AlthafAhmed.com. Yes, that’s me. After a long time, I finally decided to open up a personal blog. I recently sold my flagship blog, Blogrepreneur.com due to issues with my health. I almost decided to say Goodbye to blogging, when my good friend Garry Conn stepped up. He advised me not to quit blogging and to establish a personal blog. Blogging is not only business, it is personal too. I knew this, but Garry drove home the point pretty well and motivated me to go ahead and do it.
I work for Ikon Royal, a Currency Broker. I am employed in the Marketing Division as a Consultant. I love my job and my Boss, fortunately. My job gives me the flexibility to balance professional and personal life, almost perfectly. Almost.
My blog has nothing to do with business, but everything else. This blog is a manifestation of my thoughts and outlook about Life and everything around it. I may get crazy at times and post gossips and scandals LOL. As long as they are real and lighten the heart, anything may go in.
There really won’t be a blogging schedule as I will write when my heart commands me to. It maybe daily or every two days or once every week.
Have I said enough already?
Rick H. Blase - Guest Blogger at AlthafAhmed.com
I have 28 years experience in technology. I developed one of the first PC based teller systems for Citicorp and created sales automation software for laptops when neither was understood by the general business world.
I’ve owned my own technology company for 9 years and currently my day time job is the Manager of IT for a construction company that builds bridges. I’ve written every thing from ad pieces to eulogies. I should write more because God keeps telling me to. I can write just about anything and probably have over the years.
I am an Eagle Scout and have been involved in Boy Scouts for over 37 years, I’m an avid backpacker, I race one design single handed sailboats, and I have my advanced open water and search and rescue certifications in scuba diving. I do almost all of my home repairs as my family is primarily in construction and that’s the way I grew up.
I am a Vietnam era veteran and served in Europe during the war as a combat engineer and then later in cartography and graphics in the War Room for V Corps where I was given the Army Commendation medal for my efforts.
I’ve been married for 32 years to a wonderfully forgiving woman Catherine, with whom I share four children and 4 grandchildren. I’m sure there is more, but you get the general idea I think. I read a paperback book about every two weeks, mostly adventure, some murder mysteries, and science fiction (when I can find good ones) the post apocalyptic genre really interests me and I have a book idea along those lines. Anything else is open to interpretation.
Cathy Parker - Guest Blogger
Cathy Parker is my name and writing what I think is my game. I’m an unprejudiced American woman, a freelance writer, and a friend of Althaf (who lets me voice my politically incorrect though straightforward attitude on his blog).
I am an American born and bred “modern” woman. What this means is that I say what I want, I do what I want, and I want a great many things, which I work very hard to achieve. Divorced with three daughters, I do my best to raise them into strong-minded, freethinking American women. My kids and I live in middle class splendor in a thriving city in Wisconsin. I’ve been writing to earn a living for many years, before which I worked many different factory and service oriented jobs.
I believe in honesty, justice, acceptance, and respect for others. I do not believe that anyone has the right to place their own beliefs above the beliefs of others. I also have an extreme reaction to hypocrisy in any form. People should practice what they preach, or keep their mouth shut. That goes for everyone, including parents, teachers, preachers, and politicians.
Everyone has the right to express his or her opinion; no one has the right to force someone else to submit to it. If the people of the world would learn to appreciate and acknowledge the viewpoints of others, instead of striving to impose their own ideas and beliefs upon them, the entire world would be a much more reasonable and peaceful place.
When I was a child, it was common for grown-ups to tell us, “If you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say anything at all”. It very well could have been that phrase that shaped the writer and the woman I am today. They should have been telling us “If you cannot speak honestly, then do not bother to speak”. It occurred to me even as a child that not enough truths were being told, because sometimes the truth hurts. There is a big difference between telling it like it is, and telling people what they want to hear. Just because something isn’t pleasant, doesn’t mean people shouldn’t know about it.
My goal as a writer on Althaf’s blog is to get people thinking about the world around us. There are a great number of things that no one talks about, because someone might not want to hear about it.
I have the right to voice my opinion, you have the right to disagree, and you even have the right not to listen. I won’t disrespect your rights if you don’t disrespect mine.
