Eid Mubarak

Wishing you a very happy Eid-Al-Adha, May Allah shower you all with his choicest blessings.

Less then 34 hours

She got a phone call from one of the organizers to get some stuff for the event, which 30 guests are been invited & if some of the stuff have been delivered in the avenue; She responded that she wasn't notified by the host regarding the event or anything related to it.

She closed the phone & thanking God for not planning any arragement on that day.

GlobalVoices - Oman

I just added news headlines from GlobalVoices related to Oman, my country. The articles are written by Bloggers from Oman and expatriates, showing a snapshot of events related to Oman.

The latest events held in month of October 2009 are:

Bloggers and H1N1 campaign, which started months before; in addition to the first Oman Twitter gathering known as Muscat Twestival.

Click here to follow twitter.com/muscattwestival.

Oct 2009 - Jan 2010 Events

By end of Oct, my cousin had her 2nd born girl.
Wedding season has started from 1st week of Nov, i.e, from today, until end of Jan 2010.

All the brids or grooms are either my 1st, 2nd, 3rd, cousins, or nephews; so the girl has to dress up good.

I though most of the weddings will start from Dec 09, but I was wrong.

Beside, weddings other events will take place before the wedding, such bridal shower ( my first time to attend ), Hinna, etc.

Social and religius event coming up soon, such as Eid, Prophet Mohammed S.A.A.W's birthday and National.

Free Stand up comedy workshop in Oman and audition for spot in our shows!

Are you funny? Have you ever thought about trying to do stand up comedy? Have you ever dreamed of performing in a big stand up comedy show?

Then you should attend the Free Stand up comedy workshop and audition that will be held in Muscat, Oman on June 1!

Assuming enough people respond to this email that they are interested, I will be teaching a free stand up comedy workshop with my friend and fellow comedian Amer Zahr. We will teach the basics of stand up comedy - such as joke writing, performing, how to break into the world of stand up comedy, etc.

After our workshop- which will last about an hour-we will hold auditions hoping to find a few people to perform as opening acts in our upcoming big shows in Muscat which will be held June 2, 3 and 5.

You are very welcome to just attend the workshop even if you do not want to audition. If you do want to audition, then start planning your 5 minute audition set!

If you are interested in attending the workshop or auditioning, please email me back on Facebook to this account and indicate if you want to audition or just attend the workshop. (Or you can email me at Dean@deanofcomedy.com)

I will send an email next week on Facebook announcing if the workshop will be going forward and the location and time.

We really hope enough people are interested in attending and hopefully auditioning - I promise you it will be fun and educational at the same time. Maybe this will be the beginning of a career in stand up comedy for some people!

I hope to hear from you!!

Also for more details about our upcoming shows in Oman (June 2,3 and 5) featuring comedians Amer Zahr, Nemr Abou Nassar and myself, please visit: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=72494649484&ref=ts

Thanks,
Dean Obeidallah
http://www.deanofcomedy.com

Save our selves! Save earth!

As Oman going green, Oman Economic Review presents OER Green Awards, the first recognition for companies, institutions and individuals in Oman who contributes towards environment. 'Not too late! Save our earth..!' @ OEROnline.com/GreenAwards

COMEX Goes Green is the slogan for Oman’s largest IT, Telecom & Technology Exhibition aka COMEX 2009. The eco-high tech friendly exhibition will May 25 – 29, 2009 at OITE. @ oite.com/comex

It's getting hot

We are in wenter season but it's hot for Gulf Cup fans, speacialy now in Oman, the host.

While I am typing, the people (girls arround me) enjoying & screaming with joy the way the Omani team playing, the game is heating & the all covered with red, the symbol of Oman.

The predictions are Oman may win the cup 2-0 or 2-1; others or ruomers say the guy who predicted GONU in June 2007, predicted KSA might win. God knows the truth, he is the one who wrote the faith of the two teams.

Enjoy the ganme.

5 stars for BreadTalk

Today, I was in a bad mood, as some personal issues has arisen and made feel angry, I tried to control my emotions the whole day, after picking up my sister, I decided to go to BreadTalk, after her recommendation.

When I arrived at the location (Bareeq Al-Shatti Mall), I was blown up with the mall and
atmosphere, which I didn’t know about, when I entered the BreadTalk, the smell of the pasties reminded me of La Brioche bakery in Abu Dhabi - UAE; I used to go there at least once a week when I was living in UAE (five years ago). The whole location reminded me of AD, the best memory and the free spirit.

Back to BreadTalk pastries, I give it 5 full star, and the value its worth it.

Bits and Bytes

• Oman National day.
• A Saudi judge sentences an Asian Expatriate to clean 5 mosques and its toilets during pilgrim season after been caught several times for missing group prayers at the mosque.

Oman Nightlife from Facebook to Global

Who ever joined Facebook and wanted a snap shot of the nightlife in Oman, he/she would have joinned 'Oman Nightlife' group to get the latest all kind of events and activities that take place in town.

Now Oman Nightlife is going to offer for the rest of the world its services by lunching it's website via http://www.omannightlife.com/. At the moment the Oman Nightlife team working on making it work smoothly. The offical launch has not been set yet, but keep your eyes open.

Bits and Bytes
Two Omani youths jailed for rash driving.

3 days & 2 Nights in Dubai

My outcome of my trip to GITEX in Dubai and staying at The Palace - The Old Town are:

• Leant about new products and services related to personal and corporate levels.
• I tripped and fell on my left side of my face ended uo with a broken tooth.
• Lost two mobile phones, one is been found and trying to get it back.

I attended the following at GITEX TECHNOLOGY WEEK 2008:

• Business Solutions
• GULCOMMS
• Global Conference

Bits and Bytes

• Can we (in Oman) convert our land to parking lot? Do people do it? read Amjad's post -'Turn your land into a parking lot...'.
• To married couple, a note for your future, if you are going to break up with your spouse and you have a Facebook account, please don't change your status from 'married' to 'single', give your self time until the Divorce is finalized or you'll be dead like Emma who was killed by her hubby Wayne Forrester, who's known to be the first 'Facebook killer'. Read Rami's post in Arabic and this is his source.

Ramadhan Active blogs

Don’t miss 'RamadhanTV' journal about the latest Arabic TV series which will be running in the Arabic TV stations and preview as well as review of each episodes. I have previously written a short review about journal.

I wish 'Ramadhan Reading' journal to be active as it was back to three years ago, it will encourage Muslims arround the world to read the Quraan, the holy book of Muslims. Someone should contact the Contributors of Ramadhan Reading to start posting.

From round the world

'Miss Sister 2008' contest is the very first beauty pageant for nuns organised by an Italian priest Antonio Rungi and the voting going to be online via WWW, but his dream has blown up because of  protests.. Click here for all related articles via Google News.

George Clooney buys story of Osama bin Laden's driver in order to produce a movie. Click here for all related articles via Google News.

If you have a Muslim name, then you can’t bank in some of Swedish Banks as your name may be in their blacklist, specially for ‘Ahmed’ and ‘Mohammed’.  Click here to read the full article.

Launch of the new Intevents website

Intevents LLC, the leading corporate, entertainment and sports events management in Oman would like to announce the launch of its all new website!

The site gone live on the 4 August 2008 at 9am and we would like to invite you to be the first to see the new website!

All you need to do is log on to www.intevents.com and all will be revealed.

We will also be launched our new branding at the same time, so be sure to check it out.

On the site you will be able to review our events, learn more about the company; sign up for the newsletter, see amazing pictures and even send us any enquiries you may have. We look forward to welcoming you to the new world of Intevents.

Intevents LLC also has two professional event sites Rally Oman and Sinbad Classic.

Earth Hour

Yesterday while I was watching the news on Dubai One TV, their were talking about Dubai will join the other cities around the world from 8 pm to 9 pm switching of most of the lights in the city to support minimising the usage of electricity and encourage alternative lighting solutions for environmental purpose, it’s to put Dubai city in the world’s map.

I wish Oman does join the world and supporting such environmental event.

Muscat Festival 2008

On 21 of January 2008. Sultanate of Oman has lunched the Muscat Festival 2008, organised by Muscat Municipality under the theme, ‘Fun and communications’.

Events

The fistival events has been devided into several areas:

• Qurum Natural Park
• Art Events Festival Plaza - Al Athaiba
• Al Sahwa Park
• A' Seeb Beach Activities
• Qurum Commercial Area

In addition to Cultural Events which are scattered in different locations:

• Cultural Club
• Grand Hayat Hotel - Muscat
• Technical College Theater- Muscat
• Sultan Qaboos University
• Al-Noor Hall
• Oman College for Technology

And finally Variety Events which are scattered in different locations:

• ROP Cavalry – Wattaya
• Bait Albranda
• Sultan Qaboos University Hospital
• Cultural Club
• Boushar Dunes
• The old Muscat Road, Riyam
• Qantab Beach
• Bait Muzna

Enjoy.....