Abdo's Personal Blog

Hey All,

This is just to break the silence for about a month on the blog by a short post, I just went with my amazing cousin Mahmoud and got couple of Twitter-like business cards for our start-up. We worked together since October, 2006 and I’m very happy seeing things moving for the best after years of hard-working.

These are temporary business-cards we created till we settle down with a final decision on the identity and go further with the online presence.  I’m considering blogging much more often and getting a bit personal. Hopefully, I’ll be starting that from now.

Have a good time all

- Abdo

Sharing Link: http://abdo.me/94fxaz

Hey Everyone,

We all get stressed during exams times especially provided the education system and attitude we have in our country, Egypt.

I used to get stressed during exams time as I prefer to focus on business and leave studies to the last few days before the finals, that’s very difficult with complex engineering subjects that need ongoing practice on solving problems and accordingly that got me over-stressed and my performance wasn’t that good.

As they say; attitude is everything. How we act is a direct result of how we feel which is resulted from what we believe in and what’s going on in our minds, If we can find away to change how we feel about the situation and ourselves, we can break free from stress and perform to the best of our ability.

I came across a very interesting paraliminal session from Dr. Ahmed Emara especially made for students under exams pressure. If you don’t know what a paraliminal session is, I was first introduced to it through LearningStrategies and they have something to say about it here:
http://www.learningstrategies.com/paraliminal/home.asp

I was sent the following on FB:

أحمد عمارة
متخصص في الصحة النفسية
وعضو رابطة الأخصائيين النفسيين المصرية
بيقدم حل مسعف لدوامة الإمتحانات

ملف صوتي هتلاقوه هنا
http://www.3emara.net/audio/Exams.rar

I uploaded the files to my site and they’re available for streaming from here:

http://abdo.posterous.com/private/qEJxHnDndy

The files are as follows:

Exams01.mp3 > 07 Min > Introduction
Exams02.mp3 > 23 Min > The Paraliminal Session
Exams03.mp3 > 39 Min > Practical Advice

Could be downloaded from:

http://amagdy.com/images/Exams01.mp3
http://amagdy.com/images/Exams02.mp3
http://amagdy.com/images/Exams03.mp3

Hope that helps and wish you guys, all the best Insha’ Allah.

- Abdelrahman

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Hello Everyone,

I can’t agree more with Shereen here, I think what’s happening in such media channels from recreating and Islamic version of heroes and popular items is very positive.

She just made a standard mistake of mixing between Islam, Culture and being Arab. Islam is a religious belief and a way to manage our life, it’s not a culture or something targeting a specific ethnicity or background.

I hope to see more similar media outlets that inspire us to be good Muslims, while maintaining our religious teachings in the way things are presented.

Stay cool and open minded

- Abdel

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Hi Everyone,

Today reminds us with the Israeli aggression against #Gaza last year, which ended with more than 1300+ kills majority among women and children.

If you’re on Twitter, at the moment, you should participate in a campaign about #Gaza by placing #Gaza in your tweets and keep #Gaza a trending topic as much as you can.

Here is a reminder of some writings I wrote before about Gaza:

War on Gaza, background for truth seekers:
http://abdo.me/2009/01/war-on-gaza-background-for-truth-seekers/

Had you been to Gaza? founder of IfAmericansKnew did:
http://abdo.me/2009/01/had-you-been-to-gaza/

Had you been to Gaza? Rachel Corrie did:
http://abdo.me/2009/01/had-you-been-to-gaza-rachel-corrie-did/

Media lies: Peace, Propaganda & The Promised Land:
http://abdo.me/2009/01/peace-propaganda-the-promised-land/

Keep the spirit up

- Abdelrahman

Sharing: http://abdo.me/qtm4mr

Hello Everyone,

In this video I try to present some basis we need to understand while going for online friendships, we shouldn’t be very open to let anyone deceive us or hurt us, right?

Hehe, I had no script whatsoever and was kinda sleepy!

Actually, the same concept I wrote about before in that post: Back on Track – A new online phase

Be cautious online please!

- Abdelrahman

Sharing: http://abdo.me/ypvanv

Hello Everyone,

Yes, right, choosing which media we expose ourselves to and which friends we hang out with is very important as that will determine who we’re going to be! Guys, pick the right friends and expose yourself to the media that will make you a better person.

I can relate to that in multiple phases in my life and I think in your own life as well. I find some who I thought to be conservative and practicing when they get withing a community that approve a specific negative behavior like flirting for example, they do indulge in that and change themselves by being a part of that community.

Regardless of how hard and may be offensive it might be to trim yourself from a community, it might be the only choice to keep going towards the goals you set for yourself at first place.

Be yourself and don’t be so easy to influence, chose your friends and media, ideas you expose yourself to. You only have the choice to be what you want and you’re deciding that NOW!

Thanks

- Abdel

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Asalamo Alikum Everyone,

I was very happy being a part of the Salam Project 2009 on YouTube, amazing experience really being a part of that community.

Watch on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ckFXjDyq2w

Brother solitair1’s video just came a bit late and hadn’t been included:

Watch on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7gKStCakvU

Participants: theamericanmuslimah, SFAvfx, naiyyer, StrainSop, fredu89, MrCoolAbu, madina55, zahratalain missshiekh, SaboorahAmatuRahmaan, muslimslife, LekiiLekii, Mahmouddal82, SipahiWarrior, Egyptianguy1987 returnofthekhera, LoadingPleaseStandby, DeenandDawah, SunnahKnight, muslimkidstv, Histamine89, ruuhcassini, IslamResponses, qwertyfshag, Mahmouddal82, chestezzz, yeesshaa, Zulkarnayn, Amagdy1, solitair1

Special thanks to sister TheAmericanMuslimah, for the amazing initiative, that got me real happy

Sharing: http://abdo.me/bxtanp

I watched a touching movie lately where the concept the movie going around is simply the definition of Islam and Wayne the wise man in the movie is presenting the concept as the idea way to lead our lives.

So, just like Islam teaches us we’re not supposed to lead our lives with ambitions other than focusing on why we’re here; the meaning of our existence and other than stressing over the results will come out of what we do, we should focus on the intention and as Wayne said surrender to the Will of God.

It comes out very beautiful when some non-Muslim man relate to an Islamic concept without knowing that more than 1.3 billion people on earth are supposed to be living this way!

Check that clip form the movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdA-v9lzHMY

Playlist Full Movie:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Amagdy1#g/c/99A82A37AC9C6A67

What do you think?

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The prophet Mohamed PBUH said:

‘A good friend and a bad friend are like a perfume-seller and a blacksmith: The perfume-seller might give you some perfume as a gift, or you might buy some from him, or at least you might smell its fragrance. As for the blacksmith, he might singe your clothes or at the very least you will breathe in the fumes of the furnace.”

[sahih al-Bukhari, vol 3, #314 & Muslim]