This is by the lake. It is frozen over with people skating, walking and curling on.

I wrote a couple days ago but haven’t had time to post it.

Well it has been a good exhausting couple days from traveling and getting situated then there is the sking.

The flight here was intresting. Isaw Darjeeling Express and then the movie Spellbound. That was syncrocity, sine in Spellbound one of the words was “darjeeling”. Both movies were enjoyable and were about the same subject of self discovery.

Passport control was a pain. A first for me entering germany. The guy was checking my passport and asking questions then even requested my ticket. I knew everything was in order but that is never a good sign.

The weather here is imaculate. It is all around 0 with good snow and no crowds. So the slopes have been sunny and smooth. Sadly this may not last, after the 25th is when the crowds come and slopes won’t be as enjoyable. So planning to get the most of it til then.

I regretably went jeans shopping yesterday. Well not I did come out with 2 good ones at the end but after trying over 20 jeans from over 10 brands. It was a pain. I got big thighs and the style is slim fit with low rise which I hate. In order for them to reach above my thigh I had to get a size or two bigger and then it was too loose on the top and well wasn’t comfortable. What really gets me is that they are so many jeans designers out there but all are doing the same style. You’d figure they would try to defretiante themselves and offer more varitey in cut instead of color.

Taking a break from skiing. It is pure bliss out here. Just you, your thoughts and the mountains.

What a whirl wind month. I arrive from Turkey and have all the end of year engagements to attend to at work. Then to take everything to 11n Eid comes.

These past couple days are a blur in terms of work, family and random meetings at night with friends on their schools’ winter break.

Another trip with the pre flight jitters. Yet this one isn’t as bad since it is a vaction and the other was work related. So I can relax a bit, but work will surely follow me from there via emails and calls.

The only hassle with this trip is the wires. I am currently carrying:
1) Backberry charger
2) Nokia charger
3) ipod wires
4) Nokia headphones
5) Nokia video out
6) Ipod headphones
7) Usb cable

Really annoying. Can’t wait for the day when all devices get powered by usb and make the end of this worms in a can.

Actually I may phase out my ipod if the N82 works well. Has lots of features that can replace an ipod and add more. Only thing I need is bigger microsd card. Hmm now that N95-8gig sounds tempting.

I plan to fully utilize my N82 gps and camera features. So expect some geotagged posts and pictures.

It has been 10 long years since the last Duke Nukem and we have waited for so long. We even thought it was going to happen and became a running joke at Wired. Yet when all doubt has faded we are given this:

I think it is time to bust out Duke Nukem3D and kick Mark’s ass again.

Every eid I bring a box of there and pass them out to the kids. They love it and the parents get some quiet time as the kids are playing outside.

- Taken at 12:11 PM on December 19, 2007 - cameraphone upload by ShoZu

At the airport on the way to Turkey for a business trip. Its been a while since I been on a trip especially how busy I was earlier this year.

Have this strange forbooding eith this one, actually I get it with most trips and they turn out fine. Just some preflight jitters.

I think the reason is the flight is at night and hate those. Feel drained and tired and this muggy weather isn’t helping.

Expecting rain in Turkey so that will be a nice change.

For all the hype you hear about UAE they are pretty draconian with their internet. They have banned Flickr, Orkut and other social network sites and now Twitter

I wonder if they even blocked the SMS send feature as well.

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Finally we can talk to our American friends at work!
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