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Some fun before the homecoming!

I haven't written much lately. I wonder why. I usually look back at my old entries to re-live the "adventures"...to remember the way I felt back then. This is one of the things I enjoy the most about blogging.

Will I be able to re-live the Kuwaiti experience by looking back at old Mindsay posts? Probably not! I wrote a lot these days, but most of my thoughts are "sealed" in the emails I exchanged with my brother...and in the long chats I had with my closest friends. It's time to MAKE UP...it's NEVER TOO LATE...

I didn't tell you that I had a roommate that loved to say out loud everything I did. If I scratched my head, he said, "Hey, you're scatching your head!"...if I went to the bathroom...."Hey, you're going to the bathroom"; he usued to do that twentyfourseven. He was a very nice guy, but I couldn't stand this bad habit of his. He went back to Louisiana in April.

Another person left this place in April. A whiny woman I used to share the office with. She used to complain about everything...and she made my life quite difficult, as I can't stand negativity. Indeed, I had to EXORCISE the negativity, so I created THIS VIDEOGAME that was much appreciated by my co-workers. Shooting the whiny woman and our silly bosses is FUN!! Try and make your own version of the game...it's a great "stress reliever"!

The whiny woman was replaced by a FUN girl from Seattle...it was A GOOD DEAL... life in the office is much more enjoyable, as you can see in the slideshow:

I am definitely going to miss my buddies! I'll be in Italy in SIX DAYS!!! It's time to GO HOME!!!

I'll spend some time with my family and friends...and get ready for the next adventure... in the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!

...to be continued...

NOW PLAYING: A Sort of Homecoming - U2

14 beer cans - Kick the can!

Traveling sweet traveling!

Even though I am physically residing in the middle of the Kuwaiti desert, I have found A MAGIC TELEPORT that allows me to go anywhere in the world. Yes, people...I am talking about the most exciting website I have seen in quite a while.
Pack your bags...have a nice trip and...send me a postcard!

I am in Mexico right now, and I spent part of the afternoon in Rome... and visited cool cellars in southern France.

FASTEN YOUR SEATBELTS!

4 beer cans - Kick the can!

Wine-Soaked Movies: Street Kings!

Every once in a while I like to review movies I watch while being in a state of "fictional intoxication". So far I have reviewed Minority Report , What Women Want , The Phantom of the Opera , Pulp Fiction ...

Now... I was having a perfectly good day: hanging out with friends, playing pool and ping pong, listening to music, cooking and eating...when the "gods of improbable movies" commanded me to go see STREET KINGS...starring Keanu Reeves...DEAR ME... I grabbed a non-alcoholic beer, and sat in the movie theater. This is what I recall:

Keanu Reeves wakes up, brushes his teeth with a gun, and pukes copiously as a result of it. After finding a badge on the nightstand, our hero remembers he is a cop, and gets ready to go to work. While driving down a busy L.A. street, he realizes he's got a very bad breath and decides to fix the inconvenience by downing a couple of airplane-bottles of vodka. Then he pulls over in front of a drug store and starts a highly refined conversation with two Korean guys. The debate gets heated when the Koreans claim that the third declension in Latin doesn't have a special neuter ending. Keanu Reeves gets mad, but the two Asian thugs take him down and hit his crotch with a dictionary. Our hero wants REVENGE, and after stealing some vodka from a store, goes on a rampage to exterminate the whole Korean community in California. He is quite successful, but his boss reprimands him for killing a man defecating in his own bathroom. "You do not shoot a man taking a dump...It's like killing someone in church" (The "SAD" thing is that I am not making this up!). Anyhow, as the Koreans lie down dead, our hero steals all the alcohol they had in storage. The plot gets very complicated when Keanu Reeves finds out that all the cops in L.A. kill innocent citizens to drink their booze, and bribe the authorities to cover up the mess. After killing two tattooed gangsta-like people that later on turned out to be archbishops, Keanu finally kills the mastermind of the evil plan...and lives happily everafter.

It took me a while to get over the idea I actually sat there (I got in for free) and saw the whole movie. I took comfort in reading the COMICS I used to read when I was a little child. Click on the link and see how cool it is to actually turn the pages..it is like having a comic book in your hands. Maybe it's just the fact that I am a geeky bookworm...but I enjoy this "turning the virtual pages thingy" so much that I did some "research", and found this AMAZING TREASURE . If you find similar websites...PLEASE LET ME KNOW!!!

Now Playing: Island in the Sun - Weezer

Bathroom Graffiti of the Day: You've been in Kuwait too long if you think that the chick in the obscene drawing is hot

Game of the Day: BOOKWORM

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"Here" & "There"!

The "Arabian Days" go on with a mixed load of duties and amenities. I am naturally inclined to discuss the amenities... so, here are some random conversations I have had.

One day I wasn't feeling well...

- Chris (My "bird flipping", Dr. Dre fan friend from Florida): Go to the sick call place, just do it!

- Me: No! Seeing the doctor makes me nervous.

- Chris: Antonio, you gotta see a doctor NOW 'cause you look like SH*T; actually it's worse than that. It's like someone chopped off your head, put it on a stick, and mopped a floor all covered with...

I DIDN'T LET HIM FINISH THE SENTENCE!! I just got into his van...

In my office...

- American woman: Good morning. I want a Master's degree.

- Me: Excellent. What's your Bachelor's in?

- Woman: I don't have a Bachelor's. I want a Master's.

- Me: Indeed. Anyhow, when you start out College, and you want a Master's Degree... there are a few steps in between...

- Woman: I know I can get a Master's in two years!!

- Me: Well, I believe that being highly motivated is a very important thing while pursuing a College degree, HOWEVER...

- Woman: It's not about motivation. A PSYCHIC told me I can do it!

- Me: Oooh.

Booking a flight...

- Indian dude: Help me! Find a good flight for me, Vadim!!

- Vadim (My pragmatic friend from Ukraine): I am trying. I am trying! Where's the "confirm button"?? Al Jazeera SU*KS A*S!!

- Indian dude: SUCCESS?! SUCCESS...going home...hooray...yippee...SUCCESS!

- Me: Actually, he said...

- Indian dude: Hooray.....yippee...yippee!!

- Me: Never mind...

This is a summary of what is happening over "HERE". As the homecoming approaches, though, I am starting to think about over "THERE" more often. For instance, I had a long conversation with antipodes the other day. When we finished talking, I had a big grin all over my face...but I couldn't help thinking, "Gosh...I miss HOME...SO MUCH!!"

Later on, my mother called me, and said she is piling up WINE CASES in the basement FOR ME. She added that my favorite wine will be on sale next week...so she will pile up more cases! The funny thing is that she took a picture of it and emailed it to me....AWWW

GOD BLESS PARENTS WITH A GOOD SENSE OF HUMOR!!!! ...and now I am thinking...my mom is not very tall...but...if each case contains ten bottles...and there are three cases in each row... LET'S DO THE MATH! HIC

Now Playing: Jump - Van Halen

Bathroom Graffiti of the Day: The Small Px is Easy to Steal From

Game of the Day:

Play Sonic

18 beer cans - Kick the can!

A Sort of Scrapbook!

Dear Diary,

I think that after "the rare political entry", it is time to move on to "more personal stuff". I was talking on the phone with my mom a few days ago, when I realized she has hard time "VISUALIZING" me in the "desert context". She said, "I don't even know what you look like these days...you have probably lost weight...and I don't know what you get to see when you go to work every morning". I thought that she was definitely right, and I decided to do something about it... so I asked a friend to "STALK" me with a camera and take a few snapshots when I wasn't aware of it....THIS IS THE RESULT:

Here's the entrance to the Education Center during a SANDSTORM. I walk through that door every morning at 7:45...

This is a pic of me at work. I am joking as usual...and now you know that I use a chair as a doorstop...

This is me reprimanding Tiffany because she told me there was a huge grasshopper behind me, and I totally FREAKED OUT; we crack each other up all day, that's how we pass the time...

The following pic reminds me of TV SHOWS from the 70s... "The A-Team"..."Antonio's Angels"...

Take a look at my face now; it is like I am thinking, "These guys are serious when they say there's NO WINE here"...hehe....KIDDING, I don't miss wine that much...ahem...I don't know, I am not really sure...

At a certain point, we set the table ON FIRE

I hope you like my "scrapbook". I am having fun. I enjoy living in a multicultural environment. I am going to the beach this coming weekend...and I am going to play soccer with Ukrainian friends...and we will have a cook out afterwards...more to come...

PS. I just read something on a bathroom wall: CHUCK NORRIS SLEEPS WITH A TEDDY BEAR NAMED MR. CUDDLES. MR. CUDDLES HAS 13 CONFIRMED KILLS!

26 beer cans - Kick the can!

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