Eid Mubarak

Have a Happy Eid everyone.

For more information on how to send me my Eidiya (or gifts) contact me by email. Thank you.

Update at 10:54 PM: This was the best Eid ever! I don't think I have laughed this much in a very long time or made people around me laugh like this. It reminded me of Eid when I was a kid and everything was great about Eid. How was everyone's Eid?

The story of Starbucks, London, and Mice.

Starbucks fined over mice!

and for something who was bitten by a mouse once, this is a nightmare come true.

I really think British people should not be allowed to have Starbucks, they don't appreciate coffee anyways, and don't know how to sell it. That's what I thought last summer, but after reading this, turned out they don't... Okay, I will stop here before saying something very insulting to British people which i was going to say. I just don't like to generalize.

Lecture

I attended a lecture today at the university by Dr. Gary Weaven from the American University about "Working in a multicultural Environment". It was really interesting and I enjoyed it a lot, it made me think about deeply about more things and understand other people more. I need more time to write exactly what I think about it all but just wanted to say that he's going to AUS tomorrow (Wednesday) and to RAK on Thursday. If you can make time, go!

He liked my purple Nikes! :D

More about cultures later.

Help!

Okay. It's time to start panicking but I'm going to write instead. I was just sitting here so happy that my class is canceled, I'm drinking my favorite drink from Starbucks and I'm going to have squids for lunch (they're actually really good, if you don't know that they are squid before you try them) when I realized that NEXT WEEK IS THE LAST WEEK OF THE SEMESTER.

When teachers tell us about projects they just say 'it's due last week of the semester' they don't say 'in two weeks' (even if they said, it wouldn't probably make me start working earlier anyways) so I really have to start working...

One of the projects is worth a lot but I can do in few hours, problem is that I will have to make my other group members work which might be a little problem. The other project… well, there got to be some advantage about your younger sister being in the same class, and same group with you.

On another topic, I thought a female would win the election in Dubai but none did, and the only female winner so far is from Abu Dhabi and a professor in UAEU. Hopefully, Sharjah will have another winner from UAEU, even if not a female.

Did anyone in Alain notice the sky/weather yesterday? The sky was blue on one side and very cloudy on the other, like my room was sunny, I go to the living room and I can see clouds from one side and the sun coming for the other side. At one point it rain but the sun was so hot in some areas. It was pretty confusing, you can't decide what to wear!

I have always wanted to say this to people who live in Dubai and are stuck with all the construction, in Alain, I see the red and white signs and think 'oh, wow, we've some construction going on in Alain' but it turn out they're only fixing the flowers. It's not always the case, but it happens a lot.

Pictures

*They passed by to say hi last weekend when we went to the desert.


The past few weeks were busy and chaotic in many ways, at one point I took my blog offline and deleted few posts. Hopefully, I will be writing again here again but in the meantime here is a link to a flickr account created by Arabized and I, you can currently see the pictures from our desert trip. You shouldn't miss the comments on the camels' pictures on flickr, they're hilarious.

Pictures