The trip to the MAZE

I'm not referring to the blogger Maze :D but to a building!

It all started when I acted smart & thought that my memory "that mainly consists of short term memory, long term memory doesn't exist in my brain" can help me through the place, I was able to figure out my way through the parking that I visited once more than a year ago, I did! then came the super hero me that wanted to explore a NEW entrance! saw a few employees walk in the direction to wards the "main entrance" sigh I recall seeing a few minutes back & went straight forward not making at least some distance between me & them to see where is the entrance exactly!! I ended up very close from getting into a wall, then when I looked back there was a man that looked at me with a smile & turned right & disappeared! "to him I say المعياب عند الباب", unfortunately I skipped the main entrance that was on my right a few feet before! I said to my self "yes the door was in too deep to be seen",,, it was! its like a mini hall then the door.

Any how, went inside like I was super woman walking confidently through the maze that had hallways over looking the hallway that I was looking at while walking in the hallway. Reached the lobby with my weak memory, then asked the security guy who was busy reading:

me: Excuse me I'm looking for this & that department.
him: "with a hmmmm look" قسم إيه
me: This & that.
him: " with a hmmmmm'er look" بتاع ايه
me: .............."I was speechless for a moment",, its the This & that department!
him: اعتقد القسم حيبأه بالدور ال3
me: thank you

Went to the 3rd floor

افتر لقيت لي سكرتيرة بكل ثقة قالت لي ،، ايه روحي المكتب الثالث ،، قلت يه يه يا هاللي بروح له اللي كل شي يبدى ب 3! وصلت للمكتب الثالث
انا: لو سمحتي الاخ فلان وين؟
السكرتيرة: منو؟
انا: فلان؟ من قسم علان بن فلنتان
السكرتيرة: من قالج انه هنيه؟
انا: مكتبين قبل مكتبج "بابتسامه شقاقيه" ،، ليش اهو مو هنيه؟
السكرتيرة: لا بس ماعندنا احد بهالاسم
انا: اهو موضف عند علنتان الفلنتاني
السكرتيره "بكل ثقة: ايييييييييييييييييييه هذا بالدور الخامس
انا: شكرا يعطيج العافية

الدور الخامس ،، و انا للحين مو مستوعبه شنو علاقة اسامي الاقسام اللي قاعده اروح لها بالقسم اللي ابيه بس قلت اهل مكة ادرى بشعابها! بالمصافط بغيت ادعم طوفه فما قمت اعتمد على احساسي و ذاكرتي

بالخامس "نسيت ان لي صديقة هناك بس من كثر ما هالمكان متاهه دخت و مادري وين الله قاطني" لقيت سكرتيره
انا: لو سمحتي فلان اللي يشتغل عند علان الفلنتاني وين مكتبه؟
السكرتيرة: اي قسم
انا: "شلون نسيت اقولها القسم مادري! مليت و انا اسأل قمت ما اثبت" بالقسم الفلاني
السكرتيرة: ايي هذا بالدور ال15
انا: @@ بال15
السكرتيرة: اي و اكو لفت قريب من مكتبي تروحين اهنيه و هناك

رحتى هنيه وهناك لين وصلت الدور ال15

اول ما صعدت ولا وحده اعرفها معرفة سطحية ،، البيبان بهالمبنى اتدزهم ليش لما شفت هالادمية و المسكينة ذكرتني و بتسلم علي سحبت الباب ماااااااااادري علشان اهي تكمل مشي و انا انحرج بكفخة الباب اللي مالها داعي بالذات اني كنت حيل مشتطه و انا اصك الباب على روحي،، شلون بناديها و اسلم و انا اصلا مو ميانه ،، طاف الموقف ومشيت وصلت لي السكرتيرة علشان اكتشف ان مكتب فلان قبل مكتبها بمكتبين و ان اللي صار لي الموقف العبيط معاها عنده :> قلت خيره بالمره اسلم عليها ،، و لفشلتي اكتشفت اني خربت عليها سؤالها او انه خلص بسرعه و فعلا خذت الجواب ولا انها انحرجت مني و خلت لي المكان على الرغم من اني عرضت اني انطرهم يخلصون موضوعهم ،، ليش ما نطرت برا المكتب لين تخلص مادري ،، كنت حيل قافله اليوم ،، بس ياحليله فلان قالي بالعكس انا ناطرج لانه عندج موعد اهي دشت تاخذ كلمه و راحت ،، مادري استحيت :>

و بعد المشاورات و المحاورات رجعت بخفي حنين تقريبا ،، و اكبر حسنه بالموضوع انه "انت يا فلان" شجعني على اني امشي على الفكره اللي ببالي اللي فيه مقاومه قوية لردعها لانها على زعم احدهم بتفتح علينا بيبان مسكره

From here & there

Thinking of the shift to wordpress ,, not sure yet ,, I kinda get attached to my things/ places I live in a lot.

تبداء حياة الانسان بدموع و صراخ، و تنتهي بدموع و صراخ، منه و من ثم ممن حوله ،، الفرق بين الولادة و الموت هو الوقت ،، بنفس اليوم وصل حفيد و غادر حفيد آخر ،، الله يرحم و يبارك

Organizing my books FINALLY, still going through magazines to clear some of them out, the biggest challenge is how to get rid of all the Vogue issues I have, I love them so much, starting from late 2004! and yes I do buy issues for the same month but for different countries :D I reached a truce with my Vogue obsession is that I would tear out the highlights of each issue I have & only keep the really really special ones! With In Style it is not as hard, although In Style is great with their mix & match pages where they give you great ideas for the every day wardrobe. Alef is a no way to be thrown kind of magazine, although the content needs more! still what they offer in it is unique.

باولا ليما - جين مونهيت ،، قريبا بهذر عنهم ،، بس على ما اخلص بحثي

كنت كاتبه فقرة بتكلم فيها عن الاضافات الصامتة بس حسيت ان الموضوع ماله اهمية :> فاااااا قررت اني اشيلها

Fracture, did not disappoint me, Antony Hopkins is GREAT in the quiet but genius type of character, I loved how he played things around, the grand court scene where he surprised them all! was my favorite, I do enjoy movies that make me think and make me smirk. One more note about this move is that Ryan Gosling's performance, he was excelent I recall him as Noah in The Notebook, however in Fracture I liked how he really pulled of the ego-filled young ambitious man that took a slap and learned that ego can take you from the high tops to down below.

Ocean's Thirteen is a big disappointment! Although making a hotel appear out of no where "replacing PH in Las Vegas Blv." was impressive ,, in IMDB a lot of interesting notes/goofs! :D

The cute project

http://www.thecuteproject.com/

Me busy, but I could not resist posting this link!

الترشيد ،، طاعة

الترشيد طاعة ،،،


لما تقولي ،، من حبنا لها نوفر لها ،، و تعلل هالشعار بنقص بمصادر الطاقة و انت تملك اكبر مخزون للنفط بالعالم و اعلى عائدات لاغلى و اهم انواع الطاقة الكربونية بالعالم و تملك الدولة التي تسيل الخيرات على الدول الاخرى و بكل صراحة تهدد بالمؤشرات الاستهلاكية بانه سيتم قطع الطاقة عنا نحن مواطني هذه الدولة الجميلة ،، اسمح لي بس صعب استوعبك و افهمك

لمّا هل رمضان صار الترشيد طاعة! انتقلنا من الترهيب الى الترغيب بس بلمسات دينية! و برمضان تم اخذ هذا المنحنى "الديني" بالتوجه الحاث على الترشيد ،، عجبي!؟

فهل تعتقد يا صاحب الشأن كائنا من تكون ،، لو بدءت الحملة بنصحنا بالترشيد ببساطة لانه "طاعة" و لانه تصرف "صحيح" بكل المفاهيم و التوجهات لن نفهمك!؟ ،، فالتبذير مرفوض دينينا و اخلاقيا هل تعتقد باننا لن نستجيب لك ؟ اضعف الايمااااان و اقل ما سيحدث ان الوعي سيزيد و ينتشر

صعب ان لا اتخيل بانه تم استغلال الدين ،، صعب ان لا اتخيل هذه الحملة التي تعتبر الحل الامثل لمشكلة دولتنا من حيث توفير الطاقة
و نحن من اغنى الدول بانه لا دخل للسرقات بها

بعيدا عن خيالي و عودة لزبدة الموضوع ،، الحمله كل مالها تزيد ملاقته ،، على الاقل خل نواكب المنطق ثم العصر و التقدم من ناحية النصح و الارشاد الوطني بطرق و شعارات اكثر وطنية و عملية و غير متقلبة حسب المناسبات الدينية او الدنيوية

A day

Shower
Work
Home
Shower
out to the Noise area : ( it was two stops, بقدرة قادر they became 5)
back Home
out to Avenues : (two stops unfortunately each is in the other end of the place, the walk was nice, but not after a long work day)
OFF TO
Laundry
Chocolate shop
Bakery
- telephone call, more demands less time -
City Center
HOME
-never the less the day did not end-
Dinner
Gift wrapping
Made a sweet dish for brother's Graish
Made salad for my work Graish
Shower
Writing a post
Sleep, I wish!

Here I mark the end of a hectic day

Things not achieved due to lack of time:

1- Dinner pickup, BLESS home delivery
2- Hallmark to get a big biiiiiig card for our colleague who will leave us :(

Things to be done tomorrow:

1- Early morning ,, pick up baked goods :D
2- Make an important order
3- Work!

And yes Raju is highly missed, today I realized how crucial he is, tomorrow he will be back from his home town. Yes all of them are busy bees, one of them took two tasks off my back! thank you :D

I hate it when my sleep mode gets turned off, I have this odd biological system that wants me to sleep at a certain point of time, if I fail to reply its demand at that exact time, somehow it does not let me sleep! I can not get a hold of my "sleepiness" again...

And for some reason I seem to have an appetite to write!

Fresh from my e-mail inbox

Fill in the following blank with Yes or No

a) ______ I don't have a BRAIN.


Who said English is easy? :)

مقتطفات من اسبوعي الماضي

The works around the area behind the Church in Kuwait city & very close to HSBC bank surprised me when I got to that area to pick up a salad I craved from Casper & Gambini's "I haven't been out a lot lately thats why the surprise"

Slimline Chicken Salad ::
tender chicken breast, crisp iceberg lettuce, tomato wedges & light mozzarella, shredded carrots, croutons, corn & our lemon mayo dressing


After a hustle to find a parking, began the delivery hustle, then I needed a lot of waving & honking on the horn until the gentle delivery guy found me, just before the minute I was about to jump out of the car & whistle to him ,,, or turn on a loud ring tone in my mobile since I don't know how to whistle! hmm 27 & till now ما اعرف اصفر!!

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بالليل بعد يوم طويل ،، مريت اخذ حبيبتي ،، سيارتي! مؤخرا اكتشفت اني احبها حيل ،، غير اني اسولف مع سيارتي بس بعد ما اتطيح الميانة طبعا! مو من اول شي اسولف معاها! لازم اعرف مايتها و طبيعتها و هم اهي اتعرف علي و اتطمن لي ،، المهم اني بديت احبها و اوله عليها

و بالاستقبال كانت الحجية! اللي عيونها تبرق بهالصورة و عاد وين عيونها عليكم الشغل دوروهم ،، قطوة دواعيسية اصيلة متربية بدواعيس الجراجات بالشويخ ،، شعرها معففففس، مصعوية، قلقه، مالها خلق و ضعيييييفة يعني صج صج تكسر الخااطر ،، بس فجأة حسيتها ناقده علي انا و اخوي و احنا نصورها ،، كانت نظرتها غريبة حسستني اني كائن فضائي و صورنا كلها فاشله بمعنى الكلمة لاني عن نفسي كنت اظحك و ما ثبتت عدل و بعدين اهي اخترعت من شافت كائن بشري يقرب منها ،، و المشكله اخوي يقولي لاتخرعينها

قلت وعليا صاج حرام ،، اي حرام اخرعها

لاااا لا تخرعينها على شان لا اتشمخ لج السيارة و اهي تنزل

و خلص يومي

A week & a day

8 days,,, is the period I was away from my blog, except for publishing comments, I have been totally away from the blog-o-sphere. The enormous work load will fade away with the beginning of tomorrow, which is the first Sunday in the new work week in Kuwait, with the decree that took effect from the 1st of September, 2007 our Saturday is counted as a day off from now on, instead of having Sat-Wed we will live with Sun-Thurs. Its not the poor English that made me write this way, its my mental distraction. Bare with me.

A commenter that moves around by the nickname "Anonymous Coward" that comments rarely but comments in a very wonderful way, this totally Anonymous person comments in an excellent way. He "as I assume, but he could be a she! never the less I will stick to my assumption & refer to him as a he" comments when he really does have something to say or add, the latest comment I read for him was in K.the.Kuwaiti's blog. He writes true thoughts, he does not comment for the sake of saying he is here nor for making the topic writer happy by his nice comment. This commenter in particular stayed in my mind & since I thought about him & the common ground we see his thoughts in is the blog-o-sphere, I wrote this paragraph to say, I appreciate you and do not like to say the other part of your nickname ,,, so to you Anonymous I say you are noticed & do make a difference with your comments.

Moving down in as the week days pass & I undergo the growing pressure at work that I try to manage, I realize that the work load is killing my ideas, keeping them captivated in my mind and the blue file where I keep all my ideas. I am only requested to finish up my work, with the load that I'm handling there is barely enough time to scratch my head, let aside improve work. Along with the rising pressure, the idea of this work place not being proper arose, in a place where I can not develope any procedure I find my self very lost & alone. A spot of light shed on me when a woman offered a place under her management for me to work in, she will be the last door I will knock in this place, if what I find behind it is not different, I will not waste my time there. The work depression hit me very soon! to cut the story short المحسوبية is the reason behind that.

Then the day that her image broke came "this is a different woman than the 1 I was talking about a few lines up", she was like a mentor to me, with her long experience she gained my respect. To find out that there is more under the table between her & some outsiders, was depressing, I was sad to discover that ugly fact. Although I thought that after all of this time & the many people I met with masks on their faces, I thought that I would be immune to such things, apparently I'm not & never will be.

He is taking things up a notch, he wants war, he will get it,,,,,, A man that thought that I would bend the rules just because he said so!




Meet the jelly fish we made in Waterlemon - Kuwait - Marina Mall. They don't only have these small water filled mattresses they put under the plates, now they also have a table FILLED with colored water for meeeee to play with :D now its not only their CHOCOLATE FONDANT, THE TABLE MATRESS, ITS ALSO THE TAAAAAAAABLES that will keep me going there. I love this place.