Moving In

So that's what a google blog looks like... cool :) ...

I finally made the decision and moved my blog form wordpress to blogspot due to some technical issues and the fact that blogspot is more flexible, and you can easily track your followers, among other cool stuff.. so this here is my third home, after wordpress and tumbler and I think i am starting to like it here, which is a perfect timing because I was thinking of settling down, and moving blogs dont have much consistency to them :)

so if you came here through my old blog, or by mistake and you like the random stuff that I call writings.. you might as well be crazy enough to follow me :)

thanks for your 20 sec, a 20 sec that were robbed out of your limited life time (yeah.. good time to remember your mortality) and you're never gonna get them back.. NIHAHAHAHAHA

Irony : it’s just how this world works !!

Not so far ago… exactly 375 days ago, I made a mocking parade on a friend of mine for wearing white and voluntarily standing in a booth.. I actually wrote a note about it : http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=52061622349

Back then, I didn’t intend to make fun of the idea of volunteering itself, I just thought it was so unlikely that it would make a good subject for ridicule, plus I wanted to mess with my friend :)

I had no idea back then that in less than a year, I would stand in three booths, two in which I wore white to, and the other one I actually wore a pink baroque and an orange pumpkin hat !! (http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=4903737&l=3f947d60ee&id=728380609)

Of course the irony here doesn’t escape me, the same act that I once thought was silly, I am committing now exactly a year from then, wearing the same T-shirt that I once thought it looked like a gas station uniform (I still do by the way :), but I wear it proudly nevertheless)

So what changed during this year that made me turn form mocking an act, to actually committing it proudly? In order for you to fully understand that change, we’ll have to go back to the mocking Era.

Back then the IST entry in my dictionary was “IST (n) : just another student model”, but it was bound to change as I got to know my friends better, less than a month into the future the definition shifted, it became “just another student model whose members are really close”, I kept mocking though..

The motive then wasn’t that clear, I just kept mocking as an act of habit, another month to the future, I began to realize that there was something more to it, but should the mockery and the ridicule stop? No my dear friend, It became clear to me that I was actually envious!! Envious about the connection they had with other members, envious about the moments they shared… but it wasn’t enough to get me convinced, ergo the mockery shall continue.

And as I think about it now, the connection and the belonging they had wasn’t the reason per se, but it was a hell of big reason to screw with that dictionary of mine, few months later that page in the dictionary was whipped, and a single sentence emerged from that contradicting chaos, and declared itself as the definition that was bound to stay …

“IST : One big family”

VERY Genuine tea !!

Microsoft el-Arosa GENUINE green tea.. because if it's not Microsoft, then it's not genuine !!

Disclaimer : if the tea crashes, stops unexpectedly, lags while drinking, or even gets cold this is ONLY because the tea you are using is not Genuine.. cracked tea is bad, and we blame it for everything, because here at Microsoft if we were as good in developing as we are in blaming, there would be nothing to blame for !!

IsEnabled ?? seriously ??

I can see now how WPF can make the world a better place.. you see, the property 'Enabled' is now called 'IsEnabled', I know thats probably going to cause world peace, relief the world form poverty and hunger and also produce a bugless program, but i am still gonna sue Microsoft for the 400 mellisec it takes me to write those two extra letters !!

Not Again !! -in arabic for a change

وللمرة الثانية قابلته...  في تكرار عجيب للموقف بحذافيره ، كأن القدر يصر على آتيانى به ، لكني حاولت تجاهله هذه المرة ... تباطئت في ركيعاتي المتبقية... دعيت الله أن ينكشح.... حتى نسيت وجوده تماماً ، ومع قيامي من الصلاة و استهلالي بختمها ، اذا به جالس في آخر المسجد ناظراً إلي و مبتسماً ابتسامته الصموتة... لم ارى بداً من إلقاء السلام عليه، فذهبت مبتسماً –أو مدعي الابتسام– و مددت يدي، لاحت ابتسامة صفراء على وجهه كأنه موقن انه رأى بسمتي الأخيرة ، ورد السلام قائلاً بأداء كوهيني متميز "انت عامل ايه ؟" ، ولسان حاله يقول " دانا محضرلك حتة امتحان... هاتلبس فيه راشق... يالا ودع البسمة دى يا شاطر!!! "

my first motivational poster :)

one day.. three lessons

after a whole day of plans going wrong, plan B’s also going wrong , after dragging about 20 of my friends with me, roaming the streets for a place to eat, and messing up 3 different groups, moving three different meetings that had nothing to do with each other into the same place, i can say with my mouse full that i had nothing to do with it, yet it all falls on my shoulders..

so heres what i have learned :

1-no matter how much you plan or how much your plans are perfected, there is always a place for fate to shuffle things around

2-things have a way of sorting themselves out by their own

3- chaos is the color that colors an otherwise dull life, embrace it.. oh sweet chaos :)

finally i know it sound clichéd but i am going to say it anyway.. i had a really fun time during every nerve-breaking moment of that day because i know that -brace your selves- in the end only the good memories stay.. and no matter what happens, we must be glad that we shared such an experience together, and keep in mind that we will remember it and laugh years from now.. told you its clichéd :)

circle rectangle triangle features

recently our class had this project in which we must differentiate between three types of basic shapes.. which are circle, rectangle , triangle.. in order to do that we need a feature to differentiate between them, features could be anything, thats why lots of my friends went on searching over the internet for such features.. and here is where this post kicks in.

this is simply just a prank to lure them here, thinking they had found something, then knowing it was me and they were just pranked :)

in order to lure them, i need Google to list me as one of the top results for the keywords they might use, and thats why i wrote the following paragraph :) remember there is a big difference between spamming and pranking :D

TAGS : recognize features circles triangles square rectangles p^2/A area pattern recognition how to differentiate between shapes matlab c# csharp c++ circle rectangle features feature triangle inscribe code perfect circle, feature , circle features, circle and rectangle features geometry

note that the picture is meaningless, it just makes the topic as if it was really talking about something good :) features (this one is just for luck) :)

PS : if you are from my class, and you’ve read this.. please follow my blog :)

I can Explain... !!

Listen to this first : My Rap

so before anyone decides to hack my computer and overvolts it to try and make it expode in my face, here is why i made the lyrics :

there is this app on facebook called social interview, it asks people questions about their friends, and it often asks people if i can rap, and their answer is usualy yes, so to emphasize their point i had to write some rap as a comment, and to prove my creativty i had to write a diffrent piece for every person, and thats one of them after a little modification :)

about the music, and why i made it a song in the first place, it’s because of this program that Microsoft made called songsmith, and it is supposed to put music that goes with your singing, so should i just believe that it does ? no i had to try it, and thus this hideous song came to life :D

11th of November

i still dont know if you were the patriot they thought you were..

or you were just a man who was trying to get by..

but for better or for worse, we miss you up there..

at least you held your people’s unity…

in the memory of yasser 3arafat (1929-2004)