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.

Full Three Yrs

After all seven or more years he realized to open these doors and start working his way through these rubbles.

he had told him in the past that, this was the best way for you to do your things, in fact it is much cheaper to just kick them out and clean up and keep the place for yourself it is had he listened…

-If their mother was to be taking care of everything that it was their naturally their  job in this case his job.

the concept of him standing on his legs and steady steady tries to get back on his own. This is the right way to it.

Had he done it…. he felt he would have lost everything or lost some or maybe not lost anything and or win it all back, how far was he willing to go ? It never occurred to him or maybe it did he just didn't want to realize it.

I think I can say with all certainty, that I personally don't see solid future for the place.
old district how it has become it, the sounds of people's fear of visiting histhese buildings say in positive sense is amazing...what they say and what is history.
i think it has never occurred to the some that among the crowds that yearn for these fragile memories, among them are no single person who own these trashed buildings.
the people are just doing it because its strong feelings to the place and to the time.
it was/is greed.
its always near to complete but not complete, nor it will ever
I wonder why is it, why is it that its always almost 99.9% and won't want to make it to the 100.

The Mind boggles.

how much his marriage had become a mess a wreck .. after all he thinks that it's not his fault but as much as its almost the whole world’s fault, particularly the crown!
it was a combinations of youths and love and hate and all of the these things,  at the end things had to look on certain way and it always hit him in Wednesday for some reason

Jeddah car auction, a frenzy of market place, located not far from Jeddah Stadium south eastern part of the city.

after managing your way through huge truck drivers hauling cars madly in and out of an area less than half a mile in diameter.the car auction it self is situated in the middle of this circle, surrounded by car dealer shops. just at edge of the market auctioneer start shouting through their megaphones.

just at the entrance of the market comes car auction dealers making hand gestures with their thumbs up for a good price down for fair price if you just stop the vehicle.

"there is a misconception in the public minds about us car auctioneers." middle aged AlHarthy said. when a person approaches us as a seller we try to give him as good deal by estimating his vehicles value based on its exterior and engine's conditions.

car auctioning in Jeddah auction have been for the past several years profitable business venture, many people such alHarthy left thire jobs and started selling,buying and, repairing.

some times an auctioneer like my self losses money instead of gaining as most think, i buy a car from a seller i take it fix it's paint and dents and i end up selling at the initial price that i estimated for it so where is the profit?"

as you would enter the market right from the start men in staging on the edge if road pointing with fingers, signs only few experienced buyers Sellers understand. these signs serve as on the fly quote for the car your driving.

when a person stops, no less the five people would approach the driver, and stray shouting prices and estimation to the cars worth. if a price sounded good a person sells the car if not they move one, however to maintain market control some of these care buyer would tell thire Friends along the road of a customer with certain model to be a sellers would basically fix the Price or under value a Sellers car to maintain market control.

another car shop dealer Ali told, that his job is to bring onto the market as much vehicles as possible,"you see these trucks they contain many vehicles". These "newly arrived" cars again go through some refurbishing before its sent to the market place. Ali said there are no inspection done on these vehicles "if you want to check the car it's up to you, a car here is like a fish in an ocean".

however without a professional car inspections many buyers end up with a lemon. a car buyer told of time when bought car from and auctioneer on the street, American car and it looked good from the outside but as he drove it , the car's engine failed and auctioneer refused to take it back. he advised that as buyer one should inspect the car and scrutinizes its paints for dents and mistakes.

Ali's owner of the car shop admitted the market is not like it used be man years ago. he added customers are more well informed these days. "they put us in the spot asking too many technical questions which past buyers dared to ask in the past ten years buyers just bought the car on face value which isthe norm in the market",

flow of information plays a major part Ali speculated, acess to information like the Internet and the use of cell phone gives customers a better way to bargin with us. before all the information about the car used to be supplied by the seller not the buyers.

Ali also mentioned that the nature of the market has changed more new young commerces are taking over the auctioneers job. i started here thirteen years ago the demography of sellers is really young and can use their cell phone to inform each others to fix the price on a customer.

one buyer advised to check the date of purchase the original buyer obtained the car. also he advised that a buyer should be alert to the condition the car is at, for example rough smoke coming from the muffler can tell allot about the cars condition.

its tipping, but here it wont

I was hearing the tipping out guy speak about his theories of how things move and end becoming things.

And I couldn’t help but think, that these things he was talking about wouldn’t have happened unless in a place like the US. Maybe other places, but I really doubt in here, at least not in the way viral stuff became the way it went in say Boston.
Saturated

Your always be hidden.

Your always be hidden.
Its not a mere of chance that when technology arrived here and in mass he got overwhelmed not just him, his wife children and his mom and father as well.

So he had to counter that…how?. An immerse in information had to be met with and immerse with no information ast all, or at least with some littlie information.

Face it this was a place to which almost the whole world directs its attention to five times a day, by its nature it had to have attention I think at times he goes through these thoughts, and think whether or not the whole idea of moving here was worth.

He knew the people wont do him wrong on his service on the net,
it just felt right that, when phone service centers were created.
It took the shape of the people that live in the land.
He knew that, not matter how is company is doing bad, his phone call service at the company wont be affected. “ people here are just nice, that's all” he said.