Always wondered where Hajjaa came from. she is old, frail and children. she along with them walks long distances, unforgiving asphalt roads, children barefoot snot all over the face...just like poor Africa on television ?

but why and how would this fit to the over all picture Saudis want for themselves,. in a way how Saudis are really far from what they claim to be originally (bedu) ?

there was an inescapable sense of illusion that perhaps comes over some people when they visit the cradle of Islam.

is that how the old African woman feels? or is what she is going through sometimes begging sometimes collecting soda cans is just her misfortune.  

A’aai guys

today is Wednesday may 20 2010,
I just met with one of A’aai guys, sometimes back in the 80’s me and my older brother used to be with a pack of A’aai boys at Ibn Sirin elementary school in Jam’aa district. 

I met A’aai guy as I was entering the elevator, he was rushing to come inside the building to catch dinner upstairs.

Every other time, A’aai family gather in our building to visit on their relatives who lives in the building, actually their relative is one of the oldest tenants of this building.

He did not remember me at all, he had grown old and it was showing on his face, he was about my height, and he had some food in a plastic bag. 

few, sometimes many complain about the same thing every day..almost the same thing.

this road is not fully built, that street has way too many bumps along it chaos expats badly behaving, GOV hands are weak almost the same from everyone with a varying degree to the order of how the complains starts  or end.

this made me think about the overall developing process since the discovery of oil and its integrating into the funds for development.

accordingly its been 79 years since the foundation of the nation, and many feel that its still lacks anything close to the basics of foundations. why ?

electronic waves

sad loud electronic voices
five times all day, every day
no heart just sounds, no soul?
where things were lost along the way
where are the voices going
they call but people are not the people
the numbers are not the numbers
the voice might or might not be the same

windows live writer first post

this is my first post using the windows live writer, i heard about it through the news while been in the office, it was at the time when i was trying to get Ram to sign my vacation day application, which he did not want to sign.

it is the time to take whatever writing skill i got to somewhere else as the situation in the news paper is not worth the time nor the efforts.

a consensus I believe has to be made sometime I the future, as Saudi becomes developed.
This consensus has to indeed solve or tries to tackle some of the issues been raised.

There is somehow similar situation happening in this country similar to what the west is bitching about in regards to Muslims. However these Muslims are citizens of these countries, the West must treat them on these basis, these are not expats or migrants in my view these are just typical labeling to undermine the human issue or the reality.

However I take this to the US of example, what is going on here, is like.. how the US will deal with Mexican "illegal" workers, if say these workers wanted to vote, work, live, own if they wanted to live exactly like a typical white person, what would the response be?

Another example…Southeast Asians mostly from India some are Muslims some are not, what if a Saudi workers went to India to take jobs and dictate the way they should be treated what will India's people response be.

These of course are hypothetical examples, but I still think are legitimate questions, and certainly wont occur nor will be discussed honestly in any of these countries the reason been is that these countries know that such thing is ridicules. But its good to play on others instead,

cant complain

There seems to be a change, now that everyone's opinion could be heard on the net.

I was going through one article published here in english, the article is about saudi's human rights commission bitching to the press about how foreign embassies tend to mistreat Saudi
citizens who are applying to get a traveling visa, in this case to somewhere in the EU.

I was going through the comments under the article, almost all the majority of these comments are in favor of these foreign embassies bad treatment.

There is something to be said about this, everyone has right to complain and view their take on things, however the comments seemed not to talk about the main issue Saudis complaining to human rights…it was more about the plight of the expats community bitching about their own treatment in Saudi from a company, sponsor people maybe?

In a way these Saudis cant complain whether or not they have a an expats under them or not, in the eyes of those people its all Saudis must be treated like shit because ones or two or many expats were treated maybe by one or two or many Saudi sponsors.

Squeegee job maker.

A word or two about has to be said about the squeegee the job maker,
wooden stick,pieces rubber some metal to hold the rubber,
you got a job!
water it seems is a problem,
there is huge lack of it..to squeeze every drop it get it,
when there is an excess of it, it is squeegeed away,
Squeegee offers those who know how to move their arms and legs a paying job.
push pull the water, you are employed now.
you know your craft you dont allow others to compete with you.

reached

they show they are a people of with independent minds,
but that is not always true,
glued to the same talking heads, where is the change ?
so just follow and see where it leads,
you might want to learn something from what we reached,

At the time it occurred...to me,
i understood it well at that time,
in one year things around did change,
its not the same.
you talk and none relates,
you walk and no one knows the move,
sad or bad is not the issue no more.

awe

he couldn't imagine that day,
so he deals with it everyday now,
200 years or so ago, he his family lived on the streets and he dreamed,
Now he owns those streets all of them,
his family used be looked at with dismay,
Now he walks and people still look at him with them with awe,

puppet

a puppet made of raw materials wood, tree glue, paints... everyone get the chance to looks these raw materials, never think anything of it.
whoever then comes a puppeteer he cuts the wood, paste the glue he assembles the parts the materials. creates a puppet.
the puppet is on display everyone is looking at it.
it talks it walks it feels it dance.
what a puppeteer

matters not

but dose it really matter after all.
he didn't know at all before,
and now he thinks he knows you know.
days and weeks and months and years knowledge accumulated allot.
the talk and the knowledge, the substance was never there.
now he thinks no one is listening,
maybe they don't listen because your talk, knowledge means nothing,
it has no substance you forget to have when you thought you did.