SELLING MY BABY! (Car, not infant)

SELLING MY BABY!

THIS IS MY MODiFiED TOYOTA XA BLACK AND WHITE, MINT CONDITION!

FULL OPTIONS AUTOMATIC & ALLOY WHEELS

ONLY 35,000 KMS: TOO YOUNG LIKE BRAND NEW!

REMOTE KEYS AND SECURITY

UPGRADED: GPS NAVIGATION, DVD PLAYER, TV, iPOD VIDEO:

OVER FOUR THOUSAND DIRHAMS WORTH OF EQUIPMENT!

I BOUGHT IT FOR: DHS 60,000 (STOCK)

I’M SELLING FOR: DHS 45,000 ONLY!!!

STYLE, PERFORMANCE, ECONOMY, RESALE!

WILL BE HARD TO PART WITH MY BABY, BUT WILL SELL IT!

AHMAD, 050 25 3 6000

Modelling (for Mr.Olympia!)

My nigg Ali was doing some modelling shots and he pulled me into giving it some shots.....so here they go....the next Mr. World will have to watch out!

Cyling day

Me and Ali went to this cool place on Shiekh Zayed road to rent bicylces for a race (which we didn't end up going to, but did something better). The place was like a cool bike garage where they cutomize and take bikes seriously as a lifestyle. The owners and guys were pretty cool, adventure fella's always rock! We rented out these extra cool bikes that had like super this tyres, advanced gears and super light weight! They were racing monster bikes! We rented out for 100 bux but they cost Dhs 20,000 brand new! We somehow pushed the bikes into the car, by having the rear seats down and the front seats all the way to the front (my legs crashed and can hardly reach the gas and brakes!) and bike tyres right above our head that hits us everytime we hit a bump! By driving like a crushed baby on the steering wheel (and with the help of techno music), we somehow reached Ali's place by taking the back roads. Next morning we took the bikes on a ride around the neighbourhood - Emirates Hills - to Ali's grandpa's mansion for lunch. Then we took the bikes all around the lakes, and shopping malls, and golf courses till we felt like taking a dip at every pool we passed by for a cool off! Didn't even have to dry with a towel, the wind did all the work. Biking felt good, felt like a back in the days in Cali when I did cross-country biking and felt the wind in my hair and me, as a small piece of nature, just gliding by nature! Everything felt good...execpt butt still hurts...those 20,000 bux bikes could go with some better seats!

Adventure Club goes Hatta

Hatttttttttaaaa! Adventurers met up at AUD and left with a Wrangler, Prado and a Pajero, all 4.5 L! First stop at the Big Red dunes! As it says, they were BIG and they were RED! We rented quad bikes after Kareem's hilarious bargain. Moath and his brother Alaa tied the gutras on their heads, Sanad with his cowboy hat and bandana, Edu with his Brooklyn cap...bad boys on bikes! Jiji got stuck on sand! I can't say much coz I got stuck twice...after trying to climb a 180 degrees wall...Bigg Boi came to help and got me all showered with sand! After some bad-ass biking the bad boys (and girls) chilled for a bit before we pressed gas out to Hatta, the beautiful green village nested between mountains. We drove all the way up to a dam, me standing out of the sunroof, Big Boi out of the window and Edu and Sanad out of theirs. Hatta Dam: HUGE, BiGG and awesome! On one side you see an ariel view of the whole village in the mountains, and the other side you huge pretty green lakes. We hit the gas harder and drove through the broke-back mountains. En route we met his peretty lil green spot in the middle of the valleys and canyons. Then he we reached Hatta pools, where we split looking for the pools. I followed a falaj (a river that flows up the mountain!!!!) and obviously got to the pools. The pools were DEEEP and cold! Sanad had a dive from the rocks and tried reaching the bottom of the pool. We got out and pushed the gas even harder, all the way back to love of the Bid Red dunes. Kareem and his love for desert driving...he went crazzyy over it! AUD desert safari...lol! Just when we hit the track "Firestarter" by Prodigy, that was Kareem all crazed up! He hit the dunes like he was out to get them...until they got him! Just as went over a bill dune fast he stopped suddenly coz the other side was a staight dip...a high cliff! Imagine if we went over! So coz we stopped we got stuck at the edge of the cliff...until we got pulled out...and kept on bashing the dunes till sunset!
Today's Thrill line: Wanna catch me? Just follow the dust trail!

First time acting for huge comedy production

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest was my first professional play I acted for (or the first play since seventh grade). After like 4 months long of practice, it was show time! April 26th and 27th made me a super star! It was time to make it or break it! Just before showtime, I practiced infront of the mirror. I was gonna be a real looney! I gotta be, the play based on a novel and movie (which won 8 oscars) was about loonies in a mental hospital..me being the looniest...Cheswick. All the time I was thinking, what will my friends think of me acting so stupid on stage...but who cares...to act you must be able to surpass everything. I cleaned shaved everyday on the show. The first day was awesome. I feeling a little high, went to uni after meetin a couple of boys from at the Villa, went backstage and didnt shut up...just kept on talking to keep myself wild. Put on my costume (wore the asylum uniform and one sock with a hole) put on makeup and did some theatre exercises. The boys n girls were feeling a bit nervous...me not so much...just can't wait to get on stage. Showtime came. I got in character...wild...looney...goofy...and total retard! I had my facial expression on...just love it! We on stage...damn the floodlight r soo blinding...good thing can't see no audience. Did my crazy part...audience loved it! Laughed out so much right from the minute they saw me. I made them crack open with every joke of mine. Best everybody loved was my facial expressions, total looney n retard. We even invented some new ones on the spot like the broom hop and me pointing out to aide warren when nurse ratched asked who! Even special scenes of mine where I come creeping out from the dorms...audience drank it,loved it and laughed it. I wanted to go on everytime, I loved it out there, to be watched and to entertain. The scary parts come on the second day wen my brothers were sitting right in the front seats, and I had say perverted lines. Got through that somehow, even got helped a couple of actors when they missed their lines. Awesome show! Show was over and we had curtain call, I heard my name so many times, from people I barely even knew. I got off stage and I met with my friends and couple of "fans"..like this one guy said he and his friends think I'm the best and laughed at every single thing I did, like even if I just stood there and smiled! They were my biggest fans! Then they were people saying they loved me and Sanad and Webber and called us the three stooges, and the didnt concentrate when others were talking but just looking at us and laughing the whole time. Some people said they found my facial expressions so funny and asked me to did it again for them...and whne I do it they're like hahaha...look at that..LOL...So many comments from other friends and people. My brothers liked it. A couple of UAE film directors I met liked it. Lots of people said I had the talent. I enjoyed being a celebrity for a moment. Zee Arabia shot our play and aired it on TV. After talks with "fans" I had one last dinner with the cast and headed straight with my hommies at the villa.I break it or make it...I made it!

Adventure Club goes to Khatwa

Friday was one of the best days of my adventure life. I felt like an explorer once again. 11 brave adventurers met infront of AUD parking lot: Me, Sanad, Militza, Maath, Greg, Ali, Shady, Holly, Pep, Sara and Chico. Two wranglers and a ford focus, me and Sanad in the first wrangler that leading the way. Stopping first for food for energy and headed staright to Al Ain. We crossed the border to Oman visa and ID free, coz we passed through Buraimi (now I know how to get past customs!). On route to Khatwa were beautiful scenery: african safari land with majestic mountains in the backdrop. Then the scenery changed all of a sudden. Now it was red Australian dusty outback and red rock mountains (all that was left were kangaroos!). Sanad wanted to off-raod right then so badly, I told him to wait, there was better to come! The mountains now started to look funny, they were conering us, until the mountains were cut down to make way for the road. It looked like two huge starcases with a road in between.
Now we reached a remote area, funny thing was in the middle of nowwhere a was fort-shaped bus stop! Now we reached a village, a bunch of villas, and past it the road became gravelled and wound through the mountains and we reached the peak of the mountain we saw the most beautiful scene that will always be in my head: moutains all around, and like a volcano, inside a lush green oasis. We parked and walked through narrow alleys of old sand walls to reach the inside the oasis turned farmland with pretty little falaj waterways zipping through and around. We walked through the forest of trees and river and it felt like the oasis where Alladin met Genie. We reached the end of the oasis which stopped at a cliff and had olden stairways that looked like stairways to heaven. Next to the cliff, there was a crack on the mountain ground that seperated the two oasis. The crack was a real earthquake crack the was really really deep and made the whole place look like grand canyons. There was bridge above this crack and you could hear the sounds of a waterfall all beneath below. You could stand on the edge of the canyon and look down and see both sides with oasis. Looking down, an idea popped in my head: why don't we go down, all the way down! So asking a villager, and find our own way we met our option: at one point in between the canyons were huge (i mean extra huge) boulder rocks that looked like trown in between to fill up the space in between the canyons. We ran for it like crazy, like actually running on top of the mountain like as if we were in the Lord of the Rings movie! Leading the way were Maath, Sanad and me, and the girls follwed, who we thought were really scared and preffered not to do it and wait above. Suprising, really suprising to see such brave girls in this world. We climbed down the montain to reach the rocks. To pass those gigantics rocks, we had to sneak between and under them, really funny. Then we had to jump around bigger rock to get deeper inside the canyon, some moves which were scarry, like horizontal walking with all hands and legs between two vertical walls. Atleast we reached our fruit of destiny: the river and water fall under the canyons, right below the bridge we were looking from, so high up, the walls around us so high and so close together, and we in between. Wow. Now it was getting dark, if we dont get back up right now we would probably spend the whole night there and be food for whatever monster that lives down there (My Precious). Climbing back was easy, since we already made our own way. Sitting on an edge on top of the canyon waiting for us was Chico, looking towards the crack and oasis and meditating at the sunset scene. Im sure she reached the state of Zen. Sitting back up on the mountain, we all cheered to each other and chilled out and had our cold drinks. You never feel more confident after we just came back from doing something as crazy as that. On the way back, this palm tree torn poked through my shoe rubber and almost got me but my shoe stopped it. Thank you Oakleys. This is by far the most "dangerous" thing that happened in this trip. We walked back through the forest at night, following the river as way. We stopped at this old buidling that was the mosque, and had this fresh falaj river water running as a special wodou area. We got back to the car and changed a flat tyre. We drove through dusty roads, and our headlights picked it. We reached back to Al-Ain at a different border point, this place had gates and check points....oops...drove back to Buraimi and passed through without checking. It was night. Militza asked me, pointing to a place where the roads looked like they were going to the sky, "What's that?". I said "It's a road to heaven" "Really?" "No, dork, its the mighty Jebel Hafeet, tallest mountain in UAE, that's where we going!". We drove all the way up there through zapping roads and twisty ends on the border side of the moutain and reached the peak. The views were amazing: one of the green oasis below at the valley of hills, and the other of the lighted city of Al Ain right underneath us. The air was chilly, and we had some food and drinks and called it one hell of a good day. We drove down, zapping fast and reached the oasis of Muzabarah, nested between many soft hills and green all over. Natural hot water springs were in this place, following through as a river, and one beautiful waterfall that looked like a fountain on rocks, and a natural swimming pool lake. We drove back to Dubai, met at uni again and cheered ourselves for having one amazing adventurous day.

Goodbye America!

For most people, the first sight of America that millions of early immigrants spotted was the Statue of Liberty, raised high in the air with a commanding posture, eager to greet the new future Americans who would call America their home. As the they spotted Lady Liberty, they would cheer and throw their hats in the air, and tears of joy would fill every eyes. For me, Lady Liberty, the symbol of freedom and new world, was the LAST thing I saw, before I made a dash for the airport and left America!
It was a real sad day, my friends from the hostel waited for me for breakfast (which turned out to a surprise farewell brunch), and when it came to deciding where they were gonna take me for my last day, it turns out that nobody has been the Statue of Liberty yet, including myself! Can you imagine that, going to New York and not seeing the Liberty, its like going to Paris and not seeing the Eiffel tower (how can you miss it, its so big and right infront of your eyes!), its like going to Dubai and not seeing me! Lady Liberty glittered and glowed in my eyes, she was magnificent beyond what I had imagined. Just that sight of her was a magical moment, and I stood there in silence under ocean breeze as I paid her my respect. People from all over the world come to and live in New York (and America), funnily enough every one of my friends on the boat were different countries; a girl from Nicaragua, a guy from Russia, a girl from England, and so on. On the way back, I looked away from Lady Liberty one last time and look ahead at the stunning New York skyline painted in gold from the sunset. When a friend of mine asked me what I was thinking, I said “It’s a beautiful world…”
Now close your eyes and imagine…lol...none of that stuff from SSC!
Four months ago, I left home for an adventure, an adventure that will change my life forever. AIESEC brought me to America, to work and live a life of an ordinary American, and by meeting people from different parts of America (and the world), I told to myself I’m gonna take on an adventure around America and explore this new world for myself. What got into me was the deep passion for travel, adventure and extreme that I never knew was within me, it gave flavor and adrenaline to my life. Everyday a new adventure awaits me, something surprising around the corner every time, a new rush and always something fun to do. I started speaking about tomorrow with optimism like “Tommorrow I’m gonna conquer that mountain and look at you guys from up there!”…as LG says: “Life’s Good!”. Bridge-walking in San Francisco, surfing in Santa Barbara and Venice Beach, studio crashing at Hollywood, windsurfing in San Diego, rocking climbing in Yosemite and Grand Canyons, sky diving in Las Vegas, crashing at Buffalo college town with old school friends, barrel-rafting at the Niagara falls (not really, just watched others do, I’m too Arab to get into trouble!), went countryside exploring in small Midwest town Sherman (Sher-wha?!), and sky-scrapper hoping in New York (like spider-man). Life’s really good.
And it doesn’t end there. I wish to share the fun with AIESEC back in Dubai, as hopefully, I would be the new activities coordinator. So if you come to Dubai, you know who’s gonna show a good time around.
I bid you all farewell, thank you all for being my friends, for being my family, and for sharing these great times together, I’ll sure remember each and one of you touched my life.
Remember, it’s a beautiful world!
Ma’salaama…Ahmad has left the building!