Degoat

2010-12-08T00:44:00.001-08:00

Getting ready for the opening of 2nd Asian beach games.. then heading for the ferry

Progress & Hope come together..

2010-11-07T06:03:00.000-08:00

So there's this bad habit growing into me, I find myself starring at the PC for a very long time not knowing what to do with it. Even though I know all I want is to come up with either a creative design or a kick @$$ plan that will help me get my new company in MAJOR action, somehow all I seem to think of is Elizabeth Gilbert's lecture and specifically why isn't Mr. Genius showing up for his part of the deal. I am posting the link for you HERE to understand what I am talking about.

I guess I’m too nervous to actually come up with something that’s of my own creation because in my line of business, all that matters is how well you impress the audience. So here I am sitting infront of the screen again, this is similar to those lonely moments when you find yourself flipping channels endlessly at about 4 in the afternoon when all channels are show casing the worst programs simultaneously and you find yourself with nothing interesting to settle to. There’s just me, my drifting thoughts and the useless places I just don't want to end up in.

The one and only thing that strikes my mind is why do we get nervous? Why do we put ourselves in situations like this? Can we be enjoying having no control over ourselves when our hearts and minds are shaken like a V12 diesel engine?
I define this Nervousness as a state of emotional control where an individual finds himself scared of the unknown, horrified from it only because he does not know what to expect. In other words, nervousness means fear and in my particular case, its fear of change. When I’m in this situation I keep on telling myself this is something that I am fully aware of how to control. I can deal with this provoking situation that I'm in, there is no need for being lost anymore, I can deal with change.

People usually fear change because they do not have enough information to help them project the future. We experience fear because we have difficulty preparing, rehearsing and delivering our material and don't know how the final outcome will turn out to be. A smooth change is a change we usually don't notice, however no matter how different we try to describe it, we end up going through a progressive and an un-noticeable transaction. But my main focus here are changes that gives us the shivers, the ones that can make us fall into depression or make us do something we might soon come to regret. In case you are wondering why I am making this a big deal is because I am counting on this to quit my current job. I am tempted to resign and purely focus on a business that has no ground yet.

Anyways to summaries the above, nervousness equals fear due to big changes. It took me a while until I came to this conclusion, but it helped me tackle the problem I was facing. I applied what I know of change management to solve my problem (for more info click HERE to read about change management) and when I was done getting over the five steps of change, I somehow got over the fear of disappointing ppl and started focusing on business again.

Little by little, designing became a practice and this practice became a habit and sooner than anticipated, I was a hard working designer (I say hard working cause I don’t think I am really creative yet loool). But before all of this, I could have always given up and fallen back to whatever I am good at or whatever seemed easier to achieve. I chose to fall deep in and no matter how much time or money I must spend, I must stick to it and give it my best until I succeed.

A Quote by Orihime (from Bleach) smacks me back into reality:

"There were a lot of things I wanted to do. I wanted to become a teacher, and an astronaut, and a baker... I wanted to go to a bunch of different donut shops and ask for one of everything! And I wanted to tell the ice-cream man to give me one of everything, too! I wish I could have five different lives! Then I could have been born in five different towns, and eaten five lifetime's worth of food, and had five different careers, and... fallen in love with the same person, five times."-Orihime

Focus, determination and complete loyalty is the path I chose and this will now stand as Big Bear’s values too. Now let us see how far I reach and maybe one day I will get to live 5 different lives and fall in love with the same person, five times."

One of my favorite shows is TED Talks and it will be a dream come true if one day I find myself giving a talk worth spreading in one of their programs. I am contemplating if I should keep this as a benchmark to my success.

G

...and Change Will Follow

2010-01-10T14:00:00.000-08:00

I had to give three of my own staff warning letters after they’ve violated one of the rules set by the company. My approach was soft and humble, I started by apologizing to take disciplinary actions against them and then I also explained why this step was an important step to take from a company’s point of view.

This got me thinking about loads of other past experiences when I was supposed to make such harsh decisions, but in the end I let them get away with verbal warnings. Looking back at time, ever since I joined the company just a couple of years ago I think our situation has been improving, yet a lot of time was wasted because discipline was never a value that interested the company or at least it wasn’t to the employees.

What went wrong is very simple to understand. A company called Waltkens used to manage a tiny little cage with 5 monkeys stuck in it. They appointed a watchman with a high pressure water hose that was used to wash down any monkey that tried to climb up a ladder that had bananas hanging on top of it. This watchman used to open up the hose, splash every monkey that tried touching a banana and just to teach the other monkeys a lesson, he would attack the rest of the monkeys using the same water force till they lost all power and could barely move. This happened almost every day until the 5 monkey’s decided they won’t go for the bananas anymore.

A couple of weeks later, one stupid monkey decided to try his luck and climbed the ladder. Just before the watchman reacted, the other monkeys jumped on the stupid monkey and bashed him till he was worn out and thus a new system in the cage was created and followed for months. The watchman had no means to stay any longer since no monkey could get his arse up the ladder, so he packed up his goods and left for good. Yet the monkeys still followed the same old rule (Attack any monkey that tries to act smart on us).

After a while the cage was sold to a new company and the management tried changing this bad old habit (of monkeys attacking each other) by replacing one monkey with another new monkey every month. Even after all 5 monkeys were replaced, the same old habit still lived in this same old cage, despite the fact that the monkeys never knew why they attacked each other every time one of them tried to climb the ladder.

This story is also similar to my situation but the only difference is that they are not monkeys, they are my employees. They are not wrong too, I have been doing them wrong by blaming them for not being responsible and thought they have no discipline in themselves. I have been introducing loads of new procedures, new methods, and new standards to follow yet no one seemed to care about them. They just couldn’t get themselves to commit to the new BETTER I am trying to introduce.

I was speaking to a friend that’s having some problems living with his girl. I told him to take it easy and not demand too many changes cause she is going through a “transformation curve”. She is going through it because of FEAR. She is scared from the future (the unknown) and would rather continue life just the way it is or retreat to her old life where everything was simple). Now you are asking her to change or be a goner but you don’t realize that there are 6 steps to change, so whatever she is going through is a positive sign.

Step 1 – DENIAL. First she’ll deny everything you say or suggest.
Step 2 – REJECTION. Then she will act frustrated and get angry.
Step 3 – SELF ACCEPTANCE. After a while she will try negotiating without admitting she is wrong.
Step 4 – DEPRESSION. Then she will accept her wrong side and fall into depression.
Step 5 – ACCEPTANCE. Then she will try to gain knowledge for self understanding and better vision.
STEP 6 – THE OUTCOME. She will see an opportunity or a better way and that’s when she will start execution to make the change successful.

And just after I explained the last step, I realized that I have led my team in the wrong way. I did not stop to see or help them pass whatever stage they were stuck in. I, myself was blinded by the stupid reasons that I have put before me and them. I put my head down, shame and guilt felt so heavy in me.

So first I am starting with me, I’m going to make a change and hope this change gets positively passed on to you.

Quote of the day:
“Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.” Che Guevara

G

Until I’m at a stage of equilibrium..

2009-12-22T12:21:00.000-08:00

I’m a customer service fanatic and I miss my old job. I’ve been an HSE advisor for the past two years or actually three and I must admit that dealing with strangers is much easier then dealing with people you know.

Let me explain why?

Everyday you speak, work or even see someone, the more you get to know him. Even if it's professionally that might be a good thing or a bad thing depending on your jobs nature. But the more the both of you get to know one another, the more that person takes you for granted. For example; the first year of your marriage is usually rough due to the different habits and backgrounds the both of you have. However when you look at the initial five years of your marriage, they say that it’s the best days because you still don’t know what to expect from him/her and you are impressed by even the little things. However the longer you last with him/her the narrower the expectation gets and so the little stuff you do is taken for granted. The satisfactory ladder is applied here and it’s scientifically proven right (and this works vice versa).

So basically if I get you (my wife) a flower everyday you will be flattered until one day the flower I offer to you becomes basic and the smile you give me starts washing away. The warmth feel I once upon a time received is no longer mine even though I am still doing something most people don’t usually do. The only way I can gain back that smile is by climbing up the satisfactory ladder to reach for the new unexpected surprise I will give her, and all of a sudden just like a flower that was almost dying she smiles at me again with a pretty face that brightens up my day.

If I did the same thing with strangers or who I like to call customers, the result would be different. For instance; I give away a single rose to one customer everyday (just like how I did it to my wife). I touched her unexpected button and she gives me back a smile that overwhelms my week. I feel happy, acknowledged and not taken for granted even after years of doing the same exact thing. Because every customer will give me a different impression and I won’t wash away their smile because basically I am not talking about the same person getting the same treatment everyday. So nor will they feel basic or would I take the different smiles and comments for granted.

I previously wrote a post about acknowledgment and what it means to one another. People feel acknowledged in different ways but we all seek for the thing that makes us feel special. Anyways after changing profession I hit the road in search of a new way to pursuit what we are all looking for. I have engaged my-self in lots of conversations with people that were quit interesting and others that are simply airheads. I also read a great deal of books to better understand the circle of life or what happens inside it.

My uncle once told me a story about 6 blind men that were asked to approach an elephant to describe what they feel. One man touched the stomach and described the big round shape he felt. The second man landed on the trunk and described the snake looking nose it had and how it uses it to drink, breath and so on. The third guy luckily touched the tusk and described its shape and how hard it is. The fourth guy touched the elephants tail and behind and so he described what a huge ass and tiny tail does this poor animal have. The fifth mostly described the short legs and shamefully added some info of what’s between the legs. The sixth and last blind guy got the ears and it was the hardest to figure-out but he finally concluded that this large thing must be earflaps that help this slow animal cool down.

After telling me this boring story, my uncle then concluded his point by asking me to imagine that these 6 blind men were authors/writers. Only after we read and hear the different thoughts and views of people, we then put them all together to get a full picture of our individual curious interest.

Knowledge is what will help me get there and I am certain it would somehow. So I’ve made it a habit to read in order to better understand my role in life and I also write to observe how I develop from a boy to a man.

I find my-self rebellious against traditional and usual social acceptance. My dream is to become a sociologist but I never initiated that path yet and acknowledgment is still my motto in life.

"The alienated human individual is bound to society as a whole by an invisible umbilical cord: the law of value. It acts upon all facets of his life, shaping his road and his destiny." Che Guevara

Mind vs. Emotions!!!

2009-10-04T10:58:00.001-07:00

Today I had a very interesting conversation with my lil sis thats turning 14 in just a couple of weeks. I am posting it here cause it's kind of a continues (a part II) to something I posted a while ago (Click here for old post).

I hope you all enjoy it..

Participants:
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Uncle (who is me)
You rock! (who is lil sis)

Messages:
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Uncle: Hey sis
You rock!: hey bro
Uncle: How u doin?
You rock!: am fine u??
Uncle: I'm good
Uncle: Saw ur msg n u said u needed to talk
You rock!: ya
Uncle: Wassup
You rock!: now?
Uncle: Ya sure
You rock!: ok ya3ni umm
Uncle: Aha
You rock!: be4 i didnt used to get scared be4 tests now i do 4 no reason
You rock!: *about
Uncle: Do u study as much as u used to?
You rock!: ya
You rock!: ba3d akthar
Uncle: Great.. Mabrook sis
You rock!: :S
Uncle: U r growing up n u r beginning to realize what responsibility is
You rock!: stomachaches and nausea and not being able to sleep?
You rock!: thats responsibility?
Uncle: Exactly.. Thts y when u do anythin wrong we get so angry
Uncle: We r responsible for u la
You rock!: i dont get it that sounds like torture i mean the stomachaches and stuff
Uncle: :) now u have to remember there are two types of ppl..
You rock!: ya?
Uncle: Ppl that think with their minds n some that think with their heart (emotional ppl)
You rock!: aha
You rock!: i dont get what that has to do with this ... :D
Uncle: We all think with both but we use mind more then heart or some use heart more then mind
Uncle: All u need to figure is how to balance n control it
You rock!: and u think i use what more?
You rock!: oooooooooooh
You rock!: ok
Uncle: Heart.. That's why u get nausea
You rock!: soo i have to figure out how to control it like sort of mind over matter??
Uncle: If u use mind more.. U will be able to control ur emotions shweia n force ur self to sleep cause ur common sense says its more important
Uncle: Yes..
You rock!: can i ask u a question?
Uncle: There is no school that can teach u that.. U need to figure it out
Uncle: Aha
You rock!: did it happen to u b4?
Uncle: No one missed this experience.. Some ppl only got over it without realising it.. So their advice won't be like mine
You rock!: oh ok
You rock!: so its gonna take a long time maybe?
You rock!: it depends on me sa7?
Uncle: It depends on u.. I don't like things controlling me so I got rid of that phase quickly
Uncle: Yela sis gotta go now but
You rock!: mhm
Uncle: Will check on u soon..
You rock!: ok tc thnx
Uncle: Love u
You rock!: ok sure bye say hi 2 every1 there
You rock!: love u 2
Uncle: K
You rock! signed out.

In & Outside the Ring

2009-08-26T03:24:00.000-07:00

Everybody’s watching fully concentrating on what’s happening in the ring. Echoes from all around just for the sake of some jabs and punches that will determine whose fate is it today.

I don’t understand what’s going on. Where is this place?!

His shots get wide and I can’t stop it, I’m thinking what is the right next move..
What can I do? I’ve been here before yet I wonder how can I stand a chance against something like this? This is chaos.

I am unconscious and something has taken over me. I hit back with small blows as I inch-up to him avoiding his punches but I haven’t regained my consciousness yet, these heart beats are all I feel.

Dear God who or what is this thing pushing me forward? Who’s controlling me?

The level of tenacity between us is what determines success. The one who controls both his and his enemy’s chaos is the one who leaves with victory?

How did I get here? Or should I be asking, why?
Is it Money? Fame? If I find a purpose than maybe I will figure out what’s the next best step for me. *Sigh*

My body is still throwing small blows, trying to close the gap between me and him, while I am still doing all I can do, I keep breathing cause it might make me last through the day.

And that’s when it hit me

“Those who do not fear the sword they wield have no right to wield a sword at all.”

It might not make sense but “Inspiration” is the act or power that arouses our emotional behaviour, changing the course of our usual activity by replacing an emotion with another, replacing sorrow with bliss, fear with sense or regret with success.

My childhood:
Unfortunately I can’t remember it a lot due to my memory problem but I think my past was as any kid’s ordinary life, full of joyful moments. The few anecdotes I remember are from boat trips with dad, mom fighting/struggling to fill my life with toys to keep me away from harm, and my cousins & I up to mischief that kept the whole neighborhood in constant alert.

My teenage moments:
From my teenage days, all I remember are silly moments I put my folks through. Moments you wouldn’t want to be in. I had my folks bail me out of jail for driving without license, I also remember staring at furious dad through a piece of glass after he was summoned by the headmaster because of classes that were skipped, and I also remember dodging a lifetime jail sentence for blowing up a house with this explosive substance a friend & I have created from PifPaf and some other stuff.

My life now:
I think the change in me is a miracle, from being the stupidest kid in planet earth to someone that thinks about the boring things in life AKA a good future. Now my ideal way of having fun varies from having a decent conversation over a cup of coffee to playing with gadgets or camping in the middle of nowhere. I seriously can’t think of a more boring way to live life but I guess that’s what age does to us.

I personally believe that we (Human Beings) go through constant changes throughout our lifetime and these experiences help us make decisions. But when I’m unconscious, lost, and can’t find a way I remember a quote from Marianne Williamson that says:

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.”

Business solutions

2009-04-26T23:57:00.001-07:00

I have just created a new blog to share some information about my researches and what I think of my business experiences.

At the moment I am not sure if it will be of any help to anyone but this has been one of my interests for the past few years and I don't see a better way then blogging it.

I will be updating it whenever I get the chance. I am hoping that means approximately every two weeks depending on how much I've had to read.

Your comments means alot.

Welcome to my new blog

G

Perfectionism

2009-01-12T13:03:00.000-08:00

Desires, needs call it whatever you wanna call it but we humans have it in us that we always wanna be perfect.

Imagine that your emotions is a flying plane that gets hit by turbulence causing a sudden drop. A good pilot is trained to set the flying craft back on track before getting caught up in a “no escape situation”. A normal human is not trained to handle this unexpected drop of the flying object causing him to get into a state of panic.

Depression in my eyes is not a plane; however I like to think of it as a sudden drop to a human’s self-esteem. Some ppl fall into depression gradually and others fall into in a blink of an eye depending on the reason and circumstance.

We (the human race) are known as habitual creatures that think and react unconsciously making it a habit within our selves to pursue happiness for as long as we can breath. Sometimes we don’t ask for much nevertheless we call having – a one floor house, with a 4X4, a saloon car parked on the garage and a happy family – a perfect life.

Yet it’s not out of the ordinary to hear that we are selfish creatures that are never satisfied. Asking for more is one side of our habitual characteristics but my main argument today is the word “perfection”. We admire a perfect person or someone that is in pursuit of happiness, someone who has almost grasped what is so called perfection.

Which brings me to a quote I heard from a cartoon I follow:

There is no such thing as perfect in this world.

This may sound cliché, but it’s the truth.

The average person admires perfection and seeks to obtain it.

But, what’s the point of achieving perfection?

There is none, nothing, not a single thing.

I loathe perfection!

If something is perfect then there is nothing left.

There is no room for imagination.

No room for anyone to gain additional knowledge or abilities.

For scientists perfection will only bring despair.

It is their job to create things more wonderful than anything before it, but never to obtain perfection.

A scientist must be a person who finds ecstasy while suffering from that antinomy.

Accepting the fact that there is nothing called perfect in this world means that you’ve accepted the fact that things sometimes do not go in the way you were hoping it would be. Which I believe helps you somehow regain control of the un-excepted drop to your plane of emotions. Because you do not believe in perfection this will keep you alerted of any drop to your self-esteem making it a gradual slump.

Recognizing that things are not well is the first step of change and helps you speed up the process of recovery. Now all you have to do is make it a habit that you find your fix from that antinomy you are facing.

Those desires and needs you have are achievable, they just won’t be something that doesn’t exist, they won’t be perfect.

Love is a mind creation to avoid being alone

2008-05-30T14:22:00.000-07:00

There is a thin line between what your heart desires and what your mind tells you to do. I lived 25 years of my life taught to mostly do to things:

Follow your heart

Think before you do stuff

I’ve had a lot of good days in my life mainly because I do not ask for too much and I appreciate the little things that come my way. I remember times when some friends and I would just go out and have a blast, not carrying about all the worries in life or how successful we’d be in 20 years but of course there were times when dramatic stuff came our way and things just didn’t go the way they ware actually planned. My reactions to bad stuff is simply “Oh well! Life was never meant to be perfect and its not the end of the world.”

When tragedy comes your way and there is nothing much you can do but tremble. There is always something out there that can make you feel better and the way I see it, it all depends on what type of a person you are? Do you follow your heart or do you let your mind take control?

I remember going to pick my friend up from college one day. This was back in the days when I didn’t have a cell phone so it was quiet hard to get in touch with me unless you ringed up one of my friends. Anyways I am lounging there and about while he is walking towards me with a confused face. He pulls out his hand to say hello but instead he says “G, I am not sure how am I supposed to say this but I think you should contact your family because your dads wife passed away”. At that point in my life she was the closest person to me if not the only person that actually knew what I was thinking before I even said a word. Anyways my heart froze, my mind took control and the only thing on my mind was to get to my dad and sisters as soon as possible in order to support them through this tragedy. I only cried 6 days later when I was alone in the room and after I was sure that they are strong enough to carry on with their lives without messing up. I still kept an eye on them for a very long time.

I also remember other times when friends went through unwanted moments in their life, be it a relationship or a stupid mistake that was a result from someone dear to them. Being an ordinary person they’d snap, hold their feelings and say nothing, dismiss the other person, argue or if it was a fortunate day they’d forgive. What ever actions they took was resorted from the heart. Sometimes the actions they took were right and at other times they could have done better.

Some people that know me say I am heartless at times or I am very strict (bad to the bone) and should think from the heart. Being a product of my father, I was taught to always think first and then use your heart to be gentle. I also know that there is a limit to everything in life and one thing that’s not acceptable to be rude.

Sometimes I am not really sure what rule am I supposed to follow and to be quiet honest I use the mind then heart rule in a relationship, at work and in the house too. All I know is that there is a thin line between what your heart desires and what your mind tells you to do. Question is what is it that makes me a better person? Being smart or being a loving person?

When someone says I think I love you. Is that the heart or mind talking? lol

Needs, something everyone has..

2008-05-04T01:27:00.001-07:00

A lot of people have needs (My bro has taught his 1 year old kid to say “I Got Needs”) lol

I believe that needs differ from person to person. Some people have sexual needs, others are looking for satisfaction in life, their jobs, family commitment and the list never ends. If someone was to ask me why do we need stuff?! I believe it’s because everyone wants to be someone important to someone out there. Others look for love and there is nothing in this world thats more important then their relationship.
Some others like my dad, He had to prove his existence in the world and he was able to accomplish that through work by being there for everyone within the organization and scoring big in his tasks. He has marked his name in the worldwide marine industry and I know that this is one of the main reasons he is living life now = a happy man.

A lot of other ppl think fame is what will fulfil their needs. I wanna be an artist, a poet or a famous author. I believe they touch people’s hearts by words and receive acknowledgments. One acknowledgment can make me take down an elephant.

That leads me to INSPIRATION. Just to words “GOOD JOB” is what I need to make me work harder then I did yesterday. My boss, my colleague, my friend or even a family member has inspired me to perfect the task I am currently doing and he/she doesn’t even know it. Great leaders owe their success to the network power they’ve got. In order to strengthen your network power you must be a social butterfly and communicate with your team. Ask them of their accomplishments and have them achieve better and harder goals. When they climb the ladder they’ll be lifting you above them and that means you climb the ladder with their successes.

I can’t do relationships but I’d love to be in one. I think it needs patience and that’s something I just don’t have. I am not close to my family for some odd reasons. Families like it when their brother, sister, cousin or uncle is there for them and especially when they receive the feel of being supported through personal problems. My problem is that I don’t share my problems with a lot of people which somehow means no matter how much I help any of my family member they won’t be able to return the favour. This habit is also bad because some times I enter my own world of “G” and fight my battles alone. A lot of people do not understand that simply because the “G” they saw was smiling and did not have a worry in life. When I enter that world of mine I somehow forget my self and dose off into an imaginable world. A friend of mine once called to inform me that he was having an operation tomorrow. I asked him to take care of himself and to avoid applying pressure on his knee even if it takes 4 months. Or he will never play sports again and all his movements will be NOT EASY. His life style will change some how. A few weeks later another friend comes up to me and was like “btw he said that he informed you and expected that you will tell the rest about his operation, u didn’t even show up to visit him”. I did not have a clue about the operation at that moment until he reminded me about it. He knows how I am and he has this way of making me see that, that conversation did actually happen.

Going back to my point, what I mean to say is I am only human and sometimes I do have mistakes and I know I forget or sometimes I loose my way in conversations. Last time I checked everyone in this world has a problem or two. Plus your problem is your problem so if you have a problem, why are you angry at me because I did not offer help? If I choose to offer my help then that should be considered as a bonus and not something you base your trust on.

LoL i understand the problem now. His or her needs were different then mine. He needed someone to support him through the problem and I was busy valuing something else. Life is full of measurements so when do we get to rest?! When we drive we measure the distance between the cars around us, when we work then we measure risks and stuff, when we talk we measure our words, when we eat we measuring how much we can take, etc.

I believe I’m growing up to be like my father, the guy who gets his needs (acknowledgement) through work and the legitimacy of his words. I’d love to grow up to be like the godfather only without the blood sheds. I would also like to write a book or two that will influence at least one person out of the 6 billion people in the world. My pops has a couple and I like to believe that I can possibly do it as well.

After writing all this, I am embarrassed to say that the only thing that will make me happy are the readers acknowledgments.

DAMN!!! WHY DO WE HAVE NEEDS?

Who are you, NOW?!

2008-04-11T22:50:00.000-07:00

It's been a while since i posted anything here. I am not sure if I just didnt have the time + energy to do it or I just ran outta ideas and couldn't be bothered.I guess life is like that. Some things last forever and other things simply die and vanish.For some reason my life now involve the following words alot:

Strategy
HSE
Needs
Competence & Capability
Ensure
Control
Barriers
Risks

I am wondering what the hell happened to my music time, enjoying alcohol, being out and not carrying about "what time i'll get back home", etc.

I still think we live in a beautiful world and im always up to date with Naruto & Bleach. I can't wait to find out what are the new moves that Uzumaki will learn and How powerful is Ichigo's Hollow and how is he gonna kick the Arancarra'a ass..

Oh!! I almost forgot!!! WHO WATCHES ONE TREE HILL, unfortunately i am stuck in eps. 8 of season 5. Freaking hell I only wanna see the next episode and i can wait longer after tht..Lord plz send me someone that can help me..

Drinking in Ramadhan!!!

2007-06-01T21:43:00.001-07:00

What the F*** is this about now..
I really think this is one of the worst decisions a country could take..
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Oman lifts Ramadan drinking ban

Thursday, 31 May 2007 08:59

The Oman government has decided to lift the drinking ban it imposes during Ramadan, but only for tourists staying at selected hotels and only during certain times.

The Radisson SAS, Grand Hyatt, Shangri-la Barr Al Jissa, The Chedi, Intercontinental Hotel, Crowne Plaza and Al Bustan Palace will be able to serve alcohol after sunset from 7pm until 2am in allocated restaurants.

Alison Cryer, director of the UK's Oman Tourist Office, said: "The lift of this ban has taken a while to be agreed as it is a sensitive subject and part of Oman's culture.

"However, this step shows that Oman is taking on board western travellers' preferences and recognises the importance of being adaptable and catering to them".

Link Hurr

Cinema's New Pay method..

2007-05-26T22:17:00.000-07:00

Aint this da shiznit..

We are delighted to inform that for the first time ever in Oman, a Cinema House has commenced accepting cards as a mode of payment.

BankMuscat has enrolled Shatti Plaza Cinema as its merchant in this new category for card acceptance. Under this arrangement, “ Shatti Plaza Cinema will accept card for purchase of tickets of OMR. 5/= and above.

Devante's "The Foundation"

2007-05-26T21:33:00.000-07:00

Devante is back with his sophomore 14 track album mixed & produced by no one but him-self. If you are in for a smooth classic RnB album then this is a good album to own.

The 22 year old explains, "This album is the foundation on which all great R&B music has been made. Contrary to what many may think, all music is not created equal. There is a formula to good songwriting and production, all of which I have implemented on this album. This album also represents the foundation on which I first built my career - Love, Life and Relationships. If you liked 'Ready or Not,' this is the same formula, only kicked into way high gear."

Track List:

Where You Are
Nobody Knows
What Am I Supposed to Do
Like Your Girl
Spend All Night
Things you Like (Pt. II)
A Woman’s Love
Pick Up The Pieces
She Is
69 Ways
Threshold
Reflection
My Way
We Should Fall In Love

Click Hurr to enter Devante's site n watch a clip..

Nana

2007-04-03T22:34:00.000-07:00

NANA (Even now i keep callin' your name)
A story of two strangers that bump into each other. Live together and go through life and the drama we our selves go through.

Both girls are coincidently called Nana. One is a band member that's tryna reach to a certain goal of fame. The other Nana is just an other blond chick that plays victim to every horny Jack & Bill.

Click me (A must watch clip of the anime)

If y'all into Punk songs check this out..

Click Me

Lyrics:

When I was darkness at that time fueteru kuchibiru

Heya no katasumi de I cry
Mogakeba mogaku hodo tsukisasaru kono kizu
Yaburareta yakusoku hurt me

Nobody can save me
Kamisama hitotsu dake
Tomete saku you na my love

I need your love
I'm a broken rose
Maichiru kanashimi your song
Ibasho nai kodoku na my life

I need your love
I'm a broken rose.
Oh baby, help me from frozen pain
With your smile, your eyes, and sing me, just for me

I wanna need your love...
I'm a broken rose
I wanna need your love...

When you were with me at that time
Anata no kage wo oikakete
Hadashi de kakemekete stop me
Tozaseba tozasu hodo motsureteku kono ai
Yuruyaka ni yasashiku kiss me

Nobody can save me
Kogoeru bara no you ni
Yasashiku nemuritai my tears

I need you love.
I'm a broken rose.
Kareochiru kanashimi my soul
Kuzureochiru kodoku na little girl

I need you love.
I'm a broken rose.
Oh baby, help me from frozen pain
with your smile, your eyes,
and sing me, just for me

I wanna need your love…
I'm a broken rose
I wanna need your love…

I need your love
I'm a broken rose
Maichiru kanashimi your song
Ibasho nai kodoku na my life

I need your love
I'm a broken rose.
Oh baby, help me from frozen pain
With your smile, your eyes, and sing me, just for me

I wanna need your love…
I was a broken rose
I wanna need your love…

Me was tagged

2007-02-06T03:04:00.000-08:00

Me was tagged by 3anoooooood

What will happen to your e-mail when you die?
It’ll die with me but much slower then I died

Did you try once to give the password to someone? If yes, what kind of relation that you have with this person to trust him/her and give him/her the key of your secrets?
Yeah I did give it to a couple of ppl, I wanted them to check something.. it doesn’t really matter to me I guess

Your famous nickname among your Friends?
G, Bufqa7 r the only ones I can remember

Your age?
24

Your horoscope?
Libra

Your qualifications?
MCSE, A+ and a couple of other courses

Your character "personality"?
Gay (kiddin), I really don’t know..

Some say charming, some say crazy n the list just goes on

What travel means to you?
Goin to another country where you are foreign n don’t know anyone

What do you purchase?
Music, music n more music. Not much of a spender but I can never stay with money (don’t know how)

Features taken from your dad
Stubbornness n anger

Features taken from your mom
She used to be very charming back in the day.

The most 6 things you hate-
Insects, nasty ppl, feeling sick, negative ppl, my bad memory & the sea

The most 6 things you love-
Music, Internet, Movies, travelling, when im busy with private work & ppl

What computer and internet mean to you
The world, Without them life sucks

You would like to pass this tag to:-
No ONE

One day imma buy this bike

2006-12-11T01:16:00.000-08:00

If y'all love speed y'all gotta watch this..
CLICK HURR

My best RnB album of the year..

2006-12-01T13:44:00.000-08:00

Disturbing the Peace "DTB" is soul side
I must say if you like MJB u gotta like this new artist

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My best RnB album of 2006

Album Cover

My best Hiphop album of '06 is El Mariel of Pitbull

Ramen!!! I tried it

2006-11-26T03:38:00.000-08:00

Herashai = Welcome

The Basics of Making Ramen:

First, mixing the ingrediants well, if not noodle wil not have a balanced flavor.
Next, you have to knead, if not there will be no texture to the noodle.
Then, stretching the noodles while keeping the thickness the same
Finally, adding it to the soup

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I personally like it with extra eggs inside it as well

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The steps of eating Ramen:

When eating a new Ramen, the first thing you should do is taste on spoonful of soup.

Next, you deep in the noodle into the soup to absorb the stock.

DeGoat SHIN MENU

I Finally had it..

I LOVED IT..

Global Orgasm For World Peace!!!

2006-11-21T00:08:00.000-08:00

WTF?!?!?!
Ppl be ready for 22/12/06..

San Francisco: Two peace activists have planned a massive anti-war demonstration for the first day of winter. But they don’t want you marching in the streets. They’d rather you just stay home.
The Global Orgasm for Peace was conceived by Donna Sheehan, 76, and Paul Reffell, 55, who live together on a houseboat along scenic Tomales Bay in Marin County. Their immodest goal is for everyone in the world to have an orgasm on December 22 while focusing on world peace.
“The orgasm gives out an incredible feeling of peace during it and after it,” Reffell said on Sunday. “Your mind is like a blank. It’s like a meditative state. And mass meditations have been shown to make a change.” The couple are no strangers to sex and social activism. Sheehan, no relation to fellow Northern California anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, brought together nearly 50 women in 2002 who stripped naked and spelled out the word “Peace” on a hillside in Marin County. The stunt spawned a minimovement called Baring Witness that led to similar unclothed demonstrations worldwide.
The couple have studied evolutionary psychology and believe that war is mainly an outgrowth of men trying to impress potential mates, a case of “my missile is bigger than your missile,” as Reffell put it. By promoting what they hope to be a synchronised global orgasm, they hope to get people to channel their energy into something more positive.
“Religion, science, art, medicine—you name any great accomplishment that the human race has made and none of it has stopped war and aggression,” Sheehan said. “We thought, ‘What’s the next unbelievable, untested biological gift that we’ve all been given?’ The orgasm.”
The couple have been receiving 26,000 visitors a day to their site. Sheehan said she received “a letter from a man in Istanbul” who lamented that as he lacked a partner, he couldn’t take part. They assured him there were no rules for when, where or how the orgasm was achieved, as long as it was on the given day, she said. “It’s what ever turns you on,” Reffell said. Participants can identify one another through the “secret signal,” of a thumb and forefinger shaped to form the letter O.
The one guideline Sheehan and Reffell do encourage everyone to follow is to practice safe sex and use birth control, citing overpopulation as a source of many of the world’s woes.

Donna Sheehan & Paul Reffell

Naruto Wallpapers..

2006-11-11T01:55:00.000-08:00

Bakuretsu Kage Bunshin no Jutsu

Touton No Jutso

Rasengan

Uzumaki Naruto

Harem No Jutsu

Henge no Jutsu

Kage Shuriken no Jutsu

Uzumaki Naruto Bunshin Gachandou

Uzumkai Naruto Nisen Renden

Uzumaki Naruto Yonsen Renden

Youjitsuba

El Mariel

2006-10-30T21:31:00.000-08:00

Pitbull aka "305" and also known as “Tony Montana”

His previous album the gold platinum “M.I.A.M.I” (Money Is A Major Issue) is still playing in my car n house stereo.

His new album “El Mariel” is my fav album of the year 2006 and I just cant get enough of it..

Jamaican Rastafarians & Judaism!!!

2006-10-16T00:17:00.000-07:00

Part I

King Solomon’s dynasty

It all starts with King Solomon the son of David (Prophet Suleiman the son of prophet Daud) being the wise ruler of an empire centred on the united kingdom of Israel.

In the Hebrew Tanakh (Old Testament) he is identified as the final king before the northern Kingdom of Israel and the southern Kingdom of Judah split.

In the time of King Solomon (prophet Suleiman), Queen Makeba aka Queen Balqis ruled over the empire of Sheba (Saba) which consisted of Ethiopia, Yemen, Egypt & parts of Persia. A well known story of Solomon says that he came to know about Queen Balqis through a talking bird (Hoopoe) that informed him of the great rich ruler that had people worshipping the sun. Solomon invites her to submit to “God the most Gracious & Merciful”.

And so the queen responds by sending gifts to Solomon which offend him. He begins to make preparations for war as he returns the envoys of the Queen with the gifts. The queen then decides to personally visit him. Cutting the story short it is said that the Queen married Solomon converting her to the God of Abraham which she then changed her empire to, the religion was Judaism.

On her return, Balqis (Makeba) was pregnant by Solomon and had promised him that if she bore a son she would send the boy to Jerusalem for instruction by his father. The son was born in Eritrea and was named Menelik I, true to the promise the boy was sent having sworn that as heir and successor to the kingdom he would return to Ethiopia. When Menelik was leaving his father back to Ethiopia, King Solomon saw to it that he was accompanied by the sons of his priests; he wanted to ensure that the religion of Abraham would continue in Ethiopia.

Menelik I then became the first Emperor, King of Kings of Ethiopia. According to legend, he founded the Solomonic dynasty that ruled Ethiopia for close to three thousand years and 225 generations later ended with the fall of Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974.

Part II

The Lion of Judah

Within Judaism the Lion of Judah has its origins in the Book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) where the Israelite tribe Judah had the lion as its symbol. It is said that the patriarch Jacob (Yaqub) referred to his son as Judah as a Gur Aryeh a “Young Lion”. With modern Jews, variations or translations of the word “Lion” have been used as a substitute name for Judah.

In Rastafari, “The Lion of Judah” represents His Imperial Majest Haile Selassie I being him the direct descendent of the Israelite Tribe of Judah. The name/family background that links him to King Solomon the son of David.

Part III

The Rise of Rastafari

Ethiopia had symbolized all of Africa for the slave-descended Jamaicans since as far back as 1784

Garvey the founder of “United Negro Improvement Association” in Jamaica had a prophecy known as the “Look
to Africa” which then became the seed for Jamaican Rastafari, the spark that started the revolution “Rastafarianism”.

Many wonder why was it named Rastafari?! It was so called that because “Ras Tafari” was Haile Selassie’s given name. To the Rastafarians he was the Living God of Abraham and Isaac, He Whose Name Should Not Be Spoken.

Matisyahu

2006-10-09T01:17:00.000-07:00

Click here to see amazing performance

Born in West Chester, PA and raised in White Plains, NY, the young man formerly known as Matthew Miller would undertake a monumental odyssey before discovering his path - and voice - as Matisyahu (the Hebrew equivalent of "Matthew," and the name he became known by when he became observant). Via adventures in Colorado,

Israel

, Oregon, and New York City, he not only heard a profound spiritual calling, but also discerned a revolutionary way to share his discoveries and reflections, via the reggae and hip-hop sounds that had long been an integral part of his day-to-day soundtrack.

Matisyahu studied Torah seriously in Hadar Hatorah, a yeshiva for returnees to Judaism, and he wrote and recorded his first album while still a student there. He counts among his musical inspirations Bob Marley, Phish, and Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, while giving credit to Rabbi Simon Jacobson's book Toward A Meaningful Life for the lyrical inspiration to the title song of his new album, Youth.

Matisyahu & Kenny Muhammad

The music, developed partly with his backing band Roots Tonic has a unique sound, mixing reggae, traditional rap, and guitar solos typical of rock music. His fans are of different walks of life, religions, and ethnicities. He sometimes performs with Kenny Muhammad, a Muslim beatboxer. Matisyahu's major label debut album was produced by avant-garde musician and producer Bill Laswell, with minor contribution by pop producers Jimmy Douglass and the Ill Factor.

His reggae vocal style is along the lines of traditional Rasta Roots stylings mixed with dub sound.

On Youth, Matisyahu explores his musical universe. Produced by legendary reggae and dub producer Bill Laswell, with additional production by Jimmy Douglass and Ill Factor. The character of the album's thirteen new songs span a wide gamut. From the stark acoustic guitar driven track "What I'm Fighting For" to the syncopated African rhythms of "Ancient Lullabye" to the bumping beats, burbling bass, and of "Jerusalem," YOUTH is definitely a creative step forward for the band, one they are excited to bring to their audiences.

His Website

New tracks OCT/1

2006-10-07T04:43:00.000-07:00

Here are some new tracks y’all can search/download n enjoy..

50 Cent ft. Eminem, Cashis & Lloyd Banks - You Don't Know
Deemah - Lady
Pitbull - Lengua Afuera (Prod. by Mr.Collipark)
Corey 'Latif' Williams - Stop Sayin'
J-Shin - All I Got Is Love
Nick Cannon ft. Fatman Scoop - It's Your Birthday
J-Shin ft. Tampa Tony - Like I Used To Do
Sterling ft. Sean Paul (of The YoungBloodz) - Jump Off
Corey 'Latif' Williams - What's Da Deal
Casely - Simple Love
RL ft. Short Da Great - MySpace Lady
Hani - Who's That Girl
Pitbull ft. Fat Joe & Sinful- Que Tu Sabes Eso
J-Shin - If I Fall In Love
Luke Q. ft. Tyrese - Ghetto Life
Frost ft. Mr. Sancho - Ride With Me
Lumidee ft. Notch - Feel Like Making Love (RMX)

Raje Shwari - Masala (Prod. by Timbaland)
Lloyd Banks ft. Freeway, Tony Yayo, M.O.P. & Spider Loc - G-Unit In The House
Faheem (Of Boyz II Men) ft. Slim - Shawty
Corey 'Latif' Williams - Rain Will Go Away
Ludacris ft. Beanie Sigel, Pimp C & C-Murder - Do Your Time
Bishop Lamont ft. Glasses Malone & Chevy Jones - Up & Down (Prod. by Scott Storch)
Josh Franks ft. Diggy - Snap Game
Jibbs ft. Chamillionaire - King Kong
Shaliek Rivers - It Is What It Is
J-Shin - Grown & Sexy
Mr. Easy ft. Sanjay - Inna Di Club
Ludacris ft. R.Kelly - Woozy
Reese ft. Pitbull - Take This Money
Diddy ft. Nas & Cee-Lo - Everything I Love (Prod. by Kanye West)
Joe - If I Was Your Man
Voicemail - For The Nite
Mike White ft. Fat Man Scoop - Let's Get Rowdy
Ludacris ft. Bobby Valentino - End Of The Night
44. The Partysquad ft. Ziggi - Hot Gal
Sisqo ft. Barrs & Speedy - She iS So Hot
Stephanie Styl - Here We Go
Equipto ft. Akil - Check The Mic (Prod. by Scott Storch)
Consequence - Baby (Prod. by Clinton Sparks)
Nio - Get You Back
Boxie - I'm In Love
Lyrical Don - Get With You (Work It)
J-Shin ft. Smitty - Streets Are For Me
Atiba - Dem Call Mih 'Dappa'
J-Shin - Perfection
Clipse ft. Slim Thug - Wamp Wamp (What It Do)
Burhan G - Live Ur Life
K'Jon ft. B.G. - Street Life
Tasha ft. Clipse - So Sick (Prod. by Darkchild)
Ludacris - Runaway Love
UNK ft. Jazze Pha - Thinking Of You
Omarion - The Truth
Claudette Ortiz - Handcuffs (Prod. by Stargate)
Jim Jones ft. Baby - We Fly High (RMX)
The Game - Don't Say Names (Prod. by Lil'Jon)
Noelle ft. Kardinal - Hey Baby
Ludacris - Tell It Like It Is
Tony ft. Mr Easy - Wickedest Ride
Casely - Whatever You Need
J-Shin - Sayin' "Oh"
Wingo (Of Jagged Edge) - I Try
Sin ft. Andres - If I Could Go Back
The Game ft. Celly Cel & Sean T - Get Rack
Troy Bell - Replay
Black Ty ft. Cassidy - Get Cake
Vibekingz ft. Maliq - Stand Up
Question ft. Trey Songz - Part Of Me
Lust - Wine And Come
Vibekingz ft. Maliq - Riddim
Baby Cris - So Sick
Tippy - Lovely
K'Jon ft. Tone Tone - All Night Long
Rell ft. Dert & Killa Klump & Silence - Talk Is Drastik
T.O.K. ft. Monster Twins - Jiggle It
Vibekingz ft. Maliq - Addicted
Veronica Lee - U Know What I Like
Jason Weaver - I Never All
Dana Lee - All Your Love (Prod. by CornaBoyz)
Joe Tann ft. Jadakiss & J-Hood - One Way
Cheri Dennis- Got My Mind Made Up
Obie Trice ft. Kuniva, Bobby Creekwater, Cashis & Stat Quo - Cry Now (RMX)
Pierre Cardin - Drunk
Mike Charles - Come Back To Stay
Dusty Garcia ft. Jadakiss - Reminisce (RMX)
Bruze - So Easy (Prod. by CornerBoyz)
G-Noc - Make U Fiend
B-Shy - Love Me Right
Gino - One Day, One Way
Prodigy - You Got It
Jon B. - What I Like About U
Sterling ft. Pow Wow - Juice In My Cup
Young Jeezy - I Love It
Fokis - About Dat Doe
Lil'Boy Blue - I Want U Back
Jewl Anguay - Get It On
Sleepy Brown - Dance With Me
The Twins - What's Up
Noel Gourdin - Clap For That
Lil'Boy Blue - Pimp Tonight
Zion I - Top Down
Keshia Chante - Been Gone
Madia - Could've Been
Rasheeda - Got That Good (My Bubble Gum)
Suave Smooth - Make It Happen
Acafool - Souke

Update on Maxwell's new album

2006-10-07T03:59:00.001-07:00

"BLACK SUMMER”S NIGHT is the new highly anticipated trilogy from Columbia recording artist Maxwell. The first of the three discs will be released on the eve of valentine’s day. The first single drops this fall…The wait is almost over!"

I can't wait for the album to be released.. alot more then maxwell will be out soon too

Good n bad addictions!!!

2006-07-17T04:19:00.000-07:00

I learned how to play a new card game called “Tricks” and I know for a fact, I am going to get so addicted to it very soon.

I am always addicted to something, sometimes that addiction goes on for months some times days only, It can be anything a person (Chicks only of-course :P), it can be a game like cards, basketball, soccer. I’m always high on music so I’m excluding that from the list of addiction I’m talking about.

Once I remember my room just had to be clean, so I used to clean it almost everyday, days later I just went back to being old dirty nasty ME. I’m no longer addicted to Anime & Manga or the TV shows I used to/still watch, series such as “Lost, Prison Break, etc”.
Yesterday life was stable and fun and im talking literally yesterday. Today life is a boat that is sailing to where the wind is taken it and I have no control of it. Tomorrow it will either be me going with the follow and that’s the usual “ME” or I will be happy cause a big n sudden change has occurred and put me in the greatest mood eva.

Now I am only feeling this feel because I don’t know what’s my next addiction and with an addiction life seems stable. It doesn’t matter if its work, sex, sport, art or a feeling that pleases u.

Everyone is addicted to something always or he/she will always feel that something is missing.

I’m proud of my self because I quit drinking a year ago (maybe more), I quit smoking cigarettes but hey I’m addicted to shisha now LoL. Never got into drugs and those kinda things and I’m not a sucker for love.

Am i proud to be an arab?!

2006-07-09T03:46:00.000-07:00

Dallas Austin

Lots of ppl don’t know him but who is into the music industry they must have heard his name here or there. Austin is an American RnB/Hiphop (I don’t think so) producer that went to a trip to Dubai and was caught in the airport carrying illegal drugs (Cocaine) a couple of weeks ago.

There was a story a few months back about a Saudi that was caught carrying illegal drugs. He was sentenced for 6 years in jail. Now I was happy when the American producer was caught cause being stupid n dull as I am I said; them American are gonna get a tiny bit piece of justice from us. Maybe they won’t sentence him for 6 years, he might only get 2 years but that’s more then enough for me. Let’s show the world that we don’t differentiate..

There was an Omani that was caught carrying hashish with him and he was sentenced for 4 years in jail. A huge Indian business man was caught in Dubai carrying illegal drugs and he was pardoned after an agreement of investing in the country.

I was shocked when I read the news on the 4^th of July. I read this “DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (CNN) -- The ruler of Dubai has pardoned a Grammy-winning music producer who had been sentenced to four years in prison on charges of carrying cocaine into the country.”

Link

And all I could say was arabs don’t fail to prove it to us n the rest of the world that they or should I say we are white men cock suckers, I don’t wanna be racist so it actually doesn’t matter white or black anyone that holds a western passport has no problems in this part of the world.. Opps that’s why they continue takin dumps on us..

My bad ppl.. I just needed something to remind me whats happenin in this world today..

Huh!!!!

2006-07-08T03:16:00.000-07:00

I haven’t been getting a nice chance to blog recently and that’s just cause Life is amazing (Amazing in a good way)

But

Work (9-5) & Business sucks
Family suck
Football don’t even ask (Brazil was shit this world cup)
Friends are alright (Some are really doin good n some shock me like WTF)

I don’t even know if I should start blogging again, I’m just posting this and like who gives a rat ass

The world of Music is alive again. We have amazing artists with amazing albums out

One album that’s out and is amazing is Ne-yo’s album. His best track is Mirror and that’s the sexiest track to me.. Some ppl don’t enjoy sex songs but that just means their taste is shit when it comes to music.

A shout out to all the ladies: Maxwell is coming with a new album and I will hopefully up-date you when to hit the stores..

G

Does Family Matter?!

2006-02-18T02:49:00.000-08:00

My grandma’s older sis just passed away. Mama knocks on the door at 11:03 Friday morning.

G screams “Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?!”.
Mom says “Mam Kubwa (her nickname) just passed away”

I took a shower, picked up the dishdasha I was going to wear and started ironing it. Mom walks into the room and asks me to iron her scarf for her. Just to see how she is feeling after hearing the terrible news I said
“She always used to be on N (My sister) is case, asking her to sit like a lady for once. Thank god my sister is feminine, married and happy now:”

Mom laughs and says “Ya she used to lecture me for letting your sister be a tomboy”

25 minutes later we go to her step sons house in Adheeba. Not wanting to walk in, me and my elder brother run away to the mosque for Jum3a prayers. As soon as we got back to the house me and my bro see mom crying like she was a 14 year old kid that just lost her mother. (Mam Kubwa is the woman that raised my mom).

In the last couple of years, my mom has not been in good terms with her due to some family issues. The main problem actually started about 5 years ago when my grandma’s step kids did something to my mom n dad. It's something I can’t explain because its pretty bad and i don't want to write about family problems in the net.
Anyway neglecting that issue grandma used to force my mom to visit family members all the time but my mom would refuse to do so since no one visited Us or came to our house to check on her. Yet she visited them or at least stayed in touch with them through phone calls. Not only that, but they also had the nerve to call her and ask for help when in need and wouldn’t do the same if she was in trouble.

Mother finally gave up in being a family person, Grandma always was on her case about that and one day me mama couldn’t take it, so she asked Grandma to stay out of her life when it comes to such problems. Mom explained that she is not a young girl anymore and she can take decisions by her self. She explained that she can’t see what the point of carrying about ppl that cared-less about her. She also explained that Grandma has been on her case for about 4 years now and Mama’s only reason for staying quiet was because of how much she respected her. But now she just can’t take it anymore.

That’s the reason my mom felt guilty, she cried like a baby. Since that fight (4 Years ago) they haven’t spoken to each other as often. Mom only got to see granda once after the fight. She cried on the day of the funeral hoping that grandma forgave her before she passed away. “Was I right or was I wrong?!” after washing her face, mom could not help but ask that question.

I personally am not a family guy. You ask about me, I ask about you. You visit me, I will also visit you. That goes to friends, family (as in cousin & aunts) and also Siblings. Most of the time, I would visit or call just to fulfil my part of being a family/friend member but then I need to see that it’s a two way street. If it’s not then I’ll probably say hi to you and have a laugh or two when we bump into each other but do not ask me where have you been?1 its been a while and im angry too.

Enough with the bullshit man will be my answer.

Been tagged again

2006-02-14T20:58:00.000-08:00

i've been tagged by QC.. BTW u should watch a manga called Black Cat.. don't know if u will like it but it has lots of cats in it :P

7 things to do before I die:

1. Stop working for an organization n start my own successful one
2. Speak Spanish n Japanese (I’m currently looking for an institute tht teaches these languages)
3. Buy a car (Dodge Charger inshallah)
4. Be the godfather of my own family J
5. Travel with my dad
6. Start boxing
7. Quit smoking

7 things I can't do:

1. Stay quiet when some1 screams at me (My dad n mom always had a tough time dealing with me)
2. Can’t take BS, I’m allergic to bullshit (Lost touch with so many friends)
3. Go for shisha alone (Don’t know how ppl do that)
4. Was never good at saying no to ppl if I know I can help them
5. Don’t think I can ever ask a girl out
6. I can’t stand the taste of garlic, accept if its garlic bread of-course but garlic is YUCK
7. I can’t bargain at all, the worst when it comes to it, I just ask him/her once, is that your best price?!

7 things I always say:

1. Wicked
2. Haawa huh
3. Dokm
4. Nando toe or Arigato gosayma
5. 7ayak
6. Bob
7. Afaaa

7 books I have loved:

Keep in mind that I never read books

1. Che Guevara Life story
2. Che Guevara The Revolution (not finished)
3. A thousand miles from Grace (I think)
4. Buddhism
5. Who moved my cheese?! (I consider it a book yes.. even though its only 80 pages)
6. I read a book bout this girl that goes to Thailand and falls in love there with a business man that she actually met in her homeland (Can’t remember what’s it called)
7. The Bible

7 movies I love to watch over and over:

1. Remember the Titans
2. The Last Samurai
3. Love & Basketball
4. Brown Sugar
5. The Godfather
6. Devdas
7. The count of Monte Cristo

7 things I get attracted to:

1. Tea – the 50 baiza tea after along stressful day
2. Horses – this dumb ass friend of mine got me in love with horses..
3. Military stuff – LoL QC, The uniforms, knives n everything
4. Booties – Jeans on girls is the best thing eva
5. Politics – this is something I just started liking, been reading news papers like it’s the reason im living for. I blame my dad..
6. Music – I can’t live without music. RnB, Hiphop n Cuban are my favourite
7. Manga – I’ve been watching animation cartoons like I’m a 9 year old child

7 people I want to tag:

1. Naja7 - Cousin Where u at?!
2. Shoodoo
3. Lym
4. Mimi for taggin’ me :P
5. Psychotic Gibberish
6. Everyone else who reads it! Now get writing!

I've been tagged!!!

2006-02-08T03:28:00.000-08:00

..by Mimi

Eight weird things about me:

If I didn’t know Islam, I would probably be a Rastafarian. Lived with them and enjoyed my life as well
I’m the total opposite person at work, Serious at work never outside.. actually ppl think that’s weird (I don’t)
I can’t read menus, never will you see me ordering something to eat unless I’m in kargeen
The only thing that can actually let me stay at home for 4 days in a row without leaving not even once are Manga cartoons
I bought a couple of novels/books and I still can’t finish them. I actually finished 3 books in my entire life and one of the books was WHO MOVED MY CHESE (84 pages only) LoL – I Can’t Read
I’ve been driving with an expired license for about 3 years now
I’ve been speaking Swahili with my friend for more then 5 years now & I still can’t speak the god damn language well
Im sorry MiMi, can’t think of anything else.. it’s the third or the fourth day n I can’ think of anything more

Eight attributes of my perfect lover:

Some1 that isn’t so detailed, doesn’t look into life so deep..
Don’t care bout the hair a lot but the curly jungly hair makes me say OH Weeee
Sense of humour or don’t think we would last a week
Can’t stand chicks that talk a lot..
I’m a cuddling person n she also has to be one
The booty’s gotta be there.. Can’t live without it
I think smart girls are sexy..
Outgoing, fun person

Fuss!!!

2006-01-28T22:19:00.000-08:00

Should this be considered a fuss?! Part I

I’m sure everyone heard about the caricatures of the prophet Muhammad published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands. When this first happened, the OIC complained about it but neither the government nor the newspaper agreed to apologize claiming that they have freedom of speech in their country.

Recently a director with Arla told the Jyllands-Posten – (the newspaper) that some Arabic countries have stopped selling its dairy produce and had begun a boycott of Danish goods. Now they start to apologize as they called the Ambassador of Saudi Arabia for consultation.

To view the pictures please visit the link.

Should this be considered a fuss?! – Part II

Quwat el-Hamas won the election ladies and gentlemen. I was flipping channels last night, actually my mother was and all we could hear were what ifs. The most what if I was concerned about was what if US stopped giving aid to Palestinians. Hamas asked them not to cut aid but no one knows what will happen.

My mother was also telling me that this could turn out to be a really, really good thing since its proven that ppl that were a menace to society or a menace in any way possible have changed after giving them a political role. One of these ppl was Mr.Yassir Arafat. Back in his days he was also in a group almost like the Hamas but he has changed and the impact or the difference he has done was great.

It’s a nice beginning, I hope we will come to hear greater stuff inshallah. Who said 2006 is gonna be a bad year?!

Noba Zain!!!!

2006-01-22T02:32:00.000-08:00

Do you like sensitive men or is this a disgrace?!

http://www.9oar.com/vip/khlefh-uae.zip

LooOOooOOooL

The World Today!!!

2006-01-14T22:50:00.000-08:00

The Palm Tree is sinking. The project that’s in Dubai is not stable and they are fighting it. Ppl if your company sales cement then this is the right time to work you ass off. Inshallah in the feature you can tell your kids that you helped to have that done.

Everything in this world now is artificial, the palm island, on the drive to Abu Dhabi from Dubai you can notice the artificial sea on your right, a part of the wave project (they are building an extended land on the sea), The Blue City in Bahrain & Sawadi (the artificial lakes inside it), in Abu Dhabi I heard they are making an artificial Island that’s gonna have water land on it.

My dad used to work for the ministry of fisheries and agriculture in Oman. With all his powers he tried to stop (I don’t know who) from building share3 el 7ob since it was the main place for fish to lay their eggs in Muscat. BTW this project was ready since 1996 and we only got to see share3 el 7ub in year 2000. My dad left the country in 99 I think. Fish would lay eggs there cause it was the warmest place in Muscat due to the sea plants in that area. Now they do so after Bandar khairan and some place in Sawadi. Which means from Sawadia all the way till after Khairan fish can’t lay their eggs there or it (the eggs) will die.

This means less fish for us Omanis in the long run (too long to explain how stuff works).

With all these projects today, broken down mountains, artificial islands & lakes. Aren’t we affecting the weather in some way? The system that God has put/set on us has been moved, I’m not really a biologist or anything close to that but won’t changing the shape of earth cause bad weather and deadly storms?!

I'm not a businessman?!

2005-12-31T00:39:00.002-08:00

I know a couple of ppl that have their on business in Oman. Some had to close down, some are in the same level when they started and some are doing a bit better. Out of curiosity I ask them to make their businesses grow, larger, bigger but they all have the same answer. The big fish will eat the small fish alive. I personally think that’s bullshit.

Our system here in Oman is not so bad. I’m sure we’ve heard of a story or two, about big Businessmen (Mr.A) eating an other big businessman (Mr.B) and he is still trying to recover from his lose. That shit happens but it happens everywhere. I say Mr.B trusted Mr.A when he was not supposed to and plus we all know that even your bro can cheat ya when you are speaking big ching ching.

Our system/the business law in Oman is not so bad!! i say it again. You can open a grade 4, grade 3, grade 2, grade 1 or even a grade excellent business if you want, depending on the business u r trying to open and the requirement needed. But there are some things you should read just to educate your self instead of just jumpin in a river that you have never heard of before. Read the law we have here in this country so you could know whats your limit.

Everyday I wonder, why aren’t we like Dubai?! Why don’t we open up our own businesses instead of depending on a fixed monthly salary and complain its too little?!
Questions cloud my head with why!!!

Businessmen here don’t believe in investing in the same country. They go outside as it’s a quicker way to make money. We don’t have too many tourists and the locals we have aren’t enough to keep this business runnin’. Or maybe we just have a fucked up mentality and business is just not our thing.

5ar5ashu Jyobkum!!!

2005-12-23T23:24:00.000-08:00

The central bank of Oman issues a new banknote of RO1 due to the 35^th national day. I think its wicked.

Front:
l Portrait of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos
l Facsimile signature of His Majesty the Sultan
l Watermark portrait of His Majesty the Sultan
l The National Emblem (2 Swords and a Khanjar) in the middle of the notes
l ‘Central Bank of Oman’ in Arabic on top of the note.
l Serial numbers on right and left side of the note.
l Denomination in figure on right and left sides and in words in the middle of the note.
l ‘The 35th National Day’ and year of issue: 1426 H and 2005G in Arabic at the bottom of the note.
l Omani adornment in gold behind the portrait of His Majesty the Sultan
l Recognition feature for the blind on the left side.
l Vertical security thread
l An Omani incense burner on the bottom centre.

Reverse:
l ‘Central Bank of Oman’ in English at the topside of the note.
l Denomination in words in English at left bottom and in figures at the right.
l 35th National Day logo
l 35th National Day commemorative text in English with year of issue 1426H / 2005G
l Flagship ‘Shabab Oman’
l Fort Jalali at bottom right
l Minaret of a mosque in the centre.
l Traditional Omani jewellery in the bottom centre.

First Aid

2005-12-17T03:10:00.000-08:00

I went for a First Aid/ Basic Life Support course in OTI (Madinat Al A3lam). My boss came to me in a sudden and was like you start your course tomorrow and its for 3 days. The course was to help ppl have the needed skills and knowledge to perform emergency first aid support in the first few minutes after a life-threatening incident occurs. Sadly the course I took was only focusing on adults and not babies (below 1year old) and kids (of +1 year old – 9 years old).

It covered good theoretical & practical elements in it, how to do the Breath Rescue, CPR and positioning the victim in the recovery position. It also explains the right way to support internal and external injuries + some1 in shock and a lot of other stuff.

After taking this course i really believe that everyone should actually take this course or at least should have one or two members of the house take this course. I’ve seen lots of accidents, being to lots of trips and helped lots of injured ppl. I was shocked to know everything I did before that was wrong. Wither it was a friend that got injured playing football, someone in shock after a small car accident or someone that fell of the steps, what I did to help him/her was wrong but I’m glad to know that I now know what to do the next time such things happen.

The course only costs 65 R.O for every indaviual which I think is a pretty reasonable price. The course was from 8-4 with a one hour break for three days, and now I’m a certified First Aid madri shoo esamuna.

In early 1900s a scientist defined shock as “a state when a body dies temporary”. Now they say that when the body or human is in shock, the blood cells in a humans body dies due to lack of oxygen therefore the mind sends the wrong signal/commands to the body. We usually give water to ppl in shock thinking it will cool them down, by doing that we might damage the persons body since we don’t know where the water will end up.

The course covered the below illnesses:

· Anaphylaxis

· Animal bites

· Black eye

· Blisters

· Bruise

· Burns

· Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)

· Chemical burns

· Chemical splash in the eye

· Chest pain

· Choking

· Corneal abrasion (scratch)

· Cuts and scrapes

· Dislocation

· Electrical burns

· Electrical shock

· Fainting

· Fever

· Food-borne illness

· Foreign object in the ear

· Foreign object in the eye

· Foreign object in the nose

· Foreign object in the skin

· Foreign object inhaled

· Foreign object swallowed

· Fractures (broken bones)

· Frostbite

· Gastroenteritis

· Head pain

· Head trauma

· Heart attack

· Heat cramps

· Heat exhaustion

· Heatstroke

· Human bites

· Hypothermia

· Insect bites and stings

· Motion sickness

· Nosebleeds

· Poisoning

· Puncture wounds

· Severe bleeding

· Shock

· Snakebites

· Spider bites

· Spinal injury

· Sprain

· Stroke

· Sunburn

· Tick bites

· Tooth loss

· Toothache

Uzumaki Naruto

2005-12-15T00:58:00.000-08:00

Naruto

I was never into these anime stuff till a friend of mine here at work recently introduced me to it. And I must say, I’ve been hooked ever since. My best is Naruto and for those who don’t know me, I’ve been buggin my friends with my new Naruto Logo.. I also managed to get the whole 163 episodes and more to come inshallah, I have Naruto the movie, Desktop themes on both my laptop and PC, My ring tone is Naruto’s theme and for the message I have Naruto’s excitement theme. AND MY BLUETOOTH NAME IS UZUMAKI NARUTO ;)

My mom says that i have a devil in me thats japanese and she throws things at me when i start saying japanese words i learned from the cartoon to her..

Most ppl won’t give it a try because they think its either childish or they can’t give it the effort of reading the subtitles. PPLS Y”ALL DON”T KNOW WHAT Y”ALL MISSIN’.

I even have lots of other manga cartoons, such as Hjimakabe, Samurai Deeper Kio, Kenshi, Bleach and alot more.. the full seasons..

Camping in Oman

2005-12-10T03:49:00.000-08:00

Before I say anything bout camping let me advertise a new camping trip happening this weekend. {Discover the beauty of Oman, convoy will move from Muscat to Quriat, Ras Al Had, Ras Al Jinz to sharqia Sand Dunes and finally stop at Bidia Waheba Sands. All include food accommodation only for 35 RO.}

Now this is one trip I would love to go to. My best trips that I’ve been to was in Ras Ruwais, as soon as we get there a rain storm had hit us just as we were fixing up our tent. It took about 11-15 ppl to hold on to the tent as it was drifting away from us. Both genders boy and girl suffered and not only the guys :P hint ladies = u gotta get ur ass dirty too when u out in the desert.

One of my favourite ones was when I went to Ras Medraka, we caught lots of fish over there but the best part was the night before, we camped over there before we started the tough part of the journey, digging the car every after 10 minutes, we got stuck like it was no mans business.
Other places I camped in were Wahiba Sands – I’ve been there many times and planning to go there again some time soon. Ras Al Had, Jabal Shams – it was in May but the temp was 14C. Jabal Shams a couple of times, Wadi Shab, Wadi bani Khalid, Snack Gorge , etc…

One pic that im gonna post is a pic of us fighting over the last bar of chocolate. We didn’t carry enough with us. The best way of camping I think is camping in the middle of no where. I hate it when someone suggests we go camp in one of the resorts hnak. Why camp if that’s the case?! We are better off going to the farm n sleep there.

Most ppl in Oman have second thoughts when it comes to camping worried that they might need to use the bathroom or somoething. PPL yes, you will have to suffer for 24-48 hours. Or maybe you can dig a hole and dump your master piece there. We do carry water to clean your self up. But trust me the last thing you think off is doing number ONE or number TWO when you are out there. The whole atmosphere and everything is different when you are there.

Bikes & US!!!

2005-12-04T21:41:00.000-08:00

After cruising around town with my cousins bike, I have now decided to get my on bike. The new Honda Fireblade 1000CC beast. But ever since I mentioned that, have been on my case trying to stop me from buying the beast

Recently ppl have been in lots of accidents, most bikers blame the car drivers since we have no respect to ppl on bikes here in this part of the world. I myself have noticed how ppl seem to think its kool or its okay to stick near a bike rider like glue, maybe that will boost him up and he will show us what's he working with. PPL that shit is scary and when you are on a bike, a small reaction can lead to be a very bad accident.

When you get your license here, the ROP never mention anything about riders in the street, and whats the safest way to drive around them. I remember when I got my driving license, i didn't even have anyone explaining to me the famous 2 second rule of safe driving.

In the states you get penalties from careless driving and you have to go through driving lessons depending on how careless you were. I think that would be really useful in this part of the world.

G

2005-09-05T03:27:00.000-07:00

Natty dread..

this picture is one of my all time fav pics..
I-myself had dreads when I was abroad and i must say that it was the best hair style i'll eva have..

Degoat

2005-05-23T01:39:00.001-07:00

Hey Everyone..

I have no clue what am I doing, I don't even know what am I supposed to type about but I am just typing.

Wanted to know what blogger.com was all about so here I am..