Ball, Peppermint-doze, Souq, etc.

Finally decided to update my blog, over the past two or three weeks I sometimes sat down and started typing only to change my mind and postpone it to a later time…
Well, nothing much has changed really, still so terribly out of touch, sleeping and eating disorders remained but not as severe as they were during Ramadan… So, some bits and pieces from my very ‘interesting’ life (Yeah right!)

The Academy’s ball was on Thursday, was an overrated one (Typical of the Academy), people complained about the limited selection of complimentary alcoholic beverages (Yeah, as if we usually get free wine and champagne everyday), but I couldn’t care less, had a great evening thanks to K, L & S, hope they did as well! Things didn’t go exactly as planned though but heck, we’re still alive & kicking (And trancing :D)

Been to Peppermint on Friday again, Usual Suspects (Resident DJs Afroboogie and Madjam) and loved it as usual! MadJam’s set was great (Maybe because I managed to recognize several of the tracks he played, something that can’t be said about Afro’s set or Hernan Cattaneo’s set the week before :p)… One track that I fell in love with was Changes – Chris Lake (Original vocal), really describes my life nowadays… I dedicated it right away to my best friend, we are having a week to forget now, but no matter what, you know that despite all the changes in our lives, I’ve got you by my side ;)… God bless you, always!

Uni’s been OK, got a quiz and three midterms in the space of one week, in addition to three projects to hand in the next four weeks, a couple of them are group projects and so far, despite having two ‘group meetings’ we haven’t done s**t. We’re a good group, but for some effing reason we’re too effing lazy to move our asses and start, but on the other hand, two of our group members seem to work best when under pressure so we might as a group do things last-minute and get a good grade, anyway, I am not THAT worried as I have that inner feeling that things will work out pretty well. We just need the time factor to kick in and the scare of handing it late to motivate us ;)

Talking about uni, I need that kick in the backside; I stopped worrying as much as I did during my first year at uni thanks to a very unproductive internship, after that internship I got to realise that being a ‘top’ student is useless when it comes to the workplace, it might help you land a better job but it’s what you do (Or at least the effort put in) is what matters… No HR manager/director will ask you why you got a B- in Finance let’s say or a D+ in Stats, it’s all BS to them, they’d only look at the school name! I hardly have any motivation or ‘fear’ to work hard anymore… I remember how I used to literally lose sleep over silly f**k-ups I made in small assignments, was like a perfectionist, I tried my best and hoped for the best but somehow knew how to get my way around things… Now I barely try my best, I barely do the required, I just want those damn 19 remaining months to pass by as quickly as possible. But as the saying goes, no pain, no gain.

Hmm, what else? Think my future plans are a bit more organized now, stay in Dubai after graduation, work for two or three years then start working on a part-time masters somewhere in Dubai (The Academy’s supposed to start such a programme soon, but I’d rather go somewhere else, AUD hopefully, assuming they have/will have anything). Fingers crossed that the Ritz Carlton will employ me! If that doesn’t work out, then I can always nag like the spoiled brat that I am to parents to ‘assist’.

Started going regularly to Souq.com, already bid on a small and cheap DVD player, a watch and a Motorola mobile phone besides a couple of food vouchers, I haven’t gone to the bank yet to apply for that damn credit card, I am so f***ing lazy, can’t wake up an hour earlier even if my life depended on it! Once I get that I will order a lovely Liverpool long-sleeved jersey, wondering what to write on the back, either Omie 11 or Omar 86. Anyway, whichever name and number I choose, it will be my favourite top! Liverpool have won the last four games in all competitions by the way, although all four were against mediocre opposition, Arsenal AWAY are next on the league fixture list and I hope it’s about time that we finally beat a ‘big’ team away, we never did that vs. Man Utd, Arsenal or Chelsea :S, Arsenal’s form has been up and down this season, they drew three games in which the opposition stifled their style of attacking football, I hope we beat them at their own game (Although we are faaar from an attractive attacking team like them)… We will see!

Looking for a new camera, my current one (Canon Powershot S2 IS) is just too big, guess I will opt to go for a point and shoot instead of going for a SLR one that I will never be able to use properly (Nikon D80 is the one I thought of getting lol!)… Seems I will go for the Kodak V610 although I never thought of Kodak as a good digital camera maker but it looked more attractive than the point-and-shoot Nikon cams and its got 10 optical zoom (AND Bluetooth!). Should have this one before the end of the month, actually thinking of bidding for it online as the price on Souq.com is almost half the retail price, why are cameras overpriced here?! The newer version of my current Canon costs AED 1,400 online, but almost AED 2,000 at local stores! Anyway, whatever will be, will be!

And oh, for f**k’s sake can someone tell me if Above & Beyond are spinning in town next week?! They’ve had Dubai as TBC for Nov 16th on their site but I’m still to read/hear anything about that! :S

Anyway… *Goes back to reading Rooms Division Management book*

p.s. K: You ROCK! I7na o bas o il ba2e 5as yaba. La 6eezna :D !