Archive for August, 2008
How can I turn off the Internet ??
Posted by Bloggylife in technology, thoughts on August 8, 2008
How can I turn off the Internet ?? Interesting question …
Of course it is talking about the Internet concept itself, after watching the video you should understand the meaning
What first came to mind is, if I were to turn off the Internet on world wide level, bring down the root DNS servers, of course the Internet won’t go down immediately and it won’t be total devastation but the impact is huge. DNS is responsible for translating the name to IP so you wouldn’t have to type the number instead of the name of what you are trying to connect to
If you type www.hotmail.com, the computer needs the number to go get it for you. If your DNS doesn’t have the number it queries the second DNS it has on its list and so on until they reach the root DNS and this will forward them to hotmail DNS servers for feedback
So how would you turn off the Internet … just let yourself go wild … though in reality is a near impossible task to carry
Single and Money
Posted by Bloggylife in thoughts on August 8, 2008
I’m not sure how it is with guys but I believe most girls who are single go through this
Seems like working and getting paid every month is kind of bothering some people, because all they say when talking about money and work is
“شعندج انتي … خو بروحج ما تحاتيين شي”
How would you know? what is going on in my life. I didn’t get myself an expensive car so what my money “طايح ابجبدي”
Maybe I have other plans, my appreciation to things are different, my needs are different
I never ask more than what I got, not as a kid, not as a teenager, not when in college and definitely not now when I am actually making my own money
Sometimes I want to invite people on my pay day, bring in all my salary and set the whole thing on fire!
When people start asking questions just to know how much you actually make
“Are you going to be included in the 50 KD salary raise??“
“Isn’t that for people who’s salary is less than 1000 KD?“
“yeah … so …“
Even when I buy stuff, go places, anything that I pay for, they naturally assume I am doing this because I have too much money and nothing better to do with it
Everyone has responsibilities that they need to adjust to, I know for a fact it doesn’t matter how much money you have if you don’t utilize it wisely, it is never going to be enough whether you make 300, 500, 1000, 5000 KD
“لو انا منج جان سويت و شريت و رحت”
The problem, people who compare themselves with you are sometimes single too but they assume they have more responsibilities because they pay 80 KD a month for their car and they give their parents this and that … Not only that, their job is 3 hours a day and they graduated from a religious major!
Of course I am entitled to higher paycheck, I’m from a scientific major, my working hours are much longer, within these hours I actually “work”, I get called in the weekends, hell even after working hours!! See no comparison and yet they want to be equal!!!
And if they actually want to calculate how much each of us get paid by the hour, divide the whole salary by the total hours they work, they’ll see in the end they actually are paid higher than I am
They always want to know how you spend your money, “Why, are you going to pay me if what I make is not enough??” I don’t understand this sense of “legafa”
All their assumptions is built on fantasies, the difference is I don’t walk around talking about my business to anybody and making excuses why at the end of the month I have nothing left
Live with it, From an outsider point of view, one of the perks of being single is I have less headache to deal with. Is it my fault ??
Spiritual Thoughts
Posted by Bloggylife in Islam, thoughts on August 6, 2008
With her beautiful eyes looking at me, she tugged in her hair, talked a bit, smiled and turned … raised her hand and started to pray
It’s the way she prayed that brought some serenity to her surrounding. I just wanted to back away and watch her because she looked so peaceful so focused. I itched to ask how she does it, how does she manage to reach this level of soundness
All her moves in the ritual prayer was carefully carried out, so slow, so focused
Where as in my case, I prayed and all my thoughts where occupied with the damn email filter problem. exit code, it must be a programmable error, but no updates were installed lately, some files may have gotten corrupt, some settings need to be set to handle such glitches …
How can one isolate themselves to be totally into our daily rituals
I thought, GOD is standing in front of the both of us as we pray, but I believe she is doing a far better job than I am
Most will tell you to release everything and focus, imagine the situation you are in and you are going to face GOD and be in his presence. I don’t know but even if it works for a few seconds I am then distracted
I guess I have to work harder
Just Thoughts
Posted by Bloggylife in thoughts on August 5, 2008
Count your blessings
For better perspective …
For appreciation …
K-net Problems
Posted by Bloggylife in technology, thoughts on August 4, 2008
For the past two days and including today, some places are having K-net issues! I am not sure why I haven’t read about this in the newspapers but no one seems to mention this or think this is an issue
On Saturday I had a Dr. appointment and when I used my K-net it stated “Bank Unavailable”, I was thinking did my bank go offline!! and then he suggested to use my Visa/Master card and I thought eventually Visa/Master card has to contact my banks’ servers to check my account but surprisingly it did work
Yesterday we went to the Avenues and all ATM machines were out of services and also some shops accepted K-net and others didn’t. So the problem wasn’t with the complex’s network but what was the issue ??
Brain storming by myself, if I were to visualize all the banks networks’ architecture I would believe that each bank host their own network between their branches and handle their own networking equipment and don’t lease it to an ISP. But of course they would need Internet access for interaction with the outside world but most importantly for on-line banking, this is where an ISP comes to picture. Here comes the back-end front-end scenario, where only the front-end can be accessed from outside and the back-end deals with all the banks’ critical servers storing all the information
But I think this solution will allow only withdrawal from your bank using your card, so here comes the K-net which is a network handled maybe by a third party or a representative from each bank to connect all the banks together
So I am thinking maybe something is wrong with the network connecting all the banks together, because it can’t be that all banks are having issues, this kind of environment needs to be stable and safe
In shops with the K-net issue, I was tempted to ask them to try the Visa/Mater but thought otherwise … “basich legafa”
Maybe the shops who are provided with the K-net through a certain bank are the ones facing a problem
So I am hoping someone who has a better idea about this than I do, reads my post, and enlighten us all 
Sleepless Thoughts
Posted by Bloggylife in thoughts on August 3, 2008
Everyone fears something. I believe at least on thing. If nothing else then themselves!
It’s the mixture of quiet, darkness and thoughts that bring them demons within
The issues and things we fear the most are the ones we are reluctant to face and deal with. Figure out and try to somehow find a solution or some middle ground
How we rise above kidding ourselves that all is left behind, where in fact, all is being dragged along
I apologize for not being the person I want to be
Literature Thoughts
Posted by Bloggylife in thoughts on August 3, 2008
This is a proposition beyond your wildest dreams
My dreams are surprisingly humble
Sweet Memories
Posted by Bloggylife in family, friends on August 2, 2008
I was going through my camera today and realized that I haven’t shared my photos of my Dubai trip ;p So here they are. I think they are OK, since I am not good in photography, but give me some slack ;D ENJOY
First day, my brother and I shared a room and of course I woke up early though we slept late. So I left him this “brotherly” note ;P before I headed outside exploring
3aysheen eldoor ;P
“الجوع كافر” I haven’t had burger king in ages but everywhere was crowded so we found this semi-crowded and I ate everything!
My brother the “وحش”
I had this sweet chicken ceaser salad, but it was too sweet I couldn’t eat it all. If I were in Kuwait, I would’ve had it take away and had my sister taste it, I know she will like it
This is a Moroccan restaurant we went to, my brother’s dish was so much tastier, he had meat. It was so tender and delicious
This is the first complex I walked to alone. Lamcy Plaze, can you see the crazy clown up and down the pole. He’s fake. But that was creeeepy!
We didn’t have time to ride this 
Me like the dresses but they were expensive
I WANT YOU … -no comment ;P-
These are cool statues we found in a shop, terminator, predator and many others. They come in many sizes
This is the car we rented to drive around. SOOOO outdated, notice the windows handles ;P and where the speed meters are! So damn FUNNY. We had a blast driving that thing around
They had these all over the place, I guess everyone was learning how to drive. It has a funny name
“بالحصا … غصب طيب تتعلم ولا نحوكك وحدة”
The time we got lost trying to reach China Town, hehehe, it was hilarious!
Surprisingly, the map we used to get around. Damn, my brother can drive and masha’Allah know his way around using that map only 
Remember girls, the picnic we had in Marina LOL. The weather was beautiful and the food was great but what was greater the company :*
My Day
Posted by Bloggylife in family, thoughts on August 2, 2008
I was a bit shocked when I was told that I am sooo stubborn, I know I am kinda thick headed but not to that extent they described it!
Problem noted, so whenever I am having one of my fits, I try and measure how stubborn I really am … and maybe bring that down a notch
Another issue with mother and my room, she is having one of her cleaning epiphanies and taking it all out of course on dear old me!!
I got a bit mad … and took everything they moved back to place …
I was going to clean my room ,which is semi-tidy by the way, but she made her speech about invading my room and throwing everything out and like a teenager it struck a strong cord!!
Woke up this morning, went to the saloon -yes finally- to calm down the sorry excuse of a hair I have and decided to work on my stubbornness and tidy a FEW things when I get home … surprisingly she did move a couple of stuff but not back to my room!! and kept them the way I wanted them, outside my room, but in different places
I put on some music and start tidying stuff up
As I was about to carry some stuff outside I notice a glimpse of her exiting my room, she had to check what I was doing and like the mom I know, she had to come back with this silly smile on her face she was trying hard to hide ;P
I was going to tell her, “mom you can smile, laugh, you can dance around if you want to, yes I am cleaning my room“
“شنو هذا اللي حاطته“
“music“
طبعا المسألة ترقيع … كانت تبي تطمن اني قاعد أنظف
Mom, I believe she is going to be like that till the day I die. I am in my 50′s and she in her 90′s. Harrassing me about my room and “أهم شي اني للحين راح أكون أستأذن قبل ما أطلع”
يمكن البعض راح تلوع جبده من الصوره
Seriously some people don’t drink milk!!! That’s strange! Well in my family, we are used to drink cold milk and straight outta the bottle ;D No sugar needed if it is cold. I used to take one in the morning and some people actually cringe!
I was having this as I was tidying my room. Anyway I had to take several photos of this for it to be this clear and not fuzzy 
Just Thoughts
Posted by Bloggylife in thoughts on August 1, 2008
It’s a pity when one doesn’t realize their true friends
It’s more pity when this realization comes a little too late
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