MyLifeDump

I slept for I think little more than 14 hours…. it wasn’t continuous but still, it was more than 14 hours… I don’t remember when was the last time something like this happened but I have slept before for more than 24 hours with 2-3 bathroom breaks.

Last week was the eid and I had misterms the same week, this is always something that makes me crazy, when things are not in my control, like the midterm dates and the sighting of the moon, why is it that it all concludes at the same time… ?

I never take saturdays off from work but luckily for me, I asked told my manager that I wont be working saturday 28th a month back as I was suppose to go to San Francisco Zoo with someone who had to do a project on Chimp/Gorilla behaviour. This proved to be a good thing to do after the most tiring week ever and one interesting thing I found out at the zoo was that gorillas don’t like it when you turn your back on them. This one big black gorilla charged towards us when we were sitting with our backs on him. The thing that prevented him from buldozing us over was this glass barrier. It was quite a sight, he then went and took a piss… so my conclusion was that he was very PIST

In the end, I had a very good time, weather was good, we also went to Fisherman’s Wharf. Idea was to goto Alcatraz but they were booked until Wednesday… !

I got home at 6pm and thats when my journey in dream land began…. without any dreams ofcourse… I think i had couple but don’t remember…

Yesterday I attended this group panel discussion on Racism and War. I must say that it was very interesting to hear what the panel had to say about the war in Iraq and the racism that’s rising against Arabs and Muslims.

In the panel we also had the President of General Union of Palestinian Students or GUPS, Ramsey El-Qare. He pointed out the racist bias that exists that puts all Arabs under the umbrella of Islam. Recently this was depicted in an article written by Jason Shuffler for the SF [X]press.

There was this big Republican rally where flags that had the word “Allah” written on it were trampled upon, of course by the Republican Students. GUPS President Ramsey El-Qare approached Leigh Wolf, who is the press officer for the College Republicans, along with 2 other students.

The image is totally absurd as the three students shown in the image are not even Muslims. They are Christians trying to tell this rally that stepping on the name of “Allah” doesn’t achieve anything as it insults anyone who believes in God.

The article had a mediocre spin on the whole issue that made concerned students look like Muslims. I don’t think you have to be a Muslim to protest desecration of God. But the lack of understanding and the ignorance that exists is to a proportion where there is no hope of revival.

Just because few concerned Palestinians decided to stop an act of ignorance taking place in and educational setting, they were labeled Muslims. What does this say about racism and the desire to feed it more with a desert of ignorance and salad of hate?

Once I moved to Sharjah, I had all my friends in Bur Dubai where I used to live before. There was no inexpensive way for a 15 year old to go back to Bur Dubai on the weekends to play some cricket or meet old friends.

But there was some hope, in the form of a wooden boat. This is how it worked… you take a taxi from sharjah, this taxi would allow you to share the ride with other passengers, four passengers per taxi. That was like 5 Dhs per head. That taxi would drop you at Nasser Square in Deira. From Nasser Square, Abra is like 5 minute walk but it still used to be a drain because of the heat and humid weather.

After reaching the Abra (Boat) stop, you open up your ears and eyes and follow people who are flocking towards the Abra that is going to leave once it has 20 passengers. It was 50 fils to go from Deira to Bur Dubai and vice versa. Thats like less than 50 cents roundtrip. The whole trip was about 6 Dhs, instead of around 50 Dhs if I were to use the taxi back and forth from Dubai and Sharjah.

The Abra ride itself is around 7-8 minutes, the water is blue, the buildings are scenic and the breeze is relaxing. This is one thing about Dubai that it believes in preserving the ancient practices and ethnic heritage when in today’s world, they can offer the same roundtrip in an electronic air conditioned boat.

Two Thumbs UP for Abra and Dubai!

I am writing this post again, maybe I shouldn’t be that negative on this blessed day.

So brothers and their sisters, Eid Mubarak…

I hope that your prayers and duas are answered on this day and throughout Ramadan all the good deeds you undertook are rewarded in your lifetime and life after death.

It’s interesting that this time around, Diwali and Eid were like almost 3 days apart…. do you remember the last time that happened? I don’t…

I am alone here at the moment and miss my family back in dubai more than anything else… this is the 4th year in a row that I will be celebrating eid without my family. Hopefully this spell will end soon…. okie I am whinning I think…

EID MUBARAK - Have a Blast this Eid and send me your Eidi….

I saw this car and at first was puzzled as to what was hanging off the trunk… then I tried to get behind this car and lucky me, it was red so he stopped and I was right behind him.

I thought it would be a good idea to take pic, that’s why people have camera phones these days. This leg really looked real, the pic doesn’t capture it but the leg was bloody too, not red but you could see the blood.

I don’t know about you people but I saw this for the first time and thought hmmm interesting!