Dear readers of my cute little blog,

I know I have bitched a lot in the past regarding my current employment. They drove me crazy, but I worked extremely hard at this job that majority of the time I worked overtime to get work done. Last week, I was at the edge and it was either me or them if the chaos didn’t change. I made that clear in an indirect way.

Several meetings later, I was told this in a tone of fear:

“Mona, please don’t go.”

They said it two times . . .

I demanded change, and quick change or else. I had several 100 reasons, and in the end, I enforced the change. I had to speak up because I didn’t want all my work to crumble into pieces because of stubborn people who won’t listen!

They made profit last year, 3 times more than the previous year and I knew it, but if I left, they wouldn’t be able to manage. I am sure of it because I have this mentality of extreme organization and rules. I am given a position that 3 people in traditional structured companies have. It was insane. They drove me insane.

So, today we had performance reviews.. yay.. took a year and a half since I started. It was more of bosses evaluation of us, and not self-evaluation at all. And at the end of it all, they talked about raises, and how the economy was bad, but they still survived through a recession as a company, blah blah. Then they said, you get X amount of money extra.

I was like

Wohoo!!!

Wow, I never got such an exponential raise before in my life! Boom shakalaka!

Lessons learned from all this:

1. Work really really really hard!
2. Prove your worth!
3. Raise your voice when you see things going wrong.
4. When rewarded, work even harder the next year!

I shall sleep peacefully tonight! And to celebrate.. I will do what little kids are doing now a days.. I will whip my hair back and forth!

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I know I should start the new year with a promise to my old self of what I should be doing more often! Yes, you guessed it. Blog some more! Life is so hectic when you are on vacation. I am trying to enjoy it as much as I can without having to write anything, do anything beyond the scope of my mere God given intelligence, and not worry my self with ruthless comments from the world wide web.

Nonetheless, I cannot control the intertwined channels in my brain. I think way too much when I am doing nothing. I think about life, my life, and oh, a simple drop of tear finds its way down the channel of my cheeks. However, merely a few hours later, an inevitable smile bestowed its presence on my face just because …

This morning, I checked my Blackberry and I received two Facebook messages to my personal account from the opposite sides of the spectrum. Two Arab guys, that seem to know me or seen me around 10 ages ago and decided to message me out of the blue. One claimed that he saw me in downtown the other day and he had to turn back to have a second look. And the other seems to have seen me around UWO back when I was a teenager with half my wits! He then asked if I was married. And I replied with my well known attitude, “If I was, why would I even answer you?”

I realized that I am very lucky. Not because they made me laugh, but the thought that some people have started their new years resolution a bit too early this year. Or at least they want to be a bit daring, and try their luck in life, because you know, they got tired as well.

Good thing I don’t want to try, but I will enjoy the fact that there is still hope in this life and people won’t stop trying.

Stay tuned in the next couple of days when I do my 2010 review and what I wish for 2011!

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Today, we celebrate the mayhem, the chaotic human being, the world’s most redundant complainer; ehm, yeah, that ONE!!

I can’t believe it folks, but seriously,

1. 30 years and still kicking old school style! (my birthday)

2. 5 years and blabbering online and liking it. (blog birthday)

What have I learned?

Well, a lot of people have asked me over the blogging years what I have gained from all this. Well, simple. I gained nothing but a headache. However, you all know me, I like the attention and the insults. It just shows how badly the internet is infested with morons who like to throw their crap around. They really leave a bad smell and make me appear like an angel with flaming wings! (hungry?)

Ok ok!! Enough of being oh so negative! Today rocks, and you all know it. My blog has survived many hurdles. A lot of people told me to just ignore it. I did not do that in the beginning life of my blog on Dec 23, 2005. It was just a normal blog, talking about normal things. However, as days passed, a lot more people around me started pissing me off. They hated what I wrote on here, and I saw the true side of some people. That’s fine, and my true side was never hidden. I just elaborated it more on this blog with Arabic eloquence and grace.

Finally, all I can really say after my messed up post thus far is the following:

I thank every single one of you for reading my blog and joining the conversation. Over the years I tried many methods or different ideas to add to this blog. However, what I found that straight up one to many conversations are a lot better. (computer talk here!)

Thank you all. The haters. The lovers. Old friends who may or may not read this blog anymore. All of you, thank you. It’s the least that I can say to everyone.

P.S. If I win the lottery on Friday, I am turning this blog to a happy zone; otherwise, you are stuck with little old blabbering me!

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It was the night before the first day of winter, I was sitting on the sofa, and I excitedly told my mother,

“MOM!! I am going to be 30 soon!”

She disgustingly looked at me with her Arabic mother wrath and said, “AND YOU ARE HAPPY?”

I defended my age and said, “Yes, I will be 30. So what? What’s wrong with aging?”

She said, “people are never happy to age.”

I knew in the back of my mind what she was thinking. But it ain’t my fault I am going to be 30 and still living at this house, paying for all the home expenses cause no one else works here because the economy sucks and we are barely surviving, and my sister needs to grow up and have a normal life, not like me! Oh, did I mention I am going to be 30 and there is nothing wrong with that?

I said, “You know what. Life is not going to stop. We cannot stop time and stay in one age that we like. Some people who are dead didn’t have the opportunity to live a full life where got to live their childhood, their adult life or old age. A lot of people don’t get that opportunity. So I am HAPPY REACHING THIS FAR!”

I don’t care how many people make fun of me and mock my age. Even some people at work wonder why I still live at home or have not found “the one.” I never reply, and I honestly have more important things to worry about in my life than a number that is calculated by the rotations of the earth around the sun every 365 days of the year.

By the way, Happy first day of Winter! Winter is here and I survived another year to see it! Now that is the greatest gift of all.

P.S. My Birthday is on the 23rd. Totally Monalicious!

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Last night, I wrote a job description for a new person to do the work I was not supposed to do. Today, it is online on the local job directories and educational institutes’ job postings.

The joys of slowly working up the ranks and writing out IT job descriptions. Jeez louis! I am growing up.

I would hire you, but you know me, if you are a selfish bastard who thinks you are the smartest person on earth when it comes to IT related anything, then guess what, I don’t like you.

I should practice my skills and say, “YOU ARE HIRED!”

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