Sunday, April 29, 2007

Friendship Styles


Everyone can't live without him/her or them. Friends, as the proverb says, are angles, but when these angles are born without wings, we call them friends. And this is completely right.

We all have friends, we like them, we love them, we feel comfortable talking to them, tell them our problems, our secrets, or thoughts, our plans, our feelings, etc. Its the soul that has a different essence, taste, and odor than our parents, our brothers & sisters, and maybe our cosins. We like them, and we like spending time with them.

We know them from our childhood, from our kindergarden, elementary school, highschool, or college; A minority is found during our career life. But the rule says that the older you know a friend, the closer you feel to him/her, the better the relation.

We either have played in the fields, spotted out T-shirts with mud, climbed the trees, picked the flowers, played hide & seak, or gathered around a newly bought battery car and were astonished by its behaviour. In that case, we know their history, their background, their parents, their way of thinking and we got used to dealing with them whatever the situation, wherever the place, whichever the time.

Nowadays, we are starting to witness a changing in the way people do frienships. They are trying to increase the database of their friends' list using the advanced technology methods like msn, yahoo, facebook, blogging, etc. I don't oppose such ways of communication, but sometimes the way and the style these ways are implemented may destruct the newly born relation or maybe the cause and aim and the intention of the person we are seeking differs and thus the outcome.

On a personal level, I have passed through both experiences. I found verygood friends who l like and satisfied with them as firends, and other came and left with or without a trace, it doesnt matter.

For those who I knew through the internet, I tell them stay in touch, for those who left I dont mind the effort to say a word.

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Wednesday, April 25, 2007

DUBAI NOW





















A NEW LIFE IN A NEW PLACE


The first time I write, while I am now in a completely different environment, a completely different climate, a completely different system of habits, and a completely different way of life. All what I used to do before has now ended. The free time I used to have, the late wake-up habit has vanished, tasting my Mom's food and having a cup of coffee with her in the morning has ended, smelling the fresh mountaineous breeze and touching the nature's beauty is postponed, watching my favorate series or programs is up-held, and my own car is now inaccessible.
Why all that...? Simply, I moved to Dubai.
Everything seems different except the presence of my fellow Lebanese. Huge buildings standing on the edges og the 40 meters wide highway, the 150 floors Burj Dubai is still climbing up, crains are spread all over the landscape as if an octopus is trying to take over the area, the humid-hot airflow ruling the neighborhoods, and resorts flashing far away in the horizons to invite nightlife seekers in. In a word its a desertous version of New York City.
Until a period of time, I will discover DNYC. I will dig it out and find where I can find places and people who are my type, whom I like to be with, to talk to, and to be-friend with. Until then, maybe I will start feel a sence of belinging to this piece of the world, with a slight different change, i.e. higher temperatures.
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