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I couldn't blog the past two weeks, I was exteremly busy finishing projects. Now, after the hard work is semi-over, I'm really happy and satisfied. There were days were i worked over 20 hours. and stayed awake for 30 hours straight!

I got an afro now oh yeah beenie mon! Jamaica mon!

I'll be writing more often!

Cheerz

I went yesterday with my friends to "Sheherazade". It took place at the Citadel, the setting was GREAT. It started at 9:00 pm, it was supposed to start at 8:30. But hey welcome to Jordan I wouldn't have felt home if they started on time.

The play started with the great "Naseer Shamma" entering with his Oud. He played for something like 10-15 minutes. This guy is amazing. The way he plays Oud is so different. He walked out and the Musical play started. It's a ballet Kinda thing. It was exciting the first 30 minutes, then it became boring. We were waiting all the time for Naseer Shamma to come back. We waited for an hour and a half, he came back them played for 2 minutes and then the thing ended. Hehe.

I got a call from Ma'en. And I decided to go to Shehrezad one thousand and one nights. The really thing is that Naseer Shamma, Iraqi musician and Oud Player is part of it. The thing starts after one hour, so I better go and get ready

And the other events I'm looking forward to go to are:

• Tango Flamenco: Those who know me, know how much I'm obsessed with Flamenco and Spanish Culture. This is te reason that got me to learn Spanish!


• Fire of Anatolia: I was watching the TV yesterday(Yes3ed saba7ak) and they played parts of it, It looks amazing!

I'll keep ya posted

You might be wondering, how on earth can Programming and a Musical Legend be related.

Well, I'm listening to a song called "I did it my way". It just triggered so many things. Look at how many software products do the same thing. But then when you ask the programmer, he'd reply:"Mine is different, I did it my way".

I always look at programming as a culture & way of life. It's not simply "Programming". Those who program just to earn a living will never change the world, they'll remain ordinary people.

Programming is so influenced by every science. To your surprise, a new Programming methedology, A very popular one infact was inspired by an "Architect & Urban planner". A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series) is a book discusses the creation of a pattern language to have formal well tested methods to solve problems. And this led to the existance of "Design patterns" in computer science.

I'm one of those people who like to read original texts, and enhance my theoritical understanding of things. I always try to relate other sciences to computer science. I have my own theory about poetry & Programming.

I always feel when I write a program that I'm writing a poem. And computer sceince should be taught the way poetry is taught. Students should look at many programs, critique them and analyze them. We never did that at the university. We barely study a 50 lines of code, if not less. What students need is to feel the art behind application design, feel the code, and enjoy the beauty of well written applications.

Tonight at 8pm, Jordan Will play against Iran. It's probably the game of the year. We have been waiting for this game for months.

Jordan has 9 points & Iran 6 points. If Jordan wins ( Inshalla ), most probably it'll qualify to the next round. We're going like a big group to watch the game in books@cafe! Everybody got their Jordan T-shirts & Flags. If Jordan wins, god only knows what will happen, I'm sure it's going to be a huge mess.

Good Luck Jordan!

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