A weekend very needed!

Ahhhhhh, I think I really deserved this weekend after one hell of a hectic week, it started with Soad's BEAUTIFUL wedding at the Intercontinental hotel "Semiramis" on Thursday, the environment was amazing, the bride was stunning, my Jaan was looking good as always, and everyone was in their best outfits... a very pimping night if I would say.

On Friday we were supposed to go to the Mohamed Ali club for a swim but unfortunately due to the events of the night before we had to sleep in till like 3pm :D, so instead we ended up doing laundry, later on I met up with Sagar and had a couple of drinks with him, Carlos and Daniel at Horeyya and ended up in the end going to Sarah's place to catch up with my flatties, had some ice cream "yummy" and ended up going home that night like around 4am.

Yesterday was the day of my weekend, didn't really do that much during the day except passing by the old trainee villa checking it out with Zine to see if it was free or not ... unfortunately it's not, we're kinda considering taking it for everyone over here where Me, Harrison, Zine, Sarah, Liisi, Hammady probably, and whoever else who wants to join ... it's a massive place and there was gonna be enough room for everyone :).
Later on me, Carlos and Harry meet up with Sagar to go for a movie ... we went for Fantastic 4 the rise of the silver surfer ... my personal advice for all of you out there ... it's not worth the money in the theater ... leech it from a torrent site and watch it on a 17" computer screen with a 4.1 speaker system will do you wonders in that movie.

And Finally came back home to take my Jaan out, got her some roses and came back home, if you could've seen the happiness in her eyes when she saw the flowers ... it was one of the best moments I had with her to make her as happy as I made her last night. we were supposed to go to seqouia but it was overbooked and I hadn't done any reservations, so instead we decided to walk for a bit and see if we can find Bora Bora near by but that didn't work out, and finally we decided to go for chinese at the Nile Dragon, the meal was amazing and she was very satisfied as I was from that meal, she was looking very pretty that night and I was so happy taking her out since it's been a while since we both went out for dinner in style. I should plan this more often, and think of making it more interesting as we go :).

Pictures of the wedding and some stuff of this weekend will be on Facebook and I'll bring some over here as well later on.

Funny Encounters

Tahrir Square, one of the most crowded squares on all of cairo ... I was standing there infront of Hardee's waiting for someone, as usual I just came back from work and I was wearing my favorite white t-shirt that had "Colombia en passion" , while waiting there 2 random foreigners start staring at me ... the funny thing is was that I was starting at the girl's legs cuz they were the nastiest legs I've ever seen ... and once they pass me and am still looking, both of them come up to me and start blabbering in spanish asking if i was from Colombia cuz of the T-shirt and the way I look, I was freaked out to start with cuz i thought they were gonna come bitching at me cuz of the way I was staring at them'hehe' ... it was just too much and I couldn't stop looking :P

it's cool how ppl said once to me that i can totally blend in as a Colombian ... and yday just proved to me that they were right ... I can blend in as a Colombian ... only if I work on my Spanish accent :)

I've done 104 out of the 132 stupid things.

Do this and repost it with the title:
I've done --- out of the 132 stupid things.

Level 1
(x) Smoked A Cigarette
(x) Smoked A Cigar
( ) Kissed A Member Of The Same Sex
(x) Drank Alcohol

SO FAR: 3

Level 2
(x) Are / Been In Love
(x) Been Dumped (not sure if it classifies as being dumped....but it sure felt like it!)
(x) Shoplifted
( ) Been Fired
(x) Been In A Fist Fight

SO FAR: 7

Level 4
(x) Had A Crush On An Older Person
(x) Skipped School
( ) Slept With A Co-worker
(x) Seen Someone / Something Die

SO FAR: 10

Level 5
(x) Had / Have A Crush On One Of Your Facebook Friends
(x) Been To Paris
(x) Been To Spain
(x) Been On A Plane
(x) Thrown Up From Drinking

SO FAR: 15

Level 6
(x) Eaten Sushi
(x) Been Snowboarding
( ) Met Someone BECAUSE Of Facebook
( ) Been in a Mosh Pit

SO FAR: 17

Level 7
(x) Been In An Abusive Relationship
(x) Taken Pain Killers
( ) Love/loved Someone Who You Cant Have
(x) Laid On Your Back And Watched Cloud Shapes Go By
(x) Made A Snow Angel

SO FAR: 21

Level 8
() Had A Tea Party
(x) Flown A Kite
(x) Built A Sand Castle
(x) Gone mudding
(x) Dressed Up (many a drunken nite)

SO FAR: 25

Level 9
( ) Jumped Into A Pile Of Leaves
(x) Gone Sledging
(x) Cheated While Playing A Game
(x) Been Lonely
(x) Fallen Asleep At Work / School

SO FAR: 29

Level 10
(x) Watched The Sun Set
(x) Felt An Earthquake
() Killed A Snake

SO FAR: 31

Level 11
(x) Been Tickled
(x) Been Robbed / Vandalized
(x) Been cheated on
(x) Been Misunderstood.

SO FAR: 35

Level 12
(x) Won A Contest
( ) Been Suspended From School
(x) Had Detention.
(x) Been In A Car / Motorcycle Accident.

SO FAR: 38

Level 13
( ) Had / Have Braces
(x) Eaten a whole pint of ice cream in one night
(x) Danced in the moonlight

SO FAR: 40

Level 14
(x) Hated The Way You Look
(x) Witnessed A Crime
( ) Pole Danced
(x) Questioned Your Heart
( ) Been obsessed with post-it-notes

SO FAR: 43

Level 15
(x) Squished Barefoot Through The Mud
(x) Been Lost
(x) Been To The Opposite Side Of The World.
(x) Swam In The Ocean
(x) Felt Like You Were Dying

SO FAR: 48

Level 16
(x) Cried Yourself To Sleep
(x) Played Cops And Robbers
(x) Recently Colored With Crayons / Colored Pencils / Markers- (today)
(x) Sang Karaoke
(x) Paid For A Meal With Only Coins

SO FAR: 52

Level 17
(x) Done Something You Told Yourself You Wouldn't(smoking)
(x) Made Prank Phone Calls(to the emergency service in Egypt)
(x) Laughed Until Some Kind Of Beverage Came Out Of Your Nose
( ) Kissed In The Rain

SO FAR: 55

Level 18
(x) Written A Letter To Santa Claus
(x) Watched The Sun Set/ sun rise With Someone You Care/Cared About
(x) Blown Bubbles
(x) Made A Bonfire On The Beach or anywhere

SO FAR: 59

Level 19
(x) Crashed A Party
( ) Have Traveled More Than 5 Days With A Car Full Of People
(x) Gone Rollerskating / Blading
(x) Had A Wish Come True
( ) Been Humped By A Monkey

SO FAR: 62

Level 20
() Worn Pearls
(x) Jumped Off A Bridge
(x) Screamed "Penis" or "Vagina"
() Swam With Dolphins

SO FAR: 64

Level 22
(x) Got Your Tongue Stuck To A Pole/Freezer/ice Cube
() kissed A Fish
(x) Worn The Opposite Sex's Clothes
(x) Sat On A Roof Top

SO FAR: 67

Level 23
(x) Screamed At The Top Of Your Lungs
(x) Done / Attempted A One-Handed Cartwheel
(x) Talked On The Phone For More Than 6 Hours (in one day)
(x) Recently stayed up for a while talking to someone you care about

SO FAR: 71

Level 24
(x) Picked And Ate An Apple Right Off The Tree
(x) Climbed A Tree
(x) Had/Been In A Tree House
(x) Been scared To Watch Scary Movies Alone

SO FAR: 75

Level 25
(x) Believed In Ghosts
() Have had More Than 30 Pairs Of Shoes...
(x) Gone Streaking
(x) Visited Jail(my uncle is an officer, he showed me around the station and i saw it)

SO FAR: 78


Level 26
() Played Chicken
(x) Been Pushed into a pool with all your clothes on
(x) Been Told You're Hot By A Complete Stranger
(x) Broken A Bone.
(x) Been Easily Amused

SO FAR: 82

Level 27
( ) Caught A Fish Then Ate It Later
( ) Made A Porn Video
(x) Caught A Butterfly
(x) Laughed So Hard You Cried
() Cried So Hard You Laughed

SO FAR: 84

Level 28
(x) Mooned/Flashed Someone
(x) Had Someone Moon/Flash You
(x) Cheated On A Test
(x) Forgotten Someone's Name
( ) French Braided Someones Hair
(x) Gone Skinny Dipping (does taking your clothes of in a hot water spring count?)
(x) Been Kicked Out Of Your House.
(x) Tried to hurt yourself

SO FAR: 91

Level 29
(x) Rode A Roller Coaster
(x) Went Scuba-Diving/Snorkeling
(x) Had A Cavity
(x) Black-Mailed Someone
(x) Been Black Mailed

SO FAR: 96

Level 31
(x) Been Used.
(x) Fell Going Up The Stairs.
(x) Licked A Cat (my pookie)
(x) Bitten Someone.
(x) Licked Someone.

SO FAR: 101

Level 32
() Been shot at/or at gunpoint
( ) Had sex in the rain
(x) Flattened someones tires
(x) Rode your car/truck until the gas light came on
(x) Got five pound or less worth of gas

Total = 104

Lost in work

Today I was reviewing some code with one of my developers because he had a serious problem when he was trying to display some data onto a test page, I had to spend about 2 hours just looking at his code to finally realize that he had gone calling by reference and dealing with it as if he was calling by value ... which for whoever is reading this and is not a coder means it's a big problem ... I felt that i was so stupid not to figure that out right away instead of tracing/debugging and trying different code blocks and data structures :( ... I feel so embarrassed, the dude came up to me as his team leader and was like "I don't know whats wrong, can you help me?" and I was lost in it for all that time for to figure that the problem was that ... I wonder what does he think of me now that it took me that much time to figure that obvious problem out?? :(

Aside from that, Me and Salman were brainstorming on some new ideas for about an hour ... I felt good after that cuz i had so much input for him, not to mention that he liked ALOT of what i said.

One Hell of a Night!!

Yesterday I get back to Cairo after a short visit to my family in Alexandria, so I come back to find no one home because all of my flatmates were in the Mohamed Ali club swimming all day and they were to be back around 7ish, so instead I meet up with Soad and pick up Daniel from her and chylled around in downtown till that time ... once everyone comes back home I felt like the whole club came back with them ... it was soooo random ... the ppl who came to my 3 bedroom apartment were:
1.Sarah Keller
2. Liisi
3. Luli
4. Nisrin
5. Dan
6. Mark
7. Cynthia
8. Sameh
9. Daniel
10. Emily
11. Kent
12. Rhiannon
13. Kathleen
14. Kenny
15. Purvi
and not to mention us of course like ... me, harrison, farzina, salman ... and pookie :P

it was one hell of a fun night very chylled out and socially entertaining.

hope that happens more often but preferably when the next day is NOT a working day, I came to work late 2day cuz I slept really late like around 3ish in the morning :(

Flute player & Beatboxer ... how does he do it ?

while I was browsing some stuff on YouTube in a mission to find something interesting and worthwhile I stumbled on this video of a Flute player who apparently has been playing on the streets of Washington, DC ... but thats not all, the interesting thing is that he BEAT-BOXES while playing. check it out:

New Job, New Opportunity

So to get you guys updated on whats been going on for the past month, I've recently started working as a Team Leader and Software Developer in this IT firm called "Taya IT".

This company has so much potential from the way I see it in terms of growth because its serving the middle east with services that no other company has thought about before... where it's providing the 1st real-time Arabic search engine that can finally return accurate results for it's users and parse the search definition into related derivatives of the word.

What I'm doing here is basically Project Management and development along with keeping a small team of developers together and working at full capacity, my part in that team for now is basically doing all the complex thinking and algorithm implementations along with architecture and modular design of an Advertisement Service that will be added on to the company's search engine web page to return specific advertisements to related searched keywords.

it's a really fun job, and this is exactly what I've always wanted to do :)

wish me luck :)

A New Laptop in My life :D

YESSSSSSSSSSSS, Finally a new laptop is coming into my life ... yesterday before leaving work I had an intense meeting with the technical adviser discussing software/hardware issues related to my development team environment and for the whole company as well ... and at the end of the meeting I requested to get a new laptop for me to be able to work comfortably from home and become mobile instead of having everything at work, the adviser totally agreed with the comment "as long as you'll be on time with your deadlines, I'll give you whatever you want" ... it was so cool.

So today I come into the office and start checking out which laptop to get and I decide on a slick new HP Pavilion dv6300 series laptop ... high end powerful machine.

I'm so happy ... YAAAAAY :D

the things that are the most important to me in my life are:
1. Family
2. GF
3. My son "my adorable pookie"
4. Friends
5. and last but not least ... my laptop :)

after that comes everything else and ofcourse with the priority of work right after all 5 :)