was tagged for the first time

Well it’s been a while since I got my first tag by faith, after the marvelous test today I have the time to answer the tag

1. List down 5 things people probably didn't know about you


Mmmmm well

1. 
   I used to eat walls paint ( don’t ask me about that).
   


2. 
   I like traditional food and Baploo is my fav, generally I’m in love with food whatever was that ;P
   


3. 
   I have the genetic property of bending my thumb.
   


4. 
   I’m kind of people who are misunderstood by others a loooooot, and I just ended up that it’s me who has a problem because can’t be all of them mistaken :$ LOL
   


5. 
   Before I discovered the idea of death, I thought that when people get old enough they return to their mothers’ abdomens. This was the human cycle to me. But then i got stuck in if the mother was back to her mother's abdomen and her kids get back to hers, will they be reborned? Well, thank god i discovered the idea of death finally (I formulated this theory to solve the population density problem if people just kept reproducing just to make sure it doesn't get crowded) this was when I was about 4 years.
   


6. 
   I got my driving license from the sixth try or more precisely from the first after five failures. ( anyway I did the manual that's why)

This is all I got and I mentioned one more just in case :)

2. Tag at least three people

I’ll pass this tag to spot and the horizon ( sorry, I don’t have a third person to pass this to)

SQU law students realized their object

In a previous post I blogged about the movement of the SQU law students to change the streaming system they have at college.

Well, after that sit-in in SQU they corresponded with some authorities. And finally, the aim they were working on is reached. The decree of adjusting the streaming system was issued on Sunday and now they have a choice of a comprehensive law program in addition to the old streams.

This was the prize of their willpower, their insistence and determination to get what they fought for. I really see it as something historic, according to what we hear of bureaucracy and while everyone was telling them there’s no use of what you are doing and you are just wasting your time and putting yourselves into troubles bla bla bla. They just proceeded and converted the wishes to something real by putting negativism away and move. This is a story of success, where we learn to take action rather than sitting and criticizing.

Congratulations law students and a special congratulation to SawChen

Workshop II: most enjoyable class for this semester

One of the courses that I should take in my IE program is workshop II, which is the second part of workshop I, the course taken by all engineering students in SQU.
Workshop II is a one-credit course but 2 actual hours and is taken in the Engineering Workshop. In general, the aim of these two workshop courses is to make students able to read the drawings properly and make them familiar with safety rules and basic workshop tools and machines.

first going to introduce you how does this workshop look like :)








In this workshop II course students are asked to do three projects: the Majmar, tongs and carpenters square.
When working with any project you have to follow the drawing and covert it to something perceptible and you can create your own design to add some artistic touches to your projects that make them distinct from others'.


This is my majmar





In Arabian countries it's used for frankincense (boukhoor ), but of course this can not be used :P
It consists of four parts: the main body, stem, grill and the wooden base. You work on each of them separately and then assemble them.
Well, it's my favorite

i wished if i could show you the process, but unfortunately couldn't picture every step

but i got this shot, which is before drilling the body




And these are the tongs

They're used to pick up the coals from the majmar. Well, this was my worst. I created a terrific design BUT then it turned to be hard to achieve. I drilled it to make the filing part easier but it ruined my whole project so had to change lots of stuff and here they are




The carpenters square

Well it's not a WOW project as the previous ones


I enjoyed workshop II more, because we had more freedom while working without the instructors on our heads (but of course they helped us a lot, especially with fixing the second project, so lots of thanks to them) and it's more machines work, which is more fun unlike filing which was the only outcome of workshop I. the most amazing thing with this workshop course is that it doesn't have any exams or quizzes, nothing related to studying and memorizing yupee :P and when you walk of the workshop, your work is done and nothing more to do XD.

Safety rules are the most two words heard from the instructors. You have to wear safety shoes and the lab coat before working and safety glasses before operating any machine. In spite of this, I just don't know why some students refuse to abide by the rules :$

What can two physics courses do?

Having two physics courses this semester has infected my mind. For some whiles the only images I see whenever I close my eyes were free body diagrams,beams, trusses, cables, gears, machines, in every movement I take i.e. opening the gate, an image of force analysis jumps to my mind analyzing the forces in the system.

I see every thing thrown as a projectile and for anything dropped from high altitudes the terminal speed and the drag force are things I consider. Whenever holding an object I look for the centroid and when driving in any curvature way, I feel the centripetal acceleration. I think physics laws are dominating my thoughts. :$

ADVISE: never ever take two physics courses in the same semester, though for me they helped each other and saved my time and efforts for studying because of almost same topics in both. The only difference was that one of them was theoretical physics and the other was more practical.

and the dream came true

Finally, the dream came true. The dream that we've awaited for more than three decades and specially in the last couple of years where our national team has evolved a lot and started to compete the big teams in the region.

Congrats Oman, congrats to all Omani, Oman residents and all red lovers.
It's our day, our moment!

Huge THANK YOUs to the heroes who played with passion, insistence and dedication during this tournament and specially in the final, which truly I see it as the best match they performed in this tournament, to the Omani Football Association particularly Al-Syed Khaled Bin Hamed, to our super coach Claude Le Roy who set the suitable tactics for each match, to our loyal audience who cheered and roared like lions until the last seconds.

This time i sensed it, I saw the victory in the players' eyes. I think the world conspired to let us win!

We did it and we deserve it.
I just hope this to be the start of the Omani sport era.
The gulf cup is just the beginning and we'll go beyond.

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Khaliji 19 on Doors

Cars with red accessories, houses with flags hung on, people with red scarves around their necks. This is the commen scene these days. It seems that we already started to live the atmosphere of the competition.

Unfortunately our exams were postponed because of the three-days-holiday, and will finish on 13th of Jan when about half the competition is finished. I’m just wondering, when we were at school our exams were synchronized with gulf cup and university student were always the first to finish. When our turn came to be college students it just became the opposite. School exams were brought forward and ours backward. Is it a misfortune chasing us?

Back to khaliji

For this edition of Gulf Cup we don’t want only to win but to be entertained watching our national team presenting wonderful shows as well, that makes us enjoy the winning and remind us of that marvelous performance back in khaliji 17.

Hoping all the best for our Omani team.

And let’s forget the exams & live the atmosphere of the competition!

SQU law students on sit-in

On Monday this week, SQU law students carried out a sit-in in front of the administration building in SQU campus in groups of both males and females coming from their college in Watiya ( the only college based out the SQU campus) seeking to meet the Vice Chancellor of SQU Dr. Ali Al-Bimani to hand over their requests to re-systemize the degree plan of their program and cancel branching out into specializations of ( general law, private law and commercial law) and requesting to graduate with the degree of general law program that combines the three together as it is applied in some other law colleges.

After researches and interviews with law people, those students came out with the fact that according to the program they follow now and specializing in one of the branches mentioned above will result insufficiency in their knowledge and skills of their field. And will decrease the opportunities of hiring them after graduation. In one of the interviews they were told explicitly by a manager of a firm “I’d better hire one Sudanese or Egyptian general law graduate rather than three Omanis”.

Anyway, their claims to meet the Vice Chancellor did not succeed, instead they met Dr. Said Al-Yahyai SQU Deputy Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Community Service who convinced them that there is no use of what they are doing and there is no chance to change anything in the degree plan as it’s approved by the board of trustees, and they should better educate themselves on their own if they find any insufficiency in their program.

Law students were not convinced and getting ready for the next step.

It’s nice seeing young Omanis taking such actions when it comes to their future.