I have moved

Just like what I have been doing for the past three years.. moving from a place to another..

It’s time to move on here ,
I’m taking all the new to come thoughts and work to my new blog at wordpress..
There I will continue posting my work, ideas, inspirations.. if you would like to keep hearing from me,, then follow me to

www.sajafolio.wordpress.com

:D

If I were born somewhere else..

have you ever wondered what kind of person you will be if you were born in some other country or content??
How would it affect your health? death? employment? or even oil consumption?

here is if it were my home , a website to compare the other posibilites of living in another place..




It highlights the positives and negatives in the comparison. What is interesting also, is that it places the maps of both countries on top of each other so that you could imagine the area difference..

Enjoy comparing =)

What is Intel ?

or better said, What is Advertising?

possible??

and you would have thought it's not...
think again !

The other Extreme

here I am back to normal life after I finished the NO FACE NO COMMUNICATION challange..

I loved experiencing it =D
And now I’m reading about this artist called Cristin Norine doing the other opposite..

Cristin is an artist and took a challenge upon herself to show how much we are attached to the new social media..

She decids to live in a glass room allowing anyone walking in the street to know the little details of her daily life..

She wants to prove how much these social networks like Facebook, Twitters, iChat expose our lives invade our privacy..

She is not to leave the room.. Not to interact directly to any human beings and not to use her phone to call anybody.. She is allowed to text and video chat..

Interesting experiment for a whole full month !

she bloggs everyday and reveals her ups and downs..

Here is the website for all her experience

Pure Art !

now here is what I call Fascinating ..

Source

Tourism Camera

Photography competition entitled 'Tourism Awareness'.. and guess who won??? I DID :D

the prize was a Canon Camera along with a certificate
the winning photos will be displayed in 3 coming galleries all around Jordan..
=D


tourism awareness



My Winning Photo:


"Interaction"
It was taken in Petra where this tourist was offering the little girl a sandwich.. Pleasant little interaction..

The 20 winners:


The show room of the competition:


The First Place: by Suha Al-Kilani



Other entries: by Waleed Al-Basha



by Raed Olwan



facebook group
In the News:
The Jordan Times
العرب اليوم

حج مبرور

..عيد مبارك للجميع

.تقبل الله ممن أتم بنعمته فريضة الحج
.إهداء الى صديقتي لينا ملحم

Saudi Game

another brilliant animation.. hilarious =D

The Saudi virgin of Mortal Kombat

Illusion

Interesting enough..another Illusion to swirl your head.
The colour Illusion is astonishing..only the background colour was changed.. Those red stripes changed the whole picture’s warmth..
I didn't believe it until I actually photoshoped it!

To see more Face Illusions

Excess بدل فائض

A short documentary film raising the awareness concerning the leftovers food..
this film was a part of the documentary film course in the German Jordanian University..


فيلم وثائقي قصير يتناول مشكلة التهاون بالفاذض من الطعام في محاولة للتدارك وزيادة الوعي..
هذا الفيلم جزء من مادة الافلام الوثائقية في الجامعة الالمانية الارردنية

No Communication Experience

The No Face No Communication Week:

"but one thing is for sure, how ever text communications lead the world, you won’t get the pleasure of speech, I mean original form of human interaction."
-- Srivathsan G.K


Now for the actual experience from this week:

There is no doubt that it was pretty hard to live without any far communication tool, in my case living far from family in a dorm without roommates was tricky, usually when I’m bored I would just pick up my phone and call anybody.. So, living without contact and plans was definitely tough.
No facebook meant no knowledge about the current events in the town which led to more isolated days..

Friends were mad and certainly –unlike me- were not willing to pay a visit to check on something or ask a question.. I even had some threats not to think about doing it again!



On the other hand,
I had more adventurous activities, spontaneous plans and better appointments.. It was not possible to cancel on a last minute on an appointment that I sat days ago. Therefore, I was forced to have better organized schedule..
No mobile phone meant a lifetime of comfort.. As my dad phrased it “ايش بابا..قررت تضربي العالم جزمة؟؟!”

No annoying phone calls nor distractions… just me and myself..
In this week, I also started reading in two books that I bought long ago.. I also changed my second homepage from facebook to Aljazeera news.. And I kept until now..
I had more free time to live with myself.. Make friends with the inner me.. And I must say that I enjoyed it and got a bit crazier to the outer world =)

The idea is to realize and prove to yourself that you could live without anything in your life.. to change your daily habits and find other approaches to solving problems..

The thing is, the world doesn’t expect nor accept a person who doesn’t use far communication tools.. Nowadays, all appointments are set over the phone.. Actually mobile phones are used to substitute calendars, watches, books, doorbells in my case, and sometimes even our memory.. we no longer tend to memorize, we just save a draft message or capture a photo..
I was the only one from my friends who completed my week.. one stopped after 2 days the other after 4 and my beloved friend Tala who suggested the whole idea stopped after 6 days therefore, she was punished by cooking me a delicious yalanji meal =D –which until now I didn’t receive –

I can fairly say that I enjoyed this week with all its ups and downs.. and I do recommend it for anybody seeking a change in his/her life..

And for now, I’ll be looking for a bigger harder Challenge ;)

New Chat Abbreviations

Baby steps on msn

Here I am chatting with my friend on msn.. and my niece (joud, five years old) comes running to me, shouting “I want to write to her”.. I welcome it as it should turn interesting.. and indeed that’s how it was..

She writes on the keyboard silently and I enter it for her.. then I ask what did you mean by that joud.
She reads her smartly abbreviated phrase I laught and then re-write it so my friend could share this laughter =)

We start off:
introducing herself:

Joud: joud5daniolb6
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**consider thinking before you read the intended meaning**
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>> joud 5 then I will be 6


Like all kids, her second priority is of course her parents’ names
then some winks and face


Joud:kanubrnforsajaakeft
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>> can u bring for saja a gift



Joud: ablos01midimtanuo
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>> a blouse 10 medium thank you


My friend asks: "tell saja to bring me a gift"
Joud: otuwnt
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>>wut u want?

she is now looking for any question.. so this is what she tought of:
Joud: what anmls et
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>> wut animals eat?


Joud: wurulf
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>> y r u laughing.


My Friend: "do you watch barny ?:
Joud: no i dont
(( I now taught her about spaces..)) This is the most fascinating part;
on paper when we start learning to write we measure a space with a finger..
so in her mind it should be just the same..
she writes ‘I’ then presses the spacebar.. but of course this is not enough so she places her finger on the screen and presses one more time and then another one and another.. but still it’s not enough, she gets bored pressing single spaces one at a time..
smiling & admiring her reaction.. I let her into the secret of the space rule.. “one is enough”!


“ilv uoy” Joud wrote before.. and now she wanted to state her love for both of us..
Joud: ilv uoyandsaja
Somehow, spontaneously innocently, she asks me if she could duplicate what she wrote minutes ago and place it again here..
I was just amazed by her question as much as of the human brain.. how could she recognize the copy and paste technique at this age??
I show her and she understands it easily and continues normally.. how silly of me to expect a surprised response !!


My Friend: "i want to go joud"
Joud: ora
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>>where?
Joud was devastated to know this fact.. she was nagging and asking me to convince my friend not to leave


Joud: wat amnt
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>>wait a min
but my friend had already left..


I'm sad as Joud is for the end of this conversation..

آراء و أقلام

..بقلم وليد المزرعاوي


آراء و أقلام

بصمتك حتعلم ...

الإثنين, 25 تشرين الأول 2010
زاد الاردن - مجموعه رائعه من الشباب الأردني ما زالوا على مقاعد الدراسه الجامعيه التقيتهم مصادفه في منزل احد الأصدقاء يحملون هموم المواطن ويعملون جاهدين في المساعده على حل مشاكل بعض جيوب الفقر المنتشره هنا وهناك على تراب هذا الوطن الغالي وذلك بجهود فرديه وبعمل تطوعي خالص لوجه الله تعالى دافعهم الى ذلك انتمائهم الحقيقي الى تراب هذا الوطن وقدوتهم في ذلك جلالة مليكنا الشاب وملكتنا المحبوبه , حيث يقومون بجمع التبرعات من المقربين اليهم واعادة توزيع هذه الأموال على اشخاص يتم دراسة اوضاعهم بعنايه فائقه على مبدأ بدل ان تعطيه سمكه علمه الصيد , تحت شعار بصمتك حتعلم وتحت مظلة الجامعه التي يدرسون بها , وهم يطمحون ان يستقلوا بفكرتهم على امل الأستمرار بها بعد التخرج هؤلاء الفتيه بحاجه ماسه ان تمتد اليهم يد الدوله وان تجعل مشروعهم الرائع هذا مثالا يحتذى وذلك بعيدا عن الروتين والقوانين العقيمه المتعلقه بالجمعيات الخيريه وغيرها بحيث يبقى مشروعهم هذا ضمن القوانين وان تعمم الفكره على باقي طلابنا وطالباتنا حتى ينمو اولادنا على الكثير من معاني الخير والأنتماء الحقيقي للوطن فهل لهم من معين ايها المسؤلين الشرفاء

No Face No Communication

Here is another experimental challenge I'm doing..
for this week, my friend Tala Zabalawi and I are going to live a week without any communication tool..

no mobiles, no telephones, no msn, no facebook, no emails, no exception..

We believe in face to face communication and only it..

We will lose some time doing things that we would easily plan on phone.. We will miss far people.. we will do it the oldie style..
And above all.. We will still be smiling if we had to wait 2 hours for a friend.. or if we had to drive to a relative only to find that s/he is not home...
:D

The face is the door to the mind.
Without it, the mind is shut off. There is no communication.
- Mr. Okuyama (Tatsuya Nakadai) in The Face of Another

'The Face of Another' is a Japanese done in 1966..
it describes the journey of a man who has a disfigured face and is struggling with his daily communication..
This only proves that with NO FACE NO COMMUNICATION..


>>> here is the my outcomes =)

Embrace Life

remarkable effect..

الجـنّـيـــة

حكاية الجـنّـيـــة

غازي القصيبي

في هذا الكتاب يعرض القصيبي قصة عن زواج بين انسي و جنية. عن هذه الحياة المختلطة التي يعيشها البطل "ضاري الضبيع" عن هذه المغامرة الجنية الشيقة التي خاضها .

كان ضاري شاب سعودي يعيش في غربة لاستكمال دراسته في علم الانسان، التي مع الفضول و البحث كبرت لتشمل علم الجن و الشياطين. عكس أيض الكاتب بعضا من الأفكار التي تراود هذه الفية من الشباب و بعضا من تصرفاتهم الطائشة.

يدور حوار تلو الاخر بين ضاري و الجن ، وفي كل حوار كنت التمس السخرية الموجودة في عالمنا الإنسي.. كانت تُعرض من نظرة الجن،من مفاهيمهم وأبعادهم.

السخرية كانت مستمرة طوال الرحلة.. تجسدت السخرية في الوصايا التي كان يدرسها أحد علماء الجن المستأنسة.. كانت الأولى تفول "أن ما يحكم سلوك الانس هو على الترتيب الجنس ثم السلطة ثم المال". وكانت الثانية تقول "لا تتوقع من إنسي الاعتراف بالجميل".

و في تفصيلات الكاتب و سطوره كنت أجد التهكمات الطريفة.. منها ما كان يشير الى أن الإنس يسعوون وراء النكد و اخر كان يلمح الى استحالة تو قع ردود الفعل الانسية.
كل الوصايا والتهكمات كانت تحمل شيئا من الصحة، التي كـ ضاري يحاول كل الإنس إنكارها..

فنظرة لعالمنا من عالم اخر لابد وأن تحوي ما يثير فضولنا..
في رأي كان للحكاية معنى اخر وأقوى من مجرد تواصل بين الجن والنس.. كان يعرض نظرة الرجل للمرأة.. كان على ضاري أن يختار المرأة المثالية.. بين خيار الجنية المطيعة أو الأمريكية المدللة أو ابنة العم الصغيرة .. كانت رحلته حافلة

فمع الجنية عاش حياة هنيئة تحققت فيها أمانيه قبل أن يطلبه.. فمل من المثالية "كعادة ابناء ادم"

ومع الأمريكية كانت توقعاتهما مختلفة، هي أرادت الزوج المساعد في البيت والدنجوان في تصرفاته، وهو كان يحن لأيام الجنية العربية

ومع ابنة العم كان زواجا تقليديا مجبرا من العائلة على كلاهما، كانت طموحاته بالعودة للغربة أما هي فبراءتها وصغر سنها لم يسمحا لها بترك أهلها.

ولوو أن الكاتب كان يلقننا المعلومة تلقينا في بعض الأحيان..فقد وجدت الحكاية ممتعة.. دامت بين يدي أقل من أسبوع.. ومن أجمل ما فيها أنها تحوي معلومات حقيقية من مراجع مختلفة..

توفي الدكتور قبل ثلالثة أسابيع – تغمدك الله برحمته يا دكتور غازي القصيبي.

End of Obsession

End of Obsession
here is the story of an end..
The story started with looking on the floor and finding this small item that became a fascinating toy..

Push the two ends closer and a little spark will stink the person holding the short wire.. I played it on myself and others.. some shouted, some laughed, and some cursed me ..

This fun game started when I found this item for the first time in the university campus.. and from that day on.. I found these several times in various places..
They became my lucky penny on the lying on the floor waiting me.. my collection included 7 of them. I always wondered what are they.. I thought, a small part of an important machine that exists everywhere - even in the refugee camp –.

I collected one after the other.. I hunted them wherever they were.. and I shared playing them with whoever was with me..

I thought about googling them to know their origins.. but I didn’t know what to google for.. a small cubicle black button with a wire, wouldn’t make sense.

This story has an unfortunate ending.. this obsession ended when I found it again with my friend.. I started mentioning the admire and mystery I hold towards it.. and she had the answers to my questions..

A part of a lighter.. smokers leftovers.. that was all I needed to know.. and that explained the everywhere existence!

And here all the admiration, love and mystery were put to an end.

3alina o 3alikom

Done by Anonymous

HAPPY KAREEM RAMADAN to all...

hope it reaches you in good health and a fresh start..

light up your windows and heat your oil..

and remeber that after maghrib adan with 3min you'll be stuffed.. so go easy on filling your dish ;)

Freedom Vs. Choice

Do more choices mean more freedom?? A new thought!