Abo el A7naf

hey guys what's up ?

ma3lesh el post dah hayeb2a franco 3ashan el sara7a mayenfa3sh yet2al 3'eir kdh.

3ashan bas awarrikom en bani2adam ta2a bardo ana 3awez a7kilkom 7ekaya (we ta3atofkom le wa7do msh kefaya)

ana na2alt sherka gdida we henak ana sha3'al le wa7di (tamaman ya3ni, fe 2oda ma7addesh 3ashan akalemo men 8 el sob7 le 8 belleil).

fa marra kdh 7abbeit a3mel zai el nas (ah zai el nas 3adi mana nas bardo), fa da5alt el 7ammam wa le dahshaty, la2eit sorsar fe bala3et el 7od (elli heyya beta3et el overflow msh el tanya elli fe ard el 7od).

el sorsar kan fe 7etta msh 3aref a2telo we howwa feeha we fe nafs el wa2t msh beyetla3 mennaha, fa zai ai shab 2omt rashetoh bel mayya we kammelt 7ayati.

tany youm ba2a, bardo 7abbeit a3mel zai el nas (ma asl ana msh hakoon youm nas we tany youm msh nas), fa bardo le dahshaty, la2eit nafs el sorsar, bas el marra dih kan fe 7etta msh ha3raf a2teloh feeha we msh hatewsallo el mayya feeha.

3agabni taree2et tafkeer el sorsar dah, we le2enni kont wa7dani wel malal haimawwetni we le2enni mohandes computer (ya3ni lase3 5el2a) karrart asa7eb el sorsar dah

we atlakt 3aleih esm "7anafi" (leih 7anafi ? msh 3aref bas 7esseitoh 7anafi a5er 7aga)

we ba2a howwa so7beti fel sherka we kol youm a5osh asabba7 3aleih.

ana msh 3aref leih ana ba7ki el 7ekaya dih bas ana kont ma5noo2 we 3andi nos sa3a adayya3ha. dah 3'eir en 3awez abashar dof3eti en kol wa7ed feena gayyelo youm we yeb2a 3ando 7anafi beta3o (yetla3 sorsar, debana, aw el fara3' maihemmesh)

fa 7arraso ba2a we rabena ye7fazloko 3o2olko :D

The Stereotypical Software Developer

ok here goes nothing....
this is my first attempt at blogging since 2006 so bear with me.

I don't know but other people but I love the fact that I'm a software developer, you get the chance to create "intelligent" systems and it makes your mind more organized and rational but most of all I like that it gives you a new way of looking at things and it also makes you react to situations differently than other people.

"When the going gets tough, the tough get going" i don't know who said this but today i found new meaning to this saying.

first let me paint you a picture of my day (and every day is the same btw), i woke up at 7:00AM, head off to work (without saying a word to anyone).

I arrived at work around 8:00AM and then started my daily phone conversation with my Project Manager who lives in the USA and that lasted for an hour.

then from 9:00AM until 6:00PM I was sitting on my computers(yes plural) in a state that can only be described as zombie-like without saying a word to anyone (that's because there isn't anyone to say a word to)
and not getting up from my chair except for praying 3 times (which takes 10 mins each).

"When the get tough, the tough get going", while other people might have just given up and committed suicide from boredom, lack of human interaction and extreme mental exhaustion, we, Software developers, have no problem with that because we were raised in college in that way.

and than when i thought about my day i was kind of pleased find myself falling in the stereotype for software developer, which is,

"sitting in a badly ventilated, badly lit 2x2 room in a trance with 1 or more machines doing things that require 6 arms and 3 brains to do with anything playing in his ears to drown out the noise. Working on a project too large for any normal human being to fathom all alone."

i don't know about you but i'm not trying to break that stereotype because face it, it makes us different and to the outside world, some of these feats seem super human (and who doesn't like that) and i would like to take this opportunity to all the stereotypical software developers out there, keep on geeking! :D


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