Birthday Thank you's

I was planning to make a dedication to every person who remembered to tell me Happy birthday today but they were too much and i'm afraid to forget some of the people who contacted me today; so i wanna thank every person who just told me happy birthday today you really made me feel sooo happy and special today :D

i can say this year was one of my best birthdays i got one present which was from my brother .... i now have a flash memory 1gb :D so i can get data from anywhere i want ...thanks BRO

Brainstorm gably orange juice in cilantro :D .....

And not to mention all the sms's and dedications i got from forum members and my old friends mosh 3aref besara7a i'm out of words :D

SO ALL I CAN SAY IS A BIG THANK YOU TO YOU ALL

My birthday

My birthday:

Today is my birthday
A year has gone
And another one is to come
I still wonder,
What will pop up from the box of life?
Today is my birthday
A day which I’m supposed to celebrate
Like every person living his birthday
But I feel really strange
As I count every candle in my cake
Every moment appear so clear to me
I remember when I used to crawl,
Now I can simply walk.
I remember when I used to shed tears
Now I can hide my fears.
A year full of joy and pain has gone.
And time in it used to run.
Many people I met.
And my memories with them will never end.
Today is my birthday
And here I am writing these words
To declare a new year and a new start

Weird

hello blog i know i have been away lately and actually i have to say this here i always used to check people's blogs and check how often they post and it has basically like a post every 4 days and i always go like :@:@ these people can't be writers they need to write every day and keep checking their blog i can't imagine spending a day without writing :D

but here i am today is 27/2 and my last post was 22/2 which means i lost my bet why don't i write simply because my thoughts aren't as big as before maybe cause i wasn't in the mood or feeling bad lately or maybe because i'm sooo busy but i enjoy being busy anyway i apologize to my blog and i want to say i wasn't well judging people who neglect their blog for a certain time :D

But i'll be back :D

While searching for the solution, i forgot the real problem.

"Sad but true"

Bus Stop situation (*--)

Yesterday i was feeling the BUS STOP situation for you who don't know what the bus stop situation is you'll know when you read this text i wrote this text about a year ago i used to pass by a bus stop everyday when i used to go to center "El Orouba" so i always wanted to write about this situation the bus stop situation ....





Where am I? What am I doing here? Where are all these people going?

I found a chair in the street so I sat on and waited for a light in that dark night, from far away came a large bus honking its horn. I found many people rode it, I felt confused whether to ride it or not? but being attracted that people were riding that bus I rode it.After a while, all the people that rode the bus reached their destinations Leaving me alone in that dark bus. Then, I wondered, Why did I ride that bus at first place?



Hope this short story made you feel what a bus stop situation is for me


Sometimes in our journey we forget which roads we chose at first place , always stay in a bus stop to remind yourself where are you going first.

Simple dreams (old poem)

Simple dreams

Simple dreams and simple hopes
People seek money And other seek home
Simple dreams but still so precious
Can't be explained in thousand sessions
They don't want fortune or fame

They just want to feel the same

And all they get is the blame

Where's the hearts or still don't believe

In those simple dreams

They dream of a home or a place to let go

They dream to eat and not to feel defeat

They dream to feel peace and a place to put their feet

They dream to have a family to live with

They dream of a hope to touch

And no one tells them for how much

These are just simple dreams of normal human beings

Hre we go i wrote that piece after i saw a movie for many ppl it may be stupid but it was charlie and the choclate factory and it's really weird i only saw the first 10 mins all the rest of the movie is nonsense but if anyone saw the first part of it and how this little child were veryyy poor and all they wanted is a piece of choclate it was soo deep when u find poor people just gathered to eat a piece of choclate once a year while others buy boxes of choclate and throw them away

When you feel bad for no reason?

Hello hello "keifkom" i want to talk about a feeling we always get this feeling of being depressed for no reason and when you ask the person why are you depressed they tell you i don't know why? i'm just depressed.

I'm one of the people who always does that but the point is we really know what's making us depressed deep inside and from the outside we refuse to admit the fact that this thing is making us depressed, it can be so small things but it just can turn your whole day upside down and we still refuse the fact that this thing is bothering us and making us not feeling good, always search inside you for reasons and ask yourself questions don't seek answers any where because...The answer always lies inside of us

"What lies infront of us and what lies behind us is nothing compared to what lies inside of us"

Have a nice day :D

Thank You ... "small things count"

Hello my dear blog readers "keifkom" today i was having a session in ACES and since i'm spare as you know i keep jumping from place to another, today i was feeling kind of down and so tired during the sessions, i wanted to share with you this after Friday prayer i saw this big thing hanged on the wall ...

All i want to say is that this small thing changed my mood all day long it made me feel much better cause lately i was having hard time concernin my job in ACES and college all i want to say is that you can make a person happy with really small things and small words and as we say in HR "Stimulate work environment" i want to thank my head and every person who shared on making this cause it really made my day ............. Thank you again

B.T.C

I can officially say now i'm back to college I feel so tired and exhausted we had 4 lectures after each others two of them were electronics :S:S "7aga 3azeema awy besara7a" the doctor entered and wrote his CV on the board and we were like ................... "No comment" Egypt is full of great people indeed :D

And guess what today i drove to college with my brother "el meskin galoh el daght" but it was a good experience beware streets of cairo star is on the road .

Today was 3eid el falanteeen but as safi say you can spend it sengelawy :D and that's what i did it wasn't bad it's another day that pass your way and you got nothing to say about it.

I was supposed to be studying now but i feel so tired i don't know why even i came home slept for around 3 hrs but still feel tired those 4 lectures were like "el 3asefa" that i was talking about in my previous post.

Happy valentine to you all enjoy it singelawy aw ahlawy :D

I need you (* valentine special)

I Need you now

I really need you now

I need you more than anytime before

I want to search this whole world

To find you seems to be my ultimate goal

I really need you now

More than anytime before

I want to hold you close

Believe me i need nothing more

I want to tell you you're the one for me

I need to realize that it's real

I really need you now

More than anytime before

I need you because i want to cry

And you're the only one who can make me smile

What's going on in my life?

I know it's been alot of time since i posted here whats going on in my life well i'm writing abt the major stuff that took place in my life for the last couple of days

Thursday:

Me and my friends went out and saw the movie pursuit for happyness it's a really great movie and full of meanings if you can catch it anytime make sure to check it out then we had a long walk from "midan el 7egaz" to "roxy" it's just me and my old school friends we rarely meet you know and we promised to meet again 7/7/2007 7pm in 7 buildings square isA :D so my schedule is booked for that day

Friday:

I had in the early morning a session in ACES since i'm the spare HR i kept jumping between each workshop,i really enjoyed it there this time don't know why it's just the feeling that you're back to this atmosphere, after that i quickly went to the SOS 3 to meet my Nile fm'ers there we had great time there really, the music wasnt that good but i always like the general atmosphere in SOS concerts also i was glad to meet nearly a great deal of Nile fm presenters and took photos with them.

Saturday:

woke up "bel darb" and went to college had two lectures i wasn't ready at all for college to be honest but it was just fine cause i discovered that i have 2 days off sunday/monday, then went to visit my grandfather.

Sunday:

Stayed at home on the PC

Monday:

Brainstorm's birthday we succeeded in surprising him :D

Tuesday:

Had first lecture cancelled so went to college met friends said Hi then came back home and now i'm writing in the blog :D

I feel for my college this is "el hodo2 allazy yasbek el 3asefa" rabena yostor

The Rain(*Poem)

The Rain

When the rain falls on your face

You feel it flying in the space

You feel the beauty of the world

You feel you want to run and escape

When the rain falls on your face

It brings you back memory of the past

The places you used to go

The people you used to know

You feel the beauty of life's soul

When the rain falls on your face

Think how small you are

And how things are going so far

Think of God's miracles

Can you feel the beauty of mother nature?

When the rain falls on your face

But at the same time you want to cry

Hidding the rain of tears inside your heart

Just smile and say

El 7mdolilah i'm still alive

No comments+some quotes

It's been a month or something and i rarely get any comments on my blog i must admit sometimes i feel sad once a friend asked me all i see in ur blog is ur writings what are you doing there? then i told him i don't know maybe talking to myself he told me then you must be crazy :D or "3andak enfesam" i was like no not like that it's that i believe after two years from now i'll read these stuff and see how stupid life is and small :D it's like a reminder of my life that's why i enjoy writing here so much and i really don't seek comments i just seek to talk and put out my energy in writing instead of something else.



speaking of comments i was lucky enough to catch a link to something called Egyptian blogers ring and it contains loads of Egyptian blogs and i was amazed by the talents we have in this country i thought my blog was paradise but i found blogs with people who really have beautiful minds in our country Egypt ............... There's still hope isA http://egybloggers.com


I was trying to read The 8th habit written by steven covey sadly it seems i won't be able to finish it by this holiday :( i'll try my best to read some from it every now and then this guy is so goood maybe it's experience i don't know i found myself pressing stop on the audio book and reading his biography on the net and guess what i found some of his quotes which you should read :D

Talking about the need of the 8th habit
"Being highly effective as individuals and organizations is no longer optional in today’s world—it’s the price of entry to the playing field. But surviving, thriving, innovating, excelling and leading in this new reality will require us to build on and reach beyond effectiveness. The call and need of a new era is for passion."

"If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own. "

"Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall."

"We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice."

after these quotes u need some music don't you here's a great track from Bond i like this track so much

Al-Bedaya

OMG i was just watching tv for the first time in AGES and i stopped at Rotana zinema and for the first time i applied their slogan "Mosh ha2dar aghamad 3enaya" they were viewing a movie called el Bedaya and for the first time i see a movie which reviews all Egyptian and world's situations in a really great way if u can catch this movie any time it's a MUST cause i really felt that our situation is inside this movie and i guess this movie can never be viewed on Egyptian TV i totally doubt that :D

here's a review abt the movie i got from the internet

Synopsis
In this comic parable of social and political dysfunction, a plane load of roughly a dozen people crash in the desert and find refuge in an oasis. One of the survivors, a businessman (Gamil Ratib), cajoles, cons, and connives his way to power, and once in control, has them do his bidding. He pays his "workers" -- who build his house for him -- as little as he can and punishes them with diminished wages (dates) when they are not producing up to speed. An artist (Ahmed Zaki) tries to organize the workers/passengers into a rebellion but he comes up against a peasant (Hamdi Ahmed) and others who cannot see his point. Revolution appears to be a certainty though, even if the artist initially fails.

Cast

Ahmed Zaki
Painter

Yousra
Hostess

Gamil Ratib
Businessman

Hamdi Ahmed
Peasant
Soad Nasr
Belly Dancer
Sabri Abdel Moneim
Boxer
Medhat Morsi
Pilot
Nagat Ali
Metallurgist
Samir Wahid
Copilot
Wissam Hamdi
Boy
Hussain El Hakim
Steward
Safiya El Omari
Jounalist

The world from outside

now since i changed or as i use my new term found a station full of new cheese last year.



i got to see the world from another point of view using steven covey expression i found a new paradigm i started to see the world from the outside the more i spend time seeing the world from the outside the more i found rage inside the Egyptian community i see .... what can i say a world inside everyone of us everyone is enclosed by a shell and we're all swimming in a big sea the more i get to know ppl and the more i get to see my new paradaigm i realize that we're all running in different directions where exactly i dont know and i get to realize how small the shell the person used to have before ... if you get what i mean Egyptian community is so big and different and it's so hard to see alll the people there rushing running seeking their cheese so hard isn't it .........





The more i spend time trying to see the world from the outside the more i feel that i want to be back to my old shell.

"Aho elly yeshoof el balad men fo2 dah yeshofha agmal balad fel donia enma el donia ta7t 7aga tanya khales"

quote from Adel imam's movie teyoor el zalam i just remember the main theme of the quote not the exact words..........

Here I am once more ( * poem)

So here I am once more
I've reached the same empty shore
Rode the ship and didn't know where to go
All i got is the same way i felt before
So here i am once again
After flying over sees
I found another new pain
The lesson i took wasn't understood
Same pain is regained
Same hate is still there
The lesson i took wasn't understood
Life teaches us and we never learn
That when we take we have to give
The feelings for me are still the same
Same mistakes same pain is regained
I didnt learn the lesson before
So here i am once more
Crying on this empty shore

don't ask me what is this about cause me myself i don't know :D or maybe i know and dont want to believe i know i just wrote it now anyway :D

begad ma 3aref

really confused thoughts let me write them in araby in the most mystery way i could :D

begad ma 3aref ana raye7 fein wala gy menen sa3at ba2ool la2eet kol she2 bas ana 7ases iny tayeh zy ay she2 badawar 3ala el 7akika wel sarab fe nafs el wa2t 3ayesh el 7aya wana zy zy el torab ma3rafsh hanabet zar3 wala la2a el 7akika wel sarab elly etnen ghorab 3alaya la2enohom haye2lomony kol shewya a3ed tayeh mosh 3aref ana raye7 el ne7ya deya wala el ne7ya dih heya el gebna beta3ty bazet wala lessa zy ma heya 7agat keteer feih demaghy we 7ases en koloh hayo2a3 fo2 demaghy mosh 3aref ana aroo7 el ne7ya deya wala deya 3amala el afkar telef we tedoor wel nas fel sa2ya marboota bel 3ard wel tool mosh 3arfa teroo7 el ne7ya deya wala deya wala ya tara ana sa7 lama ekhtart el kelma deya wala deya el 7akika el mora eny mosh 3aref la deya wala deya


just some tahyees in arabic expresses how i feel at 3 am :D

Memories (old poem)

Ok here's the story about memories back to the start of my college year i passed through a terrible week where everything i see makes me remember an old stuff for example everyday in the morning i find my school bus, sometimes i find a pen or an old copy book from my school and i go like Ohhhh "where did these days go" i had this feeling that everything around me remind me of an old event that's why i wrote it ...

Memories:

Memories in my mind always flow
Some useless things
Bring back memories that never end
A small red pen reminds me of an old friend
My old books my old bag
I feel them talking to me
Remember all the memories that we had
When I pass a small road
I remember where I used to walk
Holding my dreams and carrying my thoughts
The school bus still passes my door
But I don't ride it anymore
But my heart goes with it to the place we used to go
Memories in my mind always flow
Like a river that never stops
Some memories are old
But shining like gold
The radio is playing my favorite old song
I used to listen to it when everything went wrong
I'm caged in the memories of the past
The past that couldn't last
Cause as time runs in its one way track
It leaves nothing except memories
And after a couple of years from now
I'll find this poem maybe in a trash
Or maybe written in black
But what I know
Is that it will bring a lot of memories back

I remember that poem was discussed on the cultural workshop and they liked it alot cause they said it was sincere and deep for me what i like about it is that it brings alot of memories back :D

Review on the 7 habits of highly effective people:

Review on the 7 habits of highly effective people:

I’ll try here to say the things I think were really important to me while listening to the audio book.

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People embody many of the fundamental principles of human effectiveness.
These habits are basic; they are primary. They represent the internalization of correct principles upon which enduring happiness and success are based.

When I heard Steven covey’s audio book he started it with a really weird thing, he said if you want this book to be of a value for you the most important thing for you is to teach it cause when you listen and only listen you won’t be interested but imagine you teaching this book to many people your way of thinking will change.

Paradigms: Covey starts his book with a definition of Paradigms or the way we see the world that’s what he call it, for example when he told us to make sure you’ll teach this book all he did was a total SHIFT in my paradigm to the book, my paradigm was that I’m going to read it only but this shift in paradigm he did when he said you’re going to teach it made me listen more carefully and in much more attention

He says: Our Paradigms are the way we "see" the world or circumstances -- not in terms of our visual sense of sight, but in terms of perceiving, understanding, and interpreting.

Emotional bank account: Covey speaks about the story of the goose and the golden egg we all know it when a farmer found every day a goose that lays him a golden egg and in the end he said I wonder if I kill the goose and take all the golden egg inside it we all know he killed it and found nothing.

The reason for that example was that in our life we have a goose whether it’s our company, wife and resources. These things lay us golden eggs everyday but instead of feeding them we simply hurt them till they are killed and then we have no eggs from them. Covey urges us to feed the goose by creating an emotional bank account which will stand for us simply emotional bank account is a way to feed the goose care for it don’t kill it.

-Six ways 4 emotional bank

1- Simple courtesy "thank you , how are you today"

2-Honesty

3- Keep promises

4- Managing expectations

5-Loyalty "Be loyal to who's absent"

6- If you blow any of the above say, sorry

Emotional bank needs constant feeding to be effective.


Before we state the 7 habits Covey divided people characters to 3 types:

Dependant: The kind of person who always depends on others he always say: ”I blame you” he actually needs other people in order to achieve.

Independent: The total opposite of dependant these people are self reliant "can get what they want he always say:” I can do it”

Interdependent: WE CAN DO IT “together we can make a difference”

The main aim from habits 1,2,3 is to change the person from his dependant characters to independent characters cause we can’t reach the inter dependent level if we have in our team dependant character so our main aim from the first 3 habits is to be Independent.

The main aim for habits 4,5,6 is to change us from independent attitude to interdependent


Habit 1 Be Pro-active:

It's awareness that you're indeed in control
Take responsibility for your self stop blaming conditions it’s the ability to choose your response.
Effective people their behavior is product of their own decisions Reactive people blame environment

“I'm able to choose my own response to what's happening to me...”

You change yourself don’t try to change others ...

"They can't take away our self respect if we don’t leave it to them"

Liberty is condition of environment freedom is condition of person

Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind:

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us
-- Oliver Wendell Holme

-Covey starts to differentiate between leaders and mangers and say how both are important the best description for this difference when he said

We manage things to lead people
Leadership means directions and management means speed

-He states the story of CEO of a large company who changed his paradigm from management to leadership and how this caused dramatic changes in the company sales simple because he left management and daily objectives to other people who are fit enough to do so and he just freed himself to plan directions for the company.

He urges us to write a powerful mission statement and reinforce what you want inside it.

-----HOW TO CREATE POWERFUL MISSION STATEMENT

You must get centered around a set of values

Mission statement can take a year it must involve every one

You have to believe that you're a programmer before you write the program which means you have to reach the independent state to start writing your mission because you now believe in YOU and that you’re in control simply you’re the programmer now

1-Set a goal and you're in control
2- Make a promise to achieve it

He gave then a really weird example he said imagine you’re attending a funeral of someone and you sit beside the people sitting there change your paradigm now imagine it’s your funeral and you wish to see 4 people to speak about you.

Now choose 4 different persons:

1-From your family: what do you want to hear your wife father and brother say about you what do you wish to hear from them.

2-From your friends: do you want a friend; who say he used to be my best friend

3-From your work: Achievements in work

4-From your community: whether it’s a charity work community service what would you like to hear about your self.

Back to reality you’re now alive choose those 4 people and start working to achieve in all 4 fields don’t make work comes over family or community; work as hard as you can to achieve in those 4 fields

Habit 3: Put First Things First TM -- Principles of Personal Managemen

Habit 3 is simply taking habit 2 and making it happen
habit2 you've defined your priorities Habit3= DO IT

habbit 2 is stating ur mission and goals habbit 3 is ur scheduling around these goals
your time tool is your servent not master

simply use this diagram to organize your time i'm the one who drew it on paint while listening so dont kill me :D

before i start explaining their are basic definitions

Important= Things that will help us achieve our mission

Urgent=Things that happened right now and you have to do it like the ringing phone you have to answer now..

as you can see

quad 1 = urgent and important "disaster""

quad2= Imp only

quad3=Urgent only

quad 4= Neither nor

you get time from Quad 3 and 4 keep taking time from them to reinforce 2
say NO with a smile in 3,4 to improve 2 cause 2 is the most important quad in this box
it takes capacity to act in Quad 2 to be proactive the more u work on quad 2 to reduce prob. of quad 1 simply quad 2 is like feeding the goose that lies you golden eggs if you work on it there will be no disasters cause you have created alot of emotional bank accounts deposits

review habbits

hab 1 needs self awareness

hab 2 needs imagination and consience detect and invent meaning write ur own mission own roles and goals

hab 3 needs personal management

1+2+3= personal security

i'll try to discuss later habits 4,5 and 6 and the most important habit 7

Nile fm forums are back

Me and brainstorm decided to specialize all day today for the forum we started from around 10 am till now i worked hard on removing old posts and moving them an he worked on designs and the best thing is that we agreed on our forum mission and vision so i want to share them with you............

Mission:To be the link between the presenters and listeners,we provide Nile fm listeners a friendly and caring atmosphere,and the presenters all the constructive feedback they need.

Vission:To be the most effective Nile fm fans community, which seeks the best for its station and its country.

I hope if you're a nile fm forum member to like the changes we did and we're sorry if we had to close it for one day

www.nilefm.tk

Chicago Novel

As i went to the book fair last week my grandfather asked me to buy for him Chicago the new novel written by Dr.Alaa el aswany i bought it for him.Today i was visiting him so i decided to take an overview on the book not to mention i didnt read Yacoubian building or even watched the movie.

I can't belive what happened to me when i read the first page i was captured like a prisoner inside the novel i couldnt resist to continue reading, for the first time in my life i can't leave the book i just kept reading non-stop. People used to say that when they read Yacoubian building they couldn't resist continuing it and i was like they're crazy but i can't believe how amazing this guy's style is it's so capturing in an amazing way i won't discuss the novel itself i have some objections on it but i was wondering how can a writer capture his reader in such a way soooo weird as i said i was prisoned inside the novel and i have to say nothing is special about the language .... it's really weird.

I had to leave the book in my grandpa's house and now i'm DYING to continue it :(

7days to go

hello my blog readers how are you all doing? today is friday and while i was taking a sweet rest; thinking of tomorrow, i realized that we're only one week away from going back to colleg :(:( it's so hard to realize that truth i havent got enough yet of holiday, i guess we need more days.

Through the last days, i forgot for a while that i'm an engineer i started to revive many things that were about to die inside of me and it feels so good just to take a rest, to sit with yourself, to meet old friends i really missed these stuff but what can i say life in the end goes on and i have to be back to "koleyet el kherfan" after 7 days we Rabena yesahel.