God giveth and God taketh

A beautiful flower
thorns seeping of poison
A bright smile
beneath a sheet of hatred
She lied, she schemed, she damaged
and rejoiced with my suffering

and then she wondered why she has not my friendship

She was rich with love
From all that was around her
She had praise, admiration and peoples approval
but it was not enough for her sick self esteem

The days have turned
and I learned
I bloomed
I blossomed
as Life started to smile at me

But to her Life was a burden
She reaped what she had sowed
and now she is friendless
loveless
and dying

sharing for joy

I recently had a dream that i was in an expensive london restaurant by myself. The menu looked amazing and I wanted to try everything but since I was by myself I only ordered two things.

When I was done the head waiter of the restaurant told me dessert was on the house and he brought me everything on the dessert menu. From chocolate fondue to apple strudel to homemade rasberry ice cream to chocolate soufle it looked delicious. I was overwhelmed at the amount of food on my table, and was concerned at how I was going to be able to eat it by myself. If I ate it all I would feel like a glutton and be sick all night and if I tried a bit of everything and leave the rest it would offend the head waiter. All this delicious food prepared with such care and fine ingredients, was gifted to me, and I was staring at it by myself wondering how I could eat it.

Suddenly of bunch of my LEAST favourite people (we all have them in our lives) walked in the restaurant. They are my least favourite people because I hate what they represent, I hate their behavior, I hate their insecurities, their bitter luck, their lack of class and finesse, their tendency to self impose themselves and I hate being in their company. They walked in the restuarant drenched in rain, looking like a mess (which they often do in real life)and self imposed themselves onto MY table. Then they gawked at the sumptious desserts to which I , out of politeness only, invited them to eat.

As they were gulping down all the different desserts on my table I suddenly felt relieved/ like I could actually enjoy the food that was previously overwhelming me. Even though I dont like these people I was glad I had someone to share my dessert with. And I was much happier in my dream to have them on my table than to be eating alone.

Anyone who knows me in real life knows how I tend to disassociate myself from people whose company I dont enjoy and have no problems being alone, travelling alone, going to the beach alone etc. But this dream was telling me that happiness and joy cannot be achieved unless shared -something new to keep in mind.

10 things to do before you die

1-Love someone more than yourself
2-Go to an Indian Wedding
3-Pretend to be Brazilian to members of the opposite sex
4-Get a Morrocan bath in Morroco
5-Meet a stranger on an airplane
6-Throw a party in someone's honor
7-Perform Hajj (or relevant spiritual pilgrimage)
8-Dance with your father
9-date a 21 year old and enjoy it (only applicable to women over 28)
10- go to an Andrea Bocelli concert and cry!

the power of the subconsious

Every woman has the exact love life she wants.


"the hottest love has the coldest end"
Socrates

crush

CD has a huge crush on a 21 year old boy and really wants to surrender to his charms.....somebody shoot me!

Whats going on with the Kingdom of Bahrain?

I don't know about you, but to me Bahrain is kinda interesting these days:

-The King's handsome younger son, Nasser, marries the daughter of the Ruler of Dubai.

-UAE's Mubadala and Occidental Petroleum invested a huge chunk of money on a gas drilling exploration project in Bahrain!!!

Bahrain? Gas? Since when did they have any gas?
Well apparently they did unearth something last month.

-They built a bridge to connect them directly to Qatar within a 30 minute drive. More tarqeem action from qatari boys on weekends.

-ohhh one more thing...they opened up a Nikki Beach at the Ritz Carlton. (Weekend in Bahrain anybody?)

Another reason to Love Qatar

They held a doha tribeca film festival earlier this month....with attendees like Robert Deniro.

Hillary...deficient, or hungry?

Just when Obama's demand for total freeze of Israeli settlements in the West Bank restored hope in our hearts for a shot at peace.....BEHOLD, Hillary Clinton retracts and declares that a partial freeze, not including settlements in East Jerusalem (the intended capital for the palestinian state) is "unprecedented".

I'm not a fan of Hillary Clinton, especially since her position in the Dubai ports scandal a few years ago which painfully revealed her lack of character. But this declaration, bringing Obama's administration's efforts for change two steps back, suggests two things;
1- her negotiation skills wholly and unconditionally suck -which I find hard to believe considering she was a fierce and fearless lawyer.
2-She is kissing up to Netanyahu because she is power hungry for political brownie points from AIPAC and Congress. Now thats more like it!

Afterall, she did show us how much she craved power when she stood by Bill in '98....

Bye bye landan

Word on the street is that the UK is planning to charge tourists that spend more than 100 days in the UK through-out the year a 'resident tax'.

I'm sure thats gonna piss off a lot of Kuwaiti folks who own apartments in london and spend the entire summer over there, with their nannies too.

Will people still continue going to london as often as they do? ( I certainly won't, and its not because of the money its because of the principle!)
Will people still hold on to their properties or will they sell them?
Will people that have initially planned to purchase properties in london in light of low market prices change their minds?

And finally, who is the strategically ignorant crazy british bloke behind this resident tax on tourists business? I'd be interested to hear his economic vision behind this tax policy..

I prefer Paris anyway :)