summary of 2011 :)

i cant believe there was no post for me in 2011 .. well maybe coz too many htings happened .. maybe coz i was lazy .. but i will put a summary for almost everything that happened ..

will start by family ..

1- i have a nephew now .. his name is ali . .he was born in march.. plz dont ask me when exactly coz i donno :) .. but he s so cute .. it is amazing when u have a new born in the family .. finally i became an uncle :) .. i try n go my hometown so i can see him almost every a couple of months

2- my uncle Ibrahim who had cancer died :( .. it is sth hard for me .. and it is still till now .. we were expecting his death but really it was hard .. he was very very close to me.. . in fact he was more than an uncle.. he was a best friend and a brother for me .. i am just thankful because he died as a good believer . he became a good muslim in his last months ... he started praying, we went together to umrah :) and he did hajj .. and he did so many good deeds :) .. on top of all this he was patient on his disease and he accepted Allah s will .. this is v important and he was always saying Al hamdulillah.. it is tough now for his mom .. his wide and his little baby Omar.. also he was born during Ibrahim's disease .. (a couple of day after he knew that he is ill, his wife knew that she is pregnant :) ) .. hamdellah he saw his boy and now it is better for the wife that she is raising baby Omar .. he may not look a lot like him (his father) but character wise .. he is copy paste :) he is sociable and friendly with people .. just like his father :)

3- my aunt from father side also died of cancer :( .. we were not close a lot.. however i made sure to see her n visit her evertyime i was in leb.. she was an amazing person very friendly and enjoying life .. i didnt think i was going to be sad when she dies like when my uncle died .. however i was really sad.. it was a tough moment for me especially that i was not around the family when she died .. i love her and i ask Allah to forgive her ..

4- work wise .. we are not doing well at al hassan wheere i work.. i cud blame myself however they dont know how to work properly:

- they dont have stock for doha
- their prices are very high and not competitive at all
- we dont have a factory in qatar and neither technical support.
- our delievery for materials is sooooo late ..
- ceo left the company
- another gm who is my friend n who brought me to this company left also ..
- a new gm came to the factory and i htink this is my last chance with my company
- i am not worried too much beczo i am already trying to do some side jobs.. and i have my network here already
- let s see what will happen :)

5- i met a girl in 2011 .. she is nice person and cute .. maybe we have different lifestyle .. like she likes clubbing a lot .. and some other things that i dont like .. but she is a nice person.. the problem is she was out of a relationship that lasted 5 years!! so am sure she still loved him .. also she lived on her own .. so i was always afraid if she had limits with him or not ... anwya ..she was a smart girl n sociable .. and it was almost happening between us .. it was just that i had to go n meet her again to happen.. however days before that her ex contacted her again n she s back with him.. maybe i was a bit sad at the begining but i decided to turn the page and i am happy it didnt happen between us .. she shud be with him i believe after all these years :) .. and am sure i have to look for a more conservative person next time... i thank Allah that nth happened with her .. we were not compatible but maybe coz i had no one in my life then i wanted her .. i am so stupid :) .. no but she is a really nice person .. really :) after she returned to him she did not inform me about that .. however she was trying to avoid msging me and then from her BBM statuses i cud tell she s back to him..
to be honest i did not like at all that i knew thru her bbm about ur bf .. she shud have msged me .. but then i think .. maybe she didnt know what to do? and also she s not very mature .. she s 23 but still she may lack some communication skills. . i donno :) .. anyway i decided not to confront her at all .. i acted so good i guess. i just stopped contacting her .. after she avoided me but realy did notthing to grab her attention .. and i think she respects me a lot for that ... she started msging me after a couple of weeks .. and she was friendly and really respectful n admiring me i guess for my behaviour with her .. i was also very friendly with her n showed her that i am careless if u have a bf.. didnt even say she shud have told me personally that n not thry blackberry.. it is okay :) am happy we are still friends and happier that i made her respect coz the way i reacted .. at least my head is high now .. the reason i stopped txting her after i knew about her bf is that i didnt know if she wanted to stay friends or not .. but after a while it was obvious that she wanted :) .. the thing is that on my next trip to beirut i wudnt like to see her .. mainly coz i wont have much time and secondly i dont want her to think that i am keen to see her by asking her out .. the thing is that she likes my nephew a lot from his photos n i believe she wud like to see him .. but still am not sure waht to do .. personally i prefer to avoid her .. n just remain friends n greet each other from time to time...


also, before this girl thru my mom's friend she got me a contact of a girl.. so i contacted her (she was expecting me) in order to ask for meeting hoiwever she said bb or facebook first.. yuk.. i thought she had someone even my family thought this n i think we were rite.. coz she never wanted to chat or get to know me on bb.. we talked a bit on bb but she was dry n really i wanted to stop talking to her however my friend here she insisted to keep trying until i asked her if she has someone n she said: i am getting to know someone :) .. she seemed a nice person.. but either hse has someone or she doesnt want to meet someone thru parents.. she is a pretty girl from the photos . but also immature :) .. she is 25 though .. i cnt believe when she put photo of her toes on bb profile pic .. yuk.. so immature .. who cares about ur toes!!! get a life! also it does not seem that she is conservative from the way she dresses .. however we donno what s in her heart :) .. am sure she is a nice person too :) .. i am happy coz at least i got an idea how girls in lebanon are .. lol .. i donno but really they shud be better than this .. in the way they behave and the way they show off .. yukk .. why all that i donno... u have to know that in lebanon many girlz are not getting married .. their number is higher than men .. maybe 1 men for 3 or 4 women .. without taking into consideration ppl like me living abroad :)


6- i have to say i am happy in doha .. in few days am moving to a great appartment .. i wud call it my dream appt.. i will be sharing with 2 frinds.. but really great lads.. also ,, i wudnt like to live on my own.. it is kind of boring although it has its advantages .. let s see how it will be..

7- i hope in my next post to give some good news about this current girl :p (no more info)

so long .. but many things happened in 2011 :)

Doha Days...

Ok .. i moved to doha after a little training in Muscat Oman ..
I like my new job but i am on my own in doha .. yes some of u will like it especially that i have no working hours .. i can work from home .. but the thing is that i have a high pressure on me coz i need to generate results.. i need to get orders otherwise i donno what will happen.. hA my package is good (salary) .. n i am lving with Asif now who is one of my bst frds in Doha n one of the best people i met in Qatar in 2008 (Early 2008) .. anway .. i never regret not accepting the KSA offer hA .. but i really miss my frds there .. the people i used to hand out with everyday everynite .. we used to watch LOST, movies, football togerher... eat .. go out .. play footy together .. i miss them loads .. really amazing guys .. (salim, Omar, Bilal, Mido) ..
Moreover i miss a lot my Saudi frds the ones who i used to work with in STC .. i donno why many people say that Saudis are not good but for me I can only say positive things about them .. i had so many frds from KSA and iA i will see them again .. even my managers in STC were really good n modest.. at least they make contact with us unlike Qataris .. i miss my old mate Ali .. we always speak on the phone n iA he will come n visit one day .. it s only 4 or 5 hours drive from Riyadh ..n Saudi are used to these distances coz they always travel! ..
I am happy in Doha .. started feeling at home again hA .. i went to Beirut for eid n then dubai n then muscat .. the last 2 were for business ..
I met some new people in Doha n one of them is Nabil .. amazing guy .. it was great to meet a person like him .. he French/Moroccan .. he was staying with us at asif in Ramadan .. so we had many iftars together n we also went to the mosq many times together .. he s a great guy ..really...
What am happy about is that my frdship with asif is back to its golden age hA .. am really happy staying with him n we speak about almost everything .. there were some upds n downs before btwe us n even after i left there was some beef .. but am really convinced tat he s one of my bst frds n it s great to have him in my life ..hA..

I luv u uncle!!!

Ok so as i was telling u there are some good and bad moments... i got a call from my mom one day maybe in February, 2010 n saying that my uncle Ibrahim is coming from Canada to Lebanon as he had some pain in his stomach ..
Unfortunately this pain turned out to be cancer  when i knew it was really hard .. my mom was trying to avoid telling me but of course i was going to know ...
Ibrahim is more than an uncle .. he is 38 now n am 26 so only 12 years difference .. he s been always my friend and even more .. he played the role of a brother for me coz i don’t have one ,.. I love him so much .. i remember when he moved to Canada in 2004 i cried .. of course not in front of him but it was really hard to continue my life in Lebanon without him .. we used to do scuba diving together .. as he had a school n boat a few times i went fishing with him .. he was my idol .. i always tried to be like him ..
His cancer is quiet serious .. it s stage 4 .. the last .. which means that it is spread .. in his stomach n liver.. hA he responded to most of his treatments but his last scan wasn’t too good .. the cancer cells in his liver start to increase  now the doctor changed his medicine hopefully he will respond again ..
I donno if he will make it or not .. i always make dua for him but what s happening is a real tragedy .. his father .. my grandfather died from cancer too .. he died when my grandma was pregnant in Ibrahim.. she was in 8mnths and they named him Ibrahim just like his father s name .. and now my uncle Ibrahim is ill too and his wife is pregnant .. unbelievable ..
Anwya .. i donno how life will be if he dies .. especially for my grandma .. .like in the past she buried her husband and now maybe her son ,, it s really hard .. but i ask Allah for his mercy .. for myself i donno what will happen but life will go on and our gathering is not in this life ..it is in Heaven hopefully .. in fact am really happy coz my uncle started praying and he s been a good muslim lately .. we ve done umrah together .. it was really nice .. he knows n understands Islam now more than ever n he likes it a lot .. hA ..
My uncle Ibrahim is one of the nicest person i know .. he s so generous .. he never lets people pay .. he always wants to invite .. a real gentlemen .. i remember when i was young n i had Sega Mega Drive .. the console game .. he used to bring me some games .. although some games cost a lot at that time .. now when i go Lebanon i always try to be with him n cheer him up .. n have fun with him.. but in my last visit he was really down .. n tired .. u know the chemotherapy is a very hard treatment .. it is a really tough disease cancer ... i donno what will happen to him when i write to u next time .. but hopefully he will be with us .. also .. even long time before his cancer when people used to ask what u want to name ur son in future .. i always used to say Ibrahim.. i donno why but all people that i like are name Ibrahim especially my uncle ..
Come on Bob get cured .. it s not gonna be the same with out :( .. I love you BOBBBBBBBBBBBB

Last Days of KSA

Hey all... it s been a while i know but so much happened lately .. some good and some bad news unfortunately but this is life .. for the positive situations we have to happy and enjoy their moments and thank Allah for that .. as for the bad moments we have to remain patient and hope that it will become a good ending ..

Well i donno from where to start .. i finally got the termination letter from my company  i donno why am smiling but it was like i was expecting it .. me and 12 other people needed to find a job within a period of 4 mnths which is somehow okay because we shud find sth good especially that our company will give us a transfer for our residency ..
well we re in February 2010 when they informed us i was in Lebanon n i cudnt attend the meeting but the guys told me and then when i came back my manager told me everything and how Saudi Telecom will not renew for us .. the thing is i always thought like i was some how untouchable coz my Saudi manager liked me a lot and he always used to say to me that he wants to keep me .. but the thing is that STC is refusing to renew for all Navlink regardless of who the people are .. anwya i started my job search and of course we had to keep working till like April although we will stay getting paid till June 2010 .. i had some interviews and I was close to join my roommate/brother/friend s employer but it just didn’t happen .. Why .. it s a long story .. but like they verbally said to me that they will hire me but I waited for too long till they send the offer although i contacted them several times .. and while waiting i got another and better offer .. and guess where!! In DOHA !! yes in Doha .. the place where i used to live since 2006 .. the place where i had great memories .. the place where i started counting on myself... so directly when i got the offer from a Omani company to be handling their operations in Doha i was like in a dream come true .. it s where i will join my old frds and my coz Issam  .. but to be honest .. i was confused if i accept the offer or not .. coz the riyahd people i knew them and i almost knew all the employees there .. and their commission was amazing and most of all i was afraid of going to a company where i don’t know them especially after what happened with me with Navlink ..
what i did is that I had to ask my old sponsor in Doha for a No Objection letter in order to come back n work in Doha .. i need this letter unless i was out for 2 years.. in my case i was out for like 1 year 7 mnths .. and to be honest i wasn’t sure if my old sponsor in Qatar was going to give me this letter but hA this letter was ready in a few days  ..
but still after i got it i wasn’t sure if i join the Qatar job or Riyadh .. now KSA offer was finally ready and i had to reply them .. i told them that another offer come to me whie waiting for them for like 2 mnths .. they put pressure on me n try to convince me .. especially that they know me and they know that i can get them many deals thru my contacts with STC .. anway since Doha offer was better .. not in terms of commission .. but like salary .. plus living in Doha wud be better for me and for my family later iA .. and it is a more senior role .. so actually all fingers were pointed to Doha ,, and i rejected Saudi offer ..
Saudi life was hard but i got used to it and in some time i felt at home .. anwya .. the best part is that from February when we knew that we were going to lose our jobs till April when the company wanted us to stop working for STC .. i was like going to work at 9 Am till the Azan for Zurh which was like 12 noon .. and then go lunch and then home lollll .. yes it was amazing ..no work and getting salary .. my Saudi manager was going crazy but he had to understand our situation .. but he told us that he can put us with another sponsor .. and which he was going to do with me ..coz I got a call in May from a Saudi company to work with them for STC with my Saudi manager.. i was in Beirut and i didn’t want to go to Riyadh just for the interview coz i already had like 2 offers in hand .. i asked for the salary he wud give but he said he needs to see me .. n i didn’t contact him after.. i just didn’t want to be a contractor for another company .. it s hard .. coz u donno for who to report to ..

Anyway from April when i stopped with STC i went to Lebanon n stayed there till june 20 .. i was also getting paid coz my contract was till june 30 .. so it was awesome .. lol ..

six more months in KSA before MBA and marriage ??

hey hope ur all ... well u may be wondering why am writing a lot these days but it s just that i dont have much things to do plus i feel like writing and sharing my news with u .. in fact as u may know my job now isnt stable what i know is that i will stay with them till june 2010..
but after that i donno it depends if they renew their project in ksa..
anyway for me i made my plan already ..
well i have a few options but above all i really need a long vacation .. since i traveled to qatar in july 2006 i never had a long vacation and i was working heavily beside other things that give a lot of headaches like lookfing for a car to rent/buy and a place to rent .. follow ur iqama status look for better jobs, try n make new frds, adapt to ur life away from ur home .. so that s tiring and isnt easy.. for those who ve been living away from home will know for sure what am talking about .. anyway i need a rest from all that really .. so after june am planning to spend some tine in lebanon with my family and to travel so a calm place and prefrably alone or with a close friend.. i just want to be in peace and forget work and work and work .. to be honest with u .. my current company has made me disgust work .. i dont feel like working anymore even with the best company in the world .. it s like they threw us here and didnt care about us since we are resourses for the saudi telecom (STC) n working with STC isnt easy at all it s so complicated , lucky me my saudi manager is very nice n supportive.. but the work isnt easy they are always demanding n also life in saudi isnt easy at all .. it s me who s saying that .. even that i dont do clubbing, drinking etc .. but really like they show u the false face of religion ( i will be writing about that in details later) so u get annoyed with their actions and somehow they make u the opposite which means less religious all bcoz of their unethical actions :S .. anyway i will keep that to a later stage ... iA soon. :)
so after the vacation .. i think i would like to do my MBA .. finally :) but since i dont feel like working n i have to do my masters so i think that it wud be the rite time .. i dont wanna stay with my company even if they renew my contract n i would like to experience again the student life especially that MBA has become essential in our days .. i will just try to go to a good university :) .. hopefully iA ..
so that s it .. vacation and then MBA .. i dont feel like working anymore ,.. but maybe after my MBA things will change..
i do also like to meet in my MBA my other half .. as some of u may know but i wudnt be interested to marry a lebanese girl .. for many reasons but in summary reasons are:
1- they like to show off a lot .. n i hate that .. well not all of them but most of them ..
2- i wudnt like living in lebanon .. too many problems n conflicts btw lebanese n i wont like to live in this atmosphere..
3- her family will like to interfere a lot in our life .. wihch is normal for a lebanese family

so if i marry a non lebanese girl .. i think it wud solve all the above problems .. though i will have a problem with my mom :) but i think that i cud convince her in the end especially if the girl is good and muslim ..
well here many of u may ask what girl i wud go for .. i really wudnt mind an arab girl like syrian or egyptian or ... and western girls are okay for me as well .. many of u may think that i wud be after the passport now but really .. if the girl will think like that i will tell her to keep her passport for herslelf n that i dont want it .. it will really not take me to heaven her passport .. n i am really able to travel everywhere i want with my lebanese passport .. as for work .. ssince some companies pay the western more than any other natioanlity .well that s true but it is not with all the companies and not even most of them .. especially after the crisis .. and anyway .. i really dont want to stay employee for whole my life .. i want to have my own business .. even if it is small ..

well that s alll hope i was clear ... will write again soon ..

qatar or ksa or ???

hmm in a few more days it will be one year for me in saudi.. and to be honest with u i feel that it like few weeks i donno .. but the time isnt important anymore all what u do is passing in a fast way .. we r not feeling the time anymore! .. anyway let's talk now a bit how this year was and compare it to my life in doha:

- money wise it s much better than doha - what i have done here it is like 3 times better than doha .. so this is a big plus
- life in doha is much better , really , and even what is hard is that i am sure that i will never find frds like my frds n brothers in doha .. i miss them a lot and it s hard without them .. so sometimes i think that i wud do anything to go back to doha ..
- to be honest my job in doha wasnt really good well for my age maybe but as a career path NO! so am happy that i changed domain , am still in IT but now in sales and pre-sales in telecom .. which is amazing..
- hmm here i am traveling a lot .. for example in doha i used to travel maximum 3 times per year .. well here am more free sometime i can travel without telling any1 :) .. my passport is with me n my multiple exit permit . plus tickets are much much cheaper from here .. sometimes 1 direct ticket from doha to beirut equals 5 tickets from ksa to beirut .. yea big difference..
- so this year i went 9 times to beirut .. 10th time will be in a few days :P .. 3 times to doha .. 1 time to paris.. 1 time to london .. 1 time to abha (near yemen) .. 1 time to Jeddah .. 1 time to bahrain .. so in total 17 trips in 1 year!! that s amazing really .. hope i can break that next year
- the bad thing here is that my job isnt stable .. there are some problems btw my company and the compnay we r workig for since we are resources with them.. my manager likes me but sometimes it s more than that that counts .. anyway .. i think this is a good advantage .. well i can turn it in a good advantage ... coz i really dont want to spend a lot of time here .. i just donno where i wanna go :( or live :( ... well u may say doha but the thing is that i remember well that in my last days in doha i used to be depressed (that s before getting my current offer) so i donno why but i think that ksa wont be good for family especially for my wife .. so let live here now n gain some money n then i will leave for good to another place .. maybe less money but better social life .. n anyway i already saved the money from ksa to get married ..

yalla am leaving u now .. let s finish some work..

euro family trip!

hey was absent for a while now but i donno just too many things in mind!
well we planned to go europe my family n me n we went to paris n then london! all this was just after ramadan .. i spent the last 10 days of ramadan in beirut and hA was really nice .. well we headed to paris n to be honest with u i didnt expect to like that much since i went london the year before n i didnt like it that much .. well london is a beautiful city but it s tooooo crowded n i cant live like that to see so many ppl walking around me n all ppl in a rush n generally i dont think they r too friendly .. anyway paris is different :) i liked it a lot .. it so modern n nice society there n it s not that crowded .. walking in paris was really nice .. so much history in this city .. i loved the Louvres though am not into museams at all! n versailles WAW .. n0 words to describe how amazing it is ... i also met my bst frd riad there .. i know him since i was 3! lol! he showed us the city - also my 2 frds from lebanon nai and iris .. was nice to meet up with them ... i havent seen nai for like 3 years so was good to reconnect with her .. the Eiffel tower was brilliant :) .. so many nice things in paris .. before heading to london i had the chance to meet my best frd from qatar, Marwan :) .. i love tjhis guy we spent so much time together in doha ... breakfast, at work, after work, playstation, football .. oh i used to have so much fun with him .. n i missed him a lot when he left qatar .. i went to his flat n we remembered our old days together .. the difficult moments we were facing in doha and the good ones :) was really happy that i saw him ..

and it s london!
i wnet london for the 2nd time .. n i only went coz as i told u it s a family trip .. coz i dont feel good in london .. it s a nice place but i just cant stand this crowded busy city .. i like more quiet places.. anyway i decided to stay only 3 nites in london unlike my family who stayed 5 .. i was supposed to see close frds .. but i cant understand british ppl ... i like them but they far far far away frm our hospitality .. like they dont show much care when u visit them ,. however we wud do anything to make them happy .. anyway they r nice but not welcoming like us :) ..
but in general 3 nites were enough there .. i had fun with the guys .. like bilal n asif etc ... i was also happy that my family met my close frds there ..

well nothing myuch to say about london coz i ve been there bfore n i wanted to see my frds more than visiting places.. however was good that i went to chelsea stadium .. it s a small one but nice .. took some photos .. but i ccan remember that it was a mission to reach the stadioum area.. i made some mistakes by taking the wrong tube lol ..

anyway i head back to beirut n spent a few days before going back to work in saudi.. i wanted my vacation to finish as i wanted to go back to work .,. i dpont like long vacations so i felt that i had nothing to do anymore for fun .,. like i did have fun n it s time to go back..

yalla i better folllow barca game now!

go barca ,. it s against rubin kazan the unknow team that beat us in our camp nou!

later..