I’ve just got out of my exam, It’s so damn shitty, and I was angry, when I got into the bus, I heared the news, and It just hit me to hear about the disaster occured today in Indonesia. This is so hard.
Let’s pray for all the victims of the quake, and let’s pray to have more survivors. Please add them to your prayers.
Im still away, I’ll be back this weekend.. God bless our souls!
Images copied from [ BBC ]
Hey everybody, I think I’ll be away for about one week. My final exams start next Saturday 27/May, and ends on Thursday 1st/June. Of course im not gonna study 24 hrs a day, I just wanna give my mind a break from the cyber world. I still have many stories to tell, and many things to discuss, and Im sure you gonna miss all, hehe. anyway, these are some photos from Palestine, some of them were taken by friends, Amjad and Munther, and others were downloaded from the net. Most of the photos were taken from : Ramallah City, Jerusalem City, Nablus City, and Hebron City.
You can also find my photos on my Flickr Account.
Click on each image for larger view, the name of each image is self-descriptive
Wish Me luck !!
This is one of my best friends ever, and we took this pic while working on some project. I asked him if it’s ok that I upload his photo, he said ok but don’t write down my name for some unknow reasons!
By the way, he is one of my best friends, and we really had good times working on that project. He is funny and smart.
Anyway, I would like to know what do you think of this smart guy.
Please vote, your opinion is very important to us, as we are looking forward getting this guy married.
Abed : I haven’t done anything at the weekend, I watched some stupid movies.
Ghassan : We already know, we read your blog .
Waleed : Man! you’re writing everything at your blog!
Ghassan : If you go to toilet, are you going to write about it ?
Abed : Yes, of course! Its like a detailed documentation of my life.
Waleed : ok, then write about the toilet stuff.
Abed : Okay Dokay!
Ghassan : HaHaHa
Alright,
I usually go to toilet at 8:00 AM when I wake up, I sometimes go to toilet after the first lecture ( 11:20 Am ), I go to toilet at 5:30 PM when Im back home, and I go to toilet before I sleep, usually at 1:00 AM.
This is the normal daily schedule, If anything new happen, I will let you know as soon as possible !!
I’ve been tagged by Neverland. Thanks my friend.
(Updated) I tag : Qwaider , Ola, Wedad, and moi ((myoccupation).
Here we go…
5 people who top your shitlist, and why:
If I answer this one, I will either end up in Jail or dismissed from university, let’s skip it 
Close brushes with death dangers:
I hate to remember this one, but It was at summer 2004, I was eating Falafel sandwich at the uni, and suddenly I got choked! I tried hard to breathe but I couldn’t, my friends were freaked out, and they couldn’t do anything to help me, I was unable to breathe for about 4 to 5 minutes, my skin got blue, I kept on struggling to breathe but I couldn’t, I tried hard to take air in, but I couldn’t, and I finally gave up, I realized that I can’t breathe anymore, I thought It was over, untill an old christian women working in the admission department came and raised my head up!
That women and I are good friends now.
5 Preferably modes of suicide, in descending order:
Suicide is prohibted in Islam. but if I were to choose the way I die, I will make it with honor.
5 Guilty Pleasures:
1. Doing any stupid thing at the night before an exam.
2. Wasting my time programming.
3. Making a professor looks like an idiot infront of students.
4. Involving myself in an extremely hard unecessary project.
5. Hacking my friend’s personal emails. It’s funny, but sometimes I feel guilty!
5 Things you never want to forget:
1. To thank Allah for everything.
2. My personal power, at all levels.
3. My Childhood dreams.
4. My long-term targets.
5. My country.
5 Things you wish to forget:
1. All Arabs disappointments.
2. The look at the face of my mother the day my sister died.
3. Faces of the three close persons I had to bury with my hands.
4. I have no country anymore.
5. My points of weakness.
5 really exotic dishes you have tried: As a Vegetarian:
1. Italian Pasta.
2. Cheese Pastries.
3. Thyme with olive oil (zait w za3tar).
4. Fruits Salad.
5. Fried Cauliflower.
5 crushes/loves in your life… in chronological order:
there’s only one love in my life.
Strangest dream you’ve ever had:
When I was at the 4th or 5th grade, I can’t remeber. I saw myself in the Judgment day, and I was infront of the Meezan, where my sins were very heavy and Allah got angry and said I had to go to hell, I started crying loudly, and I realized that there’s no way out, and then I woke up ! creepy ain’t it?!
5 most valued personal possessions:
1. Ralph Lauren fragrance, It was a reward from my sister cause I was the best student at the 10th grade. I still have the empty bottle.
2. My high school degree of honor.
3. An old Palestinian 10 shillings, I found it in the garden of my grandparents in Jenin when I was 8 yrs old.
4. Candle and Bear from a special person.
5. My dairys when I was 9 years old.
5 favorite superheroes, and why:
1. Abu-Bakr Al-Seddeeq. He sets a great example of the friendly leader, whom was beloved by kids, and the tuff one who built the Islamic state.
2. Salah Al-Deen Al-ayyoubi. An Example of “I can, and I will”.
3. My Father.
4. My Mother.
5. Prof. Saed Younis, Founder of Al-Bahith company. ( See a breif biography Here with the MIT Arab Alumini)
Fin 
Congress is about to vote on the so-caled Net Neutrality !! Good thing , not ?
Click Here to watch a flash demo
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I haven’t read the book yet, I probably won’t read it, cuz im waiting to see the movie, I don’t want to know the whole story before I watch the movie, Im that kinda person who likes to watch the movie without knowing anything about it, I only see posters of the movie. And This one should be special, cuz Tom Hanks if my favorite actor.
Click Here to go the the official website of the movie. Very exciting one!
About the controversy this movie created, you can Click Here to read what the director says about the movie.
well, I guess todayI finished almost all my tasks, delivered the last homework, and had disucssed my graduation project (phase I) survey, guess I did fine. Everything was ok. However, no much time left for the final exams, I will start at May/27 and finish at June/1st, so I’d better start preparing myself soon.
Anyway, I had nothing to do today. I visited my aunt, and got some sleep, and then I thought I should watch a movie , cause I didn’t feel like seeing anybody or talking to anybody. I went to the movie store, to get some copied DVDz.
I started looking at the movies albums, I had nothing on my mind, I was just looking for anything good, so I took a fast look at the movies and each time I ask for a movie, the movie store guy says “Oh Sorry, this one is already taken !” “Man, Im sorry, this copy has not arrived yet!” I was like Damn! what a bad luck ! even in the most ridiculous things, bad luck is haunting me. Anyway, after about 45 minutes, I gave up! I asked that guy to give me anything he thinks is fine, I asked him to choose anything comedy, I was not in the mood of watching anything else but comedy. so he gave two movies, I hadn’t even looked at the names of the movies. But this time, the choices were pretty fine.
the first movies was : The 40-year-old virgin.
This one was funny, well I won’t say much about it, the name of the movie speaks its self. My favorite part of the movie was how Steve Carell(the 4o yr old) used to spend his time, you know without girlfriend or wife or kids at that age, he used to play video games, read stupid comics, spend 3 hours making his Mayonaise Sandwich ! LOL
If you have finished your exams, and you wanna have some good laugh, then this should be a good choice. I give it 3 Stars.
The second movie was : The Dukes of Hazzards.
and this one was funny too. It’s about a small southern town “Hazzard”, everything is normal and quiet in the town, except the two Dukes, they enjoyed driving their car, and annoying the town, but those guys will save their town at the end of the movie. Those guys were funny freaks, with stupid southern attitude. Jessica Simpson’s (another Duke) was their hot cousin, she always saves their butts, using her irresistible magic. Again, if you’re bored enough to spend 2 hours watching a movie, then this one is ok. you will get a good laugh too. I give it 3 Stars too.
I think I have nothing else to say…
I ate two cheese burgers, drank an Orange juice, then cup of Tea, and finally a cup of White American Coffee with Milk. All at the same hour. And they taste good !
Sue Me!!
As this semester is almost over, I have some thoughts to share. Well, I don’t feel Ok! My
problem is that a job half-started is a job not completed to my standards, and this was the case of many projects this semester. The most annoying project was the Simulation & Modeling project, I was given a Master Thesis about Artificial Intelligence, In which Neural Networks System identifies liver fibrosis features and distinguishes between the normal and the fibrotic liver. The main task was to simulate the performance of the multi-layered feed forward Neural network and a polynomial approximation of the interconnected neurons, which is not a pleasant taks for undergraduate student. I choosed this problem, I could’ve choosen an easier one, but challenge is my passion. The major problem was with the Polynomial approxiamtion code, it was a bad-designed code. That is, It was desinged for specific problem, and can’t be altered to fit another problem. Moreover, Neither the Thesis nor the Polynomial Approximation codes were documented, so I had to understand both codes (coded using MATLAB.), and to acheive the task. I spent long nights trying to solve the dilemma, and finally I’ve reached a point were I realized that the code I was given is trash and can’t do the problem.
This is considered uncompleted task to me! Thing is, I wasted my time doing this unsolvable higher-level problem, and this is completely wrong. It’s all or nothing for my mind, a tendency I would desperately like to overcome. This perfectionism is killing me!
Im just looking for some balance in my life, and I know exactly how to acheive it, as Aristotle said: “one can know the path to walk yet be prevented by incontinence” .
This might be a battle of the appetitive. Once my appetite to succeed overcomes my appetite for short term enjoyment of things that could be put off, then I will be unstoppable. There has got to be a way to encourage that Success Appetite so that I may stand upright again.
I’ve just received these pictures in en email message, and I have already felt sleepy !!
Have a nice day !
Bad Habits of University Students in Jordan: Part 1
I wanted to write about this topic long time ago, but I dunno why I always keep procrastinating, I think I should join the procrastinators club!
Anyway, as a 4th year student in the engineering school of JUST, I think I’ve tried almost everything a student could do, except those red lines, if you know what I mean.
In Irbid city, you will have a typical student life, specially if you are living with roommates from Yarmouk university, where studying is their last priority. I don’t blame them at all, because they are victims of the trash system we have.
A typical student day:
First you wake up, probably at 10:00 am if you’re lucky, oh sure you’ve missed the 8:00 am lecture, now you should get dressed, which is not an easy job at all! you must start looking for the “cleanest” piece you have, and you might waste at least 20 minutes searching for you clothes everywhere, and It’s so damn hard to remeber where did you throw your cloths last time. Eventually, you will get dressed, then you will go down the street, looking for the nearset bicycle guy who sells the cheapest coffee in the street, light your “Viceroy” cigarette or Vaysoory as the Egyptian grocery guy call it, and then head to your “great” campus.
Let’s skip the daytime for now, and jump to the point where you come back home, probably at 5:00 pm. Now you will eat at some restaurant, since cooking is the last thing the world you want to learn, and Ugh, I need at least two posts to speak about the restaurants here, let’s skip it now!
Now it’s 7:00 pm, and you have nothing to do ! I mean really nothing! There’s no decent place to do any decent activity at, and even if such place exist, you will not have enough money to afford! so the typical thing to is to go and spend the night with the other (losers) collegues.
Then the interesting conversations begin! I’ll give you some examples of our extremely unproductive self-destructing conversations. Some guys act as teenage drama queens, they keep speaking about girls, and how cute are these girls, and bla bla… and you will have to listen to the same shit everyday, EVERYDAY, for 5 years.!
Others are sexually freaks, they are always speaking about sex, they can be funny, but It’s getting disgusting sometimes. What annoys me the most are those guys whom are always complaining!! either from their bad grades or from their miserable out-of-target lives…
Well nothing really interesting in the conversations we have, you get bored quickly, so then comes the so-called “Shi Sha” or Hubble Bubble or Hooka, It’s really important when you have nothing important to talk about, and you need something to do except looking at each others. This Shi Sha thingy is really bad, It’s more dangerous than smoking, and It’s a main cause of cancer, and It’s a waste of time and money! and It became one major part of any student life. I can’t imagine that I smoke Shi Sha with an average 6 times per month, which sux! my whole life I was an Athlete, I’ve always loved GYM, and I was a damn good ping pong player, great soccer player, and an impressive swimmer, now Im a lazy smoker! Don’t blame me, here we have nothing to do, but studying and smoking.
PS: Im not a smoker, I smoke shi sha ocassionaly.
Oh I beleive I’ve critiqued girls for smoking shi sha, I think Im not anymore…
Yesterday night, I was supposed to be studying for my exam the next day, but you know, you always have new hobbies and interests when you have exams. I was reading some blogs from the Arab blogsphere. I stepped by Ramroom blog, and as usual, she had a great post, but with an unusual comment from Abu 7amarneh & Wedad. Abu 7amarneh said that money can buy love, wedad acknowledged what he said. I said that Love can buy the short-term love. some people got me wrong.
So what the hell is “Short-term” love ??
let me explain. the short-term love from my point of view, is the love that doesn’t last. Imagine that a girl liked a guy because of his money or car or whatever reason, then this attraction becomes the so-called love, and then this love becomes real and true. Now this happens everyday. But for sure, this love won’t last, because the first reason of love can vanish at any moment. I remember I heared a quotation in a movie, maybe, It says ” the virtue of love is to love the imperfect person perfectly” and this is it.
I think love is to love the person for what she/he is, not for what she/he have, or for you want her/him to be, and this is the kind of love that lasts.
Now let me ask you, can moeny buy love like the love between the Father and his son ?? Can you find anyone that could love as your grandmother loves you ?? now this is different, and is priceless.
Can money make you live longer ???
Can money make your dead mother come back from death ??
Can money make you smarter ???
Can money make you funny ???
Absolutely not!
you see, money can’t even give the essentials of life, I don’t wanna look like some perfcionist philospher, but I really think that money is a tool, and a double edged weapon, that can make you either happier, or can make your life even worse.
Enough morals for today!
