Why is it that whenever I plan something it never works out? Honestly, someone in charge of my destiny and fortune seems to get his kicks out of ruining my plans! I am not an overly superstitious person, but lately I start to believe that telling someone about something I plan to do is a guarantee that it will never happen. Note to self: if I don't want something to happen, I should plan it and share the word!

I had so many plans for this summer, for example. I wanted to do so many different things. None of them included remotely anything I found myself doing! My plans did not have a temporary job that sucked all my energy out of me, my plans did not make any provisions for whoever-is-in-charge-of-visas to delay my residency so much that when I finally got it, I couldn't believe it was real. I wanted to go to Qatar and I said I would but I couldn't because I had no visa and now there is no point in going - I'm too late. All I had to do was actually make a rough estimate of when I could expect my residency and tell it to a couple of people - and sure enough, it took 3 times as long as I thought it would! I planned to watch tennis finals last night and promised my mom to text her the scores, but for the first time in my adult life I couldn't stay up late even though I didn't have to wake up next morning. I stayed for about 15 minutes and went to bed. Missed two great games, but at least both players I root for got their titles. Mom texted me the results in the morning instead.

It gets ridiculous at times. Only yesterday I was telling SA about this silly Du ad on the radio where a bunch of guys sing about missing greasy fish and chips to the music of the British national anthem. SA never heard it so I said we'll listen to the station today on the way to the gym and I'll point it out when it plays. Simple, right? Wrong. Reading the newspaper today, I find out that the ad was taken off the air as of today. They said it's offensive. I don't think it actually offended many Brits (except the one that complained, apparently) but definitely if a British Telecom company used any Arab country anthem and wrote lyrics for it about camels, dates, tents and deserts hoping that the said country's citizen would immediately feel longing for his homeland and make an international call - not many Arabs would be happy. So anyways they took it off the air and my point is that it happened as soon as I planned to point it out to someone! Not a day earlier, not a day later.

Driving to the supermarket today I decide to be considerate and even though there aren't any cars behind me I indicate that I am going to turn right. As luck would have it, as soon as I indicate I realise that it's the wrong turn I'm trying to make and swerve out. Angry honking behind me (well deserved! I am sorry!) and I speed up, thoroughly embarrassed, only to miss the correct turn hundred metres on. All that because I decided to share my plan of turning with the guy who appeared out of nowhere behind me! Ugh.

It really gets on my nerves! I should either learn to survive without plans, or at least try and keep them secret.



Afterthought: someone in Du is going to get his bottom spanked. I wish they took off that dreadful ad about Du mobile payments instead, though.