Its been ten years...

Today a friend of mine from high school added me on facebook. Its been around ten years since I last saw him in The Continental School (later renamed to The British International School of Jeddah). WOW...its been ages! Im surprised his name is still in my brain. Time flies! When I added him on facebook, I found a bunch of other people who were in my class back in upper school. Im just speechless now...Nostalgia!! The memories are flowing!!!!

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TIME

If someone was to master time, he or she would master it all. Its amazing how many times I wish I could go back to the old days and change something. It is true that a person does not understand the true value of things until many years later. No good spreading tears because of this nostalgic feeling, instead I will look to the future...

2007...

2007 has come and my resolutions feel stronger than ever. For some unknown reason I feel this year to be a great and successful one. I believe I will finally loose weight, I feel I will do better in work and in masters and will be accepted in the company I really want to go to. We will see what 2007 has in store for me. I hope its all good, inshAllah, ya Rab...

Hmmm...Interesting...

My mind is still plagued by the events of December. I cant help looking through time at the moments I wish to happen next year (inshAllah). I will do my best (Ya Rab). This technical blog has turned out better than I thought. I'm sticking to it and learning quite a bunch of things in the process. I hope I continue...

Roadtrip...

This last December was a month to remember. It was the first time I was rejected a job opportunity. Truth is, I haven't done many interviews, but I was accepted in the three I did after graduating from AUC. This company rejected me a position in Egypt and America. I don't blame them for not accepting me here in Egypt. For some reason I totally messed up on the last interview, even though I was so far into the process. I went further than anyone of my friends, except one. The Egyptian HR manager recommended me to the HR team from USA. Unfortunately they told me I was not accepted in the position in Egypt but recommended for the USA interviews the next day. I was notified at 2pm that my interviews would be the next day at 8am. I was not prepared at all and had no idea of what to expect. I decided to go for it.

I don't know if the decision to go for it was the right one. Deep down in me, I knew it was a chance not to meddle with. It was an excellent opportunity abroad at the HQ of a major corporation.

Unfortunately I was turned down. Now I cant help thinking about the opportunity I threw down the drain. My plan was that I would try my best to get accepted so that next year I would go. I wasn't going to accept the offer straight away, but at least they would have a record of me being accepted which I could use later on when I finished my masters. Anyway, things turned out as they did and I think about it everyday now, especially since my current job is soo obnoxiously uninteresting.

Now, I have to wait for one year before I can reapply. I really hope I get accepted in this company in USA. InshAllah kheir.

Ive started a new program which is designed to help me learn more, to kind of get me prepared for next year and enhance my skills. I read about things I'm not really sure of and blog them down for later reference. I'm also hopefully going into a worldwide Microsoft competition and ACM training sessions to try and become what I want to be deep down inside of me.

I hope I will someday get to where I want to go. InshAllah kheir and Ya Rab I get into this company next year

Slaves...

Work is soo annoying these days. We are being treated like the computers we work on. The team leader comes in; switches us on, speeds us up, kills some of our tasks, creates new ones and shuts us down. We are no longer humans. We are a generation of androids. The rights that humans claimed other humans had, have been revoked by God-knows-who. I'm just sick and tired...

I hope something better comes up the drain...

a twig cries after a pause of silence

Its been a long time since I posted anything on this blog. I think it is about time I start writing again.

The worst thing to happen to me in a long time that has made me depressed for sometime now is failing the Microsoft Egypt and Microsoft USA interviews. Somethings were not meant to happen at particular times in ones life. All I can say is I'm going to do my utmost best to get the job when I reapply next year. InshAllah kheir. I will succeed, Ya Rab.

This is a short entry, but please bare with me and stay tuned for an update to my perilous journey through good, bad and unknown.