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Saw pictures and videos of the "flooding" going on in Qatar. It's actually kinda hilarious. It barely rained enough to fill a cup of water, yet there are dams of stagnant water all over the country. Some of the schools even had to close for today because kids couldn't get there due to roads being flooded. Our $15b airport apparently also had parts where the floors were flooded, because water was leaking through the roof. Just up the road from my house the road is completely flooded. Can't use it with my car, and that's the only road in and out. So i'm pretty much stranded for a few days.

Drainage in this country is so bad. It rained a bit last night and today and as a result so many of the roads are flooded. Had to take a cab home cause my car's too low. I really hate rain season.

Yeah we had a few drops of rain last night too.

6GB update for Smite is taking ages zzzzz. Just wanted to get home, have a drink, play some Smite. No such luck. Gotta cancel my trip to Vegas in 2 weeks as well. Gonna have to spend the next 3 weeks grinding away behind the books. Hopefully i will be able to finish off my last few exams in December. Then i guess i can finally finish up this pilot shit.

With the recent events, i often wonder what my opinions as well as my Facebook newsfeed would have been like if i lived in different, non middle-eastern country. A lot of my friends are highly intelligent, and not at all religious. So i often value their opinions on these matters very highly. But i'm not sure if their opinions have been affected by the fact that they've been here just as long, or longer, than i have. Then on the other hand i often feel like their opinions are actually more valuable than anyone else's purely because they're just bystanders. They don't need to have any biases. Always something i start wondering about when the Anti-American and Anti-Israeli posts start filling up my newsfeed.

Today was probably one of the most exhausting days of exam-taking i've had in years. The first exam i took was pretty easy. 66 questions with 90 minute time limit. Finished it in about 50 minutes. Could have done it faster, but i wanted to take my time. Second exam was 43 questions with a 2 hour time limit. But this exam required constant folding and unfolding of charts, finding locations and co-ordinates, drawing lines on graphs, calculations, etc. Submitted my last question with around 12 seconds to spare. Overall the subject is pretty easy, i just don't think the allowed time is really enough. Tomorrow i have 2 more exams to do, maybe 3 if i'm up for it. Then i have to come back next month to hopefully finish what's left. Doubt i'll be sleeping tonight. Since getting back from my exams at around 3pm i haven't taken any breaks apart from 1 bathroom break. Still feel like i have a lot to do before tomorrow. Yay... Can't way to go back home and play some Smite and probably Fallout 4. Even then i won't really be able to relax too much. Next/last few exams i'm taking are the "most difficult" of the syllabus. I just [bleep] hope all of this pays off at the end of the day.

Damn i just realised that throughout this year, every time i have been in Greece, i've been mostly eating at the same place. There's a bakery near the hotel i usually stay in that make the most delicious sandwiches and spanakopita and that's pretty much all i've been eating. Today i walk into the bakery and the guy asked me "same as always?"

There's a good reason Middle Eastern countries, like Qatar, have avoided/refused to take in any refugees. They are a burden on the local population (maybe not immediately, but they will be at some point). Additionally, the crime rate is only bound to go up. Then, of course, there are the obvious reasons (for other countries, not Qatar) for not wanting to take any (more) refugees such as religion and culture. You open your home to them, and a few weeks later they start complaining about Christmas decorations, lack of Mosques, etc. They are unwilling and/or unable to adapt and adjust and as a result they start demanding things be catered towards their wants/needs (specifically in terms of their religion). Before you know it, your city/town is New-Syria. It's a cruel and ignorant mindset to have, but this is survival of the fittest. The middle east, for the most part, is a shithole. It always has been, and it always will be. Long before the terrorists, and long after (if ever) they're gone. It's not the terrorism that have ruined these countries, it's the basic mindset and mentality of the people. The only way you can change that is by giving them a "western" education. But even then, largely due to their religion, there's little hope.

Past two or three days have been quite crazy. France retaliating with a bomb strike on Syria, an ISIS commander killed by a US airstrike, Anonymous threatening ISIS, and now Putin dropping knowledge bombs all over the place. Apparently he exposed a great number of countries involved in funding ISIS, although i'd rather say "corporations" and/or "families" rather than countries. I'm sure a few of the names on that list really won't come as a surprise to anyone though. Next few weeks are going to be interesting, and intense. Apparently ISIS have also threatened to strike Washington DC. Not sure how exactly that plan on doing that though. Then again, in times like these, it's always hard to tell which sources are actually reliable and which aren't.

That's silly. What happens if you passed the first time, but fail the second?

I'd like to note the internet, if used properly, enables relatively easy checking for any average Joe or Jane. Media can only be used as a point to begin research. With adequate research skills, filtering credible information from crap is not exceedingly difficult, just time consuming at most (cue retarded statements like "logic can be used to come to wrong conclusions" and other hot air; tell me something I don't know! Pedantry based on semantics is asinine; people rarely care to read my posts as-is, I'm not going to make them longer). However, research tends to end up being "find the first result that confirms my bias," if any research is done at all. With popular search engines adjusting results based on personal bias, this becomes more of an issue, as well. What a time to be alive. You're asking people who live in a house made of zinc plating, people who probably don't even know how to switch on a computer, to use the internet and do research on whom they're voting for. So in this case, internet is irrelevant. As an added bonus, these people are probably told the reason they don't have internet is because the white man doesn't want them to have it. "So vote ANC if you want internet."

America would never be anywhere close to South Africa. The laws and the whole political system is a preventative factor. But more importantly the US is a much more educated country. I know there are parts of the US where people are uneducated as all hell, but even they're more educated than a large number of South Africans. It's so hard to explain the concept to someone that has never been to South Africa. And no matter how i try to word it, it'll come off as racist. It's something you'll only understand if you've lived in Africa. I'm sure i've said this before, but back when we were still living in South Africa my sister asked the main one day who she voted for in the election that year. She told us she voted ANC. My sister started asking her questions about why she voted ANC when all they do is promise, but never deliver. When all they have done to the country since they day the ANC started governing was destroy the country little by little. She, the maid, told us that people go to their camps (http://thephoenixsun.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Soweto-1.jpg) and threaten them. They are told that if they don't vote ANC they're kids are going to get raped and murdered. If they don't vote ANC a white man will come kill them and take everything from them, etc. She's uneducated. I don't think she ever went to school. If she did it was only a school that taught you how to read and write. So she didn't know any better. So election after elections he voted ANC. She'll teach her kids to do the same thing, and so on. You're telling me the US would be the same if it wasn't for a militarized police force? Hardly doubt that.

Don't worry, we have a few hundred congressmen here who are highly paid and also horribly inefficient... Well he recently spent R246m on renovating his estate. That's like $17.5m. He claimed his estate is a national landmark, or whatever. Yeah... that's his justification. They're apparently also planning to buy him a R4bn (~$280m?) private jet for "improved intercontinental transportation". Apparently their chartering option is no longer reliable and has introduced certain risks. All the while half (probably 75%) of his country is living in poverty. There are power outages every day. "Load shedding" as they like to call it. It's disgraceful. I don't think it's at all rational to compare any political in NA or EU to the piece of human garbage that is Jacob Zuma. South Africa's uneducated, rapist president. Thank the [bleep]ing lord i don't live there anymore.

Spent the last week in Vegas. Still tired as shit. Going to Greece for a week in 2 days, then back to Vegas straight after for another week. Been one of the craziest months of my life. Oh and i read the other day that apparently South Africa's president (Jacob Zuma) is the highest paid most inefficient president in the world. [bleep]ing disgusting. But i also saw that the Democratic Alliance is getting a lot more votes. Historically it was predominantly whites who voted DA, and black would vote ANC. But a lot of the black folks are finally seeing what poison the ANC has become. I think it's still only the lesser educated black people living in the rural areas who'll be voting ANC. They're still brainwashed into thinking that "whites are building an army to slaughter the black". I still have zero hope for SA to ever become relevant again. They'll be Zimbabwe #2 in no time at all.

I had an orange Focus ST a few years back when i lived in South Africa. Was one of my favorite cars i've ever owned. Did it have bucket seats? If so, i kinda agree i wasn't a fan of them either. Kinda made me feel like i was sitting on the floor.

Did it have to do with South Africa by any chance? Yeah... So close... so close... Thinking about going to the Motley Crue concert in Abu Dhabi the 20th November. I'll probably have exams that weekend though so i doubt i'll be able to make it. Kinda shitty, but it's whatever. I'll probably just go to Vegas the weekend after instead. Haven't been to Vegas in a while so it'll be nice to go again.

Just lost $1500 in a bet and i need to [bleep] a fat chick.

Been really impressed by Japan this World Cup. They haven't won a game in 24 years, and this year they not only win 3/4 of their games but they also take down one of the biggest titans in rugby. They got a fairly decent victory over the US last night to round off a positive tournament. Would have been nice to see them advance to knock-outs, but their loss against Scotland kept them from advancing. I'm still shocked that England didn't even advance past the group stages. First time in World Cup history for a host nation not to advance to knock-outs. Aside from that i think the brackets are pretty much as they were expected to be. Octoberfest event was pretty fun, but i don't think i'll be going again in the future. Not my kinda thing. Maybe i'm starting to get too old, but it seemed overly loud. Met a ton of cool people though.

Got an invite to the Octoberfest event at the Grand Hyatt today. Get my own VIP table so it should be pretty alright. I generally don't like going to these things unless i can get a table. Service is just shit otherwise. And i got the whip detailed last night. She's looking so fine.

It's okay, we have a strategy that goes "pretend the sport doesn't exist" when we lose. :rolleyes:. It's sad though. The US has the potential to have one of the most dominating teams in the world. They've improved a lot over the past 8 or so years though. And it's not like they played bad, either. There's just not much you can do against a South African team that needs to prove a point.

Poor USA just got the spanking of a lifetime.

It's only too hot when you leave the car in the sun for a while, but it only takes about 5 minutes for it to cool down again. Not so bad.

White M4 with black leather interior is mine. Can't drive it yet... Insurance papers are going to take another few hours to get sorted. So right now it's just chilling in the driveway. Soon as my papers are done i'm taking her our to the track to see what she can do.

Sorted out my papers and money today. Buying my M4 on Saturday.

I guess it was. He was bitten by a Brown Recluse. Looked so damn nasty. Eww.