Today's quiz

why do an IT person needs an ICDL course for???!!!!

Coincidence

update

they always say to look higher and walk with our heads up...
that's what i did and i found a spider on the ceiling..
is it a sign or just a coincidence?? :p

HAJJ

i was watching "HAJJ" with lots of interest this year, i liked the idea of how the saudi TV is transmitting the whole event live, going through people, showing us almost every step of "HAJJ". i guess they did a good job this year..
seriously organizing such an event requires lots of work i mean very hard work.. and every year they come up with new ideas to make it easier and more safe.. can you imagine that a country is hosting 2 million people in addition to it's own citizens and all are gathered in one place !!!!! wow!!!!
But this year sadly two bad accidents happened, first the hotel and today the "mina" incident.
till today's afternoon we were all glad and thankful that the pilgrims managed to finish "el rami"  easily , but sadly 345 were killed...

my brother who went there two years ago was telling me how the authorities there are taking lots of precautions to prevent such accidents, first they renew the whole jamrat bridge, they came up with this idea that the pilgrims will go from one way and when finished they go back from another one,they have changed the shape of the throwing place from circular to oval.. in the coming years they will build a third floor and then a fourth one and so on.. they announce with speakers to the pilgrims with all languages some instructions to follow, as you might have seen how the security people keep a circle in the middle so as to act fast if something happened like today, they keep this space open and empty so they can be able to aid the injured very fast..
what makes me sad is that with all these precautions and effort to make the "HAJJ" so organized and accidents free, still every year some have to die...

may god bless the ones who passed away ..

3eed

Ohhh how tired i am at this moment, it was a hectic day, but i liked it :)
As i said before i just love "el wa2feh" with all the "3aj2a" it brings.. i spent the whole day going from one place to another bringing stuff for tomorrow..i tend to keep some stuff till today so as to feel the spirit of 3eed..
I'm the one in charge of bringing the "ma3mool" and chocolate for the house, it's my job to search for new places to buy "ma3mool" from, (yeah we don't have a homemade ma3mool :P) and this is one of the things i enjoy, trying new places.. sometimes i get a credit for doing my job right and sometimes i'm just criticized for the choice i made. so it's not an easy job after all :P this time seems i'll get some credit ;)

every "wa2feh" and every "3eed" i just feel so blessed, for so many things, for being able to get the things i want , for being able to celebrate "3eed" without having to worry about anything in the world, for and for.......... they're just countless..
I keep reminding my self that "3eed" isn't an ornament we buy to decorate our houses with but it's more about feelings, to feel with those that can't enjoy "3eed" for so many reasons and to do our best to bring joy and happiness to them as much as we can...
feelings for the ones close to us, to appreciate, to connect and to be a better person..

we all remember "3eed" when we were kids, and every time we just say that "3eed" isn't the same as it was when were younger, that may be true but today i just thought about it, it can't end at a certain age, i think that we should at every stage of our life develop a way to enjoy it..

hope every one will have a blessed and joyful "3eed"

2006

although  every one else hated 2005 a lot but i must say that i'm thankful for having all my family beside me...
may 2006 brings nothing but happiness and all great things :)

Utopia

every one dreams of Utopia, we build images of it in our minds.. we have dreams about making it true..
but what's the definition of it?

in "ANTZ" Utopia to them was a trash bin!!! ironic huh?!!!

bad habbits

i was tagged to say five bad habbits i have.. hmmmm

1. i keep changing the radio channels while driving to the extent that i drive every one crazy..

2.i can never say the thing i wanna say, i keep talking about everything but the thing
i wanna say.

3. if i eat fruits they have to be cut into cubes!!! what's wrong with eating a whole fruit :P

4. if i see a phone i have to use it...

i have some more but i can't remember them now, so i'll keep 5 open till i remember one...

chocolat

do u remember the movie "chocolat"??
the person behind this movie is such a talented one, to come up with all the recipes, to make the concept of a movie out of something so tasteful yet so simple as chocolate..
what i liked about that movie is the drink she makes, a raw coco drink with chili pepper. i always wondered how that would taste like.. i recently had the chance to try it :) a chocolate drink with chili pepper, to be honest it wasn't exactly the way i expected, but it was nice.. it's not like a chocolate powder, it's a melted chocolate!!!! wow
still there are like 10 more flavours to try... mint, hazlenut,......
i wonder if the "chocolat" people can give me the reipe for that drink!!! hmmmm

Radiations!!!

people at work started complaining about the amount of radiations we go through each day.
first we go through the metal detector (going in and out).. then the electronic access machines (again twice a day)...
hmmm i think they have a sort of paln to vanish all the employees by the end of 2006 :P

is it really december?

no, it's not spring yet, still we are in DECEMBER!!!!!

"matchbox" hammers!!!

They look like toys...
It's funny how Amman is becoming a crowded city.

moments in movies

i started this thing a year ago, i'm making my collection of movies that consists of every movie ever touched me..
no matter how good a movie was, still you can't remember every detail, but there is a certain part that goes deep into your heart and remains there.. it inspires you to change something or to dream bigger or simply to enjoy life...

today as i was feeling a little bit down, i went to my collection and picked a few movies to see.. i saw the beginning of "13 going on 30" and managed to continue "runaway bride".. old ones i know but this is my collection, it varies from old ones to new..

"13 going on 30" simple but yet so joyful movie, it just change my mood... yet it has this idea, how we sometimes get drifted while growing up, how our dreams vanish sometimes, how we lose touch with the true things that brings joy to our life..

"runaway bride" has this part where julia goes at the end of the movie to richard and tells him how during all her relations she knew every tiny detail of her partner's life but no one ever managed to know the real her of course except him, then she goes on repeating to him the proposal he suggested... to tell you the truth OMG what a proposal, so real...

"you've got mail" what a lovely movie, so peaceful, so funny... it has this part when she sends him an e-mail after they were supposed to meet but he comes as 'joe fox" and not the "ny152" she tells him that"the odd thing about this form of communication is that you're more likely to talk about nothing than something but i just wanna say that all this nothing has meant more to me than so many somethings"....

"notting hill" when julia goes to hugh's shop and tells him "i'm just a girl standing in front of a boy asking him to love her" i like the soundtrack of this movie along with"my best friend's wedding"

i can go on for ever, "shakespear in love" what a passionate movie, i never liked Gwyneth Paltrow until this movie... "top gun" to me tom cruise is top gun o bas, the planes, wow...

i guess i'll keep updating this post every now and then....

technology or?

yesterday we officially started using the new machines, i came to work a little bit late (hushh, don't tell any one) and like a very civilized person i went directly to the machine (placed at our floor) and i checked in, as i was in a hurry i didn't wait to see if the machine accepted the code or not... two hours later i was talking with some girl and she told me that the machine on our floor wasn't configured yet and all the employees had to use another machine... i went like huh??!!!! but , i checked in from that machine !!! i picked up the phone and called the HR and told them my story... they were so understanding... if only you could see el 3aj2a by the end of the day when all the employees had to check out!!!! OMG, i waited 15 mints for my turn.. el mafrood that they placed a machine in every floor but some aren't working yet..

today i came to work, again a little bit late( again don't tell any one, this time with serious tone :P) i ran into the machine (the only working one) to find out that there was a line of people waiting to use it, i looked at my watch, it's not supposed to be 3aj2a as i was late..
the funniest part was that this machine went down !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it's not working either !!!!!!
so most of the employees today didn't check in!!!!!!! so most of the employees i guess will leave early today !!!!!! i'm still laughing...
The whole idea of those machines is to control el dawam, but the opposite just happened..
finally, technology is doing us a big favor.... or is it the opposite of technology that is standing on our side??

2o'7tomly be taree2ak

it's a common thing when you work that sometimes you just give your ID card to one of the colleagues and ask them to pass it in the electronic access machine for you, well i'm sorry to tell you that those days are gone...
new machines were added that depends on the finger prints or something.....
 Starting Sunday we will be using it officially !!!!!!
COOL :P






















the instructions are the funniest part...

equality

i'm starting a training course tomorrow, my boss asked me today to check the training room and prepare it for tomorrow, and by that he meant to supervise the preparations.. i went to see the training room and i found out that we have to move about 5 computers from one room to another, i thought well i can never do this !!!!! so i called one of the guys that i work with to help me, he was kind enough that he moved all the computers by himself !!!! yeah all the guys are attending another training course somewhere else. all i had to do is to connect things togother and check if the computers were connected to the network..
so girls don't ask for equality cause really we're doing fine here ;) masakeen el shabab :P

A week

a week has passed and yet i'm feeling sad...


God bless our Jordan....

end of an era...

my friend left to abu dhabi two weeks ago, she got married and went there...
i've known her for 7.5 years!!!!! she's really my best friend... and now i'm really missing everything.. i miss our drives at "abdoun", i miss how we used to park the car near " gerard" having ice cream in the summer and"sa7lab" in winter watching almost every person and every car, i miss the hours we spent on their balcony eating nuts and chips, talking about everything, i miss the movie nights at my house, i miss how we used to discover new places and try them instantly, i miss chili cheese fries and how they used to make us "msatleen", and though the hours we spent shopping used to drive me crazy as she's picky but now i miss them too, i miss our days at university with all the fun we had.. i miss the lunch breaks..
today i went to her house and visited her family, it was weired her not being there..
hope u'll have a great life and to achieve what u really want and thank u for sharing me the last wonderful 8 years of our lives....

2004

i miss the year 2004 alot, i kept telling every one this but they used to laugh at me and telling me hey stop having those stupid thoughts !!!! but seriously it was such a peaceful and great year for me.... i guess everyone would agree specially after those events...
but the reason or reasons behind why i liked 2004 are :
1) i spent most of it not working and this to me was a bless as i had the chance to do the things i really wanted to do... now with the long working hours i hardly have time to do anything, and i'm working on a system that's somehow very Sophisticated and gives me a feeling of frustration alot... till now i hate going to work, i didn't have peace with the pressure,i hate waking up so early and most of the times i'm really late...
2) i had the chance to travel alot in that year not like now, i didn't go any place further than "zowadeh"... kidding i went to dead sea :P
3) i spent this summer attending a course (again, for work) from 4 pm till 8 pm, that means spending 12 hours of my day doing things for work !!!!!! and as a result of that i didn't enjoy amman this summer...
3) i had inner peace, and that's something i miss now..
4) the list is too long i can go on forever, but i'll just say that AMMAN wasn't hurt last year and that's a major reason for missing 2004 ...

in their eyes..

they didn't really get what was happening... but when they saw the demonstrations outside the house they insisted on wearing "7atta" and started drawing the flag....
those r my two nieces.....

"mawteni"... my homeland

remember this song?? how we used to sing it when we were kids?? today i heared it on the radio... it was like listining to it for the first time.....