Waleed Khamis Blog

offline ?

2008-11-18T16:35:00.001+02:00

Most probably I'm taking this blog offline.

for a while at least!

I hate when people just stop blogging, so what I am doing here is telling you that this is going to be offline for a while (well actually not updated)!

Vote Please

2008-10-09T23:13:00.004+03:00

I'm participating in this photography competition where a portrait should be posted.

This is my nephew Khalid, I'd appreciate your support.

ps... bigger image size is available here

vote

Google Chrome Review

2008-09-04T17:31:00.004+03:00

Everybody is talking about the new Google Chrome, I had my try with it. My feedback is somewhere in the middle, not very positive neither a negative one.

First I would like to mention that everything I would say is relative to available widely used browsers and I mean (Firefox and IE7) - unless stated otherwise.

Let me start with the positive stuff I found.
- Larger space for browsing and less for other distractions : at first this gave the impression of "is that it?!" but I guess simplicity is the key sometimes.
- Lightweight : I had three tabs open that day and only 39 MB of RAM were occupied, that is satisfying.
- Each tab runs on its own process : This is the everyone-talking-about feature, which is announced on IE8.
- Incognito mode : In this mode every site you visit and every search you make isn't stored, so you are in the shadows (happy happy Arab countries! more porn more privacy!).
- Does run a lot of web sites smoothly without wrong alignment as the beginnings of Firefox.
- Loads pages in a more stable manner : you don't get half the images loaded and the other not (on same connection speed this happens on the other browsers).

What I didn't like about Chrome.
- No Google toolbar! : How come, I can't understand. Those who use Google Bookmarks (me) what should we do :S!.
- Connection issues : Failed to get it to work behind a proxy, the settings open the built in IE connection settings, that I didn't like myself.
- Doesn't support AJAX as it should : well some heavy AJAX sites failed to work properly.
- Slow surfing speed : I didn't feel the speed of browsing as you would with Opera browser for example.
- No Add-ons
- Not a lot of features to customize the user experience : This should be a good place to work at.

PS... this is a personal review and shouldn't be considered as a thorough technical one.

First Jordanian Oscar!

2008-09-04T12:53:00.002+03:00

Captain Abu Ra'ed is officially the first Jordanian submission to the foriegn film category at the oscars :)

That does sound interesting. Best of luck (y)

Diet please

2008-07-15T22:33:00.001+03:00

Well being active today, I have loads of ideas sketched inside the drafts and I am not finding the time to bring them into public.

You find this (usually a girl) at McDonald's for example where she goes for a big mac - if you Google "big mac calories" you'll be getting a direct answer of 540 - I would assume a regular size which would add few hundred calories from the fries.

Well I am not judging or looking as in nagging about that, but why on earth after all that she/he goes for a diet coke :S??

Stop staring!

2008-07-15T22:09:00.002+03:00

Out of the many special things we have here in Jordan, the sniper eyes guys have...

I am asking from each visitor to this blog (if you live in Jordan) to notice all the guys around you when a girl passes in front, most probably you'll gone unnoticed by them since their eyes are mesmerized.

I am not talking religion here, nor calling for a utopia. Just some dignity can make it better, whats the use when you "look" at a girl covered sometimes from head to toe and nothing special is appearing. OK now you might get through the usual yada yada that girls get the attention, I don't care just stop staring!

Sha3bak!

2008-07-06T22:32:00.003+03:00

A doctor's mistake... destiny or God's well it is. Changed the life of this kid.

Lack of oxygen, inappropriate handling and the baby and all-to-come troubles are out.

He grows up, he is 29 now but with a brain of a 9 years old who loves to act naughty and play sometimes, has passion for few things in his quiet, simple (complicated) life, first is everything electrical (from hand held radios to complicated devices) second thing I know about is his bike.

Trying to give him the chance to live as-much-as-possible normal life, he is allowed to go on his bike ride or even go to the supermarket to buy whatever he wants.

One hot summer day, he is out as normal with his bike playing, a guy asks for a short ride on the bike (shoo6), being weak unable to refuse he obeyed.

The shoo6 in the basic definition implicitly determines a 5 minute limit to the ride. Hazem sat on that pavement under the hot sun waiting, first ten minutes... second... third and after 2 hours of waiting he gave up on his joy and decided to go home on foot.

Hazem is my eldest sibling and this is one of many encounters (not the cruelest at all though) he had to go through with us involved as his family.

My mom reminded me of this incident just today, while we were on the balcony chatting and looking at him coming home from the nearby mini market.

I believe treatment for disabled and mentally ill people should be taken into higher level of caring here in Jordan, this should be emphasized in schools and in each and every home.

Hazem is my brother whom I love, but do not forget that this could be the case in any home.

When the phone rings

2008-05-16T19:30:00.003+03:00

Default Image:
Everywhere when the phone rings, the owner makes sure to try his/her best to answer.

At some times people just simply don't pick their phones and decide to call back later...

Distorted Image we have in our place:

Whatever we are doing. Land phone should be answered no matter what!!! its not like the prime minister is calling us or anyone important at all!

The first question dad asks whenever he gets home. Who called? if he ever knows the phone wasn't picked up it'll be like someone stabbed him.

Yesterday the phone rang and for I don't know what reason dad couldn't pick it up. He used the caller ID to figure out the last three digits are 313! everyone in the place were asked whether we know a number that ends with 313. I really don't care that automatically I said no!

After few minutes I passed by the living room, I actually found him setting down with the phone book in his hands (the paper old fashion phone book) looking for that 313 number!! that is unbelievable.

Ok this is a bit private. But today I was in the bath room and forgot to grab my towel, I called my dad to bring it to me, I was like dad could you please and THE PHONE RANG! he left me this simple and went to grab the phone while I was left there standing waiting for him to come back!!

What's on earth is wrong with the phone thing!

I keep on telling them, who wants you will definitely call again if you couldn't pick up... It is ok!

15/5/2008

2008-05-15T20:09:00.002+03:00

60 years have passed.

And I'm speechless

Show off

2008-05-04T20:39:00.002+03:00

I really can't understand the culture of "il bash mohandes o il doctor" we have here in Jordan, this something you usually find when you meet people who hold such titles...

A colleague at the university I studied at and before the end of the final semester he put his name on MSN messenger as Eng. whoever. Does it really matter to show it this much? like were you studying for yourself or to prove you are better than others?!

That day I took my sister's new car for the first maintenance check, the employee came suggested to take a look at the car before he takes the keys (in case anything is lost or sth, he records all that) anyway... After a little bit talking about the usuals, is it ok if we delayed the visit this much? the weather today is so cold! stuff like that. Taking the keys I remembered I wasn't properly introduced to him I was like "bs ma it3arrafet 3ala 7adretak" he quickly went like "il mohandes amjad whatever". I don't know why this made me like pause for a little, this little time was lots more to me. I always can sense people tones watch their movements while I'm talking or them talking in an excellent way which is something I like most of the times but sometimes I don't. This helped make that period longer in a way. Here I was thinking should I say il mohandes waleed?! its like I decided not to introduce myself never this way unless it was of a huge need, was it worth it this time?

I went like waleed khamis, nice to meet you.

Even my dad loves to introduce me to some of his friends just to mention "ebne il mohandes" its like I really can't stand it and just want to disappear from there.

I believe titles are held for the benefit of their owners. Not to show off or abuse it with lots of mentioning.

I-Magazine

2008-05-01T20:39:00.005+03:00

I got a blog post published in the latest issue of I-Magazine.

Wendy Merdian the writer read my post and asked my permission to include it in her article at the magazine, but since the issue had some troubles going out early she put it as a post on 7iber.com and exactly here, the text is copied down here:

Written By: Wendy Merdian

March holds one of my favorite holidays, ‘Mothers Day’. My children have been whispering little hints of the projects they have been making, precious creations of crayon, glitter, glue-stick and stickers. My husband will present me with a nice gift for the kitchen to make my job there easier or prettier. I will never forget a ‘Mothers Day Gift’ I was given one year by a friend: a week’s work of ‘maid service’. It seemed like a dream come true in those foggy, fuzzy days of pregnancy, non-sleeping babies and busy toddlers.

But by the end of that week, I was more exhausted from having a stranger in the house than the house-keeping. She didn’t speak any of the languages I spoke, had a different definition of ‘clean’, and a VERY different concept about child-care! I found it very strange to have someone hovering all the time; I knew that was what she was supposed to do, but as someone who likes family time to be just family, I found it intrusive and almost more work as I had to put things away faster than she did or I would never find them again!

I tried to bring her into the family circle, but without a language in common, it was hard. When I forced her to eat with us, she was visibly uncomfortable. When one of my little ones, who was just learning to clean up his toys, said: “Why should I if Maria is here?” I realized this was counter productive and I could never be the ‘live-in type’. I was the Mistress of My Domain, and just not cut out to have another woman be a part of it every day. We would be a messier, but happier family with ‘help’ once a week.

Another key to our once-a-week helper working so well is that we were not ‘like family’. It was a friendly business arrangement. We had clear expectations for a results-based employee/employer relationship where she went home to her own house and life. In their book “Global Woman: Nannies, Maids and Sex Workers in the New Economy”, Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild mentioned a Filipina domestic worker lamenting: “to be considered ‘family’ is the kiss of death for us”. For them, it means expectations of more work, but none of the benefits. One of the benefits given many Jordanian families is the ‘protection’ that would be given to a daughter, but to their helper, is feels like prison. “Global Woman” is a must-read for any Jordanian woman with or considering live-in help, to see what life and choices are like for powerless women. To balance the seriousness of the situation with a little humor, make sure to see “Nanny Diaries”, too.

In light of the recent controversies over trash-can babies, the abuses and even deaths of Asian domestic workers, and the frustrations of Jordanian women with live-in-helper horror stories, I had hoped to write about two friends who were excellent examples of making a live-in domestic worker work for a family.

Sadly, both domestic workers broke the trust of their employers. Both were caught having affairs with men. It is easy to condemn their immorality, to add them to the list of stories we rehearse at children’s birthday parties at Jungle Bungle that solidify their bad reputation. The bad rep given makes it easier for us to harden our hearts to their situations, when in fact many of them are mothers themselves, who left their children with grandmothers in order to provide them with food and education. How sad that their only hope for their children to succeed in their country is to let someone else raise them. Then they come here and raise our children so we can work, to provide our children with ‘the best’. Something isn’t right with this picture: two families of children, growing up with someone other than their mother as their primary care-giver.

It seems the nicest, most trusting and kind Jordanians get the most immoral and deceptive domestic workers. If these women come here to work, they need to learn to live within the boundaries of the culture. It also seems like the kindest and most hard-working domestics get the most abusive and cruel ‘madams’. A recent JO magazine article mentioned that the rate of physical abuse of domestic workers is realistically about one in ten. What a dichotomy. This polarization only widens the divide between madam and maid, and strengthens unfair xenophobic tendencies in both women. We women need to stick together in this world, both we who could abuse our position of power, and those who are subversive under it’s’ control.

I think many local families are becoming more aware and doing well at providing for the needs of their workers. Waleed Khamis, a young Jordanian blogger, tells of his ‘wake-up’ call when looking for a new domestic worker:

I went with my mom today to look at the new applications arrived at a maids office to pick our choice.

Skimming through them, a normal conversation would question their experiences and language(s) they are able to speak… Instead of that me and mom were discussing their issues and addressing them like the widow with three children, the single 34 years old… the married with two children…

It made me feel so sad just looking through them, another customer was there and a look of surprise was on his face… It’s weird how we can easily shut our feelings off.

I thought of that widow with three children, she has no experience. She has to work after the death of her husband… she is 37 years old, speaks neither Arabic nor English, she is leaving her kids in a not-known-end adventure. Allah e3eenhom.

The Indonesian 24 years old we have, after 3 years of staying at our place… She opened up and told me how many of her friends who served in Saudi got pregnant or were molested by the “acting religious” fathers there… My assumption is that MOST of the maids there get such treatment.

All of that is for 3.5 JDz a day, I really wonder if it is really worth it.

When thinking of this I always close the subject by re-convincing myself that this amount of money they take is enough and worth it.
But is it?

Waleed is one who will be honoring another mother living in his home on Mother’s Day, and validating her role (and pain) as mother to unseen children as well as her service to his family. May his kind increase.

Memory

2008-03-25T00:10:00.003+02:00

I suffer from this terrible memory I have.

Sometimes I tend to call it "lack of concentration on some issues" but some other times it really shows its a memory thing...

Not a killer thing to me, but it gets annoying sometimes, specially with the maps! I suck, where did I park my car (takes some time to remember), what did I eat yesterday?! and oh did really your sis finish her tawjihi! how ignorant I am to forget such a thing!. And well the list goes on and on.

This definitely has a bright side. I always can watch a movie twice and never know whats gonna happen next :D!

I actually downloaded a movie (copyrights? ya ok!) I watched @ the cinema!!!

WHAT?!

2008-03-25T00:07:00.002+02:00

Someone actually asked me "inta neswanje"?! what the hell!

The total time I was there with him didn't exceed the 2 hours, how come he would go assume and ask such a thing?!

This is really something I hate (being neswanje!) and friends who are like this aren't my friends!

Cheating, Corruption!

2008-03-10T20:32:00.004+02:00

As much as I hate it I found myself part of it that day...

The story parts go here

That animal store, we are friends with the owner. It is a nice place that brings all kinds of weird animals and lovely cute ones... even savage ones!

I like cats, we have three at our place...

A supermarket near our place sells animal food... does sell with low prices for food that is expiring soon or just expired, I don't use it for the cats in our place.

I thought that animal store could use these bags to feed the cats a better food that they usually get, since its whiskas and whiskas is good...

The first time I got that store 5 sacks, with less than half the usual price for food that is expiring soon... He fed the cats there and it was ok

two weeks ago, he asked from me to get him 10 sacks, headed to the supermarket but found only 9. I made my purchase, gave him what he wants, but this time these sacks have expired for two months (they are still edible since its dry food plus the whatever food these stores put isn't gonna be as good as whiskas)!

Few days ago I was at his store, he had to leave and asked from me to stay there for a minute... I noticed the sacks are laid for selling... turned a sack around and he ERASED the expiry date written!

He renewed his request to get him more of that food cause he is getting 150% profit. But definitely I am not getting him anymore.

I don't know, seems I shouldn't have done that since the very beginning.

Loofah!

2008-03-04T23:26:00.003+02:00

Was at the mall that day grocery shopping with mom, being the usual helper!

Passed next to the section where it had loofah's and sponges there. needing one so I grabbed my choice.

On my daily shower I wanted to use it... It was so rough scratching my skin, I stopped.

When I finished, I checked the label outside, it says (Ideal for GLASS and MIRRORS)! :'(

Maids

2008-02-23T17:25:00.004+02:00

I went with my mom today to look at the new applications arrived at a maids office to pick our choice.

Skimming through them, a normal conversation would question their experiences and language(s) they are able to speak... Instead of that me and mom were discussing their issues and addressing them like the widow with three children, the single 34 years old... the married with two children...

It made me feel so sad just looking through them, another customer was there and a look of surpise was on his face... Its weird how we can easily shut our feelings off.

I thought of that widow with three children, she has no experience. She has to work after the death of her husband... she is 37 years old, speaks neither Arabic nor English, she is leaving her kids in a not-known-end adventure. Allah e3eenhom.

The Indonesian 24 years old we have, after 3 years of staying at our place... She opened up and told me how many of her friends who served in Saudi got pregnant or were molested by the "acting religious" fathers there... My assumption is that MOST of the maids there get such treatment.

All of that is for 3.5 JDz a day, I really wonder if it is really worth it.

When thinking of this I always close the subject by reconvincing myself that this amount of money they take is enough and worth it.

But is it?!

listening to : ra7al - macadi na77as
in the mood for : ritter sport

Status updater!

2008-02-12T00:34:00.000+02:00

It has been a while since I last blogged... (the most used sentence on blogger I know!)

The current status is on hold waiting for a job! the TODO list I blogged about while ago is all done with a very good results actually, I got the highest mark in my graduation project among all other students... Which made some angry and jealous but those who are real friends and real people at first place felt happy for me!

anyway I had few drafts saved here, wanted to finish but still have no time to... I am some time soon

Listening to : Brightness - Naseer Shamma (Love itt)

Obsession?!

2008-01-08T19:51:00.000+02:00

As weird as it sounds... I grabbed all of them took them out of the cupboard!

I was asked the "what are you doing?" question many times either by eyes or verbally... the maid went further and kept the laugh inside! I moved them to the living room arranging them again, now my sister and young brother had the chance to make fun out of me :)! my sister grabbed her cell phone snapped a quick shot, it didn't bother me really its for fun at the end!

I wanted to post about this the previous day but thought taking a picture will make it look more fun.

Its not recent that I found out about my obsession with cups just any offer with a cup is something I buy (if the cup is cool lol)! going through normal cups to huge, USB ones and even ones with a motor all these I have.

Don't know when this started actually but totally I can call it a cup fetish :D, the ones you can see in the picture (Click to enlarge btw) are not the whole collection, one of those had 17 siblings (that pepsi glass one to the left), the snickers football shaped one has a sibling too, the ones in the last row have other siblings, well the points is the number is so huge, and those are only for me! its like I am reserving half of the place for cups but its ok I love that :D!

The blue front seated one is the closest to my heart, its a gift from you know who after all :), the one with motor is a gift from a best friend whom I kept nagging on his head to bring it with him from Qatar he made this special call from there to let me know he found it!

My friend yazeed knowing about this fetish called me that day telling me "guess what I found in safeway?" I was expecting something for animals since he is a fan but he was like "a kitkat offer with a USB connected cup". Well it didn't take me long before I went there and got the offer!

(Click to enlarge)

Like never before

2008-01-02T23:03:00.000+02:00

Less than 30 days and I'm out of university! As great as this sounds but those coming days are the busiest ones I am living in my college life...

Daily finishing tasks and what is coming is way more than what is going, I wanted to post this few days ago but just found the time to (well actually I have an exam tomorrow not that I'm free but stopped studying :D:D bekaffe 5alas lol!).

I want to put this here so bad so I share it plus I want to find it lateerrrr... after like few years!

In front of me now the schedule I put for the next 28 days (what I have to do daily), it was put before and thank God I am sticking to it...

I see the date where I have to:
1) Deliver my industrial electronics lab project.
2) Study for my industrial electronics quiz
3) Data base II make up exam! (the first make up exam in my college life "ya nerdy I know")!
4) Data base II report paper plus the presentation
5) Work on my VLSI project and prepare the report for that :'(
6) the date where I should start documentation for my graduation project (me and the guys sure)
7) Date of my graduation project discussion
8) On my TODO list also to work on the patent for our project (yes we are trying to patent it! hopefulllly)
9) I do have to finish commenting the source code for our project too
10) Also have to check about few requirements for the project (with the guys too) like a booth to show the porject on (yes yes the project is funded by the KADDB)! and the video production thingie like an advertisement for the project.
11) I see my final exam schedule which starts on 26th this month (January).
To be more specific the schedule is 26, 27 and 30 of this month
12) During my final exam period I have this presentation at the KADDB to show our final work
13) There might be an exhibition for KADDB that our project is asked to participate at!

That is how my life looks like in those 28 days to be more specific, I got frustrated just typing those...

I hope things turn out well wish me luck whoever you are!

Really those days are soo busy like never before.

Everyone is saying it...

2008-01-01T02:42:00.000+02:00

and I am too!

Amman

2007-12-15T23:59:00.000+02:00

Living in a building surrounded by other buildings isn't the best thing usually!

The area was more quiet back then. After moving into this place, few years and digging started next to us. Watched this building building! and then populated.

The apartment at same level in that building happened to have two single guys. who are extremely polite and the never-look type which was (is) excellent, there was never really any kind of communication between us except for when it snowed few years back we met and played like everyone in the street and thats it.

Few days ago, a college mate calls:
Him: Waleed there is this soccer game I want you in, the team against us is really good plus they kicked our a**es the last time!
Me: Ok inshalla where and when
Him: Saturday (today) at shabab il ordon
Me: Ok

(Well thats not exactly how things really did go but ya whatever)

Since the place is a bit far we needed to fill two cars only (taking more is a waste and less wont fit), anyway I am taking my car so I am picking up some guys from here and there.

After taking the first, he told me his cousin lives close to my place and we want to pick him up too. Few minutes of searching (that first doesn't really remember where his cousin lives), I was taken few blocks away from my place, then only a street away and then he asked me to park in front of my building! (no no it is NOT my building but ok)! he calls and one of those guys living in the same level at the next building is coming down, we both gave this weird "no way" + "could this be!?" look and he got in!

We talked about how weird this is, I am sure this happened to many who live in Amman, its one of the themes here really, You tend to find people through others let me say easily and without ever expecting that!

This is not the first time such thing happens to me, its really interesting!

عربي

2007-12-12T18:04:00.000+02:00

First I was here.

I have been doing some thinking about this too.

Most people use English (and I know I am typing in English), I was trying the whole time to justify this to myself but if you want the truth? there is no real reason!

Yesterday I was at Mcdonald's waiting for my big tasty, another girl came loaded with her bags just filled with stuff from good brands at city mall, she started her order and yes you guessed it. All she used was English and few Arabic words were found there... Honestly I still don't know why!

Just thought of typing when I read what I first mentioned!

Reviews

2007-11-23T13:26:00.000+02:00

I have been through several posts concerning "review" idea of somethings, from restaurants to web sites.

Well here I'd like to post about something I might know about! photo sharing sites and my experience with the few I tried.

I will talk mainly about Flickr, Picasa and skim over photobucket.

I'm dropping my ideas without much sorting so you get what you need out of the lines!

1) Flickr, flickr provides a social network for those who are into photography, you can use it with ur yahoo ID and allows u to store many pictures there but the last 200 are shown (unless you buy a pro account for almost 25 $ a year).

My experience with the site was really positive, you meet with experienced photographars that can really motivate you to do more.

You can use Flickr as a place to share your photos with everyone, usually you'll get the right attention you need for sharing your pix on some place.

you have a limitation of bandwidth which means you can't upload as much pictures as you want there, its 100 MB monthly.

I used the pro account and felt the difference, I feel its worth it to get those advantages and buy one.

Flickr has sets and collections instead of albums, so one image can be in more than one set and more than one set can be in one collection!

Privacy is good on Flickr, but its not the best idea to save your private pictures there (even if you deny public access) cause then you wont have much left of the 200 pictures you are allowed to show!

2) Picasa is a google owned site that provides much more features to act as a (storage area) than a photo sharing service.

It depends on albums not like Flickr, you can have your picture only one time in an album.

My experience with the site wasn't the best really, since the stability of their hosting was wayyy down my expectation. One day you can see your picture the other day simply its not there!

The biggest plus for picasa is their desktop application, where you can modify your images and upload them directly to your picasa albums in a nice easy way. Actually the application itself is very neat and usable even without a web album, search is really efficient and super fast.

One advantage for picasa web albums, is that you can share your albums with specific people you want. Since each album has its private URL (that you simply could copy and paste), it gives access directly to the album.

Browsing through the albums (using their web search feature) isn't really good since you can't open more than one picture in more than one tab, you have to browse them all from the same tab!

About given storage its 1GB to store without a bandwidth limit which is an additional feature so you consider using it as a private storage area or backup for your photos!

Since its a google owned service you can access it with your google account, and start using it.

Picasa allows video uploading, then it streams when viewing it like youtube.

3) Photobucket is the place when you need a quick link to your image you use. although Flickr gives that but Photobucket has more random pictures.

It allows you to upload videos too.

Newspapers!

2007-11-18T00:15:00.000+02:00

Having lunch is never complete unless I have the newspaper wide spread on the table (the usual big one in the center of any living room), sometimes I turn the tv on (not really watching though) and reading and eating... well kinda doing all these together :)

Its just a habit I grew with seeing my dad and older brother doing so, I guess for those who analyze I believe they must be finding a lot of rubbish inside each (daily newspaper) since the weekly ones are not the main axis or let me say interest.

You usually tend to read not only the words written but also the attitude of government so clearlyy.

Well anywayy that day on alghad I read on their web site's main page some news telling that Jordanian citizens aren't much into tourism inside the country. and on the same page another line said (Number of Jordanians who are doing the previously mentioned thing has increased)! lol its like where is the news I am getting here.

Well while reading Alrai newspaper few days back I got into this... "Which isn't true by the way - the first few highlighted lines"

Click to enlarge

How nerdy!

2007-11-02T12:45:00.000+02:00

Well thats what I got, being at PSUT has the biggest effect no doubt, check your score :)

I don't know

2007-10-24T23:32:00.001+03:00

Well I have always asked myself this question, I don't know if this happens to everyone who blogs but do you really think of some people reading your blog and imagine them doing that? not gonna make it look stupid but I mean do you target some people while writing on your blog or you only write for writing

I don't know if bloggers write what they really think of, like everythinggg, for me I don't. Just thinking of those people reading and knowing some kind of private info or something they really shouldn't know makes it all awkward.

Maybe now I do know why some people blog anonymously.

Hospitals!!!

2007-10-05T19:48:00.000+03:00

You really should check this

No time!

2007-09-25T10:56:00.000+03:00

Shattered between many things. Sometimes the day isn't enough to finish what you have to do in it, the little free time I get I feel I very much want to forget everything and just seize the moment to relax!

till I have more time I will get this blog active as it was before

Ramadan

2007-09-14T18:24:00.000+03:00

Happy Ramadan everyone :)

دعم البقرة من الأعلاف يفوق حصة الفرد من "المعونة"

2007-08-09T11:12:00.000+03:00

خلصت دراسة صادرة عن وزارة المالية أمس إلى أن الدعم الذي يتلقاه مربو الماشية يفوق حصة الفرد من دعم الحكومة لمستفيدي صندوق المعونة الوطنية بعشرين ضعفا! ...

http://alghad.jo/?news=192494

قتلى ومصابون

2007-07-23T11:29:00.000+03:00

...وأعلن مصدر في وزارتي الداخلية والدفاع العراقيتين ان 3 اشخاص قتلوا واصيب 25 اخرون في العراق خلال الاحتفالات بتأهل المنتخب العراقي لكرة القدم الى الدور نصف النهائي واوضح مسؤولون في الوزارتين انه كالعادة ....

Not even when they win! this made me feel sad although I am really excited they reached this level. full article here Full article

EDIT 5- 8 - 2007 : Congrats for the cup :D

Almost Done

2007-07-08T23:22:00.000+03:00

This paper is there since my second year at PSUT, it felt so nice when I first hung it I went scratching all my first year as if it didn't take me a sweat drop to finish all those courses. After that things started to go much more slower specially in that second year, gradually things got better a bit till now I am left with so little subjects to finish :D

It feels the best when I'm done with one of those stupid hard subjects just to come put that mark I so much wait for.

I really wanted to post this way back before but I kept postponing this pleasure until the subjects remaining aren't of big importance anymore :D

Click on the image for larger preview where you can read the subjects names and see how lovely those ticks show next to it.

At the bottom of that plan you can see a formula sheet every geeky engineer needs to pass by minimum the first three years, sinh... cosh derivatives, laplace, fourier & trigonometric functions! oh God

I'm not eng. Waleed yet but en. Waleed :P!

Men!

2007-06-22T21:01:00.000+03:00

Usually when I approach toilets in public places I take a quick glimpse to know which way to go, men's or ladies'! but this time that's what I saw!

مبروك لحماس النصر المبين

2007-06-17T02:03:00.000+03:00

...ما الذي يحدث؟ هل يعقل ان تختار حماس مقاتلة فلسطينيي فتح في حين ان الاسرائيليين على مرمى حجر منها؟ هل يمكن ان ترضى ان تصبح مجرد أداة للايرانيين لتخريب الوضع وإرباك المنطقة كما فعلت من قبل في مثل هذه الايام من الصيف الماضي؟ في الصيف الماضي خطفت حماس جنديا اسرائيليا واحدا فأوجعتها اسرائيل ضربا وهدما، هذه المرة اختارت الهجوم على مقرات فتح ومكتب رئيس الجمهورية ومطاردة منسوبيها فكسبت المعركة على الارض. ولكن أي انتصار هذا الذي فرحت به حماس؟
لقد دفنت حماس القضية الفلسطينية، وهالت التراب على احترام العالم لحقوق الفلسطينيين، ولمعت صورة اسرائيل، وأحبطت كل أمل في كل نفس كانت تتطلع الى دولة فلسطينية مستقلة. ما فعلته حماس مجرد بداية لفتنة كبيرة تقول وداعا للقضية ومرحبا بزمن يتقاتل فيه الإخوة...

عبد الرحمن الراشد

http://www.asharqalawsat.com/leader.asp?section=3&article=423904&issue=10427

June 5th, 1967

2007-06-06T23:11:00.000+03:00

...ولعل من أسوإ نتائج الحرب من وجهة نظر الأطراف العربية هي خسارة الضفة الغربية و قطاع غزة و شبه جزيرة سيناء وهضبة الجولان..وتحطم معنويات الجيوش العربية وأسلحتها وبعد اجراء المحاكمات لمتسببي الفشل العسكري وبعد مضي فترة من الزمن اخذت تتكشف الحقائق عن....

From http://wikipedia.org, I felt I should talk about it. to read more here is the article.

hi5!

2007-06-06T22:53:00.000+03:00

I did it!, the idea came to me many times during the exams, I didn't do that move then since all crazy ideas come to you when you have exams, I left those thoughts idle but now I'm done with my stupid exams and the idea is still there!

lately hi5 is a place for *****y girls from Peru, Romania and a place for fake profile where a guy takes a *****'s picture from a porno site where the copyrights appear at the bottom of it and say : hey I'm a girl from Saudi or Amman. Some try to be more deceiving and claim they are from Beirut! The nice thing about that is the comments they receive from guys halalooying, leaving their email addresses and EVEN their cell phone numbers!

one last thing about those deceivers, you find alllll of (her) friends are females! lol, top list usually has the hottest girls!

Thats not the only or major reason why I left hi5. actually many comments that meant to me and stuff but I just closed my account.

Its a place where I spent many hours actually, I hesitated lots before doing that. This might be a little shallow to talk about but I liked my profile back then :)

Chocolate!

2007-05-30T22:27:00.000+03:00

I can feel it, I am starting to sense the good-bye waves approaching.

Today at university (Eng. college to be specific) did the graduation project
seminars for this semester, again seeing those whom I knew for four years getting ready to go on with their lives. That's nice but from another angle its creepy !

Having that passion for chocolate didn't make it better! few friends passed & served chocolate, I made sure to take thinking of this photo! each piece is a closure for a period with those who gave it.

I just put them when I got home feeling down a little. With my busy day I managed to skip that.

PS... after few hours I ate the chocolate :D!

The Open Day 17-5-2007

2007-05-28T00:50:00.000+03:00

Annually , our uni hosts this open day where all staff, students, doctors and the Princess herself come to share this day with each other, it has always been nice, but this year it had a different taste.

I found Khalid my nephew suddenly there, his uncle that happens to be in the same university brought him then called me, I was really happy then, despite the fact that Khalid was scared all the time. those at the Fastlink booth saw him with me & they insisted to let him wear a T-shirt and take a pic of him, I couldn't manage let him do that and didn't wanna push more, it would have been lovely though!

Finally I was able to take a medal in something at uni, not having the guts to join the band (or confessing to myself of my inability to go with those who played at the open day!) trying to compete in that best thing I can do (football) we managed to be the first :)

Having all my friends around made it something, having my brother come over later on, having the love of my life there made it even more special.

Some friends of mine are packing to leave this semester, to leave the uni which is really sad for me, I always was like "mo msadde2 o ana m5alles" but now its really different.

Definitely I am gonna miss everyone, this is my last open day, I am graduating on next first semester, so no more open days. I realized that only in the morning of that day I felt bad. and still while typing.

And yaa I danced :), I always hated it when guys dance at open day, I found myself wanna do it don't know why, I didn't have the nawraneh feeling I used to have, maybe I am naware now or maybe I really wanted to do everything to make it special and memorable!

I believe I managed to, but I'm still sad.

Blue

2007-05-13T23:01:00.000+03:00

Few words I spoke since like hours! that's not me.
Somethings aren't going as I want or maybe when I am stressed things start taking that curve.

Anyway its not me the pessimistic guy.

I want to be out of this state but no one can help I believe all I need is time. Maybe when I read this later I would feel like "why did I post it! my blog should be fun" but who cares I'm spitting my blueness here!

Whats the difference

2007-05-05T23:55:00.000+03:00

Many relatives I have, its that when he comes its very different. I wonder why all relatives aren't like this with each other!

He usually comes in busy short visits, the whole family gets surrounded even closer. This time he is with his lovely wife and "bsboos" child Aram :)

I don't know what is exactly the special, there are many no doubt, maybe the so caring personality he has builds this closeness with everyone around, I think of the presents he brings to everyone (and everyone means tens of people!). its always the right thing for each person, very much what he/she likes, if you would think of a present to that person you can't figure a better one!

You aren't introduced yet to my family member, well he is my uncle (mom's brother), he is married girls so you missed a lot :D, he lives in Dallas now he took many championships here in his fav game chess, he was ranked number one, he is completing his PhD in computer science :) thats a profile so any fans contact me :P!

I'm glad he is my uncle too :)!

Bush!

2007-05-05T00:24:00.000+03:00

Seesaaan!

2007-04-25T18:14:00.000+03:00

Here is a pic of the new born pigeons I put about their mother in the earlier post Mothers!

ps... click to enlarge

Mothers!

2007-04-12T05:48:00.000+03:00

Bored, having not much to do. My mom's request came and it sounded nice since at the end its something to do!

She asked from me to take some pix of the flowers at one of the house' windows where my dad takes really good care of each single one. I believe he spends time with his flowers more than he does with us!

Here are some of those photos I took trying to make each picture a good looking one with the focus and lighting conditions and all that.

ps.. click on images to enlarge

The place where all these are planted is small, the thing I didn't see being there the whole time is this mother.

On any other day this dove would fly but she is waiting her children to grow. Her eyes kept telling me "don't approach more, don't make me leave them", she kept watching each move I make. I guess within few days we'll see her kids I might try to take a picture of them and post it here.

Jordanian Baby!

2007-04-08T01:44:00.000+03:00

How true :)!

Confusion

2007-04-01T23:18:00.000+03:00

It's been years since we last talked. Things just stopped like there was nothing...

It happened I met people who had the same issue with the same person, the communication stopped and they were separated, I keep wondering if there is something wrong with that somebody!

3 years later, randomly we meet again although destiny didn't unite us when we were feet away, its the birthday! I don't know if I should send or even call?

Although having my mind busy with many things, this issue managed to steal the time. I thought of it and still.

Maybe the best is to let go...

حوار مع الحاكم*

2007-03-29T15:26:00.000+02:00

قلت للحاكم:
هل أنت الذي أنجبتنا ؟
قال: لا لست أنا
قلت:
هل صيّرك الله إلهاً فوقنا ؟
قال: حاشا ربنا
قلت:
هل نحن طلبنا منك أن تحكمنا ؟
قال: كلا
قلت:
هل كان لنا عشرة أوطان
و فيها وطن مستعمل
زاد على حاجتنا
فوهبنا لك هذا الوطنا ؟
قال لم يحدث
و لا أظن هذا ممكنا
قلت: هل أقرضتنا شيئا
على أن تخسف الأرض بنا
إن لم نسدد ديْننا ؟
قال: كلا
قلت:
مادمت، إذن، لست إلها
أو أبا
أو حاكما منتخبا
أو مالكا
أو دائنا
فلماذا لم تزل، يا ابن الكذا،
تركبنا ؟
و انتهى الحلم هنا
أيقظتني طرقاتٌ فوق بابي
افتح الباب لنا يا ابن الزنى
افتح الباب لنا
إن في بيتك حلما خائنا

*للشاعر أحمد مطر

finalllly ::D

2007-03-15T13:34:00.000+02:00

From the first posts I ever read in a blog was about snow, it was a girls blog talking about waking up seeing Amman all covered in white. Well thats not exactly what happened with me I was up from 7:30 doing some stuff (driver me!), on the way to uni being late on that 8 am lecture I received a message from my friend telling me there is no lectures today! I felt little bit weird cause I wanted to go there meet with my friends while its snowing, thats gonna be fun sure thing, but whatever! sitting here maybe better feeling all warm and having family breakfast... That isn't bad either.

Many bloggers will be talking about it today thats one thing I am sure of, to make it little bit special I took photos for this rare-event.

From Snow 15-3-2007

Click on the picture, its the album cover

When a girl blogs in Jordan!

2007-03-14T21:20:00.000+02:00

I have been through many blogs recently, as you can tell from the title I noticed the many many comments girls have on their posts! sometimes the posts are really talking about nothing but you find surprisingly 1 or 2 guys who share that interest with the poster!

Is it only here in Jordan?? I really don't know but I believe here we have an extreme case of that problem.

a bit more! & Biknek :D

2007-03-12T10:07:00.000+02:00

Click to enlarge, me up the hilllllll

That picnic we had like two weeks ago, it was all family and stuff. lots of fun really.

The biggest part was this climbing up the hill, me and Mohannad did that which was of little danger and little harm on Mohannad arm but everything else was perfect, really we were up very good distance to go on foot. Being not the heights guy never ever made me feel even better about getting up there.

View was perfect, weather was too. BBQ definitely gr8 :D!

I'm really appreciating those quality family times although I never did before but as we get older (hehe 21 years old me lol) we appreciate those moments really.

The post is little messed up I know and I will make it even messier! now Waleed shift to something else! I WANT TO ASK people WHY DO YOU SHOW OFF? should I put a new post, I really don't know but I feel into talking about it now!! why guys show off while talking to girls in uni? is it really that important? why do girls act stupid while trying to look for Arabic word and they pretend having some hard time getting the right choice out of their dictionary so they "spit" it out in English?! why do they use English (I know I'm blogging in English but this is for everyone). That day I was listening to a girl in our uni that happened to be sitting close to me. she was playing "7akem jallad" with her friends, the rule of the game was to hit using a slipper! (as I understood), the girl pretended to have hard time finding the exact word for slipper in Arabic so she went exactly like "that white thingie ille btod5ol 3al 7ammam fee"!!! damn it people couldn't she just say it? I bet she doesn't do that in her house, but you know its cool to use English and act stupid.

I always tell myself "don't judge people", well I am only commenting here I don't know if you agree?

I know thoughts are scattered here and not related but what the hell its a blog after all!

Macadi Nahhas concert

2007-03-09T20:48:00.000+02:00

Macadi Nahhas

It was really nice, I was invited there (which made it even better) loool :P!, her voice was really sweet and angelic. All the comments I read used that word "anglic"... she sang only songs from her new album Khilkhal, I knew she wanted to do this long time before but since her grandma died she had to postpone it... I had the chance to talk to her after the concert, since her family is friends with ours the talk was warm specially with her mom who went into tears after the concert, anyway it was really nice concert to attend :) for those 5 millions in Jordan who didn't come u missed it lol ;)!

You can listen to two nice songs (only her voice) from her album through these two links
1) Natalie
2) Ah ya wa3de
*Right click then (save target as for internet explorer users), (Save link As for Firefox usuers)

Please note you will need real player or real player alternative to play those two files

Here is a two-video album of the concert I /recorded uploaded myself (not gr8 quality) but whatever lol

Macadi

Note: Updated 14-3-2007, videos link is running now plus links for two vocals of her new album added

My DNA!

2007-02-28T17:41:00.000+02:00

Read my VisualDNA™ Get your own VisualDNA™

Tagged by manal

2007-02-26T16:00:00.000+02:00

I've been tagged by Manal and here!

1. My name:

Manal

2. Where did we meet?:

Online

3. How well do you know me (a lot, not so much, not at all)?:

Alott

4. When you first knew me what was your first impression?

Talkative, friendly and old :P!

5. Am I shy or outgoing?

outgoing I would say

6. Am I a rebel or do I follow the rules?:

Depends on the situation really sometimes haik o others il 3ax :)!

7. Do you consider me a friend?:

Yes

8. If there was one good nickname for me, what would it be?

"Comfort"!

9. What song(if any)reminds you of me?

nth in mind

10. Do I remind you of any characters on TV?

yaa sure that advertisement :D

11. A feature that you like about me:

friendly kteer

12. A feature that you dislike about me:

mmm you are impressed easily, I mean you always consider people u meet are good! ana haik ba7es.

13. If you could give me anything, what would it be?

Anything related to cows ! :P

14. If we spent a day together…..where would we go and what would we do?

Really don't know

15. If you could describe me in one word, what would it be?

v.g friend :D! lol see thats a one word hehe

16. What word do I say all the time?

mo 3aref really :S

17. which of the posts I posted on my blog do you like the most?

I've been tagged since u tagged me there lol

18. which of the posts I posted on my blog do you like the least?

Blogging 101 cause you got 5 comments there o ana many other good posts 3ende got nothing :P!

I am tagging Manal back!

One nice quote I finally found!

2007-02-24T13:15:00.000+02:00

Actually it was a nickname for one of my friends on MSN messenger, I don't know if its worth putting a whole new post for it, anyway here it goes :)

"Out beyond the idea of right and wrong thinking is a field, I'll meet you there."

PS... I so believe in that!

2007-02-06T16:27:00.000+02:00

No comment!

I received an email I really can't remember what was it all about, but when I reached this picture I really spent lots of time staring at it, I am not a fan of Saddam neither an enemy but every word and symbol around are broken with that soldier sitting there!

Just thought to share.

2007-01-31T23:04:00.001+02:00

I have been doing some not fun stuff actually now lol, being so bored putting comments in my own profiles and hitting on people online but none sent back anyywaaayz ! forget about it :P

the thing brought me here to post is this cute little baby I found his pic on google's official blog, actually his name is GOOGLE ! his father "waleed elias kai" a lebanese with passion to google services and what they provide so he named his son after google!! the baby must be 2 years old now :)

its good to mention that this guy has a Ph.D in search engine marketing! that explains it pretty muchh!

really weird but shows how google is affecting our internet everyday life

btw here is the baby pic I know everything is copyrighted but I mentioned that it was on official google blog at first place! (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/10/we-get-letters-3.html)

Google waleed Kai!

2007-01-30T10:14:00.000+02:00

I really like the cats pic I put as avatar :D! its for our cat Sasha or Katchookeh as some of us call her lol

She was gazing at the dust spreading in front of her and moving, unique shot h3h3 good job me lol

by the way I started a flickr account, I guess I like to take photos sometimes so that will be my place for any art + pictures of myself!

The link for waleed khamis flickr account issssss :! http://www.flickr.com/photos/zither/ "I know thats not funny but so google gets it and understand that the link is mine h3h3"

2007-01-29T23:28:00.000+02:00

Well today wasn't abnormal in all standards I would say, had my networks final exam it was good hopefully! although those question Dr. Bassam Kahhaleh write are really tough to figure out, anyway I'm glad I took this course with him he is really one of the best available at PSUT...

Anyway after that I rushed home "3a 2asas to gain more time"! lol and study for the next and LAST final exam this semester :D! but definitely didn't start as quickly as I wanted to, not even as my worst plan was set for!

Instead I pulled the laptop ONLY to check my email! the usual happens when I start finding the most boring stuff ever reallly interesting... that happens when I have anything to study :S! that day I read about relativity thingy for Einstein and found the article pretty interesting... On any other "normal" day I wouldn't at all.

Struggling in bed to sleep when all the thoughts come together, but I managed to get one hour to rest those eyes, back and most imp of all that brain.

I studied almost what was on my plan for today, but those few last pages you always leave for tomorrow are still for tomorrow!

I'm waiting for the clock to tick 12 so I would talk my phone then sleep and start another one last studying race this semester.

By the way its instruments and measurements I have on 31/1... Can't wait till I'm done with that I really didn't go out for like ages!!!

2007-01-07T18:43:00.000+02:00

This is really stupid, how come you care and fight to get essential stuff, today I had to stand in that cold weather for hour and a half to be able to get gas we need, definitely when the car came with less number of gas cylinders than required fights a bit started and everyone was like shouting, I was wondering if we are at the jungle!

I don't know what else left, I guess the turn is on water supply issues... anyway I'm not gonna solve the middle east conflict but it really bugs how your day is wasted on such stuff.

well 90 minutes can make u do much more :P!

2007-01-07T00:11:00.000+02:00

click to enlarge

Really moving picture, well here is the link for the film made about that photographer life http://kevincarterfilm.com/

2006-12-29T13:46:00.000+02:00

some nice pictures (well for me!) I took for the little snow that fell :)

Computer engineering building, I liked the reflection on that glass

using auto focus feature lool

who looks here thinks we have green spaces in our uni, well thats fake :P!

like the colors

After micro processor lecture it was a bit snowing then, took it from inside the class

my Peugeot :) actually moms lol

Another pose :D!

2006-12-14T20:49:00.000+02:00

Today at universiry campus there was this event about Naji Al Ali(*), there was some of his work that I see for the first time myself, really nice and beautiful I thought you all should see it.

Click the picture to enlarge

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(*) Naji Salim al-Ali (c. 1937 - 29 August 1987) was a Palestinian cartoonist, noted for the sharp political criticism in his work. He drew over 40,000 cartoons, often expressing opposition to Palestinian and Arab leaders, and is perhaps best known as creator of the character Handala who has since become an icon of Palestinian defiance. He was assassinated by unknown persons in 1987.

Handala is the most famous of Naji al-Ali's characters. He is depicted as a ten-year old boy, and appeared for the first time in Al-Siyasa in Kuwait in 1969. The figure turned his back to the viewer from the year 1973, and clasped his hands behind his back. The artist explained that the ten-year old represented his age when forced to leave Palestine and would not grow up until he could return to his homeland; his turned back and clasped hands symbolised the character's rejection of "outside solutions". Handala wears ragged clothes and is barefoot, symbolising his allegiance to the poor. In later cartoons, he sometimes appears throwing stones or writing graffiti.

Handala became the signature of Naji al-Ali's cartoons and remains an iconic symbol of Palestinian identity and defiance; the artist remarked that "this being that I have invented will certainly not cease to exist after me, and perhaps it is no exaggeration to say that I will live on with him after my death".

reference wikipedia @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naji_Salim_al-Ali

2006-11-19T23:39:00.000+02:00

me being artless! lol

I liked how the focus was on the cup not on the lute in the backgroun, natural thing for many of u but first time happens to me ! lol

2006-11-06T17:04:00.000+02:00

Don't know what to say!!

I don't want to make this place for car accidents only, but this is something else... I don't know how did this happen

This car came today to the police station nearby our house, I was able to take these photos & thought of sharing them.

Its that black thing there! click to enlarge

It is a taxi car, reallly don't know what made it this way!!

2006-11-03T15:50:00.000+02:00

I haven't put anything here for quite a while, I really didn't have much time to think of my blog the previous period, many things have occured sure thing but I would skip those for now and jump to this picture you see :)

Guess what this thing is???
Its a mobile phone produced by BenQ-Siemens, called the black box. It is all a touch screen where the mobile's layout changes according to the function u choose!! really coool

According to http://club-siemens.net this phone isn't a concept as it was thought before, its gonna be available next year (2007)... I would love to have one by that time :)

2006-09-26T12:16:00.000+03:00

These are some quiz results I take and they are kind of true somehow so thought of posting :)

Slow and Steady

Your friends see you as painstaking and fussy.

They see you as very cautious, extremely careful, a slow and steady plodder.

It'd really surprise them if you ever did something impulsively or on the spur of the moment.

They expect you to examine everything carefully from every angle and then usually decide against it.

How Do People See You?

You Are A Realistic Romantic

You Are A Realistic Romantic

It's easy for you to get swept away by romance...
But you've done a pretty good job keeping perspective.
You're still taken in by love poems and sunsets
You just don't fall for every dreamy pick up line!

Are You Romantic or Realistic?

You Are Pretty Logical

You Are Pretty Logical

You're a bit of a wizard when it comes to logic
While you don't have perfect logic, you logic is pretty darn good
Keep at it - you've got a lot of natural talent in this area!

How Logical Are You?

2006-09-24T00:39:00.000+03:00

Me & my friend Yazeed wanted to go do something at ministry of education that day, the place was moved so it took us time looking for it... what was interesting about it is the sign! ya the sign that indicates what this building is, it is realllllly far from the street! not only that its flipped lol

Check the pictures out, I took two pictures while standing in same place only turning my face 180 degrees.

This first picture shows where the street is... its where the yellow cab is (click to enlarge)

This second pic shows the signs! lol :P

By the way those pictures were taken by my new cell phone camera :P! its really good :D

2006-09-19T12:31:00.000+03:00

I got a new cell phone :D:D

I have it now for two days I didn't post earlier cause I was busy playing with it! lol really I enjoy that, its the BenQ-Siemens S88, I liked its features lots but I felt down since its not a Siemens anymore (everyone who read this and know me... knows what I'm talking about)

Anyway wanted to share no more

2006-09-16T18:38:00.000+03:00

hehe 7araam! I really take pity on them

2006-09-10T17:56:00.000+03:00

Don't know how people drive here in Amman!!!

2006-09-10T17:35:00.000+03:00

h3h3 :D I used the car for 33333 km now :) thats like alot when I think of it

I was drivin while taking the picture lol this answers the (don't know how people drive in amman question above :D)

2006-09-02T21:00:00.000+03:00

This is really funny, my friend Mohammad Alkhub sent this to me and I really liked it lol
have fun
it says literally (George Bush is a donkey! and this American is lame, doesn't understand a word of whats written on this piece of cartoon... and then GO Iraq GO) :P

2006-08-27T13:06:00.001+03:00

Finally, I'm done with this stupid semester!
It was worst summer course I go through... The two subjects I put were hard cause I thought for a second I'm super man lol I should have realized more that people DO NOT STUDY WELL in summer courses (all the year actually)!

First vacation day was on 25/8 but till now I didn't take a good sleep... I had stuff to do in the previous two days and today I wanted to sleep like 4ever so I set everything for that... AC is on, no ba3ood!! :D and made sure door is closed well (it keeps opening by itself), despite all of that... my dad came early to me and was like Waleed wake up there is someone on the phone who wants to talk to you! I got up got the phone AND THEY WERE A PROMOTION THINGY, you can imagine how bugged I was and still actually...

Don't know when the marks will be out for those two stupid subjects, I'm expecting something bad, but what to do :(

2006-08-21T00:14:00.000+03:00

Bierut south suburb

Before

AND after

Israeli bombard to Bierut south suburb turned it all to the ground

2006-08-19T16:11:00.000+03:00

My poor peugeot :(

it was hit by a bus while it was parked in college :(:(

its not fixed yet, but inshalla when it is, this will stay a memory in the archive :D

2006-08-13T01:16:00.000+03:00

"السير وسط الخوف في منطقة يمنع فيها استعمال السيارة"

"moving amid fear in a place where using cars is prohibited"

This article I found at BBC Arabic. It shows how life is in Lebanon for those who decide to use thier cars.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/arabic/news/newsid_4782000/4782313.stm, its in Arabic but google translated version is here too
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.bbc.co.uk%2Fhi%2Farabic%2Fnews%2Fnewsid_4782000%2F4782313.stm&langpair=ar%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8

not good translation though but worth trying anyway.

2006-08-08T16:03:00.000+03:00

I thought of putting a map for my links on the net, most of the stuff that there stays a reference

The above is one reason, the other is to link more so google sees my links even more! lol and this is the main reason

*) My web site http://waleedplace.tk or http://geocities.com/waleedkhamis/
*) My hi5 profile http://zither.hi5.com
*) Myspace profile http://myspace.com/waleedkhamis
*) This blog can be found at http://waleedblog.tk or http://waleedkhamis.blogspot.com
*) Siemens page http://sx1software.tk
*) My main Siemens group at yahoo http://groups.yahoo.com/group/siemensgroup
*) Our cat Caesar' http://www.geocities.com/waleed_kk/caesar

2006-08-06T23:48:00.000+03:00

ATM IN YEMEN! lol

ps... I guess they are trying to make it easy for robbers :D

2006-08-06T23:43:00.000+03:00

This page I found where it shows some diaries for Lebanese people telling what they see, and it contains Israeli people' too, its in Arabic and here is the link http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/arabic/talking_point/newsid_5247000/5247950.stm

But you can click on this next link where google translates it to English, and it wont be that good but worth trying.

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.bbc.co.uk%2Fhi%2Farabic%2Ftalking_point%2Fnewsid_5247000%2F5247950.stm&langpair=ar%7Cen&hl=ar&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools

2006-08-06T23:35:00.000+03:00

I was studying today at the library, for the analogue communication exam, it sucks definitely, specially that my friends left so I had to sit alone and study!

You can see some filters drawn, envelope detector with DC blocking! lol and yaaa you are right who gives a **** :P!

2006-08-03T01:06:00.000+03:00

The electromagnatic exam's mark was good :) its 21\30 not 18 as I expected

and another subject in this post! there is that site that shows Israeli crimes in Lebanon http://fromisraeltolebanon.com plus the previously mentioned one

2006-08-02T01:04:00.000+03:00

ME after Straightening my hair! lol

2006-07-31T19:03:00.000+03:00

Last night we spent the night over at my friends place (raja2i), It was a complete disaster lol.
we barely slept (specially me) cause of his broken weird noisy bed :S.
I couldn't make it and attend all lectures today, I had to go to my bed!

But it was fun anyway :) thx raja2i :P! lol

2006-07-27T19:37:00.000+03:00

The exam wasn't that good, I guess I would get something like 18\30 :s

2006-07-27T00:03:00.000+03:00

Its weird how when you have exams you get really sleepy and tired! I have an electromagnatics exam tomorrow and this is my second time where I get to bed trying to sleep but my eyes are failing me and they are refusing to close :(
I know now that when I get up and wanna start I have the sleepy feeling again. God that drives me crazy. I might deceive myself by studying on my bed so when I get sleepy I would stay where I am! But you know I KNOW THAT WONT WORK TOO!
Wish me luck and I'll let you know how is it gonna be tomorrow

2006-07-24T23:16:00.000+03:00

I found this video on video.google.com and thought of sharing its funny
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5337365132426447642&q=funny+dog

8-1-2008 EDIT: video is no longer available :(

2006-07-24T21:27:00.000+03:00

My friend sent me this link where it shows the horrible Israeli crimes in Lebanon, it has the photo where Israeli kids sign their names on the shells before being shot on Lebanon!

http://www.fromisraeltolebanon.info

the site goes down sometimes since there is like lots of traffic on it, but here is the chached version on google's servers don't know if it works http://72.14.221.104/search?q=cache:2b0LjJFFMskJ:fromisraeltolebanon.info/+fromisraeltolebanon&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1

2006-07-24T02:53:00.000+03:00

Doesn't he look so cute? He's my brothers son. This picture was taken on his first birthday which was on 18.6.2006 :)

2006-07-24T02:08:00.000+03:00

Just uploading my photo!

2006-07-24T01:53:00.000+03:00

Hey everyone, welcome to my blog... don't know what I might say now but I'll add more soon, no need to rush yet :)

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