Crossing Red Lines…

“I found out that I just give people too much space on me.”

I usually, like many people in this planet get so busy that what was something I do on a daily basis has to take the back seat for something new and more important at some point in life, It could be giving up your social life to do overtime for your new job that you love, and want to be something in, let’s say in 5 years.

I don’t personally believe that anyone doesn’t have any time for something they enjoy doing, or have to do. Like doing classwork and ditching while a friend tells you that you shouldn’t but you prioritize other things like cousins, family or else, THEY ARE NOT GOING TO MAKE YOUR LIVING NOR IMPROVE YOUR SKILLS, rather you don’t prioritize it in your life, which is why you can’t make time for it.

My testament to that would be my designing habit. Have been designing for free, freelancing, faking ads, learning techniques, softwares and web codes myself for years, as went through life from a no-life school student to a university student to a fully-qualified designer and I haven’t even graduated, I’ve been through bad days where I had to repeat subjects and years at school, 2 years of my life were wasted on that, in the trash bin, Did I learn anything? NO. There was hardly a time when I was not designing or learning, when my laptop (2 actually) got screwed, I used to go to coffee shops, or use friends computers and laptops just to design! to run Photoshop or Illustrator, exams or not, breaks or not, holidays or not.

Designing has always been one of my top priorities in life, because it is my way to release my feelings, to distress, to get inspired and escape from the ugly thing called messed-up culture I live in.

Blogging is now in my top priorities & It is also improving my designing skills and habits, I didn’t put myself busy in something else where it slows my design skills down as a result.

So Basically, my life revolves around revolves around designing, advertising, blogging, studies, family, friends and part-time job (randomized). Yes, I’m a proud multi-tasker, I don’t hate it. I just love it! Does this mean that I have no time for new interests to appear in my life? Not at all, because then priorities would be adjusted in such a way that can fit in my life without having to neglect other priorities.

But then of course I will not be able to devote a lot of time to previous priorities as before the existence of new things, but at least I’ll make an effort to have enough time for what’s left. It won’t be much, but it’s better that nothing.

Notes to self:

• Believe that the ‘no time’ excuse is lame.
• Priority is different than responsibility.
• Don’t let new priorities happen too often that you neglect more important priorities in life.

*Sorry for the long post, I had to express this fast, sorry for spelling mistakes, I’m not perfect, neither you.

Team Y&R Amman messes up with Orange?

I seriously want to know who approved the Ad?

Orange does not charge internet users for plugging the hub or the modem anymore for DSL connections, the concept of the design for the offer, is basically a flat door with the flat’s number hanged. the number “7″ in Arabic is hanged on a door along with a “0″ to form the number “70″ and because the price is dropped to zero, the 7 is hanging down because someone unplugged it or wanted to remove it.

HOW THE HELL WOULD IT STICK IN THE MIDDLE AND FALL AS A 7 SHAPE NOT 8.

In Arabic, 7 is ٧ and 8 is ٨. Which is basically a rotated shape.

The Ad:

Common Sense:

can somebody from Y&R explain? by a phone call or something? how did the creative director approve this?

And that’s the right shape:

My Macbook Coughs Disks

My misery started on Wednesday, rain jinxed my life.

My macbook was soaked in water (although was in plastic protection cover), water was even stuck between the cover and laptop. I dried as soon as I reached home (took me an hour & 45 minutes to find a ride). I reached home sick, coughing, wet and blue. Dried my Macbook and since then my CD/DVD drive won’t read any kind of disks, instead it kicks them out, any kind even if you put the disk on the wrong side, either kicks it out or disk stays inside without moving and gets kicked out in 3 minutes (stopwatch helps).

I’m going to kill myself I swear! I’m going to iSystems tomorrow to check if they can fix it or replace the drive and how much will it cost. If not much I will replace it because I can’t wait until I go to Kuwait (which is not anytime soon, but I have a 1 year warranty).

Payment options:
either from my allowance or my monthly salary (coming after a month, I was just hired last week).

Let’s hope it is just stuck and will move once opened? ok.

Lesson learned:
buy a specialized laptop bag even if it costs a fortune, it might save you one too.