January 25th, 2010 by Ibrahim Hudhaif
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Global Warming?
On the recent years, the Global Warming has grabbed so much attention by the international media and governments communities excluding our media (their usual controversial concern is whether women in Saudi should drive or not?!).
Reuters has published an article on Sun Jan 24, 2010 about the United Nations climate talks which creates a big threat to Saudi Arabia as the agency indicates.
“It’s one of the biggest threats that we are facing,” said Muhammed al-Sabban, head of the Saudi delegation to U.N. talks on climate change and a senior economic adviser to the Saudi oil ministry.
It looks like the West-driven talks is trying to limit the demand of oil consumption since it gives the exporters more power and cash flow which can impact their control and power over the global economy. On the year of 2008, the oil prices had reached a new historical record by hitting over USD145 bpd.
Suddenly, the rise of attention to the Global » Read more: Global Warming Myth! Threat Of Losing Power?
January 13th, 2010 by Ibrahim Hudhaif
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STC sucks your blood out!
2 years ago, I ordered a DSL line to enjoy using internet on my home. Pending on the waiting list for weeks then the mercy has came and received a call by STC to arrange the time to install and setup the service.
Eventually, the service is ready now so I started enjoying the internet for exactly three months with some minimal interruption but suddenly the situation has changed.
Two weeks of service interruption and frustration made me called the customers service free toll number to complain about this matter. As usual, the CS employee had advised that the service is up and running and STC is one of the greatest on the telecommunication regime on human kind history as their slogan indicates (Easier Life)!!. No wonder, we are considered as a third world country.
I gave up on that matter and surrendered to the interruptions. I even started reading about NLP to rehabilitate » Read more: How STC makes profits!
January 6th, 2010 by Ibrahim Hudhaif
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WAN Logo
WAN is World Association of Newspapers non-profit organization found in 1948. The organization has several objectives such as defending and promoting press freedom globally, contribute to the development of print and digital news publishing, and promote co-operation between its members worldwide (according to their official website).
WAN conducts the World Press Trends report annually and sell it to the news agencies worldwide which explains why I failed to obtain the new report for 2009 because I am not willing to pay for.
Luckily, I found part of this report which talks about Saudi Arabia with multiple facts which I find these interesting to be exposed and worth buying it for the concerned organizations.
The part starts with the general economics situation » Read more: Saudi Press Trends 2008
December 31st, 2009 by Ibrahim Hudhaif
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Families Only!
I am grateful to witness the Saudi giant projects during King Abdullah’s era which made me really proud to belong to this country.
The upcoming project, is King Abdullah park in Malaz at Riyadh but still not certain if this park is part of the King Abdullah International Gardens as a phase or just another park.
The concern stone will be set next month ( I assume by King Abdullah), “The old equestrian field in Malaz area will be turned into a public park but the access will be limited to families only and the prince Fahad Al-Farhan’s park (which is much smaller) will be limited to the singles only after re-innovating it to occupy it with facilities that serve the sports activities.” Ibrahim Dujain, GM of Gardens and Environment constructions said according to the Riyadh newspaper.
What made this article to be brought up here, is the continuous negligence toward these young generation by the planners and developers in term of finding facilities for them to exhaust their energies! » Read more: Public Park, but Families Only!
December 27th, 2009 by Ibrahim Hudhaif
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Looks Painful!
Every year Shia in Saudi Arabia celebrate the tenth day of the first month (Muharram) of the Hijiri year (The Islamic Calendar).
Mainly, Shia gather in the Eastern side of Saudi, specifically, in Al-Ahsa, and some scattered in Najran, Madina, and Riyadh cities.
It is ironic that I was not able to find any official source that I can rely on to understand the real percentage of the Shitte population on Saudi Arabia.
However, I found couple of sources indicate that the Shitte create about 3.3% of Saudis. Again, the lack of the official resources made so many websites speculate the real percentage.
Public Broadcasting Service mentioned on Pilgrimage to Karbala episode the Shitte population is about %5.
Again, today is Ashura where all Shia » Read more: Saudi Shia/Shitte & Bloody Ashoura!
December 24th, 2009 by Ibrahim Hudhaif
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Kabsa Dish by Riyadh Newspaper
Kabsa is a famous traditional rice dish can be served with meat or chicken that most Saudis eat everyday at the lunch meal mostly. Also, it can be served as a dinner mostly on weekend for any gathering.
It has some economical side since it is rice and meat or chicken which can be suitable to serve more people with less money.
Other people in the GCC countries (Gulf Cooperation Council) favor this dish and retain same meaning but with another slang like (Makboos or Majboos) which means pressured.
Kabsa has a similar popularity of burger on the western culture while it comes in a different ways of preparation.
I was stunned today by a news article published on a Saudi newspaper (Al-Riyadh Newspaper).
Saudis spend not less than 4 billion SR (1 USD = 3.75 SR) yearly to eat Kabsa which is the popular food meal in Saudi Arabia and GCC countries.
The article indicated that unknown » Read more: A Billion Dollar for Kabsa!
