WHY WOULD I DIE BEFORE I’M 25

When I first came to Qatar, for a visit two and a half years ago, I noticed the huge number of Toyota land cruisers in comparison to any other car. Just on my way home from the airport, on the streets, traffic lights, parking places, there were land cruisers all over.

I asked my dad, and he explained to me the land cruisers are one of the fundamentals of a home. And that they are extremely popular in Doha.

Back then I met Nora, she was the first Qatari person I got to meet, and I couldn’t help asking: what’s with all the land cruisers?? She said: we have to have land cruiser, “ma 3endesh land cruiser, ma 3endesh salfa” (u have no land cruisers, u have no point) I was like why?? Why land cruiser? She said: 7agga al barr wal ba7ar. (For land and sea). I was thinking: but the country is flat!! What should we do in Jordan??!!

Again, dear Nora gave me an example of how much they love land cruisers: my uncle, his wife, and his 4 sons, each one has a Toyota land cruiser.

She offered to drop me home, how? With her black Toyota land cruiser.

Just before my 3 week vacation ended, she told me she’s going to sell her car and get a new one. I got excited: she’s going for a change!!

-so what are u planning to get?

-the new Toyota land cruiser.

I went to mse3eed, a place that’s similar to wadi rum in Jordan, only with sea pretty close to it, and there I saw tens, if not hundreds of land cruisers, along with other 4×4’s, racing (o besha7to) and trying to ride up the sandy hills, some had accidents, I’ve been told some drivers make a challenge: we drive towards each other pretty fast and see who’s the chicken who’ll go aside first!!

My vacation ended, I went back to Amman and never thought about that again.

Now, after having moved here 4 months ago, I finally understood what’s with all the 4×4’s: it must be the car-wrecking streets. It’s the streets that take forever to fix, I drive, think my car will soon fall apart: they must have thought that each and every human being in this country has a 4×4. Seriously it is pretty much like that anyway.

I don’t understand why they take so long to do the streets, if there weren’t enough workers, then why start all these site works? At first I thought it’s too hot for workers to work at noon, but then I noticed whatever time of the day or night it is, I can hardly see anyone on all these streets undergoing site works. Not mentioning the existing bad streets without any works in the first place.

You find people on construction sites, buildings rise in no time, but streets take years. (Did I say years? Yup! That’s right, years!). Now you get to suffer even more with Ramadan’s traffic jams, not mentioning the Asian Olympic Games starting after 2 months, I have no clue what would happen then!! The condition of streets is sad, annoying, can get u in a real bad mood, and is -without a 4×4- dangerously bad for your health.

EXTREMELY RUDE

ok, seriously, mobile phones are cool, they are awsome, we cant live without them ok,,, but they r not a rocket anymore, U CAN keep them silent.

i was attending this lecture today. when i first arrived, and sat down, turned my mobile silent and waited. some mobiles rang as people were still getting in, i thought ok this will stop since people forget their mobiles on and when they hear someone else’s mobile they should go like: oh i 4got 2 silent mine!!

so they were ringing, ringing, on and on, ok ur mobile is soooo cool that it rings, but its even cooler that u can silent it while ringing u dont have 2 hang up on anyone.

the lecture started, and the very decent educated proffesor ignored the ongoing noise, no i dont mean that there was this one person annoying everyone, i mean that there was like a hundred of us and maybe half had their mobiles ringing.

it happens sometimes, a mobile rings, the person immediately takes it out and shuts it. this evening was different, one had his mobile ringing all the time since he didnt want 2 answer, the other seemed 2 be receiving ALOT of msgs, the other had an alarm on!! ringing every 10 minutes! another decided to answer and have a very long conversation, ofcourse he had to almost shout since the proffesor was giving a lecture which made it hard for him 2 talk!! i had to concentrate hard to try to hear what i came to hear…

i was wondering: what the hell was that all about?? mobiles have been there long enough and this subject was adressed so often, why are there people who still act this way?? do they really not know that its inapropriate?? annoying? rude? why can’t i -until now- get their behaviour?

LAMMOUSH @ THE PEARL

Sooo… I have been finally assigned to join the team working on the multi-billion man-made islands of 400 hectares (yup! you know what a hectare is) THE PEARL OF QATAR. 

The pearl, located in and called after the place where they used to dive searching for pearls (the symbol of Doha), is located 20km north from the city center, it was designed to have 40 000 residents in 11 000 houses and apartments. the first phase of four would hopefully be completed in 2007 and first investors are to take up then. The plans to have a 5-star hotel on each one of the three islands with capacity 800 might double since the area is enough to have two hotels, the project was also designed to have 3 marines mooring 700 boats, beach clubs, yacht clubs, commercial centers, recreation facilities, and the number is increasing along the design development stages… the project is divided into zones, each with a special theme or spirit, combining eastern and Spanish styles, with a variety of choices, apartment buildings, beach houses, cluster houses, and even palaces (yeah there on that thing that looks like a kite tail! if you’re checking “images” on the official site)

this pic is of the current status, the site offices are pretty close to the gate! sure u cant see me but u can see better pics on their website weeeeeeee

BY MOBILE?? NO WAY!!

ok this is funny, suppose u forgot ur keys in the car n they r locked inside??!! (or u just wanted 2 have fun) have someone from home 4 example call u on the mobile and put ur spare key on the phone and click open, u put ur mobile near the door and it will open!!

no i am not kidding!! funny but true! we tried it 2day at work! i gave my keys to my collegue, and went 2 my car, he called me and put they key next 2 the phone and clicked “unlock” while i had my mobile by the car door and it unlocked!! it didnt work when we tried to lock it again though!

i was like: nooooooo way!!! sho had?! lol 

try it urself, freek ur lil brother! hehehehh

TAGGED BY HAMEDE

1- do you like the look and the contents of your blog?

i wish i had more time to work on that.

2- does your family know about your blog?

Yeah.3- can you tell your friends about your blog?

do you consider it aprivate thing?yeah why not, but i think they like knowing my thoughts n news face 2 face from me. and no its not private.

4- do you just read the blogs of those who comment on your blog? or you try to discover new blogs?both.

5- did your blog positively effected your mind?give an example.hmmmm it made me put my ideas in order (they never are) when i wanna talk about deep thoughts (which i rarely do) and hopefully practice making myself clear (at leats 2 get myself lol)

6- whot dose the number of visitors to your blog mean?do you use atraffic counter?well i dont even know how to use a counter, i think it gives u an idea about how others interact woth ur blog and what way ur going. i thought of getting statistics as i am new to all this blogging thing, but im not a pc freek n i still have 2 explore how to do things here heheheh

7- did you imagine how other bloggers look like?no, unless they have a pic, no idea!

8- do you think blogging have any real benefit?not really. i started blogging because i was against it, and wanted 2 know what it is. so far my attitude has changed somehow, but not to the extent that blogging is life changing or something.

9- do you think that the blogsphere is astand alone community separated from the real world?no, these are people, they do exist, somewhere.

10- do some political blogs scare you?do you avoid them.No, i’m interested in politics actually.

11- do you think that criticizing your blog is useful?sure, but subjectively, those who have an attacking attitude just kill my interest. also those who attack the person istead of discussing the idea itself. respectful criticism is very usefull, in blogging and almost every aspect of life.

12- Have you ever thought about what happen to your blog in case you died.lol!! no!!

13- Which blogger had the greatest impression on you?maybe the blogger i hated? bcoz that got me started on blogging so that i see if my attitude is correct! as i have told many who asked me, i dont like people who hate things they know nothing about.

14- which blogger you think is the most similar to you?i dont know, i dont compare, neither me to others nor others to themselves.

15- name a song you want to listen to?eshta2tellak by fairuz.

16- Ask five bloggers to answer these guestion on their blogs?

hahaha i dont think there’s anyone left who didn’t get these!!