To My Team with Love..!

The best movie and performance on the teaching profession..

Teaching is not necessarily in schools, but whenever someone conveys to others knowledge, morals and framework to prosper ahead..

These final closing scenes are very dear to me, whereas I went through the same emotional experience when was leaving my team at DIFC in 2007..

Those overwhelmingly moments; which were deeply engraved in my mind and heart..

Till date, and surely till the last day of my life, I shall remember each one of them..

each little detail.. each laugh, stress or smile..

I can't help it but mysteriously love them all..

No wonder, most of them don't understand why I keep tracking them, passionately calling, or meeting from time to another..

Sometime; I wish if time reverts back, and frozen stops..!!

Those Irreversible Times..!

UAE in Afghanistan

The importance of the 250 UAE troops in Afghanistan is beyond their actual military skills and capabilities.. They simply symbolize the "Islamic" rejection of the Taliban.. The actual pitfall of the coalition is being unable to convince other Muslim States to contribute to the mission.. Despite the challenges of "justifying" a Muslim killing another; it is the confusion between political will and interest.. Many Muslim States has mysterious agenda when it comes to Afghanistan.. Once Bin -Laden was spotted, yet CIA had to abort the plan of shoot-to-kill by a Tomahawk, as he was accompanied by some GCC royals..!!

Al-Shohooh

The name of this dance is “Nadb’a” or “Barz'a”, a type of folk customs of the tribes of “Al-Shohooh”. They inhabit the mountainous Oman-UAE border at Musandam. They have a strange language; which is a mixture between Persian, Arabic and English. It is difficult for any foreigner to understand.

The “Nadb’a” is the habits of “Al-Shohooh”, whereas of long standing man among a circle of young men. Then he proceeds with the launch of cries of sequence similar to the howling of a wolf, while raising his arms up adjacent to his forehead and keep it on hold. Then he calls a sequence of words can’t be decrypted. The cries look like cries of consecutive, which is an ancient tradition as a way to warn an attack from neighboring tribes in ancient times.

Certainly, the Protégées had felt some discomfort from these cries while tried to invade their land in 1850th.

Over the time cries had turned into a tradition done by the guest, as an expression of thanks to the generosity of his hosts. Later; it turned to a tradition practiced in weddings and receptions.

BB Phenomenon..

BlackBerry was widely misused by people.. The free Messenger had attracted lots to use.. Empolyees, Colleagues, Lovers, Teens, and even Criminals were instantly chatting beyond control.. I personally had seen this happening in GCC, India, Egypt and Malaysia.. In free time, and during formal meetings..!!
Despite the few applications, poor camera, and limited compatibility; its linguistic and friendly interface were marvelous.. Research in Motion (the server operator) insisted on their unconstrained control despite security threats in Tmes of Terror.. Abuse and misuse had come into houses and families.. restructuring their communications and relationships.. There are many legitimated reasons to stand against its phenomenon, where teens in GCC are extensively using BB more than the executives; whom the technology was meant to support.. Is it an underdeveloped or a global problem..? However, it is a BB Phenomenon..!
I shall not wonder if RIM and TRA come to a sort of understanding.. RIM will not afford losing such attractive market, and TRA understands the challenges associated with leading formal actions along the GCC.. I think they will meet some where..!

Anyway, it is a classic example on how Governments view, role and control.. Freedom in implementation is very limited, and very controlled as well..!!
Thankfully, I had given up mine couple of months ago..!!

News: Saudi Arabia's telecoms regulator has ordered local operators to freeze the Messenger function for Blackberry users this month, just hours after the UAE said it was suspending BlackBerry services in the country from October.

Arabian Business: The device’s popularity quickly helped BlackBerry’s Canadian owner, Research In Motion (RIM), carve out a niche for itself; it now accounts for nearly a fifth of the global smartphone market and has secured nearly half a m...illion users in the UAE alone. Nearly half of the 45 million BlackBerry users worldwide regularly use the BlackBerry Messenger service, a free user-to-user instant text service. RIM had previously taken the lead over its international rivals and in the second quarter of the year it shipped 11.2 million BlackBerry smartphones, compared to the 8.4 million iPhones sold by its California-based rival. This helped the Canadian technology giant to increase its revenue for the second quarter of the year by 24 percent to $4.45bn. However, these results were below analysts’ estimations and Forbes has already forecast that Apple's iPhone will overtake RIM’s BlackBerry in the global smartphone market by 2011. Already Apple stated that around 80 percent of the Fortune 100 companies were testing usage of its iPhone.