Catching Up: Work, JP, and the Cartoons
The last weeks had been crazy for me. During Eid, I got a job offer to join a company here in Amman, so I dropped my plans to accept an offer I got in Dubai in favour of staying in Amman. Some of my friends called me “habeeleh” or something for turning down a very good offer from Dubai, but for me, nothing beats waking up to a nice weather, no AC noise, walking outside to get the newspaper, no humidity, reading it, then heading to work where the most lengthy traffic Jam is 3-5 minutes (I’ve head stories about traffic in Dubai, No thank you, not interested).
The last month had been crazy for JP as well. We had been almost holding the voting process to add new blogs, reason is that we are currently discussing the voting, and proposing other ways than voting to have blogs added. We currently have a loong list of blogs that are to be added or decided on. Don’t worry, everything is kept in a record, once we decide on the voting process, it will move on. No need to resubmit your blog.
I had been as well following the stupid cartoons thing, I think that the issue had been greatly oversized when it was not needed. A cartoon that was printed in a local daily newspaper now is printed in newspapers all over the world, even here in Amman. It seems to me that the people were glad to find the peaceful nation of Denmark and Norway to exercise their anger on them, because the same can’t be done on other governments, or own governments, so they targetted anger toward the lands of Lego, Happy Cows, and Trolls.
I will try to blog more often from now on, and keep you and myself on what’s on my mind. Later
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February 3rd, 2006 at 3:14 pm
Dear Isam;
Welcome back and thank you for posting that news on turning down an offer from Dubai in favour of one in Amman. I have done the same thing one year ago and have been tormented about it by my family and friends. My own reason for dropping down the offer was the weather of course, and my desire not to let my family and especially my little girl to grow up in such a consumption society with no limits at all. I am happy and relaxed in Amman and was very relieved to see that there are other people who would reinforce my decision to prefere Amman to Dubai.
February 4th, 2006 at 12:01 am
I’m glad that you’ve made the decision of staying here in Jordan, I guess this means that we are going to see you more often ;)
February 5th, 2006 at 7:55 am
Well, as for me working in DMC, rent is taking 1/3 of my salary, car installment takes 1/7 of it, food takes another 1/7, water,electricity, phones another 1/7 (more in summer time) [and I live in a cheap area]
Commuting takes 1 hour in the morning & 1.5 hours in the evening
Naa, u’ve done the right thing, Dubai only caters for the rich people, less than that should go elsewhere
I’m just waiting to pay back my loans, and head home :)