Ammar’s world of colours

I was quite free last week – so I scanned some of Ammar’s work and turn it into a video using Google’s Picasa . The background music is Yusuf Islam’s I Look, I See song .

Since Ammar saw his works in Youtube he was so excited – he even asked me to scan his latest drawing even the uncompleted ones!

Why we need to learn Arabic

I have been in Saudi for over 3 years now but my Arabic knowledge has not much improved – my bad. I have heard many lectures , read many books about the importance of reading and understand Quran but it has never giving me the same impact that these lectures on myself. Mashaallah it was really clearly explained! Just listen to brother Nouman Ali Khan you’ll know why learning Arabic is important to learn and understand the miracle of Quran.

Nouman Ali Khan – Divine Speech Prologue – Part 1

Why and How to Learn Arabic for Comprehension of the Quran

You can visit his website  Bayyinah.com where he teach (I wish I can visit him one day!) and don’t forgot to download his  podcast of tafseer Juz Amma here

Competitive Strategy

The new semester had started for my Competitive Intelligence study at OUM - I have to take two subjects for this semester which are Competitive Strategy and Macroeconomics .

As an online student- not being able to attend to the seminar in MY, I had no choice but to find alternative ways to understand the course so I turned to podcast and alhamdulillah I found one.

It is based on a taught course by Professor Mark Juliano (I think he’s a telco veteran!)  in the University of Carnegie Mellon University  in the MISM masters program. Topics include idea generation, company formation, funding, writing a business plan, sales & marketing, IPOs and acquisitions, and giving an investor presentation

It  is quite popular in the internet according Professor Juliano’s blog

The initial podcast episode was created in January 2007. Since then, the episodes have been downloaded/listened to over 40,000 times, and average about 1,500 downloaded episodes per week. I’m proud to say that I have now had many more students take the podcast course than in my total tenure of live teaching at Carnegie Mellon. My goal was always to reach as many people as possible. Isn’t podcasting great!

The links are as below:-

The podcast page

The blog

The course material

The ISM page at CMU

The Makkah and Madinah trip

This was the first time I drove with my new Trailblazer from Riyadh-Makkah-Madinah-Riyadh. It was enjoyable trip with additional passenger – Pah. She stayed with us for almost 6 month and only 2 weeks before leaving that we managed to bring her here. Apa nak buat I was busy with Hajj, project and also the OUM exam . Glad to hear that she was happy with the trip

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