Coming Home

I'm doing well and all is good, my work is ongoing and this is just a reminder that I have done my homework and I deserve a break and go mentally offline, Ammaning on Sunday; Here I come tadaaaaa

I'm coming home, coming home, tell the world, I'm coming home


In the back of my head, I have so many open ended stuff which require closing and it depends on ppl like ( the bank rep, the post office, the office boy ) and I won't be here :/ I need to reschedule tomorrow and go gift shopping. I can't sleep now,
I didn't study anything today and didn't go to the gym

Im not lazy :( I just had no excuse for not going

I should call S,M,A,N ,, else I will be killed

Nighty blog and visitors

Meat Purée a la Wheat A.K.A Harees

If you think Mansaf can knock you down, you should try yourself a plate of Harees. not to be confused with our Hareeseh, Harees is a traditional Emarati dish that is quite famous during Ramadan in the Gulf region. it is made of mashed meat (mutton mostly) with wheat that are left to cook for loong time.
if you are a meat lover, this dish should be on your to try list, of course it has the same side effects of mansaf, a concrete like effect on stomach & non functional brain for hours to follow.

Healthiness 4/5
Presentation 0/5
Yuminess 2.5/5

Emarati Dictionary

when I first started working, the first word that I came across in the worksphere from Emarati accent was " Atarrish " which means to send, so I was talking to my colleague and I told her " ib3ateeli il email" she told me " Hay, batarsha 7aggesh " I was like " batarsha Oo??!@#$%!! shu ya3ni ?? then I recalled that in MS-WORD the Arabic version, paste = لصق /طرش , that was the closest my imagination could have related since all I could think of is "trasheh" which is painting surfaces.

and I couldn't get rid of the thought that whenever one tells me "tarsheeli il email" I would literally get a paint barrel and a brush and I would be pasting the email on a wall :D

here are some words to add to your dictionaries; bil Emarati,

HAY HAY == Yes ( this is funny) [ == A in Syrian, E in Iraqi, Aywa is Egyptian, AAH in Jordanian ]
TCHI = haik
TCHI TCHI = nos nos
ASTA-NIS = having good time
A3og == Akob
Atar-rish = to send something or a person
Aram-mes = to call
Mel-sha = Katb Ktab
mit-la3-wi-za = confused
b-ru7a, b-3mra= itself
b-ru7i, 3mri = myself
rab-3i = s7abi
ba tee? = bteeji?
Gowm-Ahli = Family
rabee3-ti = sa7ebti
ryoug = breakfast
Ma-teen= nase7
A-seer = Aroo7
Ya 7Lail-Letsh == ma a7laha or Allah y3eenek ; still have no clue when its used
Seeda= straight
Fa-daiiiit-tesh, Allah ysall-lemsh = Allah ykhaleek ( they sing this one)
plus adding WEEN to everything, bitgoomeen, bitroo7een, batimsheen etc etc..

FREEDOM

we don't need to be affiliated with anything to produce and we don't need massive resources or national agencies to make a difference, the things that we care for ain't gonna change by waiting for someone to hold a torch and no matter how great a person can be, he/she can't and won't score alone.

There is something I don't know if you know, but I noticed it recently; there are people around the globe who would help and understand and support our cause, but they know nothing..

The sound.
I want to make sound.


On one hand, we have this close up to our status and its awfully burdening, but on the other hand, no one knows what is going in your mind, they know nothing!!!

what cause am I talking about? I am talking about the Palestinian people. I dont want to be pro anything, pro Fateh or Hamas, Two State, One State, No State, Any State, I dont want to be part of any organization. I want to speak my mind saying that this is not right and it should not pass by and its so wrong to be silent. I don't want to use big words, I want to hear myself speaking. I have been silent for so long.

There are people who know nothing about it and are AMONG US, I dont need to go far.

I know what it feels like for us, in Jordan, the Middle East when we bring it up and how we can't foresee it solved soon but you should. I know many issues jumble the picture in the mind, really, I do know all this.

but you can't give it up, and you have to admit that you did and you do, how can you just allow people being killed miles from you? it might happen to you one day, maybe its our silence that giving it way ,, we need to say and keep saying NO loud and clear!

Those who work for UN in New York and Geneva are doing a Job at the end of the day, those who work for any government are doing a job too. its stupid, but Jobs are Jobs and roles are roles but they do not put people first. YOU KNOW THAT, YOU SEE IT EVERYDAY...

you at your job, do your job because you could be loving it, and it covers your expenses, but at the end of the day, there are people who won't even have the privilege of a safe life or a resource to depend on, living in constant fear and demolition threats of everything you ever worked for to be shattered in split second. would you allow that to happen to you now?

I didn't know what to write about Gaza, I thought to myself, I would be just another reaction to the status where no one remembers it except when it gets to a peak that the media must cover, so its just people reporting it and doing their job.

I don't care about your title, I don't care about your affliations, I really don't care about how many people listen to you and what your stance is.

but you must agree that what is going there is wrong, and my question for you now is

why are you silent ???? can you think of deliverable for a small change?

I won't let you down
I will not give you up
Gotta have some faith in the sound
It's the one good thing that I've got
I won't let you down
So please don't give me up

adventures of the Atlantis

Last week, lots of people from Amman were in Dubai, fortunate enough to have friends working here from Amman too, and since all of us are relatively new we were off for some discoveryyy in the city of sand-berg

Palm Jumeirah is a man made palm shaped island and looks like this;

This is an old picture before all the construction took place, so imagine it with roads and stuff, [dubai is more of like playing real monopoly,, turn your money to hotels and more and more buildings and towers, il muhim, nerja3 la solafeh ] while driving in the car, you can access the central roads of the palm, the wider downward area has buildings with apartments on both sides for those who like to rent or buy, while the palm branches require access cards and include villas with private beaches for each villa, the crescent surrounding the palm will have 28 hotels and whats amazing in these places is that you can access the sea from both sides, the crescent is not quite wide by the way.

now exactly in the middle of the crescent area opposing the palm comes the fascinating part, this is where Atlantis The Palm Hotel is, it looks awesome, I was so excited the moment I saw it from far away,really, like my eyes widening and sticking my head towards the window in disbelief, it reminded me of the Castle in Aladdin, The Castle in the Little Mermaid, it is really coool, the nearest we could get to it is the tip of the palm which has a U turn covered with high wooden walls so you can't get a full front view of the Atlantis..

the thing is we couldn't see more of it, it was in the morning time, so last week when we were getting out of the festival city (something new too) , it was around 1:00 AM we decided to go see the Atlantis at night...

ok, we drove there and we got to the U-turn and one of the wooden blocks was left open, so I asked my friend to park.. and I went down, I got a quick shot of it but the security was behind our car so I had to make it quick fa ma zabtat it sooora (down there) ,, you know the scene when Aladdin shows Jasmine the Castle from his rooftop, the exact breath-taking scene, yeah that was like it,, it looks beeautiful, its so huge, far, and the sea is infront of you..

we didn't quit, so we decided to take our chances and take the tunnel, the hotel was not open yet but we saw trucks taking under sea tunnel linking from the palm to the crescent (check upper picture and picture the tunnel), the speed limit is 50km/hour and its quite long, and the thought that water is over you is scary,, it was 1:30 AM and we didn't really know whats on the otherside,, so as we got out of the tunnel the view we saw was the profile of the Atlantis, and a road leads to the back of the Atlantis and that was the closest we could make it,

when we parked we looked towards the sea from the real wide wild sea side infront of us, it was dark, seeing the big rocks that were used for making the palm and then a big fish jumped and you hear the waves, and then you realize that its not a shore... its the sea... and probably those people ruined many things with tooo much money, its like people here have too much money they don't know where to spend it, only thinking of making more money, the opening price for villas would be around 4 millions Dhs and now its valued at 20 millions.. its crazy!

we thought today they will do the fireworks ,, since its promised to be a Beijing olympics style but it turned out that today is a soft opening and the grand opening will be on Nov 20th, the Aqua park is open but we got there past 7 when it closes, so a friend of a friend of a friend has a villa in the second branch from top, left side ( see up ) and at the last villa at the tip of this branch is Michael Shumacher villa worth 50 millions, I was standing infront of it, the Villa next door is vacant if anyone has this kind of money ;) so we accessed the shore and had a nice bare foot walk with workers fixing villas here and there,,, but its so empty and I agreed with my friend, that if we had this kind of money, we won't live on this place because is so so artificial and lifeless and its made for business and summer vacations of the richy rich, Michael Owen and David Beckham too have places in this branch

money in Dubai has no value, a JD in Jordan is worth 1 Thousand here. I am serious.