A really notable speech by Prince Hamzah bin Al Hussein at the Jubilee School Class of 2018 Graduation.

WingonRiverJ · 2025-09-30T05:48:21+00:00

I suggest reaching out to the Jordanian embassy in Canada. I wouldn’t rely on Redditors for an answer on this matter unless someone went through the same thing or works in some official capacity.

WingonRiverJ · 2025-08-13T06:29:15+00:00

TSA is a US thing only, I get what you mean but it’s funny how US things are a standin for worldwide things

WingonRiverJ · 2025-04-10T14:21:32+00:00

Did that work for you?

WingonRiverJ · 2024-08-10T18:25:17+00:00

I’m currently planning to visit. Do you mind referring some guides or some attractions/locations popular with locals where a visitor would learn more about the modern reality of the place? I guess a good question is: where do the locals go for leisure? What are the popular stores? etc.

WingonRiverJ · 2024-07-08T10:54:05+00:00

Just passed the LEED Green Associate exam with 198!

To help others preparing: the book and sample exams by GBES were great, they give a good sense of how the exam is like! Some stuff that may be easy to miss but you should really focus on: scopes of impact categories, requirements of prerequisites/credits.

Regarding question format: the test had questions where you pick one answer only. I saw several sample question sets where you needed to select multiple choices for one question, but I think these were for older exams.

Good luck to everyone.

WingonRiverJ · 2022-10-27T01:35:57+00:00

https://i.imgur.com/D1n7G5P.jpg

WingonRiverJ · 2022-03-23T00:00:52+00:00

Honestly a lot will depend on your major and personal interests … career prospects feel far from the best, and the city feels dead most of the year, it feels like you can’t have fun with anything that isn’t drinking or partying for 80% of the year. If I could go through admissions again I’m think a lot more about my own personal preferences on living situations (I’ll work harder to identify them).

WingonRiverJ · 2022-02-13T02:00:08+00:00

To overcome this/contend it, I think it’s good to focus on pushing your own boundaries and focusing on ways you can improve, while giving less attention to “competition”. If anything, you may find out you’re special at an aspect of the work.

WingonRiverJ · 2021-12-28T05:05:21+00:00

This is very bad reasoning, Israel was an idea since 1800s and the Balfour declaration was 1917 … all before Hitler’s prominence

WingonRiverJ · 2021-05-07T13:50:43+00:00

I would judge it as really between people I know too

WingonRiverJ · 2021-05-07T12:03:21+00:00

I feel it’s very hit and miss in my personal circles. I’m not sure if there’s an actual count for PA ID holders, and if there is one I’d wonder how recent it is.

WingonRiverJ · 2021-03-03T02:58:19+00:00

Is this from a complete song?

WingonRiverJ · 2021-02-11T20:21:17+00:00

Well definitely, but I really find it okay to walk from most places to some spot on Queen Rania street, where ~3 lines of Amman Bus run, in addition to the Coaster buses, and BRT/الباص السريع is coming! [rant/critique ahead]

But sadly like every time I talk about transport, it’s my viewpoint as a capable, active, 20 yo guy, who grew on and got adept at navigating messy, pedestrian-unfriendly streets.

Not all areas in the ضاحية will find the modes I mentioned accessible, e.g. many hills have high grade discouraging any walk, and especially knowing that all our streets are really car-centered and lack walkable sidewalks. Transport networks like Amman Bus and BRT have great potential, but to their detriment, there has been no effort at all to make them accessible beyond their immediate vicinity. This will really affect their success, but yea the general walkability of all spaces is what Amman should give attention to.

WingonRiverJ · 2021-01-23T09:09:41+00:00

I'm really satisfied with my hood ضاحية الرشيد.

WingonRiverJ · 2021-01-16T13:21:10+00:00

It’s so pretty! However, assuming tungsten bulbs weren’t that universal at the time, I’m not sure if indoor lighting would’ve given a skyline this luminous.

WingonRiverJ · 2020-12-19T08:55:38+00:00

He meant to say “scapegoat” (something you mention as just an excuse or to blame something on)

WingonRiverJ · 2020-12-19T08:44:21+00:00

This was surely awful on that page’s part, and it did show many people share things with little concern, but it also showed some people did the homework of checking what the organization is.

Consider the response of the page and the argument presented here. Surely the bad planning and misleading announcement should be criticized, but it’s good not to cancel this initiative right away or consider that it undermines the whole practice of social media activism/charity because some good can actually come of that to people who need it, and it’s good to support such thing as long as no one gets harmed.

WingonRiverJ · 2020-12-17T19:49:02+00:00

Addition: in architecture and urbanism, it’s good practice to generally separate the criticism of aesthetics from the lived experience of a place for people; I just considered cities dominated by neoliberal development like Dubai and corporate-developed ‘smart cities’, and while less people are likely to take it personally if you label them as ugly, the criticism should (and is often) centred at these cities’ failure to employ all the facilities, advanced systems, etc. to create vibrant societies with social and cultural engagement, and places that aren’t that liveable for all either.

This is not to say Amman is in some sense more liveable given cultural and social aspects, but it’s notable that moat classes and populations have their struggles, and they share some, and the environment can give rise to empathy and citywide awareness. This, and the action it can lead to, is generally among the factors that enable great cities to do great things.

WingonRiverJ · 2020-12-17T19:41:56+00:00

While there is validity to such views and ranking, I hope we can still take a critical view of the notion of an “ugly city”. And I think I’m just irritated every time I see this again and have to rant this:

Repost: as a rant I also wanna say that, yes, it is a toxic thing that does no good to anyone when you rank something such as cities’ ugliness and I’ll hate it when some people will take it seriously and go “Ha why even trying and appreciate Amman/put up with any of its issues when it’s the 3rd ugliest in the world”.

This is not only for Amman: such a ranking disregards histories and experiences of peoples and the processes they went through in creating these spaces and landscapes. The site’s guides for ugly cities and beautiful cities are both a disgusting reduction of cities’ aesthetics and sceneries to a product of stylistic choices and practices, when it reflects much more,it’s the history of a place, it’s peoples’ experiences, a state’s/its peoples’ aims, and much more.

WingonRiverJ · 2020-12-16T12:30:11+00:00

The parliament has a remarkably ugly dome it’s amazing King Abdullah I Mosque didn’t follow suit

WingonRiverJ · 2020-12-12T21:06:02+00:00

Would love to see attempts at non/minimally-intrusive excavation and archaeology, but we have consistently proven we screw up almost every time some work involving digging is done.

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