A Blog of a Jordanian, blogging from the Middle East, known for being audacious and unafraid to express anything that does not conform to his mentality.
I keep saying this again and again… I hate leaving a place that I got attached to… the fact that I have to say goodbye to people is hard for me to get used to.
I feel lucky because I had the chance to meet all of you in this lifetime. It was extraordinary, and still is. If I did anything wrong, I’m sorry. Thank you for coming into my life, and letting me enjoy my life a little bit more with your company and friendship. I feel so grateful for what I achieved this year, awards at a local awards ceremony and a bronze at the Dubai Lynx. Also, designing the guideline for an international brand and working on nice clients/accounts and giving all I can while I’m still an undergraduate. El7amdellah! I never saw it coming! I think I have faith now, I really want to thank everyone for the good times and from the bottom of my heart, I will miss you guys.
I will miss all of you, especially the ones I got closer to recently. I wish you the best in life and I hope to see you again one day and visit me whenever you can, you’re welcome in your second home, Jordan (since I’m not planning to come back to Kuwait, not for the next 2 years at least).
I will also miss hanging out at the avenues, shopping with my friends, eating out at chili’s, having shisha at the most awkward cafes, cruising on the gulf road, fixing my hair at spaloon, sleeping over at friends’ places, going to sultan center and buying things I don’t need for no specific reason, watching censored movies at the cinemas, expensive rates for phone calls… no I’m kidding! I always miss Kuwait for reasons unknown.
I leave you with some documented memories as in images of what is going to be good ol’ times.
Diesel bangs the drum (and other things) for its worldwide Dirty 30 party, Done by SFW Porn.
Diesel SFW XXX invitation to 30th birthday party on 11th October 2008. 24 hours, 17 cities, 1 party: Tokyo, Beijing, Dubai, Athens, Helsinki, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Milan, Munich, Paris, Oslo, Stockholm, Zurich, London, Sau Paulo and New York. The international line up includes Mark Ronson, N*E*R*D, M.I.A., David Holmes, Chaka Khan, New Young Pony Club and many more.
“Sometimes you will have to function with no sleep”
If you’re not Muslim, an Arab or someone who lives in a country where religious laws are applied, you might read this and think to yourself, “what the **** is Moey talking about here? I don’t get it.”
Well, Ramadan is a holy month, you are not allowed to eat/drink anything from 4 am till 6 pm. First meal is usually at 6 pm and the last meal at 2 am, so you usually stay up even if you don’t fast because everyone is, it is kind of a schedule killjoy. However, you need to wake up next morning and be at work by 9 am and function well until 3 or 4 pm.
Now, this is totally fine (not in Ramadan, where your schedule is normal and you get to sleep earlier) but in Ramadan it is a mess.
Now you might say “I hardly sleep right now and I’m in University! All I do is stay out all the time, sometimes party, go online and sleep for 3 hours/day yet ace my exams!”. Well, working is different (I mean DUDE, it is Art school!).
Well, that is true, I do the same thing. But, the one thing you have and I don’t is… Naps!
Naps, which you recharge your batteries in let’s say, do not exist in the real world scenario, not if you work in advertising. If you don’t sleep well at night (because you were working on a deadline, updating your files or trying to communicate with those you can’t reach at work) you still have to work for 9 hours (and sometimes more) and you do not get to nap. Try imagining that day for an extended period of time and then you will know what I am talking about.
Being tired is fine but the fact that you still have to be FULLY FUNCTIONING no matter how tired you are is what matters. To wake up, you will end up drinking 2 liters of coffee, and once that doesn’t you will have to switch to Red Bull… then you will start sweating as if you’re in a sauna room.
Eventually, you survive without screwing anything up and get a “good job” from your boss…
Advice: If you can’t stand this, do not think of advertising.
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We all think we’re going to be great. And we feel a little bit robbed when our expectations aren’t met. But, sometimes, our expectations sell us short.
Sometimes, the expected simply pales in comparison to the unexpected.
You gotta wonder why we cling to our expectations. Because the expected is just what keeps us steady… standing… still. The expected is just the beginning.
The unexpected… is what changes our lives.”
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