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Wednesday, October 10, 2007

I haven't watched any Arabic drama this Ramadan, so...
I don't watch it...
I hate its stupid old-fashioned stories..
I detest people who talk about a TV drama ad nauseam..
I don't put up with TV-based social phenomena...
I don't know who Abo Essam is...
I don't like its name "Door of the Quarter"...

So please, do not send emails, Facebook messages or start pesky discussions regarding Bab Al Hara with me!!!

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Saturday, September 22, 2007

This is my first attempt to draw something similar to a graffiti in Arabic. Thanks to my friends (Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop) the result is, in my own opinion, quite good. By the way, I will post what "A7la Shabab" is, and the reason I'm so busy these days in some future posts :)

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Wednesday, August 22, 2007

I've recently read a post of Roba who was clearly criticizing the Jordanian theatre scene. Well, she built her opinion after watching a low quality play at Masrah Il-Thaqafeh in Amman.

I think Roba went by herself to see the actors and their "artistic" performance, but my experience of Monday was quite different.. I was normally walking down University St. (Irbid) when I was surprised by a big crowd standing in the middle of the road and on the sidewalk in front of Gloria Donuts.

I came close to that crowd and asked one of the guys about what was going there..

He answered with a shining smile: Masra7yeh

At first, I've thought he was kidding me, I'm quite pessimistic and I suppose that's more probable to see a fight or a theft attempt in Irbid's streets, anyways, the guy was right, that thing looked like a theatre play with two guys and three women putting on their techniques in stage acting.

I've watched some acts for nearly ten minutes, all-amazed by the big group of people who were recording the play with their mobile phones and by the many cars that stopped to know the reason of all that mess.

Yesterday, I read on Alrai newspaper that the actors were not allowed to enter Yarmouk University, in which the play should have been performed, the university's security guards refused that without giving any reason.

I don't know if people were there by chance, curiosity or interest, (a Service driver sincerely told me: We thought they were psychopaths) but I'm sure they had more audience in this way than by the usual unknown performance in the university's theatre which no one attends.

And it is not wrong to have more theatre plays in our streets!

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Sunday, June 17, 2007

أنني أكتب هذا المقال القصير وهناك صعوبة بالغة في أن أضغط على زر المسافة على لوحة المفاتيح أو حتى في تحريك الفأرة. لماذا؟ بعضكم يتساءل ما الذي جرى بي حتى وصلت إلى هذه الدرجة من العناء، لمعرفة السبب لا بد من الرجوع إلى حادثة يوم أمس.

البارحة، في الساعة الخامسة عصراً تقريباً، توجهت كعادتي إلى الطابق العلوي من بيتي، حيث يوجد جهاز الحاسوب خاصتي، بدأت بالطلوع على الدرجات واحدة تلو الأخرى. كنت أجسد في مشيتي كل ما أملكه من النشاط والحيوية الناتجان عن غداء دسم وأكل وافر كنت قد ناولته قبل الحادثة المريرة بقليل... وضعت قدمي على الدرجة الأولى فالثانية فالثالثة... كل ذلك كان مصحوباً بابتسامة خفيفة على وجهي وسرعة في الأداء وبال مشغول لا أدري بماذا، سموت على الدرج شيئاً فشيئاً وكدت أصل آخره، لولا أن رجليّ خانتاني وأدّتا حركةً غريبة لا يدرك ماهيتها إلا رب العالمين، وبعد تلك الحركة البهلوانية الذي أداها جسمي بإتقان، وقعت أرضاً... وجاء رأسي ليصطدم بالجدار الذي أمامي، وفي لحظات كلمح البصر، وبعد أن تأكدت من أنني لم أفقد الوعي وأن الجدار ورأسي الاثنين بخير، بدأت الآلام تراودني ولكن ليس في رأسي، بل في يدي وخاصة في الإبهام الأيمن، الذي وقع ضحية الحادث المؤلم، وكان قد اندفع بقوة نحو الأرض، ليدافع هذا الإبهام وسائر الأصابع عني، ولكن وجدوا في طريقهم معترضاً لا أعرف حتى الآن ماذا كان...

بدأ الإبهام بالانتفاخ... وتحول مما كان عليه قبل الحادث، إصبعاً طبيعياً في الشكل والهيئة، إلى ضعف حجمه، وأصبح مهيب القامة، وزاد عرضه تقريبا عن طوله، ولم يفلح الثلج والجليد في تباطؤ هذا النمو الخيالي للإصبع، كل هذا صاحبته صعوبة في حركة يدي اليمنى، وبروز غير طبيعي لجبهتي ومقدمة رأسي...

وضعت على إصبعي مرهما كريه الرائحة عديم اللون، ولففته بالشاش لعل يخفي بعضاً من زرقته، ولساني تطلق اللعنات على الدَرَج والحائط والحفّاية وأعاتب في نفس الوقت هذا الحظ المنحوس الذي ما زال يرافقني منذ أن أبصرت النور...

استمررت في حالة الغضب تلك حتى صباح اليوم، فلقد قلـّت الأوجاع فعلاً. خرجت من بيتي إلى الشارع العام حتى انتظر الباص وإذ شابٌ أعرفه يسلّم علي من بعيد ملوّحاً يده اليسرى، لتكتشف عينيّ بسرعة أنه هو نفسه وقع ضحيةً لحادث آخر أكثر ضررا، ذلك أن ذراعه كان مكسوراً وأحاطت يده طبقةٌ سميكة من الجبس..

تذكرت في تلك الأثناء قصة الرجل الذي كان حزيناً لأنه ليس لديه المال لشراء حذاء، فكان يضطر أن يمشي حافياً، ولكن ذلك الحزن تحول إلى سعادة يوماً رأى على باب جامع عجوزاً مبتور الرجلين، فعرف حينها أنه من الأفضل أن تكون بلا حذاء من أن تكون بلا قدم، وعلى المرء أن يحمد ربه ليلاً نهاراً على ما يملكه، أو حتى على صغار المصائب التي تصيبه فهي نعمة ورخاء مقابل ما يصيب الآخرين من ويلات.

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Monday, June 11, 2007

I hope someone asked this question in the last week... In any case, I was really too busy to write posts, or even to surf the net (you know I had exams, and I was looking for university training in this summer plus some programming courses and ehm.. I've just started to workout), however I'm here now and let's continue blogging...

So spread the word... Yugi is back

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Friday, May 11, 2007

Yesterday I've got the mid exam for our multimedia laboratory (when we work on multimedia applications like Photoshop, Flash and Premiere). I was surprised by the exam's only question; they demanded us to design a poster for the movie Master and Commander (visit its IMDB page), I've heared about the film but never watched (this is a chance to do it), anyways I wasn't imagining such a question, in fact the other section made a poster about Jerash, we were lucky and had something less formal... in reality I always try to search for something 'strange' or out of ordinary in our curricula, lessons or exams. You know, after three years of same routine, university life becomes more and more annoying...

Let me explain how was the exam... You have an hour to utilize several (very-low resolution) photos, you have to arrange them and make the result attractive as much as possible. No internet connection, the instructor specified what text you had to write, but you are free in matter of cropping, selecting and rearranging various elements on your image, as the style you choose for text layers... Ok, all this was accompanied by Miss Ulfat -our instructor- personal review of the movie and the actors, together with her telling off not to cheat (how can someone cheat in Photoshop?)...

 

Ok, this was my work (I think I can do better if I'm not under pressure in a 60-minute exam) and the real poster of the movie...

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Friday, March 23, 2007

أتذكر بوضوح موقفاً مررنا به ونحن طلاباً في الصف الثامن أو التاسع... عندما طلب منا أستاذ التربية الفنية أن نرسم لوحة في ذكرى معركة الكرامة، ولكن قبل أن نقبض الألوان الخشبية وقلم الرصاص وقبل أن تتجول في خيالنا الأشكال والفراغات، رفع زميلي يده من على درجه ليوجه الأستاذ المسكين سؤالاً... "سمعت من يقول أن الفدائيين هم الذين حاربوا في معركة الكرامة لا غيرهم"... ارتعد الأستاذ من هذه الملاحظة السياسية التي لا تسمع عادةً في حصص الفن، ولكن من نجاه كان مدير المدرسة المتواجد في الصف مصادفةً، رد المدير على الطالب قائلاً: معركة الكرامة كانت إنجازاً التحمت فيه أطياف الشعب كافة باسم الوحدة الوطنية لمواجهة العدو الغاشم...

بعض الشباب مثلي، الذين لديهم آباء أو أقارب خدموا في الجيش، يعلمون أن هذا الكلام لم تمثل سوى أوهام في أجندة الدعاية للقوات الفلسطينية التي كانت تعمل ضمن الحدود الأردنية، واستغلت هذه القوات تلك الدعاية لرفع معنوية مقاتليها، واستغلتها من جهة أخرى للحصول على المزيد من الدعم المالي الضخم، الذي يعتبر الآن "مفقوداً" في أرصدة تقدر قيمتها بالمليارات، لا يرى الفلسطينيون شيئاً منها.

وعلى الرغم أنه الآن وبعد أربعين سنة أصبح واضحاً للجميع أنه دور القوات الفدائية كان محدوداً في معركة الكرامة، وهذا يمكن أن يكون موضوع بحث لا أتطرق إليه الآن، إلا أن هذا الأمر يستدعي أن نقوم بدراسة معمقة وشاملة للتاريخ الأردني، عسى أن نعطي كل ذي حق حقه لما فيه خير ومصلحة أمتنا.

ومن الجدير بالذكر أيضاً أنه لا يمكن لأي فرد أن ينكر دور كل من الجيش العربي والقوات الفلسطينية في مواجهة العدو، وما نستفيده من ذكرى معركة الكرامة هو شهادة التاريخ بأن هذا العدو هو سهل الهزيمة إن توفرت لنا العزيمة، والأهم من هذا هو أن هذا اليوم يعزز مرة أخرى في نفوس الأردنيين أهمية الوحدة الوطنية... ربما كانت إجابة مدير مدرستي غير دقيقة، ولكن كانت بالتأكيد إجابة مسئولة.

اقرأ أيضا: ناس يحمون الوطن وناس يمحونه - 1

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Monday, January 29, 2007

Today I've finally finished my exams. But I also took the wrong step of seeing the grades of my previous exams... Blah! they're so ugly, I did not do so well this semester :(

Mahjoob's Cartoon

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Thursday, December 28, 2006

Today I've gone to my university, although the bad weather and snow-covered roads, for only one reason: I've had a UNIX quiz.

I've waked up at temperature surely less than zero, and then I thought if it was more convenient to leave my home and start a gelid day, or to stay home. I've opted for the first, although the quiz was 'optional'… but here, the fact the quiz was optional is irrelevant, when you are even in need of a single mark (on hundred) you will try to get it in anyway …

However, I've reached the university; I've headed to the hall happy to take my quiz until one of the guys of UNIX course stopped me to ask: Where are you going? Don't you know there's no quiz … ehm… and don't you know our instructor traveled away?

Minute of silence… is he serious or today is April fool's day?

It's not the first time our UNIX lecturer (Mr. M.S) tease us. A Sunday, one reserved only for exams (no lectures) we were forced to go to university to take another quiz but we found Mr. M.S absent.

Ok, Mr. M.S left Jordan today to gain a PhD in the US , but it was so difficult to inform us of your travel before, or you've known of only at ten o'clock this morning? You were late at all your lectures, and at a number of them you never come, we take our first and second exams after nearly two weeks of their predetermined date, but what you've done today is really enough…instructors here always criticize students they are undisciplined, but you are worse than us one hundred times…

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Tuesday, December 19, 2006


Opening multiple windows...


Take a look at windows' back


Changing the desktop...

Yesterday, Dr. Basel Mahafzah, our Computer Architecture instructor showed us a short video of a 3D operating system (or more technically, a desktop environment for MS Windows and SunOs), and told us it was developed by a group of students for the OS class in their university.
The project's name is Project Looking Glass, it was developed almost in Java and it's large supported by Sun Microsystems, the whole code is open source with a GNU General Public License (GPL) license. After the short installation, you'll be able to move and rotate windows as if they were sheets of paper (or more precisely, as if they're made of glass), you can even write on the back of any window!

The fact is: why students from Techno do not develop such things? They never thought of taking up similar projects…and this is in some way strange, since we have –technically- the needed abilities and knowledge…we need only will!

One of major things I hate in my university is the fixation of students and instructors to only one thing: marks, so here it's an endless action-reaction between poor students, which study to get decent marks, and between psychopathic (!) instructors trying to make exams even more difficult. We have as result large numbers of students who have very little time for, or don't wish to carry up, something out of the ordinary. In this way, we have killed any form of creativity…

To download the video, click here.
To download the project, visit this page.

(PS: Me and my friend Nasser have thought of making something similar, perhaps for graduation project… and don't steal our idea!)

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Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Less than a year ago, I was one of participants in the Microsoft Academic Day (MAD), a kind of meeting induced by Microsoft, which aims to present its products to the students of universities and to who begins to have a little knowledge in software development.
Princess Sumayya UniversityI must say that MAD was quite well-organized, it was held in a hall of PSUT, and was partially ordered by .net student clubs, which regroup a tiny number of our university students. I do not have anything against Microsoft (that's the contrary of what a lot of people think), but, first of all, I was somehow shocked by the aggressive responses of lecturers, in particular when some students tried to have an argument with them. I remember that one of Techno, responsible in .net club, denied rightly what a lecturer said; that an entire web site can be build up using Microsoft technologies in less than 15 minutes. The student told him it was practically impossible, and said that pages with ASP.NET components are not displayed correctly on Firefox browser. The lecturer answered by a number of insults to Firefox, Mozilla and non-IE browsers, and he laid blame on them for being non-standard (?). (A Yarmouk guy wearing a Firefox T-shirt was sitting first in line nearby Microsoft representatives; I don't think he was in agreement with him).
The presentation of Windows Vista was apparently exciting, (naturally, if you forget security threats… Microsoft personnel told us that security is a 'server-only' stuff). The look is extremely nice, and all the elements are well-designed, the solitaire icon is very cute (wow!), and the animation caused by pressing (ALT+TAB) moves between windows in an attractive fashion, -but I made a bet with a friend that the computer would have crashed :), however I admit the appearance of MAC OS X is better.
3D Game Development with DirectXOne point: Microsoft staff said the minimal requirements for Windows Vista are 1GB RAM and some 256 VGA card…!
The presentation of IE7 was to show a real life application of multiple forms of plagiarism; IE7 browser tags and RSS feeds were taken evidently from Firefox…
Another funny section was that of DirectX, with a student from BAU showing us his 3D project of Petra, very appreciated by Mr. Gates in his visit to Jordan.
Speakers from students asked why use DirectX since they find OpenGL better, the answers were not so convincing (and they nearly made a mockery of them); the same was when they spoke about PHP, Java, MySQL and other open source products, so nothing new… this is typical of Microsoft.

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Saturday, December 09, 2006

The first program to be learnt by CS freshmen is a Hello world! program, a simple program that shows the general syntax of a programming language and a basic output statement... In this blog I chose Hello world as title for my first post. Probably nobody will read it (until now i've not told anyone about this blog). If you find this blog (either by chance) feel free to give a comment or to send me an e-mail. Bye!!!

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