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Journal
November 20, 2003 7:00
PM
Hewwo everyone!
So you came back to read about my amazingly boring life? Well, it's
your time, be free to waste it hehe.. I was supposed to write all
this two days ago, that's when the quest of buying Ang a birthday
present started. Well at first I didn't really know what to get
her. She kept saying that she's not that hard to buy for but she's
not the one looking at thousands of choices scratching her head
what to get me! So I went to #cheers, my home on the net, and I
asked some people.. Well.. I got some suggestions and they varied
from books to jewlery and from portable CD players to spaceships!!
so if anything, it made me more confused.. But finally I did something
very smart.. and with only one simple step I was able to make the
decision... I just asked her what she wants for her birthday!
Well that's not
even half the story, she asked for a tiny optical mouse like the
one I have.. easy eh? So just get a mouse, a post card and cheap
wrapping paper and send them to Canada.. But things didn't go as
smooth as anyone expected. Last Tuesday, right after work, I went
shopping around and I found the cutest little mouse so I decided
to go and buy it that night, and since places stay opened until
12-1 AM on Ramadan here, I wasn't in a hurry. I went out at 7:30
PM to the shopping mall where I wanted to buy the mouse and the
place was so crowded that you'd think that more than half of Saudi
Arabia was there! The traffic was jammed, the parking lots were
full, and to add insult to injury, they had construction work there.
I was stuck in the parking lot for a whole hour! I wanted to go
out to a different mall and buy the mouse from there, but I was
stuck in the middle of a non-moving car fest! But eventually, after
an hour that passed like a week, I was free and the road was empty
ahead of me!! so I stepped on the gas and was on my way to the other
mall, when a stupid guy came outta no where and on the front of
my car with his stationwagon! So, now you can imagine it, being
stuck in traffic for an hour and now having to push the brakes so
hard because your life depends on it.. I wasn't in a good mood for
the rest of the night really! Thankfully I was able to avoid crashing
into that car, people around were staring at me, it's like the old
western movies where the bounty hunter walks into a restaurant and
everyone goes dead silent and just stare at him... I was the bounty
hunter and it was like every eye on the road was staring.. so I
drove quietly away and tried to think that nothing happened...
So
now I was in the other mall, I found the little mouse with no problems.
And I drooled over an AMD Athalon XP 3200+ 64 CPU.. If only I had
more money! I went and got a card too, and I was satisfied with
my acchievment so far. The wrapping wasn't much of a problem either,
the gift wrapping place has UPS service in it so I asked them to
ship it to me to Canada but it turns out that they don't do international
delivery. So now I have to go to the main UPS, DHL or FedEx office
to send it. But when I arrived there the prices were.. well.. more
than ten times the price of the gift AND the wrapping! And the guys
at DHL said that it was a discounted price for the holidays! 600
Riyals for sending the little package.. That's around 160USD! So
I was set to go to Bahrain the next day, that's a country on a little
Island close to me (around 40 minutes driving).
And
so it happened, the next morning I was on my way to Bahrain to send
this package from there, sicne there isn't a single reliable mail
service in Saudi that wouldn't cost an arm and a leg! So I made
up a story about getting my mom from the airport and driving her
home and such, and it worked! On my way I started to wonder what
am I gonna tell the mail office employees when they ask me about
my address.. or where the mail office there is anyway? I only go
to Bahrain to the movies or shopping malls.. But I thought to myself
that I'll figure it out! Well, I arrived to Bahrain at 10:30 AM
and started asking around for the mail office. They said that the
main office is in Isa City, and I've never been to that city before
so I was completely lost trying to find it. I wanted to stop at
traffic lights and ask the other drivers, thats what people do around
here, but for my luck, ALL the lights were green and no one stopped
to show poor me the way! After driving in every single road, highway,
and alley in Bahrain I finally found Isa City and was now looking
for the mail office, and I was able to find it at 1 PM.. impressive
eh? But now how will I send the present without a Bahraini return
address? Well I just walked in the office, there weren't people
there so I just walked to the lady behind the counter and told her
my whole story and what I went through to get the present and how
much it costs to send stuff from Saudi and I asked her for help!
Well, she let me use her address and sent it for me for 30 Riyals!
That's 5% of the price that DHL asked me to pay in Saudi! And now
Ang is waiting for her present to arrive, I hope she really likes
it.. Because it was a lot of work to send it hehehe
November 16, 2003 5:00
PM
Well here's another
update on my boring life. There hasn't been much going on here.
Well, the weather got a lil cooler.. it's now 15-20°c most of
the day. So I guess I should take my smelly jacket to the dry cleaners
here hehe!
I reformatted
my laptop two days ago. It works a LOT better now, and my webcam
is working again. You can watch my cam if you want on Yahoo Messenger,
my user name is thennstalker. I got my hads on a few good software
too like the newest Nero 6.0.0.9 and Microsoft Office 2003, and
I was able to find a copy of the new OS from Microsoft, Windows
Longhorn. It's an early version and I'm still debating on testing
it on my laptop or not. I mean, even the final versions of Microsoft
products hardly work at all, let alone an early vesion. And, from
what I read, it looks like a souped up version of XP and more of
a memory hog.. so I won't bother with it right now. Maybe when I
get my hands on a PC or something.. and that wont be any time soon.
November 2nd, 2003
4:30 PM
Ok this is my
first journal entery. In here I'll just write about my every day
boring life so.. enjoy I guess!
I had a good
day at work. Work lets off at 3pm now instead of 7pm, which is good.
It's only for Ramadan and such hehe. So I tried to go and cash my
pay check but the bank said that they couldn't do it and I had to
go and check with the accounting department at work. Man I was hoping
to go and pay my cell bill today but I guess I'll have to do it
tomorrow. Joey, our accounting dude, said that it's his fault and
he'll fix it so my pay check should be ready tomorrow morning.
I really don't
know what I have to do for the rest of the day. I might go out later
tonight or just sit around here as always and just chat or play
video games. I'll start making another game review for the website
and maybe post some pictures of me and such. I wish I had a life..
mehhh
well that's enough
rant for the first post here.. I'll post here again again soon.
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