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Book Review, ‘Jaddid Hayatak’

It was that day .. I was feeling so low and generally bored from life. I had nothing to do, I think it was before I was accepted at the company I’m working at now.

It was a recap day, though weird, but recently, I have many of those days, maybe because I’ll graduate (hopefully!) soon, I can’t articulate a reason. In a recap day, I keep rewinding back through my life and remember some very moments that touches the deep of my heart.

Interesting mile stones to be sure, I left KSA, lost my mother, finished secondary school, entered college, and wheeoo .. college itself. I also keep thinking about my future, family, work and life overall.

Vivid the thing becomes when you catch upon a happy moment on the long stripe, however, ailing way more than be borne the feeling of recalling a bad moment .

A thing you always keep telling yourself when having a self-session of life-judgment, is the so longed-for “I want to change”, “I want to be different”, “I want to be better” .. mottoes, that, sadly, imitates a perfect life to pursue, but never actually was the right motive to take off and start to change, be different nor better !

So .. what is the right motive ? .. what’s that thing that will actually change you. Some say love changes people .. some say need .. I say .. follow your instincts .. you can be the very motive to change.

Funny! .. those sessions of recap I have, are usually while am taking a walk inside the house!, some calm neighborhood .. or even before I sleep. The later kind is the most annoying if you ask me .. la2ennak hatnam metnakked

Anyway .. what the heck does the post topic have to do with all this blabber ?!!

Well, during a recap day house walk .. I found the book appearing keda from inside one of our huge home library’s shelves. I was having nothing to keep myself busy with .. so I grabbed it, and though I follow constantly the condition of the library, books in and out, their kinds and places and so .. but this book .. it was the first time I see it!

I opened it and I found a handwritten dedication: “To whoever seeks the life of heart, they will find it at Hamdi Othman” …. who is my father .. obbbaa .. kedga ya dgadgy mat2oleesh

Guys! .. this book is the most fantastic thing I ever read in my entire life .. mesh momken!.

Sheikh Mohamed Al-Ghazali wrote this book which is simply a comparative study, this kind of study in Islamic books generally compares something in Islam with a corresponding topic from other cultures or religions.

The author was comparing between a foreign book of the author Dale Carnegie; How to Stop Worrying and Start Living with Islam .. and how the people whose stories Dale mentioned is his book are the normal paths taken according to mankind nature and instinct created by God Allah, the same God who created Islam .. which is the more correct and even faster way to start living a happy life!.

Of course it’s not a proof that Islam is a nice religion, it’s a show of how lives and pure natures obey at the end the rules God created .. in Islam and simply life!

After I read the book, it appeared how was it oblivious to me the idea of religion. The book says it clear, religion (Islam) is life with all its meanings, feelings, rules, changes, aspects, people, morals … go on and say etc!

Besides the very solid and rational words the book speaks, it’s lovely .. way too lovely and comfortable .. I became addicted .. whenever I feel low, bored, ruined or depressed .. I read some pages from the book.

When you open it, from the first words, you feel that the author is smiling in his writing. You know that when I want to express happiness or consent, I write this emoticon ‘ ‘ .. however, you feel him smiling through all his words without any kind of emoticons

You can touch how wise, calm and happy he is when narrating his words, declaring his beautiful judgments and transferring his exceptional inner peace!

Fellows .. this is the real Muslim man I will ever wish to be in my miserable life, I felt self-loathe when I compared myself to the perfect life the book depicted and how simple it was to acquire!

The book name is Jaddid Hayatak, written by Sheikh Mohamed Al-Ghazali. My copy is from Dal Al Shourook. Me and my friends asked there but copies were out .. and we’re waiting for the new publication.

Please .. if something worths the minutes you always loose reading my boring blog, then it’s buying this book .. please .. read it.

regards,

Count Down ..

End of March 2008 .. 3 months to go.

Mmm .. right this moment .. I completed 10 hours working on my graduation project for the meeting tomorrow with the Dr.

I remember well the day I entered college .. it was back in September 2004 .. I recall it to be a Sunday, was one of the toughest days in my life to be honest, for that day, the Math doctor slapped us with a full-day lecture!

Hhmmm .. a lot of thoughts to write about. But I feel blank somehow.

Believe me .. you’ll find me posting about college again for sorrow .. though I try not to .. but sometimes you can’t stop thinking about something so related.

Three months .. and I will finish (isA) .. a 4 years ordeal.

Three months .. and I will be on the edge of maybe a bitter road .. or .. why not a better one!

Good things should be cherished inside those years .. nice friends .. some happy moments .. I need to write about all those before I leave them.

However .. some moments causes sadness and hive .. moments that also needn’t be left unmentioned.

Thanks to college .. I became immune to many things lately .. I feel cold-minded in an overly way lately .. but .. you know .. it feels good ..

Anyways .. I can see that I began to hallucinate .. maybe because I’m extremely fatigue right now .. but .. wait for my posts soon

Bye,

8 Facts about me ..

Yes, it’s the game. You should paste the rules, mention 8 facts about yourself that, supposedly, your readers don’t know about you and then tag 8 of your friends. I was tagged by Asmaa, thank you Asmaa!

The rules:

In the 8 Facts About Yourself, you share 8 things that your readers don’t know about you. Then at the end you tag at least 8 other bloggers to keep the fun going.

Here are the rules:

* Each blogger must post these rules first.

* Each blogger starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.

* Bloggers that are tagged need to write on their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.

* At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.

* Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.

Actually, I checked my blogroll :D, and hehe .. there ain’t 8 friends.

Anyways .. I’ll mention the facts, because I like the idea pretty much! and about tagging, maybe I’ll tag those who’d be interested.

8 Facts about me :

1. I love sour things and hate sweet things (I’m addicted to Skittles).
2. I have three younger sisters. My mom passed away 4 years ago.
3. I lived in Saudia Arabia for 16 years!
4. I adore summer and hate winter!
5. People paint a completely different picture of me when they get to know me well.
6. I can not save money! which is a disaster I didn’t think about solving yet.
7. I love cartoons (all kinds :D)
8. I never really reached 100% of my studying abilities. I believe I can do better all the time.

Well .. those were some :D. I tag Gimmy, Mostafa, Islam, Psycho, Darwish, Karim, Mahmoud and Zinabo.

Those are the ones who blog in our lovely class :D.

Well, see ya soon,

It’s Natural ..

“It’s Natural” is a post I sent in one of the facebook groups I joined recently, it was concerned about Hijab. If you have the chance to look at the group first, it’d be more convenient before reading my post.

I will paste it here because I want sincere comments about it.

The group mainly targets non-Muslims to convince them that Hijab is a different definition of beauty and that Muslim women around the world should merit the right to wear Hijab exactly as non-Muslims wear all those different kinds of cloth.

Gimmy, gave me one hell of a cool comment about it, but online while we were chatting, please Gimmy, I’d really appreciate it if you drop me the comment again

If you have a facebook account (sadly!), you can read it here.

If, however, you were lucky enough to get rid of the facebook mania, here goes:

Breifing the Twins …

This is what I got out with from reading the posts I wrote in my two very humble and small spaces.

It’s quite weird to read what you have written in the past .. so here goes the self-commentary on some of the articles I wrote: (you can play the associated music if you wish) …

Sing Life!

You’re sweating and breathing hard .. your heart anguish is so sound that you even try to slow it down with your bare hands across your chest.

You feel that you want to be released from your body and mind and just rise some where in the fantasy of calmness and freedom .. so clean .. so full of your favorable fresh air aroma with some roses and flowers in the sky.

You actually start to fly! or more figuratively go away in any direction .. seamlessly until those roses become below your own toes, and that light from above .. you know not where exactly it’s source is .. but it’s so very bright and penetrating.

You’ll continue the dream until you fall off the bed .. or when your neighborhood comes next in your fancy filthy micro-bus manufactured in middle age!!

Alright .. I’ll talk real stuff now ..

I think that a count down to something relative to the above nothingness began with the start of this term .. count down to finish college .. and to conclude a remarkable period in my life. Approaching the idea of countdown itself is a relief! .. but really .. nothing is that perfect in life .. it’s the only rule I’ve seen till now .. that every thing! .. every little tiny or massive biggy thing abide by .. life is a victim of itself! .. nothing is whatever ‘adjective’ you choose, I say nothing is perfect .. at the same time .. nothing is so not perfect .. all things are fuzzy (I have a soft computing mid-term exam tomorrow btw ..).

Another Microsoft Knockout …

Tafiti

This is so cool btw .. check also this wikiHow article on how to use Tafiti.

You’ll need Microsoft SliverLight installed.

Enjoy ..

cheers,

Painful … but Right!

Simply put, life is full of facts and scenes that wanting-to-think minds can clearly see and judge through; anyone, therefore, can easily construct some rules, according to their mind processing those facts and scenes, to abide by and above all to live in a comfortable way.

However, and if you know how much I dislike howevers, some people, strangely very good, descent and informative people, overlook those facts and ignore those scenes, which in my opinion, is literally skipping the reason behind mind entirely.

Alas, erratic rules and judgments follow, strange actions therefore take place!; actions that are backing the side of no freaking entity (someone of course) at all !!

Me, ibhog, witnessed in my humble age 4 or 5 incidents and is actually watching the 6th happening in front of my eyes, concerning a very important person in my life, and I can’t do nothing. Please help me God! .. I am miserable those days because of that really.

Why not use our minds, God created minds beside our hearts and feelings right?, or I am the only one who is heartless and full of mind !!

Watch the title of the post carefully … you’ll notice that the first word is a feeling which is thought by myself to be fully hearty, I am not speaking about how painful it would be if you put your hand in a fire for 5 seonds by math!!, I hope you get me. I am also not speaking about the kind of pain you’ll feel when someone is thrust in the fire in front of your eyes and you can’t act to prevent it.

I am speaking about this kind of pain; when you’re a father and you have to say good bye to your son who is traveling in an internship abroad, you agreed to let him go, though you can fully prevent this from happening and your son will obey you, but though all of that, you allowed him to be departed from you!

Why would you allow him? because, though painful … , it’s RIGHT!, you, judge it the right thing to do, the thing that will make all parties happy! even if not in a soon time.

Well, don’t think that the above happened, though anticipated !!. Anyways, all of the above I can tolerate, as long as I can catch the right moment to clear things and give the important warnings to come out, or more accurately, to cross over with the least of losses.

What I can’t tolerate is the following:

If you, suddenly, find yourself obligated to do something, or to accept reality or to surrender to current circumstances because some stupid entity was careful enough to not include you in taking the right decision back there … that’s what I can’t tolerate! especially when harm actually reached many parties already, but all of us will have to go with waves of life (heck!) and accept whatever happens (WE KHALAS !!!!!).

Well, I don’t think furious would be the right word to describe me, but belay that for now. I need to take action, right one, and quickly before I witness the the sixth most miserable incident in my life, because simply I won’t bear any more.

I talked with the good, descent and informative parties and tried to explain my view of the situation (a real situation, that’s not a green country post!), but in vain, the victim is already in the hunters net and we can’t free the victim without causing it excessive (in their opinion) pain, poor they!! all of them !! .. for they don’t know that the victim will be sucked to death from blood and eaten !! (that’s just a metaphor to be sure !!!)

You might say that I am overly angry and enthusiastic, the same was thrown at me in the 5 past happenings, which I myself am still suffering from the effects till now, no one listened and everybody now say that I should’ve been listened to and paid attention to !! but the same ignorant circle is rolling again and again, the very stupid tone of: “well, what can we do now, rabena ysahel ba2a, heya hatet7al men 3ando !!!”.

I can’t reveal now the details really, but I think you got what it takes to say your opinion and please don’t say it’s a dilemma because it’s not!! .. a dilemma is between two equally likely entities not a conundrum between heart and mind !!!!

I say it for the thousandth time : heart won’t buy food for your children to eat, it won’t build you the haven that will contain you and your lovely family, and it certainly won’t make you bear the pain of a burning hand in the fire.

It’s MIND!!! .. which will guide you, MIND will be your main tool to go there in the great fight called life, MIND will be the best armor there is that will make you live safely and happily even if on the far horizons of time.

Somehow, heart and minds are both vital for life, but keeping them in their respective domains can make things a lot easier and smooth!, and I think you know, from my past writings, that I am very emotional at sometimes but in specific domains. And I can say that being that rational here is a bare consequence of the very fact that I feel for the ones I love and care for … with my heart =| .

Farewell, and pray that I don’t die of a heart attack very soon!!

And .. sorry for the hard and weird post.

And .. thanks for reading, as always …

Here and back again …

If you’ve seen the exceptional movie ‘The Lord of the Rings‘, you probably have noticed that the title of this post is a quote in the movie; “Here and back again, a Hobbit’s tail, by Bilbo Baggins”, of course I’m not sure of the spelling. I think that the theme of that moment in the movie was so special, for it was a moment of calmness after many adventures …

Well, it’s here and back again post I might say. It’s been long since the last time I’ve written a descent post; at least I think them to have been descent.

It feels weird being back to college after this vacation, also to have finished my fantastic internship, the holy month and the feast.

I extended my vacation till now, for I went to college two days only during the holy month; and that goes really without any kind of remorse, many students will begin studying from after the feast isA.

I can say, feeling a quite amount of being tiresome though, that my past 6 months was the most weird 6 months of my life; I’ve done many different, sane and insane things during those days; the end of the last term, the vacation, the internship and the extended vacation.

All I can articulate about is that a lane of my life is being manufactured, yah!, it’s a matter of growing up no less and no more.

I was reading through my blog some days ago, and I found good posts , really, I felt content about them, some of my writings enchant me and gives me the same feeling I had when I was writing them back there.

Anyways, I don’t have much to write, I just am posting this to notify you that I’m back and to thank you for being such a loyal reader of my humble writings, a thing that always prevail me upon presuming and pursuing a better writing style and manners generally.

Thanks again to all of you,

Farewell,

Some inspiration …

I was sitting with Mohamed some days ago, we were talking about college and work and if we were really reserving the right place in the career world ?!

I mean .. are we really software engineers?? or someday we will change (or have to ..) our career paths entirely.

What the heck is the thing with careers anyways, why the word ‘career’ gives many people, including me, the creep? why does it seem so frustrating talking about changing your way of life, the way you work and the way you see yourself.

Is college really that important in painting your future ?? !!

Well, Mohamed, like some hours after our outing , sent me this written speech.

It’s of Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, earlier CEO of Pixar.

Also, here is the 15 mins video of his speech, it was in Stanford University.

And btw, I really like his calm and confident attitude!

Is it really a happy one?

Oh yah .. today I am 20 years old.

If you look at me .. you will find a stale not expressing nothing face!, this time, I do know why; it’s simply because this shard of my life is somehow empty.

I stood a while thinking about what it is that I did during those last years (not counting my childhood of course!), and I found nothing interesting.

To be honest, I had dozens of experiences, even the elder did not have, but why should I have pride in something that I didn’t put into use?!

Lured by all those thoughts, and as I was sitting on YouTube to have some entertainment, I came across a very lovely video, it’s not long at all, but it affected me a lot.

Mentor Graphics Meeting …

Well,

After a drought in my blog, posts and visits, here I am again

Yesterday, me and my graduation project team went to Mentor Graphics to have a technical meeting concerning our project sponsorship program.

We did a presentation concerning our idea and it was just one hour long, the QA Manager and three QA & Testing engineers attended the meeting, they liked the idea a lot and we are supposed to have a more detailed technical presentation with more attendees in the coming days isA.

All I need now is prays from everyone for the program to continue successfully and I really also hope that they offer internships isA.

Thanks and sorry for not posting these days .. but I’m so busy with many things especially the demo I am working on now.

regards,

Want to feel some change ??

Though many forms of change comes from breaking the rules and trying something new or maybe something frenzy, I just want to talk about soberness.

Yes, our life, well .. at least mine .. is somehow affected by many things; bad systems, the lovely country … etc. It needs somehow to be organized .. or .. restrained.

Many good things also .. should be poked a little and being awoke up in the inside. Lately, well not that lately .. I constantly am discovering many things that can and should be done.

SilverKey Demo Day II

Though I am not a fan of Micro$oft technologies, though the registration is now closed, though there is a really huge number of attendees, though I’ll have to wake up very early in the morning, though I have many other things to do and though I should’ve posted this a month ago when I registered …

I think that I will be attending the SilverKey Demo Day II on coming Saturday isA.

I’ll tell you about it then,

cheers,

Producing a Nice Resume …

This is one of the best articles I read concerning resume writing tips. I advice you to read the whole six parts.

HERE.

Enjoy,

IBHOG & Mohamed, It’s now ‘our’ not ‘my’.

I would like to announce to the very small set of my green country readers that Mohamed AbdelSalam will be contributing with me isA in the blog.

As .. also the very small set of readers may know .. Mohamed is my closest friend. You will see from his posts isA how special he is.

Hope you read more in our green country and don’t abandon it one day,

Special thanks to Mohamed and Thanks go to you all,

regards,

Albums .. start with the last term ..

I’d like to inform you that the post now is without a title .. I will think about it during writing. The usual “please .. the post maybe so long” .. is uttered heading most of my posts .. so please don’t be alarmed.

I’ll begin by the hot part first .. to make you read to the end. Also to make my boring words more entertaining …

It’s like a game .. everyone (of course the ones who wish to ..) should list their list of threes about our beloved last term. I mean that every list element is three situations happening from the element’s topic point of view.

For instance. This post’s list have these elements: [Funniest - Best - Worst]. The participants (Hopefully!) should each list 3 situations that carry the meaning of the element idea.

Training .. Twins .. One’s Stance !!

It’s probably old news .. but about my training, and after postponing my ITWorx evaluation reconsideration one month, college spread arms for .. I don’t know .. the -10 time and the lists of trainees are there infront of our beloved department office head.

My training is to be at a company called Pulse. As noticeable from the website, it’s still under construction .. and funnily enough .. it’s being built using my favorite CMS; Joomla!

A Getaway Story … (2)

This post has been sent in my green country blog.

It’s so long ..

Thanks in advance for reading it.

Farewell,