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Nostalgia

Monday, April 19th, 2010

 

Where do I begin, when I feel nothing but nostalgia,

where I don’t know the end or the start,

where all I can remember is nothing and everything..

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It all started with a cup of coffee, and it ended with nothing but lust in a brazilin relationship and a ring that stayed in my finger, ever since.

 

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how can i forget a place full of memories, nothing but beautiful amazing ones..

even the F’s that I got in my 4 years where good ones..

the friends that i met,

the network that i built,

the coffee beans i consumed,

the starbucks staff who kept my Zen tea in the back of their

the trees that went thoughtless by consuming more and more paper,

the cleanco staff, rajhu, kumar, and the others

the dorms supervisor,

the navy pontiac bonivelle that used to go everyday to the shisha cafe with my 12’1” laptop

the um kolthoum nights

the days of finding a job and being in love with

the ink we used, the pc labs, the staff, the instructors, the PhD’s, the deans, everybody who was there.

- i am sorry sirin that we had a fight, u r a good friend that i do not wish to have a fight with. -

i suck at writing and i did not want to do it, but it just felt like writing and it’s time

 

 

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all i know is that i got all those feelings again by being in AUS one more time in the Global day.. and i met a new one.. yes, a new one.. and guess what, she also has the same name that the previous two had.

 

my eyes could not fall away from her..

it’s like watching a pianist who never saw a piano, playing piano seamlessly.. 

or like, watching a little kid that just learnt how to write letters, and then out of the sudden, is writing phrases,

it was exactly like that, I stood there doing nothing but watching and watching and watching, amazed with the artist in her, the visual communication coming out of her

 

 

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Where do I end, where all I have from AUS is nothing but great memories.. coffee, friends and innocent love.

 

 

How can I forget AUS, and all that remains in my memories is nothing but a ring and a cup of coffee.

 

 

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The took things that get me nostalgic, Syria and AUS.

Tareq

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Friday, January 15th, 2010

 

Last week has been good, it brought a lot of memories and created a lot of other.. The week started with seeing my friend Rosie who came down from Oman with her friend to show her Dubai. Rosie is a fantastic photographer, model and more importantly a person.. She goes into my top 5 favourite photographers.

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Well, that’s not her. That’s Kinan who has been playing with my camera while I was doing some work on my previous blog. This is the best and most ‘respectful’ picture he took of himself.  I’ll keep the rest until one day when needed.

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So when I went to the Salsa class with James and Alex in the Palm. I came across this great piece of art, clean, shiny and elegant.. The old Mustang 1963. The car had been parked in an illegal parking, but hey, it’s a Mustang after all, who can  fine it..  Simply, perfection..

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When you talk about Cars and computers, you talk about Anton.. A colleague, a friend, a new joiner to the photography community in Dubai.  I am still urging him to post his work in a blog or something, it will take sometime until he decides on the way to do that. Nevertheless, his technical blog is interesting as well.. So unless you are like level 600 in .NET development and other stuff, don’t bother reading Anton Delsink’s blog.. :)

This was Anton’s farewell dinner at Nando’s Greens. Our second choice when we find it hard in the middle of the week to go all the way to eat Mandi in Clock tower round about.. Kais, Pooya and myself went for dinner.

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On on another note, Juanmi, mi amigo from Spain come to Dubai and we went to a Greek restaurant in Bur Dubai, Elia.. Most of Juanmi’s friend made it and below is a collection of people I met, food I ate and things I’ve seen.

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Later that night, I went to meet TareqS who came from Seattle and our mutual friend KatheeL As usual, great to meet old friends by down town Burj Dubai..

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And finally, an outing with James, Alex, Sara and the funniest Latin American guy I’ve meet recently.

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Thanks for reading along.

Tareq

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Friday, January 8th, 2010

So, week 1 of year 2010 could have been better. As an official start, in January 1st 2010, the weather has been great.. The morning was cloudy and getting ready for rain.. Went out, a smile on my face from the early morning, what more would I ask for.. 

I started calling my friends that I haven’t met in sometime and as part of my 2010 resolution, is to keep in touch more often with my close friends. So I met @nadeemmar at Dubai mall and on my way back home, at 10:20 pm on January 1st 2010, the following happens..

Car crash

Had better days, but thank God, at least I did not get injured. To make things worse, my insurance had expired 4 days before the accident happen, so bye bye my Lumina SS.. Until I met someone else from your family..

On Sunday, I took one of my favourite pictures of the week so far..  One of the greatest poses I could get of foot work.

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I have been doing Zouk lately, and that’s one of the best shots, well, at least not while dancing..  The group who teach this just finished their first video and they posted it on their website Zouk Dubai.  For those who don’t know what Zouk is, check out this cool video of Kadu & Larissa – the Australia couple.

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Monday witness the opening of Burj Khalifah (previously known as Burj Dubai)

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End of the week was time for some photography with @shadyenbashi and @jarofjuice at the galleries around Barsha. Some of the shots I took.

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Have a nice rest of the weekend every one.. Time to meet some friends from outside town before I get to work tomorrow!

Tareq

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