You just made my day :)

Amidst all what i am going through suddenly a hillarious piece of news comes my way :)
An Iraqi journalist threw his shoes at president george bush jr.
But then again who else would do something as heroic? The guy is one of millions of Arabs who have had it; he probably didnt plan for it but the mere sight of this ape can bring out the worst in anyone.
Anyway, Muntazer Al-Zaidi represents generations of frustrations we thank him for putting a smile on our faces..for chilling out our hearts.This shoe should be put in a museum it signifies alot.
I only feel sorry for this modern age hero God bless and save him.

Life vs.movies

We tend to say someone's life is like a movie.. By that we mean it's amazing i guess.
But I strongly believe that lifes are movies and movies represnt lifes.
Movies could be boring, funny, exciting or sad...so could anybody's life be.
Movies could have a sad ending, happy ending or an open obscure one...same goes for lifes.
Bollywood movies or similarly bollywood lifes are full of everything...you have a bit of love, hatered, happiness and sadness in addition ofcourse to some dancing and singing. But the amazing thing about them is the ending it's always a happy one.
My life so far is bollyowood movie like without the singing and dancing part ofcourse.
I am in the so called sad phase which should be followed by the happy ending.. see i could be optimistic even in these times.
Do i have a point? Nope just a thought...

25Live( Sweet memory from the past)

Dunno where to start many things on my mind...okay i'll start by appologizing to you my dear blog for ignoring you for so long but i was busy sort of...didnt feel like writing maybe
Anyhow, that's irrelevant right now...i just want to document everything about last night, this sweet sweet night. It was George Michael LIVE IN ABU DHABI.To me this guy is a music legend, he was my favourite ever since wham, the silly haircuts and careless whisper.
Oh the songs of last night were sooo sweet coz they reminded me of nice peaceful days.
The stage was mindblowing, i forgot all my problems and was only singing along.
I enjoyed everything despite the boring alicia keys, the smoke, the lousy beer smell surrounding me...
I was soo touched when he thanked everyone who stuck with him during the past 25 years especially when he admitted that he didnt make it easy for his fans.
So what Goergi boy we forgive u all ur stupidies, after all you are a star a living legend, i dont mind if u act like a freak every once in a while.
Back then i saw you on TV could never imagine that the day will come when i see you performing live just a few steps from me...thanks again Abu Dhabi, whenever u bore me, we tend to kiss and make up...and that was one amazing night you gave me.
I could swear i am not in the right carreer i would have made one good entertainer but what to say...instead am a mediocre product manager.

M-Clan Carolina

Have a nice day

If this piece is not getting documented i really don't know what should be.
I SAW JOHN BON JOVI LIVE.......
I know am 36 but hey what the fxxxx? i am still in cloud 9..
Not only did i get the chance to attend a live rock concert but also it was my all time favourite BON JOVI.
That was last tuesday and it was heavenly.
I never expected to be that excited in fact before going to the concert i was in a lousy mood due to work pressure but as soon as the guy appeared on stage aaaaall was forgotten and i could only sing along and sway and jump(though my feet were killing me).
Finally AD had a meaning...no that was a little bit exaggerated..but i am sure that was my best night in Abu Dhabi yet.
Seeing your favourite performer live is certainly different it's like falling in love with him all over again.
It's amazing how it changed my mood, though it evapurated the next day at the site of people in the office but it was worth it.
A thought hit me while watching them:These guys are damn lucky not only do they enjoy their time but they also get paid for it.WOW. Dunno wish i could do that even if only for one night.
In the mean time some marching band keeps its own beat in my head and if anything i am sooo enjoying it
Have a nice day!

The Balance sheet

To those of you my dear friends with no accounting background a balance sheet is a two sided financial document. One side for credit and another for the debit
The credit is all the plusses of the organization like assets, cash, loans etc.
the debits are clearly the costs.The break-even point you reach when both sides are equal.
To reach a gain the plusses should surplus the minusses and ofcourse a loss is the oposite scenario.
So by now you should have a approximate idea what i am talking about.
A month back a colleague of mine who obviously posesses some vision advised me to do a balance sheet of my LIFE.
He was referring to my Love life!!!
Anyway i didn't pay him much attention or as i usually do i pushed the bad thoughts in the back of my mind, coz this particular exercise would have ended with lots of sobs, self pity, lots of reflection abt lost oppurtunities and wrong decisions.
And this is the last thing i need right now.
But i could not help thinking about one decision i took a couple of years ago.
This one if anything needed some balancing.The decision is me coming to the UAE.
Ok The Credits are:
-I switched my carreer path from trade finance to retail marketing which is
deffinetely a plus
-I got promoted, sthg which i could never achieved in Egypt with the tempo i
experienced there
-I made new friends became familiar of new cultures.
-Better life
-Independence
The debits:
-I miss my parents
-I miss my friends
-I am missing out on important occasions(happy and sad)
-I am not there to give my parents and friends the support they need and God
knows they need it.
OOH dear could it get more complicated, the credits are about my carreer and peace of mind and the debits are about the people i love the most.
I can't even see a breakeven,I can't make out anything out of this balance sheet.
I don't even know what i want anymore clearly going back won't be a source of joy and me staying here is not delightful either.
My country is beautiful but i cannot live there.
Such a harsh position and a decision that could be neither right or wrong.
Simply a decision, which God only knows its impact on my life.
Anyways, i'll try to push this thought aswell to the back of my mind coz it's bugging me like hell.

As if my BD wasn't enough

So many things on my mind lately some pleasant and others dreadful
Ok to start with i celebrated my xyth birthday last week that is ofcourse dreadful.
No correction...dreadful is an understatement it was ..shocking yes that's the right word
Waking up one day to find myself xy.O dear that's an awful lot for someone who is still single.
I hate to imagine how my mother must feel.Luckily for me i am a continent away.
Anyway the pleasant thing was the presence of my friends.
Their support.
Yes that's what friends are for to stand by u in disasters as such.
Whether in Egypt or here i have to say i am blessed to have such marvellous friends.
I would go as far as to say that i had no time to reflect abt the mishap.
And as if this sad incident was not enough to destroy my mood, the next day there were the demonstrations in Egypt.
What happened last week started as pleasant.
Finally Egyptians decided to rise.Though finally is hardly a fair word.To our credit there have been demonstrations in the past but never on such a large scale.
This one was meant to be a huge and effective one.
But due to threats by our honourable government, many were scared and decided not to take part.
We cannot really blame them, they cannot afford to lose their jobs with the mouths they have to feed.They can bearly afford to do it working, so one can imagine their status if they were on the dole.
On the other hand we have the brave workers of Al Mahalla who revolted and stood up for their rights.
As expected they were beaten by the police forces, some were killed and many imprisoned.
This is what you get for deffending yourself, asking for your simplest rights in Egypt.
Again, so much for the democracy.
It is sad.
Not that it was ever pleasant to Egyptians but lately the government has crossed all its limits.
It's one thing after the other and their numbness is intolerable.
The present as it is is very dark and where we heading is not looking less gloomy.
Despite all that some argue the value of demonstrations.
Ok maybe nothing has changed, maybe prices are still high, maybe the bread crisis is still prevailing but we created some noise and that was healthy.
Maybe the world kept their eyes shut this time but next time they might react.
If not the next time then the next...
At least we learned to demand our rights and that unless we speak up it will remain stagnant.
We are passing the message to younger generations that cowards die cowards and achieve nothing...
And this is sufficient.

Sudarshan Kriya

Now i really had to document this one, not just because my "Art of Living” tutor Ms/Janet De Cruz had advised us to, but rather to stand as a witness to my
1-Non assertiveness
2-Lack of spirituality
3-Narrow minded(ness)
My fellow Indian colleague(and i want to stress on the fact that i claim to have an open mind;p)held a discussion with me few months back on life and other issues.
From which i assume he detected that i am desperate(very true) and i needed to take a spiritual course in life.
Anyway Murali (that's his name) kept advising me to take part in art of living course?!!
I had no clue about that and definitely no intention to attend.
He kept nagging and i kept refusing mm no finding excuses.
Anyway, i ran out of excuses and being non assertive especially when it comes to a sweet fellow like Murali i agreed to pay AED 750 and attend this course.
Ok to start with i was the only Non-Indian in this course. What to do?
The course is about the technique of breathing and its importance to the human mind and health in general. It could be true but how did Sre Sre Ravi Shanker( the founder of this thing) come across this idea?
The answer is he started meditating at the age of four...OOOOOOOOOK!???!!!
Back to the contents of the course mmm besides the breathing there are the teachings of the Sre Sre of accepting people and situations, being peaceful, forgiving, reaching out..etc these are actually extremely nice values that i could never learn in 6 decades let alone 6 days.
I am not the accepting type, i get angry over the stupidest things, i never reach out.
Though i have to admit i forgive easily but that is probably because i forget easily( in other words early Alzheimer symptoms)
Bottom line ok i might TRY to commit to the breathing stuff all the pranayas and sudarshan kriyas etc...though i don't commit to anything easily.
But i could not believe in the non-abstract, the divinity of human beings, the love that is surrounding us.
I lack spirituality, maybe to attend this course you gotta be a different person, less complicated, less doubting, more open-minded to non conventional stuff.
And yeah no. 4 this proves how bored I am, i am open to try anything out of boredom.
Hope life gets better in the near future.

Wouldn't it b nice?

1-If i dated George Clooney even if only 4 one day?
2-If i could kill someone and get away with it?
3-If my salary was AED 40 K?
4-If i looked like Keira Knightly?(mmm that comes with kissing Orlando Bloom and
Johnny Depp in one movie)?ok this is ofcourse far beyond nice it would be
heavenly,awsome and lots of other words that i cannot begin 2 describe...
5-If i had the chance to redo some of my old choices?
6-If i had a perfect body without the need to diet and work out?
7-If i could fall in love easily?
8-If i could meet my dream guy before i lose my mind?
9-If i could get high without having to worry about it being a sin and other
unconveniant consequences?
10-If only my life was simpler?

Love, Cholera, way too complicated

I have always believed that every person carries a story on his shoulders.
It could be ofcourse a dull one and it could be very interesting, sad, unique, common....
Whatever it might be it is one's story, very personal and mostly private.
Now i really wonder how could a person consider another the love of his life while for the other he is not more than a shadow?
Could one ignore the feelings of another even if they were very intense?
Could a person stay faithful to another-even if only in feelings- while the other goes on with his life?
For how long can you stay in love with the person considering you a shadow?
One year? Two? Fifty?
Assuming you stay faithful and in love for all this time, and assuming this person will love you back at the end and I really mean the end while you only have few years, maybe months and days to live would you still be happy? Was it worth it?
Could you forgive this person for denying you his/her love all this time...
All this is possible i guess it's one story amongst million of weird ones.
Not bad weird just too not common...and very complicated. But this is the way relationships are never easy..
To hell with him/her who don't love you back..Life is not worth the trouble and certainly no one is.
Every moment is precious so enjoy it people and don't waste it on broken hearts or hopeless cases.
But again this is me, the way i see things, my story, for others the few years are so precious that they hang on to this hope...
Yes every one sees it differently i guess...and who am i to lecture anyone...yalla whatever as long as you enjoy.