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 ..
Nov 9, 2009
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..
- 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..
Nov 4, 2009
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..
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..
Aug 15, 2009
it is august..
well before i start i just forgot to tell u that like when i waas flying to doha on march 2009 there was a really big sandstorm here .. what happened exactly is that i came from beirut on monday evening .. and the next day .. tuesday i had a fligh at noon time from riyadh to doha .. thru bahrain..
i took a taxi and all was fine.. the taxi dropped me at RUH and after check-in n stamping the passport i went to the coffee shop and i cudnt see anytjing from the window! .. yes .. a sandstorm just appeared.. so in other words it took 5 or 10 min to make a sandstorm n to cover all the city.. unbelievable... i cudnt belive how i was just outside and came in and suddenly a sandstorm!! it was the biggest once since like 100 year! . i knew that the flight was going to be delayed but not for 10 hours!! yes i waited 10 hours at the airpots :( .. was really tough .. i wanted to go back home but they told that hte plane cud take off in any hour .. they kept saying that every hour lol .. instead of reaching doha like 7 pm .. i was there around 2 30 am .. lol ..
anyway .. i can say with full convidence that this is my best time in riyadh social wise.. after moving to a new and nice very nice appartemnt .. we r having a lot of fun .. especially with out neighbours.. so even if we stay home n not go out we have many things we can ... we r like 5 people together.. the only bad thing is tht other neighbours are complaning from the noise we re doing :) .. hmm htey are rite .. coz like when we play fifa 09 .. we shout a lot .. especially me as i get excited a lot ... my close frds who played with knows me very well and tey will understand what am talking about ..
i had a business trip 10 days ago n it was tiring but fun.. the city where we went was really really beautiful.. amazing.. i was totally shocked actudally.. anyway .. ramadan will start soon .. so i better start gettign ready .. plus am traveling in like 3 weeks from now :) .. hA i am doing a lot of traveling this year .. which is a good thing .. i like traveling a lot and it s like a fresh air for me ..
one more thing .. fantasy football is starting today :) last year i was unfortunate not to win .. u know when losing sth at the last minute ? yes this what happened to me last year .. i lead for like 28 weeks in a row but then i lost my 1st place :) .. it s only a game i know but because of the big challenge with the others and because it wa my 1st year i really wanted to win.. but i just lost .. i came 2nd acutally so it isnt a bad result :S .. but for me it was like a failure .. u get really attached to this game especially if ur doing well.. u just get bored at the end .. it is so so long .. that s the thing so u need to be patient..
i had like a little fight with a saudi colleague last week. he is not professional at all but i knew how to deal with him . .i just showed him by an email how he doest know to work in front of many ppl.. but u know this guy can be dangerous to me so we had a little chat after n supposedly the issue btw us is over ...
yalla am going for lunch now .. 1 big roast beef please!
i took a taxi and all was fine.. the taxi dropped me at RUH and after check-in n stamping the passport i went to the coffee shop and i cudnt see anytjing from the window! .. yes .. a sandstorm just appeared.. so in other words it took 5 or 10 min to make a sandstorm n to cover all the city.. unbelievable... i cudnt belive how i was just outside and came in and suddenly a sandstorm!! it was the biggest once since like 100 year! . i knew that the flight was going to be delayed but not for 10 hours!! yes i waited 10 hours at the airpots :( .. was really tough .. i wanted to go back home but they told that hte plane cud take off in any hour .. they kept saying that every hour lol .. instead of reaching doha like 7 pm .. i was there around 2 30 am .. lol ..
anyway .. i can say with full convidence that this is my best time in riyadh social wise.. after moving to a new and nice very nice appartemnt .. we r having a lot of fun .. especially with out neighbours.. so even if we stay home n not go out we have many things we can ... we r like 5 people together.. the only bad thing is tht other neighbours are complaning from the noise we re doing :) .. hmm htey are rite .. coz like when we play fifa 09 .. we shout a lot .. especially me as i get excited a lot ... my close frds who played with knows me very well and tey will understand what am talking about ..
i had a business trip 10 days ago n it was tiring but fun.. the city where we went was really really beautiful.. amazing.. i was totally shocked actudally.. anyway .. ramadan will start soon .. so i better start gettign ready .. plus am traveling in like 3 weeks from now :) .. hA i am doing a lot of traveling this year .. which is a good thing .. i like traveling a lot and it s like a fresh air for me ..
one more thing .. fantasy football is starting today :) last year i was unfortunate not to win .. u know when losing sth at the last minute ? yes this what happened to me last year .. i lead for like 28 weeks in a row but then i lost my 1st place :) .. it s only a game i know but because of the big challenge with the others and because it wa my 1st year i really wanted to win.. but i just lost .. i came 2nd acutally so it isnt a bad result :S .. but for me it was like a failure .. u get really attached to this game especially if ur doing well.. u just get bored at the end .. it is so so long .. that s the thing so u need to be patient..
i had like a little fight with a saudi colleague last week. he is not professional at all but i knew how to deal with him . .i just showed him by an email how he doest know to work in front of many ppl.. but u know this guy can be dangerous to me so we had a little chat after n supposedly the issue btw us is over ...
yalla am going for lunch now .. 1 big roast beef please!
Jul 1, 2009
The Legend is still alive and in RIOOOOO
what s up.. it is been so long .. too many things happened lol .. hmm not at work .. but live i ve been traveling a lot lately ( beirut 4 times , bahrain , doha twice, and now 6 days left before going to beirut) hA am able to travel often so it keeps me busy n happy .. also i've done umrah .. it was so nice .. i went ther ewith my frds from rio n i met there frds from lebo and american who lives in qatar .. abdullah n natasha .. it s was really sth amazing so u cannot describe ..
anyway .. the new thing is that at work am doing okay .. though i am facing some difficulties but in general am doing fine..
my frd salim came to rio finally and i've been living with him for a while n things are going well..
we moved to a new house n it s so nice .. much better than our old one so we r kindly enjoying it..
we even bought a PS3 n home theatre .. i dont mind staying long hours now in the living room .. lol
anyway .. these past months have been good mostly.. only one major disappointment .. i dont wanna talk about it coz it is already in the past now ..but am really sure thta it s for my own good .. and day after i am realizing that .. am really comfortable tht it went this way . am no more disspointed but i still need to be cautious not fall again..
otherwise i 've been folowing barca quite well this year and it was really a superb season .. it cudnt be better.. it s so exciting to see my favourite team winning everythng . tey brought me happiness ..
anyway if everthing goes well am planning to visit barca next year iA...
ok i have sth to do now .. a deal to close :P ..
anyway .. the new thing is that at work am doing okay .. though i am facing some difficulties but in general am doing fine..
my frd salim came to rio finally and i've been living with him for a while n things are going well..
we moved to a new house n it s so nice .. much better than our old one so we r kindly enjoying it..
we even bought a PS3 n home theatre .. i dont mind staying long hours now in the living room .. lol
anyway .. these past months have been good mostly.. only one major disappointment .. i dont wanna talk about it coz it is already in the past now ..but am really sure thta it s for my own good .. and day after i am realizing that .. am really comfortable tht it went this way . am no more disspointed but i still need to be cautious not fall again..
otherwise i 've been folowing barca quite well this year and it was really a superb season .. it cudnt be better.. it s so exciting to see my favourite team winning everythng . tey brought me happiness ..
anyway if everthing goes well am planning to visit barca next year iA...
ok i have sth to do now .. a deal to close :P ..
Jan 31, 2009
Everyone is your ENEMY
well, some people especially my close friends are gonnab e surprised when seeing this title but really after my experience in this short and non-valuable life everyone cares about himslef.. yea u can find people who helps but at the same time most of them are against u and are ready to bite u just if it will bring them good..especially at work.. hehehe .. when they write in the job requirement about teamwork it is a joke! .. who will work in teamwork??everyone wants everything for him ..shame.. even with family we see how the children fight for the inheritance..
even best friends.. like today we are really good friends and just tomorrow we are enemies,.. what s that??!?!?!?
why my best friend stopped talking to me?? yea.. it is been like 3 weeks that he hasnt been talkin to me .. and u know hwy?? for stupid comments that i wrote on his american flag picture on FB.. what s that?? is that one Ummah??? he didnt even communicated to me before his evil move.. is that how true muslims react?? i donno.. i have nothing to apologize for.. but my friend ..... told me to contact him just to do it for Allah.. not for the person .. but really imagine with me for stupid comments am out of his life .. waht s that???!!!?? i donno i cant understand anyone.. so i guess have a thought that everyone is ur enemy and in this way u wont be surprised n u just wont care if u lose him/her
anyway.. back to Rio (riyadh) life.. .am stil adaptng.. good am off to beirut in a few days.. cant wait to seemy parents.. hA .. i love them so much.. and i still rely on them.. off course they are not my enemies.. :) .. i moved to my new appartment for about 2 weeks now.. and i am used to it.. my cousin is still living with me .. but in 2 weeks he s gonna move to his new appartment as he s getting married end of this month.. hA.. u know it s like good living with him.. so i dont feel lonely but still u can have ur privacy 100%.. i donno for me i think it s better to be with some1.. my friend salim is probably coming soon to Rio and iA he will live with me...
Also i rented a car.. ya :) am getting lost on every road.. oh riyadh is so hard..
Work wise i still havent closed any deal iA soon.. make du'a for me.. am getting nervous .. especially my manager asked me today about any opportunities we have!.. :) ..
yalla will write later... Salam
even best friends.. like today we are really good friends and just tomorrow we are enemies,.. what s that??!?!?!?
why my best friend stopped talking to me?? yea.. it is been like 3 weeks that he hasnt been talkin to me .. and u know hwy?? for stupid comments that i wrote on his american flag picture on FB.. what s that?? is that one Ummah??? he didnt even communicated to me before his evil move.. is that how true muslims react?? i donno.. i have nothing to apologize for.. but my friend ..... told me to contact him just to do it for Allah.. not for the person .. but really imagine with me for stupid comments am out of his life .. waht s that???!!!?? i donno i cant understand anyone.. so i guess have a thought that everyone is ur enemy and in this way u wont be surprised n u just wont care if u lose him/her
anyway.. back to Rio (riyadh) life.. .am stil adaptng.. good am off to beirut in a few days.. cant wait to seemy parents.. hA .. i love them so much.. and i still rely on them.. off course they are not my enemies.. :) .. i moved to my new appartment for about 2 weeks now.. and i am used to it.. my cousin is still living with me .. but in 2 weeks he s gonna move to his new appartment as he s getting married end of this month.. hA.. u know it s like good living with him.. so i dont feel lonely but still u can have ur privacy 100%.. i donno for me i think it s better to be with some1.. my friend salim is probably coming soon to Rio and iA he will live with me...
Also i rented a car.. ya :) am getting lost on every road.. oh riyadh is so hard..
Work wise i still havent closed any deal iA soon.. make du'a for me.. am getting nervous .. especially my manager asked me today about any opportunities we have!.. :) ..
yalla will write later... Salam
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