Creativity and Systems

Unfortunately, I feel that I live among people who mix two different values: creativity and system. The majority of the people – at least whom I live among – think that those two values will never meet cuz creativity is the outcome of breaking the restricting laws. As a result of this sort of conception, creativity in most of the Arab world is restricted to liberal people. However, with a deep look at this misunderstanding, you don't have to be free from laws and customs to be creative. In a nutshell, to be creative in the eyes of Arab people is to be out of any system.
What makes me believe in this is what happened one night when three of my friends and I were watching a program of Mahmood Saad interviewing Sheikh Ayidh Al-Garni. Al-Garni was talking about women in Arab countries and how they are treated unjustly by men. Al-Garni in this interview used a very rich language in short phrases to reveal his agenda. If this man talks, he will not stop impressing the listeners with his linguistic treasure. Instead of praising him for his efforts to clarify his ideas, one of my friends who heard Al-Garni for the first time in his life said " how come this man says such a great talk." He wondered how did Al-Garni who represents the classical school of Islamic scholars could be as fluent as the Western professional speakers. I hope this short story of my friends and I shows you our misunderstanding of the relationship between creativity and system. When I was driving my car searching for an open restaurant, I saw two different scenes that reminded me of the lack of system and creativity in my society. The first scene is a man pulled over his car in the mid of the street and went to withdraw money from a cash machine. Although he had had 7 available barkings. I became sure at that moment that we don't regard any law whatever the consequences are.The second picture is for a logo representing a 3-star hotel. The name of this hotel was not only stolen from a famous TV channel, but also the font of the logo was a copy taken from the same source.

No more lies

By failing in combining the proverb (the pen is mightier than the sword ) with the proverb ( actions speak louder than words), we as Saudi people have understood how the game should be played. in Arabic, if you apply the sound "a" in the beginning of any verb, you will change this verb into a comparative form, i.e. ( garoba ) meaning get close would be closer by adding the sound "a". (Agrab) means closer. Saudi media kept its habit of using the comparative form with any news due to a Saudi project or activity, i.e. we have got the best soccer league, the tallest fountain around the world, the biggest mall in the Middle East… etc..

It's so important to get use of the media to show the world how your country is developing so fast. However, your country should have been really developing, otherwise your tricks would be discovered easily and sooner than what you imagine.

After the scandal of Saudi Higher Ministry that there is no a single Saudi university locates in the top 500 universities by rank, people now discovered how important is to parallel your boasting statements with considerable efforts. This long talk I published came to my mind after reading an article about the biggest ten malls around the world. It says that there are 4 in China, 3 in Philippine, and one mall only in the USA, Malaysia and Canada. I still remember some Saudi papers boasting that Jamjoom Mall is the biggest one in the Middle East. I will leave you now with two pictures of the REAL BIGGEST TWO MALLS in the world.

Arabic Poems

I love Arabic classical poetry and believe that there is a very huge gap between Arabic as a language and the people who are supposed to be Arabs. Some friends of mine use to boast of new-made poems by so-called contemporary poets. I know it's unfair to judge people's tastes according to my own criteria. However, I don't accept any comparison between classic and modern poetry. I believe that classic poems are holy – according to my own literary terms. Let me simplify my point. Being suffered of unjust treatment is an idle idea for a lot of old and new poets. This subject is consumed by all poets all over the world. However, I have not found yet any poetic beauty as what I read in one of the classical Arab poem. It says unjust treatment would be harder on one's heart if it came from a close friend. This action from a friend is as hard as a the effect of a broad fatal sword. What a perfect tool they mastered. Sometimes I use this verse to draw people's pity and win their support. To finalize the meaning, I will tell you what one of my old relatives did to me the other day. He advised me not to watch my money but rather watch my health. So one day when I was watching my health, someone stole my money. It was my old relative.

Models X Housewives

Unfair War

What is wrong with married men? Why do they usually feel bored after almost two days of being married? Is there a real Superstitious power changing the old attractiveness between the two parteners? I believe that the competition between housewives and TV models is unfair cuz the both competitive sides have a different base on which they stand. Housewives spend much of their time fulfilling their husbands demamds, sometimes by taking care of children or stabilizing the spritual and physical situation inside home. This role of housewives could make them busy from tkaing care of all millimeters of their bodies. The stupid husbands would start holding comparative arguments in their minds to prove at the end that the models they see on TV are more gorgeous than what they've got at home. In my opinion, no way to compaere between a woman who works all the day and night to fulfill her husband continuous requists and a model who put in her mind one thing - how to seduce dumb men.

How I learnt

Time wasting

This picture describes exactly how I learnt at school. I used to be receptive rather than being active. I was always told to memorize quotations instead of analyzing them. I consider myself a man with a brain full of well-fixed information, but I can't unfortunately use any of them to create something new. Creativity is far far away from my interest zoon. All what I am writing now are flowing in any Arab student's mind. I don't' know when we would be able to think instead of mimicking others' way of thinking.

I say what I think of

One of the funniest jokes I have ever heard

I believe that people have to be open with others. We don't live among mind readers so they could not understand what we feel by an eye sight. In order to get other people understand what you feel of, we should express what we think of and why we think that way. I read a very interesting joke simplifying my idea:

(Three kids come down to the kitchen and sit around the breakfast table. The mother asks the oldest boy what he’d like to eat. "I’ll have some fuckin’ French toast," he says. The mother is outraged at his language, hits him, and sends him upstairs. She asks the middle child what he wants. "Well, I guess that leaves more fuckin’ French toast for me," he says. She is livid, smacks him, and sends him away. Finally she asks the youngest son what he wants for breakfast. "I don’t know," he says meekly, "but I definitely don’t want the fuckin’ French toast.))