General

I'm going to the norwegian embassy now to get my Visa to Norway, as i'm supposed to go to EZ camp 2005 to attend the workshop/seminar. It's the time when you feel like an arab and that you need a permession to go past abdoun. and what really sux is that sometimes you miss the deadline because the as*ho*les take so much time to check your background and stuff like that. If any sane person looks carefully at me, he'd know I'm pretty much spaced out of this life to do anything serious.

This is one of the funniest stories I ever heard in my life.

A friend of mine used to own a motorcycle, and the thing broke down, he went to a mekaneeky to fix it. He needed to replace some part in his engine, the mekaneeky was ( as usual ) convincing him to buy a brand new part instead of a second hand one.

Mekaneeky: "Ya 3ammy idfa3lak 20 dinar zyadeh, o khod ishy jdeeed, oo khaleek bel Same Size"

yeeeha, mom is back! she's been away for almost 3 months! I missed her loads.

I got back home yesterday at around 5 PM. After the conference in Oman was over I went to Dubai for the first time of my life. I got there around 3 AM, and I had early meetings in the morning. The first meeting was in Emirates Towers( Photo) Sombody told me that they are two of the tallest 10 buildings in the world, I don't know if this is true. We had brunch in a Japanese/Asian restaurent there. Then we went to the company's offices on the 17th floor!

Then I had to one hour before my second meeting. I went to a place called Crown Plaza, some Hotel & mall I suppose( I sound clueless). I bought nice pair of sneakers & a kick ass australian style necklace.

Then I went to the next meeting to Dubai Media City.

Then we went out to Roof Top to meet with some business people that we deal with, and stayed there like till after midnight, and tadam then we went to Lotus 1.

That was it

My presentation is after two hours. I have double checked the slide show, printed the slides and prepared the notes. The second half of my session will be a live demo on the internet, I checked the application from GPRS devices( Nokia N-GAGE )`& all is alive and kicken.

Thanks to the Nokia guys, they're going to give me two brand new N-GAGE handsets to give away as prizes to people who will participate in my treasure hunt. So we got prizes also for the dudes, thanks Pascal

Nature calls, hehehe...

The conference started with the usual official governmental level speech, thank god it lasted for 15 minutes only. I'm impressed everything is very well organized, big industry players are all over here.

The first session a guy from Nokia highlighted the mobile gaming future, and the new N-gage. The second session was very informative and enjoyable. A british & Omani guy talked about the differences between gaming in the eastern & western worlds. They also discussed why we don't have a gaming industry & how this can be fixed.

The guys from Nokia were very kind. They gave me two N-gage devices for my presentation tommorrow, since the devices are GPRS capable, which I need for my presentation.

Right infront of me is a nice fountain and loads of green grass, this country is like paradise I swear, I'm lovin' it. I can see on top of a tree, I can see several hundered of cute birds just whisteling and running around like dumb bimboos.

Cool, the guys set up a wireless connection just now, the conference will start tomorrow. I'm gonna be speaking on the 2nd day of the conference( 3rd of May). Right now I'm finalizing the presentation.

My presentation consists of two parts, slide show and a live demo. Hope everything works well

So okay I left Jordan with Hani Jabsheh( CEO of Albawaba ). And we stayed for 2 hours in Dubai. Then we came to Oman. We arrived at Muscat's airport, and as soon as we got out of teh plane there was a driver with a sign and our names on it. Then he drove us to the hotel. On the way to the hotel I must say I was shocked, I found that Oman is a a VERY civilized city, exteremely nice architecture, were all people are following Omani's culture in building houses/hotels/etc...

We got to the the interconn, it's such a niceeee hotel, big clean rooms, wonderful service. Anyway gotta run, well try to post something sometime soon