A Lost Dot !

Bye Blogger !

2007-07-18T23:23:00.001+04:00

Did you all have a good break from "dots" ?

Well she is back.. yah yah you can start rolling your eyes lol

I know my break was quite a bit of a break.. but at least as we say in arabic "من طول الغيبات كثر الغنايم" and i only have one thing along with me..

http://thelostdot.com

yup ..

that is .. save it .. rss it .. do whatever.. but i will be there.. and not here..

A Last Dot:
Bye Blogger

2007-05-27T16:20:00.000+04:00

An attempt to reconstruct: thoughts.. life.. blog .. dots.. until i gather all my dots.. take care..

Makeover..

2007-05-21T20:25:00.000+04:00

A Lost Dot is in the process of a total makeover..

i changed the template for the time being .. but this is just a temporary template.

If you have any ideas or suggestions ... please don't hesitate..

Thank you for making A Lost Dot more "dottable" ;) ..

صفر على الشمال

2007-05-21T17:07:00.000+04:00

كنت دائماٌ أسمعها تقول "لست سوى صفراُ على الشمال في حياته" وبالرغم من الألم الذي كان يحرقها وينثر رمادها علينا...الا إني كنت أتساءل

أليس الصفر هو الرقم المحايد في عالم الأرقام؟

أم أنه في هذه الأيام صارت الحياة تقاس بعدد الأصفار في رصيدك وحياتك وحتى أصفار هواتفك الى أن أستأصل سرطان الأرقام منا ليفرض لنا معادلة المعاملات بالأرقام؟

أليس من الظلم يا سيدتي أن تكون علاقاتنا قد صهرت وصبت لتشكل مسطرةٌ فضية وكل الأناسي حــولوا بوحشيه إلى أرقام وكسور أرقام؟

ها أنت تلبسين تاج الصفر البيضاوي اللون وتجلسين في أوسط هذه المسطره وتحركين بيديك الباردتان كل من حولك كأنك تلعبين الشطرنج ولكن بقانون واحد:

زدني حباٌ فيك...أزدك علاوة في السلم الرقمي

كل ما عليك فعله أن تكسب رضا جبروت قلبي... ولي أن أحكم كم تساوي من عملته

فمن كان أقرب لقلوبنا.. نلبسه حلل الألوف من الأرقام الى أن يكون أقرب ما يكون للمالانهايه...ولكن

الى أجل غير مسمى

ولك أن تتخيلي عزيزتي في أي درك من الأرقام ماال من حلت عليهم "لعنة قلوبنا" فلا يكفينا فيهم أنهم طردوا من مملكتنا, انما وسموا بسلبية ستسبقهم للأبد

وهكذا هم الأشخاص الذين نعرفهم..كل له قيمته الرقميه في معادلتنا

فالكل ليس سوى وليد مخاض حسابي المجهول فيها يتغير بتغير الوقت

والمعطيات تتأرجح كتأرجحات الأسهم

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أعلم أنه زحزح مكاني في عالم أرقامك وما عدت هناك على ذاك العرش المرصع بالزفير المشع بزرقته..ولكني أعلم كذلك أنه للسالب خفايا..فلولا السالب لما حلقت الطائرات بعيدا عن موطنها..ولما عرف مقياس درجة حرارة صهر الذهب لتهديها خاتم خطبتها..ولما وصلوا للقمر ولبات المهندسون في حيرة من أمرهم وكذلك الغجر...

:نقطة أخيره

كثيرا ما أثبتت لي التجارب أني فاشلة في الرياضيات

Guy Fawkes Night../ V for Vendetta

2007-05-18T16:00:00.001+04:00

To many of you, the image above is just a mask that was used in the movie V for Vendetta. To many others, it is a mask of the man who was very close to change the history of Britian.. although his plan failed.. yet till this day.. people remember him.. and his "idea"..

Guido Fawkes or Guy Fawkes as he was known was a member of the English Roman Catholics who have attempted to cary out the Gunpoweder plot in 1605... November 5th.

The Gunpowder Plot" was a plan to assassinate the Protestant King James I (James
VI of Scotland) and the members of both houses of the Parliament of England, by exploding Westminster Palace during the formal opening session of the 1605
Parliament, in which the King addressed a joint assembly of both the House
of Lords and the House of Commons. Fawkes was in large part responsible for the later stages of the plan's execution. His activities were detected before the plan's
completion, and following a severe interrogation involving the use of torture and a
trial in Westminster Hall before Judge John Popham, he and his co-conspirators were executed for treason. Fawkes's failure (or the attempt) is remembered by Guy Fawkes Night (also known as Bonfire Night or Fireworks Night) on 5 November
Wikipedia

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Remember, Remember

The fifth of November,

The gunpowder treason and plot.

I know of no reason

Why the gunpowder treason

Should ever be forgot

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This is how the movie starts.. with the same ryhme.. Its focal point is the importance of an idea.. and that history can change by an idea.. interesting concepts .. and more lovely quotes..

Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an
idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof.
further quotes

If we'd talk about the effect of media on our thinking behaviour let me tell you.. as much as there are many political movies...this movie is one smart political "thought".. Yes a "thought" ..

To me.. a movie is worth watching if it made me think of things and reflect on others.. if it made me discuss it and google it and search for facts.. a good movie is one that wakes up my brain cells from their hybernation status and makes them question several things.. political/social/environmental/etc !

When u watch a movie you have all the freedom to CHOOSE whether you liked the thoughts.. hated them... found them disgraceful or unethical.. but you actually watched it and probably till the end.. you listened to what you thought was worth it.. you learnt something new .. something useful.. and you moved on without necessarly having it affecting your ACTIONS ...

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What where the movies that stirred the pot of your thoughts...?

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A Lost Dot

You would watch a movie..and question its concepts.. but you might not "talk" to a person with the same thought as the movie....because you don't believe in his concepts........!!!!!

how ironic..

؟

2007-05-16T05:46:00.000+04:00

في قصاصات جريدة اليوم

رفض شابان سعودي وكويتي مصافحة إسرائيليين خلال المؤتمر الثالث للحائزين على جائزة نوبل الذي بدأ أعماله أمس في مدينة البتراء الأردنية بمشاركة نحو 40 من الحائزين على الجائزة.

وقال شهود عيان لوكالة أنباء يونايتدبرس انترناشونال إن الشابين فوجئا بإسرائيليين من المشاركين في المؤتمر يتقدمون نحوهما لمصافحتهما وعندما علما بجنسيتهم رفضا مصافحتهم وغادرا القاعة.ويشارك الشابان في أعمال مؤتمر الحائزين على جائزة نوبل ضمن عدد من شباب المنطقة حيث يخصص جزء هام من أعمال المؤتمر هذا العام للبحث في قضايا الشباب في المنطقة

ماذا كنت ستفعل لو كنت مكان أحدهم

A tale of two neighbours & a .. not neighbour !

2007-05-13T21:04:00.000+04:00

Two houses.. supposedly neighbours.. ( Neighbour I and Neighbour E ) but for some reason they never met face to face.. they'd just pick up the phone or send their "maids" to get this or that ..

Few blocks away.. many many few blocks away another mean mean person (Meany A) once saw that one of the neighbours had a SWIMMING pool in their yard... and she decided out of the blue.. she wanted it ! simple.. and she has this habit.. once she wants something.. boy oh boy... '

She tried and tried and tried.. sometimes she'd spread rumors that Neighbour I is a nasty person and all.. but then.. it didn't work out.. she called up the MAYOR and told them that " I " sells ILLEGAL stuff.. and it was a chaos..

bottom line..

Meany A wants to burn Neighbour I's house .. in front of everyone ! 3adi.. she got her things and stuffed them on the road between I & E .. then

For Meany A to be able to put the house on fire.. they would need to stand on Neighbour E's garden to be able to throw their bottles from a farther distance ... (tactics)

So Meany A sent their First SON to E for some reason.. (no one knows)

Neighbour E decided to step out and for the FIRST TIME EVER EVER she decided to meet Neighbour E ! Rumors say that Neighbour I met E to "force/ask/pressurize/trade/etc" Neighbour E not to let Meany A use their gardens..

To be continued sometime in Season 2

A LOST DOT:
hint: politics
i meant to make it in such a childish language...although it isnt a childish game at all

CNN International Chyron: "Bush Resigns" & Bush's Famous slip of tongue

2007-05-12T14:18:00.000+04:00

Are "typos" are a reflection of "wishful thinking?" ....

An employee who was typing wrote "BUSH RESIGNS" and probably he meant to say "BLAIRE resigns" although if i was him i'd mean it the first rather than the latter.

According to the source:

This appeared on screen for 12 seconds. (Two seconds before, President Bush had
appeared on screen, but the chyron accurately said "Pressure over Iraq.")

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On another note:

A slip of "fingers" can be fixed easily.. but slips of tongues especially when it is the President of The United States of America and in the presence of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.. now that is another issue

It seems the Mr. Bush did not memorize his speech so very well.. and if so.. then he needed to have them print the NUMBERS and DATES in CAPS for him to be able to diffrentiate between 1776 and 1976 ..

The president stumbled on a line in his speech, saying that the queen had
dined with 10 U.S. presidents and had helped the United States "celebrate its
bicentennial in 17 ... ." Bush caught himself and corrected the date to 1976. He
paused as if to see if the queen had taken offense.

The source had a video of the speech

A Lost Dot:

Better the foot slips than tongue

French Proverb

Johnny Cupcakes

2007-05-12T12:49:00.000+04:00

A very very interesting story of an entrepreneurer..

He is known as Johnny Cupcakes but he doesn't sell cupcakes..

Cupcakes are his brand's logo.

For those who have an idea but seem to stagger, never underestimate your ideas. A simple one but implemented very creatively can get you to where you aim at.. and even farther.

Check out his story, his t-shirts, his brand identity and the rest.

A Lost Dot:
"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
Oscar Wilde quotes

“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is way great spiritual giants are produced
Swami Vivekananda quotes

Denis Darzacq

2007-05-11T22:00:00.000+04:00

There are times when we'd have our cam between our hands.. and shooting 5 pictures hoping one would be totally focused and the closest to perfection ! It is a challenge especially if the object is moving..

Denis Darzacq a photographer who i believe "challenged Sir Issac Newton" and managed with his camera to capture a moment where "law of gravity" does not seem to be the most "applicable" law !

The French riots of 2005 inspired the photographer Denis Darzacq to head for the housing estates on the outskirts of the capital. But he wasn't after gritty shots of urban deprivation, he tells Angelique Chrisafis. He wanted something more - to capture an entire generation in freefall and with no one to catch them

The Guardian

I loved his concept. As a pictue there isn't something outstanding as the second he clickd the button. A second does make a difference !

Denis Darzacq Website

A Lost Dot:
He started in 2005 riots.. i believe he'd find a lot to picture these days after Nicolas Sarckozy's victory !

Next: Wear Cupcakes

Changes !

2007-05-09T15:39:00.000+04:00

When i read my previous posts all what comes to my mind is a big dosage of depression and drama..

it is time i change the "dvd track" into one with a bit more "action" or "documentary" or why not "comedy"

SO here is my request for ideas and topics..

request for anything you believe might make "A Lost Dot" a "not so lost" ;)

This post was exteremely useful.

feedback on it:

عاشه حاولت جاهده ما أخلط العربي بالإنجليزي

i changed the layout (colors) and i think it is time to change it again.

Topics.. i failed to bring as interesting topics. They will either be syndicated or just my drama topics.

I might have avoided talking about issues about the UAE because i felt the blogsphere was saturated with it especially at the "uaecommunity"

DG i know i promised u with the summary of the entrepreneurer book.. sorry..

So come on people.. brainstorm.. and write down what you expect to read / see / find at this place..

A Lost Dot:

Be the change you want to see in the world

Mahatma Ghandi

T.A.G.G.E.D

2007-05-09T15:26:00.000+04:00

So uaealias tagged me.. and here are my answers..

A - Available or Single
Neither..

B - Best friend..
the one who'd understand what lies between my dots.. very few souls..

C - Cake or Pie
both..

E - Essential Item
my eyeglasses/contact lenses/mobile/laptop/books/paper&pen/
practical utopian: its not my Calculator :p

F - Favourite Color
Blue..

G - Gummi bears or Worms
neither.. and both..

H - Home Town
wish if i can say "where my heart lies".. Dubai it is.

I - Indulgence
hmm.. bubble bath + book + good essential oil/ a good movie/a good meal/

J - January or February
February

K - Kids
interesting little "creatures" but not forever..

L - Life
a bridge

M - Marriage
a dot in every person's life..

N - Number of Siblings
4

O - Oranges or Apples
neither.. but if nothing else to eat.. i'd go for oranges.. as long as they are sour.. and apples as long as they are hard green fresh apples..

P - Phobias
heights occasionally.... claustrophobic mostly..

Q - Favourite Quote
many .. on the side of the blog you'd find one..

R - Reason to Smile
A lot.. every detail that is able to touch dot's heart would be a reason for her to smile.. anyone.. and anything.. but i really really feel the best when dots can make others smile.. from their hearts..

S - Season
Autumn

T - Tag Three People
umm...
(optional )
Practical Utopian
MD
عاشه

U - Unknown Fact About Me
posted it sometime earlier..

V*W - Worst Habit
hmm... i have a lot. ;) maybe i am too picky?

X*Y - Your Favourite Food:
anything that tastes good and not "sushi"

Z - Zodiac
Capricorn

2007-05-09T00:09:00.000+04:00

Once upon a .... moment

2007-05-05T21:44:00.000+04:00

Her hands shook slightly while opening the green Vaseline jar. With the tip of her pruned fingers she applied it on her wrinkled hand. Age showed on every inch of her body. If you counted her wrinkles and divided them by 10 you’d know how old she is. If you looked at the geography of her hand; you’d see mountains of pain and meadows of happiness. At such an age, lonely she was but content she felt.

That day felt different. The weather started to change few weeks back and she managed to get all her cashmere shawls and cardigans down to the second level in her cupboard. Not low enough for her to bend her scarliosised back nor high enough for her to stand on her toes. She pulled the wool royal blue shawl and wrapped it around her shoulder letting out a sigh as soon as the smell of the dihn oud touched the tip of her nose. The smell woke up her spirit again but more than that, it was the spell that brought back her memories to life.

She always loved the sound of her shoes on the parquet flooring. For some reason, that gave her a smile. It was funny how small tiny details managed to draw a smile on her face. Just like how the bunch of wild tulips and violet hydragenea she bought three days back filled her with life. She started thinking of her daily to do list trying to remember to call her friend who had an osteopathy treatment three days back when the voice of the motor bike broke the silence and reminded her to pay the newspaper man his money. Reading newspaper online no longer fancied her.

We always say that there will be a day the world would seem to be a better and safer place to live in but every day this seems to be further than reality and closer to a dream. Newspapers are as stuffed with ads as it was always but when she was about to turn page 4 a name grasped her attention or was it the picture, maybe both. She read the article with as much interest and love as she used to read his interviews several years back. After so many years he still was the only one that managed to touch her heart with so much love and warmth. A different kind of love. Every word she read and every statement. There were times she wanted to pick up the phone and dial his office’s number and tell him how much she loved his latest campaign and how she thought that he needed to put more emphasis on direct mails rather than full page ads. Today was different, today she felt the warmth of her tears slowly slide down her cheeks to the unknown, drenching the newspaper between her hands.

Once upon a time she shared good memories with him. She still had all the correspondence between him when he was away. From time to time she opens the wooden oak box in her library and reads the letters again. They take her back to the old days. Every “I miss you” he wrote her soothed her aching heart. Pure and honest love that was chained with bias cultural boundaries choked her. Her tears turned into a summer cloud filled with seasonal rain and her cry stopped in bottom of her throat. He asked her once “will you love me forever” and she knew at that time that “yes till the day I die” was what her heart told her...................................

unfinished !

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A Lost Dot:

Even a piece of writing would not do him justice.....

2007-05-04T20:37:00.000+04:00

I have enabled comment moderation for the time being. I shall take it off in two days or so.

So if it irritates you not to see your comment on the screen at once... excuse me.. but as we say.. "مجبرا اخاك لا بطل"

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The last couple of weeks were a very typical roller coaster ride to me... mixed emotions.. mixed feelings.. the capricorn curse (moody) has showed its effect quite .... "well" ..

His highness Sheikh Nahiyan's loss felt like our own loss... no comments can be added.. just good memories and prayers..

People around me either took advantage of me.. or thought am "stupid" enough.. my silence does not necessarly mean i am STUPID ... i do know and i do realize and i do feel..

The last few weeks i learnt few things..
1. LISTEN ! there are times when i want to listen forever... its like the feeling you get when every single detail is as important as all the bigger details in a person or a thing.. i loved it so much.
2. Every person is special in his own way....
3. Each day you meet a new person; feel good .. for u are learning something new.
4. INSULT ME..BUT WITH RESPECT ... yes insult me but with respect. But i cannot stand anymore the feeling i get when being disrespected. And it hurts the most when it comes from people close to you. Please i don't need you to like/love me .. i just need you to respect me!
5. I learnt that .. Dots feels the best when she sees others happy. The smiles and the laughs.. the hugs and the kisses... the tears and the pictures.. the feeling that u have managed to create an atmosphere that would bring all those feelings of happiness together.. feeling of satisfaction within people.. feeling of ..gratitude.. it just made me feel the best...
When someone u don't know at all.. you never met.. didn't even bump into comes to you and hugs you and simply says "you just made my day" ... that .. that is what makes me on the top of the clouds.. but then only i decided to gather my things and slowly leave..

Get all the emotions you have.. with all their contradictions... all their variations.. grind them.. and mix the powder together.. add few drops of tears.. and whisper few soothing sentences... with hands drenched with hope.. mix them.. take a tablet in the morning and other in the afternoon..

we need to learn how to FEEL .. and if we are bad learners.. then a pill might be a good solution.. !

2007-05-04T10:18:00.000+04:00

الأخبار بإختصار

2007-04-29T07:49:00.000+04:00

Truce.. they break it.. they blame the Palestinians (like always) ... they threat... they kill !
4 killed yesterday.. God knows how many today ! massacre !

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Population: 27,499,638 (July 2007 est.)
26,783,383 (July 2006 est.)
(CIA FACTBOOK)
Place: Iraq
I think a difference of 1,000,000 person dead within a years is just underestimated shwai.
On a daily basis 50 people die (at least).
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If you are doing your summer plans for a peacful holiday.. i'd suggest you take off Lebanon from the list with all what is happening.. its on the verge of something.. something not so pleasant..

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اتهم الزعيم الشيعي العراقي مقتدى الصدر الرئيس الاميركي جورج بوش بتجاهل الارادة الدولية التي تطالبه بالانسحاب من العراق
يا صباح الورد ... توا الناس
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أبوظبي ترمم قصر فونتينبلو الفرنسي
...السياسه الغامضه
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تحتفل كليات التقنية العليا مايو المقبل بتخريج الدفعة السادسة عشرة من الخريجين والخريجات البالغ عددهم 1483 خريجا و2410 خريجات
وزادت نسنة البطاله
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اتحاد اللعبة يخاطب 60 شركة والاستجابة من 3 فقط

القطاع الخاص يخذل دراجات الإمارات !
متى كان لهم وجود في المجال الرياضي اصلا
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Tagged..

2007-04-27T21:55:00.000+04:00

Well.. i just realized that once upon a time BUJ tagged me.. ! sorry Buj ..
So 10 things you don't know about me?

oookay.. lets see..

1. i wear eyeglasses..
2. I tend to loose my temper quite easily.. and quickly..
3. VERY moody
4. I don't like to eat icecreams (i have to wait for it to melt )
5. I am an emotional eater ..
6. Management is my field of education .. (so far at least)
7. I smell most of my food before i eat it.. (yes MD you can laugh :p )
8. I hate roses
9. As what i was told.. i tend to push people away from me when i want to be alone.. and then come back to them feeling guilty.
10. I fired 8 employees once in my lifetime..

Numbers..& clocks

2007-04-27T20:26:00.000+04:00

Different perspective of how to look at numbers..

Click on the links and enjoy .. i can't say "don't try this at home" but if you did.. then give yourself a pat on the shoulder .. :p

Numbers

Clock

I liked this link .. it has interesting stuff.. check out the link of the most annoying alarm clocks.. omg if i had any of those.. 3adi it won't last more than a day !

Alarm Clock

2007-04-26T19:14:00.000+04:00

All what i wanted was to share "tiny details" with you..

"tiny details" of my day..

Probably the color of lipstick i had on..

if any..

or the perfume i choose for today..

or what i wrote on that blue small notepad...

or the bills i had to pay..

You stared at me..

rolled your eyes and dissolved in all the noise around you..

in all the chaos behind you...

ignoring me.. or avoiding me.. ?

whatever it is.. your spell has bewitched me..

and frozen i shall be

I just wanted your ears.. to hear me..

your arms to hug me..

your voice to soothe me..

your eyes to protect me....

But i see you like a chocolate in a safe..

"you can see .. but cannot taste"

a tag that was on the corner of it...

Do the equations.. and calculations you need to do..

but the first thing i was taught.. was 1 plus 1 equals to two..

So make me feel it..

let me enjoy it..

Today you are here..

Tomorrow am dead..

Don't deprive me of your presence..

For that is injustice..

Trust me and believe me..

In the only thing i know..

and the only truth i believe in..

and the only fact i cannot deny..

I love you.

to drown.. or not to..

2007-04-25T23:01:00.000+04:00

i feel the tide pulling me towards the current..
with a strong pull.. and very gentle push....
with every stroke my arms feel weaker..
i try to reach the shore.. with all my strength..
swallowing the salty painful water..
i know i'd be safe there..
I am pulled down towards the bottom..
looking at the shore.. and feeling the distance..
i used to have faith and hope..
but they got diluted with every drop of salt..
when dreams are a painted canvas of water and salt..
and algae and boats..
when moments are currents..
towards the shore it pulls us
or down to the little corals you are pushed...
and its you who is struggling..
knowing where you belong...
kicking with your feet..
and moving your arms..
yet failing to move on...
is it your final destiny..
to die helplessly through a drown..
or should you keep believing..
in a dream you always have drawn..
i've been in the sea for a while..
they thought i might be a mermaid..
but i knew i belong to the shore..
to that stable ground..
to the feeling of sand..
and seashore walks..
to the smell of land..
to you i belong..
to you my hope..

A lost dot:
i didn't proof read it.. or spell check it or anything..
and i am not willing to do that .. wanna edit it? do so !
i might do that sometime soon.. i don't know..

2007-04-18T20:48:00.001+04:00

"التمس لاخيك المسلم سبعين عذرا"

فما هو عذركم لي يا من لكم كل الحب..

Syndication.. from my RSS feeds..

2007-04-16T21:48:00.000+04:00

RSS is one of the most common used words along with (podcasts and videocasts and bla bla vblogs bla bla agian)
So what is it

RSS:
Really Simple Syndication
Rich Site Summary

What does it do?
It simply notifies you whenever a blog or any website that has an RSS feed updates. Believe me it is very useful when you have many blogs you are interested in and many other websites.

How?
A page which has an RSS feed it would have this orange icon.. click on it.. it will show you a page that says "subscribe" click on the subscribtion and tara.. the webpage would be in the list of your RSS feeds. So every morning, refresh the list and it will notify you which webpages are updated.

Enjoy RSSing
For further info "google: RSS"

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One of the ads that i came across and liked .. simple and nice..

Inventive Marketing: Ford Ranger Extreme Matchbox

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For the techno lovers..

Adobe Media Player... something many would fall in love with

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http://books.google.com

it is the new place people would / might / will not read their digi books

but did you know that

Google scans 3000 books a day or 10 million a year.

find it here

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مصائب قوم عند قوم فوائد

The US navy used the ruins of the World Trade Center tower to construct a surface battle ship.

Where did i read that? Here

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Yes i do have some cooking blogs too !

this is one of my fav (marthastewart is in the bookmarks) :p

101 cookbooks

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Wait...

2007-04-15T23:45:00.000+04:00

Downtown there was a bar, and he used to go there every single day. He wouldn’t enter from the front door, he was known for his backdoor visits... people with privilege? I don't think so... to him he didn't really care...

That night, he went like every single day.. dressed in his "normal" clothes which seemed to be his costume for people who didn't know him... he walked.. in pride of what he does.. his 40sh look-alike face that is actually a camouflage of 27 years of a soul suffered from a lot in life seemed to give him the "modesty" he needed.. and he walked.. did i mention full of pride earlier? oh yes i did..

An hour later he sat at his doorstep in a cold windy night.. or to be precise .. midnight.. inhaling the fresh air.. and drenching himself with the silence of the neighborhood that is known to hide by dawn.. blindly he looked for the bottle beside him, raised it to his dry lips but then realized that it was already empty... he inhaled filling his chest with so much air.. and wondered..

what is his life he wondered.. how valuable his life is to him.. in the mornings he is between his books and lectures.. library and papers.. and many other things .. but his nights.. that is one thing that he isn't willing to let go of now.. at least not now..

With exhausted swollen feet he walked up the six stairs to his apartment.. shuffling the keys he entered.. he heard the TV on in the other room and slowly walked in trying not to wake him up..

he saw him lying there in bed.. so angelic that if he really was sure that angels had wings he wouldn't doubt that this person in front of him would have a pair of invisible wings..

how cherished his life was.. and how blessed he was regardless the looks of pity he gets from many of his neighbors.. he managed by time to ignore them and live his life the way he believes is best for both of them.. he leaned forward and brushed his dusty four fingers in the brownish spiky hair of his "mate" .. kissed his forehead and left to his room.. doing the same daily routine that seemed to be a norm by now..

enter the room, sit by the bed.. look at her picture and only now.. at this moment he is himself.. the weak person who always needed her.. only now he can cry endlessly.. calling her name would not bring her back.. a fact he knew

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Once upon a time lived a family of a mother and two kids.. her job as a beautician taught her that beauty comes within.. that no matter how much you try to beautify yourself.. its your soul that adds that "magical glow" on your face..

She taught her sons a lot of values mostly was humbleness.. her only two sons.. the "men" of this world she called them.. to her.. this world as big as it is had no men but her sons.. If saying "they are her life" would do them justice, believe me it wouldn't.

In a late summer day she fainted.. they thought it was of the heat.. but she fainted again that same day which worried her elder son and insisted to take her to the hospital. Surprising how a person can be diagnosed of a deadly disease in a day only. One's life stops in just a day. Actually it doesn't stop.. his past is on a very slow motion screen while his future is on the fast forwarded screen... few weeks later she was too weak to move, talk, and eat. Five days later she passed away.

That was the story of the woman he cries out her name every single night.. the woman who would have hugged him in her chest if she saw a glimpse of pain in his eyes.. now he only hugs her picture..

His younger brother.. yes the one with the brownish spiky hair would grow to remember his mother's face on her death bed.. and him.. he would keep working as a part-time teaching assistant at the community school in the afternoon and a garbage man an hour before midnight... that was why he used the backdoor !

Oh btw.. that bottle in his hand.. it was a bottle of Pepsi.. his DINNER !

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A Lost Dot:
Wait before you judge.... listen to the whole story first..

memories..

2007-04-14T00:12:00.000+04:00

Day after day.. memories are stacked one after the other.. some of which are in the back of the old archives.. dusty.. but brought out .. some of which are freshly baked.. hot and tasty from the oven..

Those are our memories... each has its own taste.. bitter or sweet or even sour.. they are in our mind.. at the back of it or in the shelves labeled "new" ..

Many times i tried to run away from them.. act like they never existed.. wear a mask and if confronted by that "guest" i'd have a straight face and walk past ... but guess what.. i fail..

Memories are an important ingredient of our life.. it is like making a chocolate fondant with no "chocolate" .. so is our memory.. the question would remain how would we want them to shape us.. will we allow those "extra calories" to be stacked in our memories or shall we wake up the following day and hit the gym and burn those calories...

It is us who shape our lives.. our attitude towards things and the way we perceive life itself.. i was told that "perception is a reality" but wondered whether that is true or whether "reality is a perception"..

Honestly.. i perceived things differently.. and i believed in what i wanted to believe.. subjective was i or objective.. but i know that i took things for granted.. and paid the price... i wouldn't say "wear your pink lenses" and perceive life as jolly and colorful as it is.. and neither would i say "wear your black shades" .. however.. perceive life in the most realistic way .. with its sorrows and grief.. happiness and joy.. it comes in one package.. take it as it is.. decide how to let it affect you.. and move on.. for life does move on..

If you lost someone .. in this world.. in a small hut somewhere in an isolated country.. a person lost two of his family members.. if you failed an exam.. others don't have the funds to study.. if your car broke.. others can't walk because of the blisters they developed walking barefeet every day... Whatever a problem you are going through.. always keep in mind that someone else.. in this wide world.. someone is in a deeper problem than you are.. have faith in how things are meant to be.. and honestly.. i always believe that everything is meant to be for a reason.. your worst worst incident can be the reason for your most successful and happiest ones.. trust me in that..

Always remember.. things will change.. you just need to have a lot of patience..strength.. and endurance .. that is what i was told one day.. and that is what i believe in now..

A Last Dot:
... plain dots....

Subliminal Messages

2007-04-09T11:48:00.000+04:00

One of the LOCALLY produced ADVERTISEMENT:

Creative Agency: Impact/BBDO, Dubai
Creative Director: Peter Russell
Art Director: Srinivasa Rao
Copywriter: Sony Raj
Illustrator: Sandeep Pradhan
Photographer: Srinivasa Rao
Designer: Binoy Mohan
Client Service: Ziad Zoueihed

Things you should look for are:
pictures and figures of women / men
words such as S.E.X (there are especially in the Formula One ad)

And that is supposed to be distrubuted here !!!

Next time you view an ad look for those messages..

2007-04-06T20:24:00.000+04:00

The more i read about Subliminal Messages and more specifically in advertising the more disgusted i get and the more stupid i feel as a consumer !!!

Its everywhere.. hidden messages that are so sexually oriented were everywhere.. even in some of Disney's cartoons !!!!

I intentionally did not want to post any links.

The last piece of a puzzle.. of a decision..

2007-04-05T22:59:00.000+04:00

A question needs an answer.
A decision is based on the answer.

I decided.

and i quit...

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In some decisions however minor they might be to your life you wish to have this very close person's opinion...you value their opinion regardless a lot of things.. but it seems like the last piece in the puzzle...

The process of deciding varies.. a thought prevails a judgment or a mental argument.. but at the end of the day you end up with several alternatives and you should choose.. the process itself seems to be a puzzle that requires you to look at your pieces and evaluate them.. put those together on this side and those on the other and join them.. its only with the last piece you'd feel the best.. when the whole puzzle is no longer a "puzzle" ..

When my sister used to live with us before she got married, she used to be my.... mind you can say. I'd ask her what color is better .. blue or yellow.. its not that i lack the personality and confidence in myself.. but her opinion was always a valuable one to me... and still is..

Well thinking about it, yes i think i lack the personality. Throughout my life i needed this extra person to "touch up" my thoughts and decisions.. i needed that "no i don't think its a good idea" or "yes go ahead" ..

When i look back.. i realize how important some of those decisions were in my life.. I might have got married to the wrong guy by now if not for my sister.. (back in 1999) .. if not for "anonymous" .. i might have ended up a totally different person by now.. a "rebel".. if not for YOU .. i would have still been the "illiterate" , useless girl.. that same person who lived in a cocoon.. that pathetic person.. you changed me.. you sculptured my personality.. you.....

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A Lost Dot:
Your words were always the last piece of the puzzle..
The puzzle of a decision...
Thank You

What is with the number 3 !

2007-04-04T20:28:00.000+04:00

So i was in a "movie mood" and nachos and pepsi and skittles .. and probably a pizza.... checked out the coming soon movies and couldn't but wonder what was with the number 3 that is in almost every new movie !

The Number 23

Spider Man 3

Pirates of the Carribean 3

Shrek 3

Ocean's Thirteen

Promises..

2007-04-02T22:57:00.000+04:00

"i promise you i will love you forever"
"i promise you i won't tell mom & dad"
"i promise you i won't lie again"
"i promise you i will not hit her again"
"i promise you i'll treasure you forever"
"i promise you i will not drink again"
"i promies you i won't do drugs ever"
"i promise you i will start praying"
"i promise you safety and protection"
"i promise to respect you always"

but things changed ..

* he stopped loving her.. she betrayed him..
* he was forced to tell mom & dad.. otherwise they would have grounded him.. he was only 6 and sooner or later they'd know who broke the vase..
* but he had to lie again many many times... business is business..
* in social service terms, he was considered to be an abusing husband.. today he is in jail for an attempt to murder .. he hit her badly she almost died..
* who said treasures are meant to be treasured.. they are sold sooner or later..
the support he needed dissolved even better than crystal meth in water.. after the first dissapointment from society.. he went back to his two best friends.. a bottle.. and an syringe..
* a new job.. too busy.. too many meetings.. and very little time for prayers.. she forgot her promise.. and hardly prayed except once in a full moon..
* they promised us safety and protection.. where was this promise when the bombs blew up their house.. their dreams.. and their hopes..
* but they insulted him..and stabbed him in the back.. and forced him to defend himself.. and he broke his promise.. he disrespected them !

After a conversation i had with a close friend.. a sentence nested in my mind
"i promised her as long as things don't change"
It made me wonder.. promises are applicable ceteris peribus everything else?
Is a promise considered to be a promise as long as things don't change ?
Does it give us the right to break the promise once our surrounding or the person we promised changes?

A Lost Dot:
Few thoughts..
but no promises to answer them ;)

2007-03-30T10:38:00.000+04:00

I totally hate the word verification thing !

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Dots: "Hey doc.. how are you..listen.. how does a person know if he had a concussion"

Doc: "dots.. what did you do this time"

Dots: "ha? me..? no nothing.. am just asking"

Doc: "did you fall again"

Dots: "Not really .. i mean.. just answer the question.."

Doc: "how bad was it"

Dots: "listen.. you are supposed to answer not ask !"

Doc: "Fine.. do you remember what happened during the "incident" ? "

Dots: "VERY well.. in a slow motion phase ba3ad"

Doc: "So you admit that you fell.. "

Dots: "listen.. cut it and answer"

Doc: "okay.. fine.. how badly does your head hurt"

Dots: "ya3ni.. "

Doc: "did you throw up.. any liquids from your nose or ears"

Dots: "no.."

Doc: "do you have any bruises under your eyes or ears"

Dots: "not that i can see at least"

Doc: "you could have had a very minor concussion of the trauma but that is not a problem.. make sure you rest well.. tell me what is 4+4"

Dots: "duh 8 "

Doc: "what is 16+7"

Dots: "damn i have to use my fingers wait :p "

Doc: "ÿou aren't dying soon at least not from the head trauma"

Dots: "good .. can't afford it yet"

Feeling releived and about to end the conversation (5ala9 i got what i wanted)

Doc: "btw.. there are cases where the skull could have a fracture.. that is a totally different case"

Dots in shock ! oh oh !

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Nokia & Erricson and all those companies who produce those lil tiny mobile phones should have a sign on their phones:

"If you are fat and chubby DO NOT BUY THOSE SMALL PHONES.

If you still NEED to buy them... a HEADSET is mandatory

Otherwise, make sure you don't talk with the phone between your cheeks and shoulder...

You never know what button you'd end up pressing"

Call ended is the most famous one though.. and the hold button :p

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Once upon a time there was a lady who was driving her "Prado" in Sheikh Zayed Road coming from the ladies gathering every Saturday and out of the blue she saw this lil fly stuck on her windsheild... she had to slow down so that the fly won't fly and end up with a fatal death on Sheikh Zayed Road.. everyone waited for her to speed up and people got frustrated.. and started driving crazy.. causing the "normal accidents due to sudden speed" ...but she was totally in her own world... when she reached her home in Jumeirah.. a gust of wind flew the fly away causing serious injuries and possible symptons of DEATH... after getting over the shock.. the lady went up to her villa and came ONLINE.. she was so frustrated and wrote the following:

"The GOVERNMENT and AMIRS (in good cases she'd write sheikh) should do something about this.. there should be a RULE that would PROTECT those flies from hitting our windsheild and FOR GOD's LOVE .. do something about the wind .. this government should do something about it..i am starting a campaign and a petetion to help SAVE THE FLIES !!!!!"

^to read further stories as such... YOU KNOW WHERE TO GO ! it ain't far away.. :p

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بعد الفاصل: مذابح بغداد ما زالت على فدم وساق

يعني لازم يعطونا فاصل عشان يأهبونا نفسياٌ للي بنشوفي

وشفنا

بعد الفاصل: الكلاب تقاضي البشر

وتوازنت المعادله...وضغط الدم رجع لمعدله " الطبيعي"

هزلت

after the break: More bloodshed in Iraq killing 500
They should give us a break to prepare us mentally and physically and emotionally..
After the break: Dogs sue human beings for mistreatment
and the equation is balanced.. and our "Blood pressaure" is back to "normal"
tsk tsk tsk !

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from one of my fav websites :
"10 weird handbags for the manly man"

LOOL i just can't imagine any of you MEN holding such a bag ! read the story
lool i liked the keyboard one :p

2007-03-26T23:36:00.000+04:00

Mr. Professor: "now if you are thinking of going for your masters that is another issue"

Dots: "Yes inshallah sir, any suggestions"

Mr. Professor: "considering how conservative the society is, and putting this in mind.."
And he starts thinking with his hand scartching his forehead and he shifts his weight from one leg to the other..

Mr. Professor: "Well, i'd say Brition is a good place. Education there is short"
My jaw drops wide open. Return it back

Dots: "Umm.. did you mean Brition as of London" (in the back of my mind ".... buckingham palace and that ding dong bell and prince williams :p ")

Mr. Professor: "Oh yes indeed. Their education is good, actually, they have some of the best business schools.."

Dots: "yah well but Dr. you know i come from quite a conservative family..."
Cuts my word

Mr. Professor: "Ohhhhh now i see.. so go for something different and in this case i believe your parent would agree on places like Spain"

Dots: " Dr. back in 1997 when i graduated from highschool, my parents refused to send me to AlAin, and that was the old good days."

Mr. Professor quickly mending things: "AUS is fine and "Wollongwong" is good too"

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A Lost Dot:
No Comment !

Stock it right !

2007-03-21T20:25:00.000+04:00

If you were working in a factory that produces several kinds of products targeted to different segments... what would your strategy be with regards to your inventory.

You'd have products that move quickly... very demanded...they are like the source of good cash to your company... you want to keep producing more of this product.. you pamper it.. have it on the top of your to-do list.. you try to satisfy the needs and match the production requirments with the demand... you love it !

Other products.. they are good.. but they move slow.. however, they are benefitial to your company.. its one of the products that your customers are so loyal to.. they keep buying this product regardless anything else.. you know what to expect .. you know the demand .. you know how much to keep in inventory.. its predictable.. a good product..

There were cases when u came across a product; and honestly you did not make enough R&D you just thought that it would be a good one.. but against your expectations; that was the biggest mistake you ever did.. it milked your resources and everything.. and didn't it cost you a lot... you started taking anti-depressants too ! its just one bad product that you cannot get rid so easily..

There are many other products; each with its own specifications and "effect" on your organization... and also.. there are many people in our lives who act like those products.. some we admire so much .. some we respect and their presence is so important to us regardless time or place... and others.. it was the biggest mistake of our life.. we are still recovering from the investment we did !

A Last Dot:
Make sure you stock the right .... people !

Archives brought back to life..

2007-03-19T23:58:00.000+04:00

I was in the attic today... looking for a post i wrote ages back and kept it in my draft... i found it beside few other posts... it still had the same feelings in it.. the same smell of that perfum that mixed the roses with a drop of musk and dehn il 3oud.. it still made my heart feel warm.. warm respect !

After indulging myself with the feelings i had from that particular post; i started wandering around from this post to the other..laughing at how stupid i was writing what i wrote in some of the posts.. and wondering why did i write what i wrote in other posts..

Some of my drafted archives are back to life again.. i kept the date as it was.. you'll find them somewhere at the very far end of this blog (if interested of course)

A Lost Dot:
What am i with no memories...?

شو بتسوون؟

2007-03-15T22:38:00.000+04:00

This lil tiny thing is a worm !

edited: translation added!

متى تستطيع أكل الدود؟

ابويه كان يقولي " كليهم قبل لا ياكلونتس" عادي لا تجلبون ويوهكم !! ما تشد كلتوا دود؟

على الطاوله اللي حذالكم شي مله.. (باول) بالإنجليزي

فيها من ما تشتهي العين من ما نسميه " بالنبج" وما ألذه من نبج

اللي مايعرف النبج فهو نوع من أنواع ثمار شجرة السدره (صححوني تشاني غلطت) المهم

لذيذه وصفرا

لا بنها لينه وذاويه

ولا بنها ملغه

تنعرف من ريحتها انه بتكون " عسسسسسسسسسسل"

بكل عفويه ولا إراديه و تلقائيه كأنه بياكلونها عنكم....ننقض كالأسود..

وتطلع توقعاتنا ولا أحسن..وين توقعات بروكرية سوق الأسهم يتعلمون

وانتو تاكلون وتتلذذون شي يقولكم شوفو تلايا الصلامه

الا وشي ابيض صغير يتحرك بسرعه يندس في بقايا النبجه

وتتوقفون عن المضغ ويدور في بالكم سؤال

أفلح (يعني أتفل يعني أي سبت ذا فوود) ولا أسرط بسرعه وأنا مغمضه عيوني ولا طاااااااااااف أكلها قبل لا تاكلني؟

طبعا الكلام ينطبق على اللوز بس ها له قصه شوي غير ان الله عطانا عمر لين موسم اللوز

So.. what was i talking about above..

My question was basically... when can you eat a "worm" !!!

yes yes.. don't give me this disgusted look.. dad used to tell me "eat them before they eat you" i.e. when we die!

so...

one thing i really enjoy is to seasonal fruits..i love it when its mango's season.. when its date's season.. and every kind of dates is in a different time.. you know its nice to eat a fresh fruit at its season rather than a frozen biowhatever it is called and looks not fresh and tastes: tastless !

So i was enjoying this bowl of nabj.. don't ask me what it is in english i have no clue..

its a small round green fruit that grows in a tree called "sedr".. it comes in different tastes.. and sizes..

i was looking at this bowl with really tempting "nabjs".. they arent bittery green.. and not so ripe... they looked so fresh..

and i spot the one i want.. i can smell its smell and just drool.. i imagine its sweetness before even biting it..

i take it... smell it.. (i have this habbit of smelling the food first ) and then bite it..

and doesnt that taste ssssssssooooooooooooooooooo goood !

you feel the sweetness waking all the tastebuds in your tongue.. you'd enjoy every bite.. until for some reason you decide to look at the what is left of it.. and there it is..

looking at you from the leftover of the nabj's flesh.. poking his head and suddenly going inside after a summersault in the air.. and then you ask yourself a life turning question:

Should i spit it?

Close my eyes and swallow it?

or act like i never saw anything and "eat it before it eats me?"

Now what would YOU do !

Reflections on IWD...

2007-03-11T23:34:00.000+04:00

IWD: they all spoke about International Women's Day and they kept talking forever about things like: human rights, equality, justice, political rights etc etc !

For some reason...all what i could think of was You My Dear Sir....

To you SIR, I wrote those words…

Yes, for you were the reason behind the success of all those women. You stirred the jealousy in their souls and pushed them to march and parade asking for their rights. They saw you and wished for the same… You were a reason for their secret meetings at times women had no rights to discuss politics… they spoke about you… and endlessly they discussed how can they be on the same level as you are…
Because of you…

They believed that they can be independent…”we don’t need men in our lives” they said…but believe me…dependent on you they always were…when they are feverish and sick…all what they’d long for is to open their eyes in the middle of the night and feel safe knowing that you are there for them….

If only you understood them...all what you needed to do is become an alchemist…for women are a complicated equation of chemistry… you never know if it is an alkaline or a base… you have to master its changes…and visualize what affects such changes… more specifically…you…you are the greatest reason for their change…

Why did you change…

They were fine when u used to listen and talk…why did you peel off your skin…or is this a mask? Violence and abuse and torture ? You scared them…and so they needed protection…from you…you pushed them to search for this protection when they could have found it between your arms…between the lashes of your eyes…with every look…and even a glance…

So you made them jealous of your success….you changed…you became violent….and you became ignorant…

You deprived them of the feelings they ought to feel with your presence…and they searched for it somewhere else… you made it difficult for her to learn….so she fought for it….just to prove to you that she deserves what you took away from her.... you ignored that once upon a time this women you decided to lock in a house between those walls was the only reason you lived for….the only reason you sweated to earn those few pennies…was the only reason you traveled the seven seas for…
…

To you Sir, I write…
How can I be independent from you when I live on you… I live on your existence…what am I without you… when I am a part of you… if I can I would have filled a tray with blood and let it dry in the warmth of your passion maybe then I’d find the residue….my DNA….i carry a part of you with me all the time…

Equal I don’t want to be… I am too delicate to suffer as you do…beside you I shall not walk…a step behind you I will be…I want you to protect me…always…

I don’t need you to be on Mars to understand me…set foot on Venus and I’d take you around...
I love the fact that we two different opposites… we proved the physics theory… I love the facts that you drink a frappicino and I don’t… that you love yellow and I don’t... how can it be if we both preferred the right side of the bed…one would have sleepless nights for a while… I love the fact that we are different…yet similar…opposites…yet…alike… I love the fact that you tell me what my subconscious mind would want to hear….i love the fact that when facing each other my left hand faces your right and my right leg faces your left …and my heart faces your right side while yours faces my left…

To you Sir, I write…

The daughter of Adam & Eve I am…I was never the daughter of Eve only…

Israel is "bunking" for their life ! are u ?

2007-03-11T19:14:00.000+04:00

I remember when we were kids (early 80s) we used to wonder why does grandma has a room underground. Noone was supposed to enter. These days, this room is basically a storage area.

If people in Israel read this they would flip of ... "anger" probably. If you lived in Israel and had 70,000 POUNDs, then most likely you'd be asking your neighbour which contractor installed his nuclear bunker in fear of the nuclear threats from Iran.

According to the Times,

Thousands of private homes have been equipped with nuclear-proof equipment ranging from air filters to water-decontamination systems. But builders and contractors say that the demand in the past few months for fully fledged atomic shelters has surged,

Atomic shelters range in price from £70,000 to £500,000. They feature 70cm thick blast-proof doors, ballistic windows, water and air-decontamination systems, which promise to sustain life for up to six months

Well some people are a bit more "fortunate" they have enough cash to live in a "5 star bunker?"

Shlomo Yakov, an Israeli industrialist, spent £300,000 on a nuclear bunker for his family at his sprawling seaside villa just north of Tel Aviv. The underground shelter features a master bedroom and children’s room, a decontaminated-water shower and an electrical generator that feeds a flat-screen
television, surround-sound system and fully stocked stainless steel fridge.

We all know that Israel has its Nuclear Plant? You do right? Do you have any idea where is it located?

Ephraim Sneh, the deputy Defence Minister, The Knesset has speeded up construction of its own nuclear shelter, built beneath pine-covered hills outside Jerusalem. The bunker will serve as a command post in case of war.

Not only that... but they also approved the construction of of a "public shelter underneath Jerusalem’s new railway station to accommodate hundreds of civilians. Construction is due to be complete by 2011 although according to their intelligence system they are expecting Iran's attack by 2009 !

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My aunt should expect a call from me tomorrow "requesting for my rights to have grandma's shelter emptied from all the junk in it."

p.s. the shelter was built before 1987 (i was old enough at that time to play with my barbies in it!) i should buy duck tape in case i found any cracks..."in case" awaneh !

A Lost Dot:

" اينما تكونوا يدرككم الموت ولو كنتم في بروج مشيده"

sources: times & albayan

Manual of the warrior of light - intro

2007-03-10T22:44:00.000+04:00

Ever since reading his book "The Alchemist", Paulo Coelho became one of the writers i enjoy reading to..

His book "Manual of the Warrior of Light" was a book i read i guess during summer of 2005; but although its not a complicated read and had almost two paragraphs per page only... but it held a lot of wisdom and meanings that puts you in a state of reading one page only just so that you'd digest the words compeletly. I always felt that a lot of his writings had a resemblence to the Prophet Mohammad's - peace be upon him - sayings... you'd read a paragraph and you'd say "yah well.. the Prophet (PBUH) did mention this to us too."

The book starts with a short story.. i wrote down.. skipped few lines here and there.. i shall be posting every now and then one of the things he mentioned in this book... enjoy the read..

"Just off the beach to the west of the village lies an island, and on it is a vast temple with many bells," said the woman.

The boy noticed that she was dressed strangely and had a veil covering her head. He had never seen her before.

"Have you ever visisted the temple?" She asked, "Go there and tell me what you think of it?"

Seduced by the woman's beauty, the boy went to the place she had indicated. He sat down on the beach and stared out at the horizon, but he saw only what he always saw: blue sky and ocean.

Disappointed, he walked to a nearby fishing village and asked if anyone there knew wabout an island and a temple.

"Oh, that was many years ago, when my great-grandparents were alive," said the fisherman. "There was an earth-quake, and the island was swallowed up by the sea. But although we can no longer see the island, we can still hear the temple bells when the ocean sets them swinging down below."

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The boy went down to the ocean and tried to hear the bells but he couldn't hear anything. He spent many days and months. He quit school and spent his days trying to hear the bells. Although he couldn't hear the bells, he learned about other things. "He began to realise that he had grown so used to the sound of the waves that he was no longer distracted by them. Soon after that, he became used to the cries of the seagulls, the buzzing of the bees and the wind blowing amongst the palm trees.

Six months passed and he still couldn't hear it. After almost a year he lost hope and thought: "perhaps it's just a another legend and the bells were all shattered during the earthquake and have never rung out since."

That afternoon he decided to go back home and thought of walking by the beach to say goodbye. "He looked once more at the natural world around him and because he was no longer concerned about the bells, he could again smile at the beauty of the seagulls' cries, the roar of the sea and the wind blowing in the palm trees. Far off, he hear the sounds of his friends playing and he felt glad to think that he would soon resume his childhood games.

The boy was happy and - as only a child can - he felt grateful for being alive. He was sure that he had not wasted his time, for he had learned to contemplate Nature and to respect it.

Then, because he was listening to the sea, the seagulls, the wind in the palm trees and the voices of his friends playing, he also heard the first bell.

And then another.

And another, until to his great joy, all the bells in the drowned temple were ringing. "

Years later, he became a grown man, and returend to the village and to the beach and decided to go for a walk.

And there on the beach... he saw that same woman.

"What are you doing here?" He asked

"I was waiting for you." She replied.

He noticed that, despite the passing years, the woman looked exactly the same; the veil hiding her hair had not faded with time.

She handed him a blue notebook full of blank pages.

"Write: a warrior of light values a child's eyes because they are able to look at the world without bitterness. When he wants to find out if the person beside him is worthy of his trust, he tries to see him as a child would."

"What is a warrior of light?"

"You already know that" She replied with a smile. "He is someone capable of understanding the miracle of life, of fighting to the last for something he blieves in - and of hearing the bells that the waves sets ringing on the seabed."

He had never thought of himself as a warrior of light. The woman seemed to read his thoughts. "Everyone is capable of these things. And, though no one thinks of themselves as warrior of light, we all are."

He looked at the blank pages in the notebook. The woman smiled again.

"Write about that warrior" she said.

A Lost Dot:
Dedicated to the warriors of light i know....

from my papers.. to your screen !

2007-03-06T23:21:00.000+04:00

"The following are some major military principles involved in both offensive as well as defensive militray strategies. They are presented to enrich and enlighten CP trainees as to the proper use or misuse of the various portoflio of competitive strategies to be considered for responding to competitve actions and decision"

"Inserting and linking to an Id:
To add an id name to an elemet, insert the following attribute into the element's tag:
id="id" "

They still teach HTML ! upgrade your sources pleasee..!

"Murabaha (cost plus financing) is a term that refers to a contract in which a financial institution purchases goods from a supplier upon the request of the client who will make deferred payments that cover the goods purchase price and an agreed upon profit...."

A Last Dot:
stuffed with info and i am not done yet !!

ادعي عليكم

2007-03-06T00:10:00.000+04:00

ادعي عليكم من غلاكم
والا عليه ماتهونون
يعل العدو يدفع بلاكم
ويغيب وانتوا الي اتمون
ما اشوف لي حد شراكم
غالي معي واقول مضنون
امريح واتسمع نداكم
ويللي زقرتوا قلت يا عون
ماحيد لي قلب سلاكم
منكم بحبل الود مشطون
حيث ان رضايه من رضاكم
ويااللي زعلتوا صرت مينون
مبخوت جان الله هداكم
واصير وياكم على لون

الشاعر : خلفان بن يدوعه

يا ليتك يا الشاعر ما قلت اللي قلته في أول بيتين..قاموا العرب ما يحسبون للكلمه حساب و تكون عالقلب اسوأ من رصاصة عدو

وان يينا واتشرهنا وعاتبناهم عالألم اللي لا نفع فيه لا كركم وسح ولا حتى بوفاس...ردوا علينا بكلمتين :

ادعي عليكم من غلاكم

والا عليه ماتهونون

ها ونحن غاليين دعيتوا علينا .. عيل لو كنا شرا باقي الخلق شو بيكون حالنا

طبعي اكره المجاملات..كلامي ممكن يكون جارح لأبعد الحدود..وأعترف اني ستخدمت هالبيتين عشان ارقع اثار القنابل اللي أفرها..بس اليوم عليم الله اني تمنيت اكون منزوعة الأحاسيس..لا فيه جهاز عصبي يحس ولا مخ يفكر... وها كله عسب شو؟

كلام كان تبريره الوحيد:

ادعي عليكم من غلاكم

والا عليه ماتهونون

نقطه أخيره

"لأجل عين تكرم مدينه"

وفديت رمش عينتش يالوالده مب بس بالمدينه...باهلها

Confessions...my first C.R.U.S.H

2007-03-04T22:43:00.000+04:00

Today i was reminded of my first cursh...
Yes, my first crush...
Every girl must have had a crush in her life.. one or two.. or dozens or many...

It was back in school when i first met this person....i met him in a world of unknown reality...surrealist was it? it wasn't; for he was real...but..unreachable..

I heard a lot about him and the more i hear...the more i respect him... the more i dream of how he looks... how tall is he.. ( i heard he was very tall) .. the day i got to know he is "bold" just gave me a big smile.. it adds to his personality... and just makes him even more..........unique..
When people spoke about him i had the biggest smile.... and for some unknown reason *blushed*

He was all what a girl would want in a guy..
Let me ask you.. what would a girl want in the man of her life...

Respectable
Witty
Humble
Smart
Handsome
Speaks his mind
intuitive
responsive
empathetic to a certain limit..
can be so harsh when its something against his beliefs..
wise and smart..

i mean if i listed 365 adjectives i'd still feel i didn't mention everything about him...

I remember after classes when i went home and prayed '6hr (afternoon) prayers, i'd make sure í pray and say..

"God please in heaven let me see him"
"God you have mentioned that we can marry those we wanted to be with in life once we are in Heaven.. please God let me be one of Omar Bin Al Khattab's wives"

What was i thinking !!!!!

Yes..its Omar Bin Al Khattab ra'6iya allah 3anh...

The Second Khalifa...

He was a mixture of all virtues.. in all their contradiciton forms..

Fiercul as he can be when he defends Islam...yet the most sweethearted person when he sees a poor..

He had a charismatic personality...people respected him and obeyed him.. at the same time.. he was known for his humbleness..

In terms of management... well what can we say of such a leader.. transformational leader..charismatic.. motivational...diplomatic...but that did not mean he wasn't a systematic leader..

Tell me a girl who would think twice of a guy who was so courageous, outspoken, very smart, everyone respected him even the elder people, and everyone feared him too....not only that.. but he was one of the very very few who learnt how to read and write when he was a child.. at that time.. 10 of Quraish only knew how to read and write..

Whoever says that looks don't affect a girl's perception towards a guy would be ... not saying the whole truth ;)

He was athletic... broad shouldered.. muscular..

He was a good wrestler...

He was a professional "horse rider" ...

One of the best archors..

very tall...

Before Islam he was known for his stubborn attitude..if he believed in something he'd stick to it regardless anything..

What kind of decisions would a 26 year old make in these days? Life turning decision?
Well.. Omar Bin Al Khattab converted into Islam when he was 26.. lets reflect what decisions did we make so far in our lives... his decision changed 40 of people's decisions... 40 other men converted into Islam after he did... a 26 year old affected 40 elder men of his tribe.. cool eh !

Imagine a guy who would think of something or suggest something and God almighty would support his decision.. you know its not your manager's support you are getting here.. its God's..

there were a couple of verses in the Qoran that spoke Omar's wordings.. word by word..

When he became the Amir.. he managed to conquer a lot of the lands in Persia and Africa.. the time he ruled was known for a lot of military success to the Islamic nation (i dream of such days nowadays)

Omar was known for his strictness... but many experienced his humbleness..

Once he was walking at night like he normally does to check on his people..and he heard a woman's painful moans from behind a tent.. he went closer and he found a man sitting outside.. Omar ra'6iya allah 3anh asked him what was wrong with his wife and the guy told him that they came from far away and his wife was
about to give birth... alone..

Omar went to his wife "um kalthoom bint ali" and asked her if she was up for "ajir" God sent to her.. she agreed straight away and on their way they carried some foodstuff for the lady.. Omar's wife went to her and he stayed with the man.. he lit the fire.. and started cooking the food.. and the guy was so concerned about his wife he hardly had the chance to ask who was this man... When the wife gave birth... Omar's wife called up saying "Prince Omar... tell the man he was granted a baby boy" and then only the man knew who was this person...

Btw... do you know that Omar was one of the leaders who encouraged an OPEN DOOR POLICY..?

He was told that Saad (one of his ministers) stayed in a room that had a door of which people had to knock first and then enter... he sent to him asking him to "break" the door..
يا بن مسلمة أذهب فاكسر الباب وقل له يا سعد يا خال رسول الله من حجب بينه وبين الرعية حجب الله بينه وبين الجنة يوم القيامة

He was the first to have military records..
the first to order that a soldier should stay maximum a period of 4 months away from his wife..
He used to go to the soldier's wives and asks them personally what were the things they needed from the market (would you find a president doing your grocery shopping for you)

He felt he was responsible of everything.. he used to say "i swear if a mule tripped somewhere in Forat i would be responsible of it infront of God and asked why didn't i pave the road"

"والله لو أن بغلة عثرت بشط الفرات لكنت مسئولا عنها أمام الله، لماذا لم أعبد لها الطريق".
(hello Road and Transportation Authority)

His period was known for supreme equality ... lack of discrimination.. 0% poverty .. (that is real.. not slogans used in political campaigns)

He was the first to initialize the methodology of business entities (bayt mal al moslimeen) which was considered as what we call in this time "business entities" ..

He focused a lot on infrastructure projects..

Do you blame me if i had a crush on him ?

If only we had three leaders with his virtues.. !

A Lost Dot:
عدلت فأمنت فنت يا عمر

midnight rantings...

2007-03-02T23:13:00.000+04:00

Sometimes i just feel like i wanna peel my skin off...yes...i just can't stand anything not even this layer of "aging" skin on me..!!!!!!

Right now .. right this second.. i wish ... i wish i could book a ticket and get the &%$# out of here...

well... but facts remain a fact.. and unless i decide to elope (which doesn't seem to be an option) then am still here..

waáeverr..those are the almost midnight rantings.... and guess what is the best thing to do when u are in such a stupid pathetic childish mood !!! watch TOM & JERRY.. (how did mom allow us to watch such condensed violence when we were kids tsk tsk tsk :p ) Btw.. do you ever recall and episode Tom actually becomes the "hero" of the episode.. it seems that Jerry always used to win for a reason.. now that is one cartoon that i can spend hours watching...with a smile.. i can't understand how kids enjoy those pathetic "Telletubies" and the really irritating "Barney" ....Tom & Jerry is way more "EDUCATIONAL"

have a good night / good day / good evening wherever you are friends..!

2007-03-01T22:31:00.000+04:00

Practical Utopian: Congratulations... i have ordered a custom designed pomp pomp from Italy and it didn't arrive yet; probably by the time "you'd be stuck in the traffic on your way to The World Trade Center" my pomp pomps will be delivered to me in a sealed golden bag with 2 F16s and 10 choppers and 365 soldiers to guarantee its safe arrival to my door step !!!!!!!!!

I am so proud of you young girl....

MD: I thank God many many times you are alive....:p next time you drive, AVOID and i repeat A.V.O.I.D. loaded trucks... we need you in one good, safe, and sound piece :p p.s. if i was there i'd collect the "shattered pieces of your so precious windshield...yes that same one you shared so many memories with " ... you should have heard yourself !

el7emdelelah 3ala il salameh...

A Lost Dot:
May God bless you all and protect you

When will you give up?

2007-03-01T00:00:00.000+04:00

Two days back i went horse back riding...it was very foggy; yet that was an excitment by itself. Anyways...Bandari was that day's horse...of course i was excited .. i missed my friend... we spent the first hour as good as we can be...actually i was quite satisfied... UNTIL...our trainer decides to take us out towards an area that is "big" enough for the horses to run for their "lives" .. and yet..a place that could contain their "wildness" ...

Objective:
to learn how to jump and get used to the "lil hills" as our trainer calls them...actually they are very small lil dunes here and there...

There was a stack of dried grass that was tied and kept close to a "lil hill" .. we had to come towards it.. jump over it... and "up the hill we go"...

With Bandari...it took me almost 7 times... everytime was worst than the previous one... he was stubborn and resisted..we'd be coming so fast... his position is perfect.. but once he is 30 cm away from the target... he either stops suddenly...or he'd shift himself quickly to the right...(which is not so "nice") ... i kept trying with him over and over again.. i got frustrated.. the trainer asks me to use the whip.. and i wish i didn't.... i know Bandari.. he just goes so fast if i had the whip in my hand.. even if i didn't use it..

He runs on "full speed" towards the stack...and i was like okay .. now he'll jump.. but once he was there...he stops and moves to the right in a second...

It was a second but it felt like 20 minutes...

In aviation they say "the plane kissed the ground" but i PLANTED myself on the ground.. it felt like a slow motion short clip...and the distance from his back to the ground seemed like..forever..!!! As soon as i opened my eyes i see the lil fella staring at me... what was i supposed to do...pfff.. he is adorable regardless his mood swings :p

Few more rounds and i called it a day.. one miserable fall is enough for the day !

My Point.. yes i know... that was an introduciton... :p

This incident made me wonder….

When will you give up? You try so hard… you keep trying and trying with all the hope that you’d succeed…but you end up being hurt… so much pain yet you resist to give up…you count the bruises but at the same time you try to decide what will you do next… you cannot give up… you don’t want to…

Sometimes I wonder….maybe if I didn’t push too hard on him…maybe if I gave him his time to digest the facts…the fact that there was a hill…and few more obstacles…maybe if I wasn’t so selfish and ignored the strain in all my muscles…. maybe if i took it easy...

Did he expect me to give up? I didn't .. if i stopped that does not necessarily mean that i gave up.. if he did give up on me... then that is another issue...

Bandari is just a horse.. but we can have similar situations in our daily life..

When will you quit? When will you decide that there is no hope? A decision that is very difficult.. doctors face it always.. when to plug the respiratory machines... don't we all have those machines.. they can be your bestest friend.. or they can be your pen...

A Lost Dot:
I used to say no pain no gain…but sometimes the pain is way too much… patience is all what you need.. with a bit of endurance.. a bit of strength.. and presistence...

Dentists..

2007-02-26T22:17:00.000+04:00

Our professor was discussing in our lecture once how we tend to go and seek services we totally dread...such as "dentists" .. he told us the things that "freak" him out.. and boy didn't that just make me feel good...( i wasn't the only grown up who does not "enjoy" those visits" )

When he talked about the things he hated i was able to relate to him so much....

I totally hate the fact that we have to be on that chair lying down.. can't he get done with his drilling while we are just sitting? It frustrates me when he starts adjusting the seating arrangement..for a second your back is in a "sitting" position.. and the other second .. iTS NOT !

Not only that.. but i wish those who designed the whole system would find a way to HIDE the doctor's GADGET ! I don't think i need to see those drills he use ! Seriously.. every time i am there i'd start counting them.. and staring at them.. wondering he'd start with this or that..

Its not only that they look freaky like those aliens from that cartoon we used to watch when we were kids...but they SOUND horrible too.... Now here where the ipods come handy.. plug the earphone in your ears and listen to ANYTHING other than the drills sculpturing your "precious lil teeth" !!!!

That is just the beginning of the list.. i really dread going to the dentists i could find 365 excuse not to go !! Now that is one service which i end up "forced" to go through it.. !

I wonder if my dentist wore this mask would that make me feel better?

A Lost Dot:

an apple a day keeps the doctor away...

2007-02-24T22:28:00.000+04:00

I was looking for a new quote for the "quote of the..." section and came across this one

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King Jr.

It can be interpreted differently.. each upon his own understanding..
what do you understand out of it..
do you think it is true?

Change ideas..

2007-02-23T22:37:00.000+04:00

If i asked you to take over the blog for a month, what changes would you make?

1. name

2. layout

3. topics discussed

4. anything else !

Old memories...

2007-02-22T23:07:00.000+04:00

back when i was a kid.. i remember we used to play few video games whenever the "boys" allowed us.. we'd be staring at the old panasonic tv...with the big joysticks (i think they are out of stock) and the old Sakher (however they spelt it) .. the big boys used the "atari" .. we were only allowed to play selective games...

playing it again brought back really old dusty memories.. for some reason i can smell "yeg6": cottage cheese kept to dry .. i can see glasses of vimto and kraft cheese sandwiches.. i can hear fights and arguments whose turn is it... i can hear laughs.. feel the excitment....

all the old games... named a bit differently...

enjoy ..

Frogger Snake Nblox(tetris) SpaceInvaders

I am so very excited

A Lost Dot:

Did anyone mention deadlines and projects? ;)

UAE Elections: expenses that did not pay back?

2007-02-20T22:00:00.000+04:00

Forbes Arabia had an interesting article in its February edition which talked about the elections that took place in the UAE; however, they discussed it from a different angle:

How much was the election's promotional expenses totalled to?

It started by comparing the UAE elections with Bahrain’s elections that took place in almost the same period. In Bahrain, the elections were directed towards the whole public while the UAE’s election was targeted for 6689 person elected by the government. In other words, the “audience” is much less.

Having said that, the Bahraini Budget was: 10 million Dinar while the Emarati’s budget totaled to 300 million dirhams within the first 10 days for all the seven emirates according to Dahi Khalfan.

According to three candidates who have not succeeded in their elections, they stated that the average daily expenditure was 15 million dirhams.

Many of the candidates have mentioned that the average expenditure on the promotional campaign was 150,000 dhs per person. That was what Mohammad Falaknaz (lost) that his campaign amounted to 200,000Dhs that were divided into the website, newspaper ads and a seminar.

But the question is, is money the important factor in such campaigns?

Salim Khamees (dubai candidate who didn’t win) stated that his budget was was less than 20,000 dhs yet he believed that he did spread his message efficiently.

There was a part which discussed that there was correlation between media personnel and the candidates where some have paid what amounted to 20,000dhs in return to have their ads and press releases in their magazines.

The article also mentioned that the election committee have three main rules:
1. No sponsorships allowed from any sector.
2. A budget ceiling from their campaigns which could reach up to 2Million dirhams.
3. No supporting funds from any party governmental it was or personal.

Many of the candidates have mentioned that their success was due to their social relations or their family’s relations rather than the effect of the promotional campaign.

I wonder, are our advertising means that expensive? Is the high price in such promotional campaigns was due to the high prices of the media services or what could it be?

For the next elections, how would they go about their elections; the most known gets the highest votes or the one with the most informative campaign gains the votes?

A Lost Dot:

If you are planning to be one of the candidates, start saving from now…and don’t forget the inflation rate effect.

2007-02-20T17:20:00.000+04:00

لحية احشمها ولحية احشم نفسك عنها

نقطه أخيره
السكوت مب شرط يكون علامة الرضا ولا الحشيمه

اعذرني يا قلمي...

2007-02-18T19:04:00.000+04:00

أنظر إلى نفسي في زاويتي الضيقه وأتساءل من أنا...
قد قالها قبلي وكان أجمل ما قيل...
قال أنه مجموعة إنسان..
فهل أنا كذلك أم أنا مجرد شخصية في إحدى الروايات الممله تدور أحداثها حول فتاه تعاني من شيزوفرينيا حاده...فتاره تراها الملاك المشع بالنور وتارة تكون العكس تماما...

ترى من أنا...
أأنا صائغه حروف صهرت في حمم قلبي ثم سكبت في أفران عقلي ونفخ فيها بنفس أشبه ما يكون بالعميق ليشكل مشكاة أبعد ما تكون عن الزجاجيه...تحل في ثناياها فكره...لها قفل كان مفتاحه دمعه...أبت الخروج حتى ختنقتها العبره....

أم أنا تلك التي تغزل في ضوء الصباح وفي سكون الليل...حين كانت حروفي هي مغزل أفكاري..لففتها حول قلمي محاولة جاهده أن أتقن صنعتي بعفويتي علها تهدئ من جموح أفكاري أو تطفئ حرقة فؤادي...
ولكنني نسيت أو قد تناسيت بأني كنت من أتقضت غزلها فتقطعت أصابعها...قما عدت أستطيع فهم الحروف ولا أن أتقن الغزل...

فلتقل لي من أنا...قل لي علي أستطيع فك الطلاسم التي دفنت في مقبرة أفكاري عند قبر تلك الخاطره التي كانت تائهه في إحدى الأيام تبحث عن مخرج لتتحقق وتصير واقع ولكني وأدتها بيدي هاتين الباردتين...
فأنا قاتلة تلك الخاطره..
وقاتلة نفسي كذلك...
فحق علي حكم الإعدام بالصمت المؤبد لأجل غير مسمى..

قد رست مراكبي..ولكنها لم ترسي على شاطئ قط.. إنما كانت البحار لها المرسى..
والموج قبطانها...
فإلى أن يحين لنا المسير.. سأظل أحاول غزل شراعي.. وصهر وقودي..ووأد أفكارقاتله علها تقلل من ثقل المحمل..

قد قيل أني أتقيأ أفكاري هنا...وقد قيل أن طلاسمي منفره..ولكن هذه أنا..
قاتله..خائنه..ساحره...
أهرب من الواقع بالطلاسم والتشبيه..
وأختبئ خلف حروفي المتبعثره..
فلك أن تلملمها...وتلملم بقاياي..
وتصهرهما..
ثم تكتب بعد ذلك حكاية علها تكون أفضل..
ولا يكون فيها القلم هو البطل..

" نقطه أخيره"
اعذرني يا قلمي...فسواك هو البطل

Few other ads..

2007-02-17T08:51:00.000+04:00

Did i mention that one of the reasons i started posting the previous post was because i was watching TV in a prime hour and the amount of advertisements that i had to "swallow" in that hour would have caused ... constipation of my MIND !

The following day i decided to time them.. so i got my paper and pen and started jotting few things and this is what i found out:
9:00-9:05 the series start
9:05-9:08 ADs
9:17-9:22 Ads
9:30-9:34 Ads
9:34-9:35 news (ONE MINUTE)
9:46-9:50 Ads

16 minutes of REPEATED advertisements.

Now i wouldn't mind SO MUCH breaks if there where PROPER ads.. i got sick of ads of shampoo.. kids... coffee.. food.. creams... (anything a woman was supposed to be interested at)

Should i email them and tell them "please change the ads or cut down the intervals"

that is the politest i can get ..

Side Note:

Few Ads...

Speed Kills, Slow Down

(I liked the way they used the roads to illustrate an image of a person)

Fish Breath & Sock Breath:

Agency: Mccann, Puerto Rico

I know it is disgusting lol but would it make you buy the chewing gum? lol

"Children Can live in places you can never imagine "

A cutout of a homeless kid was hidden inside tent cards kept on coffee tables. Since the menu is printed on these tent cards, many people who casually lifted these tent cards were shocked to find a kid inside. Not only did it catch people unaware, but evoked immediate empathy towards the children living in such conditions. As a result, from the 54 outlets where the activity was carried out, SUPPORT collected over two lakh rupees (one lakh is equal to a hundred thousand) within just over six weeks. The willingness of people to contribute has encouraged them to replicate this activity in other cities as well.
Agency: Everest Y&R Mumbai India

And now ladies and gentlemen.. my favorite TV AD (so far) .. drum rolling....

Click Here until i fix the embedding code

A Last Dot:
in marketing.. repetition could cause an oppisite attitude by the consumer.. instead of liking the product; he'd be too "stuffed" of it from the ads he sees.. he turns to "dislike" the product instead... التكرار ما يعلم الشطار !!

الشرح التفصيلي لمشروع الصهيوني لهدم المسجد الاقصى

2007-02-17T08:37:00.000+04:00

Found it quite informative

الشرح التفصيلي لمشروع الصهيوني لهدم المسجد الاقصى

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فلتنتفض الأقلام

......imagine.....

2007-02-15T22:37:00.000+04:00

Imagine if there was a rule that prohibitted the use of "females" in advertisements...

advertisements should be "sex free" : in other words it shouldn't be sexually oriented (AXE people you're gonna go bankrupt)

it should totally convey the real product's features and benefits... (don't start brainwashing people with facts that do not exist and taking advantage that the country you are advertising in does not have a law that supports customer benefits & rights YET)

basically there should be a little bit of ethics and a lot of creativity in the advertisement business..!!!

I wasn't surprised to see an AXE ad that was exteremelly sexually oriented.. what surprised me was the fact that it was done by the "dubai office" so i wondered... will i ever see that advertisement in newspapers and magazines and somewhere in the middle of the road.. I HOPE NOT ! i don't deny the ad itself was very creative... but .... you can assume the rest..

Now there was an interesting study which i want you to read (of course if interested)

In the research, men and women were shown Sex and the City, featuring explicit insights into the lives of four female thirtysomething New Yorkers, or Malcolm in the Middle, a sitcom about an American family. The two programmes were chosen because they were very similar in style and length, and neither contained canned laughter, which could have been distracting.

During the ad breaks the test subjects were shown a range of up to 12 sexual or non-sexual advertisements for CDs, beer, fragrances, hair products, spirits and mobile
phones. They were then asked to recall details of the advertisements.

Both men and women recalled far fewer details about both types of advert when they appeared in Sex and the City. The researchers said why this happens is not
clear. Viewers may be so engrossed in the programme that they are annoyed at the
interruption and pay less attention. Another theory is that the sex programme is
more involving, making recall of interruptions less likely.

source

We are already clustered with advertisement daily.. an average of more than hundreds of advertisements are exposed to us on a daily basis... at least let us enjoy a good ad..

Say you had to advertise for..lets assume one of P&G's products.. any detergent or shampoo.. do you really need a WOMAN to do that !! now take the "feminine" factor out of your calculations.. don't you think the advertisements would be more creative? they'd start finding NEW ways to promote their products that have been totally used with the same concept of advertisement and same message.. !!!

That was just a simple suggestion..

Few ads ...

Freshly made angel hair.Gondola Veneziana Italian restaurant.

Knorr Fish Cubes...

Now tell me why don't we see such ads and have to suffer with the Knorr MAKAYNOISE bla bla bla حياتي بدونك سلطه

I loved it !

nice...!

Cleopatra's Beauty -- unveiled?

2007-02-15T18:05:00.000+04:00

Academics at the University of Newcastle say the queen of Egypt (right), long
celebrated for her great beauty, was actually a sharp-nosed, thin-lipped woman.
In short, a fair match for the hook-nosed, thick-necked Mark Antony (left)
Source

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beauty... uncategorized... unconditional...

2007-02-14T23:10:00.000+04:00

كالشمع يبكي وما يدري أعبرته

من حرقة النار أم من فرقة العسل

"منقول"

My humse...my love..

2007-02-13T19:27:00.000+04:00

Once i wrote about the "humses" i know .. a mixture of horses and humans.. and today i'll talk about one of them...

Early morning when its really cold i met him.. the smell of burnt wood mixed with the coolness of the morning that awaits for the shy sun rays to dissolves in the misty cold weather rushes into your nostrils and fills your soul with old memories of trips in the desert and burnt wood..

Just like kids who cannot sleep of excitement i was.. and in that morning i stomped my feet on the ground to make sure that my boot is perfectly in its place.. tied my sheila twice and wore my hat.. slided my hands into my gloves where every finger rested in its right "sleeping bag" that guaranteed extra warmth in that cold weather.. inhaled the air.. filled my lungs with the mixture of aroma's.. and went to meet "him" ..

Both of them where there.. standing in pride.. shaking their
head once... and moving their legs after that.. Bandari was mine.. my love.. lol

Don't get too excited.. Banadari is the horse i have been riding for a while.. he was .. you can say one lil big horse that gave me a shoulder and a kick .. love and ... lameness.. many many many lessons.. many many other experiences.. let me tell you..

On that day, we decided we'll go for a ride in the desert.. that was the first time ... we started on the paved road and all was in control.. but i felt different.. Bandari was ... he was weird.. he trotted in such a way that would push you upward along with his trots.. you look at him and he is a normal Arabian horse but a bit larger... like those guys who are into body building and muscular.. broad shoulders.. and what you can call "huge" figure .. Bandari wasn't huge per say.. but he was "big" .. and "bouncy" .. his color was white dipped in a gray solution for a second where it gave him this grayish shade... then u get few kids and give them a medium sized paint brush and let them start drawing fine light brown lines randomly all over him....one of the kids found a black paint and he had two or three black strokes under his ear.. sub7an allah.. God have mixed those colors together in him... probably an indication of how a mixed character he is...

So..now you can imagine my Bandari..

We went for a ride that day as i told you earlier.. the road starts with a paved road.. to an unpaved road.. and then the sandy path starts which takes you to the middle of a nowhere..

All the time during the paved road the horses where fine.. the normal horses we used to ride.... quiet and steady.. if only i realized that that was the start of a "not so steady" experience.. lol

We passed cross areas of farms and newly constructed houses.... hardly not many people where there except for workers here and there or gardeners here and there or few family cars.. once we reached the unpaved roads.. we can see bigger farms.. and "more fresh air" .. and the horse's speed increased a bit.. not so "bit" but a good "bit".. and it was so exciting i wished if i could have went crazy for a minute and sang "i believe i can fly" .. or probably shout " i am freeeee " .. but later i wished i was a "kitten" not a bird.. and wished if i was chained instead..

Probably we spent 20 minutes trotting.. and of course our horses knew where to go.. but we had to act like we were giving them the orders.. until we reached few steps close to the sand and my trainer told me to hold the reins well because they sort of go "fast" .. boy oh boy.. if that was fast... believe me once they felt the sand between their LEGS they went on full speed.. after few minutes of that we stopped to adjust ourselves and postures and "check on each other" ..

"ready for cantering" my trainer asked..

"yah" replied my partner with enthusiasm

"well.. yes.. i mean.. okay fine.." i said with a lot of hesitation..

"yallah kick" and off she goes.. faster than wind.. and so does our horses follow..

don't imagine me this sloppy rider on the horse.. i mean i was sloppy for a bit but then things where fine.. and we cantered a bit .. so we decided to challenge ourselves further and canter on the "little dunes".. first was fine.. second was fine.. wohoo.. don't get to excited dots.. the third which was the biggest WAS NOT FINE !

i learnt how to sit when i want to canter to the top.. but i missed the "coming down" part..

kick.. canter.. lean forward.. up to the top and i stayed leaning forward... and that taught me the lesson of my life... rule number one..

Ascending: lean forward..

Descending: lean BACKWARD !

i leaned forward and my horse tripped.. no balance.. pull yourself together.. cannot.. its all dark.. a hit on the right side of the head... and another on the face.. i heard words around me.. when i opened my eyes i saw the trainer and my partner .. i looked for bandari he was few meters away looking at me.. he stood there... under a Ghaf tree on top of the other dune.. and as soon as i was on my feet he ran fast to what i thought was the horizon.. so now i am with a throbbing face... an extremely painful nose.. i felt like a puppet that wasn't so tightly tied to its strings and soaked in sand.. my only concern was Bandari.. and how would i reach home..

My trainer gave me her horse and we went back to the stables...while she called up the guys to help her catch Bandari who was almost half way through towards the stables...on our way back i was trying to count the bruises i had.. lol.. for the next couple of weeks i had to wear long sleeves and turtle necks to cover them ...

Ever since.. Banadari was my love.. he was my horse for the next many classes and it took me a while to overcome my fear.. but he was amazing...

Although he is "big" but he has the sweetest heart you can ever imagine "in a horse" ... every morning before my ride i'd hold his face and i'd totally loose my senses... talking to him and whispering in his ears.. changing my accent to suit his "personality" .. ask him if i should talk in arabic or english ... then we'd start our day...

My trainer told me a secret.. it only takes the horse the first three minutes to know what kind of a rider you are... once you there... he'd feel you.. sense your fear if you were scared.. and sets the limits to know who is the "boss"... Bandari is an expert in those games.. now i learnt that if i had the whip in my hand from the first step...he'd know that i am the boss (for the first few rounds though) and then he'd try his games... many times i'd hug his neck with laughter knowing what he is trying to prove..... man... i understood your games mister ! lol try something else..

Bandari is like a child who hates to be the second.. would race as fast as he could.. but his weight.. you know he is one of those chubby kids who'd be shouting "wait for me wait for me" and once he is close.. he would just go on full speed and say " HA! I WON ! " ...

But he has a problem... he totally hates walking on MUD !!!

i mean it.. imagine that built guy i told you about earlier.. imagine him walking on his toes over the mud... sissy? well .. yah.. lol .. i thought it was just because the previous night it rained cats and dogs el7emdelelah.. but i tested him again ... the chap wouldn't walk on the mud and if i kicked him.. he'd go fast.. or step with all the power he has and let the mud stains us together.. ! lol idiot !

don't blame if i am in love with him... as much as he is bouncy and tiring.. as much as i love his innocence and the way he cares about me.. when i ride with no stirrups... he'd slowly trot as slow as he can trying not to drop me off his back...

I missed him today.. my horse was a "nameless" horse.. one which i experienced another challenge with.. bareback riding (no saddle) ... few rounds.. few slow trots.. 10 steps cantering.. and on my back i land...

So now my nose is healed.. my rib seems to be fine .. my arm is back functioning... my old bruises are okay.. and today's back "shock" seems to be fine too.. its flexible and does the job ...!!! I guess i am ready for next class.. ;)

i know i spoke a lot about bandari.. but you cannot imagine the happiness i felt with him.. seriously he taught me a lot.. probably the difficult way.. but he is one horse that i am so in love with.. i might ask him out for dinner one day :p

A Last Dot:

No pain .. no gain..

عندما اشتعل رأسها شيبا

2007-02-12T23:43:00.000+04:00

عذرا..فقد قلت بأنك لا تملكين من جمال الورود جمالا

وعجبا كيف أثبتي لي بأن الجمال لا يقاس بتلك المعايير السطحيه التي باتت مستهلكه

بل الجمال هو ما قاسته الروح من روعة المعدن...

وصدق الإحساس

فكنتي لي السلولى والأنيس

وكنت أفضل مستمع لي

في الليل كان أم في النهار

كنت تستمعين...

لضحكاتي..

ولأنيني...

ولحرقة في قلبي...

سامحيني..

فأسررت لك بالقليل من الكثير

دون علمي بأن كل رقيق رق إحساسه

وكل صادق صدق ألمه

فوجدتك تذبلين

وتتألمين..

حتى أشتعل رأسك شيبا

ولكن أبيت أن تسقطين

فمت واقفه

والشيب يزيد من وجمالك وقارا

حتى بت لا أعلم أهو الشيب من زانك

أم وقارك كان من زاده جمالا....

A Last Dot:

this flower dies by changing its petal's colors from the rich purple to white.. not all the petals.. just the middle inner part of it..

When food brings millions..

2007-02-11T23:57:00.000+04:00

How much are you willing to pay for a MEAL ..what if i told you its in one of the best hotels in Bangkok, prepared by Six three-star Michelin chefs from France, Italy and Germany .. oh and its a 10 meal course !!!!!!

13,000 pound is okay?

The only thing that made the "normal ordinary" dishes the most expensive (1million) was the way they marketed them .. yes yes .. marketing again and again.. andddddddddddddd the amount of "drinks" they added to the ingredients.. a wine from the "ice age" (just kidding here) but because they used expensive wine .. it added value to the dishes.. read what they have to say about their ingredients and tell me whether they did not use "proper marketing " :p

Little expense was spared in putting together the event, titled "Epicurean Masters of the World". The ingredients were flown in fresh: black truffles, foie gras, oysters and live Brittany lobsters; caviar; Jerusalem artichokes and white truffles from Rome. Diners sipped their way through legendary vintages, like a 1985 Romanée-Conti, a 1959 Château Mouton Rothschild, a 1967 Château d'Yquem and a 1961 Château Palmer, considered "one of the greatest single wines of the 20th century," according to Alun Griffiths of Berry Bros & Rudd, the St James's wine merchants which procured and shipped them. The wine alone cost more than £100,000, he said.

My future plans:

Throwing a party and collect the funds for "Dots's social society fund" i.e. her bank account
Chefs from different cuisines...

We would prepare the "chammi with scented dehn" translated: cottage cheese with ghee cooked in special homemade / handmade spices that were grounded using the traditional methods..

along with that, we shall have the traditional seasonal salad which is a seasonal salad made from "hemmadh" what is it translated for.. basically its those green little "semi grass" that grows in the desert when it rains heavily and the desert turns green.. yes yes this five leaved plant that you stepped on that day.... now that is a one in a life time occasion because we only see this plant once every year... so that makes it SO VERY expensive ..it shall have the exquisite olive oil grown in al saadiyat island ORGANICALLY added to it

As a side dish, Falazií bread will be served with finely done mshawa in an old village in Iran - Homemade by that old lady that sat on the porch every day beside the sea waiting for her husband to get the fish.. btw.. mshawa is a kind of a fish sauce.. trust me it tastes YUMMY

the main course will be personally selected "infant goats" stuffed with rare kashews and raisins marinated in the most exclusive sauce of saffaron and spices and other "secret" ingredients .. wrapped as Al Ain citizens used to do in banana leafs in our local "tanoor" which is a clay oven dug in the ground for more than 5hours.. to give it the most peculiar smoked flavor and rich aroma.. the meshwi shall be served on more than 30 layers of extremely fine bread = rgag- and then soaked in its gravy..
the eggs that will be stuffed in the goat are those of the "chicken that laid gold": the egg will be boiled in the gravy so it will get the saffaron's goldish color and the gravy's taste..

as for the dessert we shall have "bobar pudding" which is basically a pumpkin pudding with the most expensive cinnamon worldwide..
and not to forget the Logaymat "dumplings" done by fatmooh the very well known CHEF cross country for her dumplings dipped in the rarest debs (the extract of dates) the most exotic sauce you can imagine

Special Karak will be served as well as a refreshment.. WARNING: highly addict able
that is just the beginning.. so now .. leeeeeeeeeeeeeeet the party begin AND DONATE ! :p

A Last Dot:

No more dots .. need more CASH ! :p

bits & pieces from here & there..

2007-02-11T10:45:00.000+04:00

Why would parents drag their children and blankets and queue as early as Friday Midnight to get the admission form for a school to enroll their kids in KG1 !!!??? Is the school (My Own English School) THAT good? or is it because they have a "first in first served" system? or what exactly ...!!

Children, all aged four, were there with their parents, numbering about 300, to collect admission forms for kindergarten (KG1). The number of admission forms to be distributed by the school on Oud Metha Road was 600 costing Dh25 each

Gulf News

“There were already more than 50 people in the queue when we reached at 1am. Husbands and wives were taking turns as one would stand in the queue, while the other attended to their little ones who slept in the car. By eight in the morning, there were over 600 people thronging the gates of the school, and all this trouble was for nothing,” added the father of one child from Kerala, India.

Emirates Today

Now the funny part is that those who were available on FRIDAY AFTERNOON where given the privilege of having TOKENS .. of course that means they are served first ! yipee .. their 4 year old child will be enrolled in kG1 !!

its worth mentioning that this school is one of the many schools & university that are managed by the "educational tycoon" (and that is my own OPINION) : GEMS !!!!! what a rare commodity they are !!! (yes i was very sarcastic here... so for those who are willing to explain what is so special about this school please do so )

Okay done with schools..

Iran's Surprise:
So it was announced earlier that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is going to announce a "surprise" to his nation (and probably the world) today... so i was excited .. and waited... and waited..and waited.. lol okay okay there u go...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday pledged to maintain the country's nuclear work, but said he wanted to remain within international rules. He added tha it would be "humiliation" for Iran to abandon its nuclear programme and that UN-imposed sanctions would not harm the country. Iran plans to install thousands of centrifuges and start "industrial-scale" enrichment. It
already runs two cascades of 164 centrifuges at the Natanz underground plant.
source

So now we have to wait for George Bush's usual press conference...!!!!!

At the meantime..the UN have installed their "surveillance cameras" in Natanz... !! GulfNews

Enough Politics right?

Tug of War between the two "competitors" :
Etisalat's competitive responses... and Du's "hiccups"

Du Finally launches its service today (i wonder was it under the promised timing or not) anyways.. ever since Du was announced to be the competitor.. we have seen many responses from Etisalat in trying to provide competitive rates and services etc etc... meanwhile.. Osman Sultan, Du's CEO have announced that it is likely to expect "hiccups" in the service.. by that they are being "realistic" as he said..

Although he have also mentioned that both companies

which will operate without any interconnection or site sharing with etisalat's network, at least in the beginning.

Hmm... i wonder i wonder.. ! anyways.. that is all with Du & Etisalat's tug of war...

A Last Dot:
Didn't i decide to cut my "news consumption"... why haven't i !!!

Sing Along with Annie .. old memories.. new encounters..

2007-02-10T20:26:00.000+04:00

Many years back in our video library my sister and i found a movie with the title "Annie" .. from the title it sounded so "childish" just what a 7 & 6 year old girls would want to be watching..

Annie was the first English home video i believe we saw.. it lasted for quite a while until mom decided to "place it somewhere else" .. we never knew where until i was old enough to understand there where a PG13+ scenes.. :p

Today i spent two good hours watching the movie ... i am talking about the 1982 version.. is it because i was asked not to watch it when i was a child and here i am enjoying the privilege i get for being such "an old lady" now? :p or is it the plot of the movie and the musical / semi Broadway effects that gave me that sense of "happiness".. or probably it was the old memories brought to life again? In all cases, i know i was happy.

p.s. "Tomorrow" was one of the best song .. dedicated to those who did not have good days lately.. be optimistic.. tomorrow is a new day.. :)

The sun'll come out
Tomorrow
Bet your bottom dollar
That tomorrow
There'll be sun!
Just thinkin' about
Tomorrow
Clears away the cobwebs,
And the sorrow
'Til there's none!
When I'm stuck a day
That's gray,
And lonely,
I just stick out my chin
And Grin,
And Say,
Oh!
The sun'll come out
Tomorrow
So ya gotta hang on
'Til tomorrow
Come what may
Tomorrow! Tomorrow!
I love ya Tomorrow!
You're always
A day
A way!

A Lost Dot:

Sometimes happiness can be in the least expected things. Enjoy it !

How I Made It - Part Two..

2007-02-10T16:23:00.000+04:00

This is the second part of a mini summary of the book "How I Made It".. to read the first part click here

In the last post i have listed some of the characteristics that distinguish entrepreneurs.. and from there we shall continue..

Qualifications:

Although intelligence is one of their main characteristics... yet many of them have left school without any qualifications. Duncan Bannatyne has left school at the age of 15 without an O level.

According to Professor Gray,

Successful entrepreneurs tend to be brighter than other people
and they are usually practically good at people relationship skills."

According to the book, having a university degree does not necessarily extinguish an entrepreneurer although in some cases it is an added bonus such as "Matt Stevenson, who got a first class degree from Derby for designing an aquarium filter for specialist corals led him directly to a business making fish tanks."

Risk:

We always think that entrepreneurs are those who risk everything for the sake of their "new idea" and "new business." On contrary; usually entrepreneurs remain in their present job even if they have started their new business. They are "cautious" people rather than the stereotype: risk takers.

"Gerry Pack secretly kept his full time job with a holiday company for a full year before starting his hotel booking business. Maria Kempinska quited her day job as an agent assistant only when she felt her Jongleurs comedy club was going to be a success. Also, Chartered business psychologist Ros Taylor says

"You don't necessarily have to jump over the precipice without a parachute, instead you can plan your venture bit by bit and gradually wean yourself off the company you work for. You don't have to be completely daft."

Motivation:

If you were an entrepreneur, what will motivate you ? Money? well..

Money is not the only motivation to entrepreneurs; instead, the desire to prove to others your capabilities is one of the motivational factors such as Derek Beevor who "flies to work in a helicopter each day says he was determined to prove wrong a teacher who told him to leave school because there was no point in his staying to take his O levels."

According to Professor Gray, most entrepreneurs are driven by an "innate self-belief & self-confidence.. while a small group are driven by fear of failure."

Another motivator was "sibling rivalry". Stephanie Manuel wanted to prove to the rest that she can have a successful profession as much as her elder brothers had, whom have achieved great success in their professions.

The desire to make a difference is another motivational factor and to me. Personally, i believe it is as important as the rest of the factors. Lizzie Vann suffered from asthma and eczema when she was a kid decided to start a company that was specialized in baby food.

Attitude:

The book asks a questions which was "what does it take to become a successful entrepreneur? It gives the answer as following:

1. passion & the belief in what you are doing. "if you do not believe 100% in what you are doing, you will never be able to persuade anyone else"

2. The ability to see every failure as an opportunity, not a disaster. Chris Gorman lost 500,000 pound setting up a record company; yet he said that he was relieved he lost it now than to loose 20 million pound later in life.

3.Persistence and refusal to give up.

4. Endless amount of Optimism. According to Ros Taylor,

"Positive thinkers are much more likely to be successful in everything they undertake because if you feel optimistic you are much more likely to be relaxed- which means you are less likely to be stressed and become ill and have
accidents. And so you are likely to live longer. There is a whole pattern of behaviour, which follows from being a lucky and optimistic thinker. They take the view that i can do this, i can solve this, i can make it happen. And so they do."

5. The ability to spot a potential opportunity. Mark Mills made his first million after wondering why no one advertised on the side of post boxes. He was the 50,000th person to have rung them with the idea, but he was the only one of the 50,000 who enrolled on a law degree specifically to see if there was a loophole in the law which would enable him to turn his vision into reality. There was.

6. Able to be good at problem solving.

7. Confidence to change direction when it becomes clear that your path isn't the right one.

So basically this is the first part of the book. Then comes a brief of each of those entrepreneurs. The first is Lizzie Vann: Founder of Organix Brands. Stay tuned for its summary.

A Lost Dot:

"So the message of this book is this: It is evident from the diversity of experience detailed here that there is no blueprinting to becoming a successful entrepreneur and no right or wrong way of going about it. What really matters is having the right attitude....." How I Made It, Rachel Bridge

to go eco or not..

2007-02-09T22:37:00.000+04:00

I started writing a post about advertising.. probably will spare it for some other time.. for i found something so interesting while doing my "research" ..

Definition:

Ecodriving is a way of driving that reduces fuel consumption, greenhouse gas
emissions and accident rates. Ecodriving is about driving in a style suited to
modern engine technology: smart, smooth and safe driving techniques that lead to
average fuel savings of 5-10%.
Ecodriving offers benefits for drivers of
cars, vans, lorries and buses: cost savings and fewer accidents as well as
reductions in emissions and noise levels. Several European countries have
implemented successful ecodriving programmes.

The interesting thing is that "eco-driving" will be a part of the driving tests in Britian by 2008 although there isn't a "fail/pass" rule.. the driver should only have the knowledge of the eco-driving system.

The reason behind this is basically to lower the amount of pollution in Britian as well as following "fellow countries" such as Netherlands and other countries...

The government move follows similar initiatives in other countries, including
the Netherlands, where the 'New Driving' programme estimates that drivers can
cut fuel use by nearly a third. The development comes after ministers faced
criticism for failing to meet carbon reduction targets, especially from road
transport

Another reason which was stated in the same article was that they predicted that the prices would hit to 1 pound per litre.. so it is going to be a way to cut costs..

Critics:

1. researchers found the environment 'gives people a good feeling, but it's not an incentive for them to change their behaviour'.

2. it only saves 2 pound a week: less than the price of a large cup of coffee

3. 30 million licence holder will not be affected with the test.

Few things:
1. It is a way of changing the behaviour of the people and probably make them more "aware" of the effect it has on the environment.

2. They are taking steps against the increase in oil prices by finding ways to cut fuel consumption by THIRD.. what are we doing?

3. I mentioned above one of the reasons was to cut CO2.. the interesting point was that there are carbon reduction targets which where failed.. by any chance do we have any such targets?

4. We all heard that the testing procedures will change.. do you think that such programs would help decrease the number of road accidents in the UAE?

A Lost Dot:
I Am typing those words while hearing the "daily" symphony conducted after the persistent invitation of "a road criminal: مجرم طريق" and maestro "dubai police" .. location.. one of Dubai's highways... cost: ............ depends on many other factors.. !!!!!

links:
ecodriving
"Now drivers have to pass the green test" - The Guardian

لحظات حرجة

2007-02-08T19:02:00.000+04:00

some would say that it is the "arabic version" of "ER" .. one of the directors said that it is not..!! well...
what is it ?

Considered to be the biggest "arabian" production in terms of all the technicality, the cast of actors/actresses .. in terms of the story.. basically.. a new style of doing series in the Arab World..

okay.. once u see it you cannot but think of ER.. but .. nevertheless.. you would be quite impressed with the level of technicality (lighting, directing, picture, audio) used ..

there was a group of directors.. a group of actors..
the cast was a mixture of many characters... it covered people from syria.. lebanon .. egypt .. algeria..
people like Yosra, Latifa, Mona Zaki, Jamal Sulaiman, Laila 3elwi...and many many others..

seems interesting...

if interested tune to Dubai TV: 22:30 UAE Sunday's, Monday's & Tuesday's.

When it rains at almost midnight..

2007-02-07T23:45:00.000+04:00

Those little "ticks" on the 5 windows that surround my room SHOULD be the soothing sound at such a time when i am tucked hugging my pillow and closing my eyes tightly trying to force myself to sleep..!!! apparently they weren't.. rain sometimes depresses me.. yes there are times when i ran "with" the rain (jogged is a better word) and that was so exciting.. there were times when i danced with the raindrops and together we wrote a story.. or a part of a reality.. but there were many times when my tears got mixed with the rain drops and if not for their taste.. the sand wouldn't have known the difference.. call me weak.. but that is how i feel right now.. helpless.. and weak.. probably wishing if i can be out there.. and feel the raindrops washing away everything........

my mind right now looks like that Polaroid picture effect Picasa has when we collage several pictures; in my case those pictures are nothing of what i'd want to collage.. but 3a goolat 5alid il fai9al..

استطيع امنع لساني لايقول

واستطيع امنع عيوني لاترى

واستطيع امنع يديني لاتنول

لكن المشكل انا وشلون احول

دون فكري لو خيالي به سرى

شارد افكاري على رغمي تجول

كل ماعن الهوى والا طرى

There are people who sub7an allah.. they have the ability to really shut down their mind from certain things.. its like they have a button somewhere at the back of ther scull maybe.. and if there was something they don't want to think about.. just press the button and there you go.. that is good.. because it means they have the ABILITY to do that.. we all have the ability i guess.. it needs practice..

A Lost Dot:

“Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain”

“Life is like a rainbow. You need both the sun and the rain to make its colors appear.”

القدس تستغيث

2007-02-06T22:01:00.000+04:00

بدأت القوات الإسرائليه بتجريف التل الصغير الواقع عند باب المغاربة أحد أبواب البلدة القديمة والمؤدية إلى الحرم القدسي وإلى حائط المبكى الذي يقدسه اليهود.

السبب كما يزعمون: السلطات الإسرائيلية تؤكد أن الأشغال تهدف إلى تدعيم جسر خشبي تضرر خلال عاصفة ثلجية منذ سنتين

السبب: عودوا لأعمال الحفريات التي تقوم بها السلطات الإسرائليه تحت الأرض من أنفاق لتنفيذ مخططتاهم

ماذا باليد؟: أقل القليل الدعاء الخالص

Work has begun in a mound near Jerusalem's holiest site, raising tensions between Palestinians and Israelis !!! ( i deleted the part that said "...begun to repair a mound" for i don't see it as a repairing act)

Reason: archeological reasons according to Israel .. but what about the tunnels that are dug underground for the last previous years...and the search for the TEMPLE.. oh tell me its not going to affect the "archeological" situation of the Mosque !!!!

Remember what happened in 2000!!!!! Remember Sharon's attempt.. remember what happened?

Oh what was that about EXPANDING the WAILING WALL?????

DISGUSTING !

A LAST DOT:

الله أكبر على من طغى واستكبر

When the cat ate her voice !

2007-02-05T21:17:00.000+04:00

Facing the window, she sat on the same wheelchair that she sits on every single morning. The pigeons who rest in the shade of the window seemed to await her daily arrival. She would gaze at them, following their ballet-like movements around the window, listening to their melodious chirps until it was time for them to leave. She could almost hear them say, "Till the next morning… same time… same place." Only then would her eyes start counting the same trees. Who knows? Maybe a new one was planted. If she had a stronger power of sight she'd count the roses lying seductively on their bed, waiting for a hand to cut them off, unaware of their painful thorns....The child with the broken hand is running faster and faster in the garden until he somehow managed to make a sand castle with only one hand filling the basket with the drenched sand from last night’s late showers. The nurse who reads for that old "Mister" decided to read a new book today for she doesn’t have that small white book anymore. The new one is a hardcover. Its color seems to be black… or is it a dark maroon? Using her sight, she made sure that everything seemed as normal as possible, just like yesterday and the day before that with a very few slight changes from week to week. For the last two years however, it seemed to be almost the same. "Time for your physiotherapy session dear," her eyes suddenly glow upon hearing the nurse's voice. The same voice she has been hearing for the last two years of her life. At a time when they found her floating near a shore with no identity, no senses, no movement and no memory. If only she was able to talk…

"I promise" .. and they hugged each other after the oath of not mentioning it to a single soul.. but it was their right.. and they had to fight for it... it was time to get even... and this time they had to do it as fast as possible and as preciese as possible... with their 7 year old feet they managed to climb the wall better than spider man.. and with eyes like a hawk they stared to the left once.. to the right.. and jumped to the ground stepping on all kind of dirt beneath them.. for a second they where disgusted but they reminded each other of the plan.. looked around to identify their target...apparently she was the only target available.. and with quick steps they walked towards her.. closer to the wall as possible.. they looked at her and with eyes dripping of revenge.. they came closer..each breathing faster.. he had his hand on her back.. his thoughts start wandering to the old days.. when they lived happily ever after.. when she fullfilled their hunger.. together they built hopes of the future and how things would change once they have her back..... but his thoughts where disturbed when they heard that old man's voice comind closer...mission had to be aborted.. and they ran towards the wall.. the elder jumped .. but the younger was too short to reach his brother's hand.. one had to comprimise.. and when he spoke.. all what he said.. "run.. its our cow no matter what he tries to do..." Those where the last words he uttered.. just as he promised..

She woke up in the morning with a soar throat.. went ahead with her normal routine.. her day to day chores.. still feeling the burning sensation in her throat.. she wakes up the following day to realize that "the cat stole her voice" .. at least that was the only "convincing " explanation she managed to give the kids.. she lost her voice for few days.. but she gained much more...

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Our voices .. how important are they to us? .. our words.. our ability to speak.. there are times we decide to seal our lips and swallow our words like a pill to ease our pain.. thinking probably if we didn't talk; we'll be sparing ourself a lot of hassle and pain..

But there are times when we talk and talk and then regret it.. when we realize how our words were sharper than the sharpest blade.. we ...

A Lost Dot:
Your voice.. let it be heard whenever you can.. today you can speak.. u never know if tomorrow you are granted the same blessing.. nothing is worse than the urge to speak up.. but you don't have the voice ...

p.s. Seraaph thanks for editing the first part for me :)

How I Made It

2007-02-05T17:14:00.000+04:00

"Read this book to inspire you when the going gets tough, to reassure you
when you've run out of ideas and to give you a kick up the backside when you are
feeling sorry for yourself. But whatever you do - read it"

Reading Chronicle

"How I Made It" is basically a collection of very short cases of 40 successful entrepreneurs and how they managed to make "something out of nothing". Rachel Bridges simply compiled the articles she wrote during her work @ The Sunday Times in the period between 2003 - 2004.

The first chapter of the book discusses the characteristics she found common "or read" about an entrepreneur...those who studied "entrepreneurship" would feel like they are rereading a chapter of their course.

Characteristics:

Age: You DON'T have to be young to be a successful entrepreneur.
"John Mudd was in his mid-fifties by the time he felt brave enough to take the plunge and start up his own snack company. Stephanie Manuel spent decades secretly dreaming of setting up a theatre school for children while she raised a family of her won. She finally got the opportunity to turn her dream into reality at the age of 44"

Inspiration: The concept of starting with a "new idea" arise. How do those entrepreneurs get their ideas:

Resulted from a need that had to be satisfied: Heather Glichrist decided to open a children's nursery in Edinburgh because all the nurseries where full by the time she decided to take her son to nursery. الحاجه أم الإختراع
Turn their hobbies into a business: Rory Byrne started a company that offered skiing holidays at the resort he used to ski at since he was four in Switzerland.
Adopted the concept of the idea from somewhere else: Harry Cragoe decided to start selling smoothies in his country after he found out that it was "popular in California".

"You don't have to reinvent the wheel to be a successful entrepreneur.
People often find their inspiration from utterly mundane things. The
secret is to be able to spot a gap in the market and then be able to fill that
gap" Ros Taylor, Chartered Business Psychologist

Finance: One of the things that could be considered a challenge to entrepreneur's is debt financing from the banks for banks would require a guarantee and previous record. However, there where other types of financing some of which i would consider "equity financing" .

Daniel Mitchell funded his first company selling office equipment entirely on credit provided by suppliers after he realised he could pay them 30 days later than his customer's paid him.

An example of a grant as well as a "rent-free in return to service" where other examples.

"The Best way of controlling the financial risk is to get others to share the
risk with you" Professor Gray

A Last Dot:
Qualifications, risk, motivation & attitude are other characteristics. I shall post them later during the week. (if interested)

Dubai Strategic Plan 2015: Dubai where the future begins

2007-02-04T10:06:00.000+04:00

His highness Sheikh Mohammad announced in an interesting presentation yesterday the
" Dubai Strategic Plan 2015 " that is parallel to the overall UAE strategic plan by his Highness Sheikh Khalifa .

Few highlights:

1. Expected increase in the growth rate by 11% by 2015
"raise per capita GDP to $44,000 from $31,140 now by creating 882,000 new jobs, bringing total employment to 1.73 million"

2. Increase in the private sector

3. It will focus on the key dynamic economic sectors that contributed to the 13% growth rate.
He mentioned the fact that those sectors are not affected by the fluctuation of oil prices which gives it more stability.

4. " The plan, divided into five sections - Economic Development, Social Development, Infrastructure, Land and Environment, Safety, Security and Justice and Public Sector Excellence - also addresses the major public concerns of traffic, rent, inflation, lack of regulatory framework and labour disputes that have influenced the everyday lives of the UAE residents over the past two years."

5. He focused on the economic diversification as an important tool.

6. The plan also calls for enhanced accountability among government officials and the development of UAE national human capital that will ensure the success of the plan.

7. A common framework for the integrated governmental entities that focuses on: economic development; social development; infrastructure, land and environment; security, justice and safety and, public sector excellence.

8. The importance of having an effective social infrastructure through:

Preserve National Identity. This will be achieved by revising policies and procedures to ensure demographic balance; increasing the sense of belonging and the awareness of local culture by updating educational curriculum and developing the capabilities of national teaching resources; ensuring comprehensive cultural content through relevant activities and channels including media, arts and literature; and increasing focus on the Arabic language as it encompasses national history and culture,"

A Last Dot:

"The sky doesn’t rain gold and silver… we must get it from the Earth”.

"God has showered us with countless blessings. One word best describes the majority of these blessings: security."

"All of man’s efforts are carried out in the belief that they will bring security: personal security, psychological security, economic security, social security and political security"

“Without security life becomes a living hell, and talk of development, quality, excellence and success becomes worthless, idle chatter. "
“The grace of God coupled with effective policies and dedicated people, have made the UAE one of the safest countries in the world and Dubai one of the safest cities."
“Our Strategic Plan is designed to ensure that the security, justice and safety sector is able to keep up with the economic and social growth. "
“I depend on God first and foremost, and then on the brain and brawn of the children of this nation, to them I entrust much and from them I expect much."
“In the past I told you that we will succeed, and we did. And today I tell you that I see further success in the future. We will write new pages in our nation’s epic of glory, pride and achievement."
“We will present to our world proof that we are capable of action, capable of imposing our presence, and capable of communicating, interacting, co-existing, and co-operating with all other cultures and civilisations.”

Sources: emiratestoday

gulfnews & alkhaleej

Digital Inspiration..

2007-02-02T09:18:00.001+04:00

Although i am not a computer geek .. but i find this website very very informative and speaks almost the "dummies language" that i speak in terms of computers and stuff.. !!!

Digital Inspiration

They update almost daily if not a couple of times a day.. following are some of the issues they discussed:

Blogger Issues: Error Performing Your Request bX-vjhbsj
It seems that all what you have to do is refresh the page over and over again !
When Your Favorite Website Doesn't Offer RSS Feeds
Choose one of two programs..easy ..
Clean Google Groups Messages & Forwarded Email with eCleaner
you know when you get a forward email with all those " > " in it and you want to forward it agian to someone else.. just "clean it first"
Free Video Editing Software for Producing Movies & Vlogs
for those interested in video making and such stuff..
Google Games Online
For the game addicts around.. ! enjoy
Microsoft Office 2007 & Windows Vista Packaging Samples
Flickr versus Google Picassa Album
considering that flickr is blocked

That is just very little of what is included in that website.. !

Enjoy !

A Perspective in Time

2007-02-01T09:39:00.000+04:00

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A Nobel prize winner in literature for his book "100 years in Solitude" ..

In one of my "suicidal" attempts to the bookstore i bought his book "Strange Pilgrims" which is basically a collection of short story. In his prologue he talks about how difficult it was for him to write those stories and how long it took him to finish writing this book.. actually one of his stories was dated 1979 ! Anyways... he mentioned that writing a short story was as difficult as starting a novel.. its the first few chapters in a novel that counts for everything else.. a short story to him was like those few chapters..

Because his stories mostly took place in European countries.. he decided to "revisit" those cities hoping that it would help him with his story writing.. you know like you'd see the place and remember things.. and thoughts would trigger a new story... but this is what he wrote..

I wanted to verify the accuracy of my recollections after twenty years, and i made a fast trip to reacquaint myself with Barcelona, Geneva, Rome and Paris.

Not one of them had any connections to my memories. Through an astonishing inversion, all of them like all of the present-day Europe, had become strange: True memories seemed like phantoms, while false memories were so convincing that they replaced reality. This meant i could not detect the dividing line between disillusionment and nostalgia. It was the definitive solution. At last i had found what i needed most to compete the book, what only the passing of the years could give: A perspective in time.

A Lost Dot:
When facts are only a memory.. and a memory is merely a fact ..

Finally...

2007-01-31T00:03:00.000+04:00

Man9oor - Remix Upload

I was fed the love of football ever since i was a child... i was even fed the racism of every team.. but when it came to our national team.. things where different...

Two incidents i shall never forget... 30th of January 2007.. & sometime in December 1996...

Yes.. although it wasn't khaleeji 18.. yet it was .. to me.. a turning point in the history of football...

Final Game... KSA vs UAE .. and that was the Asian Cup 1996.. now many of you won't even remember this time.. or many of you would be so young to remember...but everyone was on alert.. just like the few days that passed...

i remember we used to skip classes and sneak under the staircase and LISTEN to the games in school.. some where in Japan if i remember well.. so the timing was awkward.. but that day.. it wasn't .. it was late in the afternoon.. hopes and prayers where everywhere.. from everyone..

and we sat.. in front of the old panasonic tv.. a small screen yet we all sat facing it .. it felt like it was the biggest widest screen at that moment... and with every kick.. or attempt you'd hear ... i bet you know.. ;)

First half.. Second.. extra time.. and we all hoped it won't reach to the " golden goal" as they used to call it... yet it did... an attempt from UAE.. another from KSA and so forth.. until........ we lost..!

Think of it as a team who was able to reach the World Cup.. and we lost.. we didn't only loose the game.. yet we lost the spirits and the will to play... the team no longer became the one that amused us with every kick.. yes you know them.. Zuhair (el moshakis as they called him ) .. Eltalyani.. B5eet Saad.. 5mees Sa3d... Kojak: m7md 3li.. fahad 5mees.. those where players who rocked the stadium... believe me they did...

and history repeats itself...

over and over again..

Yes we won.. but after how many years of "no achievements" ... what did it take us to wake up after such a long time...

I look around me now after 11 years .. and see the excitement in all of those faces.. i remember how we where.. how our grannies prayed for the team... how they cried when we won... how they tell the kids today about a team that "once upon a time existed" ...

i look at the kids.. and wonder.. did we look the same.. for sure i know i didn't paint my face with all those reds and greens and black and white.. (unfortunately) .. but i remember the thrill we felt.. yes.. that same thrill that exists now.. with a bit more understanding of the rules..

my nephew asks me what does "tasalol" means..... my God.. once i asked my dad the same question.. i asked him what is a "fawal" .. what is " '6arbat jaza2 " !! History repeats itself .. with a different ending..

Look at the pictures of our Sheikhs and see their excitement.. isn't it worth all those years? i bet it does.... its a lesson in management.. once a proper leadership is found.. many successes would be accomplished..

Consider it a lesson in management.. a lesson in motivation from a leader and its effect on the employees.. consider it a lesson in recruitment... consider it a lesson team work.. many many lessons you could find..

Together they met.. together they shared one objective... together they fought for it..(if only they do that in politics) and together we enjoyed some of the best games.. with the best players from the best teams...

From the cleaner who cleaned the stadiums... to the electrician.. the the technician... to the organizers.. press... to the police in everywhere .. to the foreigners who cheered with love.. to every single citizen who shared a moment of happiness with us.. to the players of course.. not only our team.. but every single team who played.. and their supporters.. to the Sheikhs and their Highness... to that person who closes the light of the stadium after every game...

and if not for God .. all of this wouldn't have existed..

Thank You !

One last note.. many have criticized the organization committee... the media .. the stadiums.. somewhat everything.. to me.. at the end.. we as viewers seek a good game.. regardless the nationality... yes there where things that could have been avoided... but at the end .. Omani .. Emarati.. Saudi.. Kuwaiti .. Qatari .. Bahraini... Yemeni or Iraqi... we are brothers.. (n sisters) .. !

We'll meet in Oman... with better teams.. and better spirits inshallah..!!!

A Last Dot:
بلادي واحبها

Humses.."humans+horses"

2007-01-06T19:54:00.000+04:00

There are times where i don't want to hear any voices..

Close my eyes and imagine that no one is around...

Those cold faces.. and those eyes..

they hurt..

intentionally..

Even if it was through a distance..

or not..

I want to tell you something..

a "first dot"...

THANK YOU...

you have successfully managed to paralyze my feelings..

AM NUMB..

hurt as much as you want..

ignore as much as you want..

lie as much as you want..

i no longer care..

and won't ever care..

its not with humans like you i find happiness..

my happiness is with those who can't talk..

but hear..

who can't touch..

but feel..

human they are not..

but humanly they are..

if you fear them..

you'll be in pain..

for a simple move..

and on the ground you end..

all what they want is a simple need..

trust them..

and you will fly..

faster than the wind..

or slightly behind..

unleash your thoughts..

and cry out your pain..

but nevertheless..

don't let go of the reins..

two things you'd need to know

where are you heading..

and what are your grounds...

A Last Dot:

"Shams" .. today's horse.. today's teacher..

The roses of your life...

2007-01-04T22:37:00.000+04:00

"Beauty is in the eye of beholder", we've been told that many times. When i look at those roses, i don't see their beauty in their scent only, or their color. Its more how every petal interlaps over the other...its in the way Geometry & physics come together to create such a beauty.. Its in the shades of the colors... The green leaf that seems like it was cut by the edged gift wrapping scissors to give it such ends. And although there aren't any thorns in this one; yet a rose is a rose with the contradiction it holds: beauty & pain !!

And so does everything around us, everyone and everyplace. Nothing is perfect & nothing lasts forever. Cherish the roses in your life....enjoy their scent, their details, the pain they carry with them..... roses die quickly... you never know if you'll have the chance tomorrow to see them again.

Tellectual, Seraaph, MD, E5ti Fatima, HANA (sorry dear) & the shadows of the dark... your presence in my life means a lot to me. Don't let go! please..
HL&H, Sleepless & DG... you are new friends i got to know through this blog.. thanks for always reading my posts, and thank you so much for having the patience while reading...

A Lost Dot:
Express it... !!

Trial & Error !!!

2007-01-03T22:02:00.000+04:00

Is it the best possible way to learn something?

Well.. in my case it was...

added few things on the right of the blog...by "trial & error"

well.. at least am satisfied with what i did considering the D+ i got in my programming class.. ! :p

A Lost Dot:
Missed you

Sunset...Sunrise...and so do we..

2006-12-27T21:57:00.000+04:00

Like a sun... our years are...

this year is about to end...setting all its memories, accomplishments and all behind the horizon of that sea..for us to remember..and to build up upon it..

Behind that horizon a new sun will rise...full of energy and enthusiasm...full of ambition that could fill the whole world with the warmth of its rays... spreading them all to touch almost every part of our life...with goals that only us can define..and work hard to achieve..

May 2007 be a year where the sun would set on a lot of accomplishment, happiness, and strenght...

A Lost Dot:
Happy New Year

My friends.. i decide who they are...

2006-12-25T19:37:00.000+04:00

My friends are my souls.. my companions..

I don't remember seeing a tag behind their back which says...
"AGE: 16 (too young for you) " or
"SEX: male (avoid)"
"Income: barely surviving...not your type"
"Nationality: not the same nationality...don't even think of saying hi"
"Interest: ...............................smoking weed...CALL 911"

I'll talk to someone who hardly have the income to survive.. i'd sit with them.. i'd share a meal with them.. i'd listen to them... and respect what they say.. respect their opinion about things..and learn from them..learn from how they managed to survive...so far...

Local, Saudi, Indian, Pakistani, Senegali, American, French.. whatever their nationality was.. i'd talk to them too..and if i like them.. they are my friends... and my friends... i cherish...

If you are 16 or if you are 30 it wouldn't make a difference to me.. what does is your mentality.. most of my friends right now are younger than me.. does that make me a Pedophile? HELL NO !!! I respect them for how they think..never looked at them as how old they are EVER !!! I respect them for how wise they are and how productive they are... not how many days they have been on this earth !! Age was never an issue to me !!! EVER !!

You don't have the right to tell who to choose as a friend.. look at yourself.. look how you live in a bubble with fake friends who care about nothing more than how they dress or where they dine... what they drive or how their diamond shine... peel off this mask you are wearing... try eating "shawarma" from that cafeteria with ornamin c.. yes.. not a Sauté Pené with basil and cranberry sauce and Lychee juice and berry cream meringué !! Those fancy names don't buy me a good experience as the Shawarma from the hand of that guy behind the griller who sweated all over the place..!!!!!!

GET A LIFE...a REAL LIFE.....!!!!

A LOST DOT:
من تواضع لله رفعه

Professors..

2006-12-23T20:30:00.000+04:00

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At school:

He had the tallest nail i ever saw on a guy.. he held the chalk in such a way.. as if it was a feather that was gonna fly.. a butterfly n he didnt want to tough its wings.. i slept every wednesday in his classes.. too early for me.. i read Robin Cook's novels.. a teacher i never had the slightest respect for...

A tall guy...spits quite often when he talks.. hardly knows how to teach..he tries his best... loved the lab classes.. learning by doing and we never needed him..until we added a large amount of Pottasium to water...and it burst.. but he was very sweet.. but who said sweetness would get me an A...i wanted INOFRMATION !!

She used to wear the shortest skirts at school.. for some reason noone was allowed to except HER .. we never knew why.. she gave me my first F ... but mathematics was so a challenge with her..her blue eyeliner gave her that spooky look.. we never dared question our marks..

Islamic Studies where her classes.. but she taught us more than that.. she taught us respect and love and care.. she taught us to read and to search for the right information.. she taught us the studies of life from an islamic perspective.. she taught us to love life..yet love el a5reh akthar...

At the College:

He said he Canadian..his looks weren't .. his name wasn't .. Economics was his game.. he set the rules and we had to play... first statement.. "back at Canada we have burgers.. its a round kinda meat.. with bread.. " ... hmm... argumentaive.. interesting.. and very informative...

Always used to tell me... "so close ; yet so far.." it seemed i had a curse and 88 was my only two digit number on my report.. accounting sucks !!!!

She comes in with her baggy shirt and tent like skirt..blonde rusted hair that seems cries for a brush..sticks a postcard on the whiteboard.. purple lavender field in a cloudy day.. "how does the image make you feel" noone had the same answer.. "thats marketing.. the art of manupilation!!!

Skinny and boney she was... wrinkled face that had a very fine coat of foundation.. lipstick that tried to fill her tiny lips.. white hair that was always neat and tidy.. and had the warmest hugs.. and sweetest character... and the boldest red marker i ever saw ;)

At University:
Tall and well built.. athletic and charesmatic... informative ... best classes... classes where life was the curriculum..

I sleep in his classes.. literally sleep..a 3:00pm class is too tiring.. his explanation is too boring.. if not for the attendence at the END of the class i would've not attended !! How can they major in public administration...

Oh boy if only you see the load of papers i had to submit to him.. or the assignments.. and i was so surprised when he returned the paper with a looooooooot of comments and writings here and there.. and A+ Well Done.. i was like WHAT ON EARTH.. too many comments and an A .. he just looks like those stuffed teddy bears.. too bad he is leaving next course but am taking his last course hopefully !!

The last professor is the reason i am writing this...

If you are a flirt.. you'll get an A.. if you laugh and joke and keep smiling to whatever stupid comment he says.. you'll get an A+... if your eyes show that you hate him.. and his comment about your bag or sheila get on your nerves.. expect something different.. but i figured out something.. scare them.. be more powerful.. and you'll win..

He gave me a mark which i thought was not fair.. i believed so.. i went to him.. and asked for reasons ... nothing.. tried to understand and he wouldnt give me a good reason.. another girl with butoxed lips and red hair and with the flie's eyeglasses.. few words here and few laughs there and the $(&*# had her mark upgraded.. i emailed him.. quite a harsh email though.. and asked for reasoning or else.. lol i liked the or else part.. today i got a reply from him with an "apology for miscalculation" even in uni's its a matter of politics.. !!

A Last Dot:
Professors and teachers are there to create a change..to teach us how to learn.. not how to throw up what we memorized at classes on white exam papers..!!
التعليم بالتقيؤ ما ينفع !!

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2006-12-23T06:34:00.000+04:00

So Sheikh Nahyan denied the suspension... i wonder what was the look on your face Howard Reed when u heard the news.... hope you are enjoying your HOLIDAY with your SON in GREECE !!!!

A brief: he suspended 22 students of DWC because they didn't attend their PE classes (physical excersises) for it was COMPULSORY.. number was decreased to 7 when a lot made a fuss about it.. and the number is 0 now after Nahyan DENIED the suspension.. what a contradiction in statements...!!! I hope Nahyan realized the mess that was happening by now..!! Any actions towards Reed?

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Bohra's have got one of the biggest mosques around.. their Big Boss is coming.. they built another new mosque in Ajman.. New Dubai is celebrating extensively with Xmas..
Every kind of religion you'd find here... what was that theory of "clash of civilization because of religion differences" ???

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When a 14 year old local commits suicide in his bathroom... a questions should be asked.. ? Motives?

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240,000 new house by 2010 stated one of the real estate companies..!! Prices are increasing... rents are increasing.. unemployment is increasing..6300 unemployed in DUBAI ONLY...4600 national families live in rented accomodation...in Dubai ONLY ..

allah yer7amk ya Sheikh Zayed youm gelt kaif nesma7 ineh mwa6n y3eesh fi she8ah ajar!! Comment?

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A Lost Dot:
Sometimes you don't have a comment.. but that doesn't mean you don't have an opinion!

Be Strong..

2006-12-18T20:54:00.000+04:00

"Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower."
Jean Paul Richter

Magic of Poetry

2006-12-17T09:16:00.000+04:00

Poetry is the magic of words...its like a magician with a stick with a tinckle fairy on his right flying around you...scattering all those tinckles over you ... hyptontizing you... you fly... with the words in another universe...where imagination is the salvation u seek..

Thank you S.Z. ... didn't know that Rives Knite was so amazing.. i loved his style.. and from time to time it was worth listening to his poetry with the sound effects.. that was awesome..!

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I came across this young lady... I loved her poem.. full of feelings.. of reality .. Suhair Hammad:

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You'll find more on Rives at:
Youtube: check out his poems with the background effect.. lovely..
His website: shopliftwindchimes his blog is interesting too.
And of course : http://www.ted.com (the most amazing site...watch out it can be an addiction to some ;) )

N for News !

2006-12-17T08:54:00.000+04:00

UAE official 'astonished' at Washington threat
A United Arab Emirates official voiced astonishment yesterday at a threat
of US action against this country for allegedly failing to prevent a flow of
technology to Iran and Syria that can be used in homemade bombs.

We continue to discuss this issue with UAE auth-orities but time for action
is running short," Padilla said, without saying what kind of action was
envisaged.

Read the article

yah well you can stop rolling your eyes now !

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Elections:

So does it make us more "democractic" now for having this initial attempt for "elections" !!!

Well.. AD & Fujairah guaranteed their seats! Lets see who of the rest will win..!

One thing.. in a radio channel they did a study and found that people will vote according to their TRUST in the person not in his EXPERIENCE..found that interesting for a sec..!

الذمه والضمير

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ETISALAT:

1. change the numbers in your mobile phone and add +97150 before every mobile number

2. enjoy the blessings of speed dial (instead of having to dial the number and forgetting the 050)

3. Remember when u wanna send a message DIAL 050 !!!

We'll get used to it...change takes a while.. (but it sure gets on your nerves...i thought Etisalat was "sweet" enough to sms me every time i forget to dial 050 when smsing someone.. talk about service :p )

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bla bla bla.. !

2006-12-16T20:02:00.000+04:00

My birthday is soon.. get me a sandbag.. ! am kidding but I so feel like it.. ! close my fist.. take my stand…tightly and quickly punch !

I think I should seriously consider having one around…especially these days..
DAYYYYYMNNN….sometimes there are people who totally make you feel STUPID, WORTHLESS, and just …a piece of BLA BLA!!! This is when the sandbag is useful…maybe a hammer and knock it to your head…!!! Pfffff… !

I was hesitant to write about this earlier…but now…I so badly wanna write about it…
ONE NIGHT STAND !

Oh come on don’t give me those look!! Listen to me first…

Apparently we all know that a one night stand is where two meet… get over with their “business” and second day they “DELETE” the file of what happened earlier that night..!! its not a relationship and its not meant to be…!! Check the wikipedia for further details..!

My concept of a One Night Stand….
You meet someone…and they just have you there around them for a REASON…whatever the reason is…physically...monetary...emotionally...its just to FULLFILL THEIR curiousity...need..desire...not necessary sexually....once they are done with you…they act like they don’t know you…ignore every single detail about you…actually I don’t even think they’ll remember your name…

Oh btw...they can be a family....friend...husband...whatever...

My “NIGHT” isn’t necessary an 8 hour night when its dark and all….nah…its more of a phase…it could be a day…two ….a month…or two.. a year…or two…but you are just in a form of a fake relationship….you are being sucked from all what you’ve got…but what I wanna stress on here is “emotionally” rather than physically….they consume every thought of yours….and just live on them….YOU SHOULD satisfy them...BE THERE for them...GIVE THEM a hand when they ask for ... and how stupid that would make you feel when u know that you were their “one night stand” !!!

A Last Dot:

"All what i wanted is respect.

If only you showed it to me."

"ستذكرني عندما تعاشر غيري.. ..لكن قسما ستبكي على عشرتي زمنا"

Pictures and more memories..

2006-12-15T10:31:00.000+04:00

The Dubai many don't understand

Rainbow.. (i didn't take this pic though)

Warm feelings.. in a cold weather..

This is how we fish.. don't try to give me a fishing rod..

Small.. but amazing..

fish eye..

Pictures ... and good memories..

2006-12-15T10:00:00.000+04:00

Dubai..
When old meets new

When we were kids we used to wave to every EK airline we see

The fight of the tallest..

Everytime i see those barjeels.. i fall in love with them all over again

The magic of the color Blue .. i love it..

The race of the Abraás

Flash Back..

2006-12-14T14:25:00.000+04:00

I had my hands chained with a rusted chain...clueless i was yet i didn't resist it...i saw it coming.. but was i blind or naive..

Hatred, torture, lies, and a camouflage of reality was killing me.. and when i managed to run away.. i didn't realize that my hands were still chained..

I looked around and found myself under a nested web that was sticking around me... but i hated it.. am claustrophobic and i hate being in such situations... i couldn’t breathe.. but it was pressing on me from everywhere... i tried to pull my breath.. deeply.. from my throat... but my adrenaline was rushing in my veins like a winter shower.. and how creepy everything felt..

i saw myself being detached slowly from where i was standing into a darker cooler room.. with echoes.. and voices.. and i felt the ants under my skin moving quickly in circles.. it’s cold.. its dark and its scary...

you can feel the touch.. a cold one like needles.. you can feel the words.. the frozen tone ... and there i was lost in that dark room with chains around my arm.. and a nested web all over me..
shivering.. holding my knees to my chest.. as if stopping my heart from popping out of my lungs....and my stomach from throwing up... but i couldn't stop my tears... my sobs and cries... and burning heartache.. i can't breathe.. i can't reach out.. am alone.. and am scared.. am petrified..

I then realized it was only a flashback....

i hate flashbacks.. and yes i do get some every now on then.. occasionally..

i thought i was over them.. but thoughts are not reality..

i was chained with memories and experiences.. and thoughts were all over me.. if i focus and work on letting go one at a time... detaching myself... then i will be unchained..

why now.. why after all those years you decided to remind me of my past.. is it a reality i would have to remember always and live with?

A Last Dot:
A thought can have more destructive power than a missile...
but the will in us is more powerful than a nuclear bomb....
Don't surrender... they are only thoughts..
T H O U G H T !
You can't blow them away... but u can get over them... it takes time.. 7 years? 10? 2 .. it just takes time..

Time Out !

2006-12-08T20:54:00.000+04:00

Time Out to Be Within

A Lost Dot:

See you soon.. when i know how soon is "soon "

p.s. source of pic here

a free ride?

2006-12-07T23:39:00.000+04:00

Felt like I’ve been in a roller coaster for the last few days…

I have upset you…and here I am... I apologize…I hate to see someone upset at me…whoever it was…even if it was someone I knew for a “day” !

You surprised me…you totally made my day…you proved to me that I can be crazy…and you can be just as charming… and lovable !

Do you ever meet people and imagine they were cartoon characters? So cute and adorable they just fit as one of those cartoon characters….well… you are such an adorable cutie cartoon character!

I thought I hated roller coaster rides….!!!! Right now…am in one that seems to be a never ending ride…where are the brakes?

If my pillow knew how to file a law suit it’d file it against me…! Who said pillows aren’t huggable ! :p

A letter

2006-12-07T23:30:00.000+04:00

Many of us wish if they can write a letter ... put it in a bottle and throw it far away in the deepest darkest oceans... how many letters reached the seashore... and how many ... were actually the seashore to others...

Dear A:
I don’t know why am I writing this letter knowing that you will never read it. But here I am, writing it and maybe one soon day you will get to read it. I hope its never too late though… and I hope its not when that tree we planted will grow really old …
When I think of you I remember a box filled with needles and threads and many other stuff... a box where we had to choose and in many cases I’d be blind enough to prick my finger with a needle and it will bleed.. or an another and it will hurt so badly…or sometimes… you were one of those needles that stitched many of my torn feelings together…mended it…shaped it differently…you unstitched the old ones and replaced them with brand new feelings…and thoughts…and perspective to life… you took it a duty to be my personal “designer” for the rest of those many following years…

Many times those feelings where drenched with tears and you just took them with your secret touch to let them dry out by blowing on them…your warm breath and care brought them back to their normal condition…in some cases you found me on your porch holding them between my hand and they were reckless… yet you always managed to have a way to fix them....your patience was magical…

I wished I had this box…the magical needle…maybe I’d be able to stitch everything back to how it was before…as beautiful and honest and innocent as it was…

I wonder if you will ever read this letter…but if you ever do…one day before that tree dies…before the stars get bored of sending you my wishes…and before the waves decide not to drop my letters on your seashore…I want you to know something…

P.R.O.C.R.A.S.T.I.N.A.T.I.N.G

2006-12-05T21:55:00.000+04:00

P.R.O.C.R.A.S.T.I.N.A.T.I.N.G

A simple receipe althought the word itself is quite poshy :p (repeat it 5 times) !

Postpone all the important things you have to do till "one soon day" ... how soon is soon.. ? Or you can just Pile all the papers and work on the side of the bed and Pray that it will be done one day

Run around .. Roam around .. do anything that might seem to be "important" but deep inside you u know that its the stupidest thing you should be doing at this time...

Optimize the benefit sought from the following:
* bed
* bathroom: doesn't it seem like showers never end when you have deadlines to finish? :p

Count the tiles of your room.. Cook.. i always say that cooking is a stress reliever :p

Read every single magazine you have .. even if it was the boring Auto magazine !

Admit to yourself that you are wasting your time.. but Act like you are doing something "useful" .. at the end of the day you aren't wasting your time with stupid stuff here.. you are helping your mom.. dad .. whoever.. the gardener :p

Start blogging more often .. (i think its obvious by now that am PROCRASTINATING a lot :p ) or just keep SINGING all the old songs ... even if it was that old McDonalds song... !

Tidy your room.. look how unorganized it is.. besides.. you can't focus unless your room is tidy and clean and organized..

Isn’t it time to have a proper manicure? spoil yourself.. !

Never say no for any invitation you get within those few weeks of deadlines.. el bar.. (the desert), 7edag (sea) , breakfast invitations.. a walk in the neighborhood.. ANYTHING .. just always say YES.. :p

Always go back to your papers and attempt to work on them.. you never know you might be lucky enough and you'll be blessed for few minutes..

Tomorrow is always a new day .. and you WILL start tomorrow.. (that is what you are supposed to keep telling yourself .. every day :p

Install the latest games.. download the latest movies and series and sitcoms .. they are a good stress reliever.. and they will help you focus.. (don't start rolling your eyes.. but its a good reason to waste your time "effectively" :p )

Number your projects.. you'll see them A LOT.. and that will either hit you on the head and make you sit and work.. or you'll just get drunk with a bottle of pepsi for the rest of the day :p

Gatherings.. socialize with your friends.. don't you miss them.. its time you all meet..

A Last Dot:
I wish i can tell you don't procrastinate.. but all what i can say is God help you with your time management..

2006-12-04T20:55:00.000+04:00

Amazing Blind Boy

I am just speechless..we have the sight to see.. yet we hardly "see" .. check out how this boy is so surprisingly blessed.. Sub7an Allah..

The United Arab Emirates

2006-12-02T12:28:00.000+04:00

National Anthem

Listen to me... yes you.. i am talking about my country.. my love...the one which turned 35 years today..

The UAE .. the other side of the UAE that you might not know about.. its not only Dubai.... Its not about the traffic and accidents... its not the boost in tourism and industry... its not the stock market... its not the businesses that fill every corner... the multicultural dynamic society... its not that.. its not the shawarma restaurants on the corner of every road... its not the crowded streets... the bias in many's perception... its not the discrimination a lot create towards us.... its not the "flowery gucci bag" society... its not what you think it is..

My Dear Reader..
Before you go ahead reading those lines... please clear your thoughts of all your previous assumptions, perceptions and unpleasant experiences of the UAE.. read with me.. and bare with me..

Once upon a time 35 years ago.. two wise men sat together.. on the sand of this country.. between AbuDhabi and Dubai.. discussed...decided... and UNITED ... seven groups into seven Emirates...

Is it a coincidence that it united 7 emirates.. while in the Qoran it was mentioned 7 skies and 7 seas.. ? Its the secret of 7 that united them all..? The point is.. they were united ever since and till the last day of our lives.. we shall be united..

The UAE my dear reader is not the materialistic factor that you had back in your mind.. its a big family of seven brothers who live together.. each with his own identity.. some are better in trading while others are better in planning.. some have skills which others don't .. yet all they come under one leadership.. one cultural society..

The UAE is about the love we were fed ever since we were as young as to know our mothers.. and as old as we will live... its about those people who lived for their day...for their country.. who compromised and sacrificed to see a vision come true..

The UAE is about a house of a grandmother who'd tell you the stories of our grandfathers.. stories that would make us sit around her .. or on her lap... and listen as if it was a tale of a land that never existed.. a fairy tale..

The UAE is about families who cared about each other...who if one was ill, the whole neighborhood would suffer with him...

The UAE is about parents who taught their children that RED , GREEN , WHITE & BLACK are the colors of the flag.. the flag of our country.. and showed them pictures of Sheikh Zayed and Rashed and we told them those were your Fathers... who now see HH Sheikh Khalifa.. and they'd point their fingers proudly towards him and with a smile they'd say.. Baba Khalifa..

The UAE is about how to face challenges....how to create something out of nothing....

I looked at the kids few days back coming from their celebrations.. and regardless how modernized we are these days...they still wore the traditional dresses... knew the colors... sang loudly the national anthem.. and drew hearts with their fingers and wrote UAE in them..

Dear Reader... we might be very modernized.. away from our traditions.. but believe me.. deep inside our hearts we have the love of our country engraved .. the love of every corner.. every grain of sand.. and every drop of water in our seas is as valuable to us as our hearts..

Every house in this country has the love of the UAE and its founders rooted in them.. deep in their hearts.. we love this country regardless what happens.. and regardless how things change.. we shall still and will always be citizens of the United Arab Emirates.

Finally....Dear Reader.. i know you hold a lot in your heart against this country.. you would rant about it like forever... but we people of this country would still act as we are brought up .. respecting those who respect us.... take off those shades you are wearing and look at us from a different perspective... try wearing a different shade..

دولتي الغاليه... ارضي ووطني...

سنعمل جاهدين لأجلك..

يداٌ بيد..نتحدى معك الصعاب

عمار يا دار زايد وراشد

عمار دارك يابوسلطان

لك العهد

ولك الوفا

A Last Dot:
عيشي بلادي
عاش اتحاد إماراتنا
عشت لشعب
دينه الإسلام هديه القرآن
حصنتك باسم الله يا وطن
بلادي بلادي بلادي بلادي
حماك الإله شرور الزمان
أقسمنا أن نبني نعمل
نعمل نخلص نعمل نخلص
مهما عشنا نخلص نخلص
دام الأمان وعاش العلم يا إماراتنا
رمز العروبة
كلنا نفديك
بالدما نرويك
نفديك بالأرواح يا وطن

courtesy of pictures:
first: garmoosheh

wind...sand.. and clouds..

2006-12-01T21:07:00.000+04:00

I sat on the golden ripples.. pressing my feet into the sand.. hugging my knees.. but why lock myself between my hands.. let go Dots.. free your spirit..

I let the sand fill in the gap between my back and the ground...pillowed the sand underneath my head... let go of my arms and stretched them on my side...playing with the sand..feeling it.. closed my eyes.. and inhaled the smell of the wood being burnt.. a smell that brings back old sweet memories...and lovely present ones..

Let go of your soul.. let it dance with the winds...dive into the clouds.. free your thoughts.. ...think of nothing.. of noone.. and feel..

feel the cold breeze shaking the tree beside you...hiding behind it... feel how it gazes at you.. and runs quickly towards you and hugs you... the coolness touches your nose... your cheeks.. your whole body.. your bones.. and you shiver of cold.. look at the sky and smile... for you knew why "the clouds were vowels" ...

A Lost Dot:
فديت رمل بلادي...فديت برها وغافها

Home Schooling..

2006-11-27T08:59:00.000+04:00

In the previous post i mentioned "virtual groups" and virtual businesses ... this post is an extension to that..

Home Schooling

An article that grasped my attention for two reasons.. the first was because few years back i remember a discussion with my elder brother and how much he wanted to get tutors for his kids at home instead of sending them to school..

The second reason was an imagination of how would our educational system end up to be in the next two years or three or even 8 years from now..

In the states more than 1.1 million child are known to study through "home schooling" !!

There are more than 10,000,000 source in google about home schooling.

the idea of unschooling has flourished in recent years, with families forming online communities, neighborhood-based support groups and social networks for their children. Only 25 states have testing or evaluation requirements for home-schoolers, so it is difficult for researchers to get a representative sample of students to even begin to answer their most basic questions about unschooling. And among home-schoolers, unschoolers bristle the most at the thought of standardized testing.
They still need to do some researches upon selected samples to identify if "home schooling" is of better "learning value" to the children..

Of course there are the pros and cons... there will be supporters and those who disagree..

On which side of the table would you rather sit.. ?

Do you think we'll end up with home schooling?

A Last Dot:
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Anatole France

Boeing 777...the benchmark !

2006-11-25T22:18:00.000+04:00

In the early 1990 the worldwide aircraft industry was undergoing significant changes. The demand for large jumbo jets like Boeing 747 was declining while more orders for smaller jets was on the line. The industry also wanted them to be more efficient and could fly longer routes without refueling, quick and in a record time..!

Now if you were the manager of Boeing what would you do considering the competition, and demand..!!

Surprisingly Boeing's answer to these challenges was Boeing 777!!!

Objectives of the project:
1. To produce the most reliable and efficient two engine aircraft ever made
2. To design and build the airplane quickly and efficiently!

How would you do that... ??

Ignore the traditional methods !!

Be creative ... and cost efficient..

Virtual Teams

Definition:

Groups of geographically and or organizationally dispersed coworkers who use informaiton technology such as the Internet intranet, videoconfrencing and other products to communicate and work with one another.

Boeing created 238 virtual design teams to work on separate components of the airplane simultaneously!

How did it work:
* The teams were mostly Boeing's employees and some customers and suppliers (talk about coopetition)
* They created a sophisticated and robust computer network ---------------> talk about paperless working environment
* Creating of paperless prototypes of the components of the airplane
* Engineers assembled the simulation virtually rather than building MOCKUPS
* Only a NOSE MOCKUP was required to check critical wiring
* The use of 238 teams
* A network of 1,700 individual computer systems
* Links to Japan, Boeing facilities in Philadelphia, Wichita, and Seattle and other locations
* Teams included people in the design process, customers, operaters, down to line mechanics.

Advantages:
* Flexibility
* Employees can work with each other regardless the location, time zone, or organizational affliation
* Cost efficient
* Teammates do not meet face to face so you can avoid downtime associated with traditional meetings

Time of manufacturing:
Two Years ONLY

Quality:
* Best ..and used as a benchmark especially at the International Space Station
* Reduction of errors and defects by 50%
* Number of passanger : 550 (exceeds Boeing 747)
* Favorable passenger capacity and fuel attributes
* Designed with pilot and crew efficienceis in mind

Boeing named the first 777 placed in service "WORKING TOGETHER" as a tribute to the project

A Last Dot:
How ready are we to first work in teams, and then work virtually !

dreams..

2006-11-25T20:52:00.000+04:00

Dreams…and nightmares…

A trip to fairly land or maybe a trip to a prototype of hell…

I remember when I was a child I used to have a nightmare of a scene in a cartoon… the rainbow brite…that scene only used to freak me out regardless how much I used to love the cartoon.. last time I had that “nightmare” was few years back…I wonder why am I not getting it anymore…does that mean am detached from my childhood memories…”sign of age” tsk tsk tsk

I don’t really remember my dreams once I wake up…but some of them would be so funny I just wonder what was in my subconscious mind that triggered such “scenes”…

Do you ever get those dreams where you’d be walking and suddenly you trip…you actually literally move your legs like you were about to fall…?

Or do you get those really sweet dreams as if you are walking in charlie’s factory where everything is so perfect and nice…a dream that would make you wake up with a smile? (hardly been having such dreams :p )

Sometimes I dream of Hollywood scenes…kickboxing and shooting and all of that violence…but to tell you the truth…I don’t remember I ever woke up with the satisfaction feeling of “yes I hit him so badly” !!! there was a dream where I wanted to slap someone and every time I tried to slap him I’d just end up slapping the air…now that’s a dream that really irritated me !! :p

Sometimes I’d dream of people from nowhere…numbers…faces… or sometimes I’d dream of those least expected to be in my thoughts…

Many of us take our dreams so seriously… some people would actually call those who interpret the dreams in order to know what does it mean and they base their decisions on it…I am not against it…but I am against the fact that they do it on almost every single “weird” dream they get… there are good reasons for interpretation of dreams and the most important is if it is after an istikharah…

من توكل على الله فهو حسبه.... …….

Well… few thoughts after a dream I had : )

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حديث أخرجه البخارى قال صلى الله عليه وسلم (( إذا اقترب الزمان لم تكد رؤيا المسلم تكذب وأصدقكم رؤيا أصدقكم حديثا ، ورؤيا المسلم جزء من خمس وأربعين جزءا من النبوة )) وخلاصه ما قاله العلماء فى تفسير الحديث أن رؤيا المؤمن فى أخر الزمان تقع على الوجه الذى لا يحتاج إلى تعبير فلا يدخلها الكذب ، وذلك لأن المؤمن فى أخر الزمان يشعر بالغربه الشديده، فتأتى الرؤيا فتؤنس غربته ، ويحدث عند كثرة الفتن وغلبه الكفر والجهل .... وكلما كان المؤمن صادقا فى إيمانه كانت رؤياة لا تكذب أبدا

Dream theories excuse me freud and your friends for i couldn't agree with many of your theories..

Definition of Dreams in Islam: (i liked the site so far)

Dreams are broken into three parts according to the Sunnah:
Ru'yaa - good visions (dreams)
Hulum - bad dreams
Dreams from one's self

Abu Hurayrah narrated Muhammad (S) said, "There are three types of dreams: a righteous dream which is glad tidings from Allah, the dream which causes sadness is from Shaitan, and a dream from the ramblings of the mind." (Sahih Muslim)

A Last Dot:

When i thought i was over you ... you came to my dream !

Just a Question...

2006-11-22T19:00:00.000+04:00

An apple fell.. and Newton wondered and then he asked... how and why... ?

Two molecules of Hydrogen and one molecule of Oxygen.. if mixed together what will happen.. ?

In 1939 when Einstein and other scientists told Roosevelt of the Nazi's effort to build an atomic bomb.. a question needed an answer.. and as a result "the Manhattan Project" took place...

"Will you marry me" .. a question he asked.. and an answer that made a difference he got..

See its that simple.. ever wondered what effect does your question would create? I don't deny that in some cases it could be better not to ask.. (لا تسألوا عن أشياء إن تبد لكم تسؤكم) but nevertheless.. you can never know how can your question change few things..

A Last Dot:
A simple question could make a difference...

me

2006-11-19T23:14:00.001+04:00

Look at you .. don't you feel ashamed of yourself?

A queen who had a thrown you thought you were !!!

Who are you now?

Did you really need to have that slap on your face to realize what exactly you are ? and who you are ?

I don't think it would have had any effect if it wasn't from that exact person with that exact way..

Don't cry..

you deserve it..

totally deserve it..

your fault from the beginning..

so look at yourself..

yes..

look through your eyes..

and don't overestimate yourself..

know who you are

know the "one" you are before you are noone !

How do you know its the new season..!?

2006-11-17T23:44:00.000+04:00

First of all مبروك عليكم الرحمه even though ma shfnaha.. it rained today in many other places than DUBAI !!!! ( why am i not surprised ) el mohim..

At school they taught us that spring comes with colorful flowers and lovely weather... followed with summer where the sun is high and its usually hot…then comes autumn where the place seems to be soaked in a brown paint…and leaves start falling from the trees and the air is crispy…then comes winter where few tiny particles fall from the sky called snow and the place is covered white.. !!! But in reality... unless you were in some other continent you’ll notice the FOUR seasons... with us... you are lucky to notice TWO!

How do you know it’s a new season:
1. Of course…duh.. the temperature starts dropping.. !!!
طلع سهيل ورق الليل وبرد الماي...قم على مولاتي

2. Extra expenses spent on “longer sleeves”!!
Actually the weather is cool enough nowadays in the morning to wear a long sleeved shirt... by the time its 2pm…find anything to rip off that sleeve… and by the time it’s the afternoon…well tough luck... your sleeves are ripped off…start cursing yourself :p

3. The garden would be mowed more often…
The mother and people will want to enjoy the weather by sitting in the garden and then they will realize that their garden hasn’t been mowed for quite a while…

4. Extra gardening tools will be bought...
Trying to make the garden look better and to hide all the shrubs

5.Price of motorbikes will increase… reaches its maximum by mid to end of December just before the mid year break
Of course by now you’d know that it’s a “norm” to go motor biking in the desert when the weather is nice... tal mer3ib watch out... for those freaky fearless guys are on their way to you!!
As a result of the above, the prices of maintaining those bikes will increase quite a bit too… so if you were planning to buy a RAPTOR do that NOW! (la tada3 al for9ah tafootk.. eta9l alaaaaaaaan.. )

6. prices and sales of tents will increase
a7la shai youm nerti7il !! I remember when we were kids we used to go to this place in the desert and spend the mid year break there... people still do that, if they didn't go for trips they would usually have the tent in front of their house ..

7. people yzeed wazinhom
yerta7loun w yakloun.. mashai sh’3l wala mash’3alah !

8. kastana (chestnut), sweet potatoes will be flooding the market..

9. barbeque items will be displayed closer to the shopper’s eyes :p .. which might seem to have an increase in prices too

10. goum dawr 3ala 5eshab: el 3youz mb men 5athha men tfachach menha.. so you bought the tent.. you should buy all the other stuff... and especially WOOD! go find a guy fil 3zab ybee3 5eshab !

11 Car accessories: of course those who bought the Raptors will have to buy all the “complimentary” stuff such as the galoo9ah… trailer…safety kit…turbo…etc etc… that means.. if he doesn’t have a 4x4 car ra7 feeha wela she7at men rab3eh :p otherwise goum seer w dawr w rakb galoo9ah .. !

I love this season so muchhhhhhhhhhhh…

Just remember…
1. when it rains run for the buckets and towels and wear boots to cross the roads if you were in Sharjah/Ajman and RAK !

2. wear your helmet when you are on the bikes (its not that I do.. but you know.. it would be better)

3. When you are in the car, don’t sit in the back seat if you are in the desert…your head will suffer (bumping into the unknown)

4. When you are by the fire… burning marshmallow.. . get your empty bottle of water and slowly keep it beside the fire… and see how the plastic will melt (kids don’t try this .. its dangerous.. PG18 :p )

Enjoy those days… enjoy the rain inshallah .. enjoy the desert…the beach and sky… make different creatures from the clouds…they sure can be freaky sometimes…

Take care all of ya

A Last Dot:

Be Good !

عندما يذهبون ونفتقدهم

2006-11-16T13:41:00.000+04:00

ذهبوا فلم يعودوا...
تاركين لنا أطلالهم..
من اثار لأقدامهم..
لصوت ضحكاتهم..
وبسمة شفاههم..

ذهبوا وبقت اثارهم..
فآثرنا الذهاب لهم..
وعزمنا البحث والتنقيب..
عن لغز الغائب القريب..

فبعد السؤال والبحث..
قد قيل لي أن الرمل أعد جيشه..
وأعلن استنفاره..
ليحافظ على اثار أقدامك..
على الرمل الأصفر لبلادك..
ولكنه بعث بسارية من الرمال..
وكتاب اعتذار مزج بالإسترسال..
فحوها ما يلي:
أنا قائد جيش مملكة الرمل
أعلن لك يا سيدتي إعتذاري..
وأرفع راية انهزامي..
ولكنهم كانوا جنود من الرحمن..
اختلفوا ما بين هواء وأمطار ودخان..
بعثرت صفوفنا وخلت من توازننا..
وصاروا جنودنا قصه من قصص الزمان..

فاذهبي الى ذلك البحر الأزرق..
فقد يكون جوابه هو الأنمق..
فضحك البحر وقال باستعجاب..
أترين ذلك الشاطئ..
فاجلسي واسكبي دمعك..
أليس ذلك ما يصنعه العاشق؟

فنظر الموج إلى السماء..
وغمز لي باستحياء..
ولقظ آخر انفاسه..
ثم انتحر..

فتسلقت الغيوم للسماء..
وانطلقت للبحث عنك في الفضاء..
ولفارق الجاذبيه الأرضيه..
وبالبعد عن الواقعيه..
بدأت أهيم في السماء..
كبنة أفكار أحد الأدباء..
تبحث عن مخرج..
علها تستنير وتسعد..
وعلمت انك كنت في مارس..
وأمضيت وقتك كأنك في باريس..
أصحيح أم كان هذا هاجس...

وأستسلمت مع الكواكب..
فلملمت شتات روحي ورحلت..
إلى الأرض ها أنا قد عدت..
فعذرا يا سيدي العزيز..
فكن أظن أنك تحصى..
واني سأجدك على الرمل والبحر..
وفي وسط الفضاء..
ولكنك لست كذلك..
لأنك أنت الرمل الدافي..والبحر الهادي..
وأنت السماء والصفاء والفضاء..
وأنت الحياة وكذلك الشقاء..

عد..

فأنا طفلة أعشق الحياه!!