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I always feel like swallowing a soap bar after having anything from Pizza HutDo you know of any...

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:41:15 +0400

I always feel like swallowing a soap bar after having anything from Pizza Hut

Do you know of any decent Italian pizzeria in Al Ain with a 24/7 delivery service?

A pizzeria specialized in making healthy pizzas, i.e. cherry tomato caprese with a hint of virgin olive oil and fresh herbs on the perfect crust size: soft and crispy simply as it was freshly baked out from the oven.

The entire pizza is sufficient for one person, a pizza that won’t give you cholesterol, high blood pressure or heart burn because it is not oily nor salty, just a piece of perfection that you devour with no tiny feel of guilt.

Or the very basic margarita, made with a fresh tomato sauce hiding under a thin layer of mozzarilla cheese that is hardly melting on top. The hot aroma of the tomato sauce and the mozarilla cheese blends with that of fresh basil agitating your drooly taste buds bringing back all the good memories you had…

Grande!

Now where’s my soap?

Homer’s Iliad the Odyssey of Troy as performed by Fire of...

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:22:00 +0400

Aljahili Fort

Homer’s Iliad the Odyssey of Troy as performed by Fire of Antolia dance group in Al Jaheli Fort, Al Ain.

I loved the performance, the actors/dancers were excellent in every imaginable way. The clashes in wars, different dances and the fear factor, it was so entertaining.

My personal favorite was the marriage scene, Turkish belly dancers are indeed, the best.

—update: I forgot to mention that it was outdoors, and the weather was pretty fine. To see the trailer go here.

How bad is nice?

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:21:00 +0400

Being nice just for the sake of being it is a form of hypocrisy. No one is nice. No one is right, or wrong. Our actions are daughters of our moments, and they are the only chance we can be ourselves. Being nice is mere acting.

NOT being nice is good and healthy.

Remember that story of a kid or a less-fortunate person who was told the sad truth by a higher status personality that they CAN’T enjoy something just because of who they are? and the miserable ends up being so successful etc..?

If the higher status personality was nice, the kid would have never changed. He’d stay where he was and enjoyed the niceness of people around them.

This brings me to a more UAE-specific dilemma. Many of UAE locals (specifically Abu Dhabi & Dubai) had been treated nicely during the regime of H.H. the late Sheikhs Zayed and Maktoum. Everything went smoothly, they were given houses, money generating farms & sky scrapers, free health care, education and electricity. The goverment did that because they wanted bedouins to settle down in the country instead of travelling all over. However, SOME people got used to that to a level where they still expect the government to give them what they want and need. It’s true.

Must also remember that foreign school teacher who harshly shouted only at the student sharing the teacher’s nationality because she got lower grades but you were ignored (you too got lower grades) but because you thought being local no one can talk to you. You are so naive.

Stop being nice people, it is boring any day.

`Mi

Du need not to spend a penny on marketing and advertising for a. A lot of Etisalat customers are...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:15:45 +0400

Du need not to spend a penny on marketing and advertising for a. A lot of Etisalat customers are looking for an alternative b. Du is the alternative. Instead, the guys need to invest their money on the network infrastructure that fails to meet the basic expectations. UAE residents and visitors aren’t spending all their time in the city, where signal coverage is -only sometimes- at it’s full. You see dear Du, we go out to the country side, to the desert, the izba, the farm and the mountains, and we expect our mobiles work at all these places. We also love travelling, du u don’t serve me well when I’m abroad either. Please improve before it is too late for you.

Thank you very much.

`Mi.

Some reblogs from my ville (tumblog)

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:15:00 +0400

are mistakenly sent to my personal log. i.e. here.

Mistaken.

—edit: I like keeping things organized.

Video

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:07:00 +0400

j’aimmme j’aime j’aaaaime!! Bert & Ernie...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:19 +0400

j’aimmme j’aime j’aaaaime!! Bert & Ernie on Google

(via 52hearts:laureola:i heart chivalry.: relationship...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:47:30 +0400

(via 52hearts:laureola:i heart chivalry.: relationship advice)

truth is..

Doha, November 2009

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:48:12 +0400

AUH's interior from 1970's is an art

Bosa! bosa! bosa!

'Coco Avant Chanel', Doha TFF

Smokers section

my coffee art

reject!

Doha, November 2009

Italy photo set

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:58:04 +0400

Italy photo set

"If you build a simpler, more affordable alternative to what’s out there already, you can bring new..."

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:52:37 +0400

“If you build a simpler, more affordable alternative to what’s out there already, you can bring new people into the fold. You don’t have to grab a piece of someone else’s pie — just bake a new one.”

- Matt Linderman, Don’t just try to steal a share of the existing market, create a new one (via davidkaneda)

think once- I want to get into the webby awards for fb’s website, but I am not sure if...

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:44:49 +0400

think once- I want to get into the webby awards for fb’s website, but I am not sure if there’s a copyright infringement for the Wilhelmina cover photo or not…

second thought- you don’t like criticism? don’t publish your work.

thinking thrice- What’s wrong with men putting make up? I don’t get what the difference is? Girls allowed to fake their looks while men are not? We all love pretty. Why not?

quattra thoughta- maybe the whole design contains copyright material. I’ve done a lot of copyright research in the past. All I remember is “open-rights”.

thought 5- probing memory to remember copyright law. No response.

final thought- criticism is not my favorite feedback either, but some one got to take it

On Mishal Al Gergawi's "Abu Dhabi, too fast, too curious"

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:00:00 +0400

Dubai’s nationals, had historically been fishermen and traders - trades that demanded interaction with others- found the emirate’s development bewildering, how will Abu Dhabi’s nationals, who historically were farmers and sheep herders trades that demanded little interaction with others - find their city’s development?

As posted in Kipper.com

Okay I have to start with this: that is total FISH!

LOL seriously Mr. Gergawi? Now your whole interesting article with all its facts, figures and numbers poured down to that very question that shows how improperly educated you are with no awareness and no willingness to research a simple topic as the historical differences between Dubai and Abu Dhabi?

Fail.

First of all, Abu Dhabi, Dubai and all of the emirates and cities have similar backgrounds: a tribal system, and people went up and down the map following water resources mainly. This tribal system is extinct but the tribes (families) still exist in case you have not noticed, and each family carries & transcends values to its inheritors, no matter what city they chose to live in after the union.

Secondly, in every emirate, there’s a simple system where people went to the sea for pearlhunting, trading and exporting, e.g. from AD: Albumhair (also in Dubai), Qubaisat, etc.

Most would own a land in the non-coastal cities, like Al Ain, Hatta, and Liwa for summer, and in winter they return to the gulf. For example, a family in Dubai will have a summer house in Al Ain, and will be visiting once per year. Trade & pearlhunting was a winter job for most of the families at the time.

There are big names from both cities who were known for successful trading businesses reaching Iran and India prior to union, like Khalaf bin Abdulla bin Otaiba, coming from Abu Dhabi, and some successful names in Dubai today come originally from Al Ain, like Al Futtaim. Plus more big family names who had been successful in the UAE: Abu Dhabi & Dubai came from Iranian backgrounds.

Thirdly and most importantly, who said that historical terms can determine whether a man will succeed in a trade or not? That is basic naivity Mr Mishal.

“Interacting with others”

Poor Abu Dhabi government, they didn’t consider that.

Hate web reading?

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:50:00 +0400

How about a little widget that transforms any web page to the reading format you love? Arc90 built that awesome bookmarklet which converts the text to your favourite type, font-size and passage-width. Believe me it is lovely ~ check it out here