All posts by Ala' Ibrahim

My Name is Ala'a, I'm a Jordanian citizen, and I live there too. I'm a Senior Web Developer in a very known company,I have hobbies, other than coding :P , like most of the people, I'm a Bassist, which means I play Bass Guitar, also I admire walking, it's my ultimate hobby. If you want to know more about me you can take a look at my Blog.

Masks

I’ve been reading about this masks that we wear all the time, in some blogs around, and I’m really feeling them annoying me.
For some period of time, I decided to remove all the masks I have (Most of them not all), and I tried living with it for a while, I really lived some period of my life, I was really undiplomatic (it was really fun to tell a guy you hate that you really hate him), I talked my heart, and I really felt free (as in freedom).
But graduating from the university, and going into the market destroyed everything, it’s almost impossible to live in this world without masks. For example, you cannot tell your Boss that you hate him, or that he is so annoying (I thought about it a lot :P). You can’t tell a customer that he is so stupid, or (a3la ma b5ailak erkabo). And as your social life gets smaller and smaller, you have to try to keep what’s left from your friends. So you have to wear a different mask with every group of people.
And man, this artificial life that we are living, I really have a trouble getting into it. But in a lot of this you have to, or you would be the stupid geek living upstairs.
Well how many masks I wear, one for work, one for some other group of people at work, one for walking in the streets, one for a particular people I know, other for some group of friends, another for another group …. etc.
I have this question, am I going to live in masks for the rest of my life? Whom am I living for? Can’t I just live my life the way I wanted it? …
Ich kenne nicht.

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Ich bin etikettiert worden

Well Roba was nice enough to tag me, thanks

Q: Who’s the 4th person on your received call list?
A: Mother

Q: What’s your main ringtone on your phone?
A: 7oryah – Mohammad Moneer.

Q: What were you doing at midnight last night?
A: Refreshing some old memories with an old notebook (and hearing some songs I used to hear then)

Q: What did the last text message on your cell phone say
A: “احكي بنص قرش بعد منتصف الليل على ارقامك السوبر مع خط الطلاب 101”, I still keep my 101 line.

Q: Whose bed did you sleep in last night?
A: Mine.

Q: What color shirt are you wearing?
A: Gray.

Q: Most recent movie that you watched?
A: Munich, It was really great.

Q: Name 3 things that you have on you at all times?
A: My mobile, My flash drive, and my Master Card.

Q: What’s the color of your bedsheets?
A: Brown I guess.

Q: How much cash do you have on you right now?
A: 9 JDs and something.

Q: What is your favorite part of the chicken?
A: Legs.

Q: What’s your favorite town/city?
A: Damascus.

Q: I can’t wait to (till)…?
A: I don’t know, I’m not dying for anything right now.

Q: When was the last time you saw your mom?
A: Saturday Morning.

Q: When was the last time you saw your dad?
A: Saturday Morning.

Q: When was the last time you talked to them?
A: Saturday Morning.

Q: What did you have for dinner last night?
A: I didn’t.

Q: How long have you been at your current job?
A: Something close to 8 months.

Q: Look to your left. What’s there?
A: My Bass.

Q: Who is the last person you spent over $50 on?
A: Me !!!!.

Q: Whats the last piece of clothing you borrowed from someone?
A: Can’t remember…

Q: What website(s) do you visit the most during the day?
A: Google, Jordan Planet, Maktoob.com, and Quotes of the Day.

Q: Do you have an air freshener in your car?
A: I don’t have a car.

Q: Do you have plants in your room?
A: Nope.

Q: Does anything hurt on your body right now?
A: My pointer finger on the right hand.

Q: What city was your last taxi cab ride in?
A: Amman.

Q: Do you own a camera phone?
A: Nope, that’s why I’m missing all of the fun.

Q: What’s your favorite starbucks drink?
A: Never been to.

Q: Recent time you were really upset?
A: Thursday.

Q: Have you been in love with anyone?
A: Twice, looking for the third if anybody is intrested.

Q: Who do you think will repost this?
A: Someone liked it.

I am tagging Manar, Jad, Dar, and Thomas.

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Cute Quotes to Start Your Day

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: ‘O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.’ And God granted it.

Voltaire (1694 – 1778)

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

Steven Weinberg

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.

Dame Edna Everage

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

Ed Parker

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

Jack London

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I’m sorry, I’m so Busy.

Well, what a week, I’ve never been this busy before, so sorry I didn’t post anything lately, and sorry for not replying all the emails I receive, and sorry for not answering all the calls.
Well truly I’m busy, and I’m not trying to avoid anyone … so please excuse me these days, I just have a million thing to do …

What a Night

Oba Oba, I love this woman, do you know what does it feels like when you spend all the night doing nothing but listening to music, especially when it’s performed by Stan Getz, sang by the great Astrud Gilberto, and originally wrote by Joao Gilberto, Oh Dindi, and There is no one like you, (taken from the spirit of Chopin‘s Prelude in Em).
I love you more each day, yes I do, I’ll let you go away, if you only take me with you, and the Girl From Ipanema, takes me to other worlds, no one else can take me to, and How Insensitive, I must have seemed, you didn’t have to be so nice, I would’ve loved you anyway.
And in the end comes Ziad, in his Brazilian concert, with Sho B7ebbek, and his own version of Prelude in Em.
Every time I wanted to shut down the computer, another great song is played, and of course I could do nothing.
Thanks for this great night, of course this is not my first night like this, but I guess this is the first time I write about it.

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Weirdo Thoughts

Well, I don’t know where do I start, it’s like a million thoughts in my mind running at once.
Today, I was setting with a friend of mine, we were discussing a lot of things, about relativity, about origins, about life … etc.
It was mostly about judging and “MAYBE”, maybe things are this, and maybe things are not. You have to make a decision, but maybe you were right, and maybe you were wrong.
Logic should help you in this, but the problem is that logic is not always logical, Logic says that everything should have a start, and everything should have an end; but also logic says that there is always a plus 1, and of course there is always a minus 1. Well this is not logical, there is no rules, there is nothing in logic.
I started thinking, I’m living this life, I’m 22 years old now, I’m running in this life, I don’t want to waste time, why?
In computer science, the most thing I saw that implements something like life was General Trees, and people started to put Algorithms to search them, but there is a big difference between them and between life, when you are in a node in the Tree, you know all the nodes surrounding you. In life you know some of the nodes around you, but more and more nodes are hidden from you, you always try to think out of the box to find another options (nodes), but you can’t know them all. another major difference is that when searching in a General tree when you reach a dead end, you can go back one step or more. In life that’s not always available, you cannot undo things you’ve done. People made heuristics to find the shortest path to another node, they rarely happen to find them (only in an ideal tree or life), for example everyday, I wake up to go to work (from Rainbow St. to the Second circle), I have some different paths to reach it, I have some rational options, and I take one of them. My rational option is that to reach to my work is to be heading to the first circle up the street, but what if I took another path, what if went down town, maybe I would find a colleague who’s driving a car, and just picks me up and I would spend less time in my journey to work. it takes me about 20 minutes when I take my rational path, but if I calculate my irrational path, it would take me in such condition about 8 minutes. (it’s another Maybe).
Another thing, I’m running through my life, racing time, but to where … ? I’m more successful in my life than most of people in my age. but how can I tell. A simple question is always asked, what is the reason of my life? a lot of people just answer it without even really thinking about it. well let’s ask the question in another way, what is the thing that you would die for? that if you achieved it you don’t want anything more? well maybe I had an answer for that question for sometime, but it changed in a lot of time. new purposes where put, and a lot of purposes where erased. Now, I can’t answer that question. I think is that I’m living in a chaos. It’s a little bit organized, but it’s still a chaos.
Damn, I cannot concentrate on one thing. Why am I going to work everyday? why I’m spending time doing what I do? why am I being me? where do I want to go in the end? …
No answer, which gives another kind of question, why do I want to live? I didn’t choose to live in the first place, I was never convinced with a reason to come to this planet. And now I’m fighting to survive … Ironic. If I died, what changes would that make? If I lived a million year, what changes would that make? If I didn’t come to this planet, what changes would be? … No answer!
If you take an upper view to life, you would feel it’s worthless. But you are fighting for survival, you are racing time to take the most of it. WHY? … No answer.
I lived a lot of experience in my life, that most people would live and die without knowing any of them, I lived the best days of my life, and I lived the worst. I knew what hunger means, and I know how love feels like. I lived days that I don’t want to sleep, cause I would lose a moment of happiness, and I lived days that I don’t want to wake up, so I wouldn’t feel more pain. Why all of this? I could’ve ended things in a lot of ways, but I didn’t. I could’ve asked for help from people that I don’t want them in my life when I really needed it, but I didn’t. why? … I just don’t know.
In the last JP meeting, I spent almost 10 minutes, just sitting, looking at every group, hearing what they say, just trying to figure out what discussion interests me the most. I wanted to move to sit beside a group, to join, but at that moment, I don’t know what happened to me, I moved to another group. what I was thinking in that moment? … can’t say.
Sometimes I think, what if I knew everything? wouldn’t that make my life easier? but what does it worth living after that? I’ve always hated limits, but limits makes you comfortable. Sometimes I’m too lazy to be alive … other times I come too active to be a … I don’t know what. but most of the time I just exist, doing things for no reason, breathing for no reason, but just trying to live as a regular normal being? but I always fail. Most of people dream to be superb, I always wanted to be just normal, and I always fail. People usually respect me, but they also never agree with me. Maybe I’m trying to be a romantic rational person. but of course in theory I would fail, and I guess I failed.
Damn, I don’t know anything. I guess I’m going really crazy …

Ma3eesh Masary

Well, for a long time, I believed that the important thing is your work, your personality, and money always came in the second place, for me I believed it’s only a tool.
As from the last period, I found out, that I was mistaken, if you don’t have money, you are nothing, you are the amount of money you have.
You don’t have to pay money, you only just need to have them. In a situation you would be discussed to be accepted, another one (who has money) would be accepted without negotiation. I really hate these things, until lately I felt really discriminated by it, although I deserved a thing more than another one, the other was accepted (he really has a lot of money), maybe I cannot judge what really happened, but I felt it this way, it was really annoying to me.
I guess, I need to join Fight Club.

Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt at Fight Club):
Advertising has its taste in cars and clothes … working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need.
We’re the middle children of history, man.
No purpose or place.
We have no Great War … no Great Depression.
Our Great War is a spiritual war.
Out Great Depression is our lives.
We’ve been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars.
But we won’t, We’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.