Below is my latest GSR vid, Justify by the Rasmus, which was posted on YouTube about 3 weeks ago.  Beware it's angsty!

To Be With You:  http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4794336/1/To_Be_With_You
Pairing: GSR
Rating: T
Spoilers: One to Go
Summary: As Grissom walked alone through the empty hallways towards the door he took a final look around the lab, taking in everything one last time...written and posted a few hours before One to Go aired.

Breakaway:  http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4620381/1/
Pairing: GSR
Rating: T
Spoilers: 9x02 - The Happy Place
Summary: If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were...sometimes holding on to the one you love can be worse than letting go.

I've been waiting for CBS to release an official promo for CSI online, finally now that it's September, and there's a little over 30 days left for CSI to air, CBS should start pimping the CSI premier with various promos and clips (like they did last year with Dead Doll) to win the ratings game against ABC's Grey's Anatomy. Today I wake up to a few emails from various Facebook groups I'm a member of informing me that the promo is finally available. I was planning on going to work early but when I saw the emails, I didn't care any more because I'm not allowed to watch YouTube at work, so I decided to sacrifice those 30 mins and leave at 3.30pm instead of 3pm and watch it.

I click on the link and what do I get? "This video is not available in your country" so I go to the CBS channel and click on it from there, what happens...it redirects me to their video page.

Yes it's true. CBS is now banning countries outside the USA (I don't think Canada is included in this ban) from watching promo's an clips for their favorite shows on YouTube. Isn't that the dumbest thing you ever heard?

All I want to know is why? Do they not want people who haven't seen the previous season (or seasons where I live) to be spoiled? I'm pretty sure that if someone doesn't want to be spoiled they just wont watch the video. All they gain is major fan disappointment and anger (yes many unladylike swearwords were going through my mind when I couldn't watch it).

I just really hope that whoever was behind that ingenious idea realizes first, what a mistake this is, and second that  WE CAN STILL WATCH IT ONLINE!. Dude, this is the internet...I for one have many friends in the US who will download the promo from YouTube (yes CBS people can download from YouTube) and send it to me by email or upload it to their channel...forget friends, many fans will do the same for fellow fans. Any one of us unfortunate people living abroad can go to any CSI forum or spoiler site and request that clip or watch it there.

So why let others take the credit? Why not just let everyone watch your clips on your own channel?

I'm pretty sure CBS aren't the only ones doing this but I hope they look back on this huge mistake and fix it before we "outsiders" just give up and stop going to their YouTube channel period.

I'll be the first to admit that I'm a TV show addict, give me any medical or crime show and I'll sit there and watch it, of course I do like other shows too.

Unlike the rest of the Arab world, Ramadan is the one month out of the whole year where I don't watch TV. Shocking isn't it. While everyone else I know is suddenly hooked on really dumb and meaningless Arab drama's (I heard that there's over 100 Arabic Drama's airing during this month), where the actors don't even know how to act, I find myself with nothing at all to watch except reruns of shows I've watched hundreds of times or even shows that never finished airing in their original countries, or as I like to call them, looser shows.

Channels like MBC4 and MBC Action stop all their regular programming and bring a different variety of shows for the whole month...what happens to the shows they stop airing, the don't bring them back after Ramadan, instead they start a new cycle of shows and remember these unfinished seasons just before the next Ramadan. And you wonder why people now resort to buying bootleg DVD's instead of watching TV.

The only channel that doesnt change it's schedule during Ramadan is Dubai One, they followed in the footsteps of MBC the first year they opened and never repeated it again. But alas at the moment they don't have any shows worth watching.

Yep! Summer is finally over and as of today I can start downloading my shows again, unlike last year where I started off with CSI only, then went on to Bones & NCIS after the writers strike, this year I have many many more shows to download thanks to the bootleg DVD stores here who got me hooked on so many shows that I still have a lot of DVD's I haven't watched yet.

I have still no idea if I'm gonna resort to buying them or actually download them. I'm not blessed with super fast internet like many of the people I know and it takes each show between 4 & 12 hours to download and to make things worse, I have a 5GB monthly limit & after that my slow internet becomes even slower, imagine 512KBS cut down to 128KBS..now how many 350MB shows can you download a month with that kind of limit?

So as of now my shows are:


I still have more but those I can either wait till they air here in a few more years or wait till Hammoudeh DVD downloads the whole season next year and sells it.

I've noticed that reality TV has become too common lately, every washed up former star, be it a movie star, TV star, singer, or even sports star makes a comeback on some really cheesy kind of reality show.

Don't get me wrong I'm not against all these shows, there are some that are actually quite entertaining and not total crap...a few examples are, American Idol, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Hells Kitchen and The Biggest Looser.

Now what I'm talking about is the crap like Britney and K-Fed's reality show..yes it was so crappy that I can't even remember the name, Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey's newly wed show, oh and I can't forget Tori Spelling's Inn Love. Oops I forgot to mention Paris Hilton's crappy show The Simple Life. And the worst kind..well they have got to be the ones where a band is looking for a new replacement. Notice that I can't even remember their names.

I miss the good old days when there were only a few reality shows, now everywhere you turn you hear of some washed up actor or singer having one of their very own, and the worst thing is the Arab networks love buying the crap! At least in the US these shows are shown on cable, I don't think any network in their right mind would even consider making or buying a show made by Paris Hilton or Britney Spears (except Fox who tend to cancel all the good shows after a few years)!

Farewell My Love: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3883090/1/Farewell_My_Love
Rating: K+
Spoilers: Goodbye & Good Luck
Summary: Sara is tired of facing death every day and has decided to take a break.