Thursday, December 18, 2008

If you are to help the world...you must see the world!

Hey All,

Its been relatively a bit of a break from the number of posts i was doing whilst in the states!

Well my time in the USA was really good, one of my best hols in recent memory to be honest, though i wasnt the biggest fan of NYE as its quite similar to London in that its really congested and heaving. I mean there is some cool things such as the rockafeller building and M+M store, the brookyln bridge and the usual famous things like the sky scrappers, statue of liberty etc...But the thing is the people are generally stuck up and quite unfriendly, I thought getting the tube was dodge in london, its not a touch on NYE where like everyone is keeping their headtown and it is FULL of weirdos and so poorly maintained that the tube in lodnon looks like a business class/first class form of transport compared to NYC subway system!

It wasnt all bad, the shopping was really good at least in New Jersey, where all the clothes do not have a tax, oh thats something that pissed me off that in the USA they add tax when u go to the till, and each state is different, so like say something is 9.99 it will turn out to be like 10.48 after tax so what da hell is da point in pricing something nicely like 9.99 when u r going to add tax, and its hassles if u pay cash for things, which is probably why cards are so populour in the US i guess.

Anyway since the end of my US trip I went to the UK and spent Eid in manchester, which involved standard missions to wilmslow road. I ended up going to wilmslow road almost every night, i used to go alot but only really to eat one of the worlds best chicken burgers..Kansas! now however they have opened like prob close to 10 all together shisha places along wimmy road and the back streets so its become a much a much more of a chilling destination, so i really like it, its myfavourite probably pasttime, apart from playing footy lol and relgious activities...but im talking bout when socialising with friends rather than shopping, shooting pool, coffee, clubbing etc i jus love smoking up! lol

Every time i go back home to Cheshire/manchester my heart kinda longs to return as though i travel the world there is no city in the world apart from maybe Mecca/Medina and Doha is quite high up there possibly because i know it so well and because its similar to manchester where like people know each other, u can drive from one part of the city to the other in not too much trouble so the whole city is pretty well connected and doesnt inhibit going out, like for example say if ur in west london and theres a dinner in east london u would probably reconsider going, same with dubai, if somethings going on in say Dubai Marina and ur in old dubai, ull prob be like hell no, whereas doha or manchester thats not really an issue which i love! So i got some decisions to make in the future but i think ill want to settle down in one of those 2 citites!

Ok so then after Manchester I went to London for a night, which was good and action packed, met alot of old uni friends which was really good and why though im not the biggest fan of london i keep going back! One thing people sometimes say is when i live in/near Manchester which is a great city, why did i go to london for university, well i had jus spent 7 years in manchester studying at Manchester Grammar and in the last couple of years i might as well have been a uni student as i was going out like one, and i knew if i went to london i would come back regulary to manchester and so still experience it. Also being in london as a student is probably the best time to experience london, u get alot of discounts in london when ur a student and u have so many things to experience and u have alot more time than when you maybe working after u graduate so would recommend everyone to study in a big city and work say in the summer in a placement so u get to experience working life in the city and see if its for u, i would recoomend that way at least thank God it worked for me.

Anyway i went back to doha and work, and i was dredging it and it was everything i imagined on my first day back i got absolutley nailed and just brought back so many bad memories of last year when i was really depressed at work and wanted to leave, but inshallah i learnt last year u have ur bad dAYS and u just got to work urself thru it, its been a big learning curve and the thing is i dont know where its heading but inshallah will work out!

PEople have been going on about how much holiday i get and putting Nazzer or the Evil eye on me, and so now i know im going to get my holidays harder to approve at work, aneway its not that i get alot of holidays but any time off i do get i make the most of it and thats the different between myself and others and the fact i spend my money on my travel while others may spend their money on other things and then complain oh how u get the money to travel just really pisses me off, this is part of the reason for the discontent at work and the subject of the title of this blog entry as i want to see the world and see what else is out there and how other people live, eat and get by and learn things from other cultures and see how Islam is in other parts of the world things like that!

So right now im in Sri Lanka, in Colombo, which is supposedly according to Islam where Adam (the first person and prophet in Islam) (pbuh) first lived and there is a foot step of him, which is like a giant footstep in todays world, however this is like 4-5 hours from colombo so i dont think ill be able to check it out in the short space of time which sucks as i want to c it inshallah another time!

Colombo reminds me a bit of Goa and i was going to say more advanced but probably not as though Goa has more like shacks and dodgy roads i think that it wants to be like that and so decides to kinda be a hippy town whereas sri lanka i think kinda is forced to be slightly more advanced but still has much proverty and lack of drainage. I never realised the beef between india and sri lanka, i been reading the newspapers and theres some serious beef man! lol and i never realised how close sri lanka was with palestine which gave me bare cheapies! lol

Its quite a seady place and alot of pervs lol im sure some of u maybe thinking hey thats my kinda town, lol but nah im jus an innocent guy and shocked by how some of the people are here!

anyway i best go take care

Stormy

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

'Ok so then after Manchester I went to London for a night, which was good and action packed, met alot of old uni friends which was really good'

u didnt mention doing this whilst blanking one of ur best mates..lol..and den blaming it on bud!!