Archive for October, 2008
Random Thoughts
Posted by Bloggylife in thoughts on October 31, 2008
Couldn’t sleep after fajer prayer so I waited till about 7.30 AM and went off for some coffee
YAY .. toffee nut latte is back! Grabbed a grande to go and headed back home
Just discovered not only did I need a massage but my Lucy too ;p She sat silently and motionless on my lap with her eyes shut as I stroked her and now she is peacefully laying on my bed
I always forget that the first day of the weekend is Friday. I was planning to go to Jarir around 10 AM to get another powerline adapter to extend our network to the dewaniya, I don’t like the wireless approach, I always end up with headaches if I sit close to the access point. So I guess I need to postpone the trip
Some alone time does amazing things to the anger level. All the anger recedes when I escape to my little room laying in bed watching episodes on my laptop
I need to plan a mini vacation before the end of the year. Maybe a week or two
Me LOVING the weather. Even if it is still somehow hot. I like that in the early morning hours I can open my window and listen to sweet music or late at night when the sun cools down a bit
I have discovered many techniques to calm myself. One of them wake up early in the morning less tense and put on some ‘easy 92.5′ ;P on the radio. Any upbeat music only charges me more and if there is any bit of negative energy ohhh it boosts up -no need for that-
Never wait for bad things, because they’ll come around eventually. If you were having a good time for so long, don’t feel guilty and enjoy it
If you see darkness lurking around the corner try to run the other direction and not towards it no matter how peaceful and familiar it is to one’s self
Just trying to voice out some silly advice to myself. Will I follow … ??
Dangerous Music Beats
Posted by Bloggylife in thoughts on October 24, 2008
One of my “me time” is driving with my music on. Sometimes I become somewhat reckless when they put on a list of songs that just do it for me!
My foot automatically pushes harder on the gas pedal and my shoulders start shaking left and right, my fingers start snapping away and my awful singing along start!! I occasionally shake the head as well
Back to work in the afternoon and guess what’s on the radio, one of my favourite beats “Here I Go Again – Mario”
Here I go again shaking as I’m writing this post ;D Enjoy
Just Thoughts
Posted by Bloggylife in thoughts on October 22, 2008
Traffic Lights Drama
Posted by Bloggylife in thoughts on October 21, 2008

You’re waiting at a traffic light and soon as it turns green, some people honk! Wait they aren’t even in the front rows!!
ya3nee bis-millah, relax!!
What is going on their minds, are they so tensed that they actually believe that no one is paying attention to the traffic light except themselves. OK, what about benefit of the doubt, give the first car at least two seconds before pounding that horn and if they didn’t move then pound away
Is it their GOD given task? There ultimate purpose in life? What if, hypothetically, one day they stand at a traffic light and as soon as that beautiful green light emits … they wait for the cars to actually move! before deciding to take nerve wrecking action. I wonder what will happen to those kind of people if they weren’t allowed to drive??
Scientifically speaking, you can’t go from 0 KM speed to 20 KM speed in zero seconds, it needs times even if it is fractions of a second, then you have to add up the number of cars infront of you before you can actually move! We all love to disappear when that traffic lights goes green and reach our destination but patience is a virtue … this gives one the opportunity to practice just that
Health Club Diaries
Posted by Bloggylife in personal on October 20, 2008
About two months ago…
It was measurements’ time, I have been going to the gym for about a month and when she finished my measurements, I didn’t like the verdict at all … I didn’t like it at all that I boycotted the gym till the end of Ramadan. I know “3aysha el-door” but I lost 400 grams and gained 1 cm in biceps and thighs!!! The worst place ever … thighs

Present day …
I looked at the instructor when she said my name, “Today is my measurements and I hate it”
I told her I didn’t feel the loss of weight, because I can always tell with my clothes, I really don’t care about my KG number as long I was shading off cms
Well my measurements are roughly the same but I lost 2KG and my fat percentage went up a notch. I don’t understand how this works?? How can I loose KGs but gain fat percentage and not increase in size?? I need to talk with my nutritionist tomorrow
Anyway this is a good result because I only started going back to the gym lately and I went there about 5 times so this is a good result and most importantly I didn’t gain cm and stayed at least the same
Just Thoughts
Posted by Bloggylife in thoughts on October 19, 2008
Change, do we all change into the individuals we want or aspire to be? Are we aware of these changes and most importantly can we control the changes?
I take a look at myself across the years and see how I evolved and the circumstances that help shape the person I am today
One thing for sure, I have this person lurking inside of me, that’s always there I think and it’s not a nice one. It’s nasty, mean, awful, inconsiderate and selfish. I try to keep it at bay
Everytime, I want to scream, pull someone’s hair, kick their ass, shout or simply give them the finger … I bury it inside and keep going
At work, all I see is nastiness … all around me and wonder do they actually like waking up in the morning and coming here for what? schemes and plots!! Is it worth it?
And I find myself being pulled into their game, into this whirlwind against my will and all I can do is stand quiet. I don’t know what to say or do
Change… I’m beginning to question my values and beliefs, that is the earthly ones. Is it wise to always do the right thing and tell the truth? Is it worth it to still follow the straight path, it’s so hard and letting go is so easy
I find myself, starting to do exactly the same behaviour I used to criticize? How can I appall an action I just did!! double standards … and ofcourse this nasty conscious of mine kicks in, tormenting me!
I believe this is where my nightmares come from, all the ugliness that is out there and I encounter finds a sweet spot with the little devil within me and comes pouring out of my unconscious mind at night because it’s the only time it can get out!! While I’m helpless and with no power to stop it
What do people do, if some place or someone is changing them into people they don’t like to be?
The never ending battle between good and evil
Thoughts racing through my tired hungry mind and body, I need to sleep

Just A Question
Posted by Bloggylife in Kuwait, thoughts on October 18, 2008
Finally we completely shifted to the new numbering system, I don’t know about the complications especially with the landlines but with days we’ll discover them
Each segment was added a digit, the only one that really confused me was the ’1′ in the (8xx-xxx) commercial numbers. Why didn’t they add another ’8′, wouldn’t that be the trivial thing
Or do they plan to start selling the new (8xxx-xxx) block, so everyone will be competing for numbers again?
Another thing now all Zain numbers start with ’9′ and Wataniya with ’6′, what about those who had gold numbers starting with ’4′ for example and then when ’9′ was added and destroyed the complete structure, who will refund them? Can they sue Zain or Wataniya? ohhhhhh, I got a better idea, how about suing MOC
My number was a mess and when adding the extra digit that fact didn’t change, regardless I’ll join in the action!
Seriously some after adding the additional number, the price of their lines got up were as for other it went to the ground
The first group didn’t pay big KDs for the nice flow of numbers but the second group did and their loss is huge, some paid thousands of KDs -silly I know but they do-, so who will compensate them I wonder
Dare I say MOC ??
Sleepless Thoughts
Posted by Bloggylife in thoughts on October 17, 2008
Why is it when you’re shocked by other people’s behaviour and the way they act, they always say because you’re a good person ??
So is it normal NOW for people to betray each other, disrespect one another, always put themselves first and disregard other’s feelings ?
Common decency should be built-in a human being, so if someone crosses that line we shouldn’t say well this is the norm now, one should drag that person to their parents’ house to be raised properly again!
Some people should be ashamed of what they do and how they treat other people, yet you find that you’re the one being accused of not blending in, too sensitive and taking everything personal
What you should be doing is planning a counter attack!! How to humiliate that person for example. That’s considered being a composed confident person!!!
OK, what about being the better person? The normal thing is for someone to NOT wish harm to others and respect who are older. Strangely if you think that, then you’re a good person, WTH, so if I inflict pain to others and diss elders than I’m a normal person and not a bad person who needs to attend moral school???
When will the time come and I confidently say, I’ve seen it all, you can’t shock me into being speechless anymore ???
Exchange 2003: Message Auto-Reply
Posted by Bloggylife in technology, troubleshooting, windows on October 16, 2008
How do I set up an email auto-reply message?
If you have a distribution group like “customer service” and when someone sends to this group, a reply is sent “Thank you for contacting us, we’ll look into this matter soon”, how is this done??
Sounds simple enough … NO … I looked it up and since we setup a distribution group, there was something about associating the group with a public folder (see link), when following the procedure some weird error kept popping up when trying to save the auto-reply template:
“Changes to the Rule could not be saved.”
From the error, you automatically think “permission problem”, but that didn’t solve the problem and even the procedures to solve this problem didn’t work!
I had to find another way. So this is what we did
1. Create an email account (sales@company.com), because we want to associate rules and with distribution group you can’t because it doesn’t have an email box in exchange
2. Login using that account and configure office outlook as exchange mail
3. Go to tools -> rules and alerts
4. Under “Start from a blank rule” select “Check messages when they arrive” -> next –you can’t do it through OWA-
5. Click Next again and you will get a message “This rule will be applied to every message ….”, click Yes
6. In the next window choose the following actions
a. Have server reply using a specific message
b. Redirect it to people or distribution
c. delete
7. In (a), you’ll get an email message box, write the subject and email body
8. In (b), instead of adding individual users to receive a copy of all emails sent to sales account. Create a distribution group (salesGroup@company.com), add the group in the redirect field. Then add users to the distribution group. This way it is easier to modify the recipients’ list instead of logging everytime and adding or deleting users
9. In (c), I think step (b) automatically deletes the emails in sales account after redirecting them. Nevertheless, this rule to ensure all emails goes to the delete box. This is emptied after specific days. This ensures sales email account size never fills
10. Click Finish
And that’s that
If anyone has a better solution, PLEEEAZZZEEE share …
Don’t make the alternative solution too easy, because it took me whole day to get this ;P
Just Thoughts
Posted by Bloggylife in thoughts on October 15, 2008
Compliments, don’t like them most of the time
Because the moment they are said
I prove them wrong!
So save me the agony of making a complete fool out of myself and don’t think them out loud!


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