^^Johnny

JB, think of the animals that will be spared this coming month Eid Al-Adha: A Symbol Of Obedience* By Gyasi Abu Umar Mckinzie 26/12/2006 `Eid Al-Adha is preceded by the glorious day of `Arafah and is one of the important days of Hajj. Among the main themes and messages of Hajj is submission and obedience to Allah. When we read about the remarkable stories of Prophet Ibrahim, Prophet Isma`il, and Hajar, we witness extraordinary examples of obedience and submission to Allah, which is the core meaning of Islam. Actually, submission is the very meaning of the word "Islam". So the meaning and essence of Islam are manifested in Hajj, which reminds us of our mission and purpose in life. `Eid Al-Adha is a symbol of obedience. It signifies submission to Allah. On this day, we commemorate together the acts of obedience and submission performed by Prophet Ibrahim and his family when he was commanded to take Hajar and their son Isma`il to an uninhabited, barren, distant land and leave them there alone. He submitted and obeyed. When Hajar realized what was happening, she cried out, "Ibrahim! Are you going to leave us in this valley where no people live?" She repeated the question yet she received no answer, so she asked him, "Did Allah order you to do this?" He replied, "Yes." So she said, "Then Allah will not let us perish." Thus she submitted. Furthermore, when his son Isma`il became older, Ibrahim received a command from his Lord to sacrifice him. He submitted and so did his son. The family of Ibrahim was a family of obedience and submission. They were tested and tried again and again, but the result was always submission and obedience. Both `Eid Al-Adha and `Eid Al-Fitr come after performing a pillar of Islam and an act of obedience. Hence `Eid Al-Adha and `Eid Al-Fitr are annual reminders that this life is a test and we must be obedient if we wish to be successful. Once a year, Muslims of every ethnic group, social status, and culture are reminded and given the message: Surrender to Allah, submit to Allah. Are we hearing this message? Just as Prophet Ibrahim was tested throughout his life to see if he would submit or not, so will we be tested to see whether we submit to Allah's commands or refuse! Know that toils, struggles, and hardships will accompany our quest to obedience. But if we obey, we will be in the company of the likes of Prophet Ibrahim and his family in Paradise, as Allah says: [All who obey Allah and the messenger shall dwell in the company of those whom Allah has favored with His Grace: the prophets, the sincere lovers of Truth, the martyrs, and the Righteous who do good. Ah! What a beautiful companionship!] (An-Nisaa' 4:69) `Eid contains many wonderful messages among which is that `Eid is an external expression of the testimony of faith "Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah," which means to follow Muhammad in his commandments, abstain from all that he has forbidden, believe in all that he has informed us of, and worship Allah with only that which he has prescribed. Allah says: [say: Obey Allah and obey the Messenger, but if you turn away, he is only responsible for the duty placed on him and you for that placed on you. If you obey him, you shall be on the right guidance. The Messenger's duty is only to convey (the message) in a clear way.] (An-Nur 24:54) Consequently if you truly desire Paradise, all that is required of you is obedience, since the Prophet has guaranteed Paradise for whoever follows him: "All of my nation will enter Paradise except those who refuse." His Companions said, "Who would refuse?" He answered, "Whoever obeys me enters Paradise and whoever disobeys me has refused." (Al-Bukhari). Likewise, Allah warns us throughout the Qur'an of the consequences of choosing to disobey Him. For example Allah says:[And whosoever disobeys Allah and His Messenger, and transgresses His limits, He will cast him into the Fire, to abide therein; and he shall have a disgraceful torment.] (An-Nisaa' 4:14) And among the messages of `Eid is that all Muslims are one people and one brotherhood; we gather together for the prayer and share in the blessings of the `Eid. During these days we must try extra hard to strengthen our brotherhood and mend our differences upon the truth. Muslim youth, take the opportunity of `Eid to be kind to your parents, and know that obedience to your parents is obedience to Allah provided that it is free of disobedience to Allah. Stay away from alcohol, cigarettes, and drugs, for they destroy the heart, the intellect, and the society. Women, witness the `Eid Prayer without displaying and flaunting your beauty or wearing perfumes. Fear Allah in regards to your dress code and know that the dress code of the Muslim woman is an honor, not an oppression. The dress code is that your clothing should cover your entire body apart from the hands and face; it should not be adorned and attractive in and of itself; it should be loose and opaque. This dress code is be observed in the masjids as well as in all public gathering places. We Muslims should take action now toward improving our obedience and submission to Allah, for time is limited. Remember the ones who prayed with us in the last `Eid Prayer and who have now become the residents of the graveyard. We will certainly join them one day. Do not therefore be tricked by the life of this world in which happiness does not last. Death spoils the people's pleasure. So look for pleasure in which there is no death. Therefore, consider this world a place of work toward the hereafter. As Allah says concerning the pursuit of Paradise: [And whoever desires the Hereafter and strives for it as he ought to strive and he is a believer; (as for) these, their striving shall surely be accepted.] (Al-Israa' 17:19) And Allah says: [And worship your Lord until there comes to you the certainty.] (Al-Hijr 15:99) Allah is stating that our obedience and submission must be constant and continuous. So hasten to do good deeds before you regret your negligence and failure to act. No one has an agreement with the Angel of Death to delay their death until the time they choose to submit and obey Allah. Ibrahim submitted, Isma`il submitted, Hajar submitted, and now you must submit. What are you waiting for? This is the message of Hajj; this is the message of `Eid. You have heard the message. It's time to submit. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Based on a khutbah delivered on `Eid Al-Adha. Excerpted and adapted from www.memphisdawah.com.

Dear colleagues, In a few days we will welcome the Islamic Holy month of Ramadan and in accordance with UAE law, our core office hours will adjust to accommodate this period of forgiveness, peace, love and charity. This year, Ramadan is expected to start sometime between August 31st and September 2nd, depending on the sighting of the moon. During Ramadan our core office hours will be Sunday to Thursday from 8:00 am to 2:00 pm (without lunch break) or from 8:00 am to 3:00 pm (with an hour lunch break). During this period, please respect the wishes of any colleagues fasting in accordance with their religious believes and at all times preserve the sanctity of this most Holy Month in the Islamic calendar. Please refrain from eating, drinking or smoking in public areas before 7:00 pm. After consultation with Muslim colleagues we are grateful to them for their tolerance in allowing us to continue to enjoy our internal rest areas where we may eat light snacks and take drinks in private through out Ramadan, but no hot food or main meals during this period. Thank you for your understanding.

LoL He should be passing through here this weekend.

A Sudanese who got Gold is trained by no ther than Jaamac Karaaciin :cool:

My apologies to Ibtisam Bint A**** :cool:

He was the only one here, and he run off without even returing my Salam LoL I don't even remember. Must have been just before I went home.

Originally posted by J.a.c.a.y.l.b.a.r.o: quote: B I don't know; As I know, he started ignoring me a few weeks back. I thought maybe he was stress, and then yesterday I came into the room, said Salam. He was the only one here, and he run off without even returing my Salam. Today wuu soo caadeast, he said hello to all BUT IBTI. Nikaan Xaal baan aa raab. Messing up my morning like that. Do you know yesterday oo daan I was staring at the computer screen on troll corner to see when he returns my Salam. I'm sue him for waste of time. Charges against Norf: 1. Ignoring Ibtisam for few weeks 2. Not returning her Salaams 3. Running off when she comes in 4. Saying Salaams to everyone but Ibti (Exclusion) 5. Messing up her morning by his actions 6. Wasting her time by making her wait his response to her Salaams. Judges: 1. Ngonge 2. JB Court: SOL Criminal Court (SCC) Hearing Time: Now LoooooooooooL I missed that (was out at lunch). I demand a set of new judges. At the moment waa labo kala daran! As for Ibti, good luck with the Thesis dear :cool:

bow bow!

Jb, maxkamada aad ka hadlaysay maxaa ka jira duqa?

Arab performance at the Games reveals a greater regional shame Ayman Safadi Last Updated: August 26. 2008 11:28PM UAE / August 26. 2008 7:28PM GMT Shameful. This is the least that can be said about the performance of Arab countries in the 2008 Olympic Games, which ended at the Bird’s Nest stadium in Beijing on Sunday. The Arabs left the Games with seven medals, of which only two were gold. One athlete, Michael Phelps, won more medals than 22 Arab countries. Shameful, but not in the least surprising. Winning in the Olympics requires planning, hard work, commitment and institutions that design strategies and invest in the requirements for success. All these are missing in an Arab world still intoxicated by a false sense of supremacy and unwilling to admit failure. The fiasco at the Olympics is not a rare disappointment. It is repeated in almost all aspects of life. In sport, just as in culture, the arts, science and every other innovative field, the Arabs are behind other nations. Twenty-two countries with over 300 million people and enormous wealth have not made any significant contribution to human achievement for over a century. Indeed, rare are Arab names in the lists of modern global achievers. The Arab world is living through an era of decay, despite economic success in some countries. Urban development is masking a cultural decline. Wealth and technology have allowed the importation of hardware. But the software necessary to put this hardware to use is absent. The number of universities is increasing, but the quality of education is declining. Investment in new school buildings is not accompanied by meaningful efforts to raise the professional standards of teachers. Educational reform, in many Arab countries, has been reduced to cosmetic approaches that do not tackle the true sources of educational failure: poor curricula and teaching methods. Political underdevelopment is the underlying reason behind these shocking declines in the Arab world. Failure to build structures of good governance has suffocated innovation. Scared of engaging with their present, people continue to escape into the past as state institutions favour apathy or subjugation to activism and creativity. Hence it is the alarming United Nations Development Programme finding that Arab educational systems teach obedience and acceptance rather than critical thinking. The damage has not been restricted to institutions or groups working collectively. Individual innovation has also regressed due to the scarcity of institutional mechanisms designed to adopt and develop talent. The poor individual performances of Arabs, so obvious at the Olympics, exist also in the innovative and creative realms even if they are not as obvious. It is telling that there are no role models in the Arab world. Bed-time stories still summon personalities belonging to centuries gone by. Disgruntlement with the present and lack of trust in a better future force people to remain stuck in the perceived glories of the past. Dreams take people centuries backward rather than carrying them into the future. The personalities celebrated in popular culture are mainly historical war heroes, invoking memories of a “golden era” with little or no actual relevance to the present. They do not provide incentives for excellence in sport or the arts. Only political leaders are allowed to compete with glorified historical figures. The majority of them, however, does not inspire excellence or innovation or the belief that hard work yields success. Nor do these leaders invest in the conditions necessary for nurturing the talent of their populations. State resources are mainly channelled toward erecting security structures that protect their regimes. In some Arab countries, the sum of money spent on arms, mainly used to suppress domestic discontent, is far greater than the money spent on education, health and, of course, sport. Under such regimes, there has been no or little accountability for public officials, who are hardly questioned for mismanagement or failure to deliver results. This comfort has encouraged negligence and relieved public institutions from the pressure of setting and meeting measurable targets. The Arab world has failed to realise its potential because of a dearth of good governance that invests in true development. It is true that some countries have done better than others in economic growth and political reform. But the overall picture reveals a dramatic failure in relation to what could have been achieved. One can draft an endless list of reasons that can explain the lack of progress in the Arab world. But all these are rooted in the absence of democratic structures that maximise human and material resources. Officials who are not accountable do not feel the pressure to achieve. The dismal performance of Arab countries in the Olympics is a reflection of a broader developmental failure and a direct result of the absence of accountability. Just as leaders who launched and lost unnecessary wars and officials who squandered public funds and mismanaged public institutions have gone unpunished or even questioned, heads of the Olympic committees responsible for the 2008 Olympics will face no pressure even to explain their failures. They will soon return to their normal approach to business and produce similar dismal failures in the future. Ayman Safadi is a former editor of Alghad in Jordan and a commentator on Middle Eastern affairs http://www.thenational.ae/article/20080826/OPINION/866661372/1080&profile=1080

Originally posted by Garyaqaan*: ^^^ maya waxaan maqlay ninkii yiri waan soo manahay gacantana ku heesta sigaar

Somali words welcome also,,,,,

JB, maxkamad maxay'a? Ma wax aanan ogeen baa jira?

Is this future?? Al Qudra to buy 400,000 hectares of farmland Bradley Hope Last Updated: August 26. 2008 10:14PM UAE / August 26. 2008 6:14PM GMT A crop of cattle feed at a farm in the Nile Delta, Egypt. Victoria Hazou for the National ABU DHABI // Al Qudra Holding, the Abu Dhabi-based investment company, plans to acquire roughly 400,000 hectares of land in the Middle East, East Africa and Far East by the end of the first quarter of next year in a major expansion of its agricultural operations. Al Qudra Agriculture, a subsidiary, will grow corn, wheat and rice, as well as raise cattle and other produce for sale in both local and export markets, including the UAE. “We have all seen the major shortages in the world,” said Mahmood Ebraheem al Mahmood, the chief executive of Al Qudra Holding. “Supplying food to the UAE would be one of our main objectives, but this business is international from day one. We are planning to supply other countries too.” Among the locations in which the company had obtained land or was negotiating to acquire suitable parcels were Pakistan, Syria, Vietnam, Thailand, Sudan and India. The first crops would be produced by 2012. The company had already acquired 1,500 hectares of land in Morocco and Algeria. Within the next year, the business would start exploring opportunities to buy land in North and South America, Mr Mahmood said. Faced with rising food prices, the UAE and other GCC countries have been looking for more reliable agricultural resources. In June, Dr Kayan Jaff, the head of the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organisation’s office in Abu Dhabi, said the UAE and its GCC neighbours needed to invest billions of dollars in farms overseas to mitigate the problem of soaring food prices. It remains unclear how many contracts have been signed. Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed, President of the UAE and Ruler of Abu Dhabi, has said the country is looking at investing in farmland in Kazakhstan, while the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development plans to farm nearly 30,000 hectares of land in the north of Sudan. The Ministry of Economy was said to be considering buying farmland in Pakistan worth US$500 million (Dh1.8bn). Al Qudra plans to increase efficiency on the farms by introducing new technologies and agricultural techniques and building its own logistics and transportation businesses to support the trade. It is in discussions with several companies about creating a joint venture in the ports industry. Mr Mahmood said Al Qudra wanted to produce its own irrigation equipment and engage research labs to cut costs and improve yields. The idea of Gulf investors and governments purchasing large swathes of land in foreign countries has raised concerns in some countries where employment provided by the agricultural sector is a potent political force. Mr Mahmood said the company planned to have information sessions and discussions with local residents and public officials to explain their business model. “The best thing is information,” he said. “If you don’t talk about something, it leads to speculation and that isn’t good. We will meet with people and explain what we are doing.” The focus on acquiring farmland was part of a new emphasis at Al Qudra on five core markets: property development, infrastructure, utilities, industrial production and agriculture, Mr Mahmood said. Asked to compare Al Qudra to another global company in the world, he said “something like GE [General Electric]”, the sprawling conglomerate with interests in everything from desalination to light bulbs to financial services. GE also recently inked a deal with Mubadala for multiple cross-investments. The property, infrastructure and utilities businesses, meanwhile, have been making deals and acquisitions in eastern Europe. Mr Mahmood said he had already made a preliminary agreement with the government of Belarus to build a mixed-use development with a hotel, office space, a convention centre and a shopping centre in Minsk. “They are interested in development, but they want to take things very slowly,” Mr Mahmood said. In Ukraine and Croatia, the plan is to build up Al Qudra’s infrastructure and utilities businesses because “they need a lot of work”, Mr Mahmood said. The latest announcements come just months after a series of shake-ups at the company. Salah al Shamsi, the founding chairman and chief executive of Al Qudra, left the company in May to pursue other business interests. He had already transferred day-to-day operations to Mr Mahmood in early March after a decision by the company’s board to delay its initial public offering. When Mr Shamsi stepped down, five of the nine board members were also replaced at the annual shareholder’s meeting. Mr Mahmood said at the time that the changes had “nothing to do with performance”. In an interview in May, Mr Mahmood said the company was planning to offer a maximum of 30 per cent of its shares to the public when the government passed a new law allowing smaller public offerings. http://www.thenational.ae/article/20080826/BUSINESS/612421530/1005

UK town deals with murder of Qatari teenager David Sapsted, Foreign Correspondent Last Updated: August 26. 2008 11:58PM UAE / August 26. 2008 7:58PM GMT Mohammed al Majed, 16, died in hospital following a 'racial' attack. Gareth Connoly / Kent News & Pictures HASTINGS, ENGLAND // Even without a murder, this Victorian seaside town on England’s southern coast was battling with its own issues of race and community cohesion. But with the deadly attack last Friday on Mohammed al Majed, a 16-year-old Qatari student, in what police say has been a race crime, the town was overcome by glum resignation. “This place has gone to the dogs,” said one elderly man on the seafront. “It’s like the Wild West here at night, particularly at weekends. This sort of thing has happened before and it’ll undoubtedly happen again.” Mohammed, from Doha, was barely 100 metres from the language college where he had been studying English, when he and about a dozen friends were attacked by drunken youths chanting racist slogans. He died in hospital in London on Sunday night, 48 hours after he received fatal head injuries, and became yet another statistic of this town’s gradual decay. Mohammed was typical of many young men who come here from the Gulf to study English and eventually go to college. But in one dreadful evening, he fell to the growing racial tensions and hooliganism that has overtaken many British towns. “When we left the kebab shop on Friday night, these boys were shouting: ‘Are you Arabs? Are you Arabs?’ ” recalled Majd al Ghannamah, 19, Mohammed’s roommate. “Then they started chanting, ‘**** off you Arabs. **** off you Arabs’. I couldn’t believe it. They were crazy. They just attacked us and kept punching, kicking and shouting. “They called me Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. I was shocked. We just wanted to get away, get home, but they attacked and we couldn’t get away.” Mr Ghannamah himself was punched in the face and sustained a black eye. Another friend, who preferred not to be named, needed six stitches to a head injury. “I blame myself for not saving Mohammed,” he said, close to tears. “But where I come from, we are not used to this kind of thing happening. At home, we never need to defend ourselves like that.” In Hastings, though, there are too many times when drunken groups roam the streets at night after leaving town-centre nightclubs and bars, and residents feel the need to defend themselves. Hastings has fallen on hard times and is now one of the most deprived areas of south-east England with high unemployment and a high crime rate. Once-trim, 19th Century boarding houses, catering to holidaymakers enjoying two weeks by the sea, have now been turned into hostels for the homeless or, increasingly, for foreign students, more than 30,000 of whom attend courses at the numerous EFL colleges that have sprung up in the town over the past 30 years. Last year, there were almost 50 reports of foreign students being attacked in the town, though police said this represents a marked decline over previous years. In the two weeks leading up to Mohammed’s death, assaults on three foreign students had been logged by police. Det Chief Insp Graham Pratt, who is leading the murder investigation, said that Mohammed died as he tried to escape from the fighting. “He has fallen and hit his head, sustaining serious injuries,” he said in an interview with The National at the scene of the fight yesterday. “We are still trying to ascertain whether he was punched or pushed. And we are still trying to establish how much race was a motive.” Three youths, aged between 17 and 20, have been arrested and released on police bail. A fourth – aged 18 – remained in custody last night. Remzi Tanriverdi, 43, who owns the kebab shop near where the fight started, said the trouble began when some local youths gathered on the wide pavement outside and began drinking alcohol. He asked them to move on but they refused and verbally abused him. “After I asked them to leave, I noticed a police car pull up outside. I asked them to keep an eye on the boys and they said they would, but then left,” said Mr Tanriverdi, a Kurd who moved to Hastings five years ago and said he has been assaulted more than 20 times since. “Less than an hour later, Mohammed, who was like a brother to everyone here, had been beaten. The attack was completely unprovoked and without reason.” Mohammed’s father and brother, who had flown from Qatar to the specialist brain unit in a hospital in London where he was being treated, returned to Doha yesterday with the young man’s body. Mohammed had arrived in the United Kingdom about five weeks ago and had spent three weeks studying in Hastings before heading to Cambridge for another course. He and some friends returned to Hastings on Tuesday of last week and were due to fly back to the Gulf this weekend. Brian Farrington, 70, who owns the house where Mohammed stayed, described him as “a marvellous kid”. “Mohammed was a very smart, presentable young man. He was extremely polite and well mannered, like all the students I host. “He hadn’t even unpacked his case after returning from Cambridge. The whole thing has come as such a shock to me and all the other boys staying in my house. They’re just devastated.” On the streets of Hastings yesterday, there was a nervousness among students still in the town. “I called my parents last night and told them what had happened and they said that I should come home now,” said Sultan al Dossary, 15, from Saudi Arabia. “I have been in England seven times and I have always felt safe here before. I don’t anymore. I will come back to Britain in the future but not to Hastings – it is too dangerous. The people here don’t like us.” Ameen al Obedan, 17, also from Saudi, said: “I don’t think anyone from Saudi Arabia or any other Arab country will want to come here again. It is far too dangerous.” Hastings is only too well aware of the dire consequences that Mohammed’s death could have. The Sussex Observer, a local weekly newspaper, commented: “The streets of Hastings remain a dangerous place.” “Police chiefs may tell us that crime is falling in Hastings, but this will do grave damage to the image of Hastings abroad and will have a big impact on the thousands of foreign visitors we welcome each year. The murder follows recent news stories of 16 attacks on women in Hastings. The paper said. “The kebab shop owner reckons he himself has been attacked 25 times. What the hell is going on in Hastings, one must ask? “This is truly a terrible tragedy, first for the family and friends of the dead teenager. It is also a tragedy for Hastings, a town desperately trying to regenerate.” Ironically, Mohammed and his friends chose to return to Hastings after Cambridge because they had such a good time there on their first visit. “At first we liked it, but now we know the truth,” Mr Ghannamah said. “This is a very bad place.” http://www.thenational.ae/article/20080826/FOREIGN/385415083/1041&profile=1041

Maanta waxaaba la'iga keenay Sacuudiga: • Biyo ZamZam • Miswak • Timir (from madina) • Koofyad islaami How thoughtful of the Indian resident engineer :cool:

Going on a healthy lunch,,,,,,,,, Busy week so far,,,,,,

hELLO ALL (excluding Ibti) going for lunch (a healthy one)

Originally posted by NGONGE: To the editor, sir Those of us that have been chewing khat for the past twenty years have noticed the shrinking of the average mardoof as times went by. In fact, it has shrunk by three quarters in the past ten years with hardly any change in price. We strongly reject this barefaced exploitation on the part of the Khat producers. Regards A. Farah 10 Somali Street Flat 3A The Living Room Third person on the right. Dear Sir, We would like to thank you for your ‘elevated’ thoughts on the issue and take this opportunity to point out a few factors in relation to the price of this ‘commodity’. The weak dollar and the high cost of fuel has had an adverse effect on the cost of the mijin. The poor khat importers must take this into consideration when calculating the costs on a per unit basis. The end user will inevitably stump up the costs in order for him/her to enjoy an evening of banter and canterbaqash over the soothing sounds of M Mooge and Magool. We hope to have clarified the issue but if you have any further queries please do not hesitate to contact the undersigned. Mr A Muqayil Union of Khat Importers Somali Community Centre Next to the computer room

I have been eating alot of junk food of late. Make the most of it and all that,,,,,

Astrologists (is that right??) are saying 1st Sept. Mon/Tue me thinks

Tiger Woods unveils plan of Tatweer's golf facility By Nadia Saleem, Staff Reporter Published: August 25, 2008, 23:12 Dubai: Tiger Woods, the world's richest golfer, on Monday unveiled the master plan of Tatweer's exclusive golf community, The Tiger Woods Dubai (TWD). Video: Click here to watch the unveiling of the golf course Al Ruwaya, the first golf course designed by Tiger Woods - chairman of Tiger Woods Design, will cover over 13 million square feet. The course will also include a golf academy, a 145,000-square foot clubhouse and a spa. The residential plots will be developed to create 22 palaces, 75 mansions and 100 signature villas. The palaces will each cover 100,000 square feet, while each mansion will have 50,000 square feet and a villa will have 30,000 square feet. Tiger Woods said: "To be a part of this has been a lifelong dream of mine. I want this to be an oasis, an escape from the city. As everyone knows, Dubai has grown quite a bit and this will be a place to get away from the hustle and bustle of the city." On the attraction to this city, Woods said, "Dubai is basically in the biggest, greatest and newest of everything." The prices of the residences begin from Dh40 million and go up to Dh150 million, according to sources. The signature development will also house a Dh600-million hotel, of 90 suites and 14 bungalows in sizes varying from 1,6000 to 9,500 square feet. Scheduled for completion in 2009, the project is located within Dubailand. A tree, palm and plant nursery of 30 hectares will also be constructed for over 11,000 trees and palms to be installed on the golf course. Abdullah Al Gurg, project director of TWD, said: "Never before has there been a development as ambitious as Tiger Woods Dubai." New techniques "We have pioneered new techniques in construction and design to overcome the challenge that we face in transforming 55 million square feet of desert into a green space that is one and a half times the size of New York's Central Park and almost four times the size of London's Hyde Park," he said. Al Gurg said a water treatment plant will be constructed to recycle 30,000 cubic metres of Dubai's waste water everyday, to sustain vegetation at the development. Woods said that he has always been a "doodler" when it comes to sketches, while talking about his designing skill. In the beginning, he tried to understand why an architect designed something a certain way in order to enhance course strategy while playing and also to draw inspiration from. "Designing in the real world, not just on paper is a lot more difficult than I thought. A lot more goes into it than just putting something on paper, a lot more detail," Woods said.

New Tiger Woods course in Dubai http://www.gulfnews.com/gntv/videos/10240183.html Will be an interesting year or so :cool:

My glasses are locked away in the drawer so have to squint at the screen,,,,