The Sayeedi Brothers

DESERT STORMS...

This page is probably the only one of it's kind on the net... Since graduating from Manaret Al-Riyadh School (Minaret Al-Riyadh or Manarat Al-Riyadh) English Section for Boys, me and my classmates have moved on to different parts of the world like the US, UK, Canada, Pakistan, and so on. So this page serves as a e-memoir of those days. Don't forget to have a look at Rizzo's forward.

Those years spent in Riyadh opened me up to a completely different society, new sights, and great experiences that I would not have been able to have enjoyed if I had stayed in Canada. Those years weren't easy, but these guys that I call my brothers made all of it worthwhile. It also help a little when we moved to Al-Wadi with its satellite dishes. I was forced to watch MTV Asia and the infamous Star TV Network.

For those few of us who worked on the "Manaret Boys" tapes, we have some good audio memories of that era.

This is Riyadh, capital city of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. I called this city home for two years...probably the two most important years of my life. I like to think that I became the person who you know now during those years. My love for shawarmas began here!

This is my bro Imran Imo Native Abdullah bin Slash Jimmy Page Hendrix Pahi Beg! He's wicked with the guitar...he can play the good rock 'n roll stuff. We've had lots of good laughs, especially from the prank calls we made to those fast food joints in Riyadh!!

This is Nizam...or better known as Bug! Nizam is one of my Bangali Brothers from Riyadh. He goes to Baylor now which is in Whacko, -er I mean Waco, Texas! Have a look at Nizam's cool homepage The Protoculture Matrix.

"AL-WADI COMPOUND, CAN I HELP YOU?"

Here's a good pic from a Bangali party at our home in Al-Wadi Compound. There's Tanvir, his bro Reswan (who you can't really see), Sajed (my other Bangali Brother), Me, and Nizam. The other guy was our house-cleaner Ali Akhtar. He stole 500 Riyals from my Mom so we fired him! He kind of reminds me of a short Snoop Doggy Dog!

Here's a picture of Me and Nizam from Summer '96. He was in Riyadh for one day and we still managed to hook up. Now that's brotherhood!

THE MANARET CIRCUS

I went to this small English school called Manaret Al-Riyadh. It's probably the most ridiculous school in the galaxy! It was an all-boys school, so needless to say we were quite deprived. I spent a two-year sentence there, and boy were those years weird! If I was to explain the stuff that went on there, you probably wouldn't believe me!

Our High School graduation was held at the Riyadh Hyatt-Regency Hotel. Very classy indeed!

Here's a picture of Alex (the only non-Muslim in our class), me, Faisal in the front row and Mudassir, Sajed, and Mohammed Amin-Malki in one behind us watching the grad ceremonies.

Here's a great picture of the Manaret graduating class of '94. From left to right: Imran Anwar Beg (a.k.a. Native), Sajed Alkarim Chowdhury (a.k.a. Soggy), Omer Waheed Qureshi (a.k.a. Zooki), Mohammed Haroon Jawadi, Farid Ismail, Faisal Maju, Khalid Mahmood Hassan (a.k.a. Fundamental Concept), Omar Tajammal Mirza, Mohammed Ali Wasif (a.k.a. Mali), Mohammed Mohammed Qasim Al-Qureshi (a.k.a. Q), Syed Tahir Zafar Jafri, Mohammed Amin-Malki (a.k.a. Monkey), Wael Farouk El-Amin, Sattam Shamveel Ahmed (in lots of trouble), me (a.k.a. Liquid Paper Boy), and Nizamuddin Sayeed (a.k.a. Bug). In the front there's Muddassir Hassan (a.k.a. Mud), Fawad Zakai, and Alex Mark Nicolau. No, that's not my arm around Sattam, it's Monkey's!

Here's a picture of our favourite teacher Mr. Habib. He taught us the "RHIGHT" and the "GHOOD", or Islamic Education. One time Faisal rubbed his belly. Mr. Habib also likes "DA SPIHCY CHACKEN"!

RIYADH THESE DAYS...

Since university started, I've managed to visit Riyadh at least once a year. I finally got some pics of the good times that Imran and me have had. My August '97 visit was really great because we hooked up with Omer from Waterloo.

Here's Omer and me in his Caprice Classic, locally known as the "Cabrice". This was taken after Omer tried to do a donut but nearly lost control. Poor Imran was thrown around in the back. I think his whiplash is okay now!

Here's the three of us on top of the Cabrice showing off our best Oasis greetings!

This is a pretty cool pic of Hythm (very excited!), Ashek (showing off his pipes!) and Imran (filling out the frame!) in my room in Al-Wadi.

Me and my friends always poke fun at the fact that I don't drink alcohol. So when I drink a coke or ginger ale I always call it "Muslim Beer". So when I went back to Riyadh, we went and got some Muslim Beer, Moussy brand! My mom wasn't too impressed! Oh, and just to clear up any misconceptions, Moussy and Barbican are both non-alcoholic.

Me and Omer endulging in a couple of bottles of Moussy.

The three of us doing Moussy Shots!

Here I'm fancying a Moussy Dark by the pool in Al-Wadi.

Here you see Imran's actually drinking a Barbican and Omer's gone with a Moussy Light.

Imran, with Moussy in hand, gets a shot of me an Omer by my compound's satellite dishes.

Oh yeah, Moussy tastes disgusting!!! How can y'all drink that crap?

TEJAS AND THE CRAZY TEJANOS!

Nizam and Sajed went to Texas for University, and are now moving into the next phase of their lives in that part of the world. Who knows, maybe I'll join them to reunite the Bangali Brothers! Here are some pics from my December '98 visit to Dallas/Austin/Waco when I went to see Sajed Convocate from UT Austin...

Here's a ppic of the proud grads Sajed and Omar Mirza with me and Nizam.

Here I am in front of Baylor's student union building.

Here's Nizam in front of his alma mater.

Nizam and Sajed, my Bangali Brothers.

This is a shot of the dome of the Texas State Capitol Building in Austin (from the inside)...Pretty neat!

I'm loungin' on the State Capitol floor!

We snuck into a senate hearing room and dispensed some Bangali Justice!!!

Downtown Dallas

This is Nizam and his wife Jenny (a.k.a. Hennifer, Hennita!) from my visit to Dallas in summer '99)

There are more people that I met in Riyadh but I don't have pictures of them. If you have pics that you'd like to see on this page then e-mail them to me at alwadi.geo@yahoo.com

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