After 16 years in the USA I became a USA citizen. The first thing I did after leaving the ceremony? I registered to vote! Yes!
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Creativity
Creativity requires daily work, there are hardly any light bulb moments but 8 hours per day work instead.
We live an era of exponential growth in technology and not linear as it used to be. More people are connected to the net now. This means more brain power. The devices that our parents used are jokes for us and soon our kids will think that our iPad and smart phones and laptop are jokes as well.
The soil even in the driest places has life in it waiting for the rain (for the right condition) to grow life. Creativity needs the right leader to set the environment for it to grow.
We should encourage trying and tolerate mistakes in our universities. It is in the 99 trial that success will be created.
We should devote the time for creativity. You may need to be alone with music in the back. You may want to get away from the sad news media blasting on your iPhone, car radio, TV, and twitter.
The world toughest problems are the world greatest opportunities : water (we live in a blue planet), education.
You have to surround yourself with idealists creative people because eventually you will approach the average of the people around you.
good work ethics are required: accountability
Integration leads to collaboration leads to creativity.
Spend a week learning something entirely new and get out of your comfort zone and trust your talent.
We live an era of exponential growth in technology and not linear as it used to be. More people are connected to the net now. This means more brain power. The devices that our parents used are jokes for us and soon our kids will think that our iPad and smart phones and laptop are jokes as well.
The soil even in the driest places has life in it waiting for the rain (for the right condition) to grow life. Creativity needs the right leader to set the environment for it to grow.
We should encourage trying and tolerate mistakes in our universities. It is in the 99 trial that success will be created.
We should devote the time for creativity. You may need to be alone with music in the back. You may want to get away from the sad news media blasting on your iPhone, car radio, TV, and twitter.
The world toughest problems are the world greatest opportunities : water (we live in a blue planet), education.
You have to surround yourself with idealists creative people because eventually you will approach the average of the people around you.
good work ethics are required: accountability
Integration leads to collaboration leads to creativity.
Spend a week learning something entirely new and get out of your comfort zone and trust your talent.
Monday, September 24, 2012
زيارة مفاجئة
ينتظر المدرسون بخوف وقلق زيارة المحافظ المفاجئة للمدرسة
مكتب الناظر يستقبل الضيوف الكبار جاء المحافظ و معه ابن أخيه (عماد) الذي عاد لتوه من دراسته الإخراج السينمائي بامريكا وقد
اجبره علي ارتداء بدلة كاملة وجاء
العمدة و معه شقيقه الصغير وكيل النيابة الشاب (حسن) و
اجبره علي ارتداء جلابية وعباية لزوم التقرب من اهل القرية والتشبه بزيهم وجاء رئيس مكتب الجريدة في المحافظة (ا. منصور) لتغطية الزيارة ومعه الصحفية الشابة تحت التمرين (امل) وتناول الجميع الماء المثلج الذي أتي به الناظر للمسافرين وخاصة عماد الذي جعلته البدلة يشعر بالحر زيادة عن الاخرين
رغم اقتصار عمل استاذ منصور علي تغطية اخبار الحوادث والمحليات في المحافظة النائية الا انه يعتقد داخله انه ناقد سينمائي وينتظر اليوم الذي يأخذ فرصته ولكن اليوم هذا تأخر وقارب علي الخروج علي المعاش وهو ينتظر! وجود عماد اليوم جعله يتذكر وهو لم ينسي اهتمامه بالسينما. استثاره كلام المحافظ عن عماد وعن رغبته في ان يأتي لمساعدته في المحافظة بدلا من ان يذهب يبحث عن فرصة للعمل كمساعد مخرج في القاهرة! انبرى استاذ منصور يتحدث عن المخرجين العظام الذين عملوا لسنوات مساعدين اخراج قبل ان يلمعوا كمخرجين
تحدث واكثر الحديث حتي ان الوزير احس بالقلق ان يفسد منصور عليه عماد وانب منصور علي تضييع الوقت بعيدا عن هدف الزيارة!
ابتسمت امل بلطف واعتذرت عن رئيسها وغيرت الحديث لتلطيف الأجواء لتسأل حسن وعماد علي ان كل منهم يرتدي
ملابس لا تتفق مع عمله!
مكتب الناظر يستقبل الضيوف الكبار جاء المحافظ و معه ابن أخيه (عماد) الذي عاد لتوه من دراسته الإخراج السينمائي بامريكا وقد
اجبره علي ارتداء بدلة كاملة وجاء
العمدة و معه شقيقه الصغير وكيل النيابة الشاب (حسن) و
اجبره علي ارتداء جلابية وعباية لزوم التقرب من اهل القرية والتشبه بزيهم وجاء رئيس مكتب الجريدة في المحافظة (ا. منصور) لتغطية الزيارة ومعه الصحفية الشابة تحت التمرين (امل) وتناول الجميع الماء المثلج الذي أتي به الناظر للمسافرين وخاصة عماد الذي جعلته البدلة يشعر بالحر زيادة عن الاخرين
رغم اقتصار عمل استاذ منصور علي تغطية اخبار الحوادث والمحليات في المحافظة النائية الا انه يعتقد داخله انه ناقد سينمائي وينتظر اليوم الذي يأخذ فرصته ولكن اليوم هذا تأخر وقارب علي الخروج علي المعاش وهو ينتظر! وجود عماد اليوم جعله يتذكر وهو لم ينسي اهتمامه بالسينما. استثاره كلام المحافظ عن عماد وعن رغبته في ان يأتي لمساعدته في المحافظة بدلا من ان يذهب يبحث عن فرصة للعمل كمساعد مخرج في القاهرة! انبرى استاذ منصور يتحدث عن المخرجين العظام الذين عملوا لسنوات مساعدين اخراج قبل ان يلمعوا كمخرجين
تحدث واكثر الحديث حتي ان الوزير احس بالقلق ان يفسد منصور عليه عماد وانب منصور علي تضييع الوقت بعيدا عن هدف الزيارة!
ابتسمت امل بلطف واعتذرت عن رئيسها وغيرت الحديث لتلطيف الأجواء لتسأل حسن وعماد علي ان كل منهم يرتدي
ملابس لا تتفق مع عمله!
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
waiting and dreaming and hoping ...
Today is the visit of the vice president and his team to his building. They will be looking at the the labs and the posters showing the research going on. He will probably be asked to explain his research! Exciting? He is waiting in his office working on other stuff but he can see the corridor from his half closed door curtain. He does not like to talk about himself or his work that much.
He can hear their voices approaching. His heart is pumping! They went into the lab next door but one of them came out early and he was looking at the research paper outside his office. He can not see the visitor from his office door but he can see his laptop bag hanging from his shoulder. It seems the visitor is reading the paper carefully. This is nice! This is giving him a chance to get ready to meet the visitors. Why is he nervous? May be he should get out of his office and say hi to the visitor? explain his research a little? Who is this visitor? He can only see his laptop bag from the door but not the actual person. May be he is the head of the funding agency that the vice president is bringing with him today? This would be ni$$$e! May be the agen$y will fund him or at least expre$$ intere$t in his re$earch? Man, the visitor is really spending time reading his paper!
The other visitors seem to finish the lab tour and getting out as he can hear their voices now. They apologizing they do not have the time to look at the posters. Lucky he that the mysterious visitor has already been reading his paper for the last five minutes or so. He did not move from the front of the door! They left but that guy is still outside his office! What? Why is he still there? His laptop bag is still showing up in the same spot from the the office half-closed curtain!
Aaaah! it is not a laptop bag! It is the reflection of the chair in his office on the door glass! He has been watching the reflection for the last five minutes!
He can hear their voices approaching. His heart is pumping! They went into the lab next door but one of them came out early and he was looking at the research paper outside his office. He can not see the visitor from his office door but he can see his laptop bag hanging from his shoulder. It seems the visitor is reading the paper carefully. This is nice! This is giving him a chance to get ready to meet the visitors. Why is he nervous? May be he should get out of his office and say hi to the visitor? explain his research a little? Who is this visitor? He can only see his laptop bag from the door but not the actual person. May be he is the head of the funding agency that the vice president is bringing with him today? This would be ni$$$e! May be the agen$y will fund him or at least expre$$ intere$t in his re$earch? Man, the visitor is really spending time reading his paper!
The other visitors seem to finish the lab tour and getting out as he can hear their voices now. They apologizing they do not have the time to look at the posters. Lucky he that the mysterious visitor has already been reading his paper for the last five minutes or so. He did not move from the front of the door! They left but that guy is still outside his office! What? Why is he still there? His laptop bag is still showing up in the same spot from the the office half-closed curtain!
Aaaah! it is not a laptop bag! It is the reflection of the chair in his office on the door glass! He has been watching the reflection for the last five minutes!
Friday, May 25, 2012
and here is what many Egyptians died for
It is this moment and that clear plastic box !! Egyptians were killed by their police force to prevent them from having this clear plastic box!
We have it. Thank you for those who died to give us democracy.
Photo from http://www.bbc.co.uk/
We have it. Thank you for those who died to give us democracy.
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
كلمة أخيرة
كلمة أخيرة : سواء الثورة كسبت الانتخابات الرئاسية او خسرت احنا عملنا عمل تاريخي في ٢٥ والانتخابات بكرة تتويج للثورة
كده انا خلصت كلامي
خالد
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
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