The only thing I can say right now is that I’m leaving for Milan for a couple of days then to Tunis for 2 weeks.

I’m not reachable on the phone, but I’ll try to call my loved one’s when I’ll be in Tunis insha’ Allah

I’m sorry for the theft of my stuff, I actually feel a camera, Ipod & mobile phone lighter .On the other hand I can’t complain since I’ve stayed for 11 days!!!  ( I’m such an egoist )

I’m posting this from the business lounge of Carthage airport, fresh juices and some light snacks and thank God a free internet connection

I’ll try to post a detailed story of the theft when I’m in Rome for the night or tomorrow when I get back to Montpellier.

Miss you guys already

The story is that my family found out that they need a visa to go to Tunis , I’ve been to Tunis like almost once a month in the past 7 months, and no one I repeat no one asked for a visa (I only got stopped once going out of Tunis because they wanted to know how much money I had with me) besides they have a small desk at the entrance before the passport control, I remember going to them on my first trip asking if I needed one, and I was told no…

I’ve checked before here and everywhere else and it was always written that Saudi nationals do not need it!! You might ask why haven’t I check the Tunisian embassy website? Simple they don’t have one I only found this and this. (don’t bother clicking on the link, it will take you to the first link that doesn’t work)

Anyhow… I’m on the sofa right now smoking a nice cool Romeo Y Julieta (Alla faccia della burucrazia)

Just waiting for tomorrow morning so that I can take the flight and meet my family

Al7amdulillah

I’m leaving for Tunis on Monday (NOT work related) to meet my family at last . My dad and camelette and her little cockroach are going there for a week, and seeing that it’s only an hour trip away I decided to meet them. (I haven’t seen them in 6 months )

As you can see from the picture (sorry for the quality ) there’s papa camel, camelette and little cockroach. My mom couldn’t make it, I really hope to see her soon

The other good side (100% personal) is that 2 of my colleagues are going to be there too (They are going for work obviously ) and I have a whole week to pester them [Yes!! I'm a bastard inside ] - I’ll have to prepare a check list of the things I’m going to do to them

Think about it, time is the most sought after, hated, loved, searched thing for and by everyone. Honest (I NEED MORE time, Aargh.. the minutes pass like hours,…etc…).

I’m in a pickle my self, I have a business project to start reporting on (just the thought gives me the shivers), a personal project to outline. It would have been easy if I had these 2 things to do this week, but unfortunately I’m trying to recover an unproductive week due to an IT issue that hit me last week AND handle other requests. Just to give you an idea…

“The HR database contains all the information regarding the employees (name, BD, badge ID,…) all except our Out-Sourcing Partners (since they do not work for my company directly). We have a tool that TS uses to open calls and dispatch needed parts to our customers, and about 45% of the work is handled by our OSP’s. The IT suddenly wakes up and decides to clean up the tool because there were too many account, so they decided to delete all accounts that weren’t in use in the last 30 days, too bad that they decided to delete the accounts that are not in the HR database simply because they thought that the people had left, so they started to delete accounts left and right. At the end we had a sizable chunk of the OSP workforce non functional and no way to add them back simply because no one had predicted this to happen so no-one was able to reinstate the people’s accounts ” — It took us 3 whole days to try and fix this.

My trip to Tunis was good till the last part where the Tunis-air employee decided that my E-Ticket was not valid and that I needed to check the airline’s sales office I went telling them that I had confirmed my flight 3-4 days earlier, so they told me that it was ok, I go back and this time the same guy tells me that the ticket was changed from an E-Ticket to Paper, I go back to the agency and tell them what I was told and thank GOD for a kind gentleman who came with me and asked a guy to handle my ticket, the guy called another guy who in turn called another guy who went to the ticket desk and asked what was wrong, the guy told him that I needed to have a paper ticket, and the new guy just pressed a few buttons and gave me my E-Ticket boarding pass

I think I lost enough time telling you these two stories… I need to get back to work — Time is running out

24Hours to go, and I’ll be in TUNIS!!! ~yay~

Big plans ahead!

• Meet friends and colleagues
• Work and improve metrics
• FOOD!!! Real food for a change
• Secret plan to accomplish
• Take a dip on the open air swimming pool

I’m going to pack my bag!

Wish me luck

My flight was at 1:30pm this afternoon, but for a very stupid, idiotic, obsolete process I’m grounded till tomorrow at 6am :cry:.

I don’t know if it’s my fault or the damn system, but all because of overbooking and no confirmation, in Europe this problem doesn’t exist anymore (honest) if a person misses his/her flight he/she looses their money, this way the airlines are covered and are assured that the passengers would attend or at least have their money (it happened to me when I went to Greece, and I had to buy a new ticket), unfortunately in the Arab world they continue to do this practice. (it did bring back memories of camel land)

I was on the waiting list, but seeing that there is no law/common sense in the Arabs (at least in Tunis) everyone jumped and started yelling at each other, a policeman had to be present to calm the people down (he didn’t do anything and was a waste of space), whenever I tried to move forward 4-5 people tried to jump the line ( line what line?) or whole families of 6 or more people going together to the counter, when I talked to the Tunisair employee he told me that Airfrance doesn’t have any problem accepting passengers without reservation, but Tunisair wanted a confirmation at least 72h before departure.

The funny thing is that when I asked for the next available flight, I was told to wait till the 10th of November

-Pray for me that I reach home safely tomorrow please-