tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56268306828041081092011-11-28T03:08:23.415+03:00tales of a lost soul on an exile-journey of self-discovery...About Me : Omar the Tigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03146856667610892745noreply@blogger.comBlogger191100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5626830682804108109.post-78969726266701615622009-05-28T21:53:00.028+03:002009-06-02T07:43:09.245+03:00

Of the many sort of different backgrounds and peoples i have met. i remember Farid during times of sadness and frustrations. he's this cheerful, 50+ year old egyptian chap. always smiling and seemingly carefree. one day, he introduced me to the game of sudoku. if there was a way to gauge his proficiency in the game, i'd say he probably has a chess equivalent ELO rating of around 1800. anyway, one

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Fulton Sheen once said :” Whenever you see evil comes into contact with good, there is suffering”.

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A friend quoted on Facebook: "You get to a point in your life where you think you know everything about yourself, and just then you question it all. Am I a good person doing bad things or a bad person doing good things? When you wear a mask for so long it gets hard to tell the difference."Every single day i never cease to learn that everyone is clueless about-- everything. and the funny thing is,

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Friday, February 20, 2009Keywords: Temporal,My prison sentence in Saudi is about to end. A new life, a new adventure awaits me here in Doha. Tomorrow i will say goodbye temporarily to this place, in which i came to like at first sight. By next week i will say goodbye to good 'ol Jeddah. Nothing lasts, as Benjamin Button would have...The movie teaches us a lot about many eternal truths about life.

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Monday, 29 December, 2008 Keywords: State of the soul, Corrosion, hatred. passions Months of chit-chatting, joking and talking with “S”, my Palestinian colleague wasn’t enough to get to know him. it’s only today that I came to the realization that this chap was not really joking when he say things like :”I will kill you if you say this or that”…he was referring to my occasional remarks and

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“Give me a small fish for my son”. The arab asked King, the filipino chap who I got to know only 5 min. ago while strolling along the beach. A lot of people gathered around King as he unhooked one small fish from his last catch…Earlier he almost caught a 1-metre long baraccuda but it managed to escape. The kid beamed with amusement at the yellow finned jumping fish as it was handed to him by dad.

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Keywords : Adam and Eve, Bahrain, Garden of Eden, fossils, death, life, Unity, Division, Fallen Human NatureI regret not having a decent camera with me but carrying only an old, half-spoilt phone camera. The journey to Al-Khobar from Damam featured real wild desert environment with real camel packs in their natural habitat. First time I am seeing orangy fine sand dunes. In the city, you see only

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Keywords: Ramadan, rain, miscellaneous rantingFrom a distance, I noticed a 14 year-old girl running away from a Somali beggar woman. The streets were as empty as ever and I wondered what this kid is doing and if I missed any action. She was wearing an abaya, but you can tell from her soft looks and fair skin that she is of northern origin. Probably Lebanese, Syrian. She disappeared against the

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var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));try {var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-5828630-1");pageTracker._trackPageview();} catch(err) {}Keywords : Desires, Worldy pleasures, Catholicism, Protestantism, Gregory the

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var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));try {var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-5828630-1");pageTracker._trackPageview();} catch(err) {}Today is Friday. Our Sunday equivalent in Saudi Arabia . I went strolling to

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