Thursday, September 01, 2005

It's a new day

It's amazing isn't it? This blog thing...
You can write what you want, when you want, and know that it's going to be published.
I am here especially to tell you (myself), i am not done with Qatar.
Not yet.
There's much to see, much to do. Every morning, every night is teaching me something new, something real. Something that exists, something that's there but we don't see because we are so lost in our own worlds, something that lives every beat that we live, believing... THIS is life. And we just pass it off as "fuck, a boring fucking country".
WRONG.
We are wrong. Qatar is a life. Just like India, just like England, just like the US. Like they have their different lifestyles, so does Qatar.
Their life, though, is a little confused. And i don't want to get into that right now.
It's a small, very small, country... with very very big dreams. Bigger than they can dream, if i may say. Anyway, they've dared to. I admire their guts.
Qatar is anything but boring. Yes, if you want to be like me, you could call it boring any day, every second that you live here, every moment that passes by, but you'd be inaccurate, you'd be just like me... short-sighted.
You don't see Qatar like it's wanna be seen.
It's a place...
A place where people live, where people were born, where they - some people, part of this world - believe is home and everything else is alien, unreal, a surpirsie... an astonishment.
Just like what India is to me, or England is to Paul, or Malaysia is to Daniel...
It's just a little too different for us normal, lets put that in quotes - 'normal' - people to understand. They're (Qatar) confused. Between normal and religious.
There are certain things they've been taught, they've grown up with, and there are things they see, on TV, on Western channels, on Porn (which is practically 24 hours on TV)...
They're confused, really.
They want to be with the world, with the time...
They are. The young (read: new) generation is really like that. They want to be 'Western', they're trying to be. They are in fact. The only thing that's going against them is their skin colour or their language (in order to be 'Western').
What do I tell you about Qatar?
It's addictive.
If history could talk, it would say, Qatar has 500,000 humans (with (better) options) from the world over, that decided this country is just simply awesome - laidback, easy, chilled out, carefree, careless, rich... and unknown, isloated, lost, off the world's radar - where anyone would think eighteen times before looking... a place to get lost, in your own world. Your world... however you want it. Your call.
Qatar gives you a chance to create your own world. It gives you space, it gives you money, and it gives you respect. Respect, because they're lazy - and they love the people who come to their country and do their job for them. They would call them servants, but they also know they can't do it without them.
They're small, they're (hillariously) small... and (even more ) hillariously they want to be bigger than anything that exists in this world.
That - I think is ambition... an evil.
Qatar in fact is ambitious. It's going to raze everything in its path to try and achieve the IMPOSSIBLLE.
Why? Why are they going to try anyway? Because they've dreamt it.
Period.
That's Qatar.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Far out blogg.

September 01, 2005 2:02 AM  
Blogger J said...

Hey i like ur positive attititude. Way to go! :)

September 01, 2005 2:03 PM  
Blogger alice said...

hmmmm....tell me abt the women in qatar

September 01, 2005 5:39 PM  
Blogger Once the Conman said...

Alice:
http://qatardiary.blogspot.com/2005/07/pretty-eyes.html

And there's a lot more to the women about Qatar.
Where do I begin? I have never seen such astonishing beauty in my life... Astonishing... thats the word.
There's a lot more to them than this as well...

September 01, 2005 6:06 PM  
Blogger alice said...

beautiful post that was....yeah its amazing what a woman can do...keep u wondering...asking for more...

September 01, 2005 6:17 PM  

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