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Name::Ahmed Arshi
From::Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
A new filmmaker rising from the edge of the horizon.
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Tuesday, September 26, 2006
A Million Little Pieces
Intense, unpredictable, and instantly engaging, A Million Little Pieces is a story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehabilitation as it has never been told before. Recounted in visceral, kinetic prose, and crafted with a forthrightness that rejects piety, cynicism, and self-pity, it brings us face-to-face with a provocative new understanding of the nature of addiction and the meaning of recovery.
By the time he entered a drug and alcohol treatment facility, James Frey had taken his addictions to near-deadly extremes. He had so thoroughly ravaged his body that the facility's doctors were shocked he was still alive. The ensuing torments of detoxification and withdrawal, and the never-ending urge to use chemicals, are captured with a vitality and directness that recalls the seminal eye-opening power of William Burroughs's Junky.
But A Million Little Pieces refuses to fit any mold of drug literature. Inside the clinic, James is surrounded by patients as troubled as he is -- including a judge, a mobster, a one-time world-champion boxer, and a fragile former prostitute to whom he is not allowed to speak - but their friendship and advice strikes James as stronger and truer than the clinic's droning dogma of How to Recover. James refuses to consider himself a victim of anything but his own bad decisions, and insists on accepting sole accountability for the person he has been and the person he may become--which runs directly counter to his counselors' recipes for recovery.
James has to fight to find his own way to confront the consequences of the life he has lived so far, and to determine what future, if any, he holds. It is this fight, told with the charismatic energy and power of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, that is at the heart of A Million Little Pieces: the fight between one young man's will and the ever-tempting chemical trip to oblivion, the fight to survive on his own terms, for reasons close to his own heart.
A Million Little Pieces is an uncommonly genuine account of a life destroyed and a life reconstructed. It is also the introduction of a bold and talented literary voice.
Monday, September 25, 2006
RamadanWith Ramadan had arrived, things have slowed down almost instantly. I guess it is a good thing to take some time and recollect our thoughts with things not moving in motion nowadays. The best part of Ramadan in UAE is chilling out with friends in the sheesha cafes till dawn playing backgammon!!
Oh yeah and I finally signed my contract with the publishing house! The book should come out in January 2007!!
Sunday, September 17, 2006
DefinitionsDivorce: Future tense of marriage.
Cigarette: A pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end & a fool on the other.
Lecture: An art of transferring information from the notes of the Lecturer to the notes of the students without passing through the minds of either.
Conference: The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present.
Compromise: The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody believes he got the biggest piece.
Tears: The hydraulic force by which masculine will-power is defeated by feminine water power...
Dictionary: A place where success comes before work.
Conference Room: A place where everybody talks, nobody listens and everybody disagrees later on.
Classic: A book which people praise, but do not read.
Smile: A curve that can set a lot of things straight.
Office: A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life.
Yawn: The only time some married men ever get to open their mouth.
Etc.: A sign to make others believe that you know more than you actually do.
Committee: Individuals who can do nothing individually and sit to decide that nothing can be done together.
Experience: The name men give to their mistakes.
Atom Bomb: An invention to end all inventions.
Philosopher: A fool who torments himself during life, to be spoken of when dead.
Diplomat: A person who tells you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
Opportunist: A person who starts taking bath if he accidentally falls into a river.
Optimist: A person who while falling from Eiffel tower says in midway "See I am not injured yet."
Miser: A person who lives poor so that he can die rich.
Father: A banker provided by nature.
Criminal: A guy no different from the rest....except that he got caught.
Boss: Someone who is early when you are late and late when you are early.
Politician: One who shakes your hand before elections and your confidence after .
Doctor: A person who kills your ills by pills, and kills you with his bills.
Friday, September 15, 2006
Acceptance!!After waiting for a week with absolute fear and nervousness!!! I just received an email from the publishing house informing me that they are going to publish my book!!!!
FUCK YEAH!!!!!
Thursday, September 07, 2006
Manuscript SubmittingI just submitted my manuscript to another publishing house that liked my proposal. Now all I need from them is to like my manuscript so I could get it published!!!
So far I had two rejections, would the third be a charm?
Fingers crossed!!! BIG TIME!!!
Monday, September 04, 2006
Countries Visited
I have visited so far 90 countries, some through AIESEC, but most of them were just backpacking!
Find out what YOUR map looks like here
Friday, September 01, 2006
Long WeekendToday marks the first and only long weekend the UAE will ever go through. The goverment changed the original weekends (Thursdays & Fridays) to (Fridays & Saturdays) effective on September.
It's kinda wierd, changing the weekend in an entire country!!
Imagine if they changed it to Tuesdays & Wednesdays!!!
Does that really make a difference?