Regards to Khaled from AlWatan Newspaper
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Price Difference, why?
I will have the whole month of August off inshalla as my annual summer break, which will give me a chance to go back home (can't wait) and get back to my "normal" life, even if it's gonna last for less than a month.
So I was searching online for the cheapest way to do that, i.e. a cheap ticket, and I was suprised at the fact that there's a huge price difference between flying from Boston to Dammam and flying from Boston to Bahrain. The former costs 2500$ on average, while the latter costs 1600$ (give or take a few hundred dollars, I havent been doing math in a long time)
The question is WHY? is it because there are more Saudi students in the States who are going back home? I mean let's face it, people don't go to Saudi for summer breaks to "yeshmmo hawa" so theres not really a logical explanation for why the tickets to Riyadh, Dammam or Jeddah are too high.
I called a traveling agent to search there in addition to my online searches.
I know I kind of left this till the last minute, but thats what my life is about.. leaving important stuff till the last minute then freaking myself out till I finally get it done on time barely.
note to self: work on "regenerating" that for starters
whisper to self: yyyyyeah, maybe later?
Saudi.... Foreigner?
Although I simply despise traveling, I ended up in the USA to comlpete my education. Now, I had my fears before I came. Unfortunately everything that I was afraid of is actually happening. I was pretty much an excellent student when it came to grades when I was back home, but now my exam grades are just OK, and recently I had a very big exam that I failed horribly at; 47%.
Don't get me wrong, it's not the "moving from a conservative to an extremely liberal environment" that is causing this. I dont drink or do drugs al7amdulellah, I dont go out to club or dance or anything of that sort. So what is going wrong? I have been asking myself that the day I came here. Unfortunately at this point I dont know.
What I do know is that I hate changes; so moving from Saudi Arabia to here was a huge change for me, I've been living alone ever since I came here, and I don't go out much. Take last weekend for example; I didnt set foot outside my apartment. I was never like that, back home all I did was go out with friends to have fun playing games, watching movies, playing soccer, etc. Yet here, I spend maybe 75% of my time inside my apartment, and I'm failing.
Is it being alone after all these years of being "part of a crowd"?
I dont know
Don't get me wrong, it's not the "moving from a conservative to an extremely liberal environment" that is causing this. I dont drink or do drugs al7amdulellah, I dont go out to club or dance or anything of that sort. So what is going wrong? I have been asking myself that the day I came here. Unfortunately at this point I dont know.
What I do know is that I hate changes; so moving from Saudi Arabia to here was a huge change for me, I've been living alone ever since I came here, and I don't go out much. Take last weekend for example; I didnt set foot outside my apartment. I was never like that, back home all I did was go out with friends to have fun playing games, watching movies, playing soccer, etc. Yet here, I spend maybe 75% of my time inside my apartment, and I'm failing.
Is it being alone after all these years of being "part of a crowd"?
I dont know
Monday, June 2, 2008
Noob
Does this page look like something a "newb" aka [noob, nub, nab, newbie, etc...] would do?
Well, I am quite a n00b when it comes to blogging, since I have never been a blogger myself. But every now and then I visit different blogs - some Arabic, some English - and I could spend a good 2-3 hours jumping between different posts in different blogs just to read what people have to say..
Then I had this idea; why wouldn't I try this for myself?
I'm pretty bad when it comes to comprehension in both langauges, but meh, I'll give it a try, o ya t9eeb ya t5eeb
the name Regeneration came from what I'm learning to do, and most probably will be doing for a living for the rest of my life professionally inshallah.
But here, I'm not trying to regenerate something as part of my profession. Instead, I will try to repair and regenerate on a non-physical level.
Creepy huh?
Yeah I freak myself out sometimes too.
Let's see how this goes, maybe I won't be able to regenerate anything after all.
Bismellah
Well, I am quite a n00b when it comes to blogging, since I have never been a blogger myself. But every now and then I visit different blogs - some Arabic, some English - and I could spend a good 2-3 hours jumping between different posts in different blogs just to read what people have to say..
Then I had this idea; why wouldn't I try this for myself?
I'm pretty bad when it comes to comprehension in both langauges, but meh, I'll give it a try, o ya t9eeb ya t5eeb
the name Regeneration came from what I'm learning to do, and most probably will be doing for a living for the rest of my life professionally inshallah.
But here, I'm not trying to regenerate something as part of my profession. Instead, I will try to repair and regenerate on a non-physical level.
Creepy huh?
Yeah I freak myself out sometimes too.
Let's see how this goes, maybe I won't be able to regenerate anything after all.
Bismellah
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