Thank God, the joke is finally OVER

It's been a tedious month here in Muscat for the year 2006. And all because of Muscat Festival 2006.

The worst organizing, the worst performance, and the worst time ever to bring on such a festival with so many media lies about who, what, where and why as to what is going on in the festival.

350,000 people visit the festival during 2 days of the festival on a weekend? Gimme a break! Where do they get their numbers from? There's no transperency as to where or what their sources are.

First it was a few classy dance acts to perform on the Muscat Amphitheatre during the festival period; then there was the mourning of several rulers and other royal families of the GCC region that led to cancellation of all the other festivals in the same region. But what does Muscat Muncipality do? Send out 500,000 SMS messages to the over one million subscribers telling them that Oman Mobile that although there have been all these big drastic tragedies in the area, Muscat Festival 2006 still goes on.

I am just glad for two things; one of which is that during this period I never entered any of the areas that the festival was running on so I wasn't jammed up with so many people who don't know whether they're coming or going and second; that tomorrow (Friday) is the last day of the worst ever festival to hit the face of this planet (if there's any worse, do let me know I just might end up making a list).

Good riddens, Muscat Festival 2006.