Salalah!

February 13-14... Been to salalah with 2 other peeps from work, for a business trip (Site visit). Stayed at the hilton, lived like a king for 24 hours! :D Weather was perfect.. i mean.. PERFECT.. 20 degrees.. during the day and nite.. i loved the long palm trees! Damn it's amazing!! pix can explain more..

:D

peace!

Tagged by Mimi

~ Seven things to do before I die: (or atleast try)
1. Dye my hair (i had some brown highlites 2 yrs back, and i'm going for an upgrade to full dye)
2. Spend $10,000 on some trivial stuff in one night
3. Learn how to speak Japanese
4. Live in Bermuda for at least 5 years after I retire
5. Atoob!!! :P
6. Ride in a submarine
7. Be a celebrity (what a dream)


~ Seven things I can't do:
1. Write with my left hand
2. Whistle (using any of the fingers)
3. I cant stop from drinking suntop and Tang orange!
4. I can't leave ANYWHERE (not only the house) without A cell phone! ;)
5. I can't be filthy rich
6. I can't think of more things that i can't do
7. Sit in a place more than an hour!


~ Seven things I always say:
1. Daaaaaaaamn!
2. Laaa walla??
3. aha
4. mmhhhmmm!!!
5. Agooool
6. tarteeb
7. Whats Crackalackin'!!


~ Seven books I loved:
1. Animal Farm
2. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
3. Tom Clancey's...... Rainbow Six
4. Yearbook 2001! (this shows how much i read books)!
5. Catcher in the Rye
6. Shakespeare's A Midsummernights Dream
7. Annie
( i know some of these are pretty lame)


~ Seven movies I love watching over and over:
1. Man On Fire
2. Out of Time
3. Badboys I+II
4. Resident Evil Apocalypse
5. Dude where's the Party
6. The Rundown
7. Van Helsing


~ Seven things I get attracted to:
1. Anything Red
2. Lemon
3. Women in dark or black clothes
4. Smell of board markers
5. Fire
6. CD's
7. Sharp things.


~ Seven people I wanna tag:
1. Kamakazy
2. Mindazi
3. Chef Raw
4. Kazablanka
5. G12_girlz (S.Hay)
6. Anonymous (u know who u r)
7. Don't have anyone else in mind..

Muscat Festival 2006

Today's the final day of Muscat Festival 2006!! As if I felt that there was a festival at the first place!! It's my first time going to the festival on sunday feb 6, after 8 years of rejections and denials to go to the fest!! I didn't want to go, but with some peer pressure, I managed to. The purpose of going to the festival was partially to experience what the cousin of sleep feels like. Thanks to kamakazy and his absolute courage in riding the 'sling shot'. I really recommend you guys NOT to ride in any of these amazing rides that are customly built for MCT fest!
One of the rides that kamakazy rode had some technical problem while he was 40 meters above the ground! hmmmm sounds goood for an adrenaline overdose buzz, as kamakazy puts it! you can feel the excitement from deep inside when there's a technical problem..


pshhh if i was paid to ride in any of those, i'd simply reject!
anyways, here are some pix of the fest!
ENJOY..



Mr T, Mohammed, Moatasim and Sultan smiling at the cam




Kamakazy getting ready to ride!








MOI looking excited!





Anywhos, today's the last day of the fest!




Peace :)

Love is in the air

OK first off let me set some rules and regulations before I start talking about this subject:
1) I don't mean to offend anyone.
2) It's just a personal view!

Well, after 8 straight months of living in Oman, I have JUST started to adjust myself to the environment here. The thing that still does not click thru my head is.... (let me give you an example) --- (Allah yester 3alaihum .. i won't mention any names because it won't sound good)

When I first arrived here, one of the first priorities is my network. This includes friends, family, relatives and what not. I was really concerned about our past relationships because I've been out of this country for more than 8 years. Anyways, so I made some friends, from different style, different lifestyle. The only problem is... the opposite sex! I still don't understand whats up with the girls here in Oman. Actually, the khaleeji girls in general!
I once got to know this girl, through a friend (who's a girl too). Anyways, we were having a cup of coffee at Starbucks. So she's like you know Ali, we should meet up in the future. I was like OK sure. We exchanged numbers and all that, and so I gave her a call the next day to say hi and what not. She didn't respond. I didn't care. I just forgot about it, until the weekend came, and the other girl, the one i knew before called and was like hey Ali let's meet up again. I was like sure who's coming with you? She's like so n so.

We met up, at the same location, started talking, and that same girl told me. Oh Ali I couldn't answer your call last week because I had some issues with my boyfriend. I thought it was OK to ask what happened, but she gave it to me straight in the face. "none of your business". Jeeez! Whats up with this attitude! I called her back after we left, still didnt respond. I called her one more time the next day. She answered and we started talking. Then all of a sudden, just outta the blue she told me "Listen, I don't know what do you want from me? If you want to meet up then call my other friend and we'll meet up, but just calling me is not right!". I just told myself : WHAT THE F**K is wrong with you. Anyways I didn't wanna bother myself with bullshit, so I just didn't call her since then.
Thats one example.


Another example that recently happened to me is that here in Oman, MOST (not all, but MOST) of the girls that I know shayfeen nafes-hum and met3aqdeen. They think that I need them for something. They think I want them for something. Maybe they had bad past experiences, but don't generalize things. If I wanted a girl for something I'd go straight up to her and ask her directly! But just assuming that I want something, and making 7arakat and I dunno what is just bullshit!

Oh and let's not forget, the loooove conversations on msn!!!!! How complicated can it be. It's true! I'm not making this up! :D (check out this typical example)

GUY: Hala
GIRL: hala
GUY: How are you?
GIRL: Ok, and u? Where have you been the past few days?
GUY: Oh I've been busy, but I MISS U LOTS
GIRL: Me 2. I (presses enter) Mi (minimizes the screen to check if anyone is around the house, comes back) Miss (presses enter) U (presses enter) and closes the msn window, and goes out the house to check if her parents came back.
GUY(talking to himself): It took her 8 weeks to say I miss you. Wow. Scratches his head. How much longer will it take her to say I love you? Yel3an abu el sa3a eli jeet!

OR... pick me up situation. (on the phone) =)



GUY: Hey sweetie what time shall we meet up?
GIRL: In 1 hour. Pick me up from the back door.
GUY: Ok
1 hour later, he's behind the house waiting for her. The guy calls up the girl.
GUY: Where are you?
GIRL: Oh I can't go out today because.. because.. oh because I have something due tomorrow and I didn't know about it not until now. I just checked my agenda a few mins back. And plus no one's in the house. ---- *to herself* ma fathya...
GUY: Ok
GUY *talking to himself*: Yel3an abu elsa3a eli jeet!


OR... not the right time situation.. the girl calls up the guy, and she KNOWS that he's busy doing something. Let's say, invited for lunch over at a friends place :)


GIRL: Hey sweetie are you free now?
GUY: Not really, why is there something wrong?
GIRL: Oh you know, I'm really sorry about last time. You came and I couldn't make it, so I was wondering if you can come now.
GUY: But I'm invited for lunch over at my friends place!
GIRL: But this is the ONLY time that I can leave because I told my parents that I'll be shopping, and they agreed. Otherwise, I won't be able to see you for another 2 weeks. You know, my car's in the garage, and my family from dubai are coming.
GUY: Ok i'll call you back in a few
GUY*to himself*: Yel3an abu el sa3a ili jeeet!


I'm just laughing right now! because whatever I said is true! At the end of the day, I just got used to how complicated the girls here are. But at the end of the day, you can't live with them, and you can't live without them! Also, it's because of the local traditions and the local customs here. You can't do stuff as if you are in the states or latin america. And you can't limit your fun as if you're in an extremist nation. Just enjoy life, and have fun :) . To the girls, I'm more than happy to hear a similar story from a female point of view! I just looove drama, and trouble!!! Once again, I'm not saying that khaleeji girls are bad and I don't mean to hurt anyone. No. KHaleeji girls are educated, respectful, smart, and most of all, better looking than western and other arab girls. SOOO, you ppl are wondering why the hell is this guy writing all this? Hmm.. Valentine's day is coming up, and I just wanted to start a "pre- valentines environment!" by talking about something related to L.O.V.E! annd.. just to tell you whatever's happening in my life!

love y'all :)

peace!!!

Breaking up my mind

I've been working for the past 5 months or so, plus an intensive training of 3 months. That gives a total of 8 months. I started in the heart of the summer, which basically demotivates you from working because of the 'deep heat'. Anyways, it's time for me to start thinking about holidays! Yep I'm trying to ask for a 1 week break. The thing is with Omani companies, is that you always have to plan what other people are going to think about you, just like when a guy calls a girl for the first time (yea I did some planning too). You know what I mean!! Anyways, so its Feb 06, 2006. My mind is starting to lean towards holiday mode, or at least, GOTR mode (its not God of The Rings, but its Get Out of The Region mode). So yea.. I need a holiday whatsoever! And I need to get out of the Gulf Region as soon as possible, more importantly, as FAR as possible.
I didn't enjoy my 4 yrs in college because I was under 21 back then. Soooo, what I'm planning to do is to do whatever I didn't do in those 4 years (whatever that means :P). Well I still didn't plan where my target is.
Good news: Just got the US visa. This time as a tourist :( .. OH well!!!

For all of you who are under 21.. TUFFF! :D

peeace!