The long Eid Al Adha holiday is almost over. Soon I will go back to office again, Thank God. Long holiday coupled with nothing to do and the result is an unbelievable state of boredom. I spent my days sleeping (hey! by Malaysian standard it IS quite cold out there!) and when things got really ugly, dull and dry, I would gloriously jump to the kitchen and start cooking...naked!

Yes, today is exactly 90 days since I arrived in the Kingdom. The days has gone shorter and cooler but they said its going to get colder. At night, it even colder and lonelier. That my friends, is the price you have to pay when you leave your wife and kids to go to some foreign country for a job with a hefty pay!

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the country with strict shari'a rules and a totally man's world. I was thrown out here a couple of months ago after I accepted a job offer in the Jubail Industrial City. It is a massive industrial complex with an array of distillation towers, reactors and flare stacks as far as the eyes can see. There are plans to expand the Industrial City as if the current site isn't big enough!