Cairo is lame, thats all I can say its nice for a while but not for long term basis.
and am Dieting and seems working well so far inshaAllah I keep it up.
I got in a car accident maybe I mentioned it before, but no car is so lame its in the freakin garage still when it was suppose to be done a few days ago.
writing the thesis, inshAAllah should be done on time, even though am going slow.
being a student and a husband (major responsibility!) and living close by to your mom is one hell of a tough thing, everyone wants a peice of you and with everything going on its just lame, I need a break and I think am becoming a hermit freak already with hardly any time to socialize.
oh yeah did I mention, I quit the job and got severance pay, I dont have to work isnt that awsome!? and I get to supposedly focus on my thesis, which isnt really happening at the desired degree of focusing, at least no more depressing daily news reports first thing in the morning on coverage areas where someone always has to croak.
alhamdullelah.
I need to Rant more though. blah,
did I mention am a pro in Arabic now? I should excercise my skills sometime on this blog
am crazy I know, thats how exactly i feel now. and am being immature about it.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
My Frequent visitor ?
Who is the person in/from Kuwait showing up every few hours ? reveal yourself.
Friday, August 13, 2010
Ramadan Note
Alhamdullelah had an awsome research trip, the people I encountered and new knowledge I gained is pricless. am a totally New Mass, I have developed new ideas,
I have come accross a person og high intellectual caliber, the best read since Edward Said's Orientalism, I was totally mind blown by this man's discourse, he is a Bedoin and an Islamist, he wrote a huge book (over 700 pages) with several chapters of research noting the changes in the Islamic political discourse regarding al-Hukm-Rule/ Governance. where he contextulizes the discourse used by various Islamic scholars within the political, social and economic context of the time.
noting them as
1- the original rightly guided discourse of the khulafah
2-the interpreted (slightly changed) discourse that came after
3- the innovated/changed/mu7araf discourse that we live in today.
The discourse of this man is so intense I was so mind blown, I have been so when I first came across edward said, and I used his discourse a lot in debates, I think this man will be my new guide for a long time in Islamic politics, I met him twice! and we fell in love pretty much, he was only going to give me 2o minutes after calling him, but after he met me and I talked to him about myself, he insisted that he gave me several extended meetings I was suppose to meet him in his house, but i was soo busy with other meetings/interviews, yet my interest with this shaikh/social scientist went beyond the research I was doing, and I know this sheikh will be one of those who revive Islam, and in decades and hundreds of years he will be remembered as a great scholar inshaAllah.
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Today I saw something great, I saw a man pray but he was challanged and had difficulties with his legs, he walked with two crotches all the time, yet during prayer he would use one to stand and to bow and finally to make sujood, subhan Allah, it seemed he exrted a lot of effort to do so, I wondered to myself, how much would this man pay to get healthy normal legs? what would he do to get them? would he pray all the sunnah after salat in congregation ? subhan Allah, I think anyone would strive towards Allah if such was to be given, yet how many of us are healthy ? and disobey Allah.
on another note, I have been typing in Arabic for so long and the only one I talk to in english is my wife, I feel my english linguistic skills are somewhat rusty and am sure there are plenty of typos.
Finally Ramadan Mubarak, and may Allah make us of those whom make use of it.
I have come accross a person og high intellectual caliber, the best read since Edward Said's Orientalism, I was totally mind blown by this man's discourse, he is a Bedoin and an Islamist, he wrote a huge book (over 700 pages) with several chapters of research noting the changes in the Islamic political discourse regarding al-Hukm-Rule/ Governance. where he contextulizes the discourse used by various Islamic scholars within the political, social and economic context of the time.
noting them as
1- the original rightly guided discourse of the khulafah
2-the interpreted (slightly changed) discourse that came after
3- the innovated/changed/mu7araf discourse that we live in today.
The discourse of this man is so intense I was so mind blown, I have been so when I first came across edward said, and I used his discourse a lot in debates, I think this man will be my new guide for a long time in Islamic politics, I met him twice! and we fell in love pretty much, he was only going to give me 2o minutes after calling him, but after he met me and I talked to him about myself, he insisted that he gave me several extended meetings I was suppose to meet him in his house, but i was soo busy with other meetings/interviews, yet my interest with this shaikh/social scientist went beyond the research I was doing, and I know this sheikh will be one of those who revive Islam, and in decades and hundreds of years he will be remembered as a great scholar inshaAllah.
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Today I saw something great, I saw a man pray but he was challanged and had difficulties with his legs, he walked with two crotches all the time, yet during prayer he would use one to stand and to bow and finally to make sujood, subhan Allah, it seemed he exrted a lot of effort to do so, I wondered to myself, how much would this man pay to get healthy normal legs? what would he do to get them? would he pray all the sunnah after salat in congregation ? subhan Allah, I think anyone would strive towards Allah if such was to be given, yet how many of us are healthy ? and disobey Allah.
on another note, I have been typing in Arabic for so long and the only one I talk to in english is my wife, I feel my english linguistic skills are somewhat rusty and am sure there are plenty of typos.
Finally Ramadan Mubarak, and may Allah make us of those whom make use of it.
Monday, July 12, 2010
Chilling with the Badu
So...
I was invited for dinner, then to meet one of the important folks that will help me with my research and ask him questions etc, Out in the dessert in a modernfied majlis/diwaniya, those who hosted the majlis were one of the most generous and noble, kind and warm people i ever came across.
all wore shmakh not ghetra, and at least some facial hair, some had long hair, they all stood up in the majlis when someone comes in and you have to shake hands with everyone, you shout out MASAAAAKUM ALLAH BELKHAIR every once in a while for the first few minutes. and you say shlonkum shakhbarkum etc... eople talk about random stuff, mostly politics, and a dude comes around with Arabic coffee, and dates
dinner of course, no spoon, just your right hand, in a common big plate, with an animal on a pile of rica haha.
anyways, so am going to go back to my town in souther egypt inshaAllah and visit our tribes peole there, 3uwaydah from banu 7azim from the mighty banu 7arb.
of course its not as it used to be decades ago, perhaps I will set an "NGO" with another distant cousin of mine who is also Poli Sci and went to the same university I did. Perhaps we can revive our tribal heritage thats already there, but just make it more of a big deal, and of course make it more Islamic, aint messin around.
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Other than that I have gained fat like an idiot, I really need to diet again, but my weight lifts have gone up on a few lifts without planning or really trying which is good. I miss my treadmill, I miss driving, and for somereason I miss Cairo, naaa not much, Cairo gets too much after a while.
I was invited for dinner, then to meet one of the important folks that will help me with my research and ask him questions etc, Out in the dessert in a modernfied majlis/diwaniya, those who hosted the majlis were one of the most generous and noble, kind and warm people i ever came across.
all wore shmakh not ghetra, and at least some facial hair, some had long hair, they all stood up in the majlis when someone comes in and you have to shake hands with everyone, you shout out MASAAAAKUM ALLAH BELKHAIR every once in a while for the first few minutes. and you say shlonkum shakhbarkum etc... eople talk about random stuff, mostly politics, and a dude comes around with Arabic coffee, and dates
dinner of course, no spoon, just your right hand, in a common big plate, with an animal on a pile of rica haha.
anyways, so am going to go back to my town in souther egypt inshaAllah and visit our tribes peole there, 3uwaydah from banu 7azim from the mighty banu 7arb.
of course its not as it used to be decades ago, perhaps I will set an "NGO" with another distant cousin of mine who is also Poli Sci and went to the same university I did. Perhaps we can revive our tribal heritage thats already there, but just make it more of a big deal, and of course make it more Islamic, aint messin around.
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Other than that I have gained fat like an idiot, I really need to diet again, but my weight lifts have gone up on a few lifts without planning or really trying which is good. I miss my treadmill, I miss driving, and for somereason I miss Cairo, naaa not much, Cairo gets too much after a while.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Field Research
Aiwa, Na3am Ok,
So alhamdullelah, my proposal has been approved a while ago, and am off in a country with a relatively liberal Authoritarian regime doing research ! alhamdulleah, sounds cool ay ? well I think inshaAllah the thesis is going to be a major academic contribution inshaAllah, inshaAllah I will publish it too! all I do now is try to make contacts and set up interviews and attend gatherings when there is info
I have been working out in this awesome gym when i have some time, seems a lot of people here are on steroids and lift very little, am all natural and I think I will stay that way inshaAllah, too many risks with doing steroids, dont think its the coolest thing to have a 21 inch biceps an yr impotent.
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Cairo
Egypt is really about to explode or implode on itself, there have been a series of serious events in the country and at a very past political pace, I really have no idea what could possibly happen, bu the current regime seems to have lost the ability to absorb shocks, the people are somewhat becoming fearless of the regime, workers with relatively little education are taking protests down the street and in front the parliament and chanting slogans against the "president" and the government.
The tragic murder of innocent of Alexandrian Khalid Saeid in a very brutal and gruesome manner at the hands of corrupt police men who sell drugs and torture citizens has created public anger, and has resulted in a strong reinforcement of calls to abrogate the "emergency law" which allows any police man to do anything without a warrant from a court, basically knock on your door and drag you for no reason to the police station. Over the past few days there have been protests in Cairo Alex and many other provinces for Khalid and calls of ending the emergency law and taking his murders to court.
Facebook is just full of calls and a lot of the protests are organized through it, and its mostly youth.
Muhammed al Baradie the previous President of the International Atomic Agency, who has an internal consensus on being the next president and his facebook group has over a quarter million supporters is the stronger challenger to the current government, people recognize that he has international legitimacy and parties of all ideologies agree that he should be the transition to political change.
anyways so much going on cant write much about, for the first time in ages I am having genuine interest in Egyptian domestic politics.
salam.
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Yeah Buddy
Day
1: Back
2:Chest+abs
3:Rest(optional) or jump to day:4+Calfs
4:Biceps+abs
5:Delts+Traps+Triceps
6:Legs+abs
7:Rest (Mandatory)
at least 40 minutes fasted- slow pace- Cardio + 20 post work out
300to 350 grams of protein 100 to 150 grams of carbs fats by feel increase fats if carbs are low.
wa Allah al musta3aan
1: Back
2:Chest+abs
3:Rest(optional) or jump to day:4+Calfs
4:Biceps+abs
5:Delts+Traps+Triceps
6:Legs+abs
7:Rest (Mandatory)
at least 40 minutes fasted- slow pace- Cardio + 20 post work out
300to 350 grams of protein 100 to 150 grams of carbs fats by feel increase fats if carbs are low.
wa Allah al musta3aan
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Alaaas Masters here I come inshaAllah!
So alhamdullelah finally I submitted in my research proposal! I will have to travel inshaAllah to get my research done!!! I hope it gets approved first inshaAllah shouldnt be an issue inshaAllah!
I didnt Jew my proposal, and am doing a comparative, hopefully inshaAllah it will get published.
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work is still going on, but lame, we hoping into a new project, am still responsible for the same coverage areas but they added Yemen to me and central Asia, oh well I might as well consider the gulf mine too since thats not on the agenda.
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I busted my shoulder its like the same injury i had in 2007, but alhamdullelah seems healing well, i had to go light, on the bench press and shoulders, i think i need to change the gym it sucks and the stuff is so old its bad for you, i like the hardcore manly Alpha sweating gym, not the dress up hold my towel looing for date gym! there is a gym and good bros go there, i might see just whats up...
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oh well whats going on else, nothing I suppose , blogging isnt that cool no more, especially that I hardly say anything serious, and i dont really visit any other blogs and hardly any one comments.
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on a different note, marriage is good alhamdullelah, its a bit tough at first trying to adjust to each other, but its very rewarding alhamdullelah, just find a good person, pray your istikhara and go with it, dont delay too much ! subhan Allah I got married at the age I planned and hoped I would get married at.
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On a different note, a dude at the gym whom I often have rleigious discussions with, the dude is mashaallah jacked! (huge) but anyways, he told me about this youtubething called "voices from hell"
suposedly some scinitists dug a hole in siberia and head people screaming and it was so hot down there, you can search it and you listen to people screaming, anyways! subhan Allah can you imagine the people of the fire screaming in mass from the pain and torment for all the prayers they missed, the zina and eating from 7aram!,
such a scary thought may Allah enter us jannah with no prior torment, may Allah forive our sins, and guide us to the straight path.
I didnt Jew my proposal, and am doing a comparative, hopefully inshaAllah it will get published.
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work is still going on, but lame, we hoping into a new project, am still responsible for the same coverage areas but they added Yemen to me and central Asia, oh well I might as well consider the gulf mine too since thats not on the agenda.
---
I busted my shoulder its like the same injury i had in 2007, but alhamdullelah seems healing well, i had to go light, on the bench press and shoulders, i think i need to change the gym it sucks and the stuff is so old its bad for you, i like the hardcore manly Alpha sweating gym, not the dress up hold my towel looing for date gym! there is a gym and good bros go there, i might see just whats up...
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oh well whats going on else, nothing I suppose , blogging isnt that cool no more, especially that I hardly say anything serious, and i dont really visit any other blogs and hardly any one comments.
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on a different note, marriage is good alhamdullelah, its a bit tough at first trying to adjust to each other, but its very rewarding alhamdullelah, just find a good person, pray your istikhara and go with it, dont delay too much ! subhan Allah I got married at the age I planned and hoped I would get married at.
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On a different note, a dude at the gym whom I often have rleigious discussions with, the dude is mashaallah jacked! (huge) but anyways, he told me about this youtubething called "voices from hell"
suposedly some scinitists dug a hole in siberia and head people screaming and it was so hot down there, you can search it and you listen to people screaming, anyways! subhan Allah can you imagine the people of the fire screaming in mass from the pain and torment for all the prayers they missed, the zina and eating from 7aram!,
such a scary thought may Allah enter us jannah with no prior torment, may Allah forive our sins, and guide us to the straight path.
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