My plan today is simple! Its 9:12am right now!

My To Do List:

• Ride
• Ride
• Ride
• Ride!!!

Since the family will be having lunch at our house later the afternoon thats when I will be coming back, but I got a good 5 hours to go riding, and Im going to be riding. I’ve slept a total of 7.5 hours and that will do for one day! I just want to go riding!

I came back from work, it wasn’t a bad day but you sometimes want things to go your way and they just dont. I dont dwell over things like that since I leave it at work and deal with it the next day. I was looking forward to chilling with the guys eating some food and watching some movies. I just had to go to Hawalli after work to pick up some movies.

After chilling with the family for a bit after work I headed to Hawalli to pick some movies and from there I came back home. It only took me about 40 minutes in total to get the movies and get home since I caught all the lights and there was some traffic but it was flowing. I caught the right openings in the direction I was going.

After sitting with the family again I went to the basement to play some Gears of War before the guys start coming over and I have to say that you reallllyyy get into it! When the guys started came in we decided on Jackass two as the first movie and I have to say that we were laughing so hard. If you like the Jackass movie then you will love Jackass two! I watch a variety of movies, and this one is just utterly rediculous, disgusting, painfully, and gut wrenchingly funny. You just watch it once and thats it, and there were times people were thinking they weren’t going to eat after watching it but they did. Then we watched another movie and it was a good chill night. I like nights like these simple and fun.

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My Delivery is getting closer! I ordered some gear about a week ago and it is currently somewhere in the gulf region between UAE and Kuwait. Im not really sure since I dont trust the updates but Im hoping I get it by tomorrow. Im also getting a DVD shipment that I forgot about in the previous items that I was supposed to get.

• Scoprion Rivet
• Alpinestar Bionic Knee Protector
• 2 Dark Tint Visors
• Voltron Volume 2

I hope to get it by thursday at least! I want to try to the bionic knee protector!

I didnt have time to sit down today but my cousin called me yesterday to ask me if I wanted to go to the movies and I thought “on a weekday?!?!?!… why the hell not!” I need a change.. a complete change to my usual schedule throughout the week and I have to say that I really needed it. I was running around all monday on the phone, meeting people, and shooting emails whenever possible. It was insane! I didn’t have time to breath all day, and so I was looking forward to the movie, and then he called asked if 5pm is fine compared to 7pm. I said thats fine with me and I would make it.

He told me the theater we are going to is Muhalab, and I have never been to Muahalab in Hawalli before, but I have to say that the theater is HUGE! It was fantastic! We went and saw Eragon and I was happy as hell that we were in the theater. The theater was fit for 200 and I think there was a max of 14 people in there! It was fantastic! The movie finish 6:50pm and so we headed back to my cousins place to get some grub and watch something else.

And we chose Smallville. I have to say that Lois Lane is soooooooo much hotter then Lana Lang, since she entered the picture Im not that much interested in Lana Lang anymore! I love her tough girl attitude and her hard ass thing to her! Its like she would kick your ass if she likes you sort of attitude, and the relationship between her and Clark is fantastic! hehe..

It was a nice chill day.

There is a funny thing about my room is because I have multiple pcs, hardware, and other electronics running in my room even when Im asleep! They have to be productive, I really can’t shut them down because I feel like I’m not taking advantage of my internet solution and I need to make sure Im downloading, burning dvds overnight, or something at least. And so my room is always a few degrees hotter during the day or night.

Even with this cold I switch on the A/C for a bit or open my window for bit to get my room ice cold before going to sleep. The last couple of nights I haven’t had to do either because its been so cold outside. My room with normal temperature outside has been 73F and I like it to be 70 and below. With the weather the way it is these days my room has been 70F and I like that. Except in the morning when I had to go to work early it was 7C outside and it was freezing. I like it cold really, and hopefully it wont be raining too much. But like others have mentioned with the cold its making hard to get up in the morning.

I think my sleep has been catching up with me the past two weeks. On Tuesday I went to work an hour and half late since I just couldn’t get up. I woke up and looked at my watch and then I looked at my phone to count the missed calls. It wasn’t that much so I wasn’t too worried and I got up and went, but that was just one day of the week.

Then another day I came back from work and some family were in the house and I was sitting with them then 20 minutes later I passed out on the couch, and 10 minutes after that I transfered to the bed for a little nap. A two hour nap which didn’t feel like it did the job.

I think I want to go somewhere for a few days and just relax without any phone calls, I just want some movies, good food, internet, and some place to chill. Someplace I could sleep like a log and wake up only when I feel like I can move.

This has been one hell of a busy two weeks. I haven’t had time to relax and do nothing let alone go get a hair cut and a shave. The one luxury I do enjoy in Kuwait is getting a shave, and that is one thing I haven’t had a chance to do to yet.

My hair is between a shaved head and growing back stage where its too short to do anything with and too long to look clean. Its the look where you haven’t left your apartment in two weeks and you have only been eating Chinese to go and Cup Noodles. And I have never had a normal beard, I have those scruffy type beards which is thick in some places and not in others to it looks like patch work. It makes me laugh but I look like a bum, but I really need to go for a shave sometime this week. I love the feeling of a shaved head and it takes 5 minutes to shave my head and 15 minutes to cut my goatee, I love that clean feeling after the barber is done.

There is a shortage of things to buy in Kuwait and that is why people are ordering online these days. Our customs are shamble and there is no real regulation on them, they aren’t held accountable for their bad performance. There is a lock on wifi and voip items because of the MOC.

There are a lot of people in Kuwait willing to buy original dvds, cds, and other items since they dont download. The majority of Kuwait don’t really use torrents compared to the Kuwait online community. There is a lot of spending power in Kuwait, we are willing to buy magazines and books but we are tired of the Ministry of Information treating us like 2 year olds. I prefer spending my money else wear then in Kuwait. I save my money and buy online if I want DVDs, Books, games, or CDs. And if I cant get it online I try to pick it up while Im traveling because I have no other choice. Sometimes while traveling to Dubai for business I pass by Virgin to pick up all the books, magazines, and dvds that I was looking for and thinking about since I get tired of what is offered to us in Kuwait.

Our government is not helping small business develop, and not letting the creative talent in Kuwait grow because of so many stagnant and stubborn people in the government only making things difficult for people.

This week has been one hectic week with work and family. I haven’t had much maneuvering room and my sleeping pattern has gone out of wack, but I managed to get in one day to workout even if it was just for a little bit. I just wanted to go even though I was exhausted from work, my body said one thing and my mind another.

I went straight to the elyptical machine as soon as I got to the gym, and somebody was using the one I usually use. I laughed at myself because I realized I had affiliation with that specific machine, so I just went to the one next to it, but the guy on it noticed I was eyeing it! I couldnt help but laugh and he asked if I wanted it since he is almost done. I thanked him and said Im on the same machine but appreciate the offer.

Thanks to Fonzys’ recommendation of increasing my cardio 5 mins every week I am at 30 mins a week which is something I dont think I could have done before. I really didnt think I would be able to reach 30 mins, but I think thats my max because I want to do other workouts and spending too much time on the cardio machine would kill me. But Im curious to see if I could reach an hour, maybe I can but right now it seems like a long time down the road.

That day I just felt like passing out but I came to the gym and after 30 mins of high and low speeds on the elyptical I was killing off all the energy I had left. I could lift any weights I felt completely exhausted. So I headed home and passed out happy with my accomplisment.

I have to say that I wish I could have gone to the gym at least twice this week but I dont think that was humanly possible, next I will try harder.

Some labor laws in Kuwait are just rediculous!

Kids should learn responsibility, there should be laws protecting them from working too much but give them a chance to earn their own money and learn the value of it. Even low pay can help them learn the value of things instead of sitting at home and not having anything to do.

These kids running around in the streets could learn the tools they need to move forward if they had a chance to work. I remember the first time I had a chance to work in the US my first pay check felt like a million bucks, I was on top of the world that day and I wanted to do something rediculous so I invited all my friends out to dinner. I couldnt have been happier since I earned it. Even when I was in Kuwait I used to do part time jobs for the family while I was a kid and that 40KD meant that I could buy at least 10 Sega Games from the place in Salmiiya a while back.
All Im saying is that the kids I see these days have nothing to do and they are turning into brats because of it. If you teach them to get on their own to feet then they will have this inclination to work and become productive. When I see friends who work after classes going to Best Buy to do the night shift, working part-time as a waiter, temp secretary, or any other job you give them the real oppurtunity to work in the real world.

I know there are a few places that allow kids to work in the summer, but when Im talking about is kids who want to work part time after school. What about families who depend on their children to work because they dont have the complete ability to keep the family afloat. I am talking about working in a real enviroment not the child labor abuse that you see in the Kuwait traffic intersections.

I have the deepest respect for a friend of mine who kept his family afloat while they were going through hard times and still working on his sport medical degree. His major is difficult and he worked many hours, and there is not enough I could say about this person except that he has my deepest respect.