I stopped smoking since a month or so, and having no IPOD to listen to music I would have gotten crazy, but thank to Kabsa who talked to me and kept me company

The thing is “I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO!!” I know the airport by heart ( well almost ) I can’t go out since I don’t smoke any more and it’s a bit hard to find an electrical outlet to charge the notebook’s battery.

I tried looking at people, I discovered that there are many people, lot’s & lot’s of people

Hummmm… Did I mention that I’m bored? I probably should go and search for the check-in desk ( It’s the only thing I can do right know )

Oh.. Forgot to mention I’m leaving at 19:25 (give or take a few minutes) and will be arriving at Athens @ 23 something, it’s going to be long day tomorrow

Sorry for the lack of posts, but recently I was extremely busy at work and didn’t have time for myself.

Anyway, as the title suggests

I’m unpacking the wings

In 4-5 hours I’ll be leaving to Paris and then to Athens for business, I’ll be travelling back Friday insha’ Allah

Let me know if you need anything from Greece ( Small things only, and no liquids )

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

I can’t say much regarding my work, except that I’m going to a training in Bracknell-UK soon and it involves my favourite topic It will be my first business trip to my company’s EMEA HQ and I won’t be alone

The plan was to leave the 15th and get back to Montpellier on the 18th and leave again on the 19th to Tunis. Honestly with the carbon footprint I leave behind me, I managed to change the flights to a direct flight from London to Tunis

On a personal level I can’t complain

Camelette gave me what I wanted (well almost… and ONLY after some insistance ). I’m healthy as fish RAGING CAMEL, I’m trying to quit smoking for the second time in a month it’s REALLY not easy

AND! if all goes well, I’ll have a major update to announce soon [Sorry still TOP SECRET] wait for it!

A dear colleague of mine got married last week-end, and one day later another friend had his birthday (talk about coincidence ) anyhow, pictures are here (or will be shortly).

Oh, forgot to mention… My boss assigned me a whole country to manage Now I wish I had political power over it so that I would start my empire

Stay tuned for more updates soon!!

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

They lost my bag going, I managed to get it back after 3 days (they found it and gave it back practically when I was leaving)

Anyone would think that a 3 day trip wouldn’t get any worse. Well they are wrong!

On the way back I had to change airports in Paris (CDG -> Orly) practically on the other side of Paris, with a 3h layover

• There was a Airfrance bus strike, when I asked I was told that it was 2 days earlier.
• Paris traffic on Friday IS A NIGHTMARE!!! people don’t know how to drive, there were accidents everyone.
• Lost my flight to Montpellier.
• Tried to call my agency to find another flight and they put me on hold for 30 minutes, only to ask me to call them back in 15 minutes
• The new booked flight was delayed for 40 minutes :’(

If it wasn’t for a colleague at work who helped me I could have been stranded in Paris not knowing what to do (Thanks Helen I owe you one big time!!!)