RENOVATIO

It’s the rainy season!! Been raining for the past two days now, this sooo reminds me of home~ haha so who says it doesn’t rain in the desert? On a side note, i guess the peeps here are so used to the dry weather, they forgot about drainage infrastructure. small little ponds are common now. and the dry piece of land outside where i stay, is now a lake. Yes, the size of roughtly two six ten soccerfields.

some undates on me, well, still more or less the same. Found some nice scented arabian oil, smells really nice, using it for quite awhile now. and urm.. and ya, i think i need a haircut~

alrighty, leave you guys with some pics of colder weather..

Sometimes one can get entertained by the simplest of things. Take for example the weather, until i saw it, I wouldn’t have believed it~

Oh, it’s saturday by the way..

shhhhh~

one more month to go before the next rotation leave. won’t be back for x’mas guys~ we’ll have a BBQ when i’m back ya.. worst case is BBQ at my place, which i know is too west for some .. but hey~ it’s a get together.. just come ya!!

2 weeks back in saudi n i’m getting sick of the food already.. this is the secret to dieting! EAT CRAPPY MEALS..haha~

and i think they were clearing their stock of peas. there was like peas in almost every meal for three days straight..then the breakfast..

twas the mornin’ on a sunny friday when i was too lazy to go for breakfast at the dinning hall. i miss luncheon meat.. =P

…So I’ll let you go, I’ll set you free
And when you’ve seen what you need to see
When you find you…Come Back To Me

yum yum~ managed to get some dates just for munching~ really sweet for a small litte fruit. I think i over estimated a bit. 1 kg of dates DO NOT get finished easily.. haha

went to Bahrain slightly more than a week ago.. had a good drive there with suprisingly nice scenery. and yes, i arrived from Bahrain too, but it was dark.. i didn’t get to see stuff. here are some pictures of the causeway. Spectacular~ its refreshing to see water on the left and water on the right…

and below is the climb in the middle of the sea for the ships to cross.

the weather’s changing a bit here. its getting real humid in the evenings and in the mornings.. who’s the one who told me its dry here.. bleah~ oh, finally i got to see some clouds.

It’s my third friday here~ how time flies. Well i’ve been limbing a week now. It was getting better the first few days after the tiger balm and the yoko yoko, but it seems to have come to a standstill. ack~

Anyways, heres a little slideshow from my journey home from work~

Oh you see that yellow thinggie? They have loads and i mean LOADS of those buses here. Some of the companies try to hide the fact that their school busses by painting it over with white. Some try to cross it with a permanent marker. But there’s one, and i did not see this, this was told to me by a very reliable source, this one was totally covered with dust. and at the back of the bus, for the vehicles following behind it, was written “PLEASE WASH ME . . .”

Some houses along the way.

This one was taken when were were in the outskitrs of the city. Thats the sun at around 5:30 in the afternoon.

The final one is that just outside the gate to our living compound. This is like the best photo i’ve got, there’s a machine gun in there, with at least one uniformed soilder stationed in the small enclosued air conditioned shed. Man i feel protected… haha

It took me like almost forever to walk to the substation with the bloody limb, but i eventually got there. The first milestone has been met, another 10 thereabouts to go~ And now, we have POWER!! Everythings gonna be uphill from here..

4.16 kV~

Here’s the “POWER” grounp posing for a pic =P

(pssst.. I’m on the left) and finally, talk about preparing for the worse.. hehz

well, one can never be prepared enough i guess..

Ever been back home with a PSI of probably 150? That was how it was like over the weekend. Heng the BBQ almost din cancelled!

Having a BBQ here is no easy task.. I din buy the food so I shouldn’t be the one bitching, but then again, I feel their pain~ It’s like they have to go to 4 to 5 stores to get everything we needed. The sauce, the meat, the seafood why don’t they have everything in one place like home? Anyways, it’s been about a week since i got here and i only remember having seafood like twice -_-”. would it hurt for the cook to go get some seafood from the fish market?? It’s really not that expensive.

Kudos to the guys who pulled off the bbq. Mr.B, the 2 Chans, WK n the “local” Mr T. There’s finally a change in the food!

Chan2 preparing the food. Well, we gotta make do with what we’ve got =P

Our flame grill~

I’ll try making satay next time around.

On another note, of all the places, i pulled a muscle here.. When i refused to pack the muscle rub. Talk about karma~ A week of limbing ba..

Photos of the airport in Dubai

and some of my room. . .

. . . so, where are all the clouds?

Peace be with you~

It’s been a week since i got here, and still I find myself adapting to the change. It is, least to say, pretty hot over here. We took a measurement of the temperature with and without shade and it’s amazing to see such a difference. 55 without the shade and 49 under the shade. Feels like a sauna here. Still doing mostly paperwork and resolving disputes most of the time though. The first thing that came to mind when i first saw day, ~ Where are all the clouds? ~

Well, today was my first “mini” sand storm. Apparently the winds have changed and are now blowing from Gulf bringing the sand with them. Don’t think the BBQ session later will carry on later, but still, I’m optimistic.

About the food - I did like the food here, but having more or less the same stuff for the entire week would definately change the mood. Some new words I learnt, “mafi mushkila”- No problem and “wahid” - One which i picked up at the airport while trying to decipher what they mean. All in all, life’s pretty routine now, get up, go to work, come back, watch tv then sleep. Maybe things will change come tomorrow. Hmmm~

Been doing a reflection and kindda re-thinking about the reasons I’m here - experience? money? or just to escape and get away? Ah wellz~

Finally, in the past year, I’d say a lot has changed. Sometimes forgetting is just better~

Mafi mushkila, back to work..