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I took my car to the dealer ship for service. I waited more than 30 minutes just to get my paper work done to have my car admitted. As far as I can tell my car was fine except that it needed the 45k service but again what do I know about cars. They have told me that it would take till monday to get my car back. If I had done it at an outside shop it would take them 2 hours max so why 3 days? Plus at the outside shop it usually costs 70KD while at the dealer ship it costs around 90KD. Anyhow, 30 minutes after I admit the car I get a call from the service guy saying that my car has two more problems. An oil leak from the transmission and something called “radius pushing”! I have no idea what “radius pushing” is or “boshat” in arabic so I call my brother in law who knows about cars. My brother in law explains it to me and since I don’t really trust any outside shops I call the service person back and agree to fix the two problems along with the service which also adds a day for getting my car back. Now not only am I carless till tuesday but I’m going to be KD300less.

Lately I see everyone in IT running after certifications except for me.
I personally think that this piece of paper doesn’t mean anything
especially if you don’t do what you are certified for all the time. Like
for me I got some crappy Oracle DBA training at New Horizons long time
ago but after a couple of months I forgot it all since it wasn’t a
hands-on training mostly and since I don’t use oracle everyday. This
training would’ve helped me to get certified then but if I had gotten
the certification it would’ve meant that I know the stuff covered which
I don’t really. Most people just cram for the exam and after a while
forget everything so why get certified in the first place? The only
reason I can think of is to be considered at other companies for a new
job which is a valid reason but in my case since I’m fairly happy with
my current job shall I go after certification for the future?

Lately I’ve been more interested in photography but I just have too much going on to actually learn something new. Nawaf gave me his old NYIP lessons a while back but I still haven’t got the time to read them. I found out from Mark that Bayt Lothan has classes in photography. I called them up and it’s 60KD for the first level. The course is 20 hours long and spans over a month or so. Now I’m not sure if I should take the course or not. 60KD isn’t that bad if the course is good. Anyone who knows anything about the courses offered at Bayt Lothan and if they are any good? I really need to start learning and put my Sony V3 to use then maybe get a DSLR later on.