Oh my Lord. I just finished a job interview for Instructional Designer and lord be hold they hounded me with so many teaching questions. I am a computer nerd who knows how to teach what I know.. but Jeeeeeeez.. OMG..

They kept asking me so many stupid questions. How can you convert professors who use the old conventional ways to use new technologies in their teaching?

How can you convince those traditional guys to use it?

How can you convince and make sure you can effectively teach those professors?

What methods would you use to teach those professors?

OMG.. on and on. I was like Jeeez. I know technology, and I know how to make others use it for their advantage to save time!

Isn’t that the whole purpose of this job?

My God that was awful. I hate job interviews!! I really hate them. I hate going through this over whelming experience. Oh well. I am stuck at my current job till the last day. No hope for me… No hope to enhance my career and be a leader!   I am a nervous person who gets tongue twisted and nervous!

Dear Lord help me!

Blah Blah, Ranting as usual!

I have been using wordpress for years now and frankly, it is out dated. It is not that great anymore. I am trying to figure out what other powerful blogging software out there that has many users who contribute to it. In contribution I mean plugins, themes, etc. Anything to make it better. However, many plugins I have downloaded and tried to use for wordpress are aweful. They don’t work, break my blog, or just don’t do what it is meant to be done.

If you are a plugin developer, then please test your plugins on multiple versions of wordpress and make sure that anyone can use it. Not just your blog is the one and ultimate testing piece for your plugin.

Many people would say, “why don’t you make your own plugins?”

There is a programmer rule. Why write one when someone else out there has done one already. Why should I re-create what has already been done. If might have been half-ass and not that great, but contributing to the developer and helping them out is a lot less time consuming than writing one on my own.

Moreover, Wordpress lacks many features and a lot of annoyances. For example, if I want to post a video from youtube, I have to go to my profile and un-check “Use the visual editor when writing.” Why doesn’t the stupid visual editor accept youtube code? I find it silly that I have to switch editors depending on what I post for the day. And if I want to edit my post that has the video and I do it quickly without realizing that my visual editor is on, my youtube video is gone. I have to go through so many steps just to post a video.

Wordpress is slow. Very slow. The more plugins and options you add to it, the slower posting to your site becomes. I don’t have time to wait. If things in my computer world don’t process within a 3 second time frame, then it is not worth it. How long does it take to save 2 or 3 kb of text to a MySQL database anyways?

I am just tired of Wordpress and contemplating finding other solutions. I need it to be easy to use, has drag and drop features that make me say “WOW” all the time. I want it to have a better plugin manager and tester. Have an option saying that the plugin will work and won’t break my site. Or use this plugin at your own discretion. We are not responsible for our crappy work.

Blah Blah, Random Thoughts, Ranting as usual!

I am sucker when it gets to Legos. I love putting stuff together. I am also addicted to puzzles and I always buy 1000+ puzzle pieces. Then I saw this and thought.. damn! I want to build that!! Hahaha.. I love pieces!!

Blah Blah, Funny, Random Thoughts

I am always sleeping at my desk or napping. I don’t do anything productive because I am useless at my current job, hence that’s the main reason I am looking for another. Also my job status and future is very disturbing at the moment and I am literately going crazy day by day. So I found this funny 5 best thing to do when caught sleeping at your desk tips. (link)

5 Best Things to Say When Caught Sleeping at Your Desk:
submitted by Liz Kroll

5. “They told me at the Blood Bank this might happen.”

4. “This is just a 15 minute power nap they raved about in the time management course you sent me to.”

3. “Whew! Guess I left the top off the Whiteout. You probably got here just in time.”

2. “Did you ever notice sound coming out of these keyboards when you put your ear down real close?” And the NUMBER ONE best thing to say if you get caught sleeping at your desk…

1. Raise your head slowly and say, “…in Jesus’ name, Amen.”

Funny

Don’t let the title fool you. Actually no, I do mean it. Some Arab girls out there are stupid. To me, my biggest and most annoying pet peeve is Arab girls meeting guys off the net and going across seas to marry them and bringing them back here. Girls bringing guys here? Where is the dignity? Do you have no self respect? No girl should be doing that. I am so sick of hearing stories of girls meeting anonymous guys off the net and “falling in love.” Bull shit. Those girls are only desperately wanting to get married before their 20th or 21st birthday. Their family mentality is so old school that if their daughters don’t get married in her first year or two of her twenties than no one would ever look at her. Also girls want to stay pure but can’t handle the thought of sex anymore and want any guy so badly!

So you know that a decent educated guy over here won’t marry you because you just finished high school and you have no career aspirations or future but being a hatching egg for the idiot’s off springs? You want to have dumb kids? Sure go ahead. It’s better then having bastard children. At least they will have a father name to fall back to if you marry him.

Why am I being so angry? Well, cause I am sick of hearing stories of those stupid girls who are barely 19 or 20 years old and divorced. Don’t you think a girl is better off not married and being in her mid or late 20’s or even early 30’s than being a divorced young girl? Seriously, what is worse?

This morning I heard from my mom a story of a girl who’s wedding we went to about 2 years ago. Lovely Syrian Mohajabah girl who was 19 at the time. She met an Egyptian guy off the internet. She fell in love. Never met him face to face, and she dragged her mom and dad all the way to Egypt to meet him and marry him. No engagement, nothing, a wedding right away. Do you see anything wrong? Many people would say no, but others know the truth.

Her parents are very nice people and obviously care about their daughter’s happiness. So they did the immigration papers for him and brought him here. If you are married you can bring your spouse from any where, and it will take about 4 or 5 months to process the papers. That’s cool. If they want to do that, that’s their choice. Oh wait, he didn’t pay for immigration papers, she (her family) did.

Where to live? Her parents re-did the basement of their home to be an apartment for her daughter and husband with a separate door and everything. When you are young and starting off your life, it’s always nice to get family help. Hmm ok…. From the wife’s family? How manly!

Well, the new bride wanted her family and friends here in Canada to celebrate her happiness too, so what did her parents do? They threw a huge ass wedding party here too in a huge ass hall with over 800 people. Hmm.. ok.

During the speeches and stuff, the new groom thanked everyone and felt bad that his family could not be here and he was here alone, but this is his new family now. He promised that he would love the girl and would never leave her till death do them part. Yah.. right. I heard too much of that crap before.

The past two years, the new groom was given the opportunity by her family to get a part time job and get educated at a local college studying some technical two year degree. Normal. He didn’t have many expenses such as rent, food, maybe even clothes. Who knows.

After he got his diploma and the wife waiting for him to finish and she was ready to have children now since her husband is done school and she was happy, then out of no where he got bored of his life. He didn’t want to live in her parent’s home anymore and he is bored of being with her and having such a daily boring routine. He was bored and he left. He didn’t want this life.

He divorced her and left the province to start a new single life with a new career somewhere else.

Can we say that Arab guys can be ass holes sometimes and only marry girls from North American to get citizenship, education, and a bonus a free place to stay and a girl too to share their beds with?

Men are ass holes.

Actually, I got several proposals in the past from family friends back home asking for my hand as long as I bring them to Canada. I laughed hysterically and I told my parents if they ever dared even bring up the subject of me importing some ass hole who is cheap to come here him self and start from scratch then I would seriously leave the house! My dad wouldn’t allow it anyway. He said, “if he is not highly educated from here, has a job, and money to start a life then he is not worth it!”

I told them I don’t have time for this shit. I told my mom this morning my opinion about the matter. I told her it is cause of those Arabs here with their backwards mentality thinking that if a girl is in her early 20’s and not engaged or married by then, then finding a guy off the net is easy and safe proof. That Arab girls here who don’t want to be educated and just want to marry anyone are afraid that no one would look at them as they get older. Fuck that. GET EDUCATED for goodness sake and be something useful to society. When you are as educated as the stupid man you are marrying, then he would think twice about leaving you. Two incomes? Smart girl? Reliable? Has a great future? A guy won’t leave you for that!

I rather be alone for the rest of my life then having to marry a cheap ass moron who just wants to come to this country!

Seriously, learn what a women is worth for goodness sake!

Angry, Blah Blah, Ranting as usual!, They said what?