Well still in Czech enjoying the time here really ncie place, good friendly place and just a great time to relax and walk around. I been walking like a fiend lately, got blisters and everything and then just keep walkig in the morning. It been really healthy to do this everyday feeling tha tI am losing weight and just better as a whole.
Tomorrow ditching the people I am with they are really dragging me in the morings. Takes us an hour and a half to actually get going and feel that I am losing a lot of time that I can be visiting galleries and musuems and just take pictures of the buildings and streets.
Got the town memorized pretty much really easy to figure out once you got the landmarks memorized like shops, statues and such and bam can just roam around with ease. I really want to see some galleries and walk on my own pace. The people I am with are good and fun but I move at a faster speed and really want to spend some alone time.
Currently at a laundro-mat getting my clothes cleaned, so today will be a day of just cleaning and stuff, they have CNN on the TV and I am just whoa!. I really been living in a bubble this past week, have no ideas on what is going on in the world. The world could have been destoryed twice over and wouldn’t know about it. Even checking out the blogs on safat on the other window to see what has been going on on in Kuwait.
Being here has been giving me some great ideas and thoughts to think about the future. It is one of the benifits of traveling and being out of your comfort zones and living in different world. The place we are staying at now is a college dorm from the communist era. They have one room just filled with showers, another filled with sinks and one just toilets in all sorts of weird angles. The benifit of this place is that we have hot shower compared to the place we were earlier and that have unisex showers. That was a whoa but it kinda makes up for the communist living on the place.
Will try to get some more updates as the week goes by but we should have some more time to get online and keep little updates, one big annoyance is people calling me and its all unkown so I can’t answers and talk to them or even send them a message so if you want to reach me send me a SMS.
Stuck at the German/Czech border. All 5 of us have been stripped searched. It wasnt bad we were laughing & making jokes but it was the gay calendar in the room that freaked us out. We even got pics with the cop who searched us. We are are all done now & heading to Czech.
Currently at a some farmers carnival just near Theirstein. We are at the beer garden where this cover band is playing & they are pretty good cheezy but energetic.
We just crossed the border from czech to germany for Carls party. It was one hell of a communist trip through memmory lane. We rode this old ass train that Stalin must have pissed on we couldnt get any place to sit so we decided to do the upgrade to 1st and those seats had their cushion removed felt like it. It was a very fun trip.
Since I am in Germany I can get on my GPRS and upload some quick pics to my Flickr account soon. Czech has been great theplace is very international we found so many people from so many countries there. Prague is a very international city.
My friend Bill has some issues with Czech, they dont know how to make a Martini or coffee. If you want to get him pissed just start mention the coffee here. It is all coffee grounds and just icky. He is surviving slowly. It takes him longer to get up and be able to deal with early in the morning.
Oh we been walking TONS just hour after hour we walk, we really pushing this walking thing I feel by the time I come back we would have lost like 10kgs or more. My legs are all powerful now especially since I carry my messenger back with me with my stuff. Makes climbing stairs a whole new experinece of power.
At airport about to board. So tired been one hectic day one thing aftet another. Didnt get out of work til 930pm. I feel dead & barely feel my feet. So going to passout on plane.
Traveling tonight, actually changed some travel plans but we will see how it goes. So many things on my mind people calling and I dont have time to respond to them or call them back. I know yet I have time to blog about it.
So where I am going?
I am going to Prague to attend my friend Carl’s wedding. The simple short story for how I got know Carl is through some Saudis he and I knew mutually in school who dragged me to salsa class with them in the U where I hang out at times. He told me about this party at his place next Friday and have been regretting going their ever since. So I’ve known him since 2000 and since them I have seen in in the US, Germany (2002), Kuwait (2003), Spain (2004) and now this year in Czech.
Like most of random crazy trips with him I have no idea where I am staying, I have no idea what we are doing I have no real clue what so ever. All I know is when I arrive and when I leave everything in between are just minor details.
Also what I know is what camera I am bringing with me. My Minolta X570, I love the wide angle lens it has, and the regular 50mm one and that is film. I dont like digital cameras when I travel really a pain in the ass to recharge, and when they are full you have to have something to dump them too.
There is going to be a side trip to Germany during this trip to see some of Carl’s German friends across the border from Czech. Another cool thing is that another friend is coming as the best man Bill. I haven’t seen him since like I left and it will be great seeing him again as well.
Serisously this trip is going to be hectic, crazy totally trouble and going to drive me so crazy I am going to start screaming “proirities” again and when it is all said and done and I am back in Kuwait on Aug. 3rd I am going to wish I was back there enjoying every minute of it again.
Mohammed Al-Ubaydi a Bahraini MD has just written a book called Free Software for Busy People discussing how open source software can be used for normal everyday people instead of regular propitery pay ones all around the world. He has six charachters and one is an get.
I was with Mark at Souq Sharq for lunch earlier today and we noticed the most amusing thing. Seems the women who were wearing hijabs or even minaqabat were being hit and actually encouraging it.
We saw these 2 guys tailing 3 minaqabat and they were giggling and laughing. When a bunch of non covered girls passed by they ignored them.
Looks like the comments in Q’s post on hijabs. Guess hijabs are just show and not a sign of purity like it used to be.
Uncategorized — nibaq on July 20, 2005 at 15:18:16
What can be more cooler than Google Maps?Google Moon!
I am an addict. I got crazy over puzzle and number games, I start craving them sit and think of new strategies on how to beat them and figure them out. My current addiction is Sudoku. It is a Japanese number game and the simple concept of it is to count from 1-9 without having repeating numbers in the same row, colum or 3×3 square.
It is so simple once you wrap you mind around it it becomes like this mind fuck that you want more of. My brain really feels stimulated from this game making me thing logically and abstractly trying to decipher where there numbers go.
I currently play it on WebSudoku.com they offer hints and suggestions to help you understand the game when you first start. Also a print out of the board to take with you, which I am currently doing.
