I’ve been at Zajil Telecom since 2002, had my ups and lots of downs and regardless to how I honestly feel about the place and some of those who work here; I managed to create my own connections with decent human beings. Now we all argue every now and then – It’s human nature not to agree but  respect remains so when I heard of the news on Saturday I prayed for the man and no body knows this till now – I dreamt of him dead! I mean he’s old (60+) and he used to work his ass off for the company (Or that’s what I witnessed at least) so no one had high hopes on his survival after that stroke he had during the weekend and although we should have faith in Allah for he mapped our lives ahead but subhan Allah, it was time for Abu Juma’a to finally rest in peace..

Abu Juma3a – Hajji, used to drive me insane asking for gift items and during events for more coupons or giveaway and I used to always contain myself responding to him because he was an elderly but last Thursday we exchanged “HIs” and he asked about my daughter so when I came to know of his death over dinner, I got too emotional… The idea of losing a person is a blink of an eye scares me to hell! I never openly discussed this with anyone but I sometimes can’t sleep at night praying for Allah to extend the lives of my loved ones and protect them from harm.. I start thinking of different scenarios of what will happen if I lose x or y and I almost end up with one scene: Me dying from a heart attack caused by grief over that person… Ok, this is too depressing from early morning.

“يا أيتها النفس المطمئنة ارجعي إلى ربك راضية مرضية فادخلي في عبادي وادخلي جنتي”

Allah yer7amak bas he used to wear that White dishdasha Winter – Summer! <– Me trying to make this easy :/

of course I think the people who work with him – his department would be devastated and I don’t want to even go there today but his Manager emailed us the following:

(Born – 1945  Died 30^th January 2012)

Please accept our sincere condolences for the sudden loss of our dear colleague Mr. Mohammed Juma Hareeb Yesterday  30^th January 2012.  We can only imagine what a shock it must be to his Zajil extended family. Indeed, it was only Last Thursday that Abu Juma and our colleague shared a humorous time prayed Asar Prayer with him.

Abu Juma  Joined Zajil family on 27-Nov-1991 and I go back more than 20 years as very dedicated and hardworking colleague.  Not only was he a great person,  he was also an excellent co-worker with whom I spent many memorable days at Zajil over the years. He had an amazing sense of humor and was a gifted True & honest Muslim. In business dealings Abu Juma was always straight forward and honest. In short, Our brother Abu Juma was an exceptional friend and colleague who will be deeply missed by all who knew him.

We collectively mourn our Be-loved Marhoom Mohammed Jumma Harib’s loss

You see, he’s not the first at this place to suffer from medical issues and as much as I would like to elaborate, I shall keep quiet out of respect to good individuals working there and in the end I say: I have much more to do in life than lose my mind or sacrifice my health for lame pathetic reasons.  (PERIOD)

May you rest in peace Abo Jum3a..

YES I resumed duty! After ONE YEAR, FIVE MONTHS of maternity leave, I chose to resume work with the beginning of  the new year. I’ve been up since 5:30 AM- I made sure baby had enough of me and I left crying because I will be away from her from 8 to 4:30 5 days a week! *CRY* I wish times were much more simple and life wasn’t as expensive so women would stay home and take care of the kids and yes I would totally encourage any mom to stay home (Based on my personal experience and at least for the first 2 years)… I am aware that I will be missing some important milestones but there’s nothing we can do about it unless I win the God damn Jawhara account prize!!! YA RAB !

So many changes which I need to keep track of, too many people left, many yet to leave and I was surprised with a “kind of “ career change in spite of being under the same domain as well as a new location / office but this time there’s a window!! YES some ventilation hallelujah. I am kinda pissed cuz I am away from those that I know but change is good no?!

I am so happy that there are windows <3 !! It’s refreshing and the view’s a killer! I never knew that garden was THAT big! 7amdellah ! As for the office space itself, it’s just great! I am gonna have my own mini fridge – microwave – Nespresso machine! You name it! and am filling it with my baby’s photos <3 so I see her all around me! *enshallah*

Oh, and the Man decided to treat me to a Diet Center subscription, Let’s see how that’d work with 1050 calories per day!!

I just miss one person in this world more than anyone or anything else … :(

9 months of suffering.. 9 months of being deprived decent food since I mainly lived on ice cream and mostly desserts.. 9 months of sleeping like a bear during hibernation.. 9 months of staying home after work started to get me tensed as well as everyone around me (since I throw tantrums excluding no one).. 9 months of wearing 4 colors of the same pants (H&M’s maternity clothes).. 9 months of being smoke free.. 9 months of being bitchier than I usually am and she came along!

The beginning of the whole pregnancy was a surprise although we were planning on having a baby but just about the time I gave up, I came to knew when the ER doctor demanded I get a test and my first reaction was: “How?” of course he had to mock and replied: “You know how it happened” <– DUH! and of course to spare the world my drama and since I was in the mood for nothing, good ol’ blog was abandoned and I think updating will be an issue since little ALMA (That’s my kid’s name) clutches on to me like a Koala! No matter how hard I try to keep her in bed she starts crying wanting to be held all of the time which I don’t mind honestly, I am just waiting for her to be old enough to dress up without puking all over herself and take her out, have her nails done ;p and go around cruising in the car. All moms know that sleeping during this period becomes if I may say a “wish”; Kid has to be fed every 2 hours besides the diaper changing and anything else that comes along yet again I don’t mind since we spend quality time together and I get to “gaga and gogo” to her in the kitchen where she loves to stay it seems in spite she has lots of nice things to do or places to be like her bassinet or that soft mat with hanging toys or her chair! This one is very stubborn (wonder where she got that from!)

Bism Allah & Masha’allah

I am currently blogging with her on my lap farting (yes babies pass gas like men!) which is making her uncomfortable and since the satellite in the building is not working AND since I managed to do house chores I said yalla, let’s do this quick post before she wakes up asking for her snack.. breastfeeding, was not fun at the beginning but I managed to get along eventually and since we’re talking about this I need to rant out the fact that I am being fed like a cow to lactate and I am gaining weight like never before and this is the most annoying thing to me at this point (My jeans don’t fit no more :( ) so I guess I am going to subscribe to one of those diet centers and hope for fast results. As for work, well.. I enjoy being at home but it sometimes is boring but I don’t know if I would be able to leave kid alone or under the care of a stranger which reminds me, I still don’t have someone to help around the  house although we tried a lady for a month but man got bullestic and decided to terminate her services (a7san) my next plan is to teach Alma how to clean and set her loose around the house with me ! Need I also remind you readers that she clutches on to me to the point that I find it hard to go to the toilet *currently struggling*

So, it’s all about the feeding, changing, bottle sterilizing, clothes washing and burping for now when it comes to this baby. I just can’t wait to have her starting conversations with me which makes up for me feeling that I am missing out on a lot of what’s happening around me… Gosh I feel like am 120 years old! I walk around with a bag full of things for her and bottles and bibs.. bas it’s fun :p 

P.S: Mommyhood teaches you patience so expecting ladies put your stress aside and sleep as much as you humanly can because you won’t be getting enough once you pop baby out!! *Drinks Turkish coffee to stay awake* oh, and expoilt your husband during this period ;p

Before I forget,

He heee, I stole Anil’s design and photo-shoped it since everybody else does it ;) <– big hint!

Married women, is there like a schedule you have for meals to cook everyday !? Or your imagination runs you wild o mashallah y’all are Martha Stewart wannabes! no seriously, if you work and you got like an hour n’ half to whip something up from scratch HOW DO YOU IT EVERY DAY?! and if you don’t what are the options? and do you get to go out like before?! Don’t start giving me the “when you get a baby it’ll be worse” talk I KNOW but why is there so much to do while there’s less time :( !

The End !

I haven’t been around properly YET and by all means I will today enshallah but I just wanted to post these pics – IT IS GREEEEEEEEN! <3

MECOM started off fine on the first day and after lunch went kinds dead, I am blogging now from our booth and it’s also quiet except that we had good foot traffic on the booth earlier and all are happy :)

The company booked on Al Etihad to land us straight in A.D and I only got to drink coffee on the plane since they were serving snacks only and I am used now to Wataniya’s lavish meals so I kept quiet ;/ bas it was smooth although cloudy and dusty.

What I like about Aloft is the color scheme they have inside, it’s too girly! yeeeey ;p colors every where! and it’s laid back in the sense that it’s not formal – you’ll find pool tables in the lobby and a cute cafe and funky furniture. I didnt go around the hotel yet, will try to take pics of the pool area + the gym along with ADNEC itself which is really cool!

My room is Blue! It’s cozy and cute – spacious enough for 2. Internet is wireless for free and all the amenities you’ll required are available in the room although I bought enough Diet Coke to last me a week ;p

View from the room overlooking the Marina

I hope they have good offers this year AND better crowd quality man!

AND I DO NOT DROP DEAD FROM THIS GUY OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG *pulls hair*

Ok, I deal with many suppliers, the ones I trust I continue with as for those who bluntly come in asking for business in exchange of “something for you in return” I flick off..

This year has been different and I always argue about it.. I’ve been receiving “gifts” lately; A mobile, a set of silver cutlery and this wireless phone which is cute since it’s Pink!! It’s like the guy knows I love Pink and I saw this at Sultan and I remember standing if front of it thinking it’s cute to have in my room!

Question is, is this considered a bribe wella a good well gesture?!

Anil & Swer confused – maybe Swer happy ;p

When I found out the basement was on fire, I went running from the 7th floor + Mezzanine, Ground Floor to go outside and stand with the crowd waiting to know the destiny of our cars ;/

I tried to ask one of the firemen but they were busy trying to control what’s going on inside and the smoke was disgusting to inhale

Smoke from inside B1 in Souk Al Kabeer

So what happened is that KRC decided to do maintenance on the building’s electricity and we were informed that this will take place on the 13th + 14th but after midnight so IT are informed to make sure backup is up n’ running. The new company they contracted with came in and did the job (god knows why they shifted work from the old one) which obviously suck at their job because they left some loose cables which with the load started a fire in the electricity room in the basement… 6ab3an since they don’t know or even bother to know about security procedures, the room was flaming by the time the fire squad got to the building!

Next, the firemen (I was told this) decided to use WATER to put down an electricity fire! <– I even know that’s a NO NO ! Instead of using foam they used water and now, they have to wait till the water dries up to be able to walk in the room and fix what generated the fire….

1. Ya stupid Kuwait Real Estate Company!! Haven’t you heard of generators!!! 3ama!

2. WTF! No fire alarms or water sprinkles in the basements which are actually operational!?! WTF

3. Fix the F’in* staircase! For us ladies it was disgusting to run up and down the stairs to evacuate office or go up to get our stuff

4. Speaking of evacuation plans… WHY THE HELL ISN’T THERE ONE! Why were we not informed of this! We had to find out ourselves!

5. If something would’ve happened to our cars, walla I would sued your ugly bums and yes for cash ;p

Shame on you!

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