level in Scrabble, and stick to Elite. He has never seen me win one Master Level scrabble, but I feel he admires the effort.

I feel he sometimes wants to tell me to take a break from watching the screen, its bad for ones eyes and he is an ophthalmologist afterall!

Every time I watch the sun reflecting on my window, Dr. 3abbadi watches with me.

Every time I follow the clouds movements, Mamdoo7 follows them with me.

I am not sure I like this though, its like :Mamdoo7!! Give me some space..puleeeeez!

Dr. 3abbadi, don't you have another place to go to, like a storage room or something where you can stay there till the 2011 elections?

Don't get me wrong. Dr. Mamdoo7 el 3abbadi is a character I highly respect.All the reviews I hear about him from people who know or who have ever met him, say he's a very nice and decent gentleman, he has done a good job in all the posts he has held as far as I hear, but I think its about time he took away this 2*5m sign he has on the building right in front of me (And it's certainly not less than this, judging by the size of the windows and the height of the floors) Not only him, all the other candidates too, the ones who won, the ones who lost, the ones with names the ones with pictures, the ones with mottoes and the ones with logos....khalaaaas!! enough is enough..give us our clean and tidy city back!

And I thought if they did not remove them one week after the elections,the Municipality should have done it by now, so what happened to that?

December 2007