I just heard from someone that Saudi Arabia is changing its weekend to Friday and Saturday instead of Thursday and Friday, by the begining of 2007. I heard this was done because it's one of the requirements of the WTO which Saudi has signed. Can anyone verify this?

I haven't heard of anything like that.

That'd be a major change.. Sounds a bit far fetched.

Did a quick google and can find no reference at all. No that I'd rely on google all the time.

I just heard from someone that Saudi Arabia is changing its weekend to Friday and Saturday instead of Thursday and Friday, by the begining of 2007. I heard this was done because it's one of the requirements of the WTO which Saudi has signed. Can anyone verify this?

It has nothing to do with WTO. Banking & Financial intitutions in the whole Middle East area have been facing problems in dealing with the external world who is normally off on Sats & Suns, which ment 4 days w/o communication. Having Friday & Saturday off should reduce this inactive period to 3. Jordan, Syria, Qatar & UAE have already adopted this

The first country to do this was Qatar. After all the people made fun of us, now they are doing the same thing!!!

The first country to do this was Qatar. After all the people made fun of us, now they are doing the same thing!!!

I dont know where you got that from but the people who made fun of Qatar still object to doing the same. An the people who praised Qatar for the change are those who want the same change at home. So dont be paranoid :)

I dont know where you got that from but the people who made fun of Qatar still object to doing the same. An the people who praised Qatar for the change are those who want the same change at home. So dont be paranoid :)

Not true. After the change, people began to realize that the new weekend was really better for them. I am talking about my personal experiences from people of the gulf.

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Not true. After the change, people began to realize that the new weekend was really better for them. I am talking about my personal experiences from people of the gulf.

:)

The people who opposed and still oppose the change of the weekend have social and religous point of views. Everybody agrees that it's economically efficient to have Saturday and Sunday as weekend days. I have friends who still belive that it's worng to follow what the 'west' do and ignore our religion and tradition.

Give me one statement of any Saudi or other gulf state official who made fun of Qatar at the beginning and now wants to follow Qatar's example. Don't judge the country's policy from 'personal' encounters.

The people who opposed and still oppose the change of the weekend have social and religous point of views. Everybody agrees that it's economically efficient to have Saturday and Sunday as weekend days. I have friends who still belive that it's worng to follow what the 'west' do and ignore our religion and tradition.

Give me one statement of any Saudi or other gulf state official who made fun of Qatar at the beginning and now wants to follow Qatar's example. Don't judge the country's policy from 'personal' encounters.

I totally agree besides the only ones complaining about us having weekends on Thursday and Friday are either islamophobes, christian or jewish fanatics or people who just envy/hate us!

Besides what you are saying Halawala doesn't have any relation of any kind to do with business efficiency because the gulf states aren't a part of europe or america same as japan and china aren't a part of europe or america. We have our own countries, ours own laws and cultures! Show me one thing that makes business more efficient with weekends?

what the different if the weekend was Friday and Saturday or Thursday and Friday to us!!! its the same two day's only:D

I totally agree besides the only ones complaining about us having weekends on Thursday and Friday are either islamophobes, christian or jewish fanatics or people who just envy/hate us!

Besides what you are saying Halawala doesn't have any relation of any kind to do with business efficiency because the gulf states aren't a part of europe or america same as japan and china aren't a part of europe or america. We have our own countries, ours own laws and cultures! Show me one thing that makes business more efficient with weekends?

Actually Halawa's point is valid to some extent. Changing the weekend to the western system does help business communication a bit. Say that you work in ORACLE office in Riyadh and one of your clients had a problem with the system on Saturday morning. And the only way to get the problem solved is by getting technical support from ORACLE headquarters in California. In such case, you would have to wait for two days before solving the problem. The same goes with other institutions, companaies and banks.

the change would not really leave a major impact on the economy but it sure would improve business comunication.

The first country to do this was Qatar. After all the people made fun of us, now they are doing the same thing!!!

Jordan did it much earlier than Qatar (7 years ago)

The first country to do this was Qatar. After all the people made fun of us, now they are doing the same thing!!!

Jordan then Syria were the first to change. At that time people attributed change in Jordan to peace treaty with Israel. This was 7 or 8 years ago

Jordan then Syria were the first to change. At that time people attributed change in Jordan to peace treaty with Israel. This was 7 or 8 years ago

No it started in Jordan on January 1, 2000 so almost 7 years

Now weekends in Arab Countries as follows:


Closed for business

Friday weekend: Djibouti, Sudan, Palestine

Thursday-Friday weekend: Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait, Yemen, Egypt, Somalia

Friday-Saturday weekend: Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan, Syria, UAE, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Iraq, Mauritania

Saturday-Sunday weekend: Lebanon

I totally agree besides the only ones complaining about us having weekends on Thursday and Friday are either islamophobes, christian or jewish fanatics or people who just envy/hate us!

Besides what you are saying Halawala doesn't have any relation of any kind to do with business efficiency because the gulf states aren't a part of europe or america same as japan and china aren't a part of europe or america. We have our own countries, ours own laws and cultures! Show me one thing that makes business more efficient with weekends?


Christian, Jewish Fanatics??? Dude, what are you talking about? We had the Thursday-Friday weekends for decades and it was recently changed for BUSINESS reasons--to make our Eastern business days parallel to Western business days more effecient and to encourage trade.

It has zero relation with relegion. What does it have anything to do with culture? relegion? Friday, which is the day of Muslim worship, is on Friday, already a holiday.

Besides what you are saying Halawala doesn't have any relation of any kind to do with business efficiency because the gulf states aren't a part of europe or america same as japan and china aren't a part of europe or america.

Again not true. Ever heard of trading?? It makes the world a much smaller place. You dont have to be in Europe to trade with Europe--there are much more effecient ways. China and Europe are very far--but they can be connected within nanoseconds--by the magic of trade and the internet.

The people who opposed and still oppose the change of the weekend have social and religous point of views. Everybody agrees that it's economically efficient to have Saturday and Sunday as weekend days. I have friends who still belive that it's worng to follow what the 'west' do and ignore our religion and tradition.

Give me one statement of any Saudi or other gulf state official who made fun of Qatar at the beginning and now wants to follow Qatar's example. Don't judge the country's policy from 'personal' encounters.

You mentioned relegious point of views--that is not true. Again, there is nothing relegious about changing the weekend. We dont follow the West inspite--or simply to "COPY" their traditions. DO YOU REALLY THINK THAT?? And where in tradtional Gulf culture does it say the weekend is THURSDAY and FRIDAY.

Give me one statement of any Saudi or other gulf state official who made fun of Qatar at the beginning and now wants to follow Qatar's example.

Oh, I have tons of statements!! The list is endless believe me.

Actually Halawa's point is valid to some extent. Changing the weekend to the western system does help business communication a bit. Say that you work in ORACLE office in Riyadh and one of your clients had a problem with the system on Saturday morning. And the only way to get the problem solved is by getting technical support from ORACLE headquarters in California. In such case, you would have to wait for two days before solving the problem. The same goes with other institutions, companaies and banks.

the change would not really leave a major impact on the economy but it sure would improve business comunication.

It would help save millions of dollars in the long terms.

Jordan then Syria were the first to change. At that time people attributed change in Jordan to peace treaty with Israel. This was 7 or 8 years ago


That's good--but I was refereing to the Gulf countries.

so is it happening for sure or not? because I heard that its either still waiting approval from the Shura council or it has already been approved and will be implimented on Jan. the first.

You mentioned relegious point of views--that is not true. Again, there is nothing relegious about changing the weekend. We dont follow the West inspite--or simply to "COPY" their traditions. DO YOU REALLY THINK THAT?? And where in tradtional Gulf culture does it say the weekend is THURSDAY and FRIDAY.

NO I don't think that and never said that. I was explaining to you why some people oppose the change.
I'm saying that some people do think that way . Some say that it does not have a major economic impact it it lies under the fellowship of West "ولو دخلوا جحر ضب لدخلتموه". Actually many of them in Saudi do use that as an argument. I personally don't agree with them but I respect their point of view. If the majority of pepole do not want to work on Thursday and Friday, then I'll have to live with that :)


Oh, I have tons of statements!! The list is endless believe me.

show us please :)


It would help save millions of dollars in the long terms.

I don't know how much in dollars would the change save us. But I don't think it's that much though comparing to the size of the Saudi economy.

Christian, Jewish Fanatics??? Dude, what are you talking about? We had the Thursday-Friday weekends for decades and it was recently changed for BUSINESS reasons--to make our Eastern business days parallel to Western business days more effecient and to encourage trade.

It has zero relation with relegion. What does it have anything to do with culture? relegion? Friday, which is the day of Muslim worship, is on Friday, already a holiday.

Again not true. Ever heard of trading?? It makes the world a much smaller place. You dont have to be in Europe to trade with Europe--there are much more effecient ways. China and Europe are very far--but they can be connected within nanoseconds--by the magic of trade and the internet.



If you want to stress that point when I went to study abroad I took a visit at the British embassy and the Canadian Embassy in kuwait and thats where I discovered how much they envied arabs they don't lie they even curse sometimes because they hate it when we go pray and the economy is paralyzed for 10-30 mins because people go pray, they don't have any right to say.

Qatar is not an example! look at Egypt and Saudi who have an economy ten times larger than Qatar's, did it change anything?
Another example, Is there something in Qatar that is not available in Kuwait? (such as technological products?) no... in fact Kuwait has more goods available in the stores than Qatar so where is the advantage your talking about?

Tell me a solid advantage for Qatar.

And your relying again on your personal experiences... You are surely referring to the online stores that close on weekends... well in China and Japan online stores don't close, even many stores in the west don't close, the problem are stores that don't like to work on weekends and those like that are mainly small business who have stores and not enough employees though some stores still work on weekends this doesn't change a thing...

I really would like to know where is the problem in online trading and what it has to do with weekends? Let's say your in lebanon... still you can't order anything from stores that ''close'' on sat-sundays so why make a fuss? and if you order something online and your in qatar you will get it even on weekdays , unless the parcel shipping company is on a weekend...

I totally agree besides the only ones complaining about us having weekends on Thursday and Friday are either islamophobes, christian or jewish fanatics or people who just envy/hate us!


What the heck you talking about? Who are these Jews/Christians demanding you change your weekends? 99.9% of the world couldn't care the less when other people take their days off. And 95% of the world wouldn't even know when you take your days off let alone knowing enough to care. The only people who may complain are those who try to call an office in the region on Thursday or Friday and can't get through. What is there to envy about having weekends on Thrusday/Friday OR Saturday/Sunday for that matter?

What the heck you talking about? Who are these Jews/Christians demanding you change your weekends? 99.9% of the world couldn't care the less when other people take their days off. And 95% of the world wouldn't even know when you take your days off let alone knowing enough to care. The only people who may complain are those who try to call an office in the region on Thursday or Friday and can't get through. What is there to envy about having weekends on Thrusday/Friday OR Saturday/Sunday for that matter?

I have to agree with you 100%

If you want to stress that point when I went to study abroad I took a visit at the British embassy and the Canadian Embassy in kuwait and thats where I discovered how much they envied arabs they don't lie they even curse sometimes because they hate it when we go pray and the economy is paralyzed for 10-30 mins because people go pray, they don't have any right to say.

Qatar is not an example! look at Egypt and Saudi who have an economy ten times larger than Qatar's, did it change anything?
Another example, Is there something in Qatar that is not available in Kuwait? (such as technological products?) no... in fact Kuwait has more goods available in the stores than Qatar so where is the advantage your talking about?

Tell me a solid advantage for Qatar.


And your relying again on your personal experiences... You are surely referring to the online stores that close on weekends... well in China and Japan online stores don't close, even many stores in the west don't close, the problem are stores that don't like to work on weekends and those like that are mainly small business who have stores and not enough employees though some stores still work on weekends this doesn't change a thing...

I really would like to know where is the problem in online trading and what it has to do with weekends? Let's say your in lebanon... still you can't order anything from stores that ''close'' on sat-sundays so why make a fuss? and if you order something online and your in qatar you will get it even on weekdays , unless the parcel shipping company is on a weekend...


Well Egypt said it is planning to follow. I don't think that these countries decided to follow this calendar out of nothing.. I know for sure that Banks in Saudi Arabia were asking for this change more than 10 years ago

So prior to the change in any of the countries all businesses ,including banks, had to close for thursday and friday ?

What the heck you talking about? Who are these Jews/Christians demanding you change your weekends? 99.9% of the world couldn't care the less when other people take their days off. And 95% of the world wouldn't even know when you take your days off let alone knowing enough to care. The only people who may complain are those who try to call an office in the region on Thursday or Friday and can't get through. What is there to envy about having weekends on Thrusday/Friday OR Saturday/Sunday for that matter?

You throw out satistics that I bet you just invented 2 seconds ago, I have a Canadian friend who's father is the canadian consul in kuwait, his father used to always say he feels so envious when he sees in arab families such as Sheikh Zayid's *Rahimahu allah* has his oldest son shine his shoes for him... and Used to saw how he feels pissed off when it's prayer time because most companies take a prayer pause... what do you call this? the words of the Canadian consul...

And nomar.. I could have sworn by your reply that you envy arabs :D why did you just stress this point that doesn't really represent the whole subject?

Well Egypt said it is planning to follow. I don't think that these countries decided to follow this calendar out of nothing.. I know for sure that Banks in Saudi Arabia were asking for this change more than 10 years ago

Sargon just one question. Where did you get this ''Banks in Saudi Arabia were asking for this change more than 10 years ago" Actually among the most important and biggest banks in KSA is Rajhi bank which actually supports this policy...

Sargon just one question. Where did you get this ''Banks in Saudi Arabia were asking for this change more than 10 years ago" Actually among the most important and biggest banks in KSA is Rajhi bank which actually supports this policy...

Since I was living in Saudi Arabia. I know this for sure. Sorry if I couldn't convince you or prove to you but I AM CONFIDENT

The banks actually like the current situation, because it gives them the excuse to keep hold of funds for longer = more cash generated in the overnight market.

Anyway, it's no great issue. The traditional holiday is Friday. What day is lumped with it to make a five day week is irrelevant. At least it is better than in the past, when we had a 6 day week in Saudi.

I'm 100% pro the "Friday-Saturday" weekend but unfortunately this won't occur in Saudi Arabia because there're alot of Saudis with the very same mentality of our friend Riyadhi.

Riyadhi hasn't indicated that he opposes the change. Do you mean Safqa Tijariya? Although respect his opinion, don't take him as a guide to Saudi position: he is Kuwaiti.

BTW, I have heard about this outside the forum, there is strong rumour running around that they will announce the change.

safqa_tijariya;10973819]You throw out satistics that I bet you just invented 2 seconds ago,

About 1.5 seconds. And I would be willing to bet I am appromisatly right .

I have a Canadian friend who's father is the canadian consul in kuwait, his father used to always say he feels so envious when he sees in arab families such as Sheikh Zayid's *Rahimahu allah* has his oldest son shine his shoes for him... and Used to saw how he feels pissed off when it's prayer time because most companies take a prayer pause... what do you call this? the words of the Canadian consul...

I call him a lone man, I would get out in the world and take a few more samples from the western world to come to a more balenced conclusion. As far the shoe shing I don't know where you are going with that one. My son wasn't meant to shine my shoes, but if it knocks a person out to have his son do it great. In the west the son rakes the leaves or shovels the snow, in KSA they shine their dads shoes, whatever makes one happy.

As far as being able to take breaks, of course who wouldn't want to find a reason to take a break from work!!! There are people who take 20 minutes to go throw out their chewing gum in the waste basket at work for a break. And in the same regard try to find an employer who it wouldn't annoy because of disruptences it causes buisness. Both reactions have ziltch to do with religion and only a religouscentric would take it as otherwise.


And nomar.. I could have sworn by your reply that you envy arabs, why did you just stress this point that doesn't really represent the whole subject?

I only pointed it out for its arrogance and lameness. Such statements are like an American saying that everyone else is just jealous/envious in every scenario. That is just ethno-centric thinking that people are all too easily engaged in. Unless one thinks is endlessly more enviable then another (either on a personal or societal level) I find such proclimations more about bolstering ones self image instead of being based more on reality.

you two get a room.

If you want to stress that point when I went to study abroad I took a visit at the British embassy and the Canadian Embassy in kuwait and thats where I discovered how much they envied arabs they don't lie they even curse sometimes because they hate it when we go pray and the economy is paralyzed for 10-30 mins because people go pray, they don't have any right to say.

Qatar is not an example! look at Egypt and Saudi who have an economy ten times larger than Qatar's, did it change anything?
Another example, Is there something in Qatar that is not available in Kuwait? (such as technological products?) no... in fact Kuwait has more goods available in the stores than Qatar so where is the advantage your talking about?

Tell me a solid advantage for Qatar.

And your relying again on your personal experiences... You are surely referring to the online stores that close on weekends... well in China and Japan online stores don't close, even many stores in the west don't close, the problem are stores that don't like to work on weekends and those like that are mainly small business who have stores and not enough employees though some stores still work on weekends this doesn't change a thing...

I really would like to know where is the problem in online trading and what it has to do with weekends? Let's say your in lebanon... still you can't order anything from stores that ''close'' on sat-sundays so why make a fuss? and if you order something online and your in qatar you will get it even on weekdays , unless the parcel shipping company is on a weekend...

1. people dont envy Saudi because their ecnomy is paralysed because of praying. ???
2. What does Kuwait, Egypt, and Saudi have to do with Qatar's decisin to resort to the new weekend? Good for Kuwait if it has more technological products. Allah yikathir 5airhom.

---> All I am saying is the new weekend has helped our ecnomy. Its a not a miracle pill that can qualdruple it. But, it has helped our ecnomy to some extrent in which it harmonizes the tradiing hours in the banking, finance, and other ecnomical sectiors so that there will be more syncronization between two or more states in trade.

--> What Online stores? What are you talking about? Ebay? Not those kind of stores, friend! LoL!

--> I am refereing to my personal expriences reguarding what other people think about Qatari changing its weekend--not reguarding how it has benifited the ecnomy.

--> Now,I dont see the point you are trying to make against Qatar. We didnt change the weekend for the sake of competing with other Gulf Countries--just to improve our economy and as I said before, harmonizes the tradiing hours in the banking, finance, and other ecnomical sectiors so that there will be more syncronization between two or more states..

Halawa, I'm still waiting for the list :)

Halawa, I'm still waiting for the list :)

What's your address so I can send it to you? I have in hard copy.Send me money so I can send it to you by DHL or Fed Ex.

What's your address so I can send it to you? I have in hard copy.Send me money so I can send it to you by DHL or Fed Ex.

Halawala, just ignore them. When 10 countries (Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan, Syria, UAE, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Iraq, Mauritania) adopted this weekend system, It didn't come out of nothing. You don't have to prove to anyone the advantage of having Saturdays off rather than Thursdays but I have read a report once "I wish I have the ref." about how Jordan economically benefited when it adopted the Daylight Saving Time "DST" and changed business days..

What's your address so I can send it to you? I have in hard copy.Send me money so I can send it to you by DHL or Fed Ex.

just type some of them here.

Halawala, just ignore them. When 10 countries (Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan, Syria, UAE, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Iraq, Mauritania) adopted this weekend system, It didn't come out of nothing. You don't have to prove to anyone the advantage of having Saturdays off rather than Thursdays but I have read a report once "I wish I have the ref." about how Jordan economically benefited when it adopted the Daylight Saving Time "DST" and changed business days..

Point well said. I rest my case. :)

You guys Calm down, everyone is reading to much into other people's comments. You guys need to stop attacking each other. Now for my opinion, I think that a switch to the Friday & Saturday weekend is a positive, In my opinion Qatar and all the other countries that have adopted it have done nothing wrong, but neither has Saudi, just because they have clung to a Thrusday - Friday weekend is not bad. In my opinion (OPINION being the key word) Saudi should also switch, but I think they should switch at their own pace whatever makes them feel comfortable. Obviously they are doing some right, their economy is not "paralyzed" its actually going to be the fastest growing in the region in 2007 (i'm not trying to start a debate with this statement, so please don't attack me). What i'm trying to say is that Saudis need to sit down and really balance tradition and benefits, its not always what is traditional is beneficial and vice versa. If they think that it will help usher more trade then they should do it because THEY want to, and if not, its THEIR country and no one should tell them what to do. If they do switch, I really hope the the average citizen understands that the change has been done because its beneficial and not because its the "Western" thing to do.

Point well said. I rest my case. :)
What case Halawala?
You know you have my respect, but in this instance all you've done is come in sideways with some primadonna sh!t about "how everyone attacked Qatar for doing this".

sargon,
The case here is not whether the change is good for Saudi or not. The case is whether there are any Saudi officials who attacked (or made fun of) Qatar after it changed its system and now are promoting the change in Saudi Arabia.

Now Halawa claimed that at the his first reply and all I'm asking is a list. Is that too much to ask? Just few names Halawa :)




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Halawa,
You do have the long list (as you claim). Give us a name or two :)..

I can't believe there's so much chaos here over an issue like this. This is a simple matter of economics. I think much of the world criticizes the US for not going with the metric system and sticking to their retarded system of measurement. Why would Arabs want to be the same way? Decisions like this should not be influenced by stubbornness or emotions. It's really simple. As we go forward, the world is becoming more and more integrated. We all need to work together while also catering to specific needs of some. That is why some people can have sundays off (like the west)...and some can have fridays off (like muslim countries). No one is saying those two days cannot be taken off. One other day should definitely be saturday as it is next to friday and next to sunday so it works for both the west/east and muslim countries.

As a few of you have already pointed out, it will cut communication problems that could arise when people cannot be reached. I think Riyadhi's Oracle example was a good one. It is much the same for many other companies. Let's just try to be sensible instead of bringing religion and whatnot into this. Trust me, people will get used a friday-saturday weekend if it was instituted in Saudi Arabia, no matter how much they complain now. As Saudi Guy said, it's still 2 days. Relax :)

gohorns,

I think that we all agree that it's better to change the weekend system to Friday-Saturday except Safqa Tijariya. There's only one hanging issue here to me. I'm still waiting for a proof of the following quote,

The first country to do this was Qatar. After all the people made fun of us, now they are doing the same thing!!!

how on earth did this manage to spiral into another political, religious, east vs. west debate?! I guess no one knows if this is happening for sure yet.

a non-issue turned controversial!
but I ain't complaining, at least it's keeping the Saudi Forum alive! ;)

guys we should know is it just rumor or true? there only 6 day's to Janoury 2007

im already used to the old weekend :(

almost 2 yearz :D nothing happened :D this waz da most HEATED saudi forum here !! any newz?

nah
but there is now a spring break!

^^
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

<<< is a private sector employee

Sdare, you just stuck a knife into my heart and kept twisting it inside...

its only for students though!
we have it here in Canada but we call it reading week; however, nobody reads :D

And what do YOU do? Do you read (GEEK) or just ignore that and have fun (SLACKER)?

Whichever you choose doesn't really look good, does it? :D

I myself am a workoholic geek. So, you'd find me reading if I were to have such a break. Although the thought of a vacation actually sounds intriguing...

<<< Gone to print a Leave Request Form

YOU
GEELACKER :D

^^
Please, do explain! I can't help but imagine you reading a book while dancing with 3 other female GEELACKERS in a nightclub... :lol: :lol: :lol:

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
<<< just submitted a Leave Request from Dec 13th to 31st :colgate:

i divide the vacation!

<<< just submitted a Leave Request from Dec 13th to 31st
what!?

it seems he got an extra vacation! after asking his boss!!!
<<< Gone to print a Leave Request Form

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
<<< just submitted a Leave Request from Dec 13th to 31st

Actually, my boss has been up my a$$ telling me that I need to take some time off. I have accumilated 52 days in total since I have started working with EME...

$h!t.. I AM a workoholic! And you know? I asked him for a 2-week vacation, his response was: "Less than three weeks is unacceptable! You go loosen up a little and let me worry about the project!!" I feel tho thpethal (so special in a kid-sound effect) :D

And somehow, the HR approved it within an hour like they had nobody else but me.. Hmmm! I might go ask for a raise...

"إن كان حبيبك عسل لا تلحسه كله"

congratulation dear enjoy yourself by taking a tour to Bali or Maldive's islands hehehe

yeah whats your plans?

Dunno! Where could I go? What could I do?

Hmmmmmm...

I guess I'll just execute that "Road Trip" plan I've been thinking about for the last year. I missed Dhahran and Khobar so much. 1400km isn't that long of a distance!

Save cost! Make it a Peugeot Lions Club Road Trip! That's actually not a bad idea. KFUPM, here I come again!!!

I don't want to spend that much of cash in this time of my life. I prefer to save it for marriage and consequences... Especially now that everything's overpriced. SR200Ks will barely cut it.

But, I'm open for suggestions! Have you guyz got any?

^^I do! loool
1)Since it's in winter you can go to Lebanon and enjoy skiing on our mountains and the wonderful christmas ambiance :P:P (joking) :D

2)You could go to Bahrain :D

3)Qatar :D

4)Saudi Arabia's tour :D

5)Road Trip to Jordan, Syria and Lebanon :D

LOOOL I have no idea...it depends on what you want to do =)

sargon,
The case here is not whether the change is good for Saudi or not. The case is whether there are any Saudi officials who attacked (or made fun of) Qatar after it changed its system and now are promoting the change in Saudi Arabia.

Now Halawa claimed that at the his first reply and all I'm asking is a list. Is that too much to ask? Just few names Halawa :)




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Halawa,
You do have the long list (as you claim). Give us a name or two :)..

Did you get that list of names from Halawa ? :rofl: :lol:

i think going to farasan islands is the best choose ever!

^^
Been there with "Arabian Camp". I took a dive there. The water was soooo clear that I even noticed my brother when he went aside and exerted some yellow liquids. :lol:

I wish there'll be another trip but there won't. If anybody's interested to tag along for some scuba diving, I'm all up for it. But going there all alone isn't exactly worth it.

As for BG, I like your suggestions and they're good ones, too! However, I've been there all. And I'm more interested into domestic tourism. So, a road trip to Dhahran through Yanbu, Madinah and Riyadh sounds like a good idea.

I do have Malaysia as a destination but I guess it would be nicer with a newly bride, don't you think?

I think it should always remain Thursday and Friday. Thursday has always been a day of relaxation and doing whatever. Friday has always been Jum'ah prayer, grocery store, then head home for a big lunch. Then be around family until I go to bed at night.

My mentality is used to such routine. I don't want it to change.

I think it should always remain Thursday and Friday. Thursday has always been a day of relaxation and doing whatever. Friday has always been Jum'ah prayer, grocery store, then head home for a big lunch. Then be around family until I go to bed at night.

My mentality is used to such routine. I don't want it to change.

I agree !.:okay::okay: Even for us foreigners, it's already the Routine here in the Kingdom and I think it should remain that way.

Is it still Thursday & Friday weekend?

is it 2 day or 1.5day for most?

Thanks people!

wow...I was completely ignorant to this fact. Being from Mexico and growing up in the U.S., I assumed everyone's weekends were Saturday and Sunday. Looks like there are a lot of things I need to get used to when I move to Riyadh.