What if you were passing an old lady crossing the street you actually never stopped to let her pass, what kind of impression would you leave on the poor old ladies soul? now imagine you did stop.

• What if when your child is talking to you you are thinking about your busy schedule and other life matters, is that what really matters when these moments will be lost forever, now imagine you did give them your full attention, the kind of attention you give your lousy boss or president.
• What if you bump into an old friend and you only comment on how awful they look after all these years, did you think you left a positive impact only because they were nice and laughed at your comment, what if you complimented the nicer things in them or the special occasion of meeting after all these years?
• What if someone was crying their heart out to you and you slightly showed no interest, instead of giving them the support they once gave you?you must be special for them to come to you, think about that.
• What if you slowed down a bit and looked at the beauty that surrounds you, what if you actually took a nice long breather and inhaled those roses, tried to figure out the kind of coffee you sip, thanked the waiter by his name, and when you return remember his name and compliment them, sometimes its all they need to get through the week.
• What if someone passed you suddenly in their car and you gave them a finger or two, how would that make the matter better? now imagine you smiled, then I can imagine you a happy person who caught two birds with one stone, you made him confused, and you were still in a happy mood.
• What if your parents were all rough and tough on you when you were a child, what if they never learned how to raise a child and you hate them for it till this day, did you forget the mere fact that what goes around comes around, and you soon will be a mother, and I guess you will just smile when you are treated bad. Forgiving people is the way to live, you can never know if you have a second chance when you come to your senses.
• What if a young junior at work comes to you for help and you shoo him off complaining about your priorities, how long do you think it will be when he will never come to you for help when in need? Helping people when you are up will really help you on your slips down one day.
• What if on a plane you see a couple sitting in front of you with three children and one of them will not stop crying, you know that annoying cry, not the continuous one, and you get up and tel them to sush the baby its a 6 hour flight to London, how do you think they will feel towards you? now imagine you considered its only 6 hours from your life, you can manage with an ipod, an ear plug, a mental block and leave them alone with their crying baby.
• What if your maid made a mistake and broke a plate and you verbally abused her, deducted the plate cost from her low salary and sent her to her room, how would she feel towards you? now imagine what a nice talk about the issue would be like in her mind, just because you pay her salary doesn’t mean you can treat her bad and think the universe will not pay you back sooner or later.
• What is you take peoples feelings lightly and hurt them, instead of be yourself and either make it happen or move on? Now imagine your heart being broken by a serial dating machine in the name of love.
• What if all the people you meet today and tomorrow feel better because of your wonderful cheerful smiles you send their way, how would they feel when you either look away when you have eye contact, or totally ignore them, or even give them that old western cowboy “ Whatcyou lookin at stranger?” smile.
• What if the what ifs are answered and not put on hold, they only add up, take action and look your what ifs in the face and ace the test of time, everytime, for a better time

• mamdooh.alradadi

me@mamdoohalradadi.com

The noise, the movement, the speed, the survival, the routines, the must do’s, the must not’s, the action, the competition, the money, the greed, the need, the faces, the fakes, the nosey, the brilliant, the magnificent, the dull, the wonderful, the sexy, the challenges, the race, the heat, the shivers down your spine, the pollution.

Press mute.

Love it, feel and breath that in. Its called silence, nothing but you and the surround system in your head. The little voices, the peace, the smooth slow motion action, its soothing and comforting, just like southern fried chicken. Relax those overworked sensors all over you, take a break, take a pause, silence.

Its good every once in a while to get away into your own contained world, when you do this, you get the chance to go back and forth to see what and where you stand in the today. People will not let you practice this amazing mute button we have, force it. Imagine your on a beach and are slowly getting further from shore into the skies above with a half hour parasailing joy ride. As you rise, the volume goes lower.

Nothing but the sound of distant seagulls and wind, silence.

We deprive ourselves of the simplest pleasures and rejuvenating experiences we can have anytime and wait till vacation time. You can do it now, silence. There are many additions to this mute button once you get used to it. You can start to mute the thoughts and ideas in your head, let the fun ones at the beach or on holiday rule your thinking cap for a few moments. Nice smile you got there! Hold it, and every once in a while, silence.

Take yourself on a long drive in a top down ride on any open highway. Let the wind and the sounds of the long road ahead wipe out all that tension building up, relax, breath it all in, close your eyes, its ok the car is on auto drive, to relieve your drive. You wish sometimes to place your finger on that chatter boxes mouth and go “shhhhh” don’t bring what your partner threw on you round here friend. Silence.

Soft music playing in the background, a mix of waves and a spanish guitar would brush away the mighty pollution we live in, people tend to go into pollute overdrive if you give them a chance. it comes in 3 sizes: Small, Medium and extremely heavy doses of social blah blah. Silence.

I seem to be taken as a person on the rude side of manners in some areas. Those areas include personal space and me time, call me selfish, guilty as jack the Ripper, silence.

Being able to read people is an art, you can’t expect to excel and thrive in a world of rising competition and changing attitudes while staying illiterate. You need to speak the lingo to be understood and accepted, silence is a good start. People should be polite to the polite, what happens is politeness is greeted with more aggressive space invasions and reckless manners. Oh how I sometimes miss silence.

You don’t have to travel to the furthest tropical paradise to find peace. You can find it in your living room, your car, your shower, your space, your time.

And now its time to place a finger on my fingers and go”shhhhh” Good night everyone.

mamdooh.alradadi/ me@mamdohalradadi.com

My inner fight between my child & man has been the longest in my history. Ever since I said goodbye to 18 I felt my ships anchors setting this date as our final destination in numbers and underlying meanings and powers. I did luckily move one to older years, yet each decade I was reminded of my center of gravity year, 18.

We tend to grow up on the outside and keep what we like over the years intact. So if you liked to laugh and just hang out at malls, you keep that throughout the years. If you liked your crazy dress code, you also seem to keep that when you are in new worlds, far away from your day to day shell.Why not make things easy? stay as you are, but make sure your not looking to teenage like, cause its a kind of ugly sight.

Let your spirit guide you into your comfortable lifestyle irrelevant of your age group and what they think. There are many schools in life, some go by the book, some deviate, some make their own rules as they go along, interesting.

I like 18. Think about that age, and if your 18 now, ENJOY! every minute of it. You see your not a kid anymore, not a teen either, and not even man enough, you think you are, but sorry not yet. A girl is not her daddy’s girl to the point, not a teen, a more sophisticated teen adult you can say, she is more clever and wiser than the male counterpart at this age. Both sexes enjoy unlimited possibilities and overview’s its a start for a whole new life!

Everything can be done, I have the time and energy levels they say. I can play, fail, try and make mistakes and get away with it, I have so much space to do whatever without those adult responsibilities and double standards they live. So what can we learn from this?

I know what i want to do, do and act like an 18 year old as much as I can stretch it. I mean what’s the use of acting like an 18 year old when pulled over by the police for speeding? might as well utilize my white hairs and serious looks( when needed only), it always works, and I love it when the police man calls me Mr.,Uncle or Sir or ustaz mamdooh, it so funny you see to an 18 year old! it is, really.

I have come to a level where if I go down any lower in age attitude I could be stamped  with “ MAD COW DISEASE PATIENT”. But you know what? where’s the beauty of not testing yourself?

I would love to do the following things and see the looks on the senior peoples faces:

• In the middle of a serious meeting where a decision can’t be made, I jump on the table and belly dance for 3 minutes and then change and then sit down and put some heavy beats from jamaica and pretend they don’t exist and sway my head from side to side bob marley style.
• When in an interview I would ask the interviewer some wicked questions like” do you like lollypops? cherry or strawberry? come on you can tell me?” or “ do you mind if I have my lunch now, Im running late and need the nourishment, besides, its only a KFC chicken bucket, want some?”
• Take a flight from Jeddah to London first class in drop down butt revealing jeans, a tank top with holes in it to show that i don’t care, some old dirty puma’s, a back pack full of laptops and music gear, and take out a MCDONALDS meal and place it in front of me and ask for extra ketchup. I think I already do that ?
• In an Economic forum I would love to walk on stage in front of the people ask a question to one of the lecturers and then moonwalk off the stage!

All these and much more examples show you that being young all the time ensures a heavy doses of good old giggles and laughs. Young ones don’t complicate things, they go for it. Young ones laugh for no reason at all, adults find time to laugh.The wild ones party by nature, adults try to perfect the scene, and always end up not satisfied.

Adults are getting us further and further away from our real self. We miss our old times for a reason, we were young at heart, so here’s my message to you: Stay young at heart.

“My inner fight between my child & man continues as the child refuses to let go! I guess that’s the best way to die young”- mamdooh.alradadi

me@mamdoohalradadi.com

My life has witnessed many ups & downs, more downs than ups, down’s pave my future ups, each one higher than its predecessor. Dips they call them. Some small, some steep & deep. I eagerly await my next dip, for behind each dip, there is a valley, and with it comes my new mountains to climb & conquer, keep climbing!

I never saw a straight line climbing success. If you analyze the line closely you will see the downs and dips, with all the pain and suffering, the anxiety, the stress levels at boiling point, its al there cleverly disguised. People sometimes need to fake it till they make it, or in other occasions just contain and never complain about their day, while in reality they suffer as you speak.

Every two and a half years you will face a major crisis in your life, sometimes earlier says success guru Brian Tacey. Not just problems, major crisis and life changing happenings, you will be rocked, Your boat and everything in it will be rocked and rattled, shaked and baked, taken for the life thrilling test drive. To see what your made of.If you manage to stay afloat after this experience, then you are granted a gate pass to the next level, if not, you sink, and remain in the dust of the successful few. Success has a price you know, like everything else in life.

The only difference between success and anything else you buy, is the payment structure. For everything else you pay and receive on the spot or in a few days, for success you pay today in hard work and major contributions and sacrifices, and wait for your turn to receive it, no guarantees!

So why do people still pay upfront for this so called success? with all its pain and hurt, suffering and never clear roads. With all the books and papers, with all that waking up early and focus pokas training. With all those lost friends and fun time, You had to give up so many great activities, including just being a bum! Why?

If you ask me, I can tell you one thing I know, it has a great taste and after taste to it, one that stays long after you digest the fact. Success has a sweet smell and flair to it. Success moves your senses, sometimes you feel areas in your body that you never knew existed. Success is the potion that you rub onto anything you touch and it turns to gold. Success leaves trails and tracks, imagine they are yours? You write it, you ride it. “You can do it!” is one of the many driving factors I used along the way, and I scream out to you all, you too can, so what are you waiting for? start walking that winding road.

They say it has unknown lengths, it does not use miles of kilometers, it uses sweat, hours and more hours,sacrifice, focus, target setting and milestones all mixed up in a big juicer and then whatever comes out is the new measure for that part of the road.

When faced with doubt, doubt that doubt and cross it out. Go with the GROW and follow your gut feelings, your internal success compass knows more than the average friends that surround you, respect yourself and listen to your guiding systems at all times.

“If you want to take your mission in life
to the next level, if youre stuck and
you dont know how to rise, don’t
look outside yourself. Look inside.”

p.s. sorry for the short note, 1+1=2 and not some essay elaborating on the exact answer. Now you have saved more time to enjoy your day

mamdooh.alradadi

me@mamdoohalradadi.c

Back in the early days of my Banking career my Bank which was an affiliate of citibank introduced me to an amazing audit feature called whistle blowing. The main objective of this practice is to ensure everyone, including senior management hold a high level of ethics and morale towards work.

By this I mean not taking advantage of their seniority and the power they hold within their hands. It also is a means of making sure the lower people in the organization are not afraid of their seniors if they are committing a crime or taking advantage of a situation.

Whistle blowing can be used for big and small issues, it is done in a secretive way so as to not harm the blower. It strikes through all management layers one way, to the most senior powers, sometimes jumping them and reporting to the board. This was an amazing tool that helped save the Banks around the world Millions of peoples hard earned money. It was a workers dream come true against corporate crime.

This system does not work when it is taken lightly, and you can guess what happened in Citibank over the past 5 years, not to mention regional Banks. yes the big picture says mortgage backed securities, but look underneath the fat to uncover years of conspiring and bad doings, the end.

Governments have taken this approach in many forms and systems, sometimes whole ministries are formed for the sole purpose of checking on its spending and other related matters. The people are the ones that make it happen, choice is based on knowing the person in charge or simply a friend or family friend, and here we find the root of the problem.

Lets take a walk around the happenings from macro to micro levels and see where this whistle could have stopped the game. On a world level we can tell that many Bankers had a dirty hand in the so called economic melt down. They say too much easy money teaches stealing, hence the famous Billionaire Murdoch and his scam that passed by the commissions and securities like a thunder bolt making them look like preschoolers on a mission. The domino effect of the mortgage & financial over the counter products still haunts us till today after many months of government bailouts and buyouts.

What if they listened to the unpaid piper and his whistles? could have saved them a Trillion or so dollars, but why worry when its tax payers money anyway?

On country levels, we find governments like Nigeria still fighting to make it,The UNited Nations estimates that the population in 2005 was at 141 million, and predicted that it would reach 289 million by 2050.Nigeria has just recently undergone the start of the population explosion due to higher fertility rates.The UNited States census bureau projects that population of Nigeria will reach 264 million by 2050. Nigeria will then be the 8th most populous country in the world. Now that is a serious major explosive problem, the country is rich in oil, but say the word Nigeria and scandal pops up in your face!

Did they kill the people that whistle in that country? seriously?

Take it lower to city levels and look at my city Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, the city that’s different in KSA. The city by the sea, the center and major airport to the two holy cities that millions of people visit every year. We have the worst airports, services, roads, municipalities, the city was usually up for grabs.

The latest disaster that left the city officials paralyzed with shame and disgust on their predecessors and some of their friends and officials. The drowning of innocent 3 year olds and 70 year olds under bridges, is a shocking and shameful truth which we will be all held accountable in front of our maker.

They drowned because someone stole. They perished like cattle on a rampage. They died holding each others hands praying for the great Allah to save them, for they have been betrayed by their officials. They did not have to learn to swim, for swimming is done in a pool or the sea, not on dry land surrounded by mountains. They died because someone chose to build with sewage and drainage money a palace by the beach. While he and his beloved family sunbathed, they sank deeper and deeper into the drainage system he never built.

As my tears form with every part of this paragraph I can’t help but try to figure out what the last thought was on that little girl holding on to her mother who was trying to save her child and drowned in the process, and then the little girl swallows the last water before giving way for her soul to depart her 3 year old body, how can they do this?! animals have more pity for weaker ones, have mercy.

Here the whistle blower got fed up, as he witnessed the people listening dancing to his tunes in harmony and making fun of him, passing remarks like” it only rains once in this country” relax, chill…I wish you chill in hell I say.

Transparency is not for the weak hearted, face your mistakes and punish the bad, give way to the people that really love you, do not play with peoples lives. Next time a whistle is blown I am sure they will all jump up to action, I hope, I wish, I pray.

Going down the micro level, lets look at companies and organizations with thousands of employees. Here the whistler is taken lightly, and his tunes are muted for a while, please let us focus on the business he is told. He whistles some more, then decides to relax and chill. Then when the problem arises, they remove the source of the trouble after the stealing and power advantage is abused.

Here’s the funny part, management knows its mistake, so how does it play it? it continues to make the matters worse. They compensate the senior manager for the remaining time he would have stayed with the company, so he does not make any PR campaign against them! i am actually laughing my ass off! And he is given a letter that states he was a great employee, so another company gets burnt.

Whistle till you can’t take it no more. Don’t fall victim to the corporate bullies in your life, they live wild and fly high, but soon come crashing down, its one end for them, they know it.

Let’s go down to medicine and all its blunders and mistakes on peoples lives. How many hospitals have had their license withdrawn in the last 25 years in Saudi Arabia? Zero! please don’t go telling me about some small clinic on the outskirts of nowhere! Major hospitals continue to use their power and connections to save their own lives while poor people come in for a normal anesthesia for some minor issue, and leave in a coffin! Wrong medicine prescriptions, laid back attitude, wrong diagnoses, many fatal incidents, and still they advertise.

When a doctor whistled once, he was told to mind his own business. Multiply that on a daily basis by one hundred and you can get the picture. Keep it up new doctors, don’t stop till you get enough.

The grapevine is where you hear the stories and rumors of people stealing and others lobbying against someone for his bravery and in your face comments of what goes wrong. You can tell if a guy is stealing by his living standards, he get paid an average salary and lives a Sheiks life! come on people, and here I must say forget the inheritance and lottery winnings, and when the @#*! hits the fan, you say I thought he was living beyond his capabilities.

The obvious is obvious. The truth is always naked. The sight never appealing.

Now for your personal standards, do you check on your actions and their viability daily before you go to sleep? Do you know that what goes around comes all the way back around? let’s make sure our younger generation has a great example to take us through the next millennium without us splattering the books of history with shame and greed instead of honesty and growth.

Sorry for the long note, I had to, and now I feel relieved.

mamdooh.alradadi.com

me@mamdoohalradadi.com

Where did I put that manual on life again, I can’t seem to find it when I need it most? OH! I forgot I don’t have one. They never told us that we could do it again after falling down, they never gave us permission for another go, they never gave us the rules of engagement in this oh so ever exciting life. If you were to sum up all the various directions we got when we were young and wild, it would have to be GO!

If the only direction is forward, with some back momentum for push, then GO! would be it.

We seem to have a never ending supply of “Go, bump, move away, continue, go some more, walk,run, slow down, stop, look around, GO!” we know that one, but what happens when we have a head on collision and seem to be a bit dizzy and have a loss of direction and start to just walk on, in any direction, then we find that the road travelled has unfamiliar terrain, and is getting more and more harder to cover. We stop, analyze, think about the situation and sometimes get lost in the analysis.

We stall. Don’t! just GO!

Don’t take too long to uncover the bleeding and suffering, don’t take too much time analyzing the hurt, the betrayal, the shocks, the losses.. you need to keep moving, you need to think and move, we had a laid back life, now its faster and only the fit can survive or be left in the rubble, get up and move. Go!

People will not forgive you under any circumstances. They will laugh at you on your way down, and envy you on your way up, at least give them a hard time. This is the real exam in life to move on to the next level, you change course in due course, you take the first step up, you wave and smile, you GO!

When you concave upon yourself, you start the manifestation of a nation of negative village people, burn the village down, it will not be a criminal act, on the contrary you will be helping yourself and remember they are all temporary useless friendships based on that energy sucking I talked to you about in the past. They will suck you dry to the last drop, use whatever it takes to keep at least one spark of positivity and ignite yourself, GO!

Travel light. Dump the luggage. Use minimal tools. GO! back to basics. Reveal your true potential. Get close and personal with success. Fake it till you make it. Find laughter in your mishaps. Seek energy from food and sports, read, watch uplifters. Shy away from sad, explore happiness. Enroll in life’s bounties. Watch what you hear. Be clear and definitive on your goals. Unleash the beast within you. GO! back to age 4 if you have to. Pull on your wonderful memory. Hold that thought, GO!

When down, lower your negative intake. Claim the victory and celebrate your small wins. Strike evil between the eyes. Push and shove for your smiles. When you smile the whole world smiles back. Powerful emotions and eruptions take place when you strike X that marks the spot. GO!

NIKE says Just do it! we can do that, we can do it, we did it so far, we do it day in day out, doing is believing, just did it was what you did, you know how its done, you can move faster than before, doing it over and over again means you can, why not do it again?

Nothing beats a good days GO!

When we know, we grow, we show, we flow, we glow, we always GO!

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path. Khalil Gibran

mamdooh.alradadi

me@mamdoohalradadi.com

He never missed a promotion. He was loved by his mother. He was the envy of the competition wherever he worked.He easily made friends. He loved people, even though he was stamped as an introvert. He manages conflict with ease. He had one wonderful thing he did, only one thing, he threw the rest, only kept a few. But it was always one thing.

He was every girls dream. He wasn’t the handsomest, but the most loved. He was a woman’s dream come true. He was the soul of the party. He had his admirers stacked up against the wall when he passed. He blushed.

He manages people with grace. He had minimal enemies, in fact he had none. He helped, gave, he was generous in each helping hand, and then gave some more. The more he gave the more he rose above the humanly daily requirements to a higher ground. He flew above the crowd, his smooth operational skills made it seem effortless.

He was needed. When he doesn’t show up his space seemed like a volcano’s opening in the ground. He lived by the minute, enjoyed the seconds in every minute, he wished there was more to spread his sweetness. Everyone knew they could confide in him. He only did one thing.

He never intended to be like this. It only happened when he decided to start a new habit in his life. He chose wisely. He let go of the bad habits he grew up with. He knew what he had to keep and work on. He knew it was only one thing that would distinguish him from the pack. One thing only. Nothing else.

As the years rolled by, he noticed sudden changes in his surroundings and encounters. He noticed that people were nicer, kinder, better,more helpful, all by focusing on one trait. He had better days, nights and afternoons. He enjoyed endless happy hours, limitless laughter and joy, he had a lifetime supply of new friends, he was being honest and sincere in everything he did, but when asked about the true reason behind his happy succesful life, he knew it wasn’t that.

People call him friendly, but then again who isn’t? they called him helpful, not too many to go around. They saw him as their backbone, their friend in need, their soulmate, their final stop before giving up, he was there, he delivered.

As he laid his head on his pillow at night, just before he called it a day, just before his motors shut down for the night, just before he starts the recharging process, and exactly before his screen started to fade out, he did what he does best, one more time he thought, you can never get enough of a good thing…

He listened.

Man who know little say much.
Man who know much say little.

mamdooh.alradadi

me@mamdoohalradadi.com

ALBAIK is a fast food company that sells fried broasted chicken meals, it is the pinnacle of success in its industry and has given kentucky fried chicken or KFC a run for its money in Saudi Arabia.

The Ministerial Agency of civil affairs is a government entity that handles the births, deaths and issuance of ID’s & Family ID’s but not the passports. It is the pinnacle of bad experiences.

ALBAIK manages to sell thousands of meals daily across the western region daily in a very affordable, pleasant, value for money fashion. They sell SAR11 meals with their famous unique garlic sauce in record time, every time. They also smile while they work and deliver, sometimes fake, but they smile.

The civil thing place, makes you sweat, literarily, you sweat to deliver your papers, you wait 2 weeks for your ID to arrive from the capital, let me try and contain the issue and show you how they function.

You come in, you take a number to be seen and the requests are written in some kind of maze around the walls, they have 2 information and ticket dispenser workers( who think they own the place)after you have your photos, your file, your copies of old or family ID’s, you are seen by a ministry official, if you are lucky… it takes more than 6 hours of waiting, ok maybe 4 until prayer time, then move on and come back in the morning with a new set of numbers.

ALBAIK: you step up tp the counter, place your order, pay, get your change, look at yor number, notice its far out, have no fear! these are masters of fast delivery and experts of process management, and they fight to get better.

Today:

Civil affairs agency: I arrive at 8:15 am I am already late. The crowds are growing, the noise is growing and the people are wasted. The staff are dead, some still in the process, or pretending to be dead, the numbers front line offices are wearing swine flu masks, very angry faces, extremely angry service people, did I say service( SORRY!).  I am treated badly when I asked a question slightly away from the line( only one guy ahead of me and he was done), I was ordered to get in line if I was to be served.

I asked for delivery area of new ID’s, I get a number 280, I run happily jumping up and down like a 5 year old high on 2 bars of chocolate, really jumping, as high as I could in my saudi gear and head thing, yeeeeha! I’m getting my ID today. Then the shock, the number was 163, that’s ok I thought ALBAIK finishes that number in less than half an hour.

I quickly scan the wide waiting room which can only handle 50 people or so, three windows for delivery, one man standing only. He barely is breathing, let alone moving, he is young, not energetic and extremely slow, just like grandma!

I calculate his handling of one transaction, 10 minutes at least, to deliver a card. I take 280 and minus it from 163 it equals 117 people, only. I multiply that number by 5 minutes, not 10 and the total time I would have to wait on average is almost 10 hours. Not bad for a guy who has only one refined, focused goal in life to get a citizen ID, he would actually be a lucky person. He would only have to wait 10 hours in his whole lifetime, imagine?

Now since we normal people, do have more goals than one, I figured they would shut down for the night, open again in the morning, and still it would not be my turn. And the funny part would be a twist in their ticketing system, valid for one day only!

So if ALBAIK fast food would handle his delivery in 10 minutes per customer, I assure you he would be studied in history books.the actual average time to pas 78 orders today was in less than 25 minutes, you do the math. If a company can do it, I guess a government entity serving people should learn a few tricks, and I bet the staff in that civil place all buy ALBAIK for dinner or lunch.

It only took some old fashioned process engineering and planning, a little bit of this and a little bit of that. If there is heavy traffic, increase manpower! cut the unnecessary work, make it faster from point A to point B…duh!

The irony of the matter is all the people that come into this area of work are doing it for the sake of work, the end user, he is just another number. I accept to become another number, but please do something with the time, I am willing to even pay…. THINK!

Now if you excuse me, its 1.30 in the AM over here, and I have to be at that dreadful place at 6 in the morning, and try to get what’s mine, if I am lucky, good thing I got my sons too so he wont go through the amazing experience I had.

Why don’t they let ALBAIK chicken handle the process for the issuance and delivery of ID cards, just take a visit to one of their offices.

1- Bad location, Bad locations, Bad location

2- Dumb people working like zombies.

3- Not one smile to be seen in a million miles.

4- Extremely bad, extinct dinosaurs working the front desks.

5- Excellent ticketing system that is put there to tell you how slow they are, so they can serve the idiot after you for actually staying the full 6 hours!

Let’s just hope no one from the civil affairs is awake reading my blog, I need to first get my card, then run, and jump in the air like I just don’t care…is this an ID card I’m talking about or the winning 100 million dollar lottery ticket?

And so many more areas that could learn a lesson or two from other areas in life, sometimes even from ants. I know ALBAIK was good tonight, I hope I get in and out in at least 2 hours, imagine someone being happy for being served in just 2 hours.

People; they come in good, bad and disgusting.

mamdooh.alradadi

me@mamdoohalradadi.com

I laugh at the people who say they don’t like to take risks. The ones that insist on a certain belief system that they have somehow come to believe and live by day in, day out. The ones that come to banks and say we want low risk investments. The ones that never go out of the ordinary and tread on the normal pathways of earth. The ones that drive safe. The non smokers. The no airplane people. No fun in the sun, swim in the sea knock offs.

Many people believe that they are no or low risk takers. They know nothing!

If you analyze your daily life movements and actions you will come to believe that you are one crazy, lunatic, mad risk taker.

The moment you wake up in the morning or go to sleep at night you are at 100% risk. Its a game of statistics that can play in your favor or against you. You can wake up and fall on the bathroom floor and break your back or neck, or you can sleep and never wake up by choking to death. Scary huh?

Well thank God life is much more kinder than that on humans. We are a tough species.

• The day you learnt to drive, your chances of dying in a car accident increased 100% over your friend that never learnt to drive.
• The raw sushi & sashimi you eat with all its fame & glory can get you to a hospital faster than a speeding bullet if it was rotten, how would you ever know? you trust the sushi place for having fresh fish, that’s how.
• You go to have a botox injection( I am too lazy to check the spelling, Im sure one of the girls/boys will help with this one) to fade away those aging lines and look younger, they ask you if you want to go under anesthesia during the operation, you accept.Let me rephrase that, They ask you if you want to go unconscious under a drug, so they can operate on you without you knowing anything, you might come to, and you might not. You ask me to stop scaring you? you do sign a paper that the hospital is not responsible for you if something goes wrong don’t they?how scary is that?? yet you accept the risk.
• You cross the road every day, hoping that no one will be a lunatic and run you over.
• You go to work in a safety standard environment and forget that the contractor could have sacrificed on the material of the whole building, yet you go daily.
• You drive with your safety belt on, you drive within the set speed limits, you go by the book, and you know that there are a million maniac drivers, some drunk drivers, some brainless teenagers on a joy ride, running red lights in big SUV’s at race level speeds, yet you drive on.
• You use your mobile unit more than you use your brain, you talk and talk till the battery dies, you have heard of the batteries that exploded before, that won’t happen to me we think, yet we blabber away.
• You buy the safest anti virus software and update it automatically and pay away, month after month, and governments get hacked, and still you sign up to that Bank account online and show your finances to the world.
• We buy products day in day out, we hear that water gets contaminated, food gets poisoned, medicine gets tampered with on its way to a shelf near you, and we still shop online.

• The people using protection know that there is a slight possibility of catching a disease or getting someone pregnant, yes its small, but its a risk? so do you continue taking this risk? or become a priest and vow never to get near a female again due to the risk factor? or just take the whole nine yards and go with the flow? people make sacrifices, sometimes in the wrong areas.
• You plug that electrical appliance and you are oh so sure it wont electrify you, you stand in the shower all wet, get down on the marble floor and head to your shaver and plug it, is that insane or normal? you change the lightbulb and think its safe, what about those long ones that explode when they fall to the ground?

You have all these crazy ideas going for you and you call yourself a no risk person, a low risk individual, a medium risk taker, a 100% guarantee buyer. There are no guarantees in life, so why the hassles?

Enough said. Risk is a part of our lives, we live it and we take it daily like vitamins. Stop the whining and move out of your comfort zone that you hide behind calling it names like risk appetite and risk tolerance and sometimes calculated risk.

The last one is a favorite amongst Investors and business people, I am also a big fan, calculated risk, what risk are you wiling to take for the final prize? should you take it or not? that’s another thing.

You know the famous High Risk High Reward saying, its true you know. Sometimes you win, and sometimes you lose, when you win, make those winnings BIG and add some spice in your life, go out and have fun, enjoy the good times.

If I had to do it all again, I would take more risk, and higher reward pots. Even though I am known for my high risk attitude and lifestyle, I still know deep down there is much more risk that needs addressing. I also know that where I am today is due to the many risky roads I travelled and watched people standing on the pavements saying “ there goes that crazy man again with his wild ideas and lifestyle changes” I guess Chris Columbus didn’t think of  what people thought of his travel ideas to make his thoughts more thoughtful and meaningful!

Go out today and do something that scares you. Do something that makes your adrenaline levels sky rocket out of the roof, look RISK in the eyes and dare it, go totally ballistic and take a bit of risk, go ahead now, make hat decision you have been putting off for so long due to non-risk-appetite tolerance levels.

Remember risk takers don’t have a certain look about them, they are normal you & me’s walking and living amongst us, they dive, bunjee jump, sky dive, ski, water ski, play football and rugby, race cars, have wild relationships hoping for the best, they try that new dish on the menu, they basically have more fun.

Take a walk on the wild side, forget managing your risk and show it what it means to be a risk taker, you take the risk, enjoy the outcome, positive or negative, its all good for the heart ;P

” If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a relationship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be too cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time to build your wings on the way down.” Annie Dillard.

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People who practice Radical Honesty employ a collection of techniques which shift them out of typically socially acceptable patterns of “white lying” and into a more truthful relationship with themselves and others. Basically they spit in your face the naked truth against any kind of community politeness level.

Here’s the deal imagine with me for a moment or just until I finish what Im trying to say here. Imagine a plague of this nature instead of HnN1 or swine flu and the impact was far more powerful than this one and managed to infiltrate only 50% of the world population!

So on one hand you have 50% of the people normal individuals and live in their respective countries going about their life just as they do every day. The other hand has the other 50% that have been Infected with this RH-V9( Radical Honesty Virus, I put the 9 in there to give it that scary scientific name feeling) so they basically can only tell the naked truth, nothing less than that or they fall sick.

I immediately see world chaos and more damage done than an atomic bomb on hiroshima, Tsunami & the great Pompeii earthquake combined. I can see faces  never witnessed before, I see people in total dismay, total panic, total shock and disbelief of the current situation.

The news stations would have two different views on the same channel. so you know how you have two people delivering the news beside each other as if they are having a conversation, yeah you get what I’m coming to. “Ladies & gentlemen we interrupt this program to bring you a news flash”

Normal news lady: We believe that the notorious & feared RH-V9 virus has been reported to the health administration today in some distant area as far as you can imagine from where you live, the casualties are in the single digits only. The health department issued a statement today stating the issue is under control so far, but beware and keep a look out for people that tell the blunt truth!

RH-V9 Infected news guy: Please beware and get ready to tell the truth, nothing but the truth and everything in between, so help you God. We regret to tell you that there is no hope, you will be infected like all of us, its good to feel guilt free you know. The numbers have passed the 3 billion mark as we speak and are growing at uncatchable speed, we do not have enough vaccine, we never did in the first place, sorry but that’s the truth.And now try and see if you can enjoy the sports news and the gloomy weather after that.

So that was the news early in the morning on your way to work. The guy next to you in the fancy Range Rover cut you off just before the traffic light, you get out of the car and tell him to lower his window, he does, you scream in his face “ A#$ H#$%! you cut me off, what? you think your the boss?” So far, its just a normal day. Then the fight starts, and the police arrive half an hour later, the cop comes over to you and asks what happens, you jump in and tell him the exact story, you even offer to write the report.

The guy in the Range starts with a different story, you go over to him and kiss him on the cheeks, cause after that report writing you knew you were infected, the other driver gets infected and he says the truth, peace so far.

You get to work, look at the guard and ask him to stop wearing that stinky perfume, you bump into a dumb collegue in the elevator, you tell him he is considered dumb by his bosses, he cries.

You see another manager from a department you always have fights with, you scream to him “ You mean manager, wait till I become boss and fire your ass!” he stares in disbelief. You get on your desk and start calling customers to tell them about the bad things you offer, they like you more, they buy more things they don’t need from you, you cry in disbelief.

Your manager comes close and personal to you and whispers something about that late two year raise, you stand up look around the room and start to scream in his face at 9 in the morning” stop treating me and the rest like fools, you know your a total jerk, and your only here because you married the chairmans daughter, your breath stinks of garlic, onions, smoke and bad breath and you know it! your teeth are stained, your underarms stink, you cover it with cheap perfume sold at traffic lights, you don’t even remember my name!, he dies.

You tell everyone at work what you really think of them, suddenly the room is empty and everyone has an emergency at home, they perish. The senior manager of the company arrives late and thanks you for coming early, you scream back at him “ how can you be so immature, so not professional? at least lead by example, you never worked more than 4 hours a day, while we work for 9 hours or more daily?”, he fires you on the spot.

You leave work, on your way you get the groceries, the cashier is slow and looks sad or angry which is it? you can’t figure out, he looks at you from top to bottom, weighs you, gives you that look, and hands you the change while looking at the next guy in line. You come close to him and tell him” You suck at your job, very bad, shame on you, smile you idiot, just smile” The manager comes running, you tell him the story and wait for his action, he says the owe you an apology,you ask him if its worth anything at this store? he calls security, you leave.

You get home look at your angry stubborn wife, she screams the dinner is on the table, she has not been affected yet. She complains on and on about the little stuff, the kids, the leakage, the in laws, the coming weekend party, the car service, the expensive rice, the bad life she is living these days, she needs a job, you look at her, smile, and look away.

“What is wrong with you?” she demands. “You want the truth honey?” “YES!” Ok but don’t say I didn’t warn you:

You don’t respect me, you don’t look good like you did 5 years ago, I don’t like your cooking anymore, You never treat me nice, you look better when your family comes over, you never come with me on my trips, you never listen when I talk, you look down on me, you never shop with me, you never wear what I buy for you, you prefer your friends over me,I hate how you smell when you finish cooking, you wear old perfumes that remind me of my grandmother, I hate that hair style you have,and the color makes you look like a pop star wanna be,,, she breaks his truth spree “But you..

He places his finger on her lips, “ Shhh… But I love you baby, so give me a break and love me back”

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Hubert Humphrey

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