A history of a champion...

Sailing was a sport my father and grand father used to do. So it goes through the family. I have learned sailing from my dad in 1996. And he taught me the basics. Then I got trained by a Brazilian coach for almost 6 month. He taught me the rest of the basic and intermediate skills I had to know. And after these 6 months my dad got me a professional coach which was called Dave. Dave was my childhood trainer from all the trainers I got trains by I will not forget Dave. He taught me as if I was his son. In the water he was tough and back to the land no one was sweeter than him.


My first cup was in 1998, I got the 2nd place in the junior optimist class. I didn’t realize what’s going around me when they called my name. I still remember these moments, I see flashes of them right now. The main reason that made me get this cup was Dave, he trained me hard till I got all the skills needed to be within the first 10 ranks. And I made him jump from happiness when he saw me receiving the 2nd place trophy.







This was the beginning, I started by winning a race after race in the U.A.E race series. I was collecting cups from a race to a race with getting either one of the three first ranks. At the end of the season Dave traveled to him home country and I got a new professional trainer, this trainer is Omar. Omar is one of a kind he is not only a trainer he is also a life teacher. He taught me a lot of life skills as well as sailing skills. I till now think of him as my older brother. He supported me from childhood till now. Captain Omar as I call him normally taught me an advance skills of professional sailors. He used to be a windsurf champion is his past. And he had lived within the sea area for a long time. He taught me how to not see any boat in front me. He made me the U.A.E youngest sailor and The U.A.E Champion. I have achieved a lot under his support.



My experience and skills increased by the time I get into new races and meet people representing their own countries. These sailor have different skills so do I. I have invented new skills by the years and I used them to reach the international races. I have been to many international races and achieved the 5th in one them. And also sailed in many countries like Malaysia, Egypt, Qatar, Bahrain, and other places. I have also been choose twice for the world cup in Spain and China, but I didn’t go because my parents thought I’m still young for this adventure. And my last opportunity was getting accepted to represent my country in the Olympics, this is every athlete’s dream. I was dreaming for this chance but instead I left it aside. I left behind me my dream to become more famous and being involved in a huge event like this. The reason was my future, I had to choose between the academic side in my life and the sport side. And I choose the academic side and left my records behind me, walking away trying to find a better place and willing for the better future…

Converting a novel to a movie

The director faces hard obstacles in doing his job which is to do a successful movie. And one of the hardest things to do is to convert a novel to a movie. While converting a novel to a movie the director must take in mind that the movie must have a close picture to the novel which means it must have the same atmosphere as the novel. The movie must have the same setting, characters, and dialogues of the novel it self.

A lot of good movies come from successful novels. For example : "Wuthering Heights" , "Harry Potter" , "The Lord Of The Ring" , "The Green Mile", "Cider House Rules", "The French Connection" and many other novels. They all are the world top books which contain interesting stories and that are written by the best writers in the world like Charles Dickens, Robin Moore, Stephen King, Emily Rose, Jane Austen, and many other famous writers.

These novels come into two categories fiction and non fiction. Fiction needs more effort by the director than the non fiction because the setting in the fiction novels is imaginary and has many unfound items. The setting might almost impossible to do in a movie without the help of a computer or special effects. Special effects play a big role into giving the people a better opportunity and a clear image of what happening in the story. Special effects help making the atmosphere easier by adding sounds, graphics, and many other special features. It can also show the magical parts in some novels which we can't do in real life.

Choosing the right character is hard on the director. He or she must search for the people that fit the look and the shape of the character in the novel and he must be so accurate. The character must be able to replace the one in the novel by being able to express the feelings of him or her trying to show the audience that there is nothing different between him or her and the one in the story.

The movie minimizes the pages that might take you two weeks to read to two hours to watch. But the novel has more scenes than the movie because most directors delete unneeded scenes, and put only the most important ones, so that it won't be short or long. But it doesn't satisfy people who read the novel and gives them a big question marks on their head thinking of how the scene might look like. It's irritating to some people also to not see a scene that they liked in a novel.

In conclution, the director has a hard job to do. It's not easy to convert a novel to a movie. The director needs to be accurate while choosing and making every step in this process. And not forgetting the audience he must make them satisfied by making the movie exciting. So that it will attract more people and lead him to win lots of awards.