Updates

Okay, so the Communications exhibition was sorta crap...

The weekend was amazing... Went to Dammam Corniche... Took no pics unfortunately, but had a good time in the lovely weather over there...

Amazingly enough when I came back to Riyadh, the temperature dropped 10 degrees C... I was amazed to say the least...

And just when you think you've seen everything in this world... I found out about the Toilet Restaurant thanks to Saher Zainab...

Gaming...

For those of you who are online most of the time and have nothing else to do.. You might want to check out KingTuner... And if you are really out of it then you can join my club over there... Essentially what you need to do is buy a car and then race other people to earn money then buy some parts to upgrade your car and then race some more... and it goes on...

Other online games are also there... such as Kings of Chaos... and Fall of Empires...

Talking about online games.. You've probably heard of Gaymers... How icky can this world get?

A quickie...

I've been meaning to blog, but I always seem to forget the topic I wanted to blog about..

Anyway, so there's this Communications Exhibition that I really want to go for some equipment I'm looking for.. I hope to find it there...

There seems to be a problem with the server again... Ima go look into it...

Personality Test

So I heard about the Myers-Briggs test.

I really want to take it. I hear it changes people's lives... I want in for a free makeover.. except that it isn't free...

Try taking this. It's an adapted form of the above. Not accurate at all but still... I am an INTJ:

• distinctively expressed introvert
• moderately expressed intuitive personality
• slightly expressed thinking personality
• slightly expressed judging personality

Or in more proper terms:

• The Portrait of the Mastermind
• Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging

Not bad I guess.. I just need to think more... be less of an introvert and I need to know my strengths and weaknesses...

Introverted - 67
Intuitive - 38
Thinking - 12
Judging - 1

Sic Vis Pacem Para Bellum

"If you want peace, prepare for war"

This is so true... I remember we had a debate on Peace without war or something of the like @ college... Never took part in it.. not much of a debater myself.. but it was useless... Barely anybody had done their research... Didn't put up many arguments either... The Rebuttal was non-sensical.. and in the end we had to just laugh our heads off because noone knew what was going on...

But it is true... If you open a history book, you will find nothing but wars... ranging from basic civil wars to world wars... But why do we have wars?

To keep peace... People tend to group together.. That is how God made us.. in Groups... And we tend to have differences... but we were not created to fight each other... we were created to get to know each other... and develop a deeper understanding of Earth and why we live on it...

But that is not how human nature wants it to be... Humans are envious.. They are spiteful.. and it takes a lot to change this behaviour...

Knockoff Heaven

I went to a place yesterday where they sell Knockoffs... and I was amazed...

You see the same quality stuff you would in a normal store the only problem is they have a slight error... Like this one shirt, Old Navy I think it was... Fantastic material and everything... the only problem was on the size they wrote F rather than an M... I thought it was hilarious...

So yea had a nice shopping spree... Don't really like shopping but a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do...

Boycott

Yea so the Muslims are put on the defensive by publishing cartoons against their Prophet... and so the Muslims have taken it upon themselves to boycott Danish products... Too bad I used to like (actually more like addicted to) Danish Butter Cookies...

So here's my depiction of the Muslims in the current world.

Hope you like it...

Business

So I've got an idea of starting a business... Well who hasn't thought about doing their own business... But yea, the idea of waking up whenever you want seems to interest me nowadays more than ever... For some reason the past few days I've been coming to work late, its just that my eyes won't open...

So yea, back to the business idea, I see there's sort of a gap in the community over here and I think I can fill it up... Should be interesting...

I'll probably be around quitting my current job... But let's see what happens... It takes two weeks to get an approval on the business plan by SAGIA and they decide whether they'd like you to continue or whether your plan is BS... I had heard that you have to have around half a million Riyals to start your own thing, but then I contacted them today (from my current office - does that make me a hypocrite?) and the guy said that there is no such limit and I should just put in the application and see what happens... So I'll fill in the application and see what happens...

Hopefully things will work out... (as they say, InshaAllah)...

I don't get it... Why do people promise when they know they're going to break it?

I guess they're used to the feeling you get when you're lying and you know it... The feeling that goes like hope that person forgets about this whole thing...

I'm not a perfect person... There are many things I wish I didn't do... But I continue learning... And hope that other learn from me too...

Patience...

There is a time in everyone's life, when they love something more than what they had ever loved their entire lives...

Everything else seems so un-important.. It doesn't matter what others think... It doesn't matter whether it is right or wrong... The moment is full of purity... The moment is full of enthusiasm... The moment is full of happiness... The moment is full of everything good... The moment is full of all the good feelings one can think of...

Well we know what we were feeling but what were we thinking?

That's the thing... We don't remember... Maybe we don't want to remember... We try to block out stuff from our memory and learn lessons from it... It's definitely easier said than done...

As kids, we're always taught, "Look before you leap" but we, by human nature, want to feel in control... We don't want to think of the consequences...

What is done... is done... and there is nothing you can do to change the past... But...

It's only the wind, and nothing more... Not the end of the world knocking at the door... So close your eyes and dream again... Believe me... It's only the wind...

But do not just dream the same thing all over again... You should have learnt what you did whether wrong or right... This is called experience...

Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald. ~Proverb

And then sometimes things don't go so well...

Even the best fall down sometimes... Even the wrong words seem to rhyme... Out of the doubt that fills my mind... I somehow find... Everything collides...

That's when you need patience...

Bohemian

I recently watch Moulin Rouge coz I had nothing better to do. Their emphasis on Bohemian Ideals caught a bit of my attention.

Now Bohemianism started out in 19th century France. Although it has several meanings... All of them revolve around the 4 basic ideals stated in the movie:

1. Freedom
2. Beauty
3. Truth
4. Love

But isn't there a problem with this pattern?

You have the Freedom to depart from Morals into the lust of never ending Beauty where you start hating underprivileged in beauty (Ugly) - racism? - abiding by being True to your own self even if it means False to others... and Love...

The best thing in life is to love and be loved in return...

Is this really true? Where is the Freedom in being Loved? By default you are bound to the other person once you Love... Or is this part of leaving Morals behind?

The Degringolade of Conscience

Browsing a magazine this other day, I see some of the victims of natural disasters... I feel sorry for them...

I turn the page...

I see beautiful models dressed in very expensive clothing on the catwalk...

What am I supposed to feel?

Death, sickness, poverty on one side of the page...
Glamor, beauty, money on the other...

I figure they're just out there to kill our conscience... It is only our conscience that keeps us human and if that is dead we're no better than animals...

Considering what is going on is several parts of the world, I believe it just a lack of conscience and nothing else.. We are deteriorating (for lack of a better word... darn there's no proper opposite of Darwinism/Evolution)...

I just hope we can keep our conscience in tact... You're being attacked from everywhere... and soon your conscience will die... like it has died for the rest...

A li'l more interesting...

A car is purpose is to take its owner from place to place, and if it breaks down and isn't able to fulfill its purpose, the owner has no use for it. Likewise, if we don't fulfill the purpose for which the Creator and Owner of all created us, then He has no use for us.

Interesting...

You are here to perform a great job -- the greatest and noblest job there is. You are here to know the One Who gave you everything -- everything you have, have had, and ever will have. And then you are to tell others about this One. If you do this correctly, you are successful; if you don't do this, then you have failed to fulfill the purpose for which you were created.

Books

I don't get these people... There are quite a few novels out there that just exploit beliefs...

Useless people in dire need of publicity...

Frustration

I never thought I'd be blogging about work but here goes...

You get to see managers in your lifetime that seem to be quite competitive. Eventually they turn out to worse than you, except that they know a wee bit more than what you know in a specific field.

We have Program Management Officers who seem to be quite qualified, except that they just know that much and that's all they will ever know. No matter how much you teach them or tell them, nothing will change their perception of something.

We had a meeting discussing the ability of Vendor Project Managers to "Publish" their project plans in our portal. Mind you, the first meeting we had regarding this was 3 months ago and we had decided that the Project Owners (i.e. Project Manager from the - our - Company side) should take the plan and publish it, assigning all tasks to the Project Manager so that he can update it.

Now this meeting started off with discussing the drawbacks of having the Vendor Project Managers publish the plan instead of the Project Owner. The debate went on for some time, then all of a sudden, my fav. colleague (NOT), came in the meeting room (although he was not invited), and gave his suggestion, "Why don't we assign all tasks to the Project Manager and let him update the plan in that way?"

Bloody crap, don't you know we already have these permissions implemented.. Forget him, all the other Project Management Officers were like, "Yeah, why don't we do that... GO ahead and implement this, we review this tomorrow, meeting adjourned..."

Today, they tested it out, don't like it... so we go the same route again in the meeting today...

Time's awasting, dudes...

Birthdays

Days come... Days go... Years you look forward to... Years you look back at and remember...

Is life really worth living?

Health: Very limited
Wealth: Just vanishes
Love: Dies after time
Accomplishments: Nobody notices

Why do we celebrate Birthdays? To mark another year in our lives we haven't met the Angel of Death?

Pessimistic one year, Optimistic the next... It's all about living a life for a purpose...

To find THE purpose, the One who created the Universe, provides you with Religion... It is upto us to follow and find the purpose... or just plainly reject it coz we like living the way we live... every breath drawing us closer to darkness... The blinding darkness of old age... The ultimate darkness of the grave... and the final darkness of our soul...

Implosion Due?

"We face the real possibility that the Internet may implode on itself in the coming years, and will ultimately be a nice history lesson for future generations," he said. "I hope we can save it, but the current signs don't point in that direction." - Sachs of the Internet Storm Watch

Haha.. This should be interesting...

Quiet Mornings

For some reason I love quiet mornings... After I wake up till at least I get to work (timespan of 1.5 hours) I like it very quiet... not one word to be spoken to me nor do I like to speak..

Many of my mornings have been spent in complete silence... This helps me get a new perspective of things and helps me to notice things around me... also helps me to sort of plan the day out...

Comeback...

Been a long time... thought about loads of things that I wanted to write about... forgot most of them...

Its amazing how we go about our lives, from the time we were kids and didn't know anything and didn't remember much to the time we will be old and won't know much and won't remember much either. I recently got to meet a grandmother of some very young kids. She used to be a Teacher at a school. Quite a good one at that apparently, now she can't even recognise some of her own children unless she stares at them blankly for some time. Times change...

I used to read alot about mindfulness (noticing things)... quite interesting...