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A true Muslim

... the only significant lunch at teta is when all of us in the family found her on the floor choking, and then, I thought I was witnessing her take her last dying breaths, I saw her face turn red, helpless on the floor, as she slowly raised her hands trying to recite Quraan. That is the day I realized how much I loved my grandmother. I FELT my heart tear apart. That is an incident that changed my view of Teta - I can't explain it in words - but instead of trying to breathe, she was trying to recite Quraan while everyone around her was screaming, and losing their mind in fear that she will no longer be with us.

The above quote has touched my heart of knowing that Color of ColoRama journal/blog wrote about her beloved grandmother been thinking of God (Allah) not saving her life, thinking to meet God with by recite his own holy words from Quraan, to meet her next life with veil of Quraan, and her strong faith in God.

Her grandmother is a true Muslim and mummeenah (a believer in God), didn't fear death but was willing to embracing it, and loves God more then her life.

Very few people are ready to embrace death with open heart.

I'm proud of knowing her grandmother and I'm proud that Color admires her and proud for been her granddaughter, also writing about it.

Omani football blogs/ journalistic websites

Is there any Omani football blog or journalistic website? Kindly comment on http://tinyurl.com/kt5laa

Clean up day

Monday, was a day for me to clear up my inbox (email) from all the junk mails & forwarding from friends and co-workers.

I managed to delete nearly 1000 mails, which weren't relevant to work and some of them I sent it to my personal email in order to post it at my beloved journal to share it with you.

At some point I wanted to keep some of the religious mails but I felt its been there for over a year and I won't read it.


I attended an advanced related course from Tuesday to Thursday, which was good for me, had brainstorm of some ideas related to work.


Friday, as a day I went to have lunch at my Auntie's place and had a good time with my cousins, I joined them later in the evening for coffee at the The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Al Bahja mall, the first outlet in Oman.

Most of the people used to go to Al Bahja mall because of the movie cinema and kids play section, but since last year when Costa Coffee opened it's outlet, more people started going. Now many people are expected to go, they need more proper restaurants, i mean beside fast food franchises.


After coming back from the mall, the movie 'Freedom Writers' on DVD. It's a good movie, which inspired me too, they fought their battle and changed their lives by writing and how a teacher helped them to get it over with it and supporting them to reach their dreams.

Their dreams became reality via 'The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them' , and I will go and look for the book if it's available in the local bookstore or in the neighborhood country or I'll order it online.

The movie has inspired me to read and write. I'm trying to write more positive way.


Few months ago, I came across wonderful online journal known as Hegab Rehab, which the author mostly post about the styles of Hegabs /Hejabs and accessories for Muslims women wear it and known part of Muslim woman dress code. Another journal 'Chasing Jannah', which is written by a Muslim woman.


The Omani community has been promised for the past few months that one of the most popular fast food franchise, known as Burger King will be back to operate in Oman. Up to now, the reserved space is empty and no signs of it's going to exists. Read more about it here were trying to figure out why it was closed at the first place.


The 'dark side of Dubai' brought you by UAE community blog.

Oman Air gets silky with Technology

The year 2009, Oman Air is giving a multiple gifts to its loyal and prospective clients, as soon Oman Air makes travel hassle-free via web check-in and mobile check-in.

Its clients now will able to check-in via four ways:

• using mobile phone,
• using Internet,
• using airport kiosks, and
• at the airport where customer service agents are equipped with mobile check-in technology.

The facility will start later this month January 2009. The four new and innovative check-in options at will be at Muscat and other key airports.

Above all, Oman Air will first in the Middle East region to offer such multi-facility.

Bits and Bytes

• Today, January 5, Royal Oman Police (ROP) celebrates Police Day.
• Oman3D started the year by changing it's name to “Republic of Code”, and started a 'Republic of Code Logo Competition'.
• Dr. Mohammed Bin Abdulaziz the new CEO of Bank Sohar.
• I have heard rumours that hundreds of expatriates in Oman been laid off in major local companies and more soon to follow, is it true?

His Majesty on the WWW map

Who ever read the flashing news ‘Website on HM launched in 7 languages’ by now and several local and international blogs posting about HM’s personal website. oman-qaboos.net

• New websites
• HM Sultan Qaboos personal website launched

Noor and Mohannad

The fastest way to increase the number of traffic in your journal/blog, post an article about Noor and Mohannad or Muhannad, “نور ومهند” in Arabic, the name of the two fictional characters of Gumus (Noor) Turkish drama series which broadcasted in MBC 4.

For Arabic readers, please click here to read Mr. Osama’s article about ‘all the roads leads to Noor and Mohannad'.

Oman Legal Zone

Oman Legal Zone the first offical legal website in Oman and Middle East. It's the brainchild of Rozalin Al Bulushi, an Omani legal advisor at Oman Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA).

This is quoted from Oman Legal Zone official website.

Oman Legal Zone is one of the first legal websites in Oman which provides legal services via the internet. It is our belief that the law is the foundation upon which modern society is built. Thus it is your right as an individual, a company, and a member of society to have access to the best legal services wherever and whenever you are.


It is for this reason that Oman Legal Zone’s mission is to provide the best legal services to everyone, in the shortest possible time, and at reasonable and affordable rates.


Oman Legal Zone has a team of highly qualified legal counselors and lawyers and we are proud to be associated with the most prestigious legal firms in the Sultanate. Your time is valuable to us and that is why The Oman Legal Zone Team assures you of the highest quality services, in the shortest possible time.

Mr. Blue-Chi has mentioned about the website and the founder in his journal under the title 'New Website Alert: Oman Legal Zone'.

Microsoft promotes via You Tube

Microsoft started to promote its products and service via YouTube to grasp the market to the maximum by lunching free video demos for Windows Vista and Windows Live products and services.

Click here to view the video demos.

And I thank Duncan Riley from TechCrunch for posting the article ‘Microsoft Using YouTube To Promote Vista & Live, Leaves Comments Open’

The shock of my life

While I was surfing the net, I visited Hot Google Trends blog/journal and came across a post dated Thursday, December 27, 2007 and so called ‘Benazir Bhutto, The Assassination video’, I was so shocked when I saw the title, as I realised how much I’m cut of the world as I don’t read or listen to the local nor the world news.

How can we live this way? We have all the technology to make our lives easy that we don’t give our selves the time to do anything.

About Benazir’s death, it’s so sad that her life has ended like that God bless her soul.

Soft launch of 3.5G service from Nawras

Nawras who have recently won Middle East Mobile Operator of the year and prestigious Middle East Business Achievement Award for CSR, have soft launched of 3.5G service in Oman, and its expending the network at the same time to reach.

As per my experiance with the 3.5G service has been great, its prity fast.

Read more articles by my fellow bloggers what they say about the 3.5G:
Sleepless In Muscat
Advisor:Esam Helmy
Kishor Cariappa
TI3GIB

Marriage and Age

I came across an interesting topic in Arabic by Zayed Al Saidi regarding marriage and age, the discussion of his topic about the way his fellow mates pointed out that for perfect age range for the women to be their wives, for an example one says the woman must be younger then him and others say older by couple of years.

'We live here. This is our living space'

"With the living room, it was the most direct way of saying 'We live here. This is our living space.'"

said the children's author and traffic campaigner, Ted Dewan who has been working on implementing his traffic campaigner by setting a living room as a stop sign in an residential area to force the drivers to lower their speed in residential area for safety and peace for the drivers, passengers and the residence.

Read more about it here and I thank Abdullah for posting it in Arabic were I got the topic from.

Is He or not?

While I was browsing blogs, I cam a cross an article posted by Batloot at kamakazy.blogspot.com.

The topic called '

Are you money conscious?

I've been wanting to post this topic since 26 Feb. 2005 based on Lil pink submarine: Miser or money conscious? post, read here below post:

This was an initial shock to me since I never considered money to be an issue. I don’t really care who pays for bills or if I end up paying more than someone else’s share of a bill.

We were at a lil chocolate Shoppe’ where we were selecting items to munch on later. I picked a few things and my friend picked other thing, but when we came to the cash register we both placed our items together. As the women on the counter started adding my friends’ items first she quickly separated her items from mine and made sure that none of my items were added onto her bill. I was shocked, since I would have gladly paid for the simple items together.

I then realized something that there are others that are very stringent with their money and can calculate shares to the biaza (cent), which never crossed my mind since I never considered money as an issue.

To me money is there to be used be it for oneself or with others, it’s a non lasting ‘value’ that does not matter or should not be a divide among people.

Seeds of thought

A person must value his money from the start (LOOK WHOSE TALKING!!) to enable to save when the money is needed more like in buying a house, car, someting valuable.

Generally people spend this money unessary without thinking about the future, people who haven't got the sense of money tend to not over look the future. The current/present circumstances is not the same at the future.

Lil Pink Submarine

An intresting topic "Lil Pink Submarine"

Law & Music: Designs

I'd like to thank "Blue Chi" for posting an article 'Law & Music: Designs' about copyrights related to designs.

Here is the complete article.

Design law involves the protection of the physical look of an article/object/product. This law is in practice very complex, but due to the recent changes in the EU, and the fact that the IP course only involves the current regimes the complexity of the various issues involved cannot be extensively described as there are not many cases on the topic. There are four regimes for the protection of designs in the UK.

1 - Copyright: protects engravings, sculptures, and works of artistic craftsman. Govenmed by the usual CDPA measures but two main limitations make it less useful in this field. Those are sections 51 and 52. Section 51 grants a defence to copy the final product driven from the copyrighten work as long as the final product is not an artistic work or a typeface. Section 52 makes the protection period for limited to 25 years only for anything that passes s51.

2- Unregistered Design Rights (UK): Straight forward requirements: Article, Originality (different from ©, the thing has to be different from the common articles around - not that the person made it by himself), must be recorded, and it must not fall within the exclusions (fomulae, 'must-match', 'must-fit', and decorations). The right granted is an anti-copying right > This means that it must be showed that the infringer actually COPIED from you, not only that both designs look similar. The protection period is complex, it is actually 10 years that could start after a maximum of 5 years from the making of the design, but it cannot exceed 15. So if used after 7 years, the protection would last for 8 years only. (Governed by the CDPA.)

3- Registered Designs Right (UK + EU): This is governed by the Registered Designs Act 1988. This clearly protects the "APPEARANCE" of the design in question. Unlike the unregistered right, the aspect to be protected has to be visible during the use of the product. The requirements are is that it must be novel, has an individual character and must not fall within the exclusions: Must not be a component of a complex product that is not visit (this is the spare parts thing!), the designs shape must not be soley dictated by its technical functions, and there is a similar 'must fit' exclusion as well. The protection granted is of a monopoly right, a person would infringe by making a similar product even if he did not actually copy. The protection duration could last up to 25 years.

4- Unregistered Design Right (EU): Similar requirements to the Registered Right, but does not require actual registration and is an anti-copyright right. The duration of the protection is 3 years only. (Practical for fashion based industries)

About the Author:
Blue Chi is a Law student from Sultanate of Oman studying in UK & very talanted graphic designer.

His personal website: http://www.theblueconcepts.com/idream/

He is the one of the creators of TheBlueConcepts & Oman3D.

Get rid of Hijacker

I’d like to thanks M-Pac for his informative topic PC Housekeeping that he gave a a short tutorial on effective PC Housekeeping written and compiled personally by him.

I want to add an efective utility that well get rid of PC hijeckers.