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I think too much

josefj — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:15:00 +0000

A place I run to

a place so far

I think of life

I think of death

I think of cultures

… and cults

No one understands..

but I need to talk

I need to share

people should learn to accept

different is not wrong

from the differences we are born

Sinking in my thoughts

singing out loud

everybody staring, yet..

no one understands,

laughter is good,

singing is reliefe

I laugh and jump,

I care not what they think

I care not what they say,

I only care what I feel

and it feels good

Happiness is not something you earn

nor something you buy,

nor something you take,

happiness is something you make

I sing and laugh,

and laugh and sing,

I try to do it everyday

but everyone tries to brake your joy

by asking: “Why? “

I say nothing, I just love life,

life is fun, life is special, life is ONE

the smiles of degradation,

humiliation and sorrow appear,

on their faces from ear to ear.

I look at them and share a smile

and look away at the green trees,

singing birds, the bluest sky

Life is pretty but I think too much

(P.S. This is not a poem, it’s just how I sometimes write.)

A Producer, A Divine Creature.

josefj — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 11:13:00 +0000

I AM a divine creature, my life is my divine plan of living divinely in this mortal world.
My philosophy is simple, the world revolves around me, yes me, I do what I want, what I’m convinced of.
My mind is clear.. I AM an entity, a reflection of the wholeness of the holy divinity.
My truth is inside of me, I don’t need proof
“Seeing is believing” is not always true..
Senses are deceivable, and THAT I can prove.
Tying to explain my belief is not me, explaining is not believing.
Believing is knowing a thing is true without the proof.
This world is soon to end, but soon is never defined.
Soon is not always near, soon might come later than never.
I lyricize, I instrumentalize, but nothing is what I write.
I am always here, I’m never there.. think!
I am this never that.. think!
Think!
A man that thinks he thinks, is not a man that thinks,
A man that thinks he thinks is a man that thinks he is but he is not.
Living is not consuming, living is trying to produce,
and it’s not about the quantity of a man’s production…
it’s the effort of trying.
Live,dream, try… you are, but are you, really?
Think Again.

Where’s the love?

josefj — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:22:00 +0000

Well.. yesterday, or the day before that, the 3rd of December was my 21st birthday – yeeeeeeeeeeeey – Which I spent at work, doing, well… nothing, just working – boo hoo hoo – Anyway, I thought I would post one of my favouite songs, by a band that I really like, The B.E.P, or The black eyed peas; to the musically-challenged people out there!

Baghdad International School

josefj — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:12:00 +0000

A couple of days ago an old friend added me on Facebook, a guy I knew about 15 years ago, or even more, he’s a classmate from 1st grade, back when I was in Baghdad International School in Iraq.

It’s really nice to talk to people from your past, It’s refreshing yet a bit depressing. We started talking, and, akeed, we started talking about the school… I knew that it was destroyed during the war, but the guy gave me a link to a website that has photos of the school, and I must say, it was heart-braking, so sad, especially that this school was the best school I have ever attended.. it was perfect, and it’s a big part of my current personality.

I went to this school from 92 to 96, kg – 3rd grade, but it had such an influence on me, it had so many facilities and activities, it was THE PERFECT LEARNING CENTER for me, I loved that school and I still do.

This is a photo of the school before its destruction..

And, after the destruction…

It’s really sad and painful to see the place where you had your childhood memories destroyed!

To see more photos, click here.

That’s basically all I wanted to say, childhood is great, and the school days will most probably be the best days of a person’s life, eveyone should try to enjoy them to the max, and savour every moment of it.

Jordanian Photographic Society

josefj — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:39:00 +0000

Yesterday I went to the Jordanian Photographic Society, It was an amazing experience.. The people there were very helpful and passionate about photography, they were very friendly; giving constructive critique to the beginners, and even professionals asking for critique about their own photographs.
One of the most exciting things was that I met the most well known Jordanian photographer Zohrab.. a very helpful, really nice, down-to-earth person.

The “Society” has all kinds of members, Amateur photogaphers, professional photographers who earn their living from photography such as photojournalists and studio owners, housewives, doctors.. etc. sharing their stories and experiences, and talking about different techniques and ways they use to improve themselves and their photography, which will in return help you become a better photographer.

If you like photography, and if you’re passionate about it, I would suggest you pay JPS a visit, you will learn a lot, you’ll get to meet people that you share the same interests with and you’ll have loads of fun.

Finally, Things done…

josefj — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:27:00 +0000

In the past couple of days I’ve done so many things, the two most important things were:

1) I finished reading the most amazing book called “Sophie’s World” by Jostein Gaarder; the amazing trip in philosophy and its history, through a story of a little girl called Sophie, and her adventures with a “True” philosopher, who teaches her (and you) how to think, and how to become a philosopher herself.

The book tries to simplify everything through easy-to-comprihend examples, and tries to cover the most important movements of philosophy, and sometimes the minor ones.

This is a book that, I think, everyone should read, because it helped me so much, by explaining so many things, and motivating me to think without

boundaries, and has helped me to set my own philosophy of life, culture, nature, and everything around me.

Now I’m reading Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho

2) I finally got the chance to go to Darat Al-Tasweer, run by the amazing and very helpful Linda Al-Khouri, this place is an amazing place where you can go and learn the art of photography, it has a Studio, Dark Room, Lecture hall, Photography Books and Magazines.. and a really nice ambient

Next week, a new beginners group-photogaphy-course is gonna start, teaching you the basics and techniques in photographythough lectures and practical classes in the studio, but unfortunately, I can’t attend that course, but will join one as soon as I can.

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The Italian man who went to Malta

josefj — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:12:00 +0000

One of the funniest things I have ever heard! I looked for a good video, and this one is the best from the ones on YouTube.

Al-Daraweesh released

josefj — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:07:00 +0000

Jordanian Arabic Rock band "Jadal" have released their song "Al-Daraweesh" a few days ago, which can be downloaded here: Al-Daraweesh – Jadal

Downloaded the song, listened to it, and… NOTHING, I’m sorry JadaL your style is just too repetitive, and too commercial for my taste, ma3 inno, I love the song Salma, bas come on.. be more creative.

Jadal is one of the most well-known Jordanian bands in Jordan – I don’t know if they are outside Jordan, though – they hit it off with the cover song "Al-Tobah" by the great Abdel-Halim Hafez.

Anyway, I said what I wanted to say, not ma thangggg If you’re into mainstream and commercial music this is a song you would really like!

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Björk

josefj — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:07:00 +0000

Well.. I don’t mean to change this into a music blog, but some stuff I had to talk about, and this is one of them, Björk, a nice voice and the amount of feelings and personality she puts into her songs make her one of my favorite.

Anyway, Björk, has recently released her latest single titled “Náttúra”, unfortunately it’s not in English, nor is it in Arabic, so i couldn’t understand a word she says, but I love the experimental music and singing she uses… one hell of an artist.

My favorite song by Björk, Unravel.

Nouvelle Vague – Dance with me

josefj — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:50:00 +0000

I’ve mentioned this band in a previous post called “The band of the French cinema“. This song is from the band’s second Album titled “Bande à part”.

Here’s what’s exciting about this album, at least to me; the band is called Nouvelle Vague (“New Wave”), a French-cinema movement from the 1950′s or 60′s. The Album name is Bande à part – meansing; “to do something apart from the group” – which is a movie that belongs to that movement… and the video clip of this song is a scene from that movie, Bande à part… simply BRILLIANT, no wonder I LOVE this band, other than the fact that play really nice music. xD

Oh, one thing, though.. the song doesn’t actually have a video clip, I think, it was probably done by a fan or something… I THINK!