Life: A misnomer: June 2009

Amazing …………….. How could it possible ….. A country where football, the crazy game, is the god or better said Ullah for everybody.. ..then how come you are talking about Badminton. ….

Yes, the same thought came to my mind when I came to know about this club. This club is situated near the one of the poshest and securest area of Jeddah… securest being as it is very near to American Embassy…… the so called VIP country of this world :)…..

I joined this club thinking that I would be able to pass my time and the other benefit was that I could skip the gym :) ...So I joined this club and start playing badminton with my office colleagues. I never thought that it was going to be so big. The club has 8 indoor badminton courts which I had never seen in any of the club in India. The court was so cleaned, too managed that I must say that it was one of the best clubs I had ever seen.

Here, I got the chance to know people from Pakistan, Indonesia, Philippines, Russia, British…. Now this place was doing two things for me … help me in improving my badminton game and the second I could know more people from all over the world. I can know there behavior, their culture, their liking and disliking….. a book which is still unopened for me….

I met with a Philippino guy here, aged around 40 who were playing good badminton game. We played together and then he offered me to join his group. He told me that I was playing good and I could improve my game and he will help me in this.

I joined his group, and learned a lot from him and the other team members of the group. Last Thursday, we had a badminton tournament (doubles) and I was playing from two categories. I really worked hard for the tournament and with the right help from my partners I won the championship in both the categories. Even I don’t know those medals and trophy matters for me or not, but one thing that effort and pain I took to learn the game, I respect that. I really respect those people who kept faith in me and my game and gave their best to help me in improving my game.

I am still playing twice or thrice a week…. Enjoying the company of my new friends…….. seeing their culture and absorbing good things from their culture… I think winning a championship was meager in front of the valuable time which I am spending with these new friends….…. ….…. I felt that I won something else which is important more that the championship……

I have heard a lot about SnOrKeLiNg and here is my experience with the queen game...

My friends and I went to this excursion and here is my day on page..

We started early in the morning at around 7:00 AM. After picking all the friends, we start our journey towards the goal which we all wanted to experinec atleast once ...

If I did not mention about the car, we hired for our trip than its a sin toward the devil... the Pajero.. fully automatic Mitsubishi Pajero… the devil which has 3.8L 6 Cylinder, 24Valve, SOHC ECI-MIVEC Petrol Engine, HP @ 6,000 R.P.M 35.0 KG.M @ 2,750 R.P.M, 88 Liters Fuel Tank, Active stability control, ABS, Cruise 270 and much more....

It's really a devil… when I ran it at 120 miles/hour and tried skidding the car in mud, the control was sooooooo good that it make me its fan fun fan fun fan:) Its really a beautiful car ... anybody can fall in love with it;)

So after exploiting the devil fully (I am really amazed that I played with devil and he allowed me to do so) we reached the private beach at 9:30 AM .....
After a light breakfast, we all prepared ourselves to dive in the deeeeep Red sea. It was very calm and colorful. Indeed it looks special, very special.

We all left ourselves in the lap of sea…in the luke warm water.... we were feeling so comfortable in it (in the beginning though I was not)… I saw the beautiful colorful fishes…. red .. blue.. balck.... purple... green ..... orange... small and big fishes....... they were looking tooooooo great ... I tried to touch them but they just moved out and changed there path...... I saw corals which from above looks very soft… looked like flowers.. but in reality they were too hard like our life….. really... seeing all those things .. swiming with those lovely creatures which God has made .... seeing all those beauty which God has made.... I am really thankful to God who has sent me to Saudi Arabia, which people thinks (even i think till I came here) is a desert ... a country which is very rich in natural resources.... a coutry which has more than 26% oil of whole world yields..... where rich poeple lives... which is know for its hard customs..... But I found its all wrong information the people have ....... I will surely write more about this later... in my another blog...

We came back after 2 hours… in those two hours …. I have seen a new life … I swim with those lovely cute fishes which r so beautiful which I can never explain in words….. I was in a calm water which is saline but still it is giving life to so many species… … and might be sometimes it will rough as well.... like our loved ones to show us the right path.. right direction.. but still it keeps those species inside its lap.... .... really too good...

I found that the red sea is like our parents… so calm … it is like our relatives.. Who are always there to show us the right path… it is like our good friends who will not leave us in our bad time… … and more a mirage … as I saw many colors in water (due to corals)… red, blue … green…. And at the further end dark black deep water.. These colors represents the true color of life (happiness and sorrow)…

After coming back we had our Lunch which we brought with us... the food was really osum .. might be we all liked it as we all were very hungry at that time:)

After Lunch we played beach volley and really I played quite good or may be we all played pathetic:) ..... But at the end we all enjoyed and that what matters….

We rest for some time and after low tides were over (at least we felt so) we went for snorkelling again, but we found that water was still shallow and if we tried then might be we all will end up with some wounds which we could got by those lovely beautiful HARD corals. So after some time we came back.......

We rest for some time .... enjoyed watching others who were playing beach volley... and at around 6:00 PM when the sun was about to return to its home to sleep in the deeepp red sea assuming it is his mother's lap, we left back to our home... remebering the whole day we enjoyed togather ... and me recalling that life is something more about then thinking about life....

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Snorkeling is the practice of swimming on or through a body of water while equipped with a diving mask, a shaped tube called a snorkel, and usually swimfins. Using this equipment allows the snorkeler to observe underwater attractions for extended periods of time with relatively little effort.

It is a popular recreational activity, particularly at tropical resort and scuba diving locations. The primary attraction of snorkeling is the opportunity to observe underwater life in a natural setting without the complicated equipment and training required for scuba diving, in addition to the exhaled bubbles of scuba-diving equipment. Snorkeling is also a means to an end in popular sports such as underwater hockey, underwater ice hockey, underwater rugby and spearfishing.
So in general, Snorkeling is the act or sport of "sight seeing" at or just below sea level. Although donning a mask and snorkel and jumping into any body of water would technically constitute "snorkeling", by and large it is generally accepted that a "snorkeler" would don such gear and practice such activity within the vicinity of a reef, wreck, underwater formation or other submerged objects either to observe fish, plants, organisms and/or formations. Being non-competitive, it is less a sport and more a leisure activity.

The Red Sea is a salt water inlet of the Indian Ocean between Africa and Asia. The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb sound and the Gulf of Aden. In the north are the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, and the Gulf of Suez (leading to the Suez Canal). The Red Sea is a Global 200 ecoregion.
Occupying a part of the Great Rift Valley, the Red Sea has a surface area of about 438,000 km² (169,100 square miles ). It is roughly 2250 km (1398 mi) long and, at its widest point at 355 km (220.6 miles) wide. It has a maximum depth of 2211 m (7254 ft) in the central median trench and an average depth of 490 m (1,608 feet ), but there are also extensive shallow shelves, noted for their marine life and corals. The sea is the habitat of over 1,000 invertebrate species and 200 soft and hard corals and is the world's northernmost tropical sea.

The name of the sea may signify the seasonal blooms of the red-colored (Archabactera) Trichodesmium erythraeum near the water's surface. Some suggest that it refers to the mineral-rich red mountains nearby which are called Harei Edom. Edom, meaning "ruddy complexion", is also an alternative Hebrew name for the red-faced biblical character Esau (brother of Jacob), and the nation descended from him, the Edomites, which in turn provides yet another possible origin for Red Sea.

Note: The above information collected from internet.

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