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Last activity 26 January 2010 by Fidgety Soul

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meetnauman

Can you share what can we do when we start to get bored ???

Some time it feels like a blank and white life here....

and when do you feel like to do some thing at all...

what can we do ?

SaQiB

Buy a Sheesha! Get Some Flavour, Have Friends over to your place, get the Sheesha running, Play GC cards :) mAuja Hi Mauja :D

meetnauman

You cant have sheesha at work place :)

i discovered this today ......

http://bored.com/

good time killing stuff

SaQiB

Atleast you can have it at your residence :D

meetnauman

Do you have it at your residence...

by the way --- i dont smoke

so very less likely to start sheeshaa

SaQiB

i have one on me always :) it rides with me in my car :D

Well then you can play cards ?

meetnauman

yaa defiantly into cards ;)

might get some more stuff to do once i buy my car

SaQiB

Insha Allah! have you checked some cars?
Do let me know what you decide, i used to deal in used cars before :)

meetnauman

not yet - expatriates dont have good options

you dont have any contact still there?

SaQiB

Let me check over this weekend, meanwhile drop your location , cellular number, and price range in my inbox, i shall see what i can doo :)

Alliecat

What do I do when I'm bored?

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....

I clip my toenails :P

musicman

what fertilizer do you use on them to grow so fast?

Alliecat

I'm rarely bored, mm, so it's not an issue :P

MisterStretch

Alliecat wrote:

What do I do when I'm bored?

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....

I clip my toenails :P


That's my plan for today.

Whooo Hooo...exciting man, me.

musicman

Thursday is also nail clipping time for me

Alliecat

Come ON, you guys.. I was JOKING !!

:lol::lol::lol::lol:

aticus

Write down something on the EXPATBLOG, we can get bored together!

MisterStretch

Yeah, I'm clipping my toenails...

Alliecat wrote:

Come ON, you guys.. I was JOKING !!


But I wasn't.

That's the extent of excitement available here.

I also cook when I get bored.  Yesterday I did pizza ingredients.  The Arab flat bread makes a great crust and if you can find well-aged mozarella (not that white crap at Panda) then you can have exceptionally deeelish pizzas at home.  I take ground chicken, brown it with Italian seasoning, make sauce and put all in the fridge until ready for a taste of "round food".

musicman

I just cant remember the last time I held a ladle in the kitchen. I guess I am way past that era now?

Alliecat

I made a big pot of spaghetti and meat sauce yesterday, in fact!

Funny, the first 3 months I was here, I loved not cooking.  But recently I went out and bought a large 'dutch oven' so that I can make some of my favorites:  spaghetti, stewed chicken and dumplings, chicken soup, Lousiana style chile con carne.  I'll eat it for two nights and then freeze the rest, same as I used to do at home.

Thanks for the pizza idea, Mr. Stretch :-)

SaQiB

Why dont you share some of your home made delllliccchiious food :D

yumm Yummm Alliecat, mouthwatering :D

Alliecat

You know, Saqib, most of the fun of cooking is cooking for other people.  I miss that here.

ziad08

allicat......would definately want some frozen chilli con carne louisana style that i can heat up.....

Heard so much about it that i have always wanted to try it

send some over pls lol

aticus

Allicat.. It is all different here.. Just cook the cakes.. I' ll arrange the delivery and we can send back pictures how we taste.. sure we will criticize and rating will be announced. May be this may customized and other ladies can join to that happening :)

Alliecat

That aticus is verrrrrrrrrrry sly!  Now he has figured out a way to get the ladies of the forum to provide him with home cooking!  lol

PS.  I don't make bake/make cakes.  You'll have to somehow trick Sully into doing that :lol:

PPS. aticus, have you read Dirty Little Secrets lately? :lol:

aticus

Alliecat wrote:

That aticus is verrrrrrrrrrry sly!  Now he has figured out a way to get the ladies of the forum to provide him with home cooking!  lol

PS.  I don't make bake/make cakes.  You'll have to somehow trick Sully into doing that :lol:

PPS. aticus, have you read Dirty Little Secrets lately? :lol:


Look at my picture and imagine how I felt; just captured right after your message... My project collapsed..

Alliecat

my project collapsed


lol

spoken like an engineer!!

aticus

No... As a Project Manager in Engineering :)

Danny Johnson

Hello
I am a single English Engineer guy 32 thinking of moving to Riyadh. I will not be provided with accommodation and will have to live in a flat in Riyadh. The work place will have 1 or 2 Saudis and 2 Egyptians - i.e. nice guys but not Westerners.

[1] Is it critical to be in a compound?
[2] What kind of social life would I have outside the compounds?
[3] What can I do to occupy myself when I come home at night?
[4] How can I meet people?

Please help
Thanks

meetnauman

Where yOu moving from?

[1]where you living in a compound there ?
[2]You can go to Sport clubs - smnoke sheesha
[3]You can meet people like you meet people.
[4]How you Occupy your self where you currently live?

Alliecat

He occupies himself by pasting the same post into every discussion in this forum :lol:

meetnauman

Sure seams worried of Moving to Riyadh :D

Julien

Danny Johnson > you are off topic, could you please start a new discussion ?

Thanks

meetnauman

He already Did :)

Alliecat

But it wasn't enough! :lol:

MisterStretch

Julien wrote:

Danny Johnson > you are off topic, could you please start a new discussion ?

Thanks


meetnauman wrote:

He already Did :)


More than once.

meetnauman

Got us off topic

Any one Play's Billardoooo? ( billiard)

as it written on the shops here in arabic ?

Fidgety Soul

when u precisely think"i m getting bored" only then u get into such phase
otherwise u wont.Man,ya have to divert your brain [plus heart]towards anything which keeps ya busy,(i.e.write blogs,play stupid addictive games on FB,watch TV[sit com],chat,window shopping and plus"the actual shopping"dun get the daily grocery stuff from baqala,go to biggg stores for this:D,Eating out yar[what a food in riyadh],make friends and get to know them,[ya dun have to ask your husband to make new friends:|]go to them and invite them,go to the silly parks over here,to hell with the productive activities.i would suggest do anything which makes ya a happy man:D:D:D:D
and btw dun forget movies:P

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