Life is Risk 1

It has been a while since i wrote something but a friend of mine "Tareq MNK" asked me to write this after we saw "Life is Risk" Video which you can watch from here
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so i went back to "Chicken soup for the soul books" and i picked few stories of people that failed over and over several times before the succeeded and became well known.
اذا حدا ما بيعرف يقراهن بالانكليزي قلولي ترجمهن للعربي :D

•A Fred Astaire’s first screen test, the memo from the testing director of MGM, dated 1933, said “can’t act! Slightly bald! Can dance a little!” Astaire kept the memo over the fire place in his Beverly Hills home.

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•An expert said to Vince Lombardi: “He possesses minimal football knowledge. Lack motivation”
Vince Lombardi won 2 Super Bowl, 5 NFL Championships and was elected AP NFL Coach of the Year in 1959.

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•When Peter J. Daniel was in the fourth grade, his teacher, Mrs. Phillips, constantly said, “Peter J. Daniel, you’re no good, you’re a bad apple and you’re never going to amount anything” Peter was totally illiterate until he was 26. A friend stayed up with him all night and read him a copy of “think and grow rich”. Now Peter owns the street corner he used to fight on and just published his latest book: Mrs. Phillips, you were wrong!

•Socrates was called, "an immoral corrupter of youth".

•Beethoven handled the violin awkwardly and preferred playing his own compositions instead of improving his techniques. His teacher called him hopeless as a composer

•The parents of the famous opera singer Enrico Caruso wanted him to be an engineer. His teacher said he had no voice at all and could not sing.

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•Charles Darwin, father of the Theory of Evolution, gave up a medical career. In his autobiography Darwin wrote, I was considered by all of my masters and by my father , a very ordinary boy, rather below the common standard of intellect."

•Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor for lack of ideas. Walt Disney also went bankrupt several times before he built Disneyland.

•Thomas Edison's teachers said he was too stupid to learn anything.

•Albert Einstein did not speak until he was four years old and didn't read until he was seven. His teacher described him as "mentally slow, unsociable and adrift forever in his foolish dreams." He was expelled and refused admittance to the Zurich Polytechnic School.

•Louis Pasteur was only a mediocre pupil in undergraduate studies and ranked 15th out of 22 in chemistry.

•The sculptor Auguste Rodin's father said, "I have an idiot for a son." Described as the worst pupil in the school, Rodin failed three times to secure admittance to the school of art. His uncle called him uneducable. Rodin is considered the progenitor of modern sculpture

•Henry Ford failed and went broke five times before he finally succeeded.

•Abraham Lincoln:
1816: his family was forced out of their home. He had to work to support them.
1818: his mother died
1831: failed in business
1832: Ran for State legislature - lost
1832: Also lost his job – wanted to go to law school but he couldn’t get in
1833: Borrowed some money from a friend to begin a business and by the end of the year he was bankrupt. He spent the next 17 years of his life paying off his debt
1834: ran for state legislature again - won
1835: was engaged to be married, sweetheart died and his heart was broken
1836: had a total nervous breakdown and was in bed for six month
1838: Sought to become speaker of the state legislature – defeated
1840: sought to become elector – defeated
1843: ran for congress – lost
1846: ran for congress again – this time he won- went to Washington and did a good job
1848: ran for re election to congress – lost
1849: sought the job of land officer in his home state – rejected
1854: ran for senate of the united states – lost
1856: sought the vice presidential nomination at his party’s national convention – got less than 100 votes
1858: ran for US senate again – again he lost
1860: Elected president of the unites states.


......... to be continued

MMI Seminar

It is Monday. I am sitting here in my room at two o’clock in the morning and I can not sleep. Although I had three long days, I still can not go to bed. I started Friday at six o’clock in the morning and I was out of the house till one o’clock after midnight. Saturday I woke up at seven in the morning, left the house and came back at 12 midnight. Sunday I woke up six in the morning, left the house and came back around 11 at night. I still can not sleep. I am excited. I feel the energy in my whole body. I am shaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaking. I have never felt like that before. The last three days were the best three days of my life. The last three days basically changed my life. The last three days moved me to a new different level. Of course you are wondering, “What the heck are those three days???!!!” Well, my friends, I was at the “Millionaire Mind Intensive” seminar (MMI). It is amazing how things work. Listen to this, I read “The Secret of the Millionaire Mind” book last week. When I finished reading the book I felt changes in my mind and I started applying the secrets they gave in the book. Last week I was sitting home hoping that there would be a seminar coming soon to LA and next thing I know I opened my email and I saw an invitation to that seminar. The seminar is worth 1300 dollars (and in my opinion it is worth a lot more) and I got invited to go, learn and practice for free. When I went Friday I didn’t know what to expect. Based on the book I expected something good and I found something awesome, I expected to learn few things and it changed my life. Let me give you an example, I was a really shy person, I didn’t like talking to new people. I would see some interesting people somewhere and I just panic and don’t say anything to them. I went to the seminar the last three days and I talked to at least hundred people, I got more business cards and phone numbers in those three days than what I have gotten in my entire life. I gave hugs and received hugs. I gave high fives. I danced. I sang. I cried. I laughed. I had fun. I listened. I learned. I met new people and I changed my way of thinking. Unfortunately I can’t tell you anything of what we exactly did in the seminar because we promised not to tell but I really really really really really advise you to go to this seminar. You will be surprised by how it is going to change your life. I love you all!!!

TKHATQM
5-18-2009

Declaration

“You feel free to take control and act with best interests in mind” that is what they said. I don’t feel like it though. For the last few months, I had to do several things such as writing, phone calls and work, but for some reason I couldn’t do any of them. I fell like I am standing on one side of an invisible door and my success is on the other side and the problem is I can’t pass through that door. I don’t know what that door is. I don’t know why it is holding me back. I don’t know what the reason for not doing what I want and have to do is. Is it fear? Is it lack of belief? Or is it some other unknown reason? All I know that there are big things waiting for me on the other side and I have to go get them. My happiness, my success, my freedom and my wealth, they are all on the other side and I have to go there. If I knew what the door is I wouldn’t have waited few months just playing around.

It is not going to happen anymore. Today I am going to break that door. Today I will do the writing and tomorrow I am going to take action. It is my time to grow. It is my time to be happy. It is my family’s time to be free. No more struggling. No more arguing over stupid things. It is time to explode. No more focusing on the problem. no more focusing on the door. I am going to focus on the other side. I am going to focus on my goals and my dreams. Nothing is going to stop me now. I have the strength. I have the power. I am bigger than the problem. It is not going to be easy. I am going to face problems, obstacles and rejections, but they are going to be smaller than me and I am going to put them behind my back and go forward because I have the courage to do that.

I wasted a lot of time and it is over. No more wasting time. I deserve better life and my family deserves better life. My goals will be written tonight with a plan to achieve those goals.

TKHATQM

04-29-2009

Vanilla Sky (Personal Explanation)

(Click here to watch the movie trailer)


Vanilla Sky
Tasting the Sour on the Way to the Sweet

"Vanilla Sky" is a movie by Cameron Crowe. The movie is telling the story of the life of David Aames Jr (Tom Cruise). People who watched this movie had many whys and whats in their heads. The movie starts with David waking up and getting ready to go to work. when he starts driving in New York City streets and he finds himself alone he wakes up again. The movie goes on and the viewer would think:"Oh! now i understand what is happening", then David wakes up again and that brings the confusion to the viewer's head. When the movie is over the major question that the viewers will ask is: was the movie David's dream or was it David's real life? Eventhough the "tech support" told David at the end of the movie that everything that happened after David passed out outside the club was a dream, there is some evidence that the whole movie was dream.
Now, let's stop here for a second and talk about David's life because it is the main thing of what happens in the movie. David is a rich, 33 years old guy who inherited a big publishing company from his dad. He does what he wants. He sleeps, eats, works and has sex with whoever he wants. His friend Brian Shelby (Jason Lee) who is a writer mentions that when he is talking to David in the car. Brian says:".. You can do whatever you want in your life...", but Brian continues to say " but one day you will know what love truely is. It is the sour and the sweet." I will be back to the sweet and sour thing later but i want to focus on the true love. David has never practiced true love in his life, but he is definitly thinking about it all the time. His father was too busy to love him and he didn't talk about him. He did say "David Jr was a delight as a child" and that was all he said. Everyone in David's life is connected to him for personal benifits and that what Sofia Serrano (Penelope Cruz) tells David: "Everyone in your life is connected to you for survival someway". So, in his real life there is no true love, but was he dreaming about it? Few things that shows that David was looking for true love in his dream. The first one "Subconsious is a very powerful thing." This phrase is said to David twice in the movie. The first time is by the Psychologist McCabe (Kurt Russell) and the second time is by the lady who showed him the Lucid Dream. The second thing is McCabe's talk about the five emotions in life "Shame, Revenge, Guilt, Hate and Love" and when he asks David about the emotion that gripped him before he commited the murder, love is the one he focuses on. David is not thinking about the money because he has a lot of it. He is not thinking about girls, cars or power because he has it all. He is thinking about love, the only thing missing in his life. His subconsious translates that into a dream where he meets the girl that he truely loves.
In the movie, David has a car accident and his face gets smashed and toward the end of the movie he kills the girl he loves. At the end of the movie he wakes up again. The car accident and the murder are the sour that Brian talked about which David has to taste before he appreciates the sweet. His subconsious makes those things up because he is looking for true love.
The "Tech Support" tells David that his Lucid Dream begins after David passes out in the street. In the Lucid Dream, Sofia comes back and wakes David up, but in the real life David wakes up by himself and he walks away. The "Tech Support" gives David the Choice either to go to his real life or to continue with the Lucid Dream and David chooses to go back to the real life. When David wakes up, there is a voice telling him to open his eyes. Let me make this clear. "Tech Support" tells David that in the real life he wakes up by himself, but when David goes back to the real life somebody wakes him up. that doesn't make sense unless it is the made of imagination or if it is a dream.
The entire movie is David's journey to find himself and find his true love. David is the person who is looking for happiness in his life. "What is happiness to you David?" is a question that is being asked to David by several people. It is amazing journey of self awakening because as Sofia says: "Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around" and this is David's chance to turn things around and find happiness in his life.

Tkhatqm
03-19-2009

You and My Nights

Last week my English 102 teacher asked the class to write a poem using lines from other existing poems.
The poem should have a meaning and should be understandable. When we first got this assignment, I thought it would be hardly done. I started thinking about what I wanted to make the poem about and I couldn’t find anything better than talking about something I am living right now. I thought of writing about me and my girlfriend and the situation that we are in because of the distance between us. She is in Syria. The problem was to find the lines that can express my thoughts perfectly. When I went over the poems I found few lines that can fit perfectly in my poem so I wrote them down and start picking the lines that match together. The speaker in the poem, who is myself, is trying to describe what he is thinking when his girlfriend is away, his feeling and how he acts (daydreaming, sadness, unconsciousness). It was fun to do the assignment I wasn’t expecting that.

The Poem:

Day creeps down, the moon creeps up,
Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
I got from looking through a pane of glass,
Toward heaven still.

What thought I have of you tonight?

Though parents grudge, and you, we are met
But we, by love so much refined,
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks,
It is the star to every wand’ring bark.

In one another arms, birds in the trees,
Where we almost, yeah, more than married are

The sea is calm tonight,
The tide is full, the moon lies fair.
Tonight I can write the saddest lines,
Because through nights like this, I hold her in my arms
To walk and pass our long love’s day

And these the last verses that I write for her
For lady you deserve this state
Nor would I love you in a lower rate

TKHATQM
03/20/2009

قالو .......... ولم يعرفو

قالو أن الله خلق جميع البشر من ماء وطين
لم يعرفو أن حبيبتي خلقت من نور الشمس وازهار الياسمين

قالو أن أفروديت وعشتار الهتي الجمال
لم يعرفو أن أفروديت هيي خصلة من شعر حبيبتي
لم يعرفو أن عشتار قد مسحت من خجل طبع على وجنتي حبيبتي
عندما تغزل الجمال بها

قالو أن بوسيدون اله البحار وأن اكيليس لن يموت الا بضربة على كعبيه
لم يعرفو أنو عيني حبيبتي قتلتا اكيليس وكونتا البحار

قالو أن زوس هو اله الالهة
لم يعرفو ان زوس قبّل قدمي حبيبتي

قالو أن النجوم والكواكب سجدت ليوسف
لم يعرفو ان النجوم والكواكب نامت على ذراعي حبيبتي
لم يعرفو أن يوسف وغيره من رجال الارض ركعو أمام حبيبتي

قالو أن موسى فتح نهر الأردن على مصراعيه وعبر
لم يعرفو أن حبيبتي فتحت باب قلبي على مصراعيه وسكنت

قالو أن المسيح قام بالمعجزات
قالو أنه حول الماء الى خمر وأنه اكثر من السمكات
لم يعرفو أن حبيبتي جعلت الليل نهار وضاعفت من الدقات

قالو أن محمد صعد الى السماء وعاد
لم يعرفو أن حبيبتي ملاك بعث من السماء لمباركة العباد

قالو أشياء كثيرة
تغزلو بالجمال
تغزلو بالحب
تغزلو بالحنان

لكن لم يعرفو أن حبيبتي خلقت من جمال ومزجت بحب وعمّدت بحنان

Tkhatqm
03-02-2009

عن شو بحكي ؟

انا عن شو بدي احكي لاحكي

عن العيون اللي بس يصفنو بيجننو العالم كلها

او عن الشعر

اللي هوي وسبل بيجنن وهوي مكزبر بيطير العقل

او عن الضحكة اللي ما بتفارق هالوجه الحلو

وبنفس الوقت ما بتفارق خيالي

او بدي احكي عن الايدين اللي اذا دقو على باب قلبي

الباب وقلبي بينهارو قدامهن

او بدي احكي عن الجسم

اللي بطلع في وما بصدق انو الله عندو ابداع يخلق جسم متل جسمك

او بدي احكي عن الشفايف او الخدود او الحواجب او الرموش

عن شو بدي احكي لاحكي

احكي عن العقل عن الطيبة عن الهضامة عن الظرافة

عن خفة الروح وخفة الدم

احكي عن اللي بتضل معي لو شو ما صار

وانو ضحكتها بتردلي الروح

عن شو بدي احكي

احكي عن حياتي اللي صارت بامرك انتي

احكي عن قلبي اللي بيدق كل ما بشوف اسمك او بشوف صورتك

احكي عن عقلي اللي ما عم يفكر غير فيكي

عن شو بدي احكي

انو اذا بدي احكي

بضل كل العمر عم احكي عنك وعن شو ساويتي فيني وما بخلص

احكي عن حبي الك او عن حبك الي

احكي عن حبنا لبعض اللي ما في شي رح يقدر يهدمو

احكي عن تفاهمنا وعن فرحنا مع بعضنا وزعلنا مع بعضنا

بحكي عن كتير اشيا

بس الشي اللي بحب احكو في على طول والكلمة اللي بحب قولها على طول

بحبك

بحبك

بحبك

بحبك 

TKHATQM

12-20-2008

اليوم كملت علاقتنا النص سنة 

عقبال العمر كلو 

سلام داخلي

قليل من السلام الداخلي ...........ذلك كل ما احتاج

 

قبل...... بعد

قبل ان التقيكي حبيبتي
طفت بلاد كثيرة
التقيت بنساء كثيرات
ضاجعت البعض
وتغزلت بالبعض
واغتصبت عيناي بعضا اخر
وعندما انحنى قلمي ليتغزل بالورقة البيضاء
وصف شعرا
وصف عيونا
وصف اجسادا
كتب كلمات كثيرة
كلمات استهلكتها السنة العشاق
واهلكها التكرار على دفاتر الشعراء
لكن
بعد ان التقيتك حبيبتي
خلقت من جديد
نسيت نسائي ومغامراتي
التقيتك
وامتزج الشعر الاسود بسهراتي معك
امتزجت العينان ببريق سعادة الهية
امتزجت الاجساد بجمال الطبيعة
امتزج العنق بشمعة سهراتنا الرومانسية
امتزجت الشفتان بعناقيد العنب
امتزج الوجه ببدر السماء في ليلة سحرية
وتحول قلمي الى سلاح يقطع شراييني
فينساب دمي الى الورقة البيضاء
لتصبح كلون وجهك الخجول
عندما اقول لك
احبك

tkhatqm

11-19-2008

Glendale Community College GCC

It is November the 12th. I have not written anything for almost nine days. It is just because I had a rough week with school and also with the family. I am sitting now in my math class and I am bored so I thought of writing about my classes this semester and about my college life since I started two years ago.
This semester I am taking four classes. The first one is Macroeconomics which is confusing. I have never thought that the economy is that complicated. The teacher is good but she is not the best. She gets confused fast and she messes things up. My second class is math and specifically Advanced Calculus. The teacher is boring. He tries to be funny though. He makes lots of mistakes and also missed few class meetings that is why I am kind of lost in this chapter about the series but I should recover this week before the test on the 18th. My third class is Cultural Geography. The teacher is so sweet. I love this teacher. She is helpful. Her tests and assignments are hard but it is OK when you study. By the way the time is not moving in the Math class. They solved like ten problems in ten minutes and we still have long time to go.
My fourth class is the Ethnic Studies class. And it is supposed to talk about the African American in the US. I can write pages about this class. It was funny at the beginning and we liked it but after a while things start getting crazy. The teacher started doing some weird stuff and he is choosing who is passing the class and who is not. He kicked the basketball team out of the class for no reason, can you believe that? And here comes the fun: everyone in the class is lost so before the midterm they gathered together to study and they made a deal that if somebody got F in the midterm they all will go to the dean and complain about the teacher. The midterm papers came back and four girls got F and the guy got B- so the girls left the class and went to the dean and the guy stayed in the class and turned the girls down. We went out of the class and the girls were waiting for the guy and one of the girls started arguing with him and she ended up slapping him on the face in front of like twenty shocked students. It was funny crazy thing to watch.
Those are my four classes this semester, the first semester of my last year in Glendale College. I have been in this college for two years now and being in this college where are the majority is Armenian students was tough because I came from different country I don’t know English I don’t know anyone and it was hard to make friends because most of them came from high schools in groups of friends and it is hard to break in those groups. I made some friends but they were friends of the semester or friends of the class and what I mean by that once the class is over they are not friends anymore. I used to spend the time between my classes by my self just sitting in the campus watching others with their friends and it was hard for me because I left my friends in Syria and I was hoping to make new friends but it didn’t work out that way. Although I don’t have friends I enjoyed studying in Glendale College it was just an awesome experience and I learned a lot from classes and from being there. (I will be back)