Video credits belong to Luis Fonsi - Despacito ft. Daddy Yankee - from the Collection of songs of Nourah Alkhereiji YouTube Channel
It was Nourah of Arab Newspaper, the first person who encouraged Paul to blog. Also, it was her pushed him to pursue his plan to study Journalism and Short Story writing courses with the Writers Bureau in Manchester, London in 1999-2000 by mail and with the ICS - International Correspondence School in Pennsylvania, the USA in 2000-2001 also by mail - during those years, he was working with Kawasaki Helicopter (S.A.) Limited as an account analyst - owned by Sheik Abed-Leilah Kaki of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia for the period from March 23, 1994, to April 30, 2012.
On January 31, 1999, he wrote a letter and sent it off to the editor-in-chief of Arab Newspaper - Mr. Khaled A. Al-Maeena for Nourah Alkhereiji whom he mistakenly addressed as Big Mister.
His letter reads, "Hundreds of thousands of OFWs have loved, saluted and commended Nourah for his dedication to writing such exposes, to edify readers to know behind the perception, disregarding any race". It was approximately 22-year passed from the day Paul wrote the draft.
He thought Nourah was a guy. His daring exposes re "Mutawwas give self a new role" as they loved to impose the law - mandated in the prevention of vices and promoting virtues in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Arab Newspaper published the said article written by Nourah on January 30, 1999.
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| Arab Newspaper - an English language newspaper in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia |
After a week, gaiety filled Paul's heart - he received a letter from Mr. Tarik Alkhereiji - the brother of Nourah telling him that Mr. Al-Maeena, the editor-in-chief of Arab Newspaper forwarded the letter to Nourah. He said his sister wanted to thank him for his encouraging letter and she wanted to point out too - that mistake Paul had in referring to his sister Nourah as big Mister.
Immediately, Paul replied to his letter. He explained to him what caused his mistake. A few days later, Paul received again another letter from Mr. Tarik telling him that his sister has understood it, the reason why Paul made that mistake.
That mistake Paul made addressing Nourah as a big Mister has pushed him to write more and more.
With the help of the Internet, Paul started to look for an online group where he could exchange ideas with all the members of the group. In 2000, he started to create his personal blog at Blogger.com.
Of course, love is his other reason why he would write. Like Nourah Alkhereiji - who loves to write about anything that interests her even the English language is not her language according to his brother Tarik - most of her news articles were written in her Arabic language. Nourah is a daring and competent writer that the Arab Newspaper must be proud of. Wish she can read this piece - Paul's simple way to say "Thank You".
Like Nourah, Paul could write too because he has love in his heart. He has the desire to become a writer too, someday. Because of love, his interest to write about anything and everything that he mostly liked and loved is growing every day. (To be continued in part 14)
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