Ketchup is more than just a condiment...

Since I arrived in Bahrain, I always celebrated my valentines day going out with my friends (fancy dinner, bar, other house) This year, I had a simple but wonderful Valentines Day.. I never forget that moment, simple dinner at the rooftop with candles, food, wine, flowers and with my honey...

It was Sunday 7th of February 2010, first work day of the week I received a text message saying “Congratulations! Your number won 300,000 Pounds in the ongoing NOKIA UK PROMO. For details email us at nokiauklive@live.com or call +447035922936, hmmmm who’s in the world will not attempt not to reply or be curious to ask how you won, it’s a 300,000GBP that’s a big money… So I email them and letting them to know that I received this kind of text. Surprisingly they email me back after one day, and saying this kind of stuffed
ATTENTION : WINNER
Good to hear from you regarding the NOKIA MOBILE PROMO. My names are Dr Anthony Flyod I am the Nokia Cash officer assigned to winners on the Mobile sweepstake.
In line with the commemorating event marking our 142nd anniversary we rolled out over £16,000.000.00 (sixteen Million Great Britain Pounds) for our 142nd Anniversary Draws. All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn form 25,000 company mobile numbers, and 30,000,000 individual mobile numbers from the 45 mobile networks from Australia, New Zealand, North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Africa as part of International Promotions Program, which is conducted annually in Britain, London.
This promo is approved by the British Gaming Board and also licensed by the International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR). This promo is the 1st of its kind and we intend to sensitize the public. To begin the verification process of your prize, you are required to send your Identification proof as email attachment, identification proof can be your driving license, international passport ,working identity card, government identity card etc, for verification as the right full winner and also you are to fill the claims form below.
Whoaaaa! After I filled up their so called “ claims form” the next day they sent me this email
1. NOKIA MOBILE SWEEPSTAKES PROMO.
2ND FLOOR BERKLEY SQUARE HOUSE
BERKLEY SQUARE LONDON W1J 6BD,
LONDON. UNITED KINGDOM .
VERIFICATION CONFIRMATION
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Once again Congratulations, we the staffs of NOKIA congratulate you as one of our lucky winners. Your mobile number have won you the sum of £300,000.00 GBP ( Three Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds) and all information concerning the facilitation of your claims will commence as soon as you fill and submit the NOKIA PAYMENT RELEASE FORM attached to this message.
Note: Your mobile number tagged to your winning verification number is
VERIFICATION NO.: CN-435-663-6
Every section on the form. to the best of your knowledge be correct so as to avoid any form of falsification which could render the form useless and might lead to disqualification.
Note: that your funds have been insured and no deductions of any kind can be made on your funds due to the following reasons as follows below
(1) Funds has been Insured to an High Insurance policy that make it difficult to deduct from.
(2) Beneficiary is the one to pay for any Imposed Charges against his/her funds.
(3) The British Government stated in The BHC Law book 45-1 stanza 12, That winning funds should be remitted In exact value of amount won to winner.
YOUR WON PRIZE IS CONSISTING OF A NOKIA N95 SERIES MOBILE PHONE AND A SEALED WORLD BANK CHEQUE OF 300,000 POUNDS ISSUED OUT IN YOUR NAME [ WHICH CAN BE CASHED AT ANY STANDARD BANK IN THE YOUR RESIDING COUNTRY ] AND ALL NOKIA ORIGINAL CERTIFICATES REGARDING THIS PROMOTION.
DUE TO THE AMOUNT OF MONEY COMING IN A CHEQUE TO YOU, IT CANNOT BE SENT TO YOUR LOCAL DELIVERY SO THATS IS WHY WE ARE GOING TO USE A DIPLOMATIC SERVICE DELIVERY FOR THE OPTION YOU HAVE CHOSEN, AND THIS DIPLOMATIC SERVICE WILL DELIVER YOUR PARCEL TO YOUR DOORSTEP AND TO WHOSE SIGNATORY IS ON THE NOKIA PAYMENT RELEASE FORM.
PAYMENT RELEASE FORM
FORM NO. CN503/09
_____________________________________________________
NAME:________________________________________
Surname Middle name First name
WINNING MOBILE NUMBER_____________
VERIFICATION NUMBER_____________________________
DELIVERY OPTIONS
Any of the Three listed courier service will be able to deliver your prize to your address.You are to choose any of the courier service option suitable and affordable to you for the delivery of your won prize to your address. The chosen courier service account officer’s details will be sent to you for you to make your payment for the courier fee.
UNITED STATE POSTAL SERVICE
Courier Charges: £590.00
Insurance £1300.00 (PAID)
Administrative: £220.00 (PAID)
Total: £590.00 pounds
Duration Of Time: 48 Hours after payment
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COURIER SERVICE
Courier Charges: £540.00
Insurance £1300.00 (PAID)
Administrative: £220.00 (PAID)
Total: £540.00 pounds
Duration Of Time: 72 Hours after payment
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WORLDWIDE EXPRESS
ACI-EXPRESS COURIER SERVICE
Courier Charges: £530.00
Insurance: £1250.00 (PAID)
Administrative: £210.00 (PAID)
Total: £530.00 pounds
Duration Of Time: 83 Hours after payment
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Also be reminded that the deadline for the claiming of winnings is exactly one week after the receipt of this email. After this drawings period, your cash prize will be deemed to have been forfeited by you and will be re-used in the next edition of the Nokia Promo.
The charges are a little high because of the international shipping rate and the insurance cover we have Undertaken incase of loss,damage or theft of your highly sensitive document.We assume all responsibilities in-case of any eventualities.
NOTE : The INSURANCE and ADMINISTRATIVE Charges have been paid by the MANAGEMENT OF NOKIA, You are only responsible for the Courier Fees of the Courier Service you have selected and this must be paid before the Delivery is made in order for your prize to be registered by the Delivery Service.
COURIER SERVICE OPTION _____________________________
Delivery Address:
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
PAYMENT DATE FOR COURIER FEE _____________________________
DECLARATION
I __________________________________________ hereby confirm that all the information given above and attached copies of Identification is to the best of my Knowledge and is true and correct. Any tempering or falsification of the above data render this claim invalid and void.
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date.
Congratulations once again.
Yours faithfully,
Dr.. Anthony Floyd
Nokia Mobile Promo.
Information and Payment Bureau:
London Representative Office.
Tel:+44-703-592-2936
Copyright ©2010okia. All rights reserved.


Grrrrrr, good thing I ask my sister to help me and get out from this scam… I just don’t understand why there still a lot of people doing this fraud.. and making people be stupid!!!! I just wish that karma will attack them… See link http://conversations.nokia.com/2009/03/06/nokia-dont-do-lotteries-beware-the-scam/

I know I have a challenge to accomplish, and what I did last weekend is not a good start to reach my goal, I ate a lot of chocolate cake hmmmmm!!!!! I been so badly and I almost kill myself eating chocolate and cookies, pansit and lumpia for whole night. Since I stayed late, I didn’t manage to wake up and go to gym, just lay in bed, and wait to get ready for another heavy breakfast ohhhhh that’s horrible the blueberry pancake was fantastic and again I forget my goal I took three pancakes, for sure nobody can say no when the food show up in your face sweet!!!
Well in spite of forgetting my goal, I forced myself to go and watch the Bahrain Air show, and yes I made it, spend my day under the sand with strawberry milkshakes man again I’m out of control..
I guess that’s very bad start and not a good sign,,,, Let’s see what happen next..

If we say condiment it is something to use to give a special flavor to food, such as mustard, spices, or ketchup :) hmmmm that’s me, i start using that nickname when i got here in Bahrain on 2007 and when my friends start calling me ketchup. I love ketchup that’s why I like my name because its kinda "saucy" and I know i can give a special flavor to my life, for almost four years here in Bahrain I did a lot of things a good and bad, all same routine wake up, go work, spent time in a bar, got wasted, got drunk , spent money unwisely, have fun with my girlfriends, go some places in bahrain just be there without appreciating it, cried when get hurt, revenge if possible, and be fool. But I learned to be strong, to be independent, to live and think right, now its 2010 I want to do something more evocative, to change my routine into something useful and learn more. Start this year I will challenge myself to reach my goals and it will start first in a simple way.
Here are my challenges;
1. Last year I always spent money to enroll on an expensive gym FITNESS FIRST. Pay too much money just to keep myself fit, and reach my dream abs but nothing happen, means no improvement. Now, my goal is to work more, less money and get my dream abs.
Target time – 69 days.
Challenge - to have my dream body.

2. I’m not good in English, how to deliver speech, and how to construct a correspondence, I’m not good also in grammar hmmm okay spelling sometimes.
Challenge – Read 30 books with minimum 300 pages
Target Time – 281 days.
Goal – not only to beat the target time, I should also understand the book and learn from it.

3. Last year I spent my weekends going out in a bar, now I want to spend my weekend exploring Bahrain.
• Target place
• - Al Fateh Mosque
• Al Khamis Mosque
• Arad Fort
• Bab Al Bahrain
• Manama Souq
• Gold Souq
• Bahrain Fort
• Bahrain Grand Prix
• Bahrain National Museum
• Barbar Temple
• Beit Al Qur'an
• Dilmun Burial Mounds
• Scuba diving
• First Oil Well
• Horse riding
• Jasra House
• Khalid Al Khajah Fort
• King Fahd Causeway
• Riffa Fort
• Riffa Golf Club
• Shaikh Isa's house
• Siyadi House
• Tree of Life
• Novotel
• Ritz Carlton
• New park near in Airport
• Waterfall near Aiport
• Big Falcon Near in Aiport
I have to take a picture on each place and post a blog about what I found interesting on that place.

4. Last Challenge is to visit the BSPCA, spend at least one hour to volunteer to take care of the dogs..
All my obstacle and achievement, interesting or not will be posted to my blog. This is my first blog and I hope by doing this will help me to change my life and I learn everything. I know from others this is a simple task, but for me this will be my big challenge and will prove something to myself. I know I can do this coz Ketchup is more than just a condiment.