Abed Hamdan

Hello my friends,

I am currently in South Africa, in a beautiful city called Midrand. I’ll be here hopefully for two weeks. The place is just awsome!

At the moment I don’t have access to fast internet connection, so I won’t be able to interact with blogs regularily, but I took so many pictures, and I have so many things to say. I’ll probably update when I get back to Kuwait.

so long

or experimenting marioom’s dimples ?

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Image source: God knows! I found it on facebook.

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising everytime we fall”

- Nelson Mandela

Great quote by a great man.

Say hi to my new addiction !

Click Here to download. You need Real Player to play it.

Flamneco, performed by Charbel Rouhana.

“Every man for himself”

by Sawyer from LOST.

Why me ?

Why bad people can do million mistakes, intentionally, maliciously, and deliberately, and they can move on with their lives, and be given second chances ?

why the hell good people are always judged by one mistake ? even if done in a moment of irrationality, or absence of reason ? why ?

Even if it’s a known fact that they will never do this mistake again ? that they will learn their lesson ? WHY !!

why my life ends with one mistake ? why it ends in seconds ? what I kept for two years, deep inside, nurtured, all fades away.

I spent days, months, years, trying to reach the image of perfection as perceived by you, yet it all goes in seconds ? in seconds ?

why I can give millions of chances, but I am not granted any! not even one ? but why ? Do I deserve this ? Do you deserve this ?

why ?

I recall my loss in 2000, it was God’s will, and I couldn’t do anything about.

why is it happening again now ?? who’s will is it now ? why am I as helpless now as I was then ? And all goes in seconds..in dark seconds.

why am I always judged by the mistakes of others ? why ? why do I have to pay for what others do ? why do you have to pay for their mistakes ?

Time changes, people changes, but I am still unable to express my agony save by losing my voice and knees..and why all that ? because of one mistake ?

The ironic thing is, you keep doing good after good, days and nights, weeks, months, and years…but when you do one mistake ? only one ? all collapse, it makes you the worst person ever existed.

you keep doing mature things, mature enough, but when something slips from you…for whatever reason…you are suddenly a useless immature childish kid? this is too much to take…too much to understand…too much to live with..

you are not even given the chance to defend yourself !!!!!! you don’t have the chance to be heard !!!!!!??? this is crazy!

This is a serious mistake…

وقال المصطفى عليه افضل الصلاة والسلام :

((إن لم تخطئوا، وتستغفروا، فسيأت الله بقوم يخطئون، ويستغفرون، فيغفر لهم))

but do I still have faith ? no ? I don’t know…I can’t reason…not now.

All I can think of this…”we” don’t deserve that. Nobody deserves that, even the devil himself..

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over silly and stupid stuff of course…

sorry but how old are you guys ??

kids.

Five amazing years I spent in Jordan, and they passed in a blink of an eye. I spent most of them in Irbid, where I went to college. I met so many great people there, and I will never forget those years. This is how I remember Jordan, and this is how I miss Jordan.

below is a photo of my beloved University…

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Circular email …

Dear All,

FYI

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From: Managed Services
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 4:37 PM
To:
Subject: Internet access policy

Dear Helpdesk,

Kindly inform all the users that the following internet services will be blocked effective 10th March, 2008:

• Chatting Services
• Music and movies downloads
• Peer to peer file sharing
• International Calling web sites
• Anonymous Proxies
• Non business related web sites.

Best Regards,
Managed Services

Oh did I just use a “Non business related website” ?

I uploaded it.
Click Here to download…

if you like it, I’ll tell you more about it and about the band, It’s my longest addiction so far!

A fairly interesting post by Jasim (click here to read), triggered to write that was in my mind long time ago, and I think I pretty much said everything I wanted to say in the comments I wrote on his post.

He talked about human beings being evil in general, which is something I profoundly agree and understand, but I think I have more to add to this issue.

This is what I wrote to Jasim as a comment:

you touched a very important piece of wisdom, and by the way many philosophers talked about this, it’s even in the Quran that you will not find most of the people ( ولو حرصت) believers.

But there’s a catch here, and be careful. Humanity is evil, but human being isn’t evil ! Which means, humanity in general is ugly, the masses are ugly, however you will ALWAYS find unconquerable individuals, with the purest hearts, and those tiny few individuals are those moving our world and keep it in progress, they’re as one philosopher called them “The immovable movers”.

nice post buddy.

I will add more to my response.

How do I react to this ?

I first become an authentic reliable individual myself, then I seek those who are. If I get disappointed, I’ll get even stronger in terms of wisdom and correct decision-making. And trust me, at the end of the day, integrity prevails.

so what do you think people ?

Interesting article, click here to read…

I’m done with humans.

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PPS: It’s sun rise not sun set

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See you in another life, dearest
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This is beyond false hope.. this is insane !
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يا أيها الإنسان ماغرك بربك الكريم ؟؟
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This is Irbid, summer 2007. Picture taken from my room..
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By the way, the hardest question so far is what do I want ?

What do you want people ? you’ve got no clue, do you?!

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hehe, good times

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Edward Said commenting on Chomsky’s work “There’s something profoundly moving about a mind of such noble ideas repeatedly stirred on the behalf of human suffering and injustice”

what if there’s nothing profoundly moving about the audience ?
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Little did I know then that the easy way is not hard enough, but the hard way is so lonely, lonely, loney….
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nor can I have my apple and eat it too…
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“Aboudii, you need to see what’s there ”
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you have no idea what I need…
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وليعلم الذين ظلموا أي منقلب ينقلبون…والعاقبة للمتقين
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“Man is condemned to be free” -Jean-Paul Sartre

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والأخرة خير وأبقى.
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This discussion doesn’t seem to end. And it’s quoted here…

Seriously, the more discussions I have about Islam, the more amazed I am by the worldwide lack of understanding of Islam.

Ever since I decidedly abandoned my blog, it has been haunted by my invaluable loyalist friends who keep on asking and leaving comments here and there, thank you sooooo much

According to Jersualem, I have to write 6 things, pieces of wisedom, that people should learn before being 18. I HATE GIVING ADVICE.

1. Learn how to learn from your mistakes, especially the painful ones.

2. If your father keeps telling you that people with clear consciene and sharp integrity are doomed to fail, never believe him. Integrity always prevails.

3. First love never workout.

4. You aren’t always right, and you have to have the courage to admit that you are wrong especially when a vicious opponent proves you wrong.

5. You should seriously start building a solid profound understanding of your religion and beliefs.

6. Don’t listen to me because I’m not serious 99.9% of the time.

I tag: Asoom, Adoosh, Noura, Sharifo, Eman.

I was talking to a friend last summer, and we were remembering all the crazy days of high school. We mentioned Backstreet boys, Scream the movie, A&W Restaurant (It was a new restaurant to Kuwait), Rania Bargouthi in MBC, The Egyptian Sattelite Channel and the annoying “Fada2eyya Masriyya Alooo”, and Spice girls of course.

Then after a long conversation, I realized that “Ginger Spice” (Geri Halliwell) was my first crush hehehe. I also realized that there is a high chance that this might be the reason why I have soft spot to red heads.

Who was your first crush ?

(Should we make it a tag?)

=== Update ===

It’s a tag already !!! +Dandooneh+ made it a tag and tagged her friends.

Come on guys, the comments here are so hilarious! Let’s get real

I would like to tag some of those who didn’t comment:

This is the tag : Who was your first crush ?

1) MaLa2e6

2) Hamede

3) Eman

4) SimSim

5) Weddo

6) MoeY

7) Who Sane

Let’s have some fun

I couldn’t be more boring now could I ?

lol

I’ve just read the 3 posts I published today, what was I thinking ? lol

Zettabyte File System, Khabbr, and random links without explanation lol. Qwaider tried to have a scientific conversation about the Zettabyte File System, and I was as negative as I could be. And for god sake who wants to know about File System lool and why did I post it?

But there’s always a bright side, because I intended to publish like 5 more posts. 5 Horrible posts, some are pics of my socks, pics of candy bars, some greasy shawarma from my uni days, and I wanted to write something about the first private oil company in Kuwait ? you must be grateful I didn’t write them, no? They’re still in my mind, and the pics in my camera. They’ll remain there.

Ok, now I want to write about my very exciting weekend. I had interesting plans, and I couldn’t be more interesting. I got flu on Thursday and I spent the weekend on bed, and I’m cool about that. I’m not even sorry lol !!

http://www.khabbr.com/

A new website, by Jeeran! Arabized version of Digg, and more.

Sun Microsystems is changing the face of the planet, again.

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I want to start blogging again!! I really want to !

I don’t have internet connection at home, that’s why I don’t read/write blogs anymore!! It’s not that tempting to blog from net cafes, especially when you don’t go to cafes very often.

I’ll try to do something about it, I have to!! because I really missed blogging and missed communicating with fellow bloggers via blogs instead of social networks (i.e facebook).

So what are the latest bloggers’ news ? anything new ?

There are like millions of things I wanted to blog about, but didn’t have the heart to.

There are something I’d like to say in brief:

1) Thanks to Ola for the distinguished effort. Here.

2) Good luck SouqElArab, and thanks for the offer. Here.

3) Thank you Kris, and good luck. Here.

4) Good luck Assom with the new blog. Here.

5) Good luck Search4jordan. Here.

6) Sorry If you contacted me and I didn’t respond, I have some good excuse.

7) I was in deep shit, now things are getting better Insha’Allah.

I’m alive btw lol

“Jerusalem Dream” is a stunning portrait of the holy Palestinian city: Jerusalem. It’s an oil on canvas. Very beautiful, and conveys important meanings and values.

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This piece of art is created by the remarkable artist Salam Kanaan.

I viewed some of his art work yesterday on his website http://www.salam-kanaan.com. Surfing through his artwork on his website is such a great journey. I would like to visit some of his exhibits in Amman soon Insha’Allah.

Soft-core porn site (***) is suing Microsoft, claiming that the MSN search engine is providing links and images to sites that are illegally hosting its content.

Microsoft is not the company’s first target, as it recently lost similar cases against Google, Amazon and A9 search, all of which it is appealing.

The suit was filed on Tuesday in a California district court and alleges that the MSN image search engine creates unauthorised thumbnails of Perfect 10’s premium content, as well as including links to see full-size versions of the images for free.

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