You can help Africa and the ppl suffering in the worst drought happens to the area called 'Horn of Africa' by donating through a new-formed group by Omani youth
في الفترة الماضية ركبت طائرات كثيرة وكان كتابي دائما مرافقا لي... أحيانا اقرأ وأحيانا أشاهد ما تسنى لي من الأفلام...
وفي واحدة من الرحلات لم أستطع حمل كتابي لظروف معينة... افتقدته..
طالعت كبديل مجلات السوق الحرة.. لديهم تشكيلة رائعة (أحيانا) من التحف والهدايا ولكن...
ليس لديهم كتب...
غريبة صح!!!!
وفي رحلتي الأخيرة ركبت على متن واحدة من أسطولنا الفخري أسطول طيراننا العريق الطيران العماني (حثوا في وجهي التراب!!) وتوجهت إلى صلالة (بعد عدة رحلات متعبة) مدينتي ومسقط رأسي...
وفكرت لماذا لا نبادر بالتبرع بالكتب (الصالحة منها وليست "المعضوضة") ووضعها للمسافرين لمن نسى كتابه أو حتى لتشجيع أولئك الذي لا يقرأون....
الرحلة من مسقط الى صلالة مدتها ساعة وثلث الساعة....
ومن مسقط إلى لندن (مثال) تقريبا 7 ساعات...
لماذا لا نستغلها بالقراءة؟؟!! او حتى تشجيع أشخاص قد يجدون القراءة مملة في الاطلاع ولو لفترة قصيرة على كتاب ما...
تفاصيل الفكرةّ:
جمع كتب مستعملة من مختلف الأماكن... قد يكون عن طريق النت (مدونة أكثر من حياة و omani book mania مثلا) أو حتى بوضع صناديق في أماكن التسوق وغيرها...
ومن ثم نقوم بالتواصل مع ممثلي الطيران العماني وتوزيع هذه الكتب على متن مختلف الرحلات..
كإضافة: ممكن أن نعمل كتيب صغير يحتوي على شرح بسيط ومختصر عن الكتب المتوفرة وتوزيع هذا الكتيب على مجلات السوق الحرة والمجلات السسياحية الأخرى التي توزع على كراسي الطائرة....
وفي حال رغب المسافر في القراءة ما عليه الا أن يطلب الكتاب من المضيفة...
الفكرة لم تكتمل في تصوري بعد (كم كتاب على كل رحلة والخ) ولكني أحببت أن اطرحها لآخذ منكم المقترحات...
الشيخ شارمان قدم الى الخليج وهو صغير وقبل "الثورة النفطية" فقد كان فقيرا يتيما واستطاع ابن عمه ان يدبر له عملا في الخليج... عمل بجد واجتهاد واستطاع ان يقنع أرباب عمله في فترة بسيطة أنه اهل لثقتهم ويستطيعون الاعتماد عليه بتسيير أعمالهم بدون اشراف مباشر منهم....
وبعد فترة استطاع شارمان أن يكون نفسه وأخذ خبرة كافية ومع تفجر النفط في الخليج استطاع ان يكون ثروة صغيرة لبداية تجارة خاصة به... وتعبيرا عن امتنانهم أعطاه رب عمله الحرية (من الكفالة) لفعل ذلك وأعفاه من العمل لديه....
مرت الآن تقريبا أكثر من 80 عاما على مجئ شارمان...
حدث الكثير خلال هذه الفترة...
اصبح من أكبر رجالات الأعمال في البلد... ويستطيع أن يدير اقتصاد البلد بكلمة واحدة...
أولاده واحفاده درسوا بأحسن المدارس...
والأهم من ذلك أنه
أخذ الجنسية وأصبح اسمه شارمان الخليجستاني*
وكذلك ذريته
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المشهد الأول
شارمان يتوسط مجلس القبيلة بصفته شيخها...
شارمان: ألم أقل لكم أن ختم القبيلة لدى ابني الأكبر. لماذا تزعجونني بطلباتكم اذا؟
خليفة (من كبار القبيلة): أمد الله في عمرك يا شيخنا، نأسف لذلك ولكن ابنك الأكبر غير متواجد في مكتبه عادة
شارمان: آريز، انظر في طلباتهم بعد خروجنا من المجلس... دعونا من هذا الآن كان ذلك مجرد تنبيه لكم.... الآن جمعتكم لأقول لكم انه لابد ان نجدد الولاء والعرفان للملك وقبيلتنا على مر الزمان... يجب ان نحظى بمكانة مرموقة في بلاط الملك ونمثل أنفسنا كقبيلة عريقة وواحدة من أكبر القبائل التي يرجع أصولها للعدنانيين... أقترح أن أذهب أنا كشيخ للقبيلة وأولادي لأننا أفضل من نمثل القبيلة بصفتنا أفضل وأعرق عوائل القبيلة...
انتهى المشهد الأول
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المشهد الثاني
في تدوينة اخرى....... فالمشهد الاول لم يكن الا مجرد تمهيد ومشهد صغير لما بعده... ترقبوا :)
*الخليجستاني: واحدة من اعرق القبائل العربية.. تمت الموافقة على انضمام شارمان لهذه القبيلة كتقدير لافعاله الكثيرة وغير المنتهية في خدمة البلد
I'm enjoying my vacation abroad the country along with my family...
i barely have an internet access so i don't know what is going on in the "bloggin" sphere...
Tomorrow we'll travel to another country and that will take a whole daym *dizzy*
part from that, my relatives said the weather in salalah is improving and the 'khareef' (i.e. monsoon) is much better then last year... so after returning to home i will go inshaAllah to salalah and spend Ramadhan there...
We're already preparing for a big wedding after Ramadhan, which will consume most of the family's budget... The wedding will be huge, i guess, and the 'show-off'' competition already start... women will spend hundreds to look the best among the other guests... and as a single my mother will do her best too to attract ppl's eyes to me >>> poor me :(.. i don't know why they don't understand that i don't want to marry now *sad*
Anyway i might post something abt my trip later, till then have a nice summer or kharref or whatever :p...
I don't why i'm not so active on this blog... i merely view it...
i have lots of thoughts but i guess i have problems with writing...
I will post some topic soon, hopefully, and for my previous topic abt my cousin i was so disappointed that no one post a pray for her or a comment of hope at least
She will have to live with this disease for the rest of her life....
she's my little cousin, and she's only 6 months old...
her disease is called Lissencephaly....in Arabic
Her hand with manicure done by "Moi"
She's so lovely and beautiful, just came from abroad where the doctors told her family the same, no cure...
as per her mother she become like a dead body, no observable movement, no sounds no activities at all... she's just breathing.. poor girl...
Her look is normal, no one can figure that she's having a disease, and the doctors said that she will be able to attend normal schools with ordinary kids but in the internet they are saying the opposite...
I found this helpful website where a family wrote its experience with the disease... link
My family has a hope that she will be a normal person and she will grow normally... i hope so... pray for her my sweet little cousin
I've receive an invitation to TEDx Muscat and yeah i went.... the whole experience was fascinating
Our journey to Al Musunha (mu9n3ah) where the event conducted started at 7:30, my friends picked me up and we went as a bunch of group in 2 cars (The most exciting thing is the grouping point was at my house)
We reached there at 9:00 a.m., in fact we were too slow, and as we enter the lobby of the millennium hotel we were stunned by the number of people who already arrived and we found some old friends from university....
Then we registered and took our batches and headed to eat breakfast which was quite good... i only drank cup of tea in fact...
Then the event started with an introduction about TED organization and TEDx events and the host of the program was a known Omani actor (surprisingly)who tried to be funny but unfortunately he failed (at least from my point of view)
HH. Faisl bin Turkey Al Said spoke for 5 mins (He sponsored the event)....
The event was scheduled as the following: two speakers, a video from previous TED event and then a coffe break and at the middle they offered a lunch...
The first talker was Jim Stolze and his topic title was "Digital Stress or Virtual Happiness"
The other talker is a story teller called Firas Abouzeid, i loved his talk and i enjoyed it so much .He spoke about "Doodles Vs Digital Point". He mentioned good points about purposes and how to define yours but what i mostly liked is this quote form his speech: "Know yourself..Define your purpose.. Be Authentic.. Be spiritual.. Are u ready for the change?? Protect the Doodle""
ok.... this post is getting too long and if i write about each speaker you will get bored... so shourtcut the things, i will be brief as much as possible...
The surprised thing in the whole event (as Dhofari girl) that among the speakers there was a dhofari girl called Tuffol Al-Dhahab... hooray for us looooooooool....
I'm so proud of her though her presentation was quite boring *duh*. She spoke about the "Impact of online social media: changes and developments" and she mentioned AlSabla as an example, which some of the audience disliked it i don't know why... talking a little bit about Tufool, i will quote her biography from the brochure spread at the event:
Tuffol Al-Dhahab
"Tufool Al Dhahab is currently working as a Marketing Team Leader at Information Technology Authority (ITA) in the Sultanate of Oman. Tufool works with her team to develop innovative marketing campaigns to serve the ultimate purpose of the e.oman mission. Tufool Al Dhahab was selected as a Young Women Leader through LAU and MEPI."
Keep it up Tuffol, you are amazing and your language is excellent... as per as i know she lived in USA for a long time as her father was the ambassador there...
Back to the event....
I would like you to see one of the videos displayed and almost everyone like it... here it's:
It's hilarious loooooooooooooooooooooooool and it was the bessssssssssst ever.....
Another Omani lady was a speaker at the event too... i lovvvvvvved her language, presentation, work she done so far... I'm really really really proud of her.... her name is Eman Rafay, her biography is:
Eman Rafay
"Eman graduated from the University of York with a BA Hons in Social Policy, from the school of Social and Political Science. Her passion to give back to society resonated within her from a young age and is highlighted by her work for international charities such as Oxfam. A noted addition to her experience is her work for a London based think tank; The Centre for Social Justice. Eman believes in the responsibility of citizens to actively contribute to the welfare of society. She is also an advocate that the youth of Oman and women alike possesses a unique potential a vital resource to the ongoing prosperity of our country and economy, through the provision of community based vocational educational activities. She is founder of the first youth incited national campaign 2010 OMANI WOMEN and community initiative capacity building initiative IQRA."
her presentation was about: "Defying moments... experiencing empowerment" which was fantastic... she told a story about Ana which now her signature is on every american dollar... Eman believes in Omani women and she's trying to help women by conducting different workshops to develop their skills and spread awareness between ladies from poor and uneducated families... she has very strong message and her mission won't be easy...
Go Eman we are all behind you girl.....
In between the presentations and @ the coffee breaks, i found the chances to talk to the speakers in personal and discuss their views and that was the best in TEDx... Even if you don't get involved in the discussions, people will definitely come to you and open a topic and discuss the presented ideas. The whole networking things at the breaks was great and added something to TEDx Muscat....
At the end, the experience was very good, hope the coming events will be more organized specially the registration part...
